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Postby TommyJefferson » Fri 25 May 2007, 17:03:26

These students want to walk across the stage during high school graduation ceremonies even though they didn't pass the Texas State exam.
http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/i ... 80x285.jpg link )

Don't like "unfair standards"? Protest and scream until you get your way. This is your future. Your HS diplomas and college degrees are becoming more worthless every day.
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Re: "Let Are Kids Walk"!

Postby I_Like_Plants » Fri 25 May 2007, 17:09:07

Where I grew up the GED was actually harder than graduating.
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Re: "Let Are Kids Walk"!

Postby Niagara » Fri 25 May 2007, 17:34:22

"Is our children learning yet?"

-George W. Bush


(evidently no, George. They isn't.)
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Re: "Let Are Kids Walk"!

Postby Aaron » Fri 25 May 2007, 18:27:04

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The problem is, of course, that not only is economics bankrupt, but it has always been nothing more than politics in disguise... economics is a form of brain damage.

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Re: "Let Are Kids Walk"!

Postby Tyler_JC » Fri 25 May 2007, 18:32:11

Most employers can figure out rather quickly if they've hired an idiot. Those people generally don't stick around the office for very long.

If someone acquires a high school diploma without actually deserving that diploma, it is irrelevant because that person will never be in competition with you for a job or anything else for that matter.

Frankly, I can tell whether or not I'm talking to a <90 IQ within the first 5 minutes of talking to someone .
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Re: "Let Are Kids Walk"!

Postby strider3700 » Fri 25 May 2007, 18:49:50

So are you arguing that they should let these kids graduate on the grounds of someone else can do the work of sorting them later?
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Re: "Let Are Kids Walk"!

Postby Plantagenet » Fri 25 May 2007, 20:19:18

Spelling becomes a presidential campaign issue: McCain vs. Obama

http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanm ... _some.html
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Re: "Let Are Kids Walk"!

Postby Ebyss » Fri 25 May 2007, 20:26:39

Let our kids spell.
We've tried nothin' and we're all out of ideas.

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Re: "Let Are Kids Walk"!

Postby NEOPO » Fri 25 May 2007, 20:36:50

Ok I am laughing yet I ask "what is language" but an agreed upon hodge podge of sound...

Let ARE kids walk damnit! No one cares anyways 8)

It isn't like a diploma is going to save them from the flesh eating biker zombies :shock:
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Re: "Let Are Kids Walk"!

Postby rostov » Fri 25 May 2007, 20:55:06

OT .... but related.

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Re: "Let Are Kids Walk"!

Postby Tyler_JC » Fri 25 May 2007, 23:03:53

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('strider3700', 'S')o are you arguing that they should let these kids graduate on the grounds of someone else can do the work of sorting them later?


Actually, I think we should recycle the bottom 1% every year. Preferably turn them into number two heating oil and water using thermal-depolarization. :twisted:

If we followed my plan, population growth would immediately cease and the current dysgenic trajectory of the human race would end.

But so far, no one has suggested that I be made World Emperor...so... :razz:
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Re: "Let Are Kids Walk"!

Postby strider3700 » Fri 25 May 2007, 23:16:49

you know thats very similar to my one shot a week campaign. you get one free shot each week, no questions asked why you did it. The first few months should be hell but after that the herd will have been culled.
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Postby Tyler_JC » Fri 25 May 2007, 23:59:40

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('strider3700', 'y')ou know thats very similar to my one shot a week campaign. you get one free shot each week, no questions asked why you did it. The first few months should be hell but after that the herd will have been culled.

That's a bad plan. I know plenty of decent, intelligent, useful people who would refuse to use their free bullet. They would be murdered by the the maniacs.

The people who would survive that kind of scenario would be mass murderers, sociopaths, and those suffering from avoidant personality disorder (and thus unlikely to bump into any of the previous two groups). I don't know if I want to have a society consisting solely of those kinds of people.

Isn't the point of this future genocide to cull the herd in favor of the best and brightest people, not the most bloodthirsty?
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Postby TheDude » Sat 26 May 2007, 00:14:02

It's "propriis," not "propiis."
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Postby strider3700 » Sat 26 May 2007, 02:42:17

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tyler_JC', 'I')sn't the point of this future genocide to cull the herd in favor of the best and brightest people, not the most bloodthirsty?

so you're saying the best and brightest would be unwilling to defend themselves? Explain to me how they fall under best and brightest. I'm looking for survival of the fittest not survival of the most unwilling to save their own lives
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Re: "Let Are Kids Walk"!

Postby TommyJefferson » Sat 26 May 2007, 11:38:32

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tyler_JC', 'I')f someone acquires a high school diploma without actually deserving that diploma, it is irrelevant because that person will never be in competition with you for a job or anything else for that matter.


That's not exactly true. I know many people with jobs that require a high school diploma. Employers do use it as an indicator of ability to read and do basic math.

It sucks when you spend the time and money to hire a person, only to find out they cannot figure a basic percentage or read a basic sentence. Business can compensate for that with pre-employment testing.

The real problem is that populations of comprised mainly of illiterate proles tend to result in authoritarian fascist or theocratic governments which do not value the American ideals of freedom, liberty, and personal responsibility.

Such governments tend to increase the level of human suffering in the world. I work with the Humane Society of the United States to decrease the general level of animal suffering in the world. I also work for less human suffering in the world by promoting liberty, freedom, and personal responsibility. Education plays a huge role in that.

I see people who promote protests like those in the article I linked above as the same people who cause pit bull terriers to wind up chained to a tree for a lifetime of sores, fleas, heat, stale biscuits, and kicking.
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