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CoronitaParticipant[quote=ltsdd][quote=spdrun]Cutting a kid a bit of slack due to educational opportunities (un)available in her high school is one thing. But giving a Black kid from a poor background an advantage over an Asian kid from the same background is quite another in my book.[/quote]
So a poor Asian kid getting the nod over an affluent black kid is perfectly ok?[/quote]
I think the question of race should be completely eliminated from consideration yes. There are people who are poor who are economically disadvantaged. But not all poor disadvantaged are black or Hispanic. Plenty of folks from rural area are at a social economic disadvantage as well.
But its more than that. If the government wants to fix this. They are fixing it at the wrong side. If you want to help then give the poor subsidies for seeking higher education for their kids before college. And then when the kids do qualify based on merit….help poor kids pay for the college.
The kids however need to get in based on merit. It is how just about ever other country that values education does it.
CoronitaParticipant[quote=ltsdd]I am a little torn on this issue. I don’t think the UC schools have ever been merit-based only wrt their admission policy.
I believe the UC schools still deploying the 60:40 ratio for freshman admissions. That is, 60% of the available spots are to be used to admit incoming freshmen based strictly on academics only. And the other 40% is when the schools would take into account the student’s extra-curricula activities, economic background, etc. If this is still the case then it begs the question – is it fair if, all things being equal, a student got admitted because they came from a “poor” family over a student that came from a “wealthy” family? If the schools have been using the financial background and one of the metrics for admission then how different is it if they were to add race to category? I guess in this case if you’re rich and Asian/White then you’re doubly screwed.That said, I’ve always told my kids to make sure that just make sure that they make the grades to ensure that they are the 60 percenter and take the decision making out of the hands of the schools.[/quote]
Classic “if my kid makes the extreme cut”, then injustice doesn’t matter for the rest of them there were otherwise qualified…
CoronitaParticipant[quote=scaredyclassic]it would be nice to see some asian student activism on high school campuses. maybe the jews can can join in and have some sort of “screw you, we won’t do your work strike” across the state high schools if you won’t let us in your universities. it would be pretty cool to see students fighting about something.
imagine the chaos in high schools if everyone just stopped working; or even going into classes.
perhaps students could refuse to sit, speak or work for the entire period.
at the very least, any group affected by this bill should refuse to ever identify on any form forever and should never take any state standardized test to try to help a publci school achieve a better standing.
on the other hand, UC schools are getting to be kind of a financial ripoff. maybe it’s not so bad on a pracical financial level…[/quote]
It’s not just UC schools… It’s any CA state school (Cal State system included)….
CoronitaParticipantCan you imagine if this bill, instead of about education, was about real estate?
Only 13% of the total number of residence in Carmel Valley, La Jolla, RSF can be asians…
Ridiculous…
CoronitaParticipantThe problem with a lot of Asians is they don’t give a rats ass about things related to governmental policies. Until it attacks something that is a fundamental no no (crossing the line).
Fucking with kids education is one of those things.
Me thinks I will be camping out next weekend at ranch 99 with a petition table and a laptop… This is just bullshit
CoronitaParticipant[quote=AN][quote=flu]As a suggestion for asian parents that want their kids to go to a UC school, perhaps the trick is (in addition to changing the last name temporarily), buy a house out of state and actually apply for admission as an out of state resident that will pay for the full tuition.. Just kidding… sort of..[/quote]flu, I totally agree with you about the name thing. Which is why, if you look at my kids’ names on an application, you’d think they have German decent :-).
But if you’re going to change their name temporarily, it might make a bigger effect if you name them something like Jamal or Jermaine or Monique or Keyshia.[/quote]
I think in honor of this bill, I’ll change my kid’s last name to Hernandez, just to make a mockery of this ridiculous “law”….
Please sign the petition, and get your significant other and all of your family members and relatives to sign…
CoronitaParticipant[quote=paramount][quote=SD Realtor]I agree FLU. This is totally f’d up. Be a good parent, teach your kids to accel academically but because of your race, they may not be able to go to these schools.
Freeking disgusting.[/quote]
It is disgusting, and has been happening to white kids for quite some time now.
Welcome to the club.[/quote]
Paramount. It’s been happening to asian kids for along time even 20+ years ago…Where have you been?
It’s much WORSE than that..Because on top of the state and the universities sanctioned racism/discrimination, in the past, there has been quite a bit that were a proponent of quotas specifically against asians because there was “too many of them” . And there’s been many many attempts even in the public schools to try to redraw district lines to rebalance asians across other lower performing schools, to make the other schools in the distrct look better…Just follow what went on in the Cupertino, CA schools..or in the Mission San Jose /Fremont District….
It’s just politicians and champions of “equality” have always vehemently denied the double standards..
I think I mentioned this a few times on this blog too, of which a few have also vehemently denied… Well, I guess the cat IS out of the bag now…
So people now can see how truly disgusting things are that some of us knew all along…..Prop 209 was a step in the right direction.. Unfortunately, I guess SCA-5 sort of undo’s everything related to prop 209……
Things are especially going to be bad for asian american kids because, I’m pretty sure they’ll lump “asians” both ones here and the ones abroad into that quota… Guess which ones the universities will be selecting.. Yup, the ones that will be paying the full, out of state tuitions….
As a suggestion for asian parents that want their kids to go to a UC school, perhaps the trick is (in addition to changing the last name temporarily), buy a house out of state and actually apply for admission as an out of state resident that will pay for the full tuition.. Just kidding… sort of….
It’s things like this I wish I had $20+million “fuck you” net worth that my kid would be able to leverage….Might not be “fair” in terms of wealth inequality, but neither is this shit…
CoronitaParticipantFolks, if you find this bill disgusting, please pass it along to others that would find it equally disgusting…
It needs to be stopped at all cost…
CoronitaParticipantCome on. How hard is 100k signatures…
CoronitaParticipant“But go look at the official stats of the demographics of 2013 incoming UC freshman:
http://www.ucop.edu/news/factsheets/2013/fall_2013_admissions_table3.pdf (end of the table)So, what’s the percentage of incoming freshmen who are white (INCLUDING “other”)? 28.1% — well BELOW the percentage of whites in California (42.3%). And BTW, note that this table shows that the percentage of the selectively designated “oppressed” minority admissions is NOT shrinking — it’s remarkably level. The drop they ballyhoo is the ending in 1996 of the disastrous and discriminatory quota system that existed before we passed Prop 209 to make such discrimination illegal.
This bill is not about countering white privilege. It’s about setting up DE FACTO quotas for ASIANS — which constitute a (supposedly evil) disproportionately high 36% of admissions vs. 14.9% of the CA population. Apparently these Asian kids “act white” FAR better than even WHITE kids act white!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_California”CoronitaParticipantDon’t even get me started…..Quite a bit of SS fell through for me….
CoronitaParticipantSilly Putin…
He should have just learned from us and done what we did to get the San Diego FBI building funded…
…Turn it over to chinese investors in exchange for visas…….
🙂
San Diego FBI building financed by Chinese seeking U.S. visas, senator says
Posh FBI field office, built by Las Vegas developer with ties to late mobster Moe Dalitz and San Diego GOP candidates Carl DeMaio and Kevin Faulconer, was financed by funds from U.S. visa-seeking Chinese investors, Sen. Charles Grassley saysA costly new FBI headquarters in San Diego, built by means of a lease-back arrangement with the United States government by Las Vegas developer Irwin Molasky, was financed by investors from China seeking immigration visas, according to a July letter to FBI chief Robert Mueller from Republican Senator Charles E. Grassley of Iowa.
The letter, seeking more details on the secretive financing deal, questions the nomination by President Barack Obama of Alejandro Mayorkas – current Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services – to become Deputy Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.
Attention to the matter has been spurred by allegations regarding Terry McAuliffe, the former Democratic national chairman and Bill and Hillary Clinton political intimate who is currently running for governor of Virginia.
But the key person of interest in San Diego’s case, 86-year-old developer Molasky, has funneled major campaign contributions to Republicans Carl DeMaio and Kevin Faulconer, both for their mayoral bids as well as for DeMaio’s run for congress against Democratic freshman incumbent Scott Peters.
As reported here previously, DeMaio’s office was involved in getting the Molasky project through city hall and the then-councilman appeared at the groundbreaking with Molasky executives and FBI officials.
In addition to political cash from Molasky, as well as from his family, and company employees, DeMaio has received campaign contributions from Molasky’s San Diego lobbyist Paul Robinson, a local Republican leader.
Faulconer’s current mayoral campaign has gotten money from both Molasky and Robinson.
According to a July 23 letter from Grassley to FBI director Robert S. Mueller, III:
The Molasky Group, the Las Vegas real estate firm that constructed the San Diego building, has also been responsible for building FBI field offices in Cincinnati, Minneapolis, and Portland, as well as buildings in Las Vegas for the Internal Revenue Service, the Social Security Administration, and the Secret Service.
In order to attract investors, the Molasky Group apparently participates in seminars hosted in China by groups like Wailan Overseas Consulting Group.
Wailan’s website includes a picture of the Molasky Group’s Chief Financial Officer, Brad Sher, speaking in front of promotional materials in Chinese which include the English letters “FBI.”
Mr. Sher is also the manager of an entity known as “EB-5 FBI LLC,” which is used to solicit the EB-5 investment. All told, one website states that the LLC has raised $40 million from approximately 80 Chinese investors.
Grassley goes on to describe emails between FBI officials regarding the use of so-called the so-called EB-5 Regional Center program to finance Molasky’s San Diego project.
The EB-5 “immigrant investor” program, run by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in the Department of Homeland Security, grants U.S. visas to foreigners who invest at least $500,000 in American projects that purport to create new jobs.
The program has long been said by critics to be ripe for abuse. According to Grassley’s letter, the FBI may not have been informed that it’s San Diego headquarters was paid for by Chinese money, a situation which the letter implies could jeopardize U.S. security.
I have also obtained March 2013 e-mails from FBI personnel with an “immediate request from . . . higher ups” of all investment LLCs under the EB-5 Regional Center program.
The e-mail to USCIS states: “Let’s just say that we have a significant issue that my higher ups are really concerned about and this may be addressed way above my pay grade.”
Another e-mail suggests that facilities funded by EB-5 Regional Centers will house “specific interests that we are concerned about.”
It is unclear whether the concerns were connected in any way with the Counterintelligence Unit referral from September 2012 or whether they simply stemmed from USCIS’s failure to inform the FBI that the Bureau’s newly-constructed San Diego Field Office was built with funds from Chinese investors through the EB-5 Regional Center program.
One of the FBI e-mails states: “I am going to use the S[an] D[iego] office as an example of the issues why FinCEN and National Security should be at the forefront of any adjudication.”
Another asks: “[C]an you ask . . . if they can remember any other FBI or government facility that was funded through EB5 money?”
In his letter to Mueller, Grassley poses a series of questions to the FBI chief regarding the San Diego project, including:
How and when did the FBI learn that the San Diego Field Office and other federal buildings had been constructed with EB-5 funds?
What investigations, if any, have been conducted into the Molasky Group, any members of its board, or the Wailan Overseas Consulting Group?
If the FBI has determined whether any other federal buildings been constructed with any EB-5 funds, please provide further information.
How did the FBI become aware that its San Diego Field Office had been constructed in part through Chinese investments?
To your knowledge, have any of the EB-5 investor applicants associated with the Molasky Group been denied visas due to national security concerns?
Two days before a July Senate committee confirmation hearing on the Mayorkas nomination to be second in command at Homeland Security, word broke that he was under investigation by the department’s inspector general, and the matter was pulled from the committee’s agenda.
DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano stepped down last week with the Mayorkas nomination still up in the air.
In addition to the San Diego FBI case, the inspector general’s Mayorkas investigation is believed to involve foreign investor visas sought for those who put money into Greentech, an electric carmaker run by Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate McAuliffe.
According to an August 9 New York Times report:
He and his lawyers sent a stream of e-mails to a senior official in charge of approving foreign investments that Mr. McAuliffe sought, and he went up the chain of command to Janet Napolitano, the secretary of homeland security, documents show.
The official Mr. McAuliffe and [Greentech president Charles] Wang met with in 2011, Alejandro Mayorkas, is the focus of an internal Homeland Security Department investigation into whether he gave GreenTech special treatment, which he denies.
As their meeting was wrapping up, Ms. Napolitano popped into the room to say hello, Mr. Wang said. Later, Mr. Mayorkas issued a favorable ruling that cleared the way for GreenTech to recruit more foreign investors.
February 24, 2014 at 4:25 PM in reply to: Moving money to another country for better interest rates #771213CoronitaParticipant[quote=kev374]gold is very volatile, holding gold can be risky as it has major swings. People also tend to over speculate in gold and it’s hard to know if it’s in a bubble or it’s value is intrinsic due to organic demand.[/quote]
Unless you plan to be moving around again… I still think in your particular situation, looking into buying a 1/1 for you to live in is probably the best return on your money.
1. You were complaining about paying an arm and a leg for rent a few weeks ago.
2. Even if 1/1’s are inflated, have you bothered to run the numbers to see what sort of payments you would be making with a standard 20% down, and current rate of around 4.3% for a 30 year…
If you’re able to find a 1/1 for $250k….
20% down on a 30 year fixed @ 4.3% is $990/month
HOA say is $200/month
Property tax @ 1.25% = $260/month.Your monthly cost is $1420/month, before your Schedule A deductions on mortgage interest… Didn’t you say you were paying about $1300/month+ month on rent.., plus bending over by paying an additional $300-400/month to store your motorcycle and other personal items???
But instead, you’re thinking of moving your money to india so your can earn maybe 6-7% interest overseas after the exchange rates fees, etc…. And then when/if you do earn that questionable 6-7%, you’re going to probably pay 20-25% in federal+state income taxes on that, given that I believe you’re an engineer probably making around $100k-$150k, before any additional comps like bonuses, stock vesting etc (more if you do make that)…assuming you are on W2 and have very little in terms of itemized deductions otherwise….(If you’re a contractor with a 1099, perhaps you have more variables to play with)….
CoronitaParticipant[quote=equalizer]Costco is not top tier gas member. Mostly marketing, but there is some testing. BTW, M5 fans don’t seem to use Costco. Only time I’m glad I’m not burdened by M5 ownership. I just use mobil 89 by the house, a little more than Costco but no long lines. 240K on one car and still going strong.
Will the Shell next to Costco lower prices??[/quote]
I think the top tier thing was more of a marketing scam a few years back, and since then I think costco has added added additives above the minimum standards for some time…
I’d be more worried how clean those gas tanks are and how often fuel is turned over in the station….
Fuel sold in CA i believe go through 2 terminals anyway, so I think any difference would be in the additives added thereafter….
Up to know I’ve been kinda of a Shell/Mobil/Chevron person, with slight costco fillups when I was there.
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