Posted on 11/09/2015 9:59:52 AM PST by jazusamo
I've read that in India, some terrorists have taken to ramming a small, powerful bomb into the male creature's stomache; and when they wander close to the intended target, the dude with the remote presses the button and destroys both target, ads well as the unfortunate cow.
In the New Dehli, Mumbai and Calcutta papers the headlines read:
I call you ‘old cow’ as a term of friendship. You have taught me so many things which have enriched my Internet experiences. I use the ‘desktop file’ daily.
“For him to have fussed over details (such as whether he was told he would certainly be accepted on a full scholarship at West Point, or he applied and was offered admission with what West Point itself refers to as a full scholarship) would have harmed his biography.”
Wait a tick. I have always heard that (1) not only do you pay no tuition at West Point, but (2) they pay *you*.
Talk of a scholarship to West Point just doesn’t seem to make any sense to me.
As a proud grandpa that has his first grandson actually AT WP right now; I can state that you are right.
West Point itself refers to it as a scholarship, and yes they pay you (and take various charges out of that pay).
http://www.westpoint.edu/admissions/shared%20documents/wp_prospectus.pdf
Page 18 of this WestPoint.edu prospectus (pointed out by someone else on FR, but I forgot who):
“As a cadet, you are a member of the U.S. Army and receive a full scholarship and an annual salary of more than $10,000 from which you pay for your uniforms, textbooks, a laptop computer, and incidentals. There is no tuition charge, but there is a requirement for an initial deposit.”
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Whether or not “scholarship” is the exact right word, I have been connected with the military for many years, and I have heard that word used by the military both officially and unofficially.
“West Point itself refers to it as a scholarship”
Is that new? I have never heard that before.
It's not new, but it was not news until the sadistic left decided to slime Carson. I have had several high school students intern during the school year or during the summer with me, and I have recommended a few for USNA/USMA/USAFA, so I read everything I could find before writing those letters of recommendation. I'm confident that the word has been on USMA materials for more than a decade. Note: Once this latest fuss started, I was unable to find where I read it on my own, but someone else on FR found the link and posted it here. I dismissed the word "scholarship" as awkward and imprecise phrasing, perhaps a word being used only because it had poll-tested well.
We all know what a West Point admission means (except for liberals who are offended at the idea of a black man refusing to march in lockstep with the liberal agenda of the party that has always believed they owned all black Americans), so no one worried about that detail. Until now.
“for more than a decade.”
To me, that’s new.
Perhaps, but it may be a lot more than a decade (or only that long). I only know that it has been there for at least ten years.
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