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Originally posted by thellama73 thellama73 wrote:

Originally posted by The T 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.
Doesn't this already happen in order for the star athletes to make the necessary grades so that they can continue to be eligible to be star athletes?
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EU got the Peace Prize. It’s about time that Jagland retired. First Obama and now this. Confused
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EU got the Peace Prize. It’s about time that Jagland retired. First Obama and now this. Confused
Who gets the prize money?
 
if we divi it up between us all I think it's something like 2000 of these each:
 
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All the dough goes to Greece, of course. It will be spent within a few minutes.
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I expect that next year the Nobel Committee will just give the award to themselves, you know, for being such wonderful, important people who make such a difference in the world.
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Heard of Castro's brain death today... is it confirmed, is it only a supposition or what?
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Originally posted by thellama73 thellama73 wrote:

I expect that next year the Nobel Committee will just give the award to themselves, you know, for being such wonderful, important people who make such a difference in the world.
Uh? You just jellous because I got 1/500,000,000th of a Nobel Peace Prize and you haven't Cool


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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by thellama73 thellama73 wrote:

I expect that next year the Nobel Committee will just give the award to themselves, you know, for being such wonderful, important people who make such a difference in the world.
Uh? You just jellous because I got 1/500,000,000th of a Nobel Peace Prize and you haven't Cool


Well at least my president got one! Dead
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^^^

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Originally posted by thellama73 thellama73 wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by thellama73 thellama73 wrote:

I expect that next year the Nobel Committee will just give the award to themselves, you know, for being such wonderful, important people who make such a difference in the world.
Uh? You just jellous because I got 1/500,000,000th of a Nobel Peace Prize and you haven't Cool


Well at least my president got one! Dead
Well, you got a president. Wink
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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by thellama73 thellama73 wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by thellama73 thellama73 wrote:

I expect that next year the Nobel Committee will just give the award to themselves, you know, for being such wonderful, important people who make such a difference in the world.
Uh? You just jellous because I got 1/500,000,000th of a Nobel Peace Prize and you haven't Cool


Well at least my president got one! Dead
Well, you got a president. Wink


Well, you got a monarch. Wink
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Originally posted by thellama73 thellama73 wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by thellama73 thellama73 wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by thellama73 thellama73 wrote:

I expect that next year the Nobel Committee will just give the award to themselves, you know, for being such wonderful, important people who make such a difference in the world.
Uh? You just jellous because I got 1/500,000,000th of a Nobel Peace Prize and you haven't Cool


Well at least my president got one! Dead
Well, you got a president. Wink


Well, you got a monarch. Wink
Ouch I got nothing Cry
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Jagland have so bad english it is embarrising, he should have taken lectures LONG ago,  
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Originally posted by Andrea Cortese Andrea Cortese wrote:

Heard of Castro's brain death today... is it confirmed, is it only a supposition or what?
He has died approximately 29 times in the last 4 years, specially if you live here in FL just a few miles north of the island. 

I have come to realize that Castro is immortal. He will outlive his padawan Chavez, damn, he will probably outlive all of us. 
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Ok, Obama last year, this year they made it better but naming an entire continent (or an entire commercial-cuasi-political-cuasi-legal association of part of its countries). I bet next year they finally will award the nobel to the entire planet for just being there for us and resisting us evil humans and our emissions. 

The logical progression would have taken them to give the ultimate award to god, but since he doesn't exist anymore (specially in Europe), I'm not sure who will receive it in two years. 
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Originally posted by The T The T wrote:

Ok, Obama last year, this year they made it better but naming an entire continent (or an entire commercial-cuasi-political-cuasi-legal association of part of its countries). I bet next year they finally will award the nobel to the entire planet for just being there for us and resisting us evil humans and our emissions. 

The logical progression would have taken them to give the ultimate award to god, but since he doesn't exist anymore (specially in Europe), I'm not sure who will receive it in two years. 
Obama year before, year before last (or 2009 if I've completely screwed up the number of "year before" count)
 
 
...not that I'm picking on YOU, just being picky per se.


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http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/10/11/and-then-there-were-three-third-grand-jury-refuser-goes-to-prison


Keep eroding the rights protected by the constitution.
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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by The T The T wrote:

Ok, Obama last year, this year they made it better but naming an entire continent (or an entire commercial-cuasi-political-cuasi-legal association of part of its countries). I bet next year they finally will award the nobel to the entire planet for just being there for us and resisting us evil humans and our emissions. 

The logical progression would have taken them to give the ultimate award to god, but since he doesn't exist anymore (specially in Europe), I'm not sure who will receive it in two years. 
Obama year before, year before last (or 2009 if I've completely screwed up the number of "year before" count)
 
 
...not that I'm picking on YOU, just being picky per se.
You are right. They actually had two years in between giving it to regular people. 

Next year's award for planet earth is still a certain certainty though... Tongue
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Originally posted by timothy leary timothy leary wrote:

http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/10/11/and-then-there-were-three-third-grand-jury-refuser-goes-to-prison


As I read the link I thought they had sent Ivan to jail... LOL
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Originally posted by The T The T wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by The T The T wrote:

Ok, Obama last year, this year they made it better but naming an entire continent (or an entire commercial-cuasi-political-cuasi-legal association of part of its countries). I bet next year they finally will award the nobel to the entire planet for just being there for us and resisting us evil humans and our emissions. 

The logical progression would have taken them to give the ultimate award to god, but since he doesn't exist anymore (specially in Europe), I'm not sure who will receive it in two years. 
Obama year before, year before last (or 2009 if I've completely screwed up the number of "year before" count)
 
 
...not that I'm picking on YOU, just being picky per se.
You are right. They actually had two years in between giving it to regular people. 

Next year's award for planet earth is still a certain certainty though... Tongue


I still think they will give it to themselves.
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