Albany, NY— I’m herewaiting as usual, to et the trailer unloaded. From here, I’ll go to Horeseheads, NY and then to up around Rochester. I may end up with another run from there but it’ll likely be a simple out and back. Truck’s running well, and all seems well.
- Striving for Mediocrity: Over at The American Thinker, John T. Bennet makes an excellent set of points: [1]
Our educational system is self-destructing because of a fraud known as the “achievement gap.” One result of that fraud is that public school bureaucrats are taking away opportunities from good students in a misguided effort to help underperforming students.
When the mainstream media reports on progressive social policies, the results can be astonishing. A recent Washington Post “Metro” section featured a stunning educational policy: a school policy that ruins opportunities for bright students in order to help the less bright students (“Dumping honors classes for AP [2],” May 22). The Post reports that honors classes are being abolished from the curriculum in Fairfax, VA, and many schools across the country. The purpose of abolishing the honors courses: to help “underrepresented minority students.” With that article, the Post unwittingly exhibited the core of the problem with education in this country: The flawed system and students’ low culture. Each factor combines in a downward spiral to give us the bad educational results we have today.
There’s far more of course, but this story should shock nobody. I mean, isn’t that what liberalism does at every turn? Look, it’s impossible for there to be equal outcome for all people, given equal opportunity. So, given equal outcome is their goal, how do liberals see the solution? By clamping down on the opportunities for high achievers.
Now think; How is this any different than progressive taxation? Or, EEO laws, as they’re now written and enforced? At every opportunity, leftists will assume the only way we can be equal is if we’re all equally stupid, and poor, and dependent.
- I GOTTA STOP AT THE ATM: Do you remember when Bush was supposedly mystified by the complexities of the supermarket check-out scanner? [3] The supposedly unbiased press wet their pants as did the left-o-sphere. But when Obama starts falling over his own tounge about the ATM, showing how out of touch he is with the people he supposedly understands so very well….. who is the only outlet to make mention of it? Yep. Fox news: [4]
On the June 14 edition of NBC’s “Today,” President Barack Obama ascribed part of the blame for the high unemployment rate to ATMs, yet most media outlets continue to ignore the gaffe.
“There are some structural issues with our economy where a lot of businesses have learned to become much more efficient with a lot fewer workers,” lectured Obama in an interview with NBC’s Ann Curry. “You see it when you go to a bank and you use an ATM, you don’t go to a bank teller, or you go to the airport and you’re using a kiosk instead of checking in at the gate.”
Yes, sir. So the unemployment issue is we’re not waiting in line for a human to do an ATM’s work; it’s all that damned technology, right? And Fox’s competition? Not a sound. And they wonder… can’t understand for the life of them… why Fox is cleaning their clock, in the ratings game.
But now, think on this; What kind of a world is Obama envisioning, here? Are we really going back to the 40’s, before there were computers, the net, atm’s, airline kiosks, etc? And what of Tele-prompters? How will this nation ever get any inspiration from fearless leader if we don’t have the technology available for teleprompters?
- GLENN SAYS IT WELL [5]:
SMART DIPLOMACY: Czechs don’t trust US, withdraw from missile defense plans. [6] “Gee, I seem to remember a presidential candidate in 2008 who ran on the promise to improve relations with our allies.”…
Gotta run, they’ve got me unloaded.