Mimi Groves/UT revoked admission

[VolStrom]

I was thinking today of writing the chancellor and letting him/her/xi know just that. They aren't getting a dime from me. What is really funny is that my wife and I were thinking of setting up an education trust to help out for UT students. Not any more.

I need to send you a brochure on the VolStrom grandchildren foundation, it's a great charity!

 

[OrangeTsar]

I grew up in a Baptist church. I recall the pastor saying one time that the wine they drank had so little alcohol as to make it impossible to become drunk on it. I don't know where he got that from but it seemed like BS to me at the time.

Which sort of clashes with the Apostle Paul saying “be not drunk with wine”. So why admonish people do not get drunk on something that was incapable of making them drunk?

 

[SpaceCoastVol]

Remember when the NFL considered a 15 yard penalty for use of the N-word? That never made it to the field as they realized there would be 5000 yards in penalties and games would take 9 hours to play.

NFL expected to adopt penalty for racial slur

Ref: (Sigh) "Using the N word, The penalty is half the distance to the goal.... the ball will be placed on the 1 micron line. It's 1st and 98."

 

[SpaceCoastVol]

I need to send you a brochure on the VolStrom grandchildren foundation, it's a great charity!

We are gonna do a family thing. No degrees with a crappy ROI. In other words, no 15ht century gay French water color analysis Doctorates.

 

[sonofUT62]

The Baptist church I was brought up in the 50s taught that it was really grape juice.

That’s what I’ve spent the last 8 months telling people in Zoom meetings.

 

[SpaceCoastVol]

That’s what I’ve spent the last 8 months telling people in Zoom meetings.

Winner!

 

[AM64]

There's a similar case brewing, and it's all about what students have done and first amendment rights. Liberals have spent years broadening "free speech" to cover any occasion, so it's pretty funny when the same courts that agreed with them have to duck and cover and waffle on when speech is deemed acceptable or offensive. I guess if you consider what these girls did as unacceptable, then most of what constitutes black music should be banned, too. Words are offensive, or they aren't because there's little chance that they aren't going to be heard by unintended audiences these days.

A High School Cheerleader’s F-Bombs on Snapchat Could Blow Up Free Speech for U.S. Students

Among B.L.’s 250 online friends, a tattle-tale teammate placed a screenshot of the profane posts in a coach’s hands. The school in Pennsylvania threw B.L. off the junior varsity cheerleading team on the grounds that her post violated team and school rules, which the student acknowledged before joining the team. Those rules required that athletes “have respect for [their] school, coaches, . . . [and] other cheerleaders”; avoid “foul language and inappropriate gestures”; and refrain from sharing “negative information regarding cheerleading, cheerleaders, or coaches . . . on the internet.”

 

[bamawriter]

The fact that a teenager said something stupid on video is totally unsurprising. The fact that another teenager would use it to bully her, even years later, is completely pathetic and totally unsurprising.

What has me gobsmacked is that The New York Times, "America's Paper of Record," would choose to publish this story. This is not news. This doesn't even border on news. I swear, I say to myself that I'm not longer capable of being surprised every time the media finds a new layer to scrape off the bottom of the barrel. And yet here we are, and I still cannot believe it. These people have absolutely no shame.

 

[tnutater]

I think you are misremembering this particular- apocryphal- quote. After signing the Civil Rights Act LBJ did reflect on the legislation by expressing to his aides (Bill Moyers) something to the effect "We have lost the South for a generation."

I stand corrected .
It was 200 years.
It was quoted by Robert McMillian, Air Force One steward.
Johnson said this to 2 governors.
Believe what you will , as is your right.
I will continue to believe the 1964 Civil Rights Act had more to do with political gain than any concern for people with darker skin pigmentation.
Lyndon Johnson was a lot of things.
Being an astute politician was near the top of the list.

 

[Wafflestomper]

Which sort of clashes with the Apostle Paul saying “be not drunk with wine”. So why admonish people do not get drunk on something that was incapable of making them drunk?

I guess he could have also told them not to fly thy jetpack around airports too. Not a contradiction but also not applicable.

 

[Grand Vol]

The fact that a teenager said something stupid on video is totally unsurprising. The fact that another teenager would use it to bully her, even years later, is completely pathetic and totally unsurprising.

What has me gobsmacked is that The New York Times, "America's Paper of Record," would choose to publish this story. This is not news. This doesn't even border on news. I swear, I say to myself that I'm not longer capable of being surprised every time the media finds a new layer to scrape off the bottom of the barrel. And yet here we are, and I still cannot believe it. These people have absolutely no shame.

Eventuality, someone needs to buy and shut down the Times. It's no more of a news source than Infowars these days

 

[AM64]

Eventuality, someone needs to buy and shut down the Times. It's no more of a news source than Infowars these days

No bird with any self respect would accept the NYT as a liner for the bottom of a cage - pretty much the same with WaPo.

 

[RavinDave]

No bird with any self respect would accept the NYT as a liner for the bottom of a cage - pretty much the same with WaPo.

Fishwrap

 

[WBO]

Yeah, teaching about the Constitution, Free Market Economics, and the history of Western Civilization....bunch of real nutcases obviously

They're not teaching about the Constitution rather they are teaching their version of the Constitution which in many cases is inconsistent with the Supreme Court's interpretation. In case you don't realize it, the Constitution means what the Supreme Court says it means. See Marbury v. Madison.

They sent me a couple of "research polls" which basically asked questions like, do you prefer the heavenly blessed positions of Donald Trump or do you want to go to hell for eternity. I stand by my nutcase characterization.

 

[AM64]

Fishwrap

Probably spoil the fish.

 

[WBO]

I never mentioned JJ or the young lady in question.
The post concerns itself with the perceived difference in the value of a football star and a cheerleader. Do you actually think that there is a member on the football team that has never used the N word? Or the cheer team for that matter. The US gets whipped into a race debate every 4 years for the Presidential elections, it assures that the people with dark skin pigmentation vote block gets to the polls. Lyndon Johnson said after signing the Civil Rights Act that it assured that Negros would vote Democrat for the next 100 years. His words , not mine. Maybe in 40 more years people will start to think for themselves. Until then, people like the young lady in question will have to be sacrificed for their stupidity during election years.

That's not what LBJ said. He actually said that he had made the South Republican for the next 100 years. Seems he was right while doing the right thing.

 

[tnutater]

That's not what LBJ said. He actually said that he had made the South Republican for the next 100 years. Seems he was right while doing the right thing.

Post209, this thread

 

[Carl Pickens]

A lot of them do. Our daughter was almost kicked off a competition dance team because me and the wife were seen out drinking at a bar during one of their weekend competitions in Gatlinburg. Apparently drinking in public reflects badly on the dance team, we should have just gotten shithoused in our room like the other parents.

Oh hell..... did you have to go down to the school house and straighten them out?

 

[hog88]

Oh hell..... did you have to go down to the school house and straighten them out?

It was one of those private dance academies. But no, I just stopped going to the over night competitions.

 

[lawgator1]

Eventuality, someone needs to buy and shut down the Times. It's no more of a news source than Infowars these days

Its news in the sense that it is a story about hurtful retaliation over a racial issue, but retaliation which seems to serve no purpose.

 

[1972 Grad]

I was thinking today of writing the chancellor and letting him/her/xi know just that. They aren't getting a dime from me. What is really funny is that my wife and I were thinking of setting up an education trust to help out for UT students. Not any more.

Somebody should be in position some day to benefit from my estate, but it won't be them. That is, if my wife has anything left. I told her if she had money once I'm gone, to spend the hell out of it.

 

[MG1968]

A teenager can murder someone and if tried as a juvenile and convicted, their criminal record is sealed and can’t be used against them as an adult. Say something stupid on social media at any age and your guilt is absolute and your sentence is an almost total character assassination by masses of the offended.

 

[AshG]

Almost makes me wish for free college for everybody. Professors living their socialist equality dream. The angel side of me says they would be an everlasting growing leach of taxpayer monies.

You don't know many professors. There are no dreams of equality there; so much backstabbing and jockeying for power it actually looks like a it GOP primary.

Come to think of it, I'm not sure I graduated. I never took Liberal Inculcation seminar or Marxist Thought for Amerikanski. I hope they don't revoke my diploma.

 

[OrangeTsar]

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[OrangeTsar]

They're not teaching about the Constitution rather they are teaching their version of the Constitution which in many cases is inconsistent with the Supreme Court's interpretation. In case you don't realize it, the Constitution means what the Supreme Court says it means. See Marbury v. Madison.

They sent me a couple of "research polls" which basically asked questions like, do you prefer the heavenly blessed positions of Donald Trump or do you want to go to hell for eternity. I stand by my nutcase characterization.

You poor poor person. There are not different “versions” of the Constitution. There is just the plain text that says what it says. It was written to be understandable to the citizens of the states and does not require a specially trained priesthood of nine unelected experts to determine what it means. You and I can read it and determine it’s meaning without needing “interpretation” any more than I need “interpretation” to read and follow a recipe for clam chowder. The only people who claim that we need experts to tell us what it means are people who don’t like what it says and want to twist it to their own ends.
Marburg vs Madison was incorrect and was a blatant usurpation of powers by the Court never intended it by the founders. You have fallen for the greatest lie in American history, one that haunts us to this day.

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