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By the way, Heather MacDonald points to college as the genesis for the students' closing minds. As you know from my earlier posts, English teachers in high school are already beginning the job, by spending their time teaching Leftist thought, rather than the glories of the English language or the opening of the Renaissance and Enlightenment minds.
The Bookworm Beat — 9/8/14 Optics edition (and Open Thread)
This week, when it comes to the top stories, all is not as it seems. What struck me as I read through report after report, and opinion piece after opinion piece, is that we're surrounded by a swirl of optics that belie the truth. Evidence to support this statement follows:
College student opts to illustrate optics of rape by toting around a mattress
The mainstream media is filled with a bit of performance art by Emma Sulkowicz, a senior at Columbia. Sulkowicz claims that three years ago, on her first night in the student dorms, a senior raped her. Sulkowicz eventually reported the alleged rape to the college, which opted not to expel the senior, despite the fact that other female students eventually charged him with rape too. Three years after the fact, Sulkowicz, a performance art major, has come up with a senior thesis that, as I said, has garnered a good bit of attention from the MSM:
Beginning this week, Columbia student Emma Sulkowicz has vowed to carry her mattress around at all times until her alleged rapist is expelled from school. The performance, which doubles as Sulkowicz's senior thesis, instantly went viral and has been splashed internationally across Facebook, Twitter, and even the Today Show as the latest chapter in the ongoing conversation on how colleges handle sexual assault cases.
Sulkowicz, a visual-arts major, says she was raped by a classmate in her dorm bed sophomore year, and when she reported the incident to Columbia administrators they botched the report, the investigation, and the hearing. In April, Sulkowicz filed a Title IX complaint with 23 other students alleging Columbia has mishandled sexual assault cases.
The MSM, understandably, is terribly excited by the optics here. Sulkowicz explains:
Over the summer, I was lucky enough to get into the Yale Norfolk Residency, and I worked on a video where I had to move a mattress out of the room. The idea of carrying a mattress got stuck in my head the way a song gets stuck in your head, and I unpacked why carrying a mattress is an important visual for me. I thought about how I was raped in my own bed at Columbia; and how the mattress represents a private place where a lot of your intimate life happens; and how I have brought my life out in front for the public to see; and the act of bringing something private and intimate out into the public mirrors the way my life has been. Also the mattress as a burden, because of what has happened there, that has turned my own relationship with my bed into something fraught.
What's singularly missing from the articles I looked at (and I looked at 7 or 8) is any information about the rape. Was she asleep in her bed only to wake up to the feel of a knife pressed against her throat (as happened to a friend of mine who sports a large scar on her face that she received when fighting of her attacker)? Or had Sulkowicz invited the alleged attacker into her room and into her bed? Was Sulkowicz drunk or sober? Was her alleged attacker drunk or sober? The only detail Sulkowicz discusses is her claim that the attacker had anal sex with her. It's still unclear whether they had any consensual traditional intercourse before the senior engaged in an act at which Sulkowicz drew the line or whether it was indeed a stranger rape or a rape without any preliminary consensual behavior.
Another interesting thing about Sulkowicz's whole rape narrative is that Sulkowicz immediately decided not to report the rape to the police: "I didn't report it at first because I didn't feel like dealing with the emotional trauma." Okay, I get that, but you can't eat your cake and have it — unless, I guess, you're an American college student. In that case, you can claim that you were the victim of a genuinely criminal act, but bypass entirely the criminal justice system (which as built-in rights for the accused) and, instead, simply complain to your college. Then, if the college refuses to follow the usual politically correct path of destroying the male student's life, you take to the media, so he can again be tried without due process.
I'm sure something happened that night in Sulkowicz's bed. I just can't escape the feeling that what took place was something called "gray rape," which boils down to a scenario in which a girl agrees to sex and then, feeling guilty about what she did, later cries rape. The media, of course, doesn't care.
The media's credulity regarding Sulkowicz's very self-serving claims (after all, she now has a performance art thesis that's garnered her fame throughout the Progressive world) may come about in part because of the media's readily apparent statistical ignorance. After all, the whole "rape culture" (as in "1-in-5 college women will be raped") is in itself totally untrue:
MYTH 4: One in five in college women will be sexually assaulted.
FACTS: This incendiary figure is everywhere in the media today. Journalists, senators and even President Obama cite it routinely. Can it be true that the American college campus is one of the most dangerous places on earth for women?
The one-in-five figure is based on the Campus Sexual Assault Study, commissioned by the National Institute of Justice and conducted from 2005 to 2007. Two prominent criminologists, Northeastern University's James Alan Fox and Mount Holyoke College's Richard Moran, have noted its weaknesses:
"The estimated 19% sexual assault rate among college women is based on a survey at two large four-year universities, which might not accurately reflect our nation's colleges overall. In addition, the survey had a large non-response rate, with the clear possibility that those who had been victimized were more apt to have completed the questionnaire, resulting in an inflated prevalence figure."
Fox and Moran also point out that the study used an overly broad definition of sexual assault. Respondents were counted as sexual assault victims if they had been subject to "attempted forced kissing" or engaged in intimate encounters while intoxicated.
Defenders of the one-in-five figure will reply that the finding has been replicated by other studies. But these studies suffer from some or all of the same flaws. Campus sexual assault is a serious problem and will not be solved by statistical hijinks.
Fundamentally, though, statistics and other icky facts just don't matter to the Left. What matters is control, something perfectly exemplified in an opinion piece in Britain's Guardian. The author, Jessica Valenti, accepts as true the overwhelming horrors of a campus "rape" culture (hyperlinks omitted):
Her performance may be singular, but the deep frustration voiced by Sulkowicz is being echoed by survivors across the United States. Despite increased efforts to curb campus assault and hold schools accountable – the FBI has changed its once-archaic definition of rape, a new White House task force wants answers, and schools like Harvard and Dartmouth have promised new policies – the nation's university administrators are still failing young people in their care. In the last year alone, 67 schools have had students file federal complaints accusing their own colleges of violating the Clery Act or Title IX.
Oh, the outrage! College is a dangerous place for your daughter! Keep her at home, perhaps in a burqa. Oh, wait. Valenti isn't saying that last bit. She just wants to control speech more and more (links omitted):
Late last week, the first state bill to require colleges to adopt an "affirmative consent" model in their sexual assault policies passed the California senate unanimously. The legislation, which is headed to Governor Jerry Brown's desk for approval by the end of this month (his office declined to comment), effectively requires the presence of a "yes" rather than the absence of a "no" – or else withholds funding from the nation's largest state school system.
The legislation additionally clarifies that affirmative consent means both parties must be awake, conscious and not incapacitated from alcohol or drugs – and that past sexual encounters or a romantic relationship doesn't imply consent. The California bill also, importantly, specifies that "lack of protest or resistance does not mean consent, nor does silence mean consent".
It seems like a no-brainer to only have sex with conscious and enthusiastic partners, but detractors say the standard "micromanages" sexuality. The truth is that a "yes means yes" policy "helps to create a shared responsibility, instead of the responsibility falling on women to say 'no'," says Tracey Vitchers, chair of the board at Safer (Students Active for Ending Rape). Anti-violence activists are clearly excited about the bill, which – if all goes well – could be adopted by more states with large public university systems.
Pardon me for cynicism, but I don't believe there's a "rape culture" at college campuses. I believe that there is a "sexually-saturated, morality-free culture" at college campuses, brought about in large part by Progressive pressure on those same campuses to abandon the role of pater familias. Once upon a time, boys and girls lived in separate housing, and they were not allowed to take a person of the opposite sex to their rooms. Even when co-ed dorms first came into being, boys and girls occupied separate floors. Then, that changed so that they occupied the same floors, but had separate bathrooms. Now, they share everything — including copious amounts of drugs and alcohol that numb the smart parts of their brains.
My verdict based on the evidence available: Without more information, Sulkowicz definitely gets an "A+" for performance art and self-promotion. I'll reserve judgment on the rape claim until there's a full trial, complete with due process, a defense, and testimony under oath.
Obama — he of the Greek columns — explains that optics are hard
On Chuck Todd's Meet the Press show, Obama finally deigned to explain why he went on a chortling, fist-thumbing golf game within minutes of announcing to the world that ISIS had decapitated an American citizen, something ISIS proudly filmed and then boasted about in a widely disseminated video. According to Obama, it's just so hard to remember that the world is watching you. Somehow it's unfair that the world's eyes should be on the person who still bears the title of Most Powerful Man In The World, never mind that he's reduced that power to the point where America's weight in the world is no greater than any other little tin pot dictatorship's world power.
Obama's disingenuous claim that political theater is "not something that always comes naturally to me" unleashed a marvelous outrushing of tweets, some of which focused on his more egregious acts of political theater (faux Greek columns, speeches at the Brandenburg Gate) and others of which focused on his more embarrassing acts of visual ineptitude. Legal Insurrection has assembled some of these tweets.
Here are a few more for your enjoyment and delectation:
#PresidentObamaHasAlwaysBeenTerribleAtPoliticalTheater OK….maybe…. pic.twitter.com/YZBQPw1LsX
— Mike Werner (@mwerner89) September 8, 2014
#PresidentObamaHasAlwaysBeenTerribleAtPoliticalTheater Context: https://t.co/Jb3CnTAxHR pic.twitter.com/YSupxf7NvD
— E-Du (@ezradulis) September 7, 2014
#PresidentObamaHasAlwaysBeenTerribleAtPoliticalTheater pic.twitter.com/0rze7s9SMm
— Klown 2.0 (@realmyiq2xu2) September 7, 2014
#PresidentObamaHasAlwaysBeenTerribleAtPoliticalTheater pic.twitter.com/ZT0EUae0IA
— Jenn Jacques (@JennJacques) September 7, 2014
I'll also add my favorite umbrella optic:
Commenting on Obama's risible statement about his deep feelings on learning of Foley's death (feelings so deep that he was giggling on giggling on the golf course just a few hours later), Scott Johnson had this to say (emphasis mine):
In this case, the photographs suggest that Obama wasn't all that choked up about the beheading of James Foley. They document that whatever emotion he felt, if any, dissipated very quickly. On that day, the photographs belied the theater. You might conclude that Obama is something of a phony on a matter of great concern to ordinary Americans. Thus Obama's irritation.
One is struck both by the falsity and the petulance of Obama's comments. I think Obama lies even to himself.
I disagree with Johnson's last sentence, insofar as it implies that Obama, when he speaks of his deep feeling, knows that the opposite is actually true, and that he's a shallow, self-involved, unfeeling man. Instead, I would argue that, when Obama told Chuck Todd that he was really quite shattered, and simply forgot that mere Americans wouldn't understand the visuals of a man so sophisticated that he could go from shattered to silly within minutes, he was telling the truth . . . his truth. After all, the first rule of malignant narcissism is that the narcissist never lies. Since the truth is defined by his needs, when he makes a statement in accord with those needs, he is telling the truth or, more accurately, he is telling his truth.
The Gaza optics reveal that at least one of the dead wasn't an innocent child
Elder of Ziyon examined the case of one of those poor, innocent civilians who died in Gaza as a result of Israel's "unconscionable" Protective Edge assault. He found some damn interesting stuff too.
The optics of Britain's dissolution are infinitely worse than the reality
A new YouGov poll makes it seem very likely that, after more than 300 years of being a United Kingdom, England will be disunited from Scotland: A majority of Scots suddenly seem inclined to go it alone as their own nation. Traditionalists who are moved by centuries of union, are horrified to think that they might live to see the day when Scotland and England part ways.
One could argue in opposition that what we're seeing here is a necessary Scottish "reconquista," as Scotland shakes off the shackles of a mere few hundred years of joinder with England in order to return to its more natural state, which was almost a thousand years of independence. That's a silly argument, though.
John Fund makes a more serious and impressive argument when he says that, beneath the "it's all falling apart" optics of dissolution, a Scottish vote in favor of disunion would be a good thing. Currently, Scotland sends a disproportionate number of Leftist members to the British parliament. Getting rid of them would give Tories (who are vaguely conservative) a majority. Additionally, once unanchored to the British treasury, hard Left Scotland might find it economically unfeasible to pursue socialist policies. Sadly, with the older generations dead and gone, I doubt that there's any possibility that Scotland could revert to the hard-headed, self-reliant Scotland that gave America and the free world some of her greatest supporters of independence.
Scotland, of course, is banking on its oil revenue to keep it afloat, while England will mourn the loss of that same revenue. Again, though, oil may not be all its cracked up to be. As the Saudi countries show, oil money too readily props up otherwise broken, ineffectual economies. And as Venezuela shows, when a government becomes too socialist and broken, even oil money won't help.
Optics and truth when it comes to American economic health under Reagan and Obama
I'm crowd-sourcing here. A Forbes opinion piece makes a compelling argument that Obama's recovery economy is much stronger than Reagan's was, with a better stock market, better corporate health, and better labor participation. I suspect jiggery-pokery here.
The argument I would make, and that many in the comments to that same article make, is that the stock market is propped up by government-printed money that doesn't have actual wealth backing it; that the labor market is worse because more people have dropped out of the labor force and because the majority of jobs created are part-time or low pay; and that the federal debt and deficit mean that, to the extent we're completely overextended, even the slightest economic tremor could trigger a massive economic collapse that will make 2008 look like the good times in retrospect.
I would value your input on this one. Both collectively and individually, you guys are better at economic data than I ever will be.
Friday factoids (and Open Thread)
I have lots of intelligent thoughts swirling in my head. The problem is that they haven't settled down and become coherent. Mostly, I'm focused on an upcoming outing with my mother.
My mother is an inveterate shopper. At almost 91, shopping isn't just the main pleasure in her life, it's her only pleasure. Sometimes I take her (which is truly a test of my love because I hate shopping); sometimes a friend takes her; and sometimes (actually, weekly) she boards the bus at her managed care facility for an outing to her favorite store.
Her most recent solo outing, however, left her distraught. I got a confused tale about lost receipts, switched-out clothing, purse-snatching sales clerks (although she still has her purse and everything in it), kissing sales ladies, and a general feeling that "something is wrong there." I'm sure something is wrong, but I'm not sure whether this mainstream, reputable store is having a management failure or if my mother's mental capacity has suddenly diminished. I suspect the latter, but am open to the former — so I'm taking Mom to the store today to see what's going on.
Meanwhile, there's interesting stuff out there.
By now, I'm sure all of you have heard that Dinesh D'Souza was indicted for alleged campaign funding malfeasance to the tune of $20,000. A couple of comments: To the extent his lawyer is talking about innocent mistakes, my reading is that D'Souza almost certainly committed the act as charged. And to the extent that a John Edwards' friend did the same, and was only charged with a misdemeanor, the over-the-top attack on D'Souza is political revenge. Check here for Maetenloch's list of a long line of Mafia-style policing from the Obama administration against conservatives and here, at Gateway Pundit, for Chuck Schumer's explicit call-out to the IRS to attack conservative groups (but not Organizing for America, of course, Obama's political arm).
Zombie has a shocking (no Casablanca-style irony here when I use that word) report about San Francisco's decision to continue paying a pension to a former city employee convicted on felony charges for storing and sharing the most vile kind of child pornography. In addition to the images on his computer, the official included excited comments on the photographs giving his enthusiastic support to violence inflicted on children as young as infants and toddlers. He reserved special approval for situations involving black adults abusing children or black children being abused. According to the City, his acts didn't constitute "moral turpitude." To which one can only say, "Huh"?
As for a reason behind the Progressive City's continued support for the felon, it might have something to do with the fact that he's a gay rights advocate who spearheaded nationwide recognition for "domestic partnerships" and, ironically enough, campaigned vigorously against alleged discrimination against blacks at sex clubs. In other words, despite his crimes, he's still politically untouchable.
My comments should not be construed as a swipe at "domestic partnership" laws, which I think are a much better idea than gay marriage, a notion that risks a devastating clash with First Amendment religious rights. Instead, they're meant to attack a Progressive world view that forgives any sin provided that the person committing the sin has the right political credentials. (Roman Polanski comes to mind as another example of this attitude.)
How about, instead of talking about blacks as the sexual playthings of a disgusting human being, we talk about them as fully realized human beings who do what the rest of us do, which is making political and social choices based upon their life experiences? If that's how you view people of other races, religions, cultures, sexual orientations, etc., please read Lloyd Marcus's article about his upbringing and journey to conservativism, all of which took place inside a home with a hard-working father, and some of which took place in a sparkly new housing project that swiftly devolved into a Hobbesian nightmare.
If you ever get into an argument with a Leftist about anything — not just about politics, but about anything — you'll notice one inevitable hallmark of their arguing style. It's always personal. For example, a Leftist will say "That new HBO show Looking is really good." You'll respond "I didn't like it much." A non-Leftist might say, "Oh, that's too bad." Or he might ask, "Why not?" Or he could say, "But it's a really good look at the ordinary life of ordinary gays, and is worth watching for that reason." But that's not what a Leftist will say. He'll say, "You're homophobic." Or he'll say, "That's because you're too stupid/narrow minded/unreasonable/backwards to appreciate good television." It's never about the show; it's always about you.
Thomas Sowell has noticed this habit too, a habit that isn't about the personal being political, but goes beyond that: Everything is personal when a Leftist is involved — and you're always the wrong or damaged or stupid or prejudiced or all-around evil person. After looking at the roots of this practice and giving examples in both 20th and 21st century politics, Sowell, who is a humanist, offers a possible explanation:
The vision of the Left is not just a vision of the world. For many, it is also a vision of themselves — a very flattering vision of people trying to save the planet, rescue the exploited, create "social justice," and otherwise be on the side of the angels. This is an exalting vision that few are ready to give up, or to risk on a roll of the dice, which is what submitting it to the test of factual evidence amounts to. Maybe that is why there are so many fact-free arguments on the left, whether on gun control, minimum wages, or innumerable other issues — and why they react so viscerally to those who challenge their vision.
I'm not a humanist. My possible explanation is that Leftism is attractive to deeply insecure people who don't have a solid sense of their own worth and values. They latch onto a political ideology that spells out expressly what's right and wrong, and that gives them permission to function as their own God-heads, casting nonbelievers into eternal damnation. In other words, it's a political ideology of, by, and for malignant narcissists.
Speaking of Looking, a half-hour long HBO dramedy that looks at young gays in San Francisco, it turns out that audiences didn't want to look. We actually turned it off in the first 30 seconds of the first episode, when a character sneaked into the bushes to meet another man who attacked his zipper and headed (literally) for his crotch. This is always going to be the problem with the gay lifestyle. Even people who are not homophobic and believe that they are entitled to full civil rights really don't want to know too much about the sexual excesses in which so many gay young men engage.
And while we're on the subject of salacious productions, enjoy this video (which is extremely good satire, but is not safe for work).
I don't think the college bubble is going to burst in time to spare me the cost of sending my two upper-middle-class suburban kids to college. But it will burst. Two articles mark the way to bubble collapse. The first, in The Atlantic, focuses on kids with big debts and no job prospects. The second, in Forbes, gives voice to one person who thinks he made a smart decision to skip college. I know that, in my neck of the words, more and more parents are encouraging those of their children who aren't that academically oriented to look into working for a year or two before going to college or to get their first two years done at the local community college.
At IBD, both Michael Ramirez and Andrew Malcolm examine Obama's latest position in the war on terror: trash-talking al Qaeda. Neither is impressed. Richard Baehr has a few compelling and pertinent thoughts on the subject too.
Also at IBD, an editorial saying that the California drought is not a product of all-encompassing climate change, just as the Polar Vortex isn't. It's happened repeatedly before, and it will happen repeatedly again. Both are parts of earth's ever-changing and completely natural cycle. I hate the drought, but I'm not railing at evil corporate conglomerates. And in any event, if I want to rail at evil conglomerates who pollute our world, I should yell at the Americans and Europeans who ship their dirty factories to China and at the Chinese fascist government that lets them. (I've decided that China is no longer communist, since it has shifted to a market-based economy. Instead, it's now fascist, since the government continues to control the people and the ostensibly privately-owned marketplace.)
It's great to be the messiah. Even as you drive the US economy into the ditch, you and your family enjoy the high life — and charge it to the demoralized, broke American people. When Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette did that, they lost their heads. Obama and Co., however, get away with it without even having a dent put on their halos.
Christmas in Marin
I've had a very nice Christmas, both Eve and Day. I also had a very Marin Christmas. I was at a party this afternoon and met some very nice people.
In a discussion about rising college prices, one man told me that this problem resulted from income inequality. He was surprised when I suggested that tuition inflation probably had more to do with government loans enabling colleges to get away with charging money, as well as with top-heavy administrations and overpaid professors. I didn't push it and nor did he, but I do think I gave him something to think about.
Another man earnestly told me that all of his food allergies were the result of genetically modified food. He was at a loss to explain how I, who had myriad food allergies growing up, no longer have any.
Finally, a third man said that Marin's current (very disturbing) drought is the product of anthropogenic global warming. When I mentioned that we'd had a drought here way back in the late 1970s and that most of America was freezing and deluged with snow and sleet, he was nonplussed and fell silent.
With all three men, I didn't push the agenda. It was a congenial party and I had no intention of raising the temperature in the room. I do hope, though, that I planted little seeds in their minds from which something might sprout.
By the way, speaking of Marin County, Daniel Henninger today published a very funny letter (behind a paywall) purporting to come from a Marin County navigator to "His Excellency, President Obama."
Know your priorities and act without hesitation
Suek posted this is an open thread, but I thought it was too good to keep hidden:
Marines are taught:
1) Keep your priorities in order and
2) Know when to act without hesitation.
A MARINE was attending some college courses between assignments. He had completed missions in Iraq and Afghanistan.
One of the courses had a professor who was an avowed atheist and a member of the ACLU. One day he shocked the class when he came in, looked to the ceiling, and flatly stated, "God, if you are real, then I want you to knock me off this platform. I'll give you exactly 15 minutes." The lecture room fell silent. You could hear a pin drop. Ten minutes
went by and the professor proclaimed, "Here I am God I'm still waiting."
It got down to the last couple of minutes when the MARINE got out of his chair, went up to the professor, and cold-cocked him; knocking him off the platform. The professor was out cold. The MARINE went back to his seat and sat there, silently. The other students were shocked and stunned ! and sat there looking on in silence.
The professor eventually came to, noticeably shaken, looked at the MARINE and asked, "What the hell is the matter with you? Why did you do that?"
The MARINE calmly replied, "God was too busy today taking care of America's soldiers who are protecting your right to say stupid shit and act like an asshole. So, He sent me."
Had this Marine been in Berlin in 1925, he might have kept my Dad from becoming a lifelong atheist. My Dad's mother always told him that, if he ate leavened bread during Passover, God would strike him dead with a lightening bolt. When my Dad was six, he decided to put this theory to the test. He stood on the curb with a piece of leavened bread in his hand. His plan: Take a bite of the bread and simultaneously jump off the curb into the street, so that the lightening bolt would miss. He put the plan into effect, but to no purpose — the lightening bolt never appeared. With six-year-old logic, rather than concluding that his mother was misinformed, my Dad gave up on God.
When it comes to education, liberals continue to be invested in affirmative action *UPDATED*
When I was a very little girl, back in the hard drinking 1960s, an expression I frequently heard was that someone or something needed a bit of "the hair of the dog that bit you." I used to think that actually meant people would consume dog hair to cure their ills. It was only later that I learned that one of the best — and, of course, worst — remedies for a hangover is more alcohol. Even as it cures the original hangover, it sets the drinker up for the next hangover. It appears to be a cure, but is merely part of the problem.
I think that exactly the same can be said of affirmative action. Ostensibly meant to provide minorities (read: African Americans) with a necessary leg up in a fundamentally discriminatory culture, it actually creates a situation in which blacks never have to achieve, and therefore never do achieve.
The problem extends beyond the education world, which sees colleges and universities happy to play this nasty little game to assuage their collective white, liberal consciences. For many years, it has been creating actual unemployment in the real world, where businesses that are tied to the bottom line cannot afford to play the same affirmative action game that colleges play so effortlessly. Business, after all, don't get the government help (read: taxpayer money) that flows to our institutions of higher education.
I mention this now because of two articles that appeared with two days of each other in two bastions of liberal thinking, the Washington Post and the New York Times. The WaPo reports on a study showing that minorities continue to fall behind when it comes to American higher education. First, the problem:
A new report, billed as one of the most comprehensive studies to date of how low-income and minority students fare in college, shows a wide gap in graduation rates at public four-year colleges nationwide and "alarming" disparities in success at community colleges.
The analysis, released Thursday, found that about 45 percent of low-income and underrepresented minority students entering as freshmen in 1999 had received bachelor's degrees six years later at the colleges studied, compared with 57 percent of other students.
Fewer than one-third of all freshmen entering two-year institutions nationwide attained completion — either through a certificate, an associate's degree or transfer to a four-year college — within four years, according to the research. The success rate was lower, 24 percent, for underrepresented minorities, identified as blacks, Latinos and Native Americans; it was higher, 38 percent, for other students.
Only 7 percent of minority students who entered community colleges received bachelor's degrees within 10 years.
If it were up to me, the solution would be to demand that minorities who enter American educational institutions have met the same standards as whites and Asians in those same institutions. Only a head-in-the-clouds academic (read: liberal) would think that it is reasonable or fair to tell African Americans that they don't need to do well in order to enter colleges and universities, only to be surprised that, while actually attending those institutions, these conned minority students continue to do badly. And only a head-in-the-clouds liberal would think that these same students would be able to, or even want to, stick it out at some fou-fou university, when they are pathetically scraping along at the bottom of the class. In the real world, people have to hunger to achieve, they have to work hard, and then they get to enjoy the fruits of their labor. Liberals deny that to blacks, and then they're surprised when these same blacks neither want to nor are able to perform.
Sadly, the government and our educational institutions are run by these head-in-the-cloud liberal academics, so they're determining the solutions — and, naturally, the solutions they endorse are the hair of the same dog that has been biting African-American students for the past 30 plus years: more affirmative action, which is a disincentive to learning and achieving. The WaPo article, admittedly, is rather coy about the affirmative action solution, but it's implied between the lines:
The Access to Success Initiative, announced in 2007, predates President Obama's American Graduation Initiative announced this year, which calls for the United States to regain the global lead in college degrees by 2020. Any progress charted by the 24 college and university systems, which include the University System of Maryland and state university systems in California and New York, will dovetail "very neatly" with the president's goal, said Haycock, whose organization advocates for disadvantaged students.
One bright spot in the research was the Pell Grant, the federal program to help low-income students through college. The study found that Pell recipients at community colleges completed their studies at a rate of 32 percent, the same as other students. Pell students who transferred to four-year colleges also graduated at the same rate, 60 percent, as other students.
A bill pending in Congress would strengthen the Pell program by raising the maximum grant and tying the program to inflation for the first time.
You got that, right? The solution is to throw more money at institutions that take minorities, not to demand that minorities compete going into the schools, so that they can stick around, and then compete when they come out again.
We Americans have seen for thirty years that more money enriches the politicos and the administration and the unions, without making much difference in the student outcomes. I figured that out back in the late 1980s, when I learned that the Sausalito school district, which is just north of San Francisco, was both the best funded and the worst performing district in California. I don't know if either of those facts still holds true for Sausalito in 2009, but it was an object lesson to me at that time that there comes a point where a system is so dysfunctional that money becomes irrelevant.
As long as public schools have no accountability to anybody (a situation that would change dramatically if we switched to a voucher system), and as long as the educational and political classes are committed to affirmative action, nothing is going to change at the college and university level. Just as the drunk needs more alcohol to provide the appearance of a temporary cure for a deeper problem, so too do our educational institutions and our poor, deluded African American population demand more money as the solution to a problem that has little to do with money, and everything to do with the subtle racism of low expectations.
Things are different in the business world, and will continue to be so until Barack Obama has successfully "bailed out" the entire capital system, turning the U.S. into a giant, politically correct, bankrupt morass. In the interim, as the New York Times reports, businesses don't want blacks, even educated ones. The Times report, of course, implies racism, with evil white capitalists anxious to depress "uppity blacks."
Johnny R. Williams, 30, would appear to be an unlikely person to have to fret about the impact of race on his job search, with companies like JPMorgan Chase and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago on his résumé.
But after graduating from business school last year and not having much success garnering interviews, he decided to retool his résumé, scrubbing it of any details that might tip off his skin color. His membership, for instance, in the African-American business students association? Deleted.
That race remains a serious obstacle in the job market for African-Americans, even those with degrees from respected colleges, may seem to some people a jarring contrast to decades of progress by blacks, culminating in President Obama's election.
But there is ample evidence that racial inequities remain when it comes to employment. Black joblessness has long far outstripped that of whites. And strikingly, the disparity for the first 10 months of this year, as the recession has dragged on, has been even more pronounced for those with college degrees, compared with those without. Education, it seems, does not level the playing field — in fact, it appears to have made it more uneven.
The discrimination is rarely overt, according to interviews with more than two dozen college-educated black job seekers around the country, many of them out of work for months. Instead, those interviewed told subtler stories, referring to surprised looks and offhand comments, interviews that fell apart almost as soon as they began, and the sudden loss of interest from companies after meetings.
As for me, I reject the Times' implication that white owned American businesses are trying to sneak Jim Crow in through the back door. Instead, the problem young, educated blacks have in the employment market arises because businesses have figured out that, because blacks aren't required to have many skills going into universities, they're equally unlikely to have when they emerge clutching a degree with the politically correct, affirmative action stamp of approval appended to the bottom. In other words, affirmative action has so badly corrupted the "brand name" of the college educated black person, even a person who is intelligent and skilled is tainted by that corruption.
When history books are written, affirmative action is going to be recognized for what it is: a terrible scourge, destroying the upwardly mobile black middle class. As I said in my post accusing Obama of being the quintessential example of affirmative action, in that he is all college papers and no substance, affirmative action tells blacks that they don't have to work to succeed. That's a powerful and corrupting message. Even the best and brightest will economize their mental energies and do the bare minimum necessary to get into and get out of colleges and universities. But as the system passes through more and more blacks who are either unable to achieve from the get-go, or unwilling to achieve because they've been assured of a free pass regardless, the black brand is going to be associated, as it was in the Jim Crow era, with people who are unintelligent, ineffective and lazy. That this is not true for many graduates, or for many who don't go to school, is irrelevant. It is enough that the visible blacks have been corrupted by the system for all of them to bear that stigma.
Once again, liberalism, while parading as the blacks' true friend, is proving itself to be their mortal enemy, destroying them by denying them the incentive and opportunity to be all that they can be.
UPDATE: This seemed the perfect place to add a video of Congressional candidate Lieutenant Colonel Allen West, because he is the wonderful, marvelous antithesis of our affirmative action president:


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Paid for the fuel pump and filter and driving home the truck shuddered and stalled everty time slowed to make a turn. When I contacted TQ the next morning I was told there was a problem with the rack and pinion steering leaking and I also needed a new power steering pump. Additionally, they stated I needed I-joints and wjheel alignments, all of which they could do for merely $1250.00 in addition to what I had already paid.
I took my vehicle to Merchants Tire where they found that air had been introduced into the power steering system, which they were able to bleed off. They found no problem with the rack and pinion, steering pump, or wheel alignment.
I addressed all this with the regional manager (he called me once) and then with one of his flunkies. Bottom line is their people did nothing wrong - that's the party line!
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WHITE PLAINS, July 17— Their lives overlapped for only a few weeks. She was a spirited but troubled girl who at 17 was in the Westchester County Jail for attempted robbery and assault. He was a 75-year-old psychiatrist who had managed to put behind him his own macabre criminal history and was working uneventfully, treating inmates at the county jail.
On the night of May 17, after about a month behind bars, the girl, Nancy Blumenthal, was found hanging from a bedsheet in her cell. According to a report commissioned by county health officials, her suicide took place after the psychiatrist, Dr. Harvey Lothringer, discontinued the antidepressant medication that Nancy had been taking for more than a year.
The report, written by the County Health Commissioner, Dr. Mark S. Rapoport, did not say that withholding the girl's medication had led directly to her death, but it did say that Dr. Lothringer's decision "was made in a vacuum, devoid of important information about her mental health history."
County Executive Andrew P. O'Rourke is expected to make an announcement on Thursday about whether he will cancel the $10.2 million contract with EMSA Correctional Care, the private company that had been providing health care to the 1,300 inmates since January and that had employed Dr. Lothringer to examine prisoners three days a week. But revelations about the doctor's past have raised questions about the county's hiring practices, the effort to privatize county services and the general quality of mental health services in the jail.
After serving in the Army Medical Corps in World War II, Dr. Lothringer went into private practice in 1946. But in 1964, his career was shattered when he pleaded guilty to charges of second-degree manslaughter two years after a young woman died during an illegal abortion he was performing.
According to newspaper reports at the time, the woman, Barbara Lofrumento, 19, a student at the College of New Rochelle, was taken by her mother to Dr. Lothringer's home in Queens for the abortion. Rose Lofrumento told the police that after several hours had passed, Dr. Lothringer explained that her daughter was being sent to a hospital because of minor complications and suggested that the mother return home.
But the next day, when Mrs. Lofrumento returned to pick up her daughter, no one responded to her knock on the door. After continued efforts to reach the doctor, the Lofrumento family reported the girl missing to the Queens District Attorney.
The next day, Dr. Lothringer's father discovered that the drains in his son's house were clogged. He hired workers to clean the pipes, and the plumbers soon made a gruesome discovery: Dr. Lothringer, apparently in a panic, had dismembered the patient's body with a hatchet and scalpel and tried to flush the pieces down the toilet.
By that time, Dr. Lothringer had left the country. A manhunt ensued that led the F.B.I. from Canada to Cuba. The doctor was finally seized in 1962 in Andorra, a tiny principality in the Pyrenees, where he was traveling with his receptionist. He then confessed to police that a fatal air bubble had developed in the patient's bloodstream and that he had tried to dispose of Ms. Lofrumento's body to spare his receptionist from being implicated.
Dr. Lorthringer was brought back to the United States and sentenced to two to eight years in prison, and his medical license was revoked. He served four years and was paroled in 1968.
According to state records, Dr. Lothringer petitioned in 1972 for restoration of his medical license, and the request was denied. But a petition that he submitted a year later was granted, and on Oct. 17, 1973, Dr. Lothringer's license was restored under a five-year probationary status.
State officials said that records explaining why Dr. Lothringer's license was restored were in archives and not readily available.
In 1975, Dr. Lorthringer became board certified to practice psychiatry; his probation ended in 1978.
"He has practiced since then without any reports of misconduct," said George Ding, deputy director of prosecutions for the State Department of Education, which oversees medical licensing.
In 1978, Dr. Lothringer was hired by Westchester as a staff psychiatrist for the County Jail. County officials could not say whether his criminal record was known at the time, though their presumption is that it was.
"Among people who worked for the county government then, everybody had a vague recollection of a controversy because it was highly publicized in the 1960's," said Adele Dowling, a spokeswoman for the County Executive. "The assumption is that those issues were addressed when he was hired."
Jonathan Lovett, a lawyer for the Blumenthal family, said that he was certain the county knew of Dr. Lothringer's criminal background, because anyone hired to work in the prison system must undergo a criminal-records check.
Dr. Lothringer retired from the county in 1991, but he continued to work until this year as a consultant, and was hired by EMSA in January. Margaret Pearson, a spokeswoman for EMSA, said that the company's application form asks whether the applicant has ever been accused of a felony. Dr. Lothringer checked "yes" and explained that he had performed an abortion and the patient had died.
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CAC We bought a truck an had it financed thru CAG an next thing we know the TOW TRUCK is sitting in our yard repoing our truck. An we had not even gotten a payment book tag or anything we needed. So we ha REPOD THE TRICK AN WE HADN'T EVEN GOT A PAYMENT BOOK OR A TAG Bryson City, North Carolina
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Verizon High Speed Internet verizon high speed internet verizon high speed internet services are just ripoff...i had 1mbps line for internet..and that was working fine..just for promoting fios...verizon cut down the speed to 20kbps.and that is ridiculous. jersey city, New Jersey
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HIDGEEKS.COM SENT ME A BROKEN HEADLIGHT KIT, TEL # DISCONNECTED. SCAM ARTISTS! They are unreachable. Won't do refunds. SAVE YOURSELF AND DON'T BUY FROM THEM. Internet
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Complaint Review: Lakeisha Chambers
Lakeisha Chambers6 Reese Ave, Harrington, DE Internet United States of America
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Well I only have 2 more weeks of maternity leave :( and i have to take a social work licensing test ( i graduated from college 1 1/2 yrs ago and kept putting my licensing test off, BIG mistake b/c when i finally scheduled it i ended up on bedrest and had to reschedule for Oct. 6th so starting next week ill be studying hardcore blah) but anyways today i actually did the things i said i would do while on maternity leave!
I packed away all of my maternity clothes. That was pretty difficult for me because i remember going out with my mom and sis to get new clothes and some of them i never got to wear because i had my DD so early at 26 weeks. but i packed them away so if my sister gets pregnant soon she can wear them and my next pregnancy (god willing everything goes okay and i make it past 26 weeks) i can wear the clothes too...i feel much better and relieved after i packed them away. They have been in my closet forever and every time i go in there i get a little sad b/c im just now supposed to be having my daughter...but its okay.
And i packed away all of DD's preemie and newborn clothes! She is officially in 0-3 month clothes and HOLY COW she has soooooooooo many preemie clothes lol we just bought a few, but my parents and my in-laws and family friends bought us a ton...so im packing them away for future use (hopefully we wont need them for preemies!)
I feel so productive and relieved...and a little sad my DD is growing so fast. Just the other night at the store people were commenting on how tiny she was "she must be newborn huh?!" lol "no actually shes 3 months, but shes like a newborn..." so to me she is getting big 9 lbs!!! b/c compared to her birth weight of 2 lbs that is huge!
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Complaint Review: mysensa.com
mysensa.com28516 Livingston Ave. Valencia, California United States of America
mysensa.com Sensa Try Sensa is a rip off Valencia, California
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Chifley, Joseph Benedict
(1885–1951), Australian Labor statesman, prime minister 1945-9. He continued Labor's nationalization and welfare programme and initiated Australia's immigration policy.
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Reviews - Hilton Cardiff4
Kingsway, Cardiff, CF10 3HH
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Very Good
83% would recommend it to a friend
Customer service
Food quality
Room quality
Nice hotel friendly staff
Enjoyed mini break with daughter and granddaughter.
Staff very friendly and helpful. Granddaughter treated very well. At bar they make her felt grown up mixed drink and served it to her. Only five but make up like a grown up. Going to include in her scrap book for school, took photo. Thanks for making her first hotel stay nice.
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Excellent customer service
Very good quality hotel.
Excellent customer service
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Hilton Cardiff
All the staff where very friendly from top to bottom
Comfortable stay in central location
I always like to stay here when I visit my home town.
As I travel alone, I feel that I am looked after w henever I stay at The Hilton Cardiff. I had a lovely room overlooking the castle and had access to the executive lounge at the top of the hotel which is very relaxing. I will certainly stay again.
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Fantastic Customer Service
The reception staff were so welcoming and helpful - couldn't do enough for us.
The room was a great size and the bed was extremely comfortable.
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Stayed here last Saturday, and was charged an extra £25 deposit for any extras I might have used eg mini bar, downstairs bar etc.
(I never had to pay this kind of deposit elsewhere) They said it would be refunded within a few days. It's now nearly 2 weeks ago, still no refund. Also, I paid extra so I could use the executive lounge bar. I was not told that this bar closed at 8pm, and was subsequently turned away because u arrived just after 8. I would not have booked this particular room if I'd known this. The room was ok, but I've had a lot better elsewhere for a lot less money. Overall, I'm not particularly impressed, and will not be staying at the Hilton ever again!
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Really impressed!
Have never stayed at this hotel, will definitely be coming back.
Staff were very polite, friendly and helpful.
Room was large, great view overlooking the Castle. Fridge provided which was a bonus, and a huge bathroom with both bathtub (and overbath shower) and a separate, walk in shower. Room and bathroom both spotlessly clean. Apart from there being no programme guide on the TV, I couldn't fault it.
Location of the hotel is great, right by the City Centre and only about a 15-20 min walk from the station. Pool and gym facilities are also excellent.
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I thought the pool and spar part is very very small.
Considering the size of the hotel and stranded of the hotel. I thought the pool and spar part let the hotel down. For people who are just going there for a break . To be able to use the spar part. I would not recommend at all. There are better spars and pools in other hotels.
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One night
The service when arrived was outstanding , so welcoming and very helpful.
The hotel itself was very clean and we got a complimentary upgrade although I couldn't quite see the difference . It was a lovely room free , would of liked maybe a mini bar. The only thing I can complain about is I found it very cold in the night and morning in the room , and the only thing I could control was a fan. But would deffinately go back again .
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Hilton Cardiff
The room was smaller than I expected as a junior suite.
There was only one lift working which took ages. Other than that a great stay and hotel.
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Definition of speed dial in English:
speed dial
A function on some telephones which allows numbers to be entered into a memory and dialled with the push of a single button.
Example sentences
- 'I'll call Denny and Anthony,' he said, pushing the speed dial.
- He picked up the phone and pressed a button on the speed dial.
- He pushed one on the speed dial and put it to his ear, looking at her cautiously.
verb (speed-dials, speed-dialling, speed-dialled)(speed-dial) [with object]
Dial (a telephone number) by using a speed dial function: Sarah speed-dialled the number they speed-dialled a few friends
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- Maybe these people have nothing else to do than listen to every radio station and speed-dial the shows to spew their venom or more often display their stupidity.
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Corrected: Proposed VW Settlement Likely Misses Clean Air Targets
The proposed VW settlement is flawed because it favors less effective technologies compared to proven clean diesel technology.
March 27, 2012 | Diesel Technology Forum
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Washington, D.C. – The Diesel Technology Forum is pleased to announce that AGCO, a Fortune 500 agricultural equipment manufacturer, is the newest member to join the Forum. DTF is a non-profit organization that promotes the use of the newest clean diesel technologies in the United States.
"We are extremely pleased to welcome AGCO as a partner in the Forum's national effort to promote the newest and cleanest diesel technology," said Allen Schaeffer, the Executive Director of the Diesel Technology Forum.
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"The e3 technology developed by AGCO is an excellent example of the clean diesel technology. AGCO's e3 equipment meets the diverse needs of modern agriculture – cleaner emissions, reliable performance and efficiency – while also providing undiminished horsepower, torque and improved fuel efficiency," Schaeffer said.
"AGCO is proud to become part of the Diesel Technology Forum and looks forward to the opportunity to participate with other leading Diesel Engine OEM's and industry partners to promote and support clean diesel technology and its benefits now and in the future. We support the DTF's approach and vigilance in ensuring that diesel continues to be a viable source of power for agriculture" said Matt Rushing, product management director, global electronics and global engines at AGCO.
AGCO, Your Agriculture Company, (NYSE:AGCO), was founded in 1990 and offers a full product line of tractors, combines, hay tools, sprayers, forage equipment, tillage, implements, grain storage and handling, protein production systems and related replacement parts. AGCO agricultural products are sold under the core brands of Challenger®, Fendt®, Massey Ferguson® and Valtra® and are distributed globally through 3,100 independent dealers and distributors in more than 140 countries worldwide. Retail financing is available through AGCO Finance for qualified purchasers. AGCO is headquartered in Duluth, GA, USA. In 2011, AGCO had net sales of $8.8 billion. http://www.agcocorp.com.
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Complaint Review: Club Tee Time
Club Tee TimeInternet United States of America
Club Tee Time www.clubteetime.com Gift cards are worthless and cannot be used. Internet
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- Report: #262003
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Complaint Review: MBF Leasing - Vericomm
MBF Leasing - Vericomm27200 Tourney Road, Suite 315 Valencia, California U.S.A.
MBF Leasing And Vericomm Road Warriors for MBF Leasing Vericomm making road kill of hard working small business owners ripoff Valencia California
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I have been to the New York court twice, and will be going again. I realize that not only do the Sales people (Vericomm) lie, but the lies are pre-planned, so that when you get to court they use their pre-planned lies so that MBF Leasing has a better case against you in court.
Vericomm and MBF Leasing are real scammers. No doubt in my mind. After conversing with MBF Leasing lawyers, I have realized that the whole sales pitch with all the lies are just part of Scam. A Scam that Vericomm and MBF Leasing knowingly use to their advantage. My Salesperson name was Andrew Franks, and after reading other rip-off reports, I realize that his lies are identical to the other salesperson lies.
Lies which give the MBF lawyers a leverage in New York court. This is a real good scam.
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I'm using Genesis bbPress Extend and Genesis Connect for BuddyPress and I noticed my group forums looked gross a bit ugly (http://cl.ly/image/1b2m0R302I1c).
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