Random thoughts #22

Random Thoughts

February 25, 2024

Some have said that the game plan for the Democrats is to have noncitizens voting. Well San Francisco has just appointed a non citizen (a Chinese) to its Board of Electors. That’s right. A person who cannot vote is going to be supervising those who can. The new board member gave her acceptance speech in Chinese. Only in California.

Major League baseball has new uniforms. The players hate them. Also the uniforms have proved to be revealing under certain conditions. I am certain that the Dodger fans were excited to see Shoei Othani. But perhaps they are seeing a little too much of him.

A school system in Georgia has fired a teacher who read a pro gender propaganda book to fifth graders that encouraged kids to go “beyond binary.” Certainly Georgia is not California where teachers are fired for not reading pro gender propaganda. Also certainly not in Biden’s woke federal government where the VA suspended a doctor who openly questioned the policy of allowing males to occupy the same private spaces as women veterans.

The judge who fined Trump $350 million was stupid. That figure is excessive and will likely be overturned. Only Trump haters would cheer such a figure. The judge would have been smarter had he found Trump guilty and fined him $1 million. Trump would have likely paid the fine since appealing it would probably cost him more than that in legal fees. The democrats would applaud the guilty verdict and the rest of us could put that episode behind us.

I have not burned one brain cell over the Trump indictments. However, did you notice that all the attorney generals, Fani Willis, Alvin Bragg and Letitia James are democrats and all are black?

I was asked why black men were increasingly favoring Trump. I guess someone must think that I am the spokesman for black men. I am not. Is there a spokesman for white men? I can give an opinion however. It is that blacks sympathize with Trump being the victim of uneven application of the law. Blacks have been on the receiving end of disproportionate arrest, punishment and imprisonment than whites for the same crimes. Now Trump is being indicted for the same or lesser offenses than Joe Biden. Its clear to all and especially revealing for black men who are constantly reminded that justice is not blind.

I don’t watch basketball. But while going through the channels I stumbled on a women’s basketball game. What was interesting was that all of the players on the floor for one team were white and there were only two black players, both sitting on the bench in warmups. In men’s basketball it is reversed with the players on the end of the bench in warmups all most always being white.

It is also interesting to read of all the brouhaha surrounding Iowa’s Caitlin Clark and her setting of an NCAA scoring record. Truth be told, the record is bogus. Clark broke the scoring totals of Kelsey Plum who played for the University of Washington. However, Plum’s “record” of 3,527 points exists because, for whatever reason, the NCAA does not recognize statistics from the AIAA (Association of Intercollegiate Athletes for Women) which was the governing body for women’s sports until 1982. Their record holder is Lynette Woodward who played for Kansas and scored 3,649 points. Many famous figures in the women’s game state that Woodward should be record holder and that Clark’s “record” should come with an asterisk. It is curious that the NCAA has not merged the AIAA’s statistics into its own. The NFL merged the statistics of the AFL when it merged. Major League baseball has merged the statistics of the Negro Leagues. Yet the NCAA is ignoring the accomplishments of women who played before 1981. Moreover, Lynette Woodward is not even the highest scoring women’s basketball player. That distinction is for Pearl Moore who played for Francis Marion college for 1975-1979 and scored 4,061 points. But Francis Marion is a Division II school and the official “record” is for Division I schools.

February is Black History Month. Some wag said it was because there were fewer days in February than any other month. If you are interested in reading about historical blacks that you never knew about, I encourage you to look at Bob Woodson’s 1776 Unites page.