Muda69

No, but I thought Dante was with his "Or, maybe the way the Federal government selects judges doesn't work? " comment.

So they are still appointed. Big deal. How true, considering girls can now be a member of Scouts BSA. Yet for some reason GSUSA is not allowing boys to become members.

Is Ms. Brown-Jackson the best judge, from across the entire country, who has aspirations to become a Supreme Court Justice?

So how should judges for the SCOUTS be selected, Dante?

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/state-of-the-union/white-farmers-fear-foreclosure-too/ Of course the goal is revenge by the Biden Administration. Most everything it does is thru the lens of identity politics. It's the color of your skin and your gender that is important, not the quality of your character.

AP-NORC poll: Most in US oppose major role in Russia strife: https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-business-vladimir-putin-europe-election-2020-ac251d00b8979cebd0496374fc622a1b I doubt Mr. Biden will listen, which the Military-Industrial Complex...errrrr Joint Chiefs whispering in his ear for war.

https://reason.com/2022/02/23/justin-trudeaus-actions-will-make-bitcoin-and-cash-more-popular/ Scary stuff. And I'm still not all the bullish about cryptocurrencies. Buy Gold. And Seeds.

https://reason.com/2022/02/23/hey-nancy-pelosi-national-debt-should-be-a-top-priority/ Wow, that is about the first time I have heard members of the U.S. Congress address the future of this country for our children and grandchildren instead of just worrying about the next election cycle. Too bad it took the U.S. government being completely insolvent for them to pull their heads out of their self-absorbed asses. Can't wait for the MMT Champions to come forth and say this deficit stuff doesn't really matter....................

https://www.indystar.com/story/money/2022/02/24/sun-king-expands-florida-after-dominating-indiana-beer-market/9297241002/ Note: Story is behind a paywall Good like to the owners of Sun King as they attempt to branch out. Maybe one day they will grow large enough to snapped up by the major player, Anheuser-Busch InBev. And while Sunlight Cream Ale is good, their best brew IMHO is the Wee-Mac Scottish Style Ale. It is excellent.

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-hate-putin-americans-suffer What Mr. Carlson doesn't mention is that with U.S conflict (and military spending) in the Middle East now virtually over the Military-Industrial-Complex needs another boogeyman, and Mr. Putin & Russia are it.

Tom Izzo weighs in on the "let's get rid of the post-game handshake line" controversy: https://deadspin.com/tom-izzo-needs-a-stiff-handshake-and-an-even-stiffer-dr-1848581534 Sorry for the foul language in this opinion piece, a lot of the Deadspin child bloggers thinks it makes them "edgy" or something.

https://instapundit.com/504907/ Yep. Policing is a growing profit center for municipal governments in today's America. Will it ever change?

If there was a Russian/Chinese equivalent to NATO would the U.S. be ok with say Mexico joining such an organization? How about Canada? Sometimes I think we Americans forget how fortunate we are due to our geography.

And of course Deadspin plays the race card: https://deadspin.com/when-it-comes-to-juwan-howard-and-greg-gard-why-is-the-1848576704

UM was down 15 points with 15 seconds left in the game. Pressing wasn't going to win them the game. That what makes it a bit unusual, if not a bit asshole-ish, move by Mr. Howard to me.

So you believe if Mr. Biden orders a massive U.S. troop deployment to say, Poland, that Mr. Putin will back down from Ukraine?

https://reason.com/2022/02/22/stephen-breyer-makes-the-liberal-case-against-court-packing-2/ Mr. Breyer is correct; court packing is a tit-for-tat race to the bottom.

TJ High School’s Race Problem: https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/tj-high-schools-race-problem/ Experience factors? That basically opened the door to that criterion being “whatever we say it means.” The result at T.J. was a drop of more than 11 percent in the number of Asians, and double-digit growth on the part of blacks and Hispanics, achieved by making being poor a check-off for acceptance. No one cares white students account for only 22 percent of admissions, despite being 65 percent of the county population. This is all the crudest kind of racist thought, the same as practiced by the KKK, thinking all blacks are alike. Progressives act as though everything is fixed if schools just sling a couple more darker-skinned kids into the back row come class picture day. But is it racism? Seems so. One school board member texted another, “I mean there has been an anti-Asian feel underlying some of this, hate to say it lol,” according to correspondence obtained by non-profit Parents Defending Education. In another exchange, Thomas Jefferson’s admissions director asked a school district official if she could “provide us a review of our current weighting (of experience factors) and whether or not this would be enough to level the playing field for our historically underrepresented groups.” The official replied, “My gut says that you may need to double all the points so the applicants can receive up to 200 points overall for these experience factors.” Another school board member wrote we “screwed up TJ and the Asians hate us,” to which another responded he was “just dumb and too white” to address the diversity deficit properly. The school then went further. There will now be three different “pathways” for admissions: the first for 350 high-performing students, the second for 100 students judged on a combination of half academic merit and half external factors, and 50 underrepresented students. Some people in town call them the yellow, brown, and black lanes. We’ve gotten so twisted by thinking America is shackled by systemic racism that we built a system of education admissions on a foundation of systemic racism. We somehow think racially gerrymandering schools is a solution. We ignore John Roberts’ dictum,”The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” Why are we so hell-bent on self-harm as to sacrifice our education system on layers of false progressive assumptions? The first false assumption is access to learning equals learning. A student has to be prepared intellectually to succeed, or he fails, or the institution is forced to dumb down to accommodate him. Progressive education thought demands people publicly disavow what we all know to be true, that some students are smarter and work harder than other students. We are absolutely not all alike. Imagine if colleges chose who would play on their football teams based not on athletic skill but racial quotas? Who knew schooling was only skin deep, and the football team more intellectually honest than the philosophy department? The next false assumption is the magic number: X percent of the population is black so X percent of the student body should be black. If it is not, the thinking goes, de facto some form of systemic racism must be at play. This typically focuses on the admissions process (to include testing, like the SAT) and thus the answer is to scrap every part of the admissions process that seems to rub against that X percent. You don’t have to show question 27 on the SAT is itself “racist,” only that the SAT results won’t get X percent of black kids into Harvard and must ipso facto be racist. So, let more black kids into Harvard by eliminating the SAT and that will result in more black doctors and lawyers and a more just society. Problem solved. Well, sort of. There still is that issue of the fact getting admitted to Harvard is not the same as graduating from Harvard; a student still has to understand the classes and put in the hard work of studying, that important form of delayed gratification. And Harvard only has so much space so to let in more black kids means saying no to others. In most progressive instances, that means telling “Asians” to go away (the term “Asian” itself is yet another false and disrespectful assumption, that somehow Chinese, Thais, Japanese, Koreans, Filipinos, Laotians, Indians, Bangladeshis, et al., are lumpable into one omnibus racial garbage can.) What you’re left with is the certainty that more exclusion by race is the answer to the alleged problem of exclusion by race. After some 40 years of seeing something that egregiously dumb as a good idea, the issue is now coming again before the courts for a reality check, starting in Fairfax County, Virginia. Someone in the process may decide it’s time to ask why we regularly end up with “cosmetically diverse” institutions, rather than anything real that leads to broad social progress. A group calling themselves the Coalition for T.J. sued the school system to reverse the admission process changes, which they allege were meant to diminish the number of Asian students. That qualifies as discrimination based on race, outlawed under the 14th Amendment, they claim. In January, a U.S. District judge turned down the Coalition’s request for a jury trial and will instead issue a ruling later this year. Both sides will then be able to appeal, suggesting the issue will overlap another admissions season. A second suit is also in play. A bill before the Virginia legislature would also affect T.J., seeking to remove race as an admission criteria. The move to eliminate racism in admissions processes in Virginia is mirrored at the national level. The Supreme Court agreed to decide whether race-based admissions programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina are lawful. The case against Harvard accuses the school of discriminating against Asian students by using subjective criteria such as likability, courage, and kindness, a nasty echo of the 1930s when it was thought Jews lacked the “character” to be Harvard men. In the North Carolina case, the argument is simply that the university discriminated against white and Asian applicants by giving preference to P.O. other C. Don’t expect a decision before next year. Once upon a time, Americans decided race should not be a factor in education, doing away with segregated schools and ending separate but equal. Somewhere we lost our way, to the point where we are leveling down, and twisty definitions of things like “experience points” have brought race directly into education again. Only this time we convinced ourselves that discriminating against whites and Asians was perfectly okay. That thinking is under fresh attack in the courts, and well it should be. The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race. You don’t have to go to Harvard, or T.J., to figure that out. This whole left-religion about the concept of "equity", aka, equality of outcomes, has led us down this twisted path.

https://campusreform.org/article?id=18978 Binghamton student Sean Harrigan questioned whether "progressive stacking" would penalize students' participation grades if they never got a chance to speak because of how they were born. “How am I supposed to get full participation when the professor won’t call on me even though I had my hand up the longest?” Harrigan asked. Michael Lawrence told Campus Reform that he has "experienced classes that partake in similar rules." "Progressive stacking," according to Lawrence, teaches "students to victimize people and see them as less than many of their peers.” Emme Young, another Binghamton student, called the policy "embarrassing." “It’s pretty embarrassing that I pay tuition to a school that has a class with that syllabus,” Young said. Campus Reform also obtained a screenshot of a group conversation between members of the university's College Republicans chapter discussing the participation policy. “Can anyone tell me how this is legal,” one student asked. “Well that’s sociology for ya," another student replied. Campus Reform reached out to Binghamton University for comment. Ryan Yarosh, senior director of media and public relations, said that Candela was "counseled" by the university due to the syllabus' failure to comply with the 2021-2022 Faculty-Staff Handbook. Good. I hope this inane "progressive stacking" was removed by the Ms. Candela, at the request of the university. Most liberal college these days must be hell on earth.

I never said the IHSAA would go away. But they may have competition in the field of managing high school sports and sponsoring post season tournaments. Is that such a bad thing? Glad to see you are taking the managerial lead in this exciting endeavor, SenatorFan. My role as a GID idea man has born fruit again.

https://mises.org/wire/canada-nice-no-longer-trudeaus-totalitarian-response-trucker-protests

Economically disadvantaged rate = Free/Reduced Lunch rate. Probably also includes those on free/reduced textbooks as well. That percentage used to be labeled as such on the Indiana DOE website, but "economically disadvantaged" is the new PC term.

Per Indiana DOE information shouldn't "4A" Frankfort be on your list: https://inview.doe.in.gov/schools/1011700997/population Enrollment: 899 Economically disadvantaged rate: 68%

That won't be me. Membership in the IHSAA is completely voluntary the last time I checked. But because it has a monopoly on the running of high school sports in this state many believe it is some kind of government organization.

It was both. One can congratulate a successful boondoggle, can they not?