Archive for 2019
April 28, 2019
A STORM OF CONSEQUENCES FOR THOSE WHO BELIEVED THEY WERE ABOVE SUCH:
Maura Healey, Rachael Rollins in eye of the ICE storm.
Plus, Maura Healey rips politicalization as she politicizes judge-immigration issue.
And, DA Rachael Rollins facing ICE storm over policy.
More, please.
BY BEING THE ORIGINAL SJWs: How the Palestinians Created Their Own Plight.
NOW OUT FROM ALLISON SCHRAGER: An Economist Walks into a Brothel: And Other Unexpected Places to Understand Risk.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: In College Admissions Scandal, Families From China Paid the Most: Families that allegedly paid $1.2 million and $6.5 million show the reach of the cheating ring.
Families from China were among those who allegedly paid the most in the college admissions scandal, a new sign of the reach of the cheating ring.
One Chinese family allegedly paid $6.5 million to William “Rick” Singer, the California-based college counselor who has admitted to masterminding the scheme, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Another was the family of a student—referred to in court filings as “Yale Applicant 1”—who paid $1.2 million to secure her admission to Yale University. The student is 21-year-old Sherry Guo, who moved to Southern California from China to attend high school, her lawyer confirmed.
The families have been of particular interest in the case because they allegedly paid far more than nearly all of the 33 parents currently facing criminal charges in the scheme. Many parents paid $250,000 to $400,000 for the illegal admissions services, including securing fraudulent test scores and bribing coaches to have their children designated as recruited athletes, prosecutors say.
Ms. Guo had her eye on Columbia University or Oxford University, said her lawyer, James Spertus of Spertus, Landes & Umhofer LLP in Los Angeles.
But Mr. Singer told her she would go to Yale University. It was a sure thing, he said, according to Mr. Spertus. An attorney for Mr. Singer, who has pleaded guilty to four felony charges, including racketeering conspiracy, declined to comment.
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Who will really benefit from Warren’s student debt plan?
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TAMARA KEEL: Another Few Shades of Gray.
THAT’S NOT EVEN THE WORST PART. THE WORST PART IS THAT THEY’RE TRYING TO SELL IT TO THE GUY IN A PASTIC-HORNS-HEADBAND HOLDING UP AN ADVERTISEMENT OUTSIDE THE STEAKHOUSE: We’d Let You Have It if You Didn’t Keep Trying to Sell It. Even the damned shouldn’t be that stupid.
COULD BE WORSE. THEY COULD BE INORGANIC: Wild, Safe, non-Organic Greens.
NOT ME. I WAS IGNORING HER: We Were All Rooting For You, Taylor.
WHOEVER WISHED WE LIVED IN INTERESTING TIMES, SURE BROUGHT ENOUGH FOR EVERYONE! And then they came for the Christians and the white people.
OINK, THE ATTENTION HOGG SAID: NRA Convention: David Hogg Waxes Philosophic-Again and Again.
NO. GIVEN THAT IT’S BECOME A FAD, IT UNDERMINES WHAT IT MEANS TO BE SANE: Transgender Admissions To All-Male, Historically Black College Undermine What It Means To Be A Black Man.
JAR-JAR-BRAIN HAS A CRAZY STAND ON EVERYTHING. NO, SERIOUSLY. IF HE WEREN’T GAY HE’D BE OCCASIONAL CORTEX’S DREAM MATCH: Colorado Governor Jared Polis’s Unhealthy Stance On Vaccinations.
It’s just part of his program to bring famine, death and plague to my State. If he doesn’t manage war it will be through no fault of his own. The horsemen. Collect All Four.
NAH, I THINK HE JUST REALIZED HE WAS ABOUT TO HOIST HIS OWN SIDE ON HIS PETARD: Did Mueller jump or was he pushed?
DEPENDS WHERE HE’S PULLING IT OUT OF, NICHT WAHR? Can Joe Biden Pull Out the Democratic Nomination?
AN ABIDEN JOY: The Week in Pictures: Bidenfreude Edition.
THIS IS MY SHOCKED FACE: Anti-Semitism at the New York Times.
April 27, 2019
SETH BARRETT TILLMAN: North Wales Poll for May 23, 2019 EU Parliament Elections. “UKIP + BREXIT Party = 50%. Labour + Tory = 8%.”
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RISE OF THE MACHINES: Amazon’s warehouse computer system tracked and fired hundreds of workers. “Workers at Amazon warehouses who fail to pack goods for delivery quickly enough are being automatically fired by a computer programme which measures their performance, according to new research. The software used in Amazon fulfillment centres in the US, automatically evaluates the performance of individual workers against internal metrics and dismisses those who fail to meet certain criteria, including speed.”
ISLAMIC TERROR UPDATE: 10 civilians and 6 suspected terrorists killed in police raid in Sri Lanka.
Earlier Friday, authorities had seized a large cache of explosives, 100,000 ball bearings and ISIS uniforms and flags from a garage a few miles from the shootout.
The raids come on the back of a major hunt for the perpetrators of the coordinated Easter Sunday attacks that killed 253 people, including worshippers attending Easter Mass.
National Tawheed Jamath, a local extremist group, has been blamed for those bombings but has not claimed the attacks. ISIS claimed responsibility, but a link between the attackers and the terror group has not been proven. . . .
“The owners … realized there was suspicious stuff going on here, then police came here. The place was rented out two to three weeks ago,” he told CNN.
“They (the tenants) came here claiming to start a slipper factory, and the owners saw the materials but didn’t understand what they were. But after the Colombo bombings, and with the people being from Kattankudy, they then reported them to police.”
The eastern cities of Kalmunai, Chavalakade and Sammanthurai remain under extended curfew until further notice, according to police. The curfew was imposed after the shootout.
Over the last 24 hours, police have raided four safe houses in Addailachchenai, Sammanthurai, Nintavur and Sainthamaruthu — all in the eastern area, said Gunasekara, the police spokesman.
The raids came as the Sri Lankan army revealed new evidence Saturday about one of the suspected Easter Sunday bombers — Abdul Lathief Jameel Mohamed, who killed himself while detonating a bomb at the Tropical Inn Guesthouse on the outskirts of Colombo.
Religion of peace, I’m told.
Related: Two Super-Rich Families Ended Up on Opposite Sides of Easter Attacks. “Two of the Ibrahim sons — Ilham and his older brother, Inshaf — were among the suicide bombers behind the series of devastating attacks around the country. Sri Lanka’s Muslims have been painfully perplexed by the question of why two of their most privileged sons would do this.”