Robservations: WGN reporter ‘furious’ over image of noose

Robert Feder ^ | 07/24/2019 | Robert Feder

[Bratch]

I’m thinking it may be neese’s...or is that the sausage?

"I hate neeces to pieces!"

[LeoTDB69]

Didn’t Jussie Smollett wear one like a necktie or something?

[chris37]

No no, “neese’s” would be the possessive form of “neese”.

[LeoTDB69]

It's a suh-thun thing

[chris37]

Hum.

I am from the South and in the South currently, and I have never heard of or seen that brand.

Superb list of ingredients, I want some!

Also excellent correlation of this product to the possible plural form of “noose” :D

[Teacher317]

Some people are stupid. Most of them are ‘journalists’

Feel free to double check me, but I do know that it was almost universally true for virtually every American university campus that the second-lowest average GPA and SAT students went to the School of Education... which was disheartening when I was looking for schools to start my Education degree (but also encouraging, since my scores were in the top percentiles).

While I took that information for what it was, I also wanted to know which School was the lowest... and again, on almost every campus in the US, it was the School of Journalism that was at the bottom. I doubt anything has changed in the last 25 years. The Schools of Art, Liberal Arts, Performance and Dance, Physical Education, etc were always in the middle tier... and of course, Pre-Law, Pre-Med, Dentistry, Engineering, Math and Sciences, and Computer Science were always the upper echelons. They'd switch which was above another... but it was always Education and then Journalism at the bottom of the barrel.

[xander]

...horse thieves, cattlemen vs farmers, co-conspirators in the assassination of the sixteenth President of the United States, convicted murderers, Democrat effigies of Sarah Palin...

[Teacher317]

I found the figures for the US for 2014...

Average SAT scores for different Schools/Majors for all American universities, 2014

1748 - Multiple-disciplines (2+ majors)
1683 - Physical Sciences
1681 - Mathematics
1663 - Social Sciences
1659 - English
1633 - Foreign Languages
1620 - Engineering
1618 - Biology
1614 - Humanities/Liberal Arts
1600 - Undecided
1590 - Theology/Religious studies
1579 - Computer Sciences
1550 - History
1550 - Ethnic Studies
1524 - Journalism and Communication
1489 - Performing Arts
1484 - Psychology
1438 - Education... their scores dropped even more since I left, apparently. ;)

Note... some of us are old, and we remember our 1500+ SAT scores with pride... being 1500+ out of a possible 1600 (two sections of 800)... today, the SAT has 3 sections, and thus a perfect score is 2400, not 1600. All these scores are out of 2400. No major has an average score above 600 on any section (math, reading, writing)

Also note... Journalism majors are the only ones in the Top 20 with a Math average score under 500. They also carry the lowest Critical Reading score of any major above them. They also feature a Writing score that only tops 3 other majors above them (Theology, Ethnic Studies, and History).

Cite: https://www.businessinsider.com/heres-the-average-sat-score-for-every-college-major-2014-10

[RussK1]

Fake racism causes her to feel sick on her stomach. How does REAL racism by black gangs on innocent defenseless white people make her feel. Just this week we had a gang of blacks beat, stomp and spit on white tourists in DC, unprovoked. Sick is not the feeling I have. More like anger.

[lepton]

Can’t even turn off the adblocker and get to that page.

[lepton]

It’s an anti-oil icon from a book about the end of cheap oil.

[usconservative]

Thanks for the explanation. I had no idea what it was supposed to be. Even at that, I didn't think it depicted a noose used for hanging.

Some people want to see racism in everything I suppose.

I'm frankly surprised no one's complained about marshmallow's being white, toilet paper being white, etc.. etc.. etc..

[elbook]

snowflakes extinguishing themselves - evolution in action

the wolf eats the sheep that bleats the loudests

[Red Badger]

Those who can, do.

Those who can’t, teach.

Those who can’t teach, become journalists...............

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I don’t particularly like the word ‘jouranalist’ as it’s used today. Kipling was a ‘journalist. Hemingway was a ‘journalist’. Murrow was a ‘journalist’. Even Cronkite was a ‘journalist’.

Today’s crop of ne’er-do-well Neanderthals are just plain old ‘reporters’...................