Muda69

Every Worker Is an Essential Worker https://reason.com/2021/03/03/every-worker-is-an-essential-worker-covid-19/ Here! Here!

Remember when the Left was against burying books for ideological reasons?: https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/03/dr-seuss-gets-blindsided-by-a-moral-minority/ This statement from the excellent opinion pieced couldn't be more true: "The Left today obsessively focuses on race with the purpose of apportioning good things according to the accident of skin color rather than the content of people’s character." Yet isn't this pretty much the exact opposite of those like MLK preached?

Young Carmel sisters spotted outdated 'men at work' sign. So they did something about it. https://www.indystar.com/story/news/2021/03/03/carmel-sisters-men-at-work-construction-signs-change-wording/6868371002/ Disheartening, but not surprised, to see young people so programmed. Such signs do not "communicate the false and unacceptable message". Only those looking to be outraged would come to such a conclusion. Pure woke PC drivel.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/03/last-exit-to-mulberry-street/ Brilliant.

Will The Courts Once Again Take Up The Issue of Mandatory Vaccination?: https://www.cato.org/blog/will-courts-once-again-take-issue-mandatory-vaccination On the other hand, people cannot be forced to associate with someone they consider—rightly or wrongly—to be a threat to their health. And employers cannot be forced to employ people they consider a threat to the health of their customers, clients, other employees, or themselves. Advocates of mandatory vaccination often point to the landmark 1905 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Jacobson v Massachusetts to claim that states may mandate vaccination. Actually, the decision was more nuanced. The Court upheld the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court’s finding that the state did not have the power to vaccinate by force a person that “deem[s] it important that vaccination should not be performed in his case.” However, the state could require the person to pay a nominal fine, which it did not consider a violation of that person’s “fundamental right.” In that case, in which the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts instituted compulsory smallpox vaccination, Henning Jacobson, after losing in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, took his case to the U.S. Supreme Court. He ultimately paid a fine but did not get vaccinated. While I have been very impressed with the efficacy and safety of the new COVID-19 vaccines and encourage people to get vaccinated as quickly as possible, I respect the right of individuals to refuse vaccination along with the right of others to refuse to associate with unvaccinated individuals. It will be interesting to see how this case plays out. Indeed it will.

Dr. Seuss Is Canceled https://reason.com/2021/03/02/dr-seuss-canceled-books-biden-library/ Agreed. I'll be looking for copies of these books at used bookstores and the like, and will delight in sharing them with my grandchildren some day.

https://reason.com/2021/03/02/paul-krugman-thinks-youll-be-happier-with-fewer-choices-nonsense/ Frankly Mr. Krugman is insane, and believes more government is the solution to practically everything.

Thank you. Doing the percentage calculation for Frankfort High school using the data from that spreadsheet matches the 68% now listed as "Economically Disadvantaged" on the FHS inview.doe.in.gov website. Why the DOE switched to using a more PC nomenclature instead of just "Free/Reduced Meals" is interesting:

https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/columnists/gregg-doyel/2021/03/02/indiana-state-get-rid-greg-lansing-have-sycamores-lost-their-mind/6886494002/ Note: URL is behind a paywall I sure hope common sense prevails in the ISU athletic and administration offices, and Mr. Lansing is retrained. Not renewing his contract would be a huge blow to the program.

https://babylonbee.com/news/we-found-17-different-instances-of-racism-on-just-one-page-of-a-dr-seuss-book/

To me this new "woke" ideology in regards to hiring practices is a form of cancel culture: Blacklists In The Woke Workplace: https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/blacklists-woke-workplace-national-association-of-realtors/ Here we see an example of the pre-totalitarian valuing of loyalty — in this case, to diversity ideology — over competence. In Live Not By Lies, I quote Arendt thus: This university — trust me, if you’re an engineering student, you’d be honored to have this school on your CV — was so excited about this man’s application that it reached out to him. But when he did not say the correct woke things in the interview, which interrogated him about his supposed racism, that was the end of that. This is the new America. This is soft totalitarianism. He’s not being thrown into prison by the secret police, but he’s not able to get a job in his field, despite his qualifications, because the institution judges him to be ideologically unsound. This particular university is a public one. You think he’s not going to face the same at other universities, both public and private? And most liberals support this stuff, and except for a brave few, those who don’t are too intimidated to speak out against it. Here’s another one. The letter is too detailed for me to reprint it here, even with redactions. To summarize, the author is a practicing conservative Protestant who is in leadership at his Midwestern church. He also is a Realtor by trade. A week ago, the broker/owner of his office called to ask his opinion about starting a new Multiple Listing Service in their local area. Why? The National Association of Realtors has a new ethics code that punishes Realtors for any hate speech or discrimination, not only on the job, but 24 hours, seven days a week. Well, the author of the letter attends a church that publicly dissents from the pro-LGBT line the NAR demands. The guy’s boss is trying to help him out, but it’s going to be hard, maybe impossible. And if the Realtor is not a member of the National Association of Realtors, it dramatically affects his ability to do his job. The Realtor does not see how he can both affirm the NAR Code Of Ethics and his Church’s constitution, which he has also sworn to uphold. Here is a churchgoing man who might have to surrender his livelihood rather than affirm what he believes is a lie. And why? It’s one thing for the NAR to hold its agents to a certain standard in the workplace, but by what right do they have the right to tell those agents what they can do and say in the privacy of their own homes, and in their churches on Sunday morning? Law professor Eugene Volokh says: Yeah, they’re McCarthyites, but they’re McCarthyites for the Left, so it’s okay by our media. /sarc It is incredible to me that this hasn’t raised the roof nationwide. We know what kind of people want to manage your every thought: totalitarians. The fact that this totalitarian prospect of the company owning your soul has not prompted an outcry tells you how far gone we are down a bad road we already are. A group of conservative, religious Realtors better lawyer up and sue. You’ll recall the point I made about Amazon’s recent decision to start cancelling books it finds politically problematic (like Ryan T. Anderson’s book critical of gender ideology): that the real threat here is not just to Anderson’s ability to sell books, but, given Amazon’s massive power in book retailing, the threat is to the ability of any books on that one’s theme being published. Amazon cancelled Anderson’s, but has not (yet) cancelled a similar one by Abigail Shrier. Why not? Who knows? The thing is, shoot one author, teach a hundred publishers. How likely are you, as a publisher, to consider now publishing a book critical of gender ideology? Sure, Abigail Shrier has sold a massive number of them, so it would appear that there is a market for them. And she hasn’t been cancelled yet. But now that we know that Amazon will cancel these kinds of books, no matter how professionally written, and it will do so without feeling the obligation to alert publishers and writers, and without feeling required to offer an explanation. Therefore, it’s a real risk for a publisher to take a chance on a book that might out of nowhere be yanked from the shelves of America’s largest bookseller by far. If Amazon won’t sell it, it won’t likely be printed. Given that, given what the NAR is doing, and given what universities are doing, it is long past time for conservatives to settle for a laissez-faire attitude towards running businesses, at least businesses of a certain size. Take universities out of it for a second. Both Amazon and the NAR are private organizations that have the right to govern themselves. A government powerful enough to tell Amazon that it must sell a certain title is powerful enough to tell a Christian bookseller that he has to sell The Satanic Bible. Technically, you don’t have to be a member of the NAR to sell real estate, but practically you do. In both cases, real life doesn’t match real-world power. Why not let’s start unions? you might say. OK, but notice that the Newspaper Guild didn’t do Donald McNeil Jr. much good when he got on the wrong side of the Woke at The New York Times. If we don’t get some major reforms in labor law, this woke blacklist is going to find its expression across institutions. Unless you are running a religious, political, or in some other sense an institution driven by a specific mission, why should you enjoy broad rights to hire or fire people based on their willingness to affirm an ethics creed that has little to nothing to do with their ability to do their jobs? Again: why the totalitarian urge? Why on earth does the National Association of Realtors care if on Sunday morning, one of its members gives a church school lesson on what the Bible has to say about human sexuality, and expresses Wrong Thoughts™? Next time, I want to see the Republican Party led by somebody who doesn’t just tweet and give incendiary speeches, but who also has the focus, competence, and determination to use state power to protect people like the church elder who only wants to make a living doing what he’s always done: sell houses.

But you don't even see that data on the IDOE's website anymore, do you?

*sigh* Sonny, you need to go back and read what you previously typed.

But aren't you in effect wanting scabs to automatically be including in labor contracts, based on your previous comments that all employees should be in a union? No, just calling it as I read it.

From your unabashed love of public sector teacher's unions and overall disdain for non-government education.

Do you really believe a HS football coach would instruct player A to drop a pass on purpose or ask player B to purposefully miss a tackle?

Yep, classic misdirection tactic.

That's right. I guess you can't sue a government school for failing to educate your child. That is always, always, the fault of the parent. Right Dante?

From the PDF: Hmm, nothing altruistic about "championing or caring about the actual education of the children they serve" in that primary mission statement. Tells me all I need to know about public sector teacher's unions, and why they should all be abolished.

lol, you can't be serious. Why shouldn't individuals be able to exercise their freedom of association and contribute their capital to a business enterprise they view worthy of investment in?

So now you are just repeating yourself. So should "the state" dictate one form of Capitalism over another?

Wow Dante, didn't know you to be such a protectionist. And where in the U.S. Constitution or the Constitution of various states such ownership disallowed? Again, what about Freedom Of Association do you not understand?

https://reason.com/2021/02/26/rand-paul-ron-wyden-want-to-end-endless-national-emergencies/ Agreed. The true "crisis" in all of this is the federal government itself.

Ok. So what exactly are you saying?