More seemingly random thoughts #57

More seemingly random thoughts

There was this blackout in Spain and Portugal but I could find no mention of what caused it as millions of people plunged into darkness and paralyzed life on the Iberian peninsula. Why? Was it “renewables”? Naturally the authorities denied it and simply said that they did not know what caused the blackout. If that is the case then those authorities need to be fired. There was also a story about blackouts in Germany because the wind did not blow for a week.

I am surprised that the term “blackouts” has survived the woke dictionary revisions.

The Wall Street Journal continues its leftward migration in the headline on April 29 that read “President escalates his fight to deport migrants” Gee I thought he was trying to deport illegals. Anyway, isn’t “migrants” defined as those coming across borders for employment and education and likely will return home? Do the “migrants” in the Wall Street Journal article fit this definition? If so there would be little need for the president to deport them since they would self deport.

Mike Waltz is out as national security advisor and sent into purgatory as US Ambassador to the UN. Waltz, the good soldier that he is, graciously accepted the demotion. I am still waiting on Hegseth to be fired for sharing details of the Signal chat and including his brother and wife on it. Maybe Trump can make him ambassador to Ukraine.

The economy had “negative growth” during the first quarter falling by 0.3%. Naturally the president blamed Biden. “This is Biden. And you could even say the next quarter is sort of Biden because it doesn’t just happen on a daily or an hourly basis.” Wow. Blaming Biden for next quarter too doesn’t portend well for the economy, does it? As to the stock market tanking and having about the worst 100 days of any president, it was apparently Biden’s fault too. “The stock market in this case is, it says how bad the situation we inherited. This is Biden’s Stock Market, not Trump’s. I didn’t take over until January 20^th. Tariffs will soon start kicking in, and companies are starting to move into the USA in record numbers. Our Country will boom, but we have to get rid of the Biden ‘Overhang. This will take a while, has NOTHING TO DO WITH TARIFFS, only that he left us with bad numbers, but when the boom begins, it will be like no other. BE PATIENT!!!” 

Sorry Mr. President, but man up. It is your economy now. If you had stuck with the domestic agenda and had just targeted China instead of our allies, the economy would be booming. I hope you understand that your universal so-called “reciprocal” tariffs will bring the democrats back into power much like what happened in Canada. As American consumers, who in large part rejected Biden because of inflation, find that prices are going up even more, republicans will suffer in the midterms. Why isn’t this obvious? So take off all the punitive tariffs on our allies and make it truly reciprocal with no universal base. Stop this Canada as the 51^st state nonsense and get rid of those Harvard PhDs, Peter Navarro and Stephen Miran, with their truly bizarre notions about economics.

Do you have music intersections with your children? My daughter and I intersect on some vocalists like Sade. But she doesn’t listen to other stuff I like and I don’t care for what else she likes. My son and I intersect on some jazz but not on much else. I think he still listens to hip-hop but has few intersections with his son. Of course I have no intersections with my grandchildren. I wonder if my grandson and his son have any intersections. 

I am an empiricist. If you can show me that CRT has raised the reading and math proficiency of black kids, then I will wholeheartedly endorse it.

If you can show me how DEI has improved the economic wellbeing of blacks I will embrace it as well. The reason that so many universities went all in for DEI is because it allowed them to expand the bureaucracy by hiring legions of administrators adding to the power of presidents and chancellors. Show me if this increased the performance of black and Hispanic students. Did it?

The DEI surge also led to the establishment and proliferation of departments with limited value. Departments such as gender studies, women’s studies, sexuality studies and black studies. These should have been incorporated within departments such as sociology and political science. That they were not is telling. If the research in the new fields did not rise to the level of the “research” in sociology, political “science” and the rest, then perhaps they should not have been formed at all. But apparently the white leftists who rule the departments in liberal arts did not want to expand their faculties to take in even more liberal leftist “scholars” – most of them minorities – of the far left subjects. Even more telling is that the research of these scholars would not likely be publishable in the mainline journals in sociology and political science making promotion and tenure problematic at best. By shunting them off to their own departments the traditional ones leaves their departments mostly white and could avoids the embarrassment of having to fire minority junior faculty for failing to publish in their field’s leading journals.