Going off the rails

 

But First, A Feel Good Story – Wyoming Tech

Trade schools are important, IMO, but too often have been scams. This one fell into that morass but has been saved and is once again thriving. 

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“Gun” Control, mindsets, and priorities

A relative recently started a conversation and then heatedly declined to debate. The facts I presented shut her down. This was not a victory. She didn’t change her mind at all.

This relative is an intelligent person, high energy, not afraid of work and accomplished. She is also a completely woke university administrator who has drunk deeply of the kool-aide.

 People like her don’t recognize, or accept, an inalienable right. What they want is for all guns to go away. If that can’t happen immediately, they want to make owning firearms as difficult and expensive as possible. Lawfare on steroids if that is an appropriate analogy.

While they expend energy fighting the ‘good fight’ and feeling righteous they can ignore real and present problems. Problems that can be mitigated with focused, likely painful, effort. Illicit drugs. This article explores teenage drug overdose deaths.

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Doesn’t confronting this problems means confronting the source, the importation, border security, and society mindsets?

Meanwhile, in Colorado.

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“We’re not going to incarcerate ourselves out of this,” said state Sen. Tom Sullivan, a Centennial Democrat and one of the legislature’s fiercest gun safety voices. His son, Alex, was murdered in the 2012 Aurora theater shooting. ***

***Careless reporting. His son was killed in the Columbine shooting April 29, 1999

Why not, Senator? Double the costs of the state prison system, incarcerate more criminals for longer periods, and watch crime rates go down. Just might save money overall and likely to improve lives of law abiding people. A disproportionate impact on “people of color”, you say? Equal justice for all includes that portion of the population doing more crime.  What about law abiding “people of color” being able to live safely in their communities? They don’t count?

Great Society and LBJ’s horrible legacy

As a naïve twenty year old soldier, I remember standing in the cold rain at Pioneer Kaserne, Hanau, listening to his speech on a cheap transistor radio. I was moved, elevated and thought, “Yes, this is the world I’m fighting for”. Little did I know.

if black people are going to vote, they might as well vote for democrats as President Lyndon Johnson 1963-1969 was purported to have said about the civil rights act — “I’ll have them niggers voting democrats for 200 years.”

Two things continue to disturb my conscience. First, I’ve always rooted for the underdog having been one much of my life. Second, the world I’m leaving my children and grandchildren. Could I, should I have done more?

 Ah, WSF, go get another cup of coffee and then take your dog for a walk.

As always, YMMV