I've listened to a lot of his videos, so not much of that is new. I'm appalled he's low carb, though.
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Stan and I were at Michigan at the same time. I think I'm two years older than him, am better looking and was not a long haired hippy standing on the diag listening to Abby Hoffman excoriate America from the M library steps like he was. Stan, hello.
I'll bet Stan and I have several things in common though. His parents raised him like mine did and he raised his kids like I did. We were taught the value of work, self discipline, honesty and integrity and turned around and taught our kids the same things.
I'd never vote for Bernie Sanders or any of his schemes for universal Medicare or Federally funded 4y college degrees or 2-3y technical certificates. Taxpayers don't need them and they alos don't need the Feds running programs like this. let the states do it. Like AA, I'm fully supportive of state programs like the Hope in GA. They work brilliantly. Funding programs like Hope with a state lottery is fine. Opposing it is elitist shit.
My grandson graduated from GA Tech with a bachelors in computer science. He did a summer internship in Barcelona his Sophomore year and an internship with Amazon his Junior year. That internship resulted in a job offer starting at $60k with a $90K signing bonus if he contracted to complete 30 months of service. He left Amazon right after 30 months and is working for a Korean company in Seattle for twice his starting salary at Amazon. He's bright but Hope works for everyone that will put out the effort to be eligible and stay eligible. It's hard. The metrics prove Hope scholars do really well in the initial job market, in getting into law or medical school and after five years earning above the median salaries in their fields - yes even in the humanities. The best part of hope? No student debt.
I think there is a lot to be said about the inanity of choices young people are making today about their educations and the entitled attitudes that seem to prevail in generations that were not raised like Stan and I were and did not parent like Stan and I did. I know there are plenty of exceptions and I'm sure all of you who post here are among them, except Wizard, of course. A neerdowell if there ever was a person who better fit that description, I don't know of it.
The point is, there's no secret why it costs a shit ton to get a good education and ROI precipitated by decent job offers upon graduation. Societal norms create environments where parents start their kids in private schools costing thousands at the age of 4! Nothing wrong with starting formal education early but the push to appear to be getting a leg-up on the Jone's next door, at unreasonable costs, from preschool to high school and then into college does nothing but to create upward pressure on an inflationary spiral of the cost of education that is already out of control and in no way supported by reasonable economic factors.
There are some very good private colleges in GA but guess what, aside from Emory in ATL ($48K annually), they're all affordable and I'm told that most of them will provide merit scholarships that equalize the cost of attending them to the cost to attend either Ga Tech or UGA (about $11k). The reason for that is that they compete for students with Hope. Like Stan, I too am thankful all 4 of my kinds are done, for now, with school. Even if they want more of it, they also know I'm not paying.
Mission to CFB's National Championship accomplished. But the shine on the NC Trophy is embarrassingly wearing off. It's M B-Ball ..... or hockey or volley ball or name your college sport favorite time ...... until next year.
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I don't know Stan, but his JP position/pegging of Kapture are right on.
JP is a smart business man and really capitalized on his rise after his sound criticism of C16.
After that he realized he'd caught the ear of all the soft men who project victimhood on everyone while lamenting their own. Then he turned into shit. He gets lit up when he talks to actual intellectuals and it doesn't matter cause his lobster masses just repost JP's calculated "annihilations" of run-of-the-mill female reporters. Please, go down the list of 12 steps and try not to laugh.
Anyone watch magnolia? He is frank Mackey in a professor's regalia.
Kapture loosely attached himself to guys like JP like he espouses the pseudo philosophy rendered from late-career TOOL. Never mind their apex being a song called Prison Sex. Let's not forget Kapture literally devotes time to staging photos of his game system, an escapist holiday JBP absolutely shits on regardless of financial standing.
Kapture won't see this cause he ignored me -- even though he tried to shit on CGVT for doing exactly that. While propping up vets, but shitting CGVT. This isn't an aid to anyone, just illustrating the strange landfill of inconsistent delineations. Kapture also refused my invitations to come blow shit up with crew served weapons -- something he alluded to being an ace at.
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Originally posted by millenwasmyfavorite View PostKapture won't see this cause he ignored me -- .“Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.” - Groucho Marx
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Originally posted by froot loops View PostThe buildup in the Prison Sex to the crescendo at around the 3 minute mark is really good musically. You are better off not reading the lyrics to the song.
I need to find a job with a 90k signing bonus. That would welcome.
GJ - I am generally opposed to putting people on ignore -- and more so if I disagree with them. I'm not saying it proves anything, I just generally don't.
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Trump wants to sit down with Mueller, despite lawyers advising against it.
This seems like a "story" that gets reported every 3 months or so but who knows...might be true. His lawyers always seem to be much more nervous about what he might blurt out than what he himself thinks, but he's the smartest man in the room. Let's not forget that.
EDIT: Giuliani was hired in mid-April by Trump and announced immediately that the Mueller probe would be over within a couple weeks. Supposedly..."supposedly"...Trump is increasingly angry over the promises he was fed yet the investigation has continued, unabated.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/01/u...interview.htmlLast edited by Dr. Strangelove; August 1, 2018, 09:08 PM.
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