Educational Chaos

 I sat and read through this story.  Basically, the state legislature of Oregon has come to realize that in this Covid-19 era....educational achievement is royally screwed.  

So they wrote a draft bill in Oregon that is going to the desk of the governor....which would waiver the requirement of a read/write or perform math requirements at the 10th grade level....to graduate and get your diploma.

Permanently?  NO.  This waiver would last until 2027.

In theory, you could be standing there at age 18....in the final months of the 12th grade, with the ability to read/write at the 5th grade level, and marginally perform 6th grade math.....but it's all well and good enough to graduate.

You'd sit there and ask....why would you fund or go tax locals to support school costs....for twelve years per kid?  

If I were the kid in this scenario....in the 9th grade presently, then I'd be laughing.  All I have to do is show up and attend class.  The system is geared for me to learn nothing but graduate at the conclusion of the 12th grade.

So you ask yourself....if you were an employer in the state....how reliable is the educational system?  Every kid graduating between now and 2027....questioned over their knowledge level?  Yeah, basically....that's the story.

Consequences?  I can see over a hundred issues being created, and none of them helpful for society.  

The 44-Percent Story

 I sat and paused over a short story from today's news.....a study completed and says that 44-percent of Americans have hit their lowest emotional point of their lives...with the Covid-19 era.  

The chief problem of the study?  It didn't really identify rural versus urban folks, or state-by-state folks. 

Generally, if I were looking at this idea....I'd say that probably only 5-percent of rural folks said they'd hit their lowest emotional point of their life (they've seen tornados, droughts, and failed crops....so it's hard to rattle them on some virus).  The urban folks?  It might be 70-percent of them 'suffering' (in some way) enough....say they were at a key emotional point.

If you were going state-by-state?  I'd take a wild guess that folks in NY City and California....probably around 80-percent of them were in this dismal state of life situation.

Folks in Tennessee or Alabama?  It might be only 3-percent of them in some dismal state of life environment, and half of them were consumed with watching CNN or Doctor Doom-videos twelve hours a day.

Frankly, it's hard for me to buy into this discussion.  If you are that bad off on the emotional scale, you probably had some issues brewing before Covid-19 ever came along.

So I end this essay with this observation....it ain't over.  Come October, I expect the virus to rise up again in numbers.....with various state governments wanting to go back to full-scale chaos, and your dismal scale of life rises back to maximum numbers once again.  CNN and Doctor Doom?  They will do their job, and you will get a full dose every evening.  

Joe's Nuke Talk

 Did President Biden say: "If you think you need to have weapons to take on the government, you need F-15s and maybe some nuclear weapons."

Yes.  It is in relation to his belief that a limit exists within the idea of the Second Amendment.

To be honest, if you listed the 388,812 quotes of Joe Biden over the past thirty years....most fall into the category of being a bit unhinged, and this would be one of them.

So I sat and pondered upon the quote.

To be honest, if you wanted to take on the US government....a simple virus made in some bio-weapons lab would probably be enough.  

Why would anyone go big-tech with F-15s?  The Mujahideen in the 1980s did quiet well with the Soviet military apparatus, and removed the threat of technology with just hand-held surface-to-air missiles.  

I could make a 100-page summary, but it's obvious that Joe was talking to 'consumers' who buy into his chatter, and he didn't mean this to be anything more than laughable-Joe-talk.