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  • #31
    Re: Nice Planet IX: Oh that's just GREAT...

    Originally posted by joecct View Post
    She went to Harvard for her advanced degree. What makes Harvard so special? Who anointed them god?

    We get all excited when somebody has a degree from Harvard we forget to look at the person.

    However, on the surface it seems to be a dumb law.
    Compared to the educational institutions that law favors (ETSU, anyone?), heck yes Harvard is something special. I really hope you just didn't read the article and are reacting from your innate anti-Harvard bias - in which case I highly approve.
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    • #32
      Re: Nice Planet IX: Oh that's just GREAT...

      Don't ever tell anyone I said this: Harvard is special. There's a 10% layer of legacy boneheads who went to good enough prep schools to goose their SATs (GPAs for Harvard feeder prep schools obviously grade everything to an 'A' -- that's why they're called "prep" schools) -- scrape those Dubyas off your shoe. The other 90% of kids are wonderful. The sickest joke in this country (and we have quite a few) is that so many of those kids, who are really interesting and multi-dimensional thinkers, and not at all the type of dirtbag you'd expect to go into finance, when they graduate... go into finance.

      HYP get, and again I swear if you repeat this I'll kill you, a bad rap because they have so many laughable upper class twit of the year alumni. If anything they're probably underestimated. The median student at HYP is, and it pains me to say this, way more interesting than the median student pretty well anywhere else. Some places do intensive study in a particular discipline better (MIT, Cal Tech), but very few places have such well-rounded students.

      Now I'm going to drink heavily enough that I forget the whole topic.
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      • #33
        Re: Nice Planet IX: Oh that's just GREAT...

        Originally posted by Kepler View Post
        Don't ever tell anyone I said this: Harvard is special. There's a 10% layer of legacy boneheads who went to good enough prep schools to goose their SATs (GPAs for Harvard feeder prep schools obviously grade everything to an 'A' -- that's why they're called "prep" schools) -- scrape those Dubyas off your shoe. The other 90% of kids are wonderful. The sickest joke in this country (and we have quite a few) is that so many of those kids, who are really interesting and multi-dimensional thinkers, and not at all the type of dirtbag you'd expect to go into finance, when they graduate... go into finance.

        HYP get, and again I swear if you repeat this I'll kill you, a bad rap because they have so many laughable upper class twit of the year alumni. If anything they're probably underestimated. The median student at HYP is, and it pains me to say this, way more interesting than the median student pretty well anywhere else. Some places do intensive study in a particular discipline better (MIT, Cal Tech), but very few places have such well-rounded students.

        Now I'm going to drink heavily enough that I forget the whole topic.
        tl;dr: Harvard is special...but, they still suck...
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        • #34
          Re: Nice Planet IX: Oh that's just GREAT...

          Originally posted by MinnesotaNorthStar View Post
          tl;dr: Harvard is special...but, they still suck...
          Yes, that goes without saying.
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          • #35
            Re: Nice Planet IX: Oh that's just GREAT...

            If you want proof that there's no such thing as a secret ballot, and elections can have repercussions, here it is. http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cit...light-cameras/

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            • #36
              Re: Nice Planet IX: Oh that's just GREAT...

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              • #37
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                Oklahoma legislative committee questions the legality of Advance Placement courses

                Specifically, their gripe is with AP American History, calling it "unpatriotic" and "emphasizing what is bad about America."
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                • #38
                  Re: Nice Planet IX: Oh that's just GREAT...

                  Originally posted by ShirtlessBob View Post
                  Oklahoma legislative committee questions the legality of Advance Placement courses

                  Specifically, their gripe is with AP American History, calling it "unpatriotic" and "emphasizing what is bad about America."
                  Herps gonna derp.

                  These fanatics are creating an alternate Conservapedia gestalt. A work friend who is quite intelligent but is the third in a four generation Christian homeschooling chain was completely surprised that a majority of scientists accept evolution. He just didn't know. Everybody in his universe is a Creationist and everything he has ever read or taught has said evolution is a failed theory that "most scientists" now reject.

                  There are guys in Congress who are products of the same indoctrination. It's strikingly similar to the way the maddrassas took over the secular educational institutions in Pakistan and produced an entire generation of religious fanatics who have literally no idea that their "curriculum" is extremist brainwashing.

                  If you wanted to raise a terrorist army in the US, you couldn't do any better than what the far right has been doing for 40 years. Insularity, cult fetishism, paranoia, and paramilitary training. These people are a nightmare.
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                  • #39
                    Re: Nice Planet IX: Oh that's just GREAT...

                    Originally posted by ShirtlessBob View Post
                    Oklahoma legislative committee questions the legality of Advance Placement courses

                    Specifically, their gripe is with AP American History, calling it "unpatriotic" and "emphasizing what is bad about America."
                    Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right.

                    Having taken the course (albeit well over a decade ago), I'd be curious to see exactly what changes were made to the material and why, other than the obligatory inclusions of recent history.

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                    • #40
                      Re: Nice Planet IX: Oh that's just GREAT...

                      Originally posted by FadeToBlack&Gold View Post
                      Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right.

                      Having taken the course (albeit well over a decade ago), I'd be curious to see exactly what changes were made to the material and why, other than the obligatory inclusions of recent history.
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                      • #41
                        Re: Nice Planet IX: Oh that's just GREAT...

                        Guess what? White people did bad sh* in America years ago. How the hell do you think they got to where they are today? Shocking, I know.
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                        • #42
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                          Woman throws bacon at a PD, is not convicted, but they decide to be judge, jury, and executioner themselves anyway. Police are "investigating", but we KNOW they'll find nothing wrong. http://countercurrentnews.com/2015/0...arges-dropped/

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                          • #43
                            Re: Nice Planet IX: Oh that's just GREAT...

                            Dude. Lay off the acid
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                            • #44
                              Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
                              Dude. Lay off the acid
                              Are you saying his description doesn't tell the whole story?
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                              • #45
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