Random Thoughts
The Supreme Court upheld the funding of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau – one of the terrorist groups in the Federal government. Clarence Thomas writing for the majority stated that the Congress has wide latitude in the funding of agencies when they mandated that the CFPB be funded out of surplus funds at the Fed. Well the Fed for the past few years has been running a deficit meaning that it has no surplus funds. Well how can the CFPB be funded if there are no surplus funds?
Biden is still trying to buy votes by his last forgiving of student loans. Its “only” $7.7 billion which amounts to a rounding error in the budget. But again it is in defiance to the Supreme Court ruling that he does not have the authority to cancel student debt. The president ignoring the law does not set a good example for the rest of us.
The Harvard board decided unanimously to deny granting degrees to the 13 worse pro Hamas student demonstrators. Two were Rhodes scholars and were Muslim. One was from Pakistan and should have been expelled from the country. One hundred and fifteen faculty members – likely from the nonacademic majors like gender studies – had voted to allow the miscreants to graduate. Some have threatened further action against the university for ignoring their whines. The board’s actions surprised me especially because its chair is Penny Pritzker who is not known for rational thought.
I would hate to be a Jew on the Northwestern campus, Not only did the president cave to all the demands of the pro Hamas agitators, he then went before the congress and lied about it. Northwestern agreed to give scholarships to Palestinians, to establish professorships for Palestinians, to study its investments and relationships with Israeli universities. Logic would have it that in the spirit of diversity, equity and inclusion that the university would do the same for the Jews. But no.
Biden’s Title IX revision is a joke. Now just claim to be another gender and be allow access to the facilities of the other sex (yes there are only two). Males can play women’s sports. Obviously, Biden has the trans vote but why tick off the rest of us? My advice to the girls is “just say no.” If a boy shows up, don’t participate. If one goes into the locker room, walk out. Remember ignore your Marxist teachers, principals and school boards. Your parents have your back.
Trump has three groups of advisors plotting strategy for his return. They are on tariffs, immigration and the Fed. The tariff group is a bunch of mercantilists who think that tariffs will preserve jobs by keeping out competition despite evidence to the contrary. The Fed group wants the president to be consulted on monetary policy. The immigration group wants to expel the 30+ million illegals from the country. The Fed group has forgotten what harm a democrat president could do to the country, much less Donald Trump. As to the immigration group, I would hate to live in a country that would evict 30 million people regardless of legal status.
A friend of mine pointed out that the spate of rules and regulations from the Biden camp are coming fast and furious because they are trying to get as much in place in case he loses. That way Trump will spend all his time trying to purge Biden as much as Biden as tried to purge Trump.
The one thing I dislike about major league baseball is the umpires inability to tell what is a ball and what is a strike. Some like C B Buckner and Angel Hernandez are worse than others but most are bad. Although 90 percent of the calls are correct, umpires still miss on average 14 calls per game. Most of this missed calls are one balls thrown on the edges left or right or up or down were bad calls. That is stunning but look at any game and I get the calls will have you scratching your head. I favor use of technology to call balls and strikes and just let the home plate umpire call foul balls and the plays at the plate. Currently there is an automated ball-strike (ABS) technology being used in the minor leagues but MLB says it is not ready for prime time. I watch baseball and have seen umpires routinely miss balls and strikes that are on the edges of the strike zone. Two times balls were clearly out of the strike zone but were called third strikes with two outs in the last inning with runners on base. But there is no appeal. What is particularly disturbing is that If the ABS is not ready then I suggest that teams be allowed to appeal balls and strikes. If the team loses the appeal then the team loses its ability to appeal a call in the field. I don’t know if this is optimal but MLB needs to do something about the umpires’ inability to accurately call balls and strikes on the edges.
Lastly, did you see where the majority of House democrats voted against repeal of the DC law to let the District’s 40,000 noncitizens vote in local elections? Now how do you think the democrats really feel about allowing the 30+ million illegals and all the legal noncitizens vote?
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