Next up: Energy

Seems that there is a plan afoot to dismantle the Department of Education

It’s a start. This, alongside the Department of Energy, may be the most negatively productive government agency we have. It produces nothing, and other than employing a whole bunch of bureaucrats, doesn’t make any citizens’ life better….It simply wastes money that could be returned to the local school boars and mandates programs that are unproductive and help few, if any students.

All those soon to be out of work bureaucrats can learn to code or something.

Then we can go get started on the Environmental Protection Agency.

 

 

Wednesday Words of Wisdom Twenty

 

Admit it when you are wrong, be silent when you are right”

“Fate rarely calls upon us at a time of your choosing.”

“Sometimes you have to look inward and ask yourself: “Who am I and what do I want?””

“We are products of our past, but we need not prisoners of it”

“If your absence doesn’t affect them, your presence never mattered”

“There are those who confine themselves to criticism of the way others do what they themselves would never dare attempt”

Science is settled….

People believed bullshit then just as much as they believe the pseudoscience now.

Logic seldom appears in their thought process. Just feelz. No science, no real evidence, no “studies” that have any merit:

 

 

Thus it is for the followers of the beliefs of RFK. No evidence, just what they want to believe. Especially about vaccines.

But truth maters not.

 

 

 

Question:

Why can’t women find boyfriends that have a good fashion sense, are good communicators, in touch with their emotions, are kind and gentle and are nurturing?

 

Answer:

Those men already have boyfriends.

“We need DEI!”

I’ve been travelling, and not able to do my normal web work…But listening to the news and the liberal media (but I repeat myself) comments and complaints about the remarks by Trump regarding DEI hires, I am struck by something:

 

They all, to a man (and yes, there are few liberal. black. or latin or hindu or oriental women being called to comment) all assume and appear to believe that the standards are always the same for all races, genders, sexual preference groups….and this just isn’t so.

Like Affirmative Action, DEI ends up, once you are no longer looking for excellence, but rather other metrics and qualifications…like gender or race or whatever, causing pressure to hire based on quotas means that standards must often be lowered to find enough individuals in those groups.

Are all black engineers less able than their white counterparts? Not at all, many are as or even MORE competent. Are all women air traffic controllers less competent than their white male coworkers? Nope. Some are excellent. Same with any group or any profession. There are great individuals and mediocre ones working in most fields. But not everyone is judged at the same standards.

When any organization chooses anything, like race or gender or sexual preference or religion as the primary metric, rather than a standard of competency, and lowers standards to meet some perceived or real quota, then  the overall standard of merit is lowered for that organization.

And, again, like Affirmative Action in the 80’s, 90’s and the early oughts, one never knows if that non-white person is qualified and good at their job or a “Diversity Hire”.

Until and unless, the qualification standards are the same for everyone, no matter what the outcome of testing or recruitment,  one will not approach any level standard of excellence. …and every “minority” will be looked at askance, and it will be assumed that they were hired for something other than merit.

So, do you want the best surgeon, the one that graduated first in her class at medical school, or the other guy who was passed because there were not enough brown skinned-left handed-gay people graduating? Yes, they are both called “Doctor” but did they really earn that title? Do you want that guy who they let graduate because of the color of his skin to take out your appendix? Or would prefer to know that the surgeon met standards of excellence before they cut into your belly? And yes, that is what Diversity, Equity and Inclusiveness is, no matter what it was intended to be…..the hiring based on metrics other than merit.

DEI has made it so that you never know if that person who is non -white has met those standards of excellence or not.

 

 

Not sure which is harder to watch:

THe reporters trying to ask a relevant question about a subject they don’t know anything about, or the “Officials: trying to answer without the knowledge to do so.

 

My heartfelt prayers for the folks lost in the tragic accident over the Potomac.