New York Values

Infantile morality on full display.

True Story

Sent to me by a blog follower:

Tyrone was having trouble in school.

His teacher was always yelling at him, "You're driving me crazy,Tyrone, can't you learn anything!!?

One day Tyrone's mother came to school to check on how he was doing.  The teacher told her honestly, that her son was simply a disaster, getting very low marks, and that she had never seen such a stupid boy in her entire teaching career.  The mom was so shocked at the feedback that she withdrew her son from school and moved out of Detroit relocating to Cleveland.

Twenty-five years later, the teacher was diagnosed with an almost incurable  cardiac disease. All the doctors strongly advised her to have open-heart surgery, which only one surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic could perform. Left with no other options, the teacher decided to have the operation, which was remarkably successful.

When she opened her eyes after the surgery she saw a handsome young doctor smiling down at her. She wanted to thank him, but could not talk. Her face started to turn blue, she raised her hand, trying to tell him something but quickly died.

The doctor was shocked, wondering what went wrong so suddenly. Then he turned around and saw that our friend Tyrone, a janitor in the Clinic, had unplugged the life-support equipment in order to connect his vacuum cleaner.

If you thought Tyrone had become a heart-surgeon, there is a high likelihood that you will vote for Hillary Clinton!

Cruz Commander

Black Privilege

I hope this guy doesn't work for a typical university.  This is the sort of heterodoxy that won't help advancement through the ranks.

Equality!

K-12 School for LGBTQQI...Students

If you have a bisexual kindergartner interested in "experiential (or experimental) learning" (which is all the rage these days), here is the school for you.

Kids have full permission to be themselves — as well as educators. Where there’s no wondering, ‘Is this teacher going to be a person for me to be myself with?’” said Zsilavetz, who is transgender and a veteran teacher with nearly 25 years of experience. “This is a place where they (students) can just open up and be the best person they can be.”

It's Your Fault Ladies

And of course Islam had nothing to do with it.  Say it with me:  Islam had nothing to do with it.  One more time.

Difference Between Socialists and Democrats?

Hillary can't explain:

Harvard Med School Professor on Liberal Arts and Philosophy

Excerpt:

Recently, when philosophy and America’s higher education system were devalued by Sen. Marco Rubio during the Republican presidential debate and in subsequent statements, my thoughts returned to my sophomore year at Dartmouth, when I went back to my childhood dentist during a school break.

In the chit-chat of the checkup, as I lay back in the chair with the suction tube in my mouth, he asked: “What are you majoring in at college?” When I replied that I was majoring in philosophy, he said: “What are you going to do with that?”


“Think,” I replied.

Fossil Fuels

Made by solar energy and 100% organic.

Infinite Number of Contingent Truths

Suppose there are an infinite number of necessary truths (presupposing of course that there can be an actual infinite number of Fs).  Then there are also an infinite number of contingent truths.

For let p be a contingently true proposition (for example the proposition that Tully types on Tuesdays).  Then
1. p and 2+2=4
is a contingently true proposition, since any conjunction which has a contingent truth as a conjunct is also a contingently true proposition.

But then
2. p and 2+2=4 and 2+3=5
is a contingently true proposition.

And so on ad infinitum.  So if there are an infinite number of necessary truths, there are an infinite number of contingent truths.  What there may not be is an infinite number of contingently true, simple propositions or an infinite number of Fs.

Coddling University vs. Strengthen University

I might try to fit this in to one of my courses.
Jonathan Haidt pits two different university models against each other, one aimed to strengthen you, the other to protect you (unless you're "privileged").  Well worth the time.  Haidt has certainly delivered this talk before, finely honing and perfecting it.  It bogs down a little on the front half, but the second half is highly entertaining.

Microaggressions

What are they and why should you care?  UCLA education professors explain.

Personally, when dealing with a leftist concerned about microaggressions, I like to skip straight to macroaggressions.

Loot and Plunder Economics

More from Marx's Manifesto:

The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degree, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralise all instruments of production in the hands of the State, i.e., of the proletariat organised as the ruling class; and to increase the total productive forces as rapidly as possible.

Of course, in the beginning, this cannot be effected except by means of despotic inroads on the rights of property, and on the conditions of bourgeois production; by means of measures, therefore, which appear economically insufficient and untenable, but which, in the course of the movement, outstrip themselves, necessitate further inroads upon the old social order, and are unavoidable as a means of entirely revolutionising the mode of production.

These measures will, of course, be different in different countries.

Nevertheless, in most advanced countries, the following will be pretty generally applicable.

1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
5. Centralisation of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.
6. Centralisation of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State.
7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State; the bringing into cultivation of waste-lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
8. Equal liability of all to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country.
10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children’s factory labour in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, &c, &c.

A Summary of Communism

"[T]he theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property."
~Karl Marx, Manifesto of the Communist Party

Counterexample Example

Leftist Tactic Exposed

As you can see, this is an obvious Democratic meme, one for which I'm thankful. Another teaching moment.  I can't remember where I first encountered such nonsense.  Perhaps it was listening to a Rush Limbaugh tirade when I was working with my Dad on a new construction or remodeling job--a welcome voice of opposition to everything else in the media I ever encountered.  Yes, Rush Limbaugh.  If you don't think you can learn anything from Rush Limbaugh, you and your peers have  probably succumbed to groupthink.  In which case, you'd probably do yourself and us a favor if you stopped reading this blog.

If you're still a free thinker (not in the atheistic sense), notice that-- and it can only mean this--not taking money (by force) from those deemed rich from the most powerful government in the world (with imprisonment and ultimately death as the sanction for opposition) means giving money.

To repeat: NOT TAKING BY FORCE = GIVING.

"Giving more to the rich" means "not taking more from the rich."

Thank you for your honesty. Or do you Democrats disagree with my interpretation?