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Alright, put that thing back in your pants. 😃 Lord, I apologize for that.

https://journals.uair.arizona.edu/index.php/rangelands/article/viewFile/11258/10531 https://www.vorebuffalojump.org/pdf/VBJF buffalo population and crash.pdf @BARRYOSAMA and @TrojanDad sources both give an indication of this. The meme is still way off and misleading as Turning Point USA's stuff typically is. Even if you take 60 million for buffalo ... which has some issues in calculation, it's off on the fact that the US has some 90 million+ cattle ... which means that Turning Point USA's numbers are off the mark by more than 100% of their stated amount ... where they focus only on one aspect of cattle in the US beef/dairy cows. As such, cattle today outnumber buffalo at their peak, even with generous numbers, by over 50%.

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This is somewhat of a misnomer. The Fulani herdsman have been fighting with farmers in the area over resources. The herdsmen tend to be Muslim while the farmers tend to be Christian. Similar to the South African farm attacks where the motives tended to be robbery as opposed to race-driven.

Turning Point tells you all you need to know with the meme. It's about distraction. If their car was leaking oil, transmission fluid, brake fluid, and anti-freeze all over the street and you made the mistake of stating water in your statement to them to clean it up, they'd spend the next week talking about how you think cars run on water and how you don't know anything about cars.

I SEE you missed the rolling eyes

That one's in April. April 20th to be exact.

Yeah ... THAT'S it. 🙄

For $1,000 an hour, you think there would be a better guarantee. The article mentioned that the tutor's clients increase scores by a couple hundred points. For that kind of money, you think there'd be 1) a guarantee and 2) more points than that. My daughter, who is not a standardized test taker, increased her SAT 100 points with the Kaplan online course. I think she had a discount code that let her get it for under $100. The other thing that makes me wonder about the privilege part was that ETS went after the student in Florida who ended up with a 300-point increase. ETS said that type of increase "tipped them off." When pressed, they later claimed that her answers looked similar to other students who were under suspicion. It would seem to me that, if the tutor's average score increase is a couple of hundred, wouldn't we have seen many more of these types of stories like the one in Florida? Or do we only see them based on the school the student hails from, etc.?

This looks like an advertisement by this person. This person lays out their cost, why it's a valuable service, why their services will continue to be in demand, and what the results are. I don't see anywhere where they claimed they are quitting doing what they are doing nor returning the investment capital from Shark Tank. This is the dealer lamenting a drug problem in the city while letting the users know where to find them where the cops look the other way ... except that the service that they offer is completely legal.

Apparently, The New Yorker has unearthed Jared Kushner's entrance essay for Harvard. 😀 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/09/11/jared-kushners-harvard-admissions-essay

Site's only been back up for a little time, so it's pretty easy to figure out that it's all pretty much on the up-and-up ... well, mainly. Right next to this image, right?

Man, you've given WAAAAAYYYY too much thought over someone working a high school football chat to get an up-vote. Then again, the only evidence of said action ...

I thought you didn't care about the voting stuff. 😕

This was definitely a "bi-partisan effort." 😀

Making inroads next door in Australia and globally. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-01-03/nra-goes-global-with-its-pro-gun-agenda https://www.npr.org/2019/01/04/682350059/what-the-nra-is-doing-as-part-of-its-effort-to-go-global

There's always Dancin' With The Stars, Desperate Housewives - Back To School, Real Housewives of College Scandal, Big House - a Full House spinoff, When Calls The Feds, and Christmas in San Quentin.

You mean like these folks? Mossimo Giannulli, fashion designer, and Lori Loughlin, actress $12,800 in total contributions to federal candidates and committees $2,700 to the Marco Rubio senate campaign (via Mossimo Giannulli) $5,000 to Romney Victory in 2012 (via Mossimo Giannulli)

She doesn't really need it. She and her husband live in a house that they bought for $17 million and renovated so that it's now worth $35 million. The two combined are worth an estimated $100 million. Target will be hard-pressed to remove the entire Mossimo line in any due time. Residuals may keep pouring in from previous projects. And the most important part is that they don't have anymore kids that they'll be dumping $500,000 on trying to scam their way into college.

Class action file ... schools and the scam company are named as defendants. Interesting claim on the admissions fee component ... the reputation part may prove more problematic to prove. https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/two-stanford-students-file-first-133412573.html

While it is US government based, if the ASVAB became THE test, how long would it be before that test might be compromised in some way or another? There's certainly something to be said for College Board being a profit-based, although ACT is non-profit. Nonetheless, the potential issue is less the motives of the administering company and more the value of the outcome in how it's used in college admissions. If no one used the SAT, no one would be paying the kind of money that these folks paid. Then again, if not the SAT, then probably whatever test carried that weight. As we saw in this scheme, it's not even the scoring only as there were folks involved, even tangentially in the recruiting process, that most likely had a big impact on the admission process ... the coaches who were willing to take in people, skill unseen, for scholarship or admission positions. In some of those cases, I'm sure all they needed was a bare minimum SAT score when a coach says, "I need this person in my sport."

Guess all the top rowers were invited on the Trustee's yacht? Then again, given the money that the Loughlins gave, they probably should have Spring Break access to the yacht for life.

Psychology Today has a slightly different take https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/slightly-blighty/201601/does-obama-effect-increase-gun-ownership-and-shooting FTA: This potential mechanism is referred to as the “fear of gun control” theory, and this theory itself was strongly supported by the data analysed in this study. The author of the study, Emilio Depetris-Chauvin, points out that, despite the anti-gun-control lobby’s negative advertising; there was no clear rationale for believing that Obama's gun policies would be considerably more restrictive than those of Hillary Clinton or John McCain. Although Obama had consistently supported gun control measures in the past, he also repeatedly claimed to advocate upholding and respecting the “Second Amendment”. The fact that Obama did not have an especially stronger anti-gun record or campaign position relative to John McCain and Hillary Clinton – both of whom had been criticized by the NRA prior to then, begs the question, according to this study, as to why the particular likelihood of his being elected should induce such a specific surge in gun sales. But, this study argues, possibly Black candidates in US Elections may induce particularly intense apprehensions and fears among Whites. Can prejudice partially account for the unusual surge in gun sales? This research investigated the question by analysing racial attitude toward Blacks at the state level and information regarding the likelihood of Obama becoming president. The results suggest that Obama's election is statistically associated with a 24% increase in the demand for guns for a state with average levels of racial prejudice. But in states with higher levels of racial prejudice there is even more demand for guns, whenever it looked more likely that Obama was going to get elected. For instance Louisiana's racial prejudice level is measurably very significantly above Virginia's and appeared to contribute to an additional 12% increase in the demand for guns in Louisiana, when Obama was elected. This study concludes that racial sentiments may have played a role in the unusual increase of the demand for guns during the period of analysis. That increases in the demand for guns were larger in states with higher levels of racial prejudice, is interpreted by the author as evidence consistent, albeit inconclusive until further research is done, with racial sentiments underlying the ‘Obama Effect’.

Part of my concern with ETS not catching it is that ETS made a big deal going after the girl in Florida claiming that had an increase in SAT score from the first time to second time that she took it, yet they seemed to have missed a 400-point jump from 1,020 to 1,420, which is 94-97% percentile, from 39-49% percentile. ETS didn't have a problem calling out the student, yet they somehow "missed" the 400-point jump? Here's the recent list of those who have been named: https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/complete-list-charged-college-admissions-211212373.html There are folks on here that reads like a who's who of "have everything" including William McGlashan, who is the founder and managing partner at private equity company TPG Growth. The list includes so many people who had all of the resources necessary to already provide their kids with more opportunities that any regular family could ever hope to have access to, yet it wasn't enough.

Well you can't control folks who believe that the Nazis are coming for their guns and run out plop down lots of money "just in case." Obama signed two gun laws while he was president. Those expanded the rights of gun owners.