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Although I'm sure the "activist" thought she was being serious, this is just too surreal to place anywhere else:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zmji36q8E4o

http://dailycaller.com/2015/11/12/student-activist-demands-free-college-has-literally-no-idea-how-to-pay-for-it-video/

Student Activist Demands Free College, Has Literally No Idea How To Pay For It [VIDEO]
CHRISTIAN DATOC
Reporter
3:34 PM 11/12/2015

Keely Mullen — the national organizer for the Million Student March — appeared on “Cavuto: Coast to Coast” Thursday to discuss her movement’s plans for making public colleges tuition free.

Mullen expressed the group’s “three core demands,” but when pressed by host Neil Cavuto on how to pay for all of it, she could not provide an answer.

MULLEN: The Million Student March is a movement for a more equitable and fair system of education as opposed to the really corporate model that we have right now. So the three core demands of the national day of action are free public college, a cancellation of student debt and a $15 an hour minimum wage for people who work on campus.

CAVUTO: How’s that going to be paid?

MULLEN: Ummm, great question. I’m not sure if you’re talking about on a national level or at particular schools, but I can touch on both —

CAVUTO: Well, you want all that stuff. Someone has to pick up the tab. Who would that be?

MULLEN: Ummm, the one-percent of people in society that are hoarding the wealth and kind of causing the catastrophe students are facing… 

CAVUTO: Alright, Keely, so if the one-percent just had their taxes raised a few years ago back to almost forty-percent, then to pay for the healthcare law had them raised another few percentage points, then they had their deductions raised another couple points depending on the state or locality — they’re pushing about fifty-percent in taxes — how much higher do you think, how much more do you think they should pay?

MULLEN: I think enough to where one in two American families are not threatened by poverty —

CAVUTO: So where do they go? Let’s say if you tax these folks — they’re smart people, these one-percent hoarders — so if they leave here, who’s going to pay for all this stuff that you want?

MULLEN: If they leave?

CAVUTO: The country.

MULLEN: Oh. Ummm, I mean there’s always going to be a one-percent in the U.S.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2015/11/12/student-activist-demands-free-college-has-literally-no-idea-how-to-pay-for-it-video/#ixzz3rKdQRBfp


 
Thucydides said:
Although I'm sure the "activist" thought she was being serious, this is just too surreal to place anywhere else:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zmji36q8E4o

http://dailycaller.com/2015/11/12/student-activist-demands-free-college-has-literally-no-idea-how-to-pay-for-it-video/

I just agreed with a Fox News person.  Wow.
 
I don't know which is sadder, that she couldn't put together a coherent explanation on how it would be paid for, or that she caved on calling out Cavuto's BS on the the 1% tax rates. :facepalm:
 
Western Australia Police warning about motorised picnic tables being driven on the streets of a beach town.  You can't make this up.

https://www.facebook.com/WA.Police/posts/1106244176075700
 
Explaining some of the strange effects that digital photography makes possible:

http://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/a18207/why-digital-pictures-of-propellers-look-so-weird-explained-in-one-gif/

Why Digital Pictures of Propellers Look So Weird, Explained in One GIF
It's called the Progressive Scan Effect and here's why it happens.
By Eric Limer
Nov 16, 2015 @ 2:18 PM

​If you've ever taken a picture of a spinning propeller with a digital camera, or even just seen one, you'll know that they have a tendency to come out weird. Instead of capturing the hazy sort of visual buzz we see with our eyes, cameras will capture some weird, surreal jumble of a thing that isn't even physically possible.


Hunter5625
This GIF was created using an online graphing calculator called Desmos by Imgur user  Hunter5625. Essentially, what it shows is how a complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor​ (CMOS) sensor takes a picture by reading in an image progressively instead of all at once. Normally, the effect of this rolling shutter is unnoticeable, but when you're taking a picture of something that's moving as fast as a propeller, that lag time becomes noticeable and manifests as surreal distortion. The trick to fixing this problem? A longer shutter speed or a camera with a more expensive charge-couple device (CCD) sensor.

If you're game to mess with some maths, you can hop over to Desmos and actually toy around with the simulator that Hunter5652 made. And if you find yourself taking some shots of prop-planes in the near future, at least you'll know why some of them might look like they came out of a Salvador Dali painting.

Source: Imgur via Petapixel, Gizmodo
 
He's now my favourite talking head.  Too bad he can't really do the news like he'd want to.
 
Eye In The Sky said:
We can set someone on ignore so we don't see their posts??

Go to your profile, choose buddies/ignore list, edit ignore list, enter the username in Member, hit save.
 
http://www.steynonline.com/7322/premature-explodiation
 
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