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June LC Thread **Survivor White House Edition**

View Poll Results: Who will NOT survive the month of June?

Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III

12 20.34%

John Kelly

4 6.78%

Jared Kushner

2 3.39%

Wilbur Ross

2 3.39%

Ben Carson

3 5.08%

Rudy Giuliani

9 15.25%

Scott Pruitt

9 15.25%

Kellyanne Conway

1 1.69%

Rod Rosenstein

8 13.56%

Write-in

9 15.25%

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06-15-2018 , 04:42 PM

#576

goofyballer

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North Carolina passes charter school bill designed to restart educational segregation

The bill allows 4 heavily white suburbs of Charlotte, who currently attend Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (the district covering Mecklenburg County), to form their own charter schools with enrollment open only to residents of those towns. It basically looks like the North Carolina version of what we've seen from stuff like white Birmingham suburbs seceding from their school district.

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The charter school law will allow the mostly white towns of Cornelius, Huntersville, Matthews and Mint Hill outside Charlotte to create their own charter schools and limit the enrollment to families living within their borders. And state legislators agreed to allow municipalities across North Carolina to spend property taxes on local schools, a right that until now was reserved to counties and the state, according to the Raleigh News & Observer.

06-15-2018 , 04:49 PM

#577

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...and next time you hear someone (probably Donald Trump) call California a disaster, our budget that just got sent to Jerry Brown has a $9 billion surplus

CA GOAT

06-15-2018 , 05:10 PM

#578

DudeImBetter

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Can someone give me a quick summary of the "children separated from families at the border" stuff? Is it because illegal immigrant adults are being detained and kids don't get locked up with them? Are kids being put in detention centers when their undocumented parents get locked up?

Also, is this the result of new legislation or an EO?

06-15-2018 , 05:21 PM

#579

simplicitus

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https://twitter.com/MikeIsaac/status...679026176?s=19

06-15-2018 , 05:24 PM

#580

goofyballer

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Here you go DIB. Short answer: there's no law or EO or official policy, the Border Patrol (under Trump's direction) decided to go all-in on cruelty and replace the practice of holding immigrant families together in detention while they await an immigration judge with automatically putting immigrant parents into the federal prosecution queue (so they go to jail, where their kids can't follow them)

06-15-2018 , 05:28 PM

#581

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Sam Harris says that Vox and Salon journalists have the intellectual and moral integrity of KKK members!

He didn't call them racist though, so it's just normal discourse.

06-15-2018 , 05:31 PM

#582

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https://twitter.com/MikeIsaac/status...679026176?s=19

Never forget, Jim "Mad Dog" "You're Supposed to be the Good Cabinet Member, Dumb Mother****er" Mattis worked to perpetrate this criminal fraud against the military and received handsome financial rewards for doing so.

06-15-2018 , 05:36 PM

#583

simplicitus

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Also, the billionaire behind the 3-California split went public a few days ago saying she was railroaded by a WSJ journalist. If billionaires are this dumb, I think a 66% marginal tax rate is in order.

06-15-2018 , 05:37 PM

#584

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Originally Posted by goofyballer

It's all the Dems' fault though.

06-15-2018 , 05:57 PM

#585

SuperUberBob

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Quote:

Originally Posted by bobman0330

Sam Harris says that Vox and Salon journalists have the intellectual and moral integrity of KKK members!

He didn't call them racist though, so it's just normal discourse.

Still bitter over his spat with Ezra Klein I guess.

What a douche. I started listening to Ezra's podcast and stopped listening to Sam's after that.

06-15-2018 , 05:57 PM

#586

6ix

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Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson

Really we need to stop this Skalansky-esque obsession with ranking students and stop treating education like it’s some kind of rare commodity, especially in an era when even ordinary state schools can deliver a high-quality education and online classes are going to dramatically lower the barrier to entry.

That's my point; my conjecture is the test-optional policy will have the opposite effect but I'm realizing that's probably incorrect as students have the option to still submit scores.

From that website:

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You can help encourage even more colleges and universities to treat applicants as "More Than a Score." Your financial support will allow FairTest to promote test-optional policies at more conferences of admissions policy-makers, reach out to additional higher education leaders and distribute copies of this list to counselors and student advocacy groups. Thank you!

GPA is also a score and it's utterly bizarre to think that if you have two scores, removing one makes the whole affair less dependent on scores.

06-15-2018 , 06:02 PM

#587

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Prediction: denied.
And Otero doesn't like ex parte applications. Was it worth the $40k for Cohen's LA lawyers to draft it? Simon says: not even close.

That didn't take long. Nice to file frivolous motions when the lawyers in your other case quit because you couldn't afford to pay them.

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LOS ANGELES (CN) – A federal judge on Friday denied a request by President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen to prevent porn star Stormy Daniels’ lawyer from speaking to the press, finding Cohen did not show the need for immediate relief.

Cohen’s attorney Brent Blakely filed a restraining order Thursday in federal court in Los Angeles seeking to stop Michael Avenatti from “communicating with the press and/or public regarding the merits of this case,” according to the filing.

Cohen argued Avenatti, whose client claims she had an affair with Trump, is depriving him of the right to a fair trial by participating in television news interviews – driven by a “seemingly unquenchable thirst for publicity” – where “he routinely denigrates” Cohen with claims of criminal conduct.

In a single-page court order issued Friday, U.S District Judge S. James Otero said Blakely and Cohen have “not demonstrated in the application that immediate, irreparable injury would occur in the absence of emergency ex parte relief.”

https://www.courthousenews.com/judge...tti-gag-order/

06-15-2018 , 06:16 PM

#588

dth123451

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Ezra was pretty kind to Sam not calling him racist given he is super ****ing racist

06-15-2018 , 06:23 PM

#589

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Originally Posted by goofyballer

And I assume Dems getting blamed is because Dems won't cave on some ridiculously terrible budget that includes an agreement to not keep detaining kids away from their parents?

06-15-2018 , 06:33 PM

#590

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Originally Posted by DudeImBetter

And I assume Dems getting blamed is because Dems won't cave on some ridiculously terrible budget that includes an agreement to not keep detaining kids away from their parents?

yeah trump says it's their fault for not conceding to his demands including fully funding the wall and curtailing legal immigration from nonwhite countries

06-15-2018 , 06:39 PM

#591

aoFrantic

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I bought bad blood, haven't started it yet.

06-15-2018 , 06:41 PM

#592

6ix

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Originally Posted by microbet

6ix and bob have a point there but in the real world tutoring for the SAT/ACT are nearly standard for those who can afford it. Also, standards being lower at bad public schools means super smart kids will still do worse on the SATs, but can get good grades. They may have to catch up in college, but the top x% at a lower performing school is still just as intelligent as that percent at most better performing schools (magnets, acadamies that select kids based on tests and academics could be different, but most higher performing schools select more by zip code). Imagine what it takes to get a top score on the SAT when almost no one you know has, your school barely offers classes that get you far enough, and you barely even know about the test prep centers let alone have money for them.

Otoh, the answer for smart kids with bad educations is probably a couple years in community college and not being put in classes that they aren't ready for. But then they can't take the SAT at that point?

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Originally Posted by microbet

I think the rich kid with the bad SAT at the top school is more of a theoretical worry and the poor brilliant kid who got a 1260 on the SAT, the best in their HS, is a common occurence.

This feels like a myth but I don't feel super-confident saying so.

I attended Morgan Park HS:

https://www.usnews.com/education/bes...gh-school-6578

https://www.illinoisreportcard.com/s...50162990250031

I had peers who went on to UofChicago, Duke, Vanderbilt, STEM at UofIllinois, etc. The general consensus was they had to crush the ACT/SAT and the admissions essays because the GPA from a middle-of-the-road all-black HS on the South Side of Chicago didn't mean a ****ing thing. That's also why that generation gets so upset about the misunderstandings and myths surrounding affirmative action.

06-15-2018 , 06:43 PM

#593

6ix

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My GPA was actually hovering around 1, not a typo, by the time I was expelled. Ain't no ACT score saving that ****.

06-15-2018 , 06:48 PM

#594

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Would be interested in hearing the rest of that story

06-15-2018 , 06:54 PM

#595

microbet

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I bet he didn't win the attendance award either.

06-15-2018 , 07:14 PM

#596

6ix

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Originally Posted by bware

Would be interested in hearing the rest of that story

I posted about the expulsion twice in BBV4L, way back, and each time got paranoid that I was doxxing myself and deleted it. The GPA was basically this,

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Originally Posted by microbet

I bet he didn't win the attendance award either.

and when I was trying to win the attendance award I still adhered to my strict Do No Homework policy.

06-15-2018 , 07:27 PM

#597

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https://twitter.com/TIME/status/1007729730810982400

not all heroes wear capes

06-15-2018 , 08:13 PM

#598

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Bad Blood is a solid, quick read that didn't make me want to tear my hair out by the end, unlike most stories of white collar crime.

06-15-2018 , 08:18 PM

#599

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If you polled Republicans - about 95% would say they think these families are caught trying to sneak in - rather than walk up and request asylum. Why is the left so bad at getting this simple fact out there?