Comments on: Grades and test scores should be top factors in college admissions

By: Mike-SMO

Mike-SMO — Sat, 20 Aug 2022 23:15:49 +0000

The policy of recruiting the second rate people seems to be a jobs program for the mid to lower tier of applicants to replace decent positions that have been “offshored”. These people have to be stuck someplace, independent of the effect on the economy or the military. This is an attempt tonhide the gutting of national capability.

By: Altitude Zero

Altitude Zero — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 12:31:57 +0000

The assumption among Western militaries seems to be that their armed forces will never again have to face a peer or near-peer military in actual combat. Given what we see in Ukraine and the South China Sea these days, that assumption may prove to be erroneous.

By: Gavin Longmuir

Gavin Longmuir — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 03:33:26 +0000

Back in the days of the Battle of Britain, never had so many owed so much to so few — all of those pilots white & male at the beginning, many of them dead at the end.

Now Her Majesty’s Royal Air Force has determined that anyone who is white & male need not apply. At the same time, the UK is pushing its war with Russia. What if the situation is that Russia choses its pilots based on skill, while Jolly Olde England choses its pilots based on bra size? Any guesses on the likely outcome of future air combat?

That Roman Emperor who made his horse a Senator was smarter than the punters who run Her Majesty’s domains.

By: Wang Wei Lin

Wang Wei Lin — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 01:56:27 +0000

Merit is racism don’t ya’ know.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 17:17:37 +0000

Ed Realist thinks grades are fake.