Right As Usual

I tend to think: YES! based on articles like this.   I'm starting to feel like a lab rat. This is not a new phenomenon - a book I read a few months ago (written by Leftists, but worth buying because of the insight into the methods they are now using to push, prod, and NUDGE the population towards their way of thinking, acting, and being) is Nudge.   It opened my eyes to the various ways you can incrementally move people's actions and thinking towards your goals. One way to APPARENTLY change the political line-up is to make it as easy as possible for people to "join the club" - that is, to align themselves with the Popular Kids - which Facebook did with the rainbow-colored overlay for profile pictures.  After seeing most of your peers and family show up with the rainbow hues, many people follow the crowd - rather like how after sufficient numbers of people on a city curb jaywalk, you will usually find yourself crossing the street with them. It's human nature - we a...

...to have to put more money into the plate - because the GayNazis will be gunning (dare I write that?) for your tax exemption. I'm betting that the IRS will go after the Catholics and the Mormons first.  A lot of churches will sit on the sidelines, thinking that they're not going to have the same happen to them. We know how well that work in the past when the Fascists attacked - yes, they hit the low-hanging fruit first, but, don't worry, they'll get around to you, too. Our lawmakers could be of immediate help by passing legislation for ALL churches and other religious institutions - if the IRS goes after one of them, the decision applies to ALL of them!  No exceptions - either ALL churches lose tax-exempt status, or NONE of them do. That, coupled with the logical step of forcing Obamacare on ALL lawmakers, judges, and bureaucrats, might halt their power grab - at least temporarily. Frankly, until this week, I believed that the USA was indestructible.  No longer - we a...

I posted yesterday about the Confederate flag controversy. I came down on the side of removing the flag from the Capital grounds at that time. Iconic flags, the ones that appear at most Southern state capitals, to the one painted on the top of the  Dukes of Hazzard's car, General Lee , are being targeted for removal. Breitbart's Ben Shapiro compares the bloodlust frenzy to the destruction of previous civilizations by ISIS.  And, in fact, it has similar roots - the victors want to energize their troops by a public tearing down of any symbols that represent the defeated. Funnily enough, most people disapprove of the ISIS actions; many are quick to emulate them in this matter. I'm NOT a native Southerner - I was born in Cleveland, OH, and I still identify as such.  However, I've lived, worked, and voted in this state for almost 10 years, which, I suppose, gives me a stake in the matter. The Shapiro post is particularly good - I recommend that you read it. I did come up ...

Nikki Haley is leading a fight that will have repercussions in the 2016 election.  She is calling for the Confederate flag, currently flying on the State Capitol grounds, to be taken down. The urgency of the action is being driven by the recent tragedy in the Charleston church, that took the lives of 9 people. It's a divisive issue - the lawmakers were only able to get the flag, which was put in place in 1962 (Hollings, Democratic governor), moved from the Capital dome to another spot on the grounds in 2000 (Hodges, Democratic governor).  As a result of that action, lawmakers were forced to make a compromise that made any further movement require a 2/3 vote - a REALLY high bar to change. South Carolina is funny - the people are generally pleasant (Black and White), polite, and not given to screaming and yelling.  As a result, the aggressive actions of protestors strike the natives as distinctly uncivilized, and lead many to reject the message.  Perhaps that's the intent of the...

In no particular order: The Data Hack - anyone who had applied for a job in the last 10 years or so is probably most at risk, although this breach could extend over several decades of data.   Read here for a short commentary of the problem. The therapist who is demonized for suggesting that his patient might spruce up.   Given that the patient was in therapy to try to find a romantic relationship, it wasn't a bad idea (men do tend to focus on the visual). The insistence on tinkering with our money - AGAIN. The first suggestion, to boot Andrew Jackson and replace him with Harriet Tubman, was withdrawn when Republicans pointed out that Jackson was a slave-owning Democrat who butchered Native Americans, and Tubman was a gun-owning Republican who didn't wait for government to solve her problems.  South Carolinians might wish that Andy stay, as he was a Native Son, but otherwise, conservatives were fine with the change.  Now, they've decided to boot the non-Democratic Andr...

I'm tired - a good kind of tired. I worked hard, learned some new things, and had some GREAT lunches. But, I'm ready to go home, and get back to organizing/cleaning/paperwork. If possible, by the time I return to school, I will live in an Organized Atmosphere. Hey, a girl can dream, can't she? I bought the Franklin Covey Goal Setter. It was relatively inexpensive, and works on my IPad, which is the technology that tends to be a go-to most of the time. It just fits in my bags, is lightweight, and does 90% of what I need to do. Next week, I'm going to see how much progress I can make. With my certification renewed, I'll have some free time to spend on cleaning/fitness/whatever.

I read a post in the New York Times today, that made me wonder how the writer could possibly hold his head up in public again. He was: Self-righteous "I could take what I had been led to believe was both the morally and legally reprehensible step of defaulting on my student loans, which was the only way I could survive without wasting my life in a job that had nothing to do with my particular usefulness to society. Whiny "Or maybe, after going back to school, I should have gone into finance, or some other lucrative career. Self-disgust and lifelong unhappiness, destroying a precious young life — all this is a small price to pay for meeting your student loan obligations." Clueless about the reality of making a living "I could give up what had become my vocation (in my case, being a writer) and take a job that I didn’t want in order to repay the huge debt I had accumulated in college and graduate school." Certain he was made for "better thi...

The term "hegemony" is a Leftist buzzword - funnily enough, I've NEVER heard a coherent explanation from one of them as to its exact meaning. I suspect that they don't even really understand it, other than to know it's VERY, VERY BAD! A good starter explanation. If you understand the bureaucrats and "intellectuals" as the deputies or agents of the ruling class, you will understand just who rules America , and it AIN'T Conservatives! Yet another explanation. To hear a Leftist Professor tell it, hegemony is a BAD THING. So, why are they so eager to impose THEIR hegemony on the rest of us? It's a puzzlement.

The Frankfort School - how Marxism married Freudianism for a Lethal Prescription for American Culture. The Authoritarian Personality - what is it?   Scroll down the page about 1/2 way. The F Scale - which SAYS that it can predict the incipient Fascist.  If you'd actually like to take the test, here's a link.  Keep in mind, it's HEAVILY biased against Conservatives.  

According to this site, it's not rocket science , but known principles of war and politics.  Here's a link to some free pdfs detailing Boyd's thinking. Want to know more about the Future of War? SOME of the current state of pre-war is being conducted via hacking cybersystems. SOME of it is by the usual means of controlling /enabling lazy/reflexively anti-American media. And, most troubling, some of the pre-war is being won by the same TROLLS that are "winning" the war for SSU (Same Sex Unions) or other Cultural Battles. For example, I wouldn't be surprised to find that THESE globes will be widely available in the USA.

If I understand the Supreme Court correctly, they did NOT rule on whether the company could hire - or not - based on the applicant's dress.   What they did is decide that the applicant didn't have to inform the company about the need for religious accommodation. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits a prospective employer from refusing to hire an applicant in order to avoid accommodating a religious practice that it could accommodate without undue hardship. The question presented is whether this prohibition applies only where an applicant has informed the employer of his need for an accommodation. My bolding. So, the Muslima will still face the question of whether the wearing of her headscarf is a "reasonable accommodation".  It boils down to whether or not Abercrombie will want to continue fighting the EEOC decision.  I'm guessing that they may not, for fear of bad publicity. What happens now?  The Tenth Circuit will have their decision bounced back...