Liberals have made things worse for blacks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9wWF1_YFBA

 


In "Please Stop Helping Us," Jason Riley examines how well-intentioned welfare programs are in fact holding black Americans back. Minimum-wage laws may lift earnings for people who are already employed, but they price a disproportionate number of blacks out of the labor force. Affirmative action in higher education is intended to address past discrimination, but the result is fewer black college graduates than would otherwise exist. And so it goes with everything from soft-on-crime laws, which make black neighborhoods more dangerous, to policies that limit school choice out of a mistaken belief that charter schools and voucher programs harm the traditional public schools that most low-income students attend.

Between 1940 and 1960 before the Great Society programs and the voting act, and at a time when black political power was nearly nonexistent -- the black poverty rate fell from 87% to 47%. Yet between 1972 and 2011 the implementation of Great Society programs -- it barely declined, from 32% to 28%, and remained three times the white rate, which is about what it was in 1972. Drug offenses are not driving the incarceration rate--violent crime is. It's a red herring to claim it's drugs. When everyone from the president (Obama) on down buy into the Black Lives Matter myth of cops killing young black men, we'll never be able make headway, and the solutions won't come from Washington, but from black people. (paraphrase) Affirmative action and quotas helped primarily the black middle class, not the underclass--it actually lost ground. (paraphrase).

The civil rights movement has become an industry. Liberalism has succeeded in convincing blacks to see themselves as victims.

Don Easterbrook testimony, March 26, 2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3ucQt710b4

Presentation by Dr. Don Easterbrook to Washington State Senate Energy, Environment & Telecommunications Committee. He presents data which he says has been manipulated  by East Anglia, NASA, NOAA and NSF.

http://myweb.wwu.edu/dbunny/

If you look him up, the climate changers demonize him—not his data, but him.  There are websites set up just to demonize the deniers, just as there are websites that contradict the current dogma that we will soon all drown.

“Easterbrook acutely remarked that while CO2 levels have continued to rise since World War II, the planet underwent a significant cool down between 1940-1975. He also emphasized that another cooling trend abruptly began again in 1998. Like the cycle of 1940-1975, Easterbrook predicted cooling weather will continue for the foreseeable future. So far his prediction has come true -- and CO2 levels continue to rise. “  http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/04/the_snows_of_rainier.html

Calling out black racists

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uMmpryjFOU 


 Adrienne Ross, the speaker in the above video: It never fails, and I will call it out. My Breitbart video had so many positive comments, but of course, there were the expected comments from some black folks--who have no clue they're racist because they're so busy calling other people racist--who see me and instead of seeing a person who thinks for herself, they only see a black person and thus call me a "token nigger," "coon," etc., because I refuse to stay in my place and subscribe to their thinking. Yep, they--who are black themselves--cannot fathom that a black person could possibly be gifted, hard-working, or bright. Nope, she's black and a conservative, so she must be a token and a sell-out--'cause, you know, she couldn't possibly have earned success. I mean, she's black--but they call white people racist! SMH! It's sick to see such racist black folks and deal with their insults, but I'm used to it--and sadly, have come to expect it. Their control tactics don't work on me, however. I will not be enslaved. Ain't no chains on this sister/sistuh, and they ain't really ready for a discussion with me about themselves or their racist projections. But like I said in the video, I will call it out. How sad to see one who looks like them and to only see what they accuse others of only seeing. Hmmm...

At this point, no evidence that Russia did anything that influenced the election

"Ten months after questions were first raised, there’s no evidence that Donald Trump “colluded” with Russia, according to prominent Democrats and Republicans who have reviewed information or received briefings." (Sharyl Attkisson).

Hasn't Russia/USSR and the USA always had its spies and coverts snooping around other countries' political elections? Probably not many operatives in North Korea, but they are everywhere else, including checking out the recent French election, the British brexit, and Israel.

The media hype will continue, however, because it's the best way they know to keep the Republicans from getting anything done that will help the economy, protect the borders, save the unborn and get the infrastructure rebuilt, all of which the Democrats couldn't do. 

"It’s significant that no evidence of wrongdoing by Trump has publicly surfaced long after multiple players in politics and media began insisting there was collusion. Among the allegations of treasonous behavior was a “dossier” peddled to the media and published in January. It made lurid claims about Trump ties to Russia, involving bribery and prostitution. But it turns out the dossier wasn’t an intelligence report; it was campaign opposition research compiled by Trump political opponents.

This week, Former Defense Intelligence Agency chief James Clapper told Congress that the sourcing trail of the dossier was so poor, that the entire file was excluded from in an intelligence community assessment in January.

Yet despite the persistent dearth of evidence, there’s been no widespread backtracking by those who have made claims against President Trump to date."

It's so difficult for the media and DNC and Mrs. Clinton to acknowledge they had a bad candidate.

Christians making tough decisions

California, and probably other states, has guidelines for teaching children gender issues in "health" classes, which include the current misinformation that biology changes. Parents can opt out, but not the teachers. I heard a middle school teacher on the radio who fears for her job because she cannot in good conscience violate her Christian beliefs. Not all persecution is having your church blown up or being kidnapped and sold into slavery.

It's not slavery, but in our culture and our century, Christians have to make choices about perpetuating and teaching lies to children. There are many forms of religious persecution. And perhaps Muslim men feel that not being able follow their beliefs about FGM because of U.S. laws is persecution. For some reason some feminists (from what I've seen on the internet) go along with that but deny our concerns about the bizarre transgender medical solutions to a mental condition which may involve removing penis and testicles or creating a penis and adding toxic hormones to the body of gender confused adults and children.

About 33 years ago there was a  part time librarian position available at OSU that fit my schedule needs--in Women's Studies. Although I was a liberal Democrat at the time, I was pro-life. I knew I could not reconcile my own values with the research needs of the library clients. I did not apply. God blessed the decision, however. Later in 1986 got the Veterinary Medicine full time position working with the greatest students in the country.

Climate Deniers websites

I'll be adding to this list as I come across them.  It's just so wasteful to sort through book marks and Google.

Carbon Sense Coalition

Climate Audit

Climate Depot

Climate of Sophistry

CO2 Science

Friends of Science

http://www.conscious.com.au/CSIROh!.html

JoNova Science

Junk Science

No Frakking Consensus

Watt's Up With That

Weather Action

What Jesus never said

Although he was commenting on students’ relationships with town and university through the centuries beginning with St. Scholastica riots in 1355, David Warren adds something we all need to remember: 

“That Christ never preached “equality,” I note in passing. The poverty He exemplified had nothing to do with an economic doctrine, and He had nothing to say about the political order, besides: stay aloof from it. His message was to each embodied soul – to all sinners – and He addressed them with the authority of God. They might hear Him, or shut Him away.

It was enough that He nailed our sins with Himself to the Cross, resurrected Himself body and soul, ascended into Heaven, having plunged into Hell. But also He founded an unearthly institution, as we read in Acts – that “at the sixth hour” He let down a great sheet from Heaven to Earth, a figure of His Church, that we be received up into it.

And all the tribulation of the world will stand against it, will pull us down.” https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2017/05/12/end-of-term/

Professor disciplined for not attending reeducation classes

I hope this guy has a go fund me page--I'll contribute. These "reeducation camps" are exactly what he said! I had to attend them (I was associate professor), but they never lasted 2 days! Don't ever think tenure protects you. They can take away your office, your grants, assign you to freshman classes (like playground duty in public school), remove funding for conferences and travel. These things have gotten worse--they are a cottage industry for the left. Sometimes it's a department within the institution, but they bring in visiting pooh bahs to mess with your mind who make their living doing this. This is another example of the fascist techniques of the left. They have nothing to contribute so they ramble on about race, genital interchangeability, and climate, but no plans jobs or taxes (except to increase them) or national security. A huge scam--and if you're sending a kid to college, the costs are all folded in.

https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/32510/

  I remember one where the speaker's English was so bad no one could understand him. But we had to be there. I had an assistant once who refused to go to a workshop to build team work--he didn't want to eat with those people. I think he threatened to go to the ombudsman or union and my boss just let it slide. Me?  Hey, it was a free lunch to sit around the table and play with legos.

There is little diversity in academe--political, intellectual, or even curiosity. It's much worse than the 1990s. Yes, college faculty and administrations are way to the left. But so are the students. Women now outnumber men in higher education enrollments and they are much more likely to be liberals (41.1 % for women, 28.9% for men identify as liberal). And it begins before college, because these are freshmen. Warn your children. Have the "talk." They'll need more than condoms for protection. Of their minds and values. It's why they voted for Bernie, and real adults voted for Trump.  https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/rampage/wp/2017/05/02/political-polarization-among-college-freshmen-is-at-a-record-high-as-is-the-share-identifying-as-far-left/?

New futon for my office

For several years I had a two seat wicker couch in my office. It's a small space, and I didn't want something big. But the couch mainly was used as a place to stack books and magazines, or when the cat was alive, she slept and sneezed there.  So I took that couch up to the lake house where it will replace the one bought in the 1980s, which will go to the street (for sale) on Memorial Day Week-end.  I looked through Overstock.com for something that might work.  I really don't get excited about futons, but this one looked like it might work.  Also has room for storage underneath. On Tuesday late afternoon it arrived on my doorstep, and the delivery man even brought it inside for me.  Bob put it together in about 10 minutes; cute little zipper in the back that held the legs.  Last night I lay down and took a 10 minute nap after supper--not much different than sleeping on the floor, but better than the wicker. I would never call this a guest bed, but for naps or watching TV it's fine. It cost about $230.   Don't ever throw anything away--I was sure I had some pillows I could use, but they must have gone in the last de-cluttering. Yes, those are my paintings.  The rest of the house is for Bob's paintings.

The Corbett Report

There's an internet news site called "The Corbett Report."  "The Corbett Report is an independent, listener-supported alternative news source. It operates on the principle of open source intelligence and provides podcasts, interviews, articles and videos about breaking news and important issues from 9/11 Truth and false flag terror to the Big Brother police state, eugenics, geopolitics, the central banking fraud and more."

Much of it is esoteric, quasi-anarchist and boring, but stories not available on other channels.

How minimum wage hurts the poor

"San Francisco’s ever-rising minimum wage—set to hit $15 next year—has restaurant owners asking for the check. At Least 60 Bay Area Restaurants Have Closed Since September . . . If there’s a silver lining to San Francisco’s culinary struggles, it’s that other cities, even ones run by Democrats, are realizing the arguments for a $15 minimum wage don’t match reality. In March, Baltimore’s mayor, Catherine Pugh, vetoed a measure that would have raised the local mandate to $15 by 2022. “I want people to earn better wages,” she told this newspaper. “But I also want my city to survive.” (Wall Street Journal, May 10, 2017)

The minimum wage went into federal law during the Great Depression to keep black workers from under cutting whites by offering their labor at a lower price. It immedicately created more unemployment. Still works. Raising minimum continues to keep minorities and youth and mentally challenged from getting into the competition for jobs. Unions love it.

Data vs. Dogma on Climate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GujLcfdovE8 

This is a gutsy lady; a climatologist willing to be called a denier. Her testimony was before the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

So I looked her up--Dr. Judith Curry--she resigned/retired in January 2017.

"A deciding factor was that I no longer know what to say to students and postdocs regarding how to navigate the CRAZINESS in the field of climate science. Research and other professional activities are professionally rewarded only if they are channeled in certain directions approved by a politicized academic establishment — funding, ease of getting your papers published, getting hired in prestigious positions, appointments to prestigious committees and boards, professional recognition, etc.

How young scientists are to navigate all this is beyond me, and it often becomes a battle of scientific integrity versus career suicide (I have worked through these issues with a number of skeptical young scientists)." https://judithcurry.com/2017/01/03/jc-in-transition/

Fortunately, Dr. Curry is continuing her blog on climate. She had 502 comments (so far) on her blog about Nye. https://judithcurry.com/2017/05/02/nyes-quadrant/#more-23029

Her speech on Climate Change in 2015 with visuals and charts, addresses drought, hurricanes, sea level rise--nothing unusual, not much going on if you take a longer view. Sea level has been rising for thousands of years.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L5AVBOh4SM

There are people on my FaceBook list who believe burning dung and gathering root crops while howling at the moon or looking inside for spiritual strength can destroy western civilization and Christianity, but they do want to keep their cell phones so they know when to gather for protests against Trump. I haven't thought about the periodic table since college but one article I read reported of the 83 stable and non-radioactive elements in the periodic table, at least 70 can be found in smartphones.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOGt3OzTXBs

F. A. Hayek condensed

The leading economist of the 20th century was F.A. Hayek, an Austrian by birth and British by choice. Back in the days when Reader's Digest had 7 million subscribers just in the U.S., his "The Road to Serfdom" was published in the magazine in 1945. It was also reissued by Book of the Month club with 600,000 copies, and you can still buy the condensed version today (or download). People 70 years ago knew a lot more about economics than our fragile, fearful snowflakes, their parents and grandparents today. And from the Reader's Digest. Who knew?

"Our generation has forgotten that the system of private property is the most important guarantee of freedom. It is only because the control of the means of production is divided among many people acting independently that we as individuals can decide what to do with ourselves. When all the means of production are vested in a single hand, whether it be nominally that of ‘society’ as a whole or that of a dictator, whoever exercises this control has complete power over us."