Tuesday, May 21, 2019

Many More Students, Especially the Wealthy, Get Extra Time to Take the SAT



Across the country, the number of public high-school students getting special allowances for test-taking, such as extra time, has surged in recent years, federal data show.
And students in affluent areas such as Scarsdale, Weston and Newton are more likely than students elsewhere to get the fastest-growing type of these special allowances, known as “504” designations, a Wall Street Journal analysis of data from 9,000 public schools found.
WSJ
If you've got the money then your SAT is jake;
it will be touched up so good they might suspect a fake.
Or else that golden shower that your parents like to fling
will give you extra hours for to sit and do your thing.

To get the proper college is to be set up for life.
If you miss this gravy train you're in for money strife.
And tests are all-important, more important than a brain.
Cuz scholars are a dime apiece, but pencil pushers reign.

So take your time with answers, and perhaps a little drool
showing you are struggling will get you the right school.
Yes, life can be delicious if you take the proper view --
and always carry with you a sharp pencil number two.


How Trump Is Outspending Every 2020 Democrat on Social Media






President Trump’s re-election campaign has spent far more than any single Democratic presidential candidate on Facebook advertising, reprising a strategy that was central to his 2016 victory.    NYT

It takes a lot of moolah to go run for president/however if the voters have expressed their discontent/by voting in a blowhard to combat their bugaboos/they'll keep him snug in office long as he will stroke their views/so why he needs a war chest that is bursting at the seams/most likely has to do with Kushner and investment schemes . . . 



Das gutherzige deutsche Volk



The Tech Cold War Against Huawei



Trump vs Congress: "You Can't Make Me Tell -- Nyah!"



Beyond the clouds


Monday, May 20, 2019

Google gives Huawei the Old Heave-Ho, and I can't stop myself writing a poem about it, which the New York Times just can't helping posting



Is China Taking Over Australia? (Hint: Rupert Murdoch eats a lot of rice.)



Banks, Like Onions, Should be Peeled in Layers to Find the Smudge



Hope is an important part of the gospel plan.


Ulisses Soares



Hope in God
does not make
the sun rise.
But it gives
each sunrise
more meaning.