Sunday, May 20, 2018
The passionate are mislead
All the art of rhetorick, besides order and perspicuity, only moves the passions, and thereby misleads the judgment.
-- John Locke (1632-1704)
Hired for his "passion for literacy", Caledonia, Michigan high school principal uses "me" when he means "I"
The outgoing interim principal was quoted here about the new hire in 2015:
"Brady [Lake] has created a reputation for being a strong instruction [sic] leader that challenges students and staff alike to reach their full potential. He has a passion for literacy and has worked very hard to implement new instructional [!] models that benefit students," Kingsbury said.
The Sun and News for Saturday, May 19, 2018, however, quotes Lake recently thusly:
"I do not want the board, or anybody, to think that me as an administrator am not 100 percent behind Dr. Martin."
They like to say that they pursue excellence in the school district, it's just that they haven't quite caught up to it yet.
Saturday, May 19, 2018
China intends to go to war to defend its claim to the South China Sea, ready to base its version of B-52 in Spratly Islands
It's like the Japs in WWII all over again.
China air force releases statement, reported here:
“A division of the People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) recently organised multiple bombers such as the H-6K to conduct take-off and landing training on islands and reefs in the South China Sea in order to improve our ability to ‘reach all territory, conduct strikes at any time and strike in all directions’,” it said in the statement issued on Friday.
It said the pilot of the H-6K bomber conducted assault training on a designated sea target and then carried out take-offs and landings at an airport in the area, describing the exercise as preparation for “the West Pacific and the battle for the South China Sea”.
Mass projection syndrome: The Swamp is violating all the norms it claims it's defending
Ben Weingarten, here:
The political establishment that wishes to bring down the Trump presidency daily shows itself willing to eviscerate all norms, from corrupting the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court and violating Department of Justice procedures, to perhaps even planting FBI informants inside the Trump campaign. It has exhibited a willingness to undermine national security in the form of gross intelligence and law enforcement politicization, game-playing with redactions, and endless leaks. The establishment has taken such actions under the guise of defending “norms” and protecting “national security.”
Friday, May 18, 2018
Hooah: Michigan Republicans tell MSU to use $1 billion rainy day fund to pay off sex abuse claims
Reported here:
State Sen. Rick Jones of Grand Ledge and State Rep. Tom Leonard of DeWitt both said any proposals to ask the Michigan Legislature for funding will be dead on arrival. ... Michigan State has a $1 billion unrestricted that could be tapped for the settlement, along with a $59 million insurance fund. "They have a larger rainy day fund than the state does and it's been storming over there for well over a year and they need to pay for this," Leonard said.
Time article joins The Atlantic attacking the new aristocracy's moats, styling it the Baby Boom even though the author doesn't mention it even once
Here in "How Baby Boomers Broke America", which never once mentions the role of the Baby Boom and is really about how lawyers did it.
Steven Brill should sue.
Thursday, May 17, 2018
Michigan's two main universities are now so toxic only a fool would send his kid to either one
UM feels a lot like the USSR for its severe restrictions on freedom of speech and its deliberate encouragement of rat finks.
In wake of Nassar settlement, MSU proposes budget cut as only $39 million of $500 million sex abuse settlement is covered by liability insurance.
The taxpayers ought to demand that their assets be sold and both be burned to the ground.
Mark Levin is right: The real interference in the US 2016 presidential election came from the Obama cabal
Helped by the media.
Right now in the opener.
Andy McCarthy: NYTimes storyline is bunk, Obama FBI abused its foreign spy powers against its domestic political adversary Trump
As usual, McCarthy sums up the matter better than anyone else can, here, from which this excerpt:
But opening up a counterintelligence investigation against Russia is not the same thing as opening up a counterintelligence investigation against the Trump campaign.
The media-Democrat complex has tried from the start to conflate these two things. That explains the desperation to convince the public that Putin wanted Trump to win. It explains the stress on contacts, no matter how slight, between Trump campaign figures and Russians. They are trying to fill a gaping void they hope you don’t notice: Even if Putin did want Trump to win, and even if Trump-campaign advisers did have contacts with Kremlin-tied figures, there is no evidence of participation by the Trump campaign in Russia’s espionage. ... At the height of the 2016 presidential race, the FBI collaborated with the CIA to probe an American political campaign. They used foreign-intelligence surveillance and informants.
Just a reminder: North Korea wants US troops out of South Korea
A bad idea shared by many, not the least of whom is Pat Buchanan.
Reuters reports, here:
The North has long said it is open to eventually giving up its nuclear arsenal if the United States withdraws its troops from South Korea and ends its “nuclear umbrella” alliance with Seoul.
Already yesterday's news in 2013, "Hitlerwein" gets Austrian man thrown behind bars
We reported on the story in 2013 here, about how "despot" wines at least gave villains a face, unlike today's multinational corporations, whose scope for international fascism the likes of Adolf and Benito only dreamed of.
Now a hapless Austrian gets thrown in the slammer for six months just for owning a bottle or two.
The story, 'Austrian man jailed up for glorifying Nazism after cops found "joke" Hitler-branded wine in his home', is here.
Americans' problem with Hillary is her naked quest for power, and she just demonstrated why they were right to reject her
In the good old days office seekers framed themselves as servants of the people, but not Hillary.
To her, it's all about women qua women achieving power qua power. Hard to imagine anyone but a feminist ideologue talking like that.
Quoted here in Australia:
"There is this fear, there is this anger, even rage about women seeking power, women exercising power and people fall back on these attacks like you're a witch or you should go to prison. It's not a majority, thank goodness. It's not. But it's a very vocal minority at least in my country and sometimes these tropes are very much part of the press coverage," Clinton also said.
A Massachusetts liberal for The Atlantic vaguely realizes that the wealthy have withdrawn their money from productive purposes
In other words, they've behaved like ordinary people behave, as in badly.
This was first made possible in America broadly by the Kennedy and then the Reagan tax cuts (Irish anyone?), which took away the high-taxation-goad that prodded income into productive investments which in turn benefited more people, but this never occurs to the author, here:
[A]round the world and throughout history, the wealthy have advanced the crystallization process in a straightforward way. They have taken their money out of productive activities and put it into walls.
The whole point of conservatism has been that human nature is mixed, so that "class" is mostly irrelevant. The author, however, is preoccupied with it, especially the "New American Aristocracy", which means he's a liberal who is (mostly) convinced some people are more equal than others for various reasons, which he goes to great, and sometimes convincing, lengths to demonstrate, and criticize.
That's a start.
Conservatives answer that good people and bad people populate the whole at every level, and that everyone has a little bit of each in them at the same time. Conservatives also believe that good government is government which encourages the good in everyone and discourages the evil. Bad government denies that this is government's responsibility at all, or it denies that one of these two irreducible facts of life is a fact so that you get liberal government which lets people run amok or tyrannical government which is too restrictive.
The author's answer is more equality when understanding how we all already are equally good and evil would be better. It's the peculiar blind spot of liberalism, the analogue of which in conservatism is failing to see the good in people:
But we do have a blind spot, and it is located right in the center of the mirror: We seem to be the last to notice just how rapidly we’ve morphed, or what we’ve morphed into. The meritocratic class has mastered the old trick of consolidating wealth and passing privilege along at the expense of other people’s children.
New York Times story emphasizes Hillary was victimized by the FBI in a way that Trump was not, Comey to blame
From the story here:
WASHINGTON — Within hours of opening an investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia in the summer of 2016, the F.B.I. dispatched a pair of agents to London on a mission so secretive that all but a handful of officials were kept in the dark. ...
Not only did agents in that case fall back to their typical policy of silence, but interviews with a dozen current and former government officials and a review of documents show that the F.B.I. was even more circumspect in that case than has been previously known. Many of the officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the investigation publicly.
But those who saw the investigation up close, and many of those who have reviewed case files in the past year, say that far from gunning for Mr. Trump, the F.B.I. could actually have done more in the final months of 2016 to scrutinize his campaign’s Russia ties. ...
Mr. Comey, after all, broke with policy and twice publicly discussed the Clinton investigation. Yet he refused repeated requests to discuss the Trump investigation.
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