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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
The debate coach graded Clinton and Trump once again.
Clinton: B
Trump: D+
http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/10/opinions/debate-coach-grading-the-town-hall-debate-graham/index.html
Re: the rape case Hillary had to defend: I saw that on Snopes yesterday, I remember reading it was a plea bargin for a reduced sentence.
Re: Trump physically attacking Hillary; i don't think he actually would. It's not his style. When he wants to hurt someone he sics lackeys on them.
Re:
[quoteblock]I think that might be the ultimate problem with any attempt to streamline education... People have different ways of learning.[/quoteblock]
This, to a degree, was my problem. I was singled out from the start as "gifted" and had accelerated tracks and enrichment programs and such but by the time I hit high school most of that was gone; I got bored and had never had to develop the discipline to work hard at what came easy. I think there's also some chance that if I'd been born 5 or 10 years later I might have been diagnosed with ADD, whether or not it was actually the case.
The same coach graded the first debate as such:
Clinton: B
Trump: F
http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/27/opinions/debate-coach-clinton-trump-debate/index.html
So Trump went up slightly over one letter grade (and a D+ is still not a pass in a lot of Graduate programs, mine demands a B- at least) while Clinton held steady.
edited 10th Oct '16 9:56:00 AM by Rationalinsanity
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.Well to be fair, I do think it is important for students to have their athletic skills supported but that should be balanced against the needs of other students.
In my school, and I don't think this is uncommon, the football team pretty much got the lion's share of funding, to the point where other sports were in the same low-budget boat as the arts and other programs.
edited 10th Oct '16 9:56:33 AM by Mr.Didact
Stand Fast, Stand Strong, Stand TogetherTrump has moved up from an F to a D+, and in doing so has "exceeded expectations". Ergo, he won.
Frankly, I don't think that the goal of a school athletics program should be to prepare students for collegiate sports. It should be to establish and maintain physical fitness. Students can participate in private sports programs on their own time.
edited 10th Oct '16 9:57:20 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
The Clintons are probably the most vetted family in American politics. The GOP has considered Hillary Clinton their Arch-Enemy ever since she helped nearly get Nixon impeached. They have been at it for decades. A lot of Millennial voters are younger than the smear campaign.
And yes, where there's smoke, there's usually fire. But in this case, nearly all of the smoke is from a smoke machine.
edited 10th Oct '16 10:30:58 AM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprisedWell, these together seem to hold some weight, but I'll let you draw your own conclusions.
edited 10th Oct '16 10:39:10 AM by nervmeister
For that first one, HRC was arguably doing her job to the best of her ability as a defense attorney. Note that this was a job she was forced to take by the judge at the time.
As for that second one — that is a very complicated story. Suffice to say, there's also a lot of evidence suggesting that Broaddrick was not being truthful. She did sign a sworn affadavit in 1998 in which she denied that Bill Clinton raped her.
Disgusted, but not surprisedThe first one is pretty much false
.
(although good in case anyone is interested)
Edit- Without weighing in either way as to the truth of Broaddick's accusation, I think the overall idea of attacking Clinton based on Bill's indiscretions is based on an implicit assumption of bad motives on her part (sometimes made explicit). What I mean, is that the narrative is basically premised on the idea that Hilary knew these accusations to be true and that her reason for defending Bill was based on some selfish calculation. As opposed to rightly or wrongly disbelieving them and being motivated by "spousal loyalty".
edited 10th Oct '16 10:45:40 AM by Hodor2
Just finished reading what you put up. Seems convincing enough in terms of details. Streamlined, sensationalist news alone isn't a healthy way to get a full perspective on things.
edited 10th Oct '16 10:59:20 AM by nervmeister
I think working as a public defender is pretty honorable regardless of who you're defending as long as you don't deliberately sabotage your own defense instead of allowing for a fair trial, but evidently I and some part of American society disagree on that.
I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiot

For the purpose of this discussion, what is the definition of stadium? All schools I've ever been at (save for one which was so large that I didn't see every part of it) or seen have a moderately sized gym field, the last of which about 75 x 150 m in size.
(Also, just saw on Wikipedia that apparently an asteroid was named after a pupil in my last school. Huh...)
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