However:

A science fair project at a California high school faced criticism earlier this week after it compared race and IQ levels in connection to participation in an elite program at the school, The Sacramento Bee reported Saturday.

Seems that people complained abut the conclusions without ever finding out if the methods used led to a valid conclusion.

Now, I know a significant number of very intelligent folks of African ancestry. Same same (although fewer) of people of southeast Asian ancestry (I just know fewer of them). Same with Hispanics.

Lots of very smart people, and, lets face it, lots of dumb ones too. Same with white (european ancestry) folks.

I would think that the incredibly smart percentage of those minority students are already IN better schools, and likely their parents area also exceptional examples who are likely wealthy enough to not need to sent their kids to public school….therefore they weren’t a part of the studied group. This does not, however, make the study inaccurate. The study does match my experience with people  in general.

Are the results and conclusions of the study correct? I dunno. I really don’t care.

However, the fact that the science fair project was pulled because it makes some people uncomfortable is what I find objectionable. 

I find it hard to think that anyone could be THAT stupid. (on second thought, no, I really don’t, look at their ages. Probably were Obama voters and SJW types too)
‘Tis one thing to follow your dreams when you are in your 20’s. It is another to embark on an adventure like this with NO experience, NO insurance and NO knowledge of what the hell you are doing.

‘We sold everything to do this and lost it in 20 minutes’: Couple, who ditched their lives to move to a 28-foot sailboat despite having no experience on the water, have to be rescued when their boat SINKS two days in

The compassionate part of me feels sorry for them……(Nope, who am I kidding. I don’t)

She’s right..mostly. But so is “Thales” (follow the links to see what I am talking about)….Go ahead, I’ll have a cuppa while you read ’em…

Back? Ok, who is right?

Answer: BOTH of ’em are. There are exceptions, but for the most part those generalities are correct. Stereotypes exist for a reason.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I gotta go outside and plow (and shovel and otherwise clear) snow…..Bein’ as I am the man and all.

YMMV.

Do not adjust your set. 

Now, if this were Houston, I could see where it could be an issue. This is the greater Chicago metro area.
In Winter.

And yet they are acting as badly as the folks in Atlanta did last year. I mean, inches of snow….not feet. Pretty much zero wind. Slippery roads, but that is part of Winter.

Jesus. What wimps they are making us into.  Or maybe what wimps this next generation of Millennials is….I dunno.

It goes to show, again, how ineffective out Republican leadership is, at least in Congress.

In my opinion, they should have stood fast and made a decent budget. Let the shutdown happen if that is what it takes.

I’m not so sure Trump should have signed this bill.

And, Republicans…..And Donnie: WHERE IS THE FUNDING FOR THE BORDER WALL?

C’mon boys! Where is the wall y’all promised?

Yer letting thousands in every day. Maybe tens of thousands.

I’d go for minefields as a temporary measure…..

“Not a problem,” I said, “tell me when you are available. I belong to a range, so we can go anytime but Tuesday or Thursday.”  (competition nights)

He took me up on my offer, and brought one of the other guys who work at the school who has a few firearms, and we did a range night with pistols.

Safety briefing, rules, and then to the shooting.

Strung targets at 21 feet and then we were off.

Started off with a 1911-22 and a Buckmark, then to a Sig 250 in 9mm, then a couple of 1911’s. He liked the .22’s, not so much the Sig 250, and really liked the 1911 in ,45 ACP.

Yeah, that smile.You know the one I am talking about, if you’ve ever taken a newbie to a range.

He’s still talking about it. Wants to know when we can go again.

Anti-Gunners can’t compete with that….

Men are being more careful….they don’t trust women anymore in a professional setting. Can you blame them?

A new set of findings from women’s empowerment non-profit LeanIn.Org and online survey platform SurveyMonkey reveal that, since the media reports of sexual harassment first emerged last fall, male managers are three times as likely to say they are uncomfortable mentoring women and twice as uncomfortable working alone with a woman. The hesitation to meet with women outside of work is even more pronounced: Senior men were 3.5 times more likely to hesitate having a work dinner with a junior female colleague than a male one–and five times more likely to hesitate to travel for work with a junior woman.


In a Facebook post Tuesday morning, LeanIn.Org founder Sheryl Sandberg explained that men’s increasing unwillingness to mentor their female colleagues “undoubtedly will decrease the opportunities women have at work.” The Facebook COO pointed out that, “The last thing women need right now is even more isolation. Men vastly outnumber women as managers and senior leaders, so when they avoid, ice out, or exclude women, we pay the price.”

Ladies: you did this to yourselves….and your sisters, and daughters. In your attempt to get real predators off the street and out of the workplace, you’ve led to this…
Don’t whine about it 10 years from now, that there are fewer executives that are female. You are the ones that set the rules….that told us we couldn’t ever make a joke, or compliment you, or notice you even when you dressed to show off…..You are the ones that made it all about sex…..You were the ones who couldn’t handle a male advance, or deal with some guy’s clumsy offer of a date….You are the ones that told us that all women are snowflakes, unable to protect themselves in a male workplace, who shouldn’t be let out without a male keeper…too fragile to deal with those mean men….Unable to say “No”…You are the ones that made us realize that anything we say in a professional workplace would be written down and, when you felt like it, used against us some time, even tens of years,  later….You are the ones that think that there is one standard of behavior for men, and a different one for women.  Yes, I know, you tell us that it was some other women, not you… but you didn’t speak up and silence them, did you? Y’all went along with them in the spirit of Sisterhood, and now you have the result.

You forget that there are rules in society for Men….and other rules for Women, and those rules protected both of us. But you and your predecessors changed the rules a few years ago for ‘Equality”, and now you don’t like it….I hope the result…that you and your MeeToo movement that let each of you feel included has, in it’s hysteria, set American professional women back about 30 years….. was worth it. I think you aren’t gonna like how this ends. Nor, I think, do most working professional women who bother to think about it. But I think it is too late to fix it.

You cannot get that Genie back in the bottle ladies.

Now what?

I’d say, no deal unless we get the funding for the Border Wall.

Rather see a “shutdown” (not that there is ever, really, a shutdown) despite the fact that it is an inconvenience for a lot of folks that Do Not deserve it.

Wall. Gulf to Pacific. Either there is funding for that, or No Deal.  Stand firm, Mr. President. Make it happen. You have more support than you might think.

Fuck the Dems. Stand firm.