A disgusting ball of slime

When I was a kid in my day's pizza place, I pulled out of the drain a ball of slime I still cannot identify. Compared to Academia, it was much cleaner.

The Academic Admissions Scandal of 2019 has exposed our so-called "education system" once and for all what it really is--garbage. It has been obvious for a while now,but you can no longer ignore it.

The high schools are a disaster as administrators try to grab all of the money they can, test scores plummet, and we have graduates who cannot read or write at a basic level. Then off to college where they become seemingly more stupid.

They tried to push the sports scandal under the rug, but it leads to worse revelations. Harvard's racial discrimination towards Asians and Caucasians, the radicalization and campus violence,and of course, the Snowflake Sydrome.

Outright bribes have gotten the children of the "elite"into colleges when they have had no real qualifications to do so and when you add the millions who should not be there in the first place, you end up with a giant day care center that straps "graduates" of watered down programs with debt and no job skills or basic skills.   And let's not forget the alleged "educational experts" who really don't seem to do anything except get in the way.

I still remember my high school guidance counselor telling me not to get my hopes up for college...of course,my grades were pretty good.  It might have been the Mediterranean tan she did not like.  Two MAs later (4.0 in both) and two BAs later....

...Good thing I did not go to her for Super Bowl predictions.

Clearly, school is not a place for smart people.

If you care about the kids, you need to take back the schools from the idiots. 

Democrat vs Democrat

We saw the Republican Party fight its own civil war as the alleged "conservatives" fought the unhappy rank and file who organized themselves into the Tea Party and highjacked the GOP to put Donald Trump in the White House.  Now, we are seeing the Democratic party pulling itself apart as one side, calling itself "Democratic Socialists" slash away at the somewhat center-left Democratic Party.  Ikhan Omar has even attacked President Obama's drone strikes and other ankle biters have come out to attack POTUS 44.  They have shouted about overthrowing the current leadership though they seemed to have backed off of that promise.

They has demanded rights for illegals, lower the voting age to 16, and want to raise the possibilty of 90% taxes.

Notice I did not say "Democratic rank and file".

I cannot see anyone sane going with this and I did not even mention the Green New Deal.

The GND might be possible,but not in 10 years and not with immediate abolition of the internal combustion engine.

If you want to get something done, you need compromise. "My way or the highway" does not work in government. 

Of course, maybe that is what they want: Tell your consituents you need more time to pass things against a DC government that wont pass it

After all, $174,000 a year for year after year is a lot of dough for a former bartender.

Time to see if Animal Farm repeats itself.

Alexandra Osacio-Cortez recently said in a moment of pique, "I'm the boss and you're just yelling from the cheap seats".  And there are questions about missing campaign funds.

Looks like someone has all ready started typing Chapter One. 

Mega fauna downsized?

I saw this film called "The Meg' about a prehistoric shark from c.2-3 million years ago that was not as extinct as everyone thought. It wasnt all that great,but it was far from the worst I had seen. 

I read some articles about megladons and noticed that all of the artist impressions looked like a great white shark. I also looked up giant elks and cave bears and I noticed that all of them looked like bigger versions of today's animals.

Is it possible that a lot of ther mega fauna from the Ice Age did not die out, but merely downsized?

Some of those animals, like the terror birds, clearly became extinct,but grizzlies are still bears and mountain lions could easily be smaller sabre tooth cats and the pretty big elks of today look the same as the giant elks of c.10,0000 BC.  Wooly rhinos mammoths lost their hair and moved south too?

Or chased south by humans....

Just random thoughts floating around in my head on a rainy day!

The Boy Who Cried Wolf?

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I am really wondering if anyone can tell the truth anymore.

So, we have an alleged hate crime in Chicago (which has a ton of shootings every day...) that turns out to be a ploy by an actor who is trying to get more money pay paying two guys to beat him up and yell racial and homophobic slurs while wearing red hats.  Had to throw the political angle in there too, I guess.

Naturally the left wing of American politics went into feeding frenzy before waiting a half second for the truth to come out.

Duke Lacrosse Case, anyone?

I have had clashes and battles with the Republican side of American politics and engaged in actual combat against neo-Nazis, but the unhinged left side of America is completely idiotic and for the first time, I see shame and embarrassment in their faces.

I have had my share of fights with those idiots too and sadly, I cannot tell the difference between far right and far left other than the prejudices and hatred they both carry.

A pox on both their houses.

They should do the world a favor and run off a cliff.

Respect everyone and fear no one and the world becomes a better place.

Playing for the call,not the ball

 

The refereeing in the NFL has been terrible this year and the non-call in the NFC Championship is clearly an example of the problem. It should be addressed.

Still,there is another problem that is contributing to the alienation of fans from the sport and it is the attitude of the players themselves.

Too often,I see wide receivers running downfield, not make the catch and look around at the referees for a flag.  You did not catch the ball or the defense broke up the play. I have seen this in the games I ref too.  I have had players jumping up and down,shouting for a flag.  If there is no penalty, then there is no flag.  I tell the player to get back to his huddle or I will throw the flag.

I have tossed players out and one coach nearly got the boot.

Try playing the game.

No one goes to watch the refs.

Referee shortages and game cancellations should get the point across.

If not, the game of the future will be frisbee.

Kick over the crybabies and start teaching some self-reliance.  Generation Snowflake is doomed, so start toughening them up.  If they don't like it, oh well.

Win-win situation either way.

HarFraud

Harvard University, allegedly one of the top universities in America, if not the world, is being sued for discriminating against Asian-Americans because they do too well on entrance tests and are apparently too numerous on campus.

In other words, HarFraud is discriminating against smart people on the basis of their ethnicity.

Civil Rights Act, 1964, enter stage right.

Harvard is attempting to claim the moral high ground of "diversity" without explaining what that means and has been caught discriminating against superior applicants--not inferior or even marginal--but superior applicants because of their ethnicity.

Does that sound like a broken record?

It does because the logic is completely mind-boggling.

This also tells you what has become of our education system. It is about having the right box to check and as a result, unqualified people drag the university system down, churning out poorly educated graduate snowflakes that can't see to do, well, anything.

Time to defund the universities.That will get their attention and get them back on track.

Time for the universities to get a taste of the real world.  Better to find out now than get hurt worse later on because the pain, one way or the other, is coming.

Send your kid to a community college.  Cheaper, more practicable, and sane.

Plus you learn something with no crushing debt.

And chances are, you will not be discriminated against.

January 1, 2019--Go forth and conquer!