Posted on 04/02/2008 3:39:20 PM PDT by neverdem
Liberal on a spit roasting over mesquite charcoal is good too! Although some say the meat is too tough and full of gristle.
Yeah, those states use actual food in their cooking... :^)
Lackluster SAT scores is not indicative of a dimwit.
SAT scores are also a pretty good proxy for IQ.
No, it absolutely isn't, nor was it ever meant to be. It was only ever meant to be a predictor of how someone might do his or her freshman year in college.
Thanks for the link. Very interesting reading. However, nothing there changes the basic facts of this case; your link simply gave more detail about the basics we already knew: the second girl was implicated on nothing but the word of the first girl---who sounded even more like a troublemaker than I thought she was---and nothing more. We return to where we began: from uncorroborated accusation to strip search. I find it absolutely appalling you think there is nothing wrong with that. Fundamentally, this is no different from the cops giving you the commander-one-hander because some random passer-by on the street fingered you as a drug mule. I doubt you would be okay with that if it happened to you.
Maybe Marissa comes from a broken home; maybe Marissa doesn't have anyone at home who would stand up for her; maybe Marissa has a couple of chuckleheads for parents who don't understand that her rights were violated; mabye Marissa's parents are just like you---they think it's perfectly okay if their kid was strip-searched at school. After all, there are some really sick people out there.
I like the cut of you jib, Hemingway! Cutting through the Bravo Sierra is your strong point!
Back at you, 'cuz. We fight the good fight, one battle at a time.
Good picture!
Not a cuz, just from a military family, hence the familiarity with the lingo. Father was an Air Force fighter pilot, older brother Naval Reserve, lots of uncles and cousins sprinkled in all the services and wars -WWI, WWII, Korea, Viet Nam, Gulf War. I do work with the military as part of my civilian job, but can't tell you how because it "wouldn't be prudent."
The pictures are just a goof off from last night. I’ll post better ones later. New tag.
Yes. The correlation is fairly strong. About 80 to 90 percent. It isn't just one study that shows this.
Maybe the SAT wasn't intended to be a proxy for IQ but so what, it is.
Generally speaking, half of public school teachers are dimwits. In Philadelphia half of public school teachers failed the state teaching test but they are still employed as teachers.
Given the current hysteria over obesity and junk food, do you really think that won't happen?
Sexual abuse of kids by women is more common than you may think.
Okay, let’s compromise-—I’ll expand my definition of dimwit to include anyone who continues to insist that performance on a standardized test indicates anything other than a minimal amount of proficiency at doing what the standardized test was designed to test. Next up: good MCAS scores mean a lifetime batting average of .350 or better.
You DO know that ibuprofen is not illegal, don't you? Or are you saying that your neighbourhood pharmacist is in for a world of hurt?
Melts in your mouth, not in your...
Nevermind.
I swear the new policies of keeping meds in the school office are going to kill someone if they haven't already. When I was in school there were no rules of any kind about meds- it was understood that any medication, prescribed or OTC, was the responsibility of the student taking it.
So would I, just for the pleasure of hearing the Crown declare, "We are withdrawing the charge as there are no reasonable prospects for conviction."
It’s got to be full of gristle. Liberals are the most sour, bitter, angry people I’ve met. Of course they’d be tough and chewy.
My kids are citizens of this country. The Constitution applies to them as well as any one.
I'd like to see in the Constitution where there are exemptions from our rights based on age or what educational establishment they are attending.
Surely if the Framers though anyone under the age of 18 didn't have any rights, they would have spelled that out.
Just because some addled brained judge somewhere decides that being in a public school automatically implies forfeiture of one's Constitutional rights, doesn't make it so.
There are no exemptions for people based in age from the rights afforded us in the Constitution.
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