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I think that was in a lot of places. I remember having trouble in Wisconsin and yes they can mess with your grades if they want too. I was there for awhile and they thought I was from California. It got physical until I did then it stopped.
What they found out later I was from Wisconsin since the 1800s on my fathers side not Calif and my family ancestors helped build it. One even donated a box of gold to a Church. Gold bugs go way back too lol
California be a lot of things but never experienced that in California ever.
So not just the south and kids can be stupid.Especially in a place there’s nothing to do but drink beer and talk about what deer you almost or did hit on the road lol

Mass approaching the speed of light it would become infinite. Interesting

There was a little more to the high school problem ..My daughter was a year ahead of my son and graduated second in her class because she had teachers that didnt like her because she was born in NJ…and wasent a Southerner ..She got discouraged and lost interest by Graduation time yet was 2nd in her class.One of her teachers was outright discriminating against her..This was 1980  and Richmond was a very Southern place then..My wife went to school for her to find out what the problem was ,she would come home crying often..The teacher apologized after my wife confronted her and told her she was from Charlottesville Va,and her daughter couldent help where she was born..The teacher said she didnt think her sympathies  showed and it wouldent happen anymore…So after her brother was first in his class the Southern mentality was still there and he experienced it ,but he wouldent make any fuss about it..He was never the confrontation type ….and asked me not to do or say anything …BUT..The final outrage was when they didnt ask him to give the commencement address to the class using the excuse that it was their policy to let the Students select the speaker ..I later learned that my daughter was not on National Honor Society despite  straight a’s  ,I said what the hell is going on.?  She found out it was a popularity contest and had nothing to do with academics despite its name..and some other girl that didnt like her kept her off the list in favor of her personal friend and thier clique .  Such was the South at that time…They couldent do anything about my  kids grades ,but sure did favor thier own…in every other way including Scholarships ..

What is Alchemy? For $500, Alex

oklahoma grew a lot of hemp for wwii. There is still some around in the creeks and rivers. It grows like a weed. Several farmers are gearing up and the educational system is participating.

Oklahoma now has medical marijuana with defacto casual use. Law enforcement has no idea what to do since the law changed. The feds had better get their head out and move marijuana to class three.

If I get a medical card, I will have to give up my concealed carry card. The veterans administration is looking into the benefits of marijuana. We have been telling them for 50 years and they have already figured out the benefits. What a bunch of morons!

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Wow that’s great. Many times there is a window where you are at your peak preforming and least sidetracks that if the time is waisted you never catch up.
He didn’t waist that time.
So many complain about money and school but are not as motivated in the first place.
There is more than just scholarships. Coaches were always trying to sponser me to get me sports scholarships but there was none for women then. Women were put in the back of the line so know what you mean. There are books full of grants I found when I had a scholarship offer in UOP but by then with a child didn’t want to live there.
I see the ones who probably didn’t deserve it compared to the ones who did. Books and books full of grants though. Whether u get them who knows.
Now the costs went off the charts. Soon as all these unforgivable loans came in prices went sky high.
Colleges tend to want to mold you but the ones who are gifted like your grand-son can break or surpass that mold.

I agree completely about scholarships – should be based primarily on performance not ‘need’ .
Maybe grants should take ‘need’ into account .

But remember we live in a time of participation trophies .

It would be an honor to meet your son some day . I took post grad classes in Light and Optics to help with work I was doing on a laser interferometer to study flow patterns in a Mach 2 wind tunnel I designed . Light is fascinating … and exhibit some spooky phenomena that indicate communication between components of light that are instantaneous , not limited by the speed of light . Einstein believed that as matter approached the speed of light , its mass would become infinite .

Exactly right. I guess the only surprise is that the shares didn’t give up all their gains today, but probably a good bet they’ll give the rest back tomorrow.

What a disgrace

I have a Son like that ..at age 5 he asked if he could have a wind up alarm clock that was still working..

. I gave him a conditional yes..”you can have it!” but if you are going to take it apart,you have to put it back together …H gave it a lot of thought  ..!    then said ok   …He took the challenge ..and the responsibility for his actions…He did it  ,I never interferred or questioned his progress or gave advice….I was amazed ,I hadent realized how smart he was..His next project was the old Lawn Mower,that woulden start anymore…My only restriction there was he couldent start it ,or use gasoline without me there..I did over see that because of the danger to him and I wasent going to trust his word because he was only six….kids do make mistakes. He fixed it too….I was blessed to watch him grow up…my only concern was he was such a perfectionist and I was concerned about the stress he put on himself …He took honers classes and got straight A’s all through high school setting the schools highest grade point average in it 25 year history as valedictorian.was accepted at UVA,MIT,Rennsler ,and every school he applied to.

He worked all through high school saving his money to pay his way through college.He won some scholastic bonuses from my business Franchise,but I was very disappointing that 99 % of scholarships were based on need and because his Father owned a business he was denied what he really earned …I protested to the school  saying it was outrageous that their brightest student was  denied scholarship money..I thought it a slap in the FACE to him for being the best ….what incentive is there for bright student to achieve. Are we all communists ! Im still outraged about it..He accepted to UVA to help defray the college costs ,I knew why ! (In state tuition). He graduated number two after being number one in class for three years out of 2600 students at University of VA…took almost all math & Chemistry classes and aced them all.BS Degree in Physics ….then went to Univ of Maryland for his Masters in Physics because they offered him summer work at NASA in Maryland where he taught some classes to earn money.He took his Masters there and worked that summer at NASA..Got married and moved to California taking a Government job  at the Naval Oceans Systems Center as a research scientist .where he partnered with several PHD.s and was awarded 5 patents for his inventions..He was the only non PHD on staff….A year later he got his PHD in applied Physics at University of Cal San Diego  ….Always working his way through ..paying his own way…When I think of all the lesser qualified students that got full “scholarships” in High school I am still angry at how he was treated..It was a closed club ….a clique in High school…He started his own company with another PHD Physicist after leaving NOSC .Sold that to a Mexico Company in Cable business ,then they sold it to Cisco who wanted him to move to Chicago to train their Engineers on how to make his product ,a coupler that allowed light waves to be separated and transmitted over a single fiber optic cable..He woulden move to Chicago . So they sold his company..and he retired.Cisco was financially good to him ..His coupler invention is used on overseas light wave cables that allows a single fiber optic cable to carry 10 times the previous capacity in under ocean cables saving millions in duplicating cables…

He’s currently helping his wife run her child care center ….

Has everyone voted in the poll?

Farm Bill Could Unleash $1 Billion In US Hemp Sales

https://www.ino.com/blog/2018/11/farm-bill-unleash-1-billion-us-hemp-sales/#.XAA1ZcKWw5s

Less you live in Venezuela.
When it does hit it’s gonna hit them by surprise. As we’ve seen when it does phyzz get sold out while others are in a situation they can’t even purchase it. With what going on now I can see you all are watching which companies with survive and will do better. What you’ve seen with the juniors and macros is they can go bust. You know if you buy these I’m a move up you don’t hold them long but buy low sell higher.
What you’ve seen is those in other countries like Africa is they could be robbed pillaged even in a bull market. You’ll recognize faster what will drive it up or down.
What will happen to those who only think in dollar when the move comes you’ll already know and will probably be selling into their buying. Just don’t listen to those talking heads that will be calling for higher highs while there probably selling into it or just greedy or stupid. You know the governments will always see it let it happen for awhile then drive it back down.

FOMC minutes coming

You know what that means

What things can I get my grandson that can expand in inventing and building things. He does some weird stuff always building since 3 and six now. Started out with things like making his slide a car ramp where it jumped to a ramp he made then landed into a puddle after seeing mudding trucks at 4.
Then builds a track out of wooden track at just 6 and blocks that he tweaked to go around the room with is train chugging around up in the air across the room about four feet high WITH NOTHING HOLDING IT UP! It was just up there by itself. Then he goes in the garage takes two bikes puts them together and makes all four of the pedals move with one.
I have a feeling he’s going to be building some serious things when he grows up. Like to get in some books. I got him some science projects robots that run on salt etc but have a feeling that’s not all it will do by the time he gets through

Yup. Nem was the giveaway.

and the nightmare resumes…

scum now taking on the whole mkt, after Powells comments. As seemingly no matter what the Fed policy is, the Dollar must be strong, PM’s weak and the SM roaring…..

Deutsche Bank Raided in Laundering Probe Going Into 2018

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-29/deutsche-bank-headquarters-searched-in-money-laundering-probe

Banks are also a type of global welfare Gov’t, by creating unneeded welfare jobs out of thin air with loans, and adjusting currency exchange rates, to redistribute export wealth to various countries on welfare that have trade surpluses. The countries with trade deficits are the taxed countries.  They also have taxing abilities via inflation, the invisible tax.

Even if you had only said “Trump needs to warn Europe ,he will not be dragged into War because of European Banks” , it would have still been a great post .

McCarthy and Goldwater were right:

Goldwaters’ acceptance speech:

• I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!
  • Acceptance Speech as the 1964 Republican Presidential candidate. Variants and derivatives of this that are often quoted include:
    Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. Tolerance in the face of tyranny is no virtue.
    Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
    Moderation in the protection of liberty is no virtue; extremism in the defense of freedom is no vice.

• Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed. Their mistaken course stems from false notions of equality, ladies and gentlemen. Equality, rightly understood, as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences. Wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
  • Acceptance Speech as the Republican Presidential candidate, San Francisco (July 1964)
  • Unsourced variant: Now those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth, and let me remind you they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyranny.

• I’m the most underdog underdog there is.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Barry_Goldwater