Bad Judgment

 

Bad Judgment

Gross bad judgment has consequences for its victims; does it have consequences for its proponents?

Biden's dark speech in Philadelphia is being called 'The Red Wedding' speech.

What is of interest is that somebody thought it was a good speech and a good idea. Just like they thought the 'Semi-Fascists' speech was a good idea. Just like the Defeat of Inflation Party was a good idea. And the Withdrawl from Afghanistan was a good idea. And the 'Forgive Student Loans' project was a good idea.

How is it that the originators of these Good Ideas are not revealed and laid off? And why is the criticism so quiet in the face of such gross ineptitude? And another question: How many such obvious and embarrassing errors can a nation suffer before it begins to decline?

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Suddenly the Pirates have two pitchers with ERA in the mid-threes and last night introduced a new kid who threw a one-hitter for six innings and was spotting a 100 mph fastball.


Although one person’s income may be a hundred or a thousand times greater than another’s, it is of course very doubtful that one person is a hundred or a thousand times more intelligent or works a hundred or a thousand times as hard. But, again, input is not the measure of value. Results are. --Sowell


Talib, arguing that the preservation of mystery is essential to religion and Vatican 11's switch to English was damaging, writes: 'The fastest growing religion today is Sunni Islam, with one and a half billion followers, all praying in Arabic, a foreign language to nine tenth of them, and in an ancient version (fusha) never, never spoken in conversation by Arabs –when a Moroccan wants to converse with a Lebanese, they do so in French or English, not classical Arabic. Judaism survived with its prayers only in Hebrew (and some Aramaic as in the book of Daniel).'

Did the subsidies to the airline industries during the suicidal shutdown go to buyouts and early retirement? Did that lead to shortages of workers?

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The Russians have lost 3000 square miles of Ukraine territory.

Harris's interview with Todd was so bad I found myself longing for the days of better political liars.

If the Press had an understanding of history, an argument could be made that their dislike of Trump stems from his resemblance to Kaiser Wilhelm.

An editorial in the Seattle Times tells us, “We are all socialized in whiteness as a by-product of living here. The primary purpose of whiteness is to consolidate power through the value, protection and reinforcement of white western ways of knowing and being at the expense of non-white racial and ethnic identities via structural racism.” If whites are being told they are the enemy of Blacks, does this make Blacks the enemy of whites?"

So, what will be the result of people being constantly told they are natural enemies?

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Question 89

New Orleans Mayor Latoya Cantrell insisted she had to fly first class on recent taxpayer-funded junkets to France and Switzerland because economy class is not safe for a black woman and because she has a child.

343 firefighters died in NY on 9/11. '60 Minutes' had a very moving story about it last night.

'…I was shocked to discover that many social policy interventions, including some of the most touted, don’t help boys and men. The one that first caught my eye was a free college program in Kalamazoo, Michigan. According to its evaluation team, “women experienced large gains,” in terms of college completion (increasing by 50%), “while men seem to experience zero benefit.” This is an astonishing finding. Making college free had no impact on men…So not only are many boys and men struggling, they are less likely to be helped by policy interventions.'
And:
'In the U.S. for example, the 2020 decline in college enrollment was seven times greater for male than for female students.'
And:
'The bottom line is that Finland’s internationally acclaimed educational performance is entirely explained by the stunning performance of Finnish girls.'
That is from the forthcoming Richard V. Reeves book.

 Anna Kasprzak is a Danish dressage rider who has represented Denmark in the Summer Olympics in 2012 and 2016. Kasprzak is considered to be one of the best dressage riders in the world and she has won multiple medals throughout her career.
As of August 2022, Anna Kasprzak’s net worth is estimated to be $1 billion.

A survey found that 43 percent in the 19-30 age group had used cannabis 20 or more times over the previous month, up from 34 percent.

Sunday/Prodigal

 

Sunday/Prodigal

In the Old Testament reading, Moses argues with God, who plans retribution against the 'depraved' Israelites, and wins. 

The Gospel has three parables, one of a shepherd going after a lost sheep, one of a fussy woman who has lost a coin, and the doting father who is thrilled with the return of his prodigal son. A responsible loner in the mountains, an obsessive cleaner/collector, and the father in love-- nothing like the fierce and vengeful God depicted in the Old Testament reading--all devoted to the lost, the separated, the failed. All the victims of chance and, in the Prodigal, free will. And only the righteously offended older brother of the Prodigal comes off badly.

These parables have emerged recently as a defense of the current culture's obsession with the culture's outliers.

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Stuff on a Saturday

A remarkable clip on Epstein sent by Ned:

Maze on Twitter: "Here is Cindy McCain admitting that her (sic) and John McCain knew all about what Jeffrey Epstein was doing. Unfortunately she didn’t know anyone brave enough to go after him. https://t.co/Uwgcjbo7Zw" / Twitter

 

Found this and wondered about the evolution of lyrics, from the intimate to whatever we have now. This is Wodehouse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HeasqkO1Ko

And, from Farwtrade, the wit and wisdom of Kamala Harris:

 

Question 88

Question 88

Jackson Mississippi still has no water.

Less than 1.2 percent of bachelor of arts degrees were awarded to history majors in 2019, the lowest percentage since records began being kept in 1949.

There are eight main advantages of rationing by price over political rationing: it is neutral, informative, cautionary, pacific, humane, non-authoritarian, the essential missing link between supply and demand, and in any event indestructible.--seldon

In 2020, Ireland overtook South Africa as having the latest marrying couples worldwide.
The average age for a groom is 37.8 and for a bride is 35.7, for opposite-sex couples. This is the fairer comparison because same-sex marriages obviously aren’t allowed everywhere and are less relevant to reproduction.

If you consider first-time marriages only, the average age of grooms marrying for the first time was 35.7 years and for brides the average age was 34.2 years. By comparison, for first-time marriages the United States is 30.5 for males and 28.6 for females.

Developers in west London face a potential ban on new housing projects until 2035 because the electricity grid has run out of capacity to support new homes, jeopardizing housebuilding targets in the capital.
The Greater London Authority wrote to developers this week warning them that it might take more than a decade to bulk up grid capacity and get developments underway again in three west London boroughs