Send in the Contractors
Submitted by PriceRip on Fri, 01/27/2017 - 4:28pm
sung to the tune of Send in the Clowns. I didn't see this until a few minutes ago: Trump Orders Mexican Border Wall to Be Built.
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Sanctuary Movement and Central American refugees
For a time we sheltered and transported refugees through the central part of the USofA. His rhetoric makes me wonder if Trump is considering fomenting conflict in Central America. I wonder what Trump would say if he knew we were still here ready to protect refugees from people like him.
According to the governor of Washinton
if Trump's math acumen as demonstrated by the crowd counting of his inauguration turnout is applied to calculating the material needs for the wall, the wall will be a mere 8" tall.
"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones."
John Cage
I will pay for it with higher food prices.
That is my immediate reaction.
I will read and study up that other essentials will cost more, as time goes by.
For now, I will prepare to change my grocery store shopping habit.
Eventually, I will be eating and thriving on pure steam.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
The reality is that immigration in this age is a zero sum game
Except it's not a game and it is lose-lose--hence a less than zero sum game. Where did all those recent immigrants come from? Obviously the near and middle east. But why did they leave their homes? Because we bombed their cities and killed their citizens indiscriminately. Why did we do so? Because we are exceptional. Which means: lots of people don't take kindly to having their homes destroyed and their citizens wantonly murdered. So what follows? People "get the hell outta Dodge" and lots of them head this way. Which leads to some really bad actors sneaking with lots of scared, impoverished people. This then results in massacres on our land: Arlington VA, Boston MA, Riverside CA, Orlando FL, and the list goes on. How did these murderer get in, even though we have abolished the 4th amendment? Don't we have an FBI? Don't we have a Department of "Homeland Security" [Der Vaterland! Heil!]? Yeah but they either incompetent or part of some sort of giant conspiracy. I vote for incompetence, but you know...
So with the Islamic jihadist mass murders committed in our exceptional country, without asking why they hate us (besides Darth Cheney's ridiculous explanation), is it any wonder that, rightly or wrongly, our country has become quite immigrant adverse?
When I was young I was taught to think.
At a young age I was encouraged to read. I spend an inordinate amount of time in our tiny Carnegie Library. My parents placed no restrictions of any kind and I read a wide variety of material. I was particularly "fond" of real history (versus the stuff taught in school), and dystopian novels. Somehow, those two went well together.
It is discouraging that what I learned during that time seems so prescient today.
Your comment title encapsulates most of our current tribulation
. That, sir, is the exception and not the rule. Rather than give a critique of our current miserable educational situation K - 12 (with rare exceptions) in which children are taught to regurgitate rather than think, if one were so disposed as to educate the young according to the TRUE American history, one would be summarily removed from the school and given the sentence of Socrates. What flavor hemlock would you like?
Several deans have tried to get me relieved of my duties.
It has been an interesting 35 years at KSC/UNK dealing with one assault after another. But I survived and they went elsewhere.
I think intelligence and wisdom come from nurture a lot more
than nature. A young kid who is encouraged to be curious, ask questions and enjoy learning will end up "smarter" than a kid who grows up in an environment where learning is a bad thing, where asking questions is a bad thing and where "curiosity kills the cat". Learning is a bad thing in much of our stupid culture.
Beware the bullshit factories.
What you think is what I know to be true
I spent 60 years in classrooms. From the time I started kindergarden until I retired a couple of years ago, learning (not teaching) has been the driving force to becoming educated. Give me an inquisitive ignorant individual and I can "teach" them anything. Without the "inquisitive" part everything stalls out, but even that can be repaired to some extent if the conditions are right.