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POTUS: A Sharpie Is Always Needed

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dxmnkd316 said:
Wait, 29 composite ACT qualifies for Mensa? Holy **** have they lowered their standards. 29 is a **** score if you’re trying to measure true genius.

I know complete morons who got a 29 on the ACT: me

(In fairness to myself, that score was an outlier among my other scores.)
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Yeah...our local big ten school has a 29 as the average now for many of its colleges. I got higher than a 29 and wouldn’t call myself Mensa material
 
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I could read and write circles around most of my peers, and still can. Math beyond arithmetic and intermediate-level/applied statistics was too boring for me to care, and still is.
 
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Being able to score well on objective tests is an advantage, but the older I get the more I believe it is a woefully inadequate measure of a person. One of my parents and at least one of my children had IQs north of 150, and generally strong test taking abilities got my immediate family members into Harvard, Stanford, U of Chic, Columbia, MIT, and similar so-called blue ribbon schools. But IQ and objective test results were not stressed and rarely discussed, because I think we just understood what an incomplete measure those tests are. Resilience, empathy, humor, curiosity, the ability to care were given higher value. After undergrad, I spent the first 13 years of my adult life swinging a hammer, and I'm grateful for that experience--worked along side some extremely healthy minds during those years.

Intellectual horsepower is a good thing. I wish our President had even a little of it, because many things appear to beyond his grasp. But any number of tools can perform fairly similar functions (circular saw, hand drill, etc), each can be top-of-the-line, and yet have their highest best value in completely different circumstances. We are that way. Add the qualities we desire in a human being, and objective measures become even less compelling.

The above comments are cliche, but they deserved to be made anyway.
 
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I imagine based on the recent pardons and DOJ stories we can remove attempted murder and attempted rape out of the criminal code. After all. You didn't finish the job (Blagojevich didn't finish selling the Senate seat).

Everyone good with that? I don't see a problem.
 
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I'd chime in with my ACT scores, but growing up in a place with electricity and running water we took the SATs instead. :P
 
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/rohrabac...of-russia-didnt-hack-dnc-email-131438007.html

WASHINGTON — Former California Republican congressman Dana Rohrabacher confirmed in a new interview that during a three-hour meeting at the Ecuadorian Embassy in August 2017, he told Julian Assange he would get President Trump to give him a pardon if he turned over information proving the Russians had not been the source of internal Democratic National Committee emails published by WikiLeaks.

In a phone interview with Yahoo News, Rohrabacher said his goal during the meeting was to find proof for a widely debunked conspiracy theory: that WikiLeaks’ real source for the DNC emails was not Russian intelligence agents, as U.S. officials have since concluded, but former DNC staffer Seth Rich, who was murdered on the streets of Washington in July 2016 in what police believe was a botched robbery.

A lawyer for Assange in London on Wednesday cited the pardon offer from Rohrabacher during a court hearing on the U.S. government’s request to extradite the WikiLeaks founder.
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ScoobyDoo said:
I imagine based on the recent pardons and DOJ stories we can remove attempted murder and attempted rape out of the criminal code. After all. You didn't finish the job (Blagojevich didn't finish selling the Senate seat).

Everyone good with that? I don't see a problem.
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I don't think there would be much opposition from the GOP about dropping attempted rape (or even actual rape) from the criminal code.

It's not like they face punishment for those crimes anyway.
 
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So Dana is now admitting he talked to assange about a pardon?

I’m sure someone here will say he’s also not believable
 
Slap Shot said:
For the orcs still denying Russian involvement is this not definitive proof they were involved? Surely Assange would not have passed this offer up if he could prove otherwise.
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More relevant, if they were not involved, why do you need to go to such lengths to manufacture evidence that they weren't.

Arrange could have had many reasons to turn it down. He didn't think they would follow through, he hint have such evidence to provide, he didn't trust Trump, he wasn't sure Dana had the pull to get a pardon, etc.
 
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rufus said:
More relevant, if they were not involved, why do you need to go to such lengths to manufacture evidence that they weren't.

Arrange could have had many reasons to turn it down. He didn't think they would follow through, he hint have such evidence to provide, he didn't trust Trump, he wasn't sure Dana had the pull to get a pardon, etc.
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Maybe but those reasons would seem contradictory to Assange's "burn them all" reasoning behind everything else he's ever leaked.
 
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