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We do have a lot of Hollywood ideas about college. Somehow we think people from the Wharton School or Yale have the life experience to run our country...
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We have to go back, Kate!
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Yup.
We've done much the same thing. Look at the resume of the former Chancellor of the Exchequer - architect and key drivin force of the austerity strategy still playing out, devastating whole sectors of the economy and big chunks of the population as it goes - Quote:
He set in place the 1% cap on public sector pay - that is still in place and means nurses, for instance have effectively taken a 15% reduction in wages in real terms over the last 7 years. Told the nation to tighten our collective belts - and thought it would be a great idea for our economy if everybody tightened their belts so much that they had no room left for spending. Cameron wasn't much more connected to the 'real world', as they say. and you could pretty much see them getting hard when they stood there all statesmanlike delivering speeches about how they had to be brave enough to make the difficult decisions. Pretty sure it wasn't always like this. I seem to recall a time when conservative leaders were people who'd had successful business and industry careers, or, if from a more academic background, had a serious grounding in economic theory. Labour haven't been much better on that score in recent years (though Corbyn is certainly a different case).
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Turns out my CRS is a symptom of TMB.
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Not so sure Pete, looks like the Ottomans may be back.
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Today I learned the Pats defense is a couple steps slow.
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I'll have to check sources but, today I learned that 42% of Harvard's incoming Freshmen are legacy. Affirmative action for the down trodden rich white people.
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What if 42% of applicants were legacy?
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The result is the same.
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The English commoner John Rolfe of Jamestown in Virginia took as his bride an Algonquin princess named Matoaka, whom we call Pocahontas. The literary critic Christopher Hodgkins reports that King James I was ‘at first perturbed when he learned of the marriage’. But this was not out of fear of miscegenation: James’s reluctance, Hodgkins explained, was because ‘Rolfe, a commoner, had without his sovereign’s permission wed the daughter of a foreign prince.’ King James was not worried about the pollution of Rolfe’s line; he was worried about the pollution of Matoaka’s…
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Today I learned that some F-18 fighter jets have a false canopy painted on the bottom of the plane to confuse the enemy.
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There was an investigation by the New York Academy of Medicine into marijuana, signed in ink by Mayor Fiorello La Guardia in 1945. It was the first American study to declare that the drug wasn’t addictive or dangerous.
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TIL that hyraxes are small, thickset, herbivorous mammals.
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TIL that some horses can grow a mustache.
Moar Living, as I do, in Kentucky, I've seen a horse or two...Never seen one with a mustache.
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