Miscellaneous And Off Topic Subjects

[entropy]

http://educationblog.dallasnews.com/2016/06/mckinney-boyd-valedictorian-reveals-shes-an-unauthorized-immigrant-in-graduation-speech.html/

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Larissa Martinez has spent most of her life hiding her status as an unauthorized immigrant from her classmates at McKinney Boyd High School. But she worked for years to earn a platform for her big reveal.
Martinez, who is heading to Yale on a full scholarship, shared her family’s story during her valedictory address at the school’s graduation ceremony last Friday."

[Wild Hoss]

Or 500% since FDR was elected.

I think the trend is pretty clear and significant. Whether you think it matters or not is another story, but poo-pooing it is stupid, IMO.

Getting hysterical about it, when the timeframe mentioned is the most productive and wealthiest in our history, is stupider still. IMO.

[Wild Hoss]

http://educationblog.dallasnews.com/...n-speech.html/

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Larissa Martinez has spent most of her life hiding her status as an unauthorized immigrant from her classmates at McKinney Boyd High School. But she worked for years to earn a platform for her big reveal.
Martinez, who is heading to Yale on a full scholarship, shared her family?s story during her valedictory address at the school?s graduation ceremony last Friday."

Another brown person coming for Hanni's 401K. :-D

[hack]

Canadian citizenship it worth it if you can get it if only to send your kids to U of Toronto, Queens or McGill. Prices are up only marginally from 30 years ago, and we all know where they fall in the USN&WR rankings. Even the second-tier schools are excellent.

[Wild Hoss]

Justin Beiber.

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[iam416]

Hoss just whipped hack like M used to whip MSU.

[iam416]

Falling into the "Boy, I'm really fucking stunned" category, the Obama Administration believes at least a dozen former Gitmo detainees are off in Afghanistan and other parts killing Americans and/or allies. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...b54_story.html

[hack]

We thought we were finally safe when we exiled Celine Dion to Vegas, but no...

[hack]

Falling into the "Boy, I'm really fucking stunned" category, the Obama Administration believes at least a dozen former Gitmo detainees are off in Afghanistan and other parts killing Americans and/or allies. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...b54_story.html

Better to go kill them over there, where the house rules encourage that sort of thing. Harbaugh and Meyer know that New Jersey exists for proxy wars; the US and Saudi should take note and do something similar.

[froot loops]

Jeez, if it happened to the Romans and the Weimar Republic, it will happen to everyone. If that is the best you have, you don't have much. It cracks me up that anytime Trump says a thoroughly objectionable thing, it's faux outrage to lead themselves to Godwin's law. Yet when I bring up Greece being a very specific case due to the Euro, you conflate that with me wanting socialism which leads to Weimar Republic which led to! You guessed it, Hitler!

The ability for your own country's central bank to manipulate currency is an important tool. Greece has a myriad of issues, but in the crisis, not having that tool was the biggest problem.

There is no parallel to the US. None whatsoever, you can provide all kinds of graphs but Greece ' is not applicable. The US does not have a problem with inflation, the Fed sets a target at a puny 2 percent and it can't even reach that even at the apex of quantitative easing.

[Wild Hoss]

We thought we were finally safe when we exiled Celine Dion to Vegas, but no...

Payback for acid rain, I get it...but you gotta let a brother up off the mat eventually.

[entropy]

LOL -- you actually wonder that? I think it's absolute, direct correlation.

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[iam416]

Kevin Williamson, of all people, writes something that hack, of all people, probably agrees with: http://www.nationalreview.com/articl...es-bureaucracy

Long and short of it--bureaucracy isn't necessarily bad, but you get what your culture is willing to tolerate -- and we tolerate way too fucking much. Demand more and perhaps performance goes up.

Of course, it's commentary so it's remarkably anecdotal, but eh...

[hack]

I think for the discussion to continue about ``socialism'', Hannibal would have to provide his own definition of the word. I suspect mine differs from his quite a bit. Mine is the standard definition. Socialism is distinct from capitalism based on who owns the means of production.

Oddly though, there is a parallel to the US. Just not one that Hannibal seems to want to talk about. It is that risk was decoupled from reward. Here, the banks figured out how to profit from mortgages without taking risks, so they gave everybody mortgages and knew they'd get a bailout. They transferred risk to the state. There, everybody in the EU basically got to sell bonds at the same rate, which was a byproduct of sharing a currency and a central bank. Obviously Northern European countries were a much safer credit risk than Southern European countries, but that was the system nonetheless. So, again, with risk and reward out of alignment, the Southern countries gorged on bonds.

In both cases, blame the governments for allowing themselves to take on the risks of the private sector. In Europe it was a careless venture into uncharted waters that looks easy to avoid in hindsight. In the US, the banks just bought policy outcomes. Which brings me back to Larry Lessig. Fix the corruption first and foremost.

[hack]

Kevin Williamson, of all people, writes something that hack, of all people, probably agrees with: http://www.nationalreview.com/articl...es-bureaucracy

Long and short of it--bureaucracy isn't necessarily bad, but you get what your culture is willing to tolerate -- and we tolerate way too fucking much. Demand more and perhaps performance goes up.

Of course, it's commentary so it's remarkably anecdotal, but eh...

That link is broken. Can't you conservatives get anything right?