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VONNEGUT’S DARK VISION ARRIVED 60 YEARS EARLY

“THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General.” – Harrison Bergeron – Kurt Vonnegut

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Kurt Vonnegut’s short story – Harrison Bergeron – was written in 1961, and in Vonnegut’s darkly satirical style, portrayed America in 2081 as an disgracefully dystopian nightmare. Little did Vonnegut know what he considered outrageous and 120 years in the future, would be far closer to our current dystopian reality just 60 years later. The story was brought to my attention by my wife a week ago when we were talking about the absurdity of masks, their uselessness in stopping viruses, how they are nothing more than a means to control the population, being used to spread fear, and as a dehumanizing technique.

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WHY SPECIAL SNOWFLAKE COLLEGE GRADUATES ARE DUMBER THAN A SACK OF HAMMERS

If you ever needed more proof that a college education has become a virtual joke, check out the chart below. Higher Education should be renamed Lower Education, since the standards of excellence have been lowered so far, any moron can get a degree. With a large distribution of students, grades should resemble a bell curve. I learned that in my college Stat class. That would mean approximately 15% to 20% A’s.

Shockingly, back in the 1960s & 1970s about 15% to 20% of students got As. Did college students suddenly get super smart over the last 15 years? Based on the chart, we’ve got some real Einsteins out there. The number of A grades has skyrocketed from 30% to 45% in the last fifteen years.

This is a fucking joke. This is the same time period in which every moron who can spell CAT has been able to matriculate into college with the trillions in student loan debt being peddled by Obama and his minions. We know for a fact, based on SAT scores, that at least 50% of kids in college aren’t intellectually capable of succeeding.

So the solution is to dumb down the curriculum and inflate grades because it is only about the money. Kids who flunk out don’t pay tuition. Our entire educational edifice of idiocy is a disaster. Kids graduating with 3.5 GPAs today aren’t half as smart as the kids graduating with 3.5 GPAs in 1980. The lack of intelligence and common sense is evident everywhere you look. The special snowflakes can be coddled and given A’s for doing C work, but that doesn’t make them prepared for the real world.

This country is so screwed and there is no way to unscrew it.

It’s never been easier to get an A in a college class (or more expensive)

By Jillian Berman via Marketwatch

College students are more likely to get an A than in the past.

Add this to the list of consequences of rising college tuition: Students getting better grades than they deserve.

A’s were the most common grade on college campuses in 2013, accounting for 45% of grades awarded to students, according to an analysis of grade data at more than 80 schools by Stuart Rojstaczer, an independent researcher, and Chris Healy, a computer science professor at Furman University. By contrast, college students were most likely to get C’s leading up to the Vietnam War, accounting for about 35% of grades awarded. The two researchers have been collecting and reporting on grade data for years. Monday’s release marks the latest version of their analysis.

The researchers’ data shows how A’s have become the most common grade awarded at colleges.

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NO GAY THURSDAY

I know I constantly bad mouth the Philadelphia School District and their awful schools. And it is well deserved. But it seems even the most distinguished high schools in the best school districts with the most money, are also a warped, dangerous, sadistic place to send your children. Conestoga High School is 79% white, 15% Asian, and 4% black. It has an average SAT score in the top 5 of the state. Of the graduating class of 2015, 99% enrolled in college. It has been ranked as one of the top high schools in the country by Newsweek and the Washington Post. And its football teams has been a powerhouse for years.

One small problem. The culture of the school is demented and sick. The football team hazing has been going on for decades and is known by all students, teachers, and administrators. Last week three seniors held down a 160 pound freshman in the locker room and raped him with broomstick. No coaches, other players, teachers or administrators were there to save him. In high school, students are never to be left unsupervised. It was well known at the school to stay away from the football locker room on Thursdays. Just some harmless fun where older students would put their genitals on younger boys.

This house of horrors high school of white privileged trophy generation frat boys who have been raised by helicopter parents and have never been told no needs to be severely punished for this horrific crime. But the white establishment is circling the wagons. The DA decided this wasn’t a sex crime. Sticking a broom handle up the ass of young boy on NO GAY THURSDAY, isn’t a fucking sex crime???? How much do you want to bet these three boy fuckers have powerful parents with status in the community? The DA should be forced by public outrage to throw the book at these kids.

The fucking school hasn’t even fired the coach of 15 years who has been responsible for this atmosphere of intimidation and lawlessness. He needs to be fired today. The principal should also be fired for his complete lack of control in that school. If every kid in that school knew this shit was happening year after year, then the principal knew. These arrogant pricks plan on playing the football season as if nothing happened. The football season should be canceled for at least one year and possibly disbanded all together. The punishment should fit the crime.

This is what happens at the elite high schools in this country. Handing your children over to any government run state school is a complete crap shoot today. I hope home schooling continues to grow in response to this and thousands of other reasons.

Conestoga Responds To Allegations Of Horrid ‘No Gay Thursday’ Hazing

A freshman football player was allegedly held down by three larger players and sodomized with a broomstick.

By Justin Heinze (Patch Staff)

Conestoga Responds To Allegations Of Horrid 'No Gay Thursday' Hazing

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DO YOU WANT FRIES WITH THAT COLLEGE DEGREE?

The number of 18 to 24 year olds rose from 27.3 million to 30.7 million between 2000 and 2010, a 12.5% increase. The percentage of 18 to 24 year olds enrolled in college rose from 9.7 million (35.5%) to 12.6 million (41.2%) over the same time frame. So even though the overall population of 18 to 24 year olds has grown by 12.5%, the percentage in college has risen by 30%. This is a fascinating development because test scores reveal that students have gotten dumber since 2000.

Over this time frame average SAT scores have fallen. In 2012 1.66 million students took the SAT exam and 43% met the minimum score necessary to achieve a B minus average in their first year of college. That means that 700,000 high school seniors were intelligent enough to attend college. Based on these scores, there are only between 2.8 million to 4.2 million 18 to 24 year olds that have the necessary ability to attend college. But, somehow there are 12.6 million attending college.

For the 2010–11 academic year, the average annual price for undergraduate tuition, fees, room, and board was $13,564 at public institutions (including $5,076 for in-state tuition) and $32,026 at private, not-for-profit and for-profit institutions. That’s a pretty penny to be paying when two thirds of the kids in college shouldn’t be there.

Of course we all know how these kids are able to attend college. The government has lured millions of young people into debt servitude by handing out hundreds of billions in cheap loans for college. Total student loan debt now exceeds $1 trillion and federal student loans outstanding exceed $600 billion, headed to over $1 trillion by the end of the decade.

Banks wrote off $3 billion of student loan debt in just the first two months of 2013, up more than 36% from the year-ago
period, as many graduates remain jobless, underemployed or cash-strapped in a slow U.S. economic recover. Delinquencies have spiked, with about 17% of the nearly 40 million student loan borrowers at least 90 days past due on their repayments, a February report from the New York Federal Reserve Bank showed. So, while students are defaulting at a record pace, the Federal government accelerates the issuance of new loans. They aren’t worried about getting paid back. They’ll just stick the American taxpayer with the losses. The purpose has been to artificially deflate the unemployment rate and hoping their Keynesian fantasies would eventually lead to an economic recovery. But it didn’t happen.

The Obama “Big Mac & Fries Jobs Recovery” has done wonders for our recent college graduates. McDonalds is now requiring fry cooks to have college degrees. College graduates are finding tremendous opportunities at Taco Bells, KFCs, Pizza Huts, Burger Kings, Wendy’s and McDonalds across the land. At least their jobs can’t be outsourced to India. I think this development offers the University of Phoenix a tremendous new opportunity – a degree in “Do You Want Fries with That?” They can offer a Masters Degree in Advanced Fry Cooking. Maybe even a Doctorate in “Hold the Pickles, Hold the Lettuce”.

Enslaving millions of young people in billions in un-payable debt to get degrees that obtain them jobs at fast food joints is going to backfire on the Feds when these young people get pissed off enough and when the taxpayers get a bill for hundreds of billions in bad debt that will be written off.