Standards aren’t fair! I mean, they DEFINE you. And the tests MEASURE you, and make you meet Standards.

And no one likes have to measure up. It’s SO HARD.

University of Chicago to stop requiring ACT and SAT scores for prospective undergraduates

So how, exactly are they gonna measure who is capable of actually, you know, Graduating?

Or is the goal just to get people to enroll and spend (someone’s) money at the school?

ETA: I am told by people that should know better than I do that there is a great deal of thought in the academic world that the standardized tests (ACT/SAT) do not predict collegiate success as much as we might have thought. While I am not convinced, the arguments were that High School GPA and some other placement tests do a better job of predicting said success.. At this time, the jury is still out. It was also pointed out that there is a LOT of money that changes hands for the ACT/SAT every year, so there is a LOT of pushback to keep the standardized testing in place.  While I am not convinced yet, (as no one can seem to point out any studies that prove the theories, one way or the other) I now am not sure. 

But still, the fact that it can happen shows that the municipalities are falling down on their jobs….that they are not spending the Taxpayer’s money wisely.

Domino’s Is Fixing Potholes Because They’re Ruining Pizza
“Paving for pizza” is a good advertising gimmick, and the sign of a sad state of infrastructural affairs.

Spending too much on “Social Safety Nets” and allowing the public unions to dictate staffing rates and wages and benefits….to the detriment of the people they are supposed to serve.

Sad. 

Unless, of course, they are tariffs that the mother country imposes on imports from the US.

Trump offers to cut ALL tariffs, if the other G7 countries will do the same.

No tariffs, no Government subsidized industries, Nothing but unadulterated Free Trade.

The other G7 leaders did not comment. Nor did they accept his offer. 

If so, you might want to read this:

Ruger recalling some MkIV (including 22/45) pistols due to issues with safeties. 

Seems that if you put the safety on part-way and then pull the trigger (why??) and then move the safety, than things get all loud and such. 

that they think that anyone with a British accent (or even better, an Australian or quasi-expatriate British-like or even better; a breathless Irish or Scottish-like accent (fake or real) has more credibility than someone with an American (US) or any other accent?

It’s not like these commentors have  more education than their American english speaking counterparts….they are, after all, just voice actors reading a script.

So why? What makes the Liberals sit up and listen to them with rapt attention. What gives the accented voice-overs more credibility and gravitas in their eyes?

And decides they’d rather have Amazon as an employer of their citizens rather than Tax them into leaving. 

Amazon told the city they’d vote with their wallet (and feet) rather than pay an exorbitant tax on their employees. The giant was willing to abandon their new building and leave….go elsewhere where their presence was welcomed…where they were wanted and seen as more than a source of additional tax  income, rather than a source of good jobs for people.

50,000 jobs stayed in the greater Seattle area.

Greed kills, as the Fairy Tale taught many of us long ago…..others, perhaps, have to learn that lesson over and over

Critics are critical of the Royal Family after Prince George is seen playing with a TOY gun.

“Completely tone deaf of Kate… to give Prince George a toy gun. Doesn’t she read the papers in her own country with all the gun deaths?”

I think that if these folks had to face the people they criticize, instead of just posting their criticism on Twitter, they’d be more circumspect.

Interesting that the Anti Gun folks have crossed the pond…. 

Ranked by state.

How long will you live?

Me? Just under 75 years.

(Not sure what criteria they used, or how they compared things to other countries)

When will we have the interview portion of the Olympics, instead of swimming and running and lifting weights? I mean, since physicality doesn’t matter……

So one thing the Feminists have always had as a trademark is that they are, generally, not in great physical shape, nor are they attractive. They wear clothing that is tentlike, and they attempt to hide the fact that they eat too much and work out not enough. They don’t care enough to clean up or do more than bundle their hair up so it doesn’t get in the way. Often, they look like fat slobs, because they are, mostly, essentially lazy fat slobs. (yes, I know I am generalizing and all, but in most cases it is true)

And they tend to dislike women who keep themselves physically fit, and who dress to show it, and who take the time to pay attention to their physical appearance…hair,makeup, etc.

And now they’ve gotten to the Miss America pageant…….. “No longer a pageant, but a competition“….

Instead of being, essentially, a pageant that judges women on their appearance AND their talents (and, at the end of it all, their apparent fertility) the “Competition” will be before a panel of judges that will judge based on some other kind of criteria.

I foresee the end of the pageant. Not because men won’t watch it, (mostly, we don’t) but because WOMEN will stop watching it. It isn’t MEN that fuel the FOUR HUNDRED BILLION DOLLAR yearly market for cosmetics and other “beauty” products….And because everyone that watches, watches to see pretty women dressed well.

Miss America started as a swimsuit competition and no on ever forced any of the young women contestants to compete with her peers…..

I predict it will either change back within 3 years, or will go bankrupt.

That this guy getting onto the base is no, apparently, and aberration:

Other local delivery guys said the guards rarely check for any ID. “They don’t ask us for ID,” said Juan Salvador, 38, an immigrant from Guatemala who delivers for Fourth Avenue deli Goustaro. But his manager said she, too, is now afraid to send undocumented food couriers into the federal facility.

So lets see here:

Lots of businesses admit that they employ Illegal Aliens undocumented workers. (Where is ICE?? One would think that they would be raiding investigating these restaurants)

These people, both the businesses and the illegals, think that they have a right to work (and to employ) against current federal and state laws.

Apparently, being asked for ID at the gate to the base is not normal.

Non-US citizens have, apparently, had unsupervised access to a US military installation for a long time.

This is a bigger issue than just one man who has lived here illegally for YEARS while under a deportation order. 

ETA: Related