Those Missing Kids Story

 I was reading a piece out of the NY Post this morning.  They say (I assume they aren't lying)....that the administration kinda lost contact with several thousand unaccompanied illegal immigrant kids.

You remember them....the ones released from fed custody.

For some reason, HHS went and tried to make 14,600 phonecalls....to check on those released kids.  What HHS said....around 4,900 were NOT answered by the kid or the parent, or the sponsor.

In a real world situation, you'd call up the cops and ask them to check on the kids.  Here?  Nothing much has happened.

Why?  Well....I would go and speculate that if you had the cops called, and they showed up.....something 'freaky' or weird would be in the mix, and this would be one of those five-page police reports (sounding more like a Hemmingway novel). 

You'd find that sponsor 'Hernandez' probably wasn't the real name for the person who signed for the kid....that they left Arizona two days after they signed for the kid....and indications exist that the 12-year old kid is now working sixty hours a week for some grocery store in Louisiana.  

You might even find a dozen cases where a 15-year old showed up...pretending to be 30 years old, and signed for four kids who aren't even relatives of his.  

So You Voted for Biden and Have Fallen Upon a Disheartening Feeling?

 Just my advice.

First, I'd go down to the local liquor store and probably buy an ample amount (minimum of two bottles) of booze (the good stuff, more than 30-proof).

I'd go to the back forty acres of the farm, or some quiet out-of-sight point on the property, and reflect upon how I felt in 2020.

You know....that feeling that you had that Trump had to go, and anyone would suffice.  You didn't care about qualifications that much, or speeches.....just that Trump had to go.

All those occasions when Joe Biden (the candidate) seemed to be a bit crazy, schizo, or unhinged?  You just accepted as being the norm for Biden.

The dozen or so signs in the spring of 2021....where Joe seemed to be really busy but only had one single hour blocked daily off on the Monday through Friday work-calendar?  It did sound strange but no one via CNN or NPR ever made much discussion over that.

The public chatter that Joe has made since the spring.....where he said things that didn't make sense?  You just seemed to overlook it.

Dumping the border mess on Harris.....who didn't seem to have any real talent at much?  It was like asking the church lady association at your church to handle a meth-recovery group.

So you sip through the bottle of booze for about three hours, and eventually come to this reality....you screwed up.

The sad truth is that you can't fix or undo the mess.  In fact, it bothers you enough....that you vow to mute the TV each time that Biden comes on, or when Presidential news is dumped upon you by CBS, or CNN.  

Now, you start to question your judgement.  You spend hours analyzing yourself, and how you got brought into a situation to believe something.....that was pretty crapped-up.

Out of eighty-million that voted for Biden.....I'd take a guess that 10-percent of them feel this way right now, and by the end of 2021....it'll probably reach the 20-percent point.  For the mid-terms of 2022....it's a harsh reality that will be approaching.  

As things continue down this path....I'd offer the judgement that a fair number of people will simply start taking up drinking....to ease their disheartening feeling.  The liquor industry will do fine in the recession period of 2021/2022....that's my humble feeling.   

The Problem With Dumbass Teachers

 I was reading a piece this week over a California teacher (grade-school) that had decided to remove the US flag in her room (feeling it was threatening), and replaced it with the 'gay-flag' (rainbow design).  The Pledge of Allegiance?  She convinced the kids to say it, while facing the 'gay-flag'.  

Well....this all came out in local news (southern California) and it appears that they've put the teacher on suspension, and having some investigation on the matter.  A sub has been called in for a while (another news piece suggests that), and I suspect the sub might be around through Halloween as a minimum. 

So I pondered over this discussion.

Young gal...maybe mid-to-late 20s.  Probably out of college in the past two or three years.

Dumbass-level?  On a scale of one to ten....I'd say 9-to-10.  Just doing this was bad enough, but then advertising on Tik-Tok that you'd done it....almost bragging on the ease of this....was extremely stupid.

In the late 1960s and up to 1977....I attended what was a rural-region school, and looking back....I had around two dumb-ass teachers.  

Of the two....one was simply not capable of conveying math situations, and was ill-qualified for that particular subject.  Another had a problem with the subject of evolution and would never dare allow the topic to be openly discussed in the classroom.  

My suspicion is that various teachers came out of the system over the past thirty years....with marginal qualifications from the university experience, and probably are more qualified to run a Dairy Queen shop than a classroom.  

So....ask yourself...what exactly will happen to this dimwit when the school pulls the contract out and fires her?  You wasted four years getting a degree that you can't use?  I'm guessing she will find some group to sponsor her and just disappear out of California....ending up in Oregon.  A month or two later....the locals will figure who she is, and ask that she be let go.  

She'll probably end up in some Baltimore school (they will take anyone), and curse the whole mess that she created for herself.

Will kids now start to figure out this dumbass angle and question authority?  I wouldn't be that surprised that a even bigger mess gets created over the next decade....where school kids stage revolutions and the whole system starts to fail.

My Gut Feeling on Credentialism

 It's not a term that you usually hear and I'll give you the simple definition.

This is typically where a guy has gone out and been to x-number of courses, and achieved a minimum of a Master's Degree....maybe even a PhD....for the purpose of having a status 'marker' implying they have a major say on something....even if they are a general idiot or marginal competent. 

Some people would stand and say that this precludes people from actually reviewing a situation, and thinking.

I bring up this topic because there's hardly a week that goes by now....that some credentialism guy shows up on CNN, MSNBC, Fox or BBC, and you get seven minutes of dimwitted discussion.  Some deal with science....some with Covid....some with politics.

The problem these days.....people have kinda figured out this game and recognize a credential guy pretty easily.  

It's a funny topic if you think about it.  

The Thing About Alabama

 There was a piece written by Ryan Hankins on Al.com which went to the topic of 'Alabamians, why do you need all this distrust and suspicion about things'?  I'd generally recommend a read.

So the pitch to his essay piece....Alabamians are these people who just seem to have an inherent view that things just don't work as advertised.  You people (Alabamians) always believe some hidden agenda is at work.

Well.....yeah, that's the plain basic truth.

Hankins does imply at some point that the government of the state is mostly Republican.  Most folks around the state will say that it's marginally true that they claim Republican status, but the same people will laugh and say that half of these Republicans are just fake-Republicans and working with some lobbyist group to achieve goals.

It's like bringing up the state-park fiasco of a couple years ago, and how some list got shuffled around that the state was going to part ways or sell a number of state parks. Then strangely enough....casino chatter started back up and various people had this funny feeling that the state parks list had some relationship to the casino people.   

It's also like bringing up the state constitution.....which has been around since 1901, and generally regarded as a 'mess'.  There's been some many lines added to it....that it's now considered the largest constitution in the US, and one of the largest in the world itself.  For every 'freedom' mentioned....there's probably forty limits listed.  About every four years, this topic of re-writing the Constitution comes up and members from both parties agree on this....but neither trusts the other party or the fake Republicans enough to get the job done.

The idea suggested by Hankins that we have greater responsibilities....like human trafficking, etc?  No.....we basically want the Alabama leadership business to handle and work on local issues (fixing potholes, reducing crime, spend tax revenue in a responsible fashion, provide good decent education, etc).  

The hints of Covid throughout the piece?  There are a couple of mentions which lead back that way.  Presently, using just every country around the globe, there is no indication that heavy regulation really fixes or resolves Covid....other than it has the same effect if you'd spend eight hours a day praying for some Jesus-miracle to occur.  

I would go and suggest that five things are at work here, and the working-class guy in Alabama is geared to stand back to assess things:

1.  Most folks in the state see the Baptist 'empire' thing to be corrupted.  All those years with the 'dry-county' business probably didn't help matters.

2.  Most folks see the NCAA 'grip' on football to be corrupted.  It shouldn't matter but some people actually lose sleep over the matter.

3.  With all the vast amounts of money poured into state education over the past forty years....we ought to have 1,200 Einsteins out there.  You don't see that, and you just sit and wonder....how did they spend all that educational funding.

4.  Every time you had some mayor or some state legislature guy claiming they want to fix things.....at least fifty percent of the time....they make matters worse.  

5.  Out of the last ten governors....you can generally say that three were 'legit' and competent, and the rest were either criminal in behavior, lusty old guys, or pretty racist in actions.  This Ivey gal (present governor) is about the only one that most would say is of pure ethical behavior. 

Look, I'm not defending the state or the landscape, but if you go into most other states (California in particular).....the distrust in government is just as bad.  

A Curious Scenario

 If you go and read through all the various reports of the Afghans 'rescued' and brought out....most of the crowd are presently at Ramstein Air Base Germany....there's this odd problem.

The Homeland Security folks have viewed the names list and a couple of them appear to be ISIS 'thugs'....on some watch-list.

The Border Patrol folks?  I'm guessing they've laid down the card and said they won't be allowed to step on US soil.  But at the same time....the Germans are probably making it plainly clear....they can't remain on German soil either.

This is going to turn into a curious episode.  I don't think any North African country will accept the guys either.  Sending them back to Afghanistan?  That probably won't happen.  

The possibility that President Biden will over-rule the Border Patrol and allow these guys into the US?  I'd say it's a 50-50 chance of that happening.  Course, it'd just be another point for impeachment (if you ask me).

Shouldn't all of this been reviewed before allowing the guys on the exit plane?  Well.....that's part of the discussion as well.

The odds that if you approached the Taliban on bringing them back....they'd refuse on account of how 'dangerous' these guys were (grinning as they said that)?

It's Just An Odd Thing

 It's now a bit more than 48 hours after the Biden Administration announced that via a drone attack....retribution had been accomplished in Afghanistan for the attack at the airport.  

The claim?  They'd killed two of the ISIS-K planner 'guys'.  

So here's the odd thing (as of this moment).....they (the WH or the Pentagon) have NOT announced the names of the two ISIS-K planner 'guys' who are now supposedly dead.

Odd?

Well...you can go back to a hundred-odd occasions and usually within 24 hours....you were hyped with information about drone attacks, the names of the folks dead, and how this helped the 'war'.

Are there actually two 'guys' dead?  Are they ranking ISIS-K dudes?  Well....it's just odd that the rest of the story is stalled at this point.

I do believe that a drone launched a missile down on 'something'.  Beyond that....it's pure speculation.  

Could it be that they just know this building is the planning operation, and there were two unknown guys who just walked into the structure?  I could also believe that.  I would speculate that the drone guys don't want to admit that they hit 'unknown guy #1' and 'unknown guy #2'....finding out later that they were the copier-repair guys or being there for a telephone out-of-order situation.  

Could it also be that by withholding information, they are just sitting there with another loaded drone....waiting for the new planner guys to arrive and retrieve something critical at the site?  I could also believe that story.  

It's just a bit odd.