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Recent content by keith99

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    Trump replaces Biden’s portrait with a picture of auto-pen

    Why would he want to insult a baboon?
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    US will ‘overhaul’ the citizenship test

    That is why applicants pay for the services of a test prep company! There are right answers, wrong answers and the official answer. Knowing all the right answers won't always be enough to pass the test. Knowing the official answer(s) will be.
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    Trump to add $100,000 fee for H-1B visas under new proposal

    The article points out that most of these visas are for software developers. My first job after grad school was with a computer timesharing company and there was one H1-B hire. My very last job had at least a half dozen H1-B hires. With the first company the job most likely would have meant...
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    US will ‘overhaul’ the citizenship test

    The ones that preserve our Purity of Essence and our Precious Bodily Fluids!
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    US will ‘overhaul’ the citizenship test

    You will be assimilated, resistance is futile!
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    US students' reading and math scores at historic lows: 'Devastating trend'

    Definitely Rugby. The huge part that remains and I expect to remain for at least a few more decades is that tradition that after a match there is a reception where you drink, eat and sing with the guys you were knocking heads with just an hour earlier. That is a part anyone who plays is sure...
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    US students' reading and math scores at historic lows: 'Devastating trend'

    Not all skiing is downhill with expensive lifts. One can try cross country and have a blast. It is much better exercise and much less expensive.
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    US students' reading and math scores at historic lows: 'Devastating trend'

    I think the way sports are treated in our schools is a major contributing factor in the education crisis. This is NOT to say I'm anti sports, far from it. From grades 6-9 I went to a small private school where the boys were encouraged to play for the school teams. I pretty much played everything...
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    US students' reading and math scores at historic lows: 'Devastating trend'

    I first registered to vote as a one issue Democrat. I've never bothered to change it, though for long stretches I was far closer to Republican. If one goes back not all that far there was the special case of the Southern Democrat. Republican on all points, but refusing to register for or vote...
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    Is an Apology Necessary?

    First do no harm! I think this is a crucial consideration regarding need for an apology. If you had done nothing would things have been better or worse? Far more call for an apology if your actions made things worse, and far less if your actions fell short but made things better.
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    SecDef Hegseth Drafting 600 Military Judges to Clear Backlog of Immigration Cases.

    I'm pretty sure there once was a European country that did this. But that is what The Leader wanted back then, and it is what Leader Trump wants now.
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    Why Hiring Professors With Conservative Views Could Backfire on Conservatives

    Well, when your Econ Prof had actually worked on The Hill and was near the economic advisors for the Republican party it is a pretty good bet he was not liberal by any sane definition. But undergrad I had a biology prof who I considered conservative who had been blacklisted in the McCarthy era.
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    As Texas Flood Deaths Rise, Officials Blast Faulty Forecast by National Weather Service

    I got caught in a monsoon in Australia. It blew through so fast that I never made it to shelter, even though I was on a city street. It was clear just before that, though it was a mixed day, which is why I had an umbrella before it hit. After I had a mess that had once been an umbrella. In...
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    As Texas Flood Deaths Rise, Officials Blast Faulty Forecast by National Weather Service

    With all the camp staff work I did there is only one time that I recall where there was a death anywhere close to me. For over a decade I went on an Easter trip to Lake Mohave. We would start at Kathrine's Landing and head to a campsite closer to the damn. (When I started as a preteen some of...
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    As Texas Flood Deaths Rise, Officials Blast Faulty Forecast by National Weather Service

    As I mentioned earlier I worked at over a half dozen different YMCA camps. I also worked at one commercial camp. Counselors or leaders were those who had direct contact with the campers. Sometimes that terminology applied to those in charge of an area like horseback riding, go karts or rifle...