Did anyone ever check George H.W. Bush's merits when he applied to Yale (his daddy was Sen. Preston Bush). I don't think so. No need, everybody knows 41 was the smartest guy ever to trod the soil (not). How about his little boy Dubya's credentials on his application to Yale? No need, everybody knows Dubya was brilliant (yeah, right). And Chelsea Clinton's application for admission to Stanford? Did that ever see the light of day? No need, she's brilliant.
What took everybody so long to get indignant about this? It's been going on since man crawled out of the ooze: huge caveman rises to the head of the tribe owing to brute strength, then hands the club/pointy stick over to his son when the time comes. Who saw that coming? Everybody, that's who.
The news desk chief interviews a bunch of folk to anchor the evening news broadcast: he picks the tall young handsome guy with cleft chin, chiseled good looks and full head of hair, and rejects the bald old short fat guys who also applied. Shocking, isn't it? It should not shock anybody.
Skinny little pencil neck 98 pound weakling applies to sumo wrestling school: his application gets lost, but several 500 pounders behind him in line are escorted right in, no waiting. Discrimination, we shout! Shut up, you dopes: this is the way life works.
Duh.
And yet the headlines screetch: "Elites pave the way for their kid's college admission." As shocking as "Dog bites man." Or, "Trunk full of votes found in Democrat's car trunk, and he wins election."
Wake up. This is how things always have been, are and always will be. I'm not saying it's the way things SHOULD be, but dumb ol' Fredd is nothing if not a practical, realistic cynic.
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I was immediately taken aback by the hysteria surrounding what I've always known to be the way things are done. I am doubly shocked by the high bond amounts and the charges brought against parents who participated in getting their little snowflakes into a college that they think carries some panache. Has the world not noticed the names of many of the buildings on any elite campus?
Once in, the elite's kiddies face the same rigorous standards as any student. Isn't that the narrative?
You're a cynic, Fredd, but at least you realize your betters for who they are.
The golden rule is that the man with the gold, rules. The politics of power, of federal grants going to the 'right' school, etc. is why people in Congress enter as paupers and leave as billionaires. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) is the perfect example. She and her husband are worth on the order of $4 billion because he got lucrative USGOV contract. Her cronies would say that he was simply the best man for the job.
And so it goes.
Adrienne: yeah, that $1,000,000 bond for Aunt Becky's hubby, what's that about? Not even close to the bond required for stupid Jussie Smollett.
Fool: yes, once in, you're in. Much like lying about being a Cherokee Indian, rising through society as an indignant woman of color, then throwing your hat in the ring for president. Folks such as these should never have gotten 'in' in the first place. But they did.
LL: DiFi has always been a piece of work. Her and her hubby, cashing in on their positions, and Chelsea Clinton got her job at NBC (short-lived that it was) because she was clearly the best journalist that ever graced us with her presence.
And not to leave out Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy, whose old man put the finger on the scale for him. Most other major news correspondents have to start in the Podunk market, work their way up to Dubuque, then maybe if they have something on the ball, Toledo. Then if the gods are smiling, Kansas City, and so on. Nope, not Peter Doocy. He's the bees knees of journalists, he must be so proud of his accomplishments.
But there goes that cynical side of me again, bad mouthing my betters.
Happy Wednesday, ye ol curmudgeon,
I remember when the world worked exactly like this, oh wait it still does, like sports scholarships, non-profits that aren't, and on and on...
Makes one wonder what is going on that isn't being shouted about on social media, hummm
Do NOT bad mouth your betters, Fredd, and that includes the Hollywood elite, who are smarter than any of the rest of us. When I think "brains", the next word that ushers into my consciousness is "GENIUS"! There are so many geniuses in Hollywood who provide role models for America's youth. Even oldsters have role models like aging athlete, turned reality TV star, Bruce (not all women have vaginas) Jenner.
I tried that with my son's college 20 years ago. Seems they don't take bottle cap collections.
Fredd, you have totally destroyed my belief that equality had finally come to America, if not the entire civilized world. I plan to lie in bed all weekend now and cry. You big meanie. Damn... Just when I was getting my self-confidence back.
Odie: they haven't made bottle caps for going on half a century now. Pop-top collections, maybe.
Kid: life's rough. Paving the way for a kid's path in life so that they will never run into obstacles, disappointment or failure is preparing them for a very unhappy future.
When they encounter forces that are contrary to their wishes down the road, instead of learning from failure, they will crumble into a pile of tears. Like Dean Wormer in Animal House once prophetically quipped: 'fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son.' No truer words were ever spoken.
Brig: the future is social media is a curiosity - eventually, these kids will put down their iPhone and look up. I wonder what they will see once that happens.
You're right, Fredd, the genius of the movie industry's legendary. Just look at Jussie Smollett.
It has to hurt when you're caught out, despite having so much cash. Speaking of which, the Clintons are still at large though Hillary's been a bit quiet lately. Will justice catch up with the Old Crone? Now that'd be a surprise worth celebrating.
Pastor: No, justice will definitely ever catch up with the Old Crone. Americans will not put up with the notion of criminalizing political differences, like Banana Republics, although the Democrats have not gotten this memo yet. Hillary, however, knows this and has taken full advantage of it; she knows that, unlike a ham sandwich, she will never be indicted on any of her malfeasance and skulduggery.
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