It's Hump Day
The air waves went ballistic yesterday...as the rich and famous were caught spending their cash on getting in their kids into college...by a number of means, like having someone else take the SAT's, giving collegiate coaches money, ah shoot, by whatever it took...so many different ways...to be candid, I thought that was a given...
College is now a big business...filled with corruption and greed...one doesn't have to look further than their football teams...the salaries of their coaches far exceeds the rest of the faculty...not even close...depending on the size of the school, the 'acceptance committee' spends all their time on figuring who and who doesn't get in...and I am talking about a humongous number of faculty that this is their only occupation...
Looking at the GPA, the number of advanced courses, the SAT, the ACT, the letters of recommendation, in some cases, the 'paper' the student wrote, and the picture of the wannabe...and, of course, who is the child a son or daughter of...all factors in the acceptance or denial...oh yea, and the ability to pay...a hidden item...when it costs upwards of $40 grand A YEAR in many of the colleges, it is part of the process...
I ASSUMED that the elite schools, like the Ivy League ones, routinely accepted the rich and famous kids...regardless of their high school prowess, er, grades...they could pay...and it would be a feather in their head dress to have a Kushner or Trump in the school, to proudly announce to the public...I digress...
So what might be the penalty that these people will face?...jail or prison time?...oh my, I hope not...a fine?...OK...but to equate incarceration for this, to someone who kills, or, colludes with the Russians is totally wrong...
I am not even going into the acceptance to these 'fine' colleges that bring in loads of athletes, that don't even come close to the GPA's, well, what the other non-athletic appliers have...and yet, THEY get in...don't tell me there isn't wiggle room...much of the sham, shall be shared by the colleges, kids...not just by the rich and famous...
Let's go...
The wild wild west in the NBA...the Blazers went down to LaLa and whupped the Clip Joint...this after the Clippers destroyed the Celtics...weird and wacky...the most solid team is Houston...with their boring, yet effective style of play...and this is THE team to beat in me book...ie, the Warriors....
I took this shot from the Mall of the Americas...in it, is a picture of the wall...ah THE WALL...and in the background one can see Tijuana...good pix, huh...This just in...at least 5 pilots in the USA that have flown the Boeing 737 Max 8, have had problems controlling the jets in 'critical moments' in recent months...why are these planes not grounded?...
You must pay attention to this candidate...Pete Buttigieg...for the Demo side for Prez...could be the ground swell candy man for this campaign...ah, mark this down...that the Horse declared it...3/13/19...
The Bachelor picked Cassie, right?...or, was it, that Cassie picked the Bachelor?...just 'Running Scared' by Roy Orbison...great lyrics...listen to it...
Another day of reckoning for Paul Manafort...this is the Judge that may be a bit more harsh than the last one...ah, he is in court while I am presently writing...he has said that he is sorry for this actions...maybe, I can give you the results before I go...
BREAKING...6 1/2 years...the issue now?...OC, whether or not a pardon from Trump...and, if it can be used for the NY State sentence...
The Futures were decidedly UP for the Nasdaq and the Dow...will the Market follow suit?...
You heard of a 'bomb cyclone?'...and intense and ferocious storm...combo of snow, hail, and rain...to hit the middle part of the country...oh my...
Donny greatly appreciated Nancy Pelosi's comment about not impeaching him....ah, round 1 for Ms Pelosi...draining the moat...
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