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course, there is still much work to be done. That means honestly confronting
the crisis of Islamic extremism and the Islamists and Islamic terror of all
kinds." -- President Trump in Riyadh
"Where are you headed, Europe? Rise from your knees
and from your lethargy, or you will be crying over your children every
day." -- Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo
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| | | | What’s a Better Gig than Partner at Goldman Sachs?
The witch hunt into Donald Trump continues. It’s the best employment program for connected lawyers one could ever imagine. No more worrying about your law firm going bankrupt! Special Counsel Robert Mueller must be up to sixteen or so spongers. Many made large contributions to Hillary Clinton’s campaign. This is their reward. This crew has conflicts of interest galore.
Rod Rosenstein hired Robert Mueller, and he approves Mueller’s budgets. Funding does not require approval by Congress. Funding comes from the Treasury so that Mueller has perpetual funding.
In other words, the Treasury Department is Rosenstein’s and Mueller’s slush fund. I predict these investigations will cost tens of millions. Even Goldman Sachs couldn’t swing a sweet deal like this!
Now, none of these lawyers has to hustle for business. Rosenstein gave Mueller a mandate so broad, that he can investigate President Trump and his family and business contacts forever, if he so chooses. What a great boondoggle for this circle.
Should they ever decide to stop investigating—and why would they?—they will land in top jobs and continue to employ each other.
My hope is that they find everything they can—a good prosecutor can indict a ham sandwich—and that President Trump pardons everyone, so that succeeding administrations have nothing left with which to harass President Trump, his family and his friends.
Note: When John F. Kennedy was president, he chose his brother, Robert “Bobby” Kennedy as Attorney General. Now there’s a conflict of interest. But to be fair, no one else in the entire United States could have done that job…at least not in the way Bobby did. Congress allowed it. There were no juries empaneled to investigate JFK.
Have you seen Dunkirk yet? I plan to see it again. The battle is shown from the point of view of air, land and sea in non linear-time.
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| | Should the USA Have a Second Language?
You may have heard about the RAISE Act. English is the language of the USA. It's handy for reading our laws and it's a key international language. You may be aware India and China RAISEd their Himalayan border dispute in English. The USA proposes to make English a requirement for green card applicants.
Moreover, contrary to what Jim Acosta, a CNN reporter, seems to believe, the Supreme Court has reaffirmed, the USA has the right to refuse to admit foreigners, as does every sovereign nation. We have a law that says that we can turn back people who cannot support themselves. My grandparents (on one side), and my great and great-great-great grandparents (on another side) had to abide by this law. As far as I know, this hasn't changed, albeit the USA may admit desperate refugees at its discretion. If you have different information, please drop me a line with facts and references.
Should the USA have a second language? I say yes, and it should be mathematics! It shocks me to the core that in 2017, when they need math more than ever, children are leaving high school without basic math skills.
It's lovely to learn other languages: Spanish, Mandarin and so on. (My Farsi skills came in handy after I left Iran exactly never.)
But if your children aren't learning and reviewing math and its applications, the world will remain a mysterious place to them. Part of the problem is that most math teachers are themselves bad at math and what it means to their understanding of the world around them. This is something the USA needs to fix. Fast.
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| | Global Warming: The "Models" Are Junk Science
Those of you familiar with my work on the financial crisis know that I found there were problems with both the models and the data. When it came to the data, the largest problem was fraud; this swamped everything else.
I’ve now looked at “global warming models.” There’s a data problem. How long have we been keeping weather data? Not very long in terms of history of the earth. But beyond that, there are problems with the so-called models.
“Scientists” don’t know which variables are functions of each other—if at all—and there is a lot of guesswork involved. That isn’t the only problem with the models, but I’ll stick with this one, because it is more than enough to illustrate that the models are unreliable. To put it in the simplest terms, the models assert a given variable is a function of another when there is evidence to the contrary.
By definition, there must be one unique output for every input for one variable to be a function of another. That condition is violated.
That alone blows the whole ball game, and that isn't the only problem.
This isn’t to say that global warming is not happening, only that if it is, the junk scientists fobbing off these "models" won’t help us predict its progress much less pinpoint the true cause or causes.
By the way, Chicago’s weather forecast for Tuesday, August 1, was cloudy and warm. We had an unexpected spectacular storm. I cannot tell you the cause, but I do know it wasn’t Bush’s fault.
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| | | | Growing Up American
There was a time when studying hard and making the most of one's intelligence was valued. (Yes, intelligence is a gift, but in order to make the most of it, one has to live a right life.) That was true in the USA, Latin America, Japan, India, China (civil service exams were notoriously tough), Britain, and on and on.
Today, the Far Left wants to make intelligence and success into anti-virtues. Keep in mind that even people with equal intelligence get varied results. Hard studying Asian students often beat their lazier peers. Should we blame Asian family values?
The left seems to disregard the hard work
of developing one’s potential. (I guess we should pay football players less,
too.) Smart
people seem to make them feel sick. “Thus the accident of having been born
smart enough to be able to be successful is a great benefit that you did
absolutely nothing to earn. Consequently, you have nothing to be proud of for
being smart.”
I disagree. It's hard work to keep at the top of one's profession, no matter one's level of intelligence. You have my permission to feel proud of your family and your accomplishments. Also, see below. Not everything we learn is strictly about intelligence.
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| | | Training Wolfo (yes really, my father named him) taught me patience & persistence. I got the better education. Thank God for dogs.
My farther snapped this photo. I got the dog to pose. Sit, Wolfo. Good boy. (I'm sorry they couldn't stay forever.)
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| | Brains in the USA
Frank Gaffney, president of the Center for Security Policy interviewed me about the propaganda around hijab in the USA and female genital mutilation taking place in states such as Michigan and Maine.
Muslims need sensitivity training, not the other way around. The hijab is far better known in the USA as a symbol of massive brutal violence against women than as a religious symbol.
Democrats in Maine’s state legislature blocked a bill to recognize female genital mutilation as a crime, whereas any U.S. citizen should recognize this as a violent crime against females.
Listen here.
For more on the techniques of ideological subversion used against the West, you can find Soviet defector and former KGB spy Yuri Bezmenov’s book, Love Letter to America, on archive.org. (It’s written under his pen name, Tomas Schuman). Where is Bezmenov today? The internet says he died in the 1980’s.
Loans for the Walking Brain Dead
Did you know that students are taking out loans to attend community colleges that may drop a requirement for them to pass “college” algebra? First, there is no such thing as “college” algebra. Children in good elementary schools (kindergarten through 8th grade) learn algebra. In high school, children should learn advanced algebra, geometry, trigonometry and first year calculus (plus biology, chemistry and physics).
But NPR (national public radio) reported that algebra is the most failed course at community colleges, and asked if the requirement should be dropped. What?! This isn’t a college course. We shouldn’t lower the bar, we need to raise the standard much higher.
Students are piling up debt to get a worse education than they would get in a good elementary school. How can these people function as adults to calculate mortgage payments, finance charges, compound interest, size things in their homes, basic probabilities, read a good newspaper? The teachers of these students aren’t fit to teach. No wonder our “journalists” on the web can’t interpret basic numbers.
Help your children stay smart. It’s summer. Consider buying algebra, geometry, trigonometry, pre-calculus, AP calculus prep, and science Cliff notes (or similar) online so that your children can stay in top form. That way when they start the school year, they’ll sail through the first week of review and can focus on settling in. Being prepared takes a lot of the stress out of a new situation. As they say in the military, you will default to your level of training. Everyone has to train to stay fit.
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| | London Whale: USA Drops Criminal Charges
The DOJ discovered it could not build a case around the testimony of Bruno Iksil, a man who was complicit in the case. That’s right, a solid case requires evidence and analysis, not unreliable witnesses who helped cook the books. But first, one has to look for the evidence. As it is, the DOJ is quietly covering up JPMorgan’s embarrassment. Read more in this Reuters article by Jonathan Stempel.
Reader asks whether I support a hijab, burka, etc. ban
Women can’t walk down city streets topless. Ditto a bikini. We have laws in the USA about indecent (over) exposure. A woman wouldn’t wear a bikini to an office job, even though all the essentials are covered.
Is it possible to have an indecent under exposure law? Theoretically, yes. Some European countries have such laws. This Muslim woman supports the ban.
The
swastika is an ancient Egyptian religious symbol, but it is much more
famous for being a Nazi symbol. Would you walk down the street wearing a
swastika or wear one to work? (Try giving your boss the
line that it’s just a religious symbol. Let me know how your career
goes.) Of course not!
I’m loath to regulate adult apparel, but it may come to that, since the hijab is a form of political jihad. The hijab, burka et al. can be religious/modesty symbols, but that claim is secondary to the fact these garments are symbols of massive brutal violence against women.
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| | Better Than Money
If you want to help your country, instead of contributing money to politicians, why not contribute a solution to one of your country’s problems?
I sent my paper, “Importance of Data Preservation in the Application of Set Theory to Counterterrorism,” to a former instructor at the National Defense Intelligence College who subsequently forwarded to colleagues. (This paper is not available to the public.)
My method compares lists of associates of organizations to quickly identify high probability persons of interest using set theory techniques. There is no need to know in advance whether alternate spellings of targets’ names or aliases exist, as long as association records are kept as complete as possible. A subsidiary goal was to support efforts to gain inter-agency cooperation in the compilation and preservation of data, since operatives of the Obama administration actively destroyed useful records.
How to Rebut Taqiyya
JT on Twitter: “Hijabs in USA are as offensive as KKK’s sheets. In 1979 I saw Iranian women violently forced to wear hijabs.”
Troll’s taqiyya response: How is forcing women to wear a hijab any different than forcing women not to wear a hijab.
[I never once implied that women in the USA do not have a right to wear a hijab much less that they should be violently forced not to wear one. This is the USA. (Note, I’m not talking about employers’ dress codes.) In fact, in countries where the hijab is banned, I’m not aware of government physical violence to force women not to wear them.]
JT enlightens those who may have been thrown off by the troll: “USA: Women have a right to wear a hijab. Reasonable people have a right to see it as a symbol of massive brutal violence against women.”
In the USA, we also have the right to say that we find hijabs, niqabs, et al. a reminder and a symbol of brutal violence against women. |
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