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Any network could've gotten it. They all follow these stupid chases like that.

RIP Michael O' Hare of Babylon 5, much too young

I can see why Pat is so distrustful of the police. Philly cops be crazy.

thellama73 wrote: I can see why Pat is so distrustful of the police. Philly cops be crazy.

I don't know why a person wouldn't be distrustful of armed people who are allowed to use force at their discretion.

Not that many in the US media seem to care (though they wouls jump at the first sign of a tree moving in any middle east country), but anyway, South America continues on the dark path. Chavez has been reelected. Populism/socialism reigns supreme.

Not news of the day but pretty weird in my book:

http://articles.nydailynews.com/2012-09-28/news/34152745_1_virginity-auction-prostitution-laws-bid-history

Wendy's has clearly been higher quality than Burger King or McDonald's. Their prices reflect that. I love the Baconator, and I don't really care what their logo looks like.

Wow that is idiotic.

True. But how do you expect them to achieve higher success rates if you lower their standards? For future young adults, their highest levels will be quite lower than those of the other races (whites, asian), and no discerning employer will prefer to hire someone who shows lower skills than other candidates. The good thing is that there are many people in minorities that know that this is harmful and want to change this mind set. But a few whites trying to appear magnanimous and a few minority leaders trying to look like saviors, both trying to maintain their power and influence, force entire groups of people to actually be less prepared. An engineered dumbing down of people.  

The T wrote: True. But how do you expect them to achieve higher success rates if you lower their standards? For future young adults, their highest levels will be quite lower than those of the other races (whites, asian), and no discerning employer will prefer to hire someone who shows lower skills than other candidates. The good thing is that there are many people in minorities that know that this is harmful and want to change this mind set. But a few whites trying to appear magnanimous and a few minority leaders trying to look like saviors, both trying to maintain their power and influence, force entire groups of people to actually be less prepared. An engineered dumbing down of people.

Exactly. If the policy is "minorities don't have to do as well to make good grades" then employers will notice this and it devalues the ability of good students to leverage their grades into good jobs or get into good colleges. In the long run, this will hurt minorities by making it harder for them to convince people that they are just as good as everyone else.