In the 37th installment of Stephen Green’s Right Angle Lightning Round he ambushes Bill Whittle and Scott Ott with the hot and weird in the latest headlines — including news that the Biden administration no longer requires schools to disclose connections with Chinese communist Confucius Institutes.
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74 replies on “Schools No Longer Must Disclose Connection with Chinese Confucius Institutes”
There seems to me a common thread running throughout all the stories. That common thread nis the real infection is “Smart Stupid”. The “Smart Stupid” are currently in Control, have FAR too MUCH Power and are 100% Greedy.
WHAT? is a “Smart Stupid ” individual. “Smart Stupid” believes with absolute certainty that they are Wise, Knowledgable, profess to have ALL the answers to ALL the Problems facing everyone else. The believe that they KNOW what is “BEST” for ALL the “others.” That in their convoluted brain confirms their “smart.” The “stupid” comes from the above being 100% not TRUE. The ‘Stupid” live in a BUBBLE populated by other “Smart Stupid” like minded MORONS who have ZERO, yes ZERO Common Sense. Further, they are Control freaks of epic portions who are empty of VIRTUE, self-Respect, real Compassion, Caring & Sensitivity.
The unfortunate Reality that that is MORE obvious to an AWARE & Observable individual is a very LARGE of the population who whether consciously or sub-consciously demonstrates that “Ignorance is NEVER an excuse for STUPIDITY.”
Vernon Howard expertly said, “The trouble is, people think that they already think clearly. N0 matter how often they meet tragedy and misery, people simply will no believe that there is something wrong with their mental processes. They never learn the lesson taught by conflict. Instead, they chase to a new doctrine, a popular amusement or a familiar face, hoping for the relief which never comes. It is like a man lost in the desert, whose panic leads him even farther astray.”
Getting their Yuan’s worth.
good one
Beyond gender dysphoria…How about when they sing “I’m a little teapot?”
Further evidence of Biden being the the real-live Manchurian Candidate
No, Scott, people like that will not look inward and think that maybe they had been too harsh on others.
History shows otherwise.
It is full of people in camps or getting stood against the wall, professing their undying love for the Party and Comrade Stalin and certainty that the NKVD is always right and Enemies of the People must be punished, but in their particular case a horrible mistake has been made.
Steve the Broncos are only on their fifth rebuilding? Try being a Lion’s fan. They’ve been rebuilding since 1957. And Jim Caldwell was their last best coach.
What does it mean when governmental edicts are “quietly” imposed? As if 50+ news agencies don’t yell it out?
The cell phone issue, from my chinese friends was caused by a ‘one cellphone’ law passed recently. Many chinese had multiple cell phones to keep some level of anonymity, and China made that illegal. It’s an electronic surveillance device after all.
Love your hosting on rumble. I didn’t have a bunch of videos presented to me from utube. Just a nice close and black screen. Woot
I think one of of the roadblocks on the player -> coach path is that many of the good players are such because they are big guys, which doesn’t make you a good coach. The other is when you are naturally good at something it is harder to teach it. The poor players who tried, learned the hard way but never quite were able to do what they’ve learned make the better coaches and teachers.
I think the other dirty secret are the number of players (of all colors, and several sports, especially with the one and done basketball players) who get through college by playing ball but don’t develop the sports intelligence. The smartest players might retire from the game to do something else with their lives, not wanting to continue on with a teaching career or go into broadcasting.
I’m with Scot but Victoria barely counts as Australia. The sanity of the state government is way past the point of no return. Its not the whole state and area in Melbourne is so jerrymandered and dominated by its university faculty and student nut cases that it drags the whole state left by 5 points in a poll. All attempts by the Australian Liberal Party to take the state from the left have failed because of the lefts control of the city and two suburbs that’s been taken over by African islamists who all vote Labor.
If the antics of buccaneers were bad, what does that say about ANTIFA and BLM?
People forget, or were never taught, that the first and greatest naval officers of the US navy were essentially buccaneers that had chosen to back the new country and its liberty’s. Most also do not know that most pirates were either fully authorized ‘navy’ of some state raiding rival states fleets, just as the Germans did in both world wars. Or were the navy of some defeated monarch queen Anne of Scotland in Black Beards case, that fought on until the found a new state, received a pardon or died. Buccaneers were much better than WW2 submarine wolf packs. They tended to take the ships intact if possible, looked after the prisoners better and sunk very few vessels. A ship was just too valuable.
Maybe we should compromise and have African American historical contributions addressed throughout the year, but Black historical contributions should only be emphasized during Black History Month.
And there is nothing that says Black History Month has to be the same month each year. Make it Feb. in 2021, Jan. in 2022, Dec. in 2023, etc. Or select the applicable month drawn by lottery, or whatever???
Should we perhaps now consider selecting a new holiday called Tom Brady Day to celebrate excellence in athletics? Although of course they are lauded over many days of the year already.
“On August 5, 1981, President Ronald Reagan begins firing 11,359 air-traffic controllers striking in violation of his order for them to return to work.” Opps, wrong century. Should read “Biden begins firing 300,000 teachers refusing to return to the classroom after receiving Covid-19 vaccinations … ” Like that will ever happen! But it might be the most promising improvement to our educational system that I can foresee near term.
1:06 Hey Bill, here’s my favorite old Confucius joke– ‘Confucius say, “Man who go through turnstile sideways, Going to Bangkok!”‘ 😉
6:45 Bwahahahaha! ‘Touchdowns reported overnight and Monday morning the Chiefs were reported as the winner…’ Well, if the AP called it that way, then it must be true!
10:00 As a school professional, I’ve been chomping at the bit to get back in the building! I agree that we need to be here for the students, and with the students (whether vaccinated or not!) Please don’t paint us all as shameless, sociopathic *heroes*… Any other faculty/staff members out there that are also BW members??
Just like what happened when women entered into the workforce. To equalize the pay scales, the ever present brilliant, cost cutting, profit margin loving, social warrior supporting leaders worked diligently to close and equalize this issue.
How did they do that, you ask?
I lived in Australia for two years and in Los Angeles for 15 … Politically Australia is basically California on steroids with a funny accent. Two of the wisest things I’ve done in my life are getting the hell out of both those places.
There are decent, conservative people in both those places but they have been overrun. My sincerest sympathies to those folks. Even more so to the Aussies because if you live in the Soviet Socialist Respooblik of Kalifornia you can move to another state. In Oz there are no longer any other states free from socialist insanity.
I also lived in Israel for a little over a year and I agree with Scott as that makes a reasonable second choice but … Neither Scott nor I are Jews and that would make moving to Israel more-or-less impossible.
Yes, English common law was very big on the right to bear arms (for self defense) and the right to free speech (John Milton, 1648?), but today in the Anglophone world, the other Four Eyes seem to be going dark or blank. This latest example of decrying (and punishing) worship over a transgender inclination is just beyond the pale.
Agreed. Yet while a thing may simply be beyond the pale, still they go ahead and do it!
This speaks to the power of this insanity and the grave danger accrued thereby.
I’m not sure what you mean by “the other Four Eyes”, is that a precept of John Locke or an English Common Law principle I’ve missed somehow?
I’m familiar with the “four eyes” principle in general. In the Marines we called it “the two man rule”. I did a TDY with the MarDet on a nuclear carrier when I was en route between two places many years ago. When nukes were being handled Marines always do the security, though it’s sailors who are specifically trained to handle physics packages that do the actual hands-on work. We had very specific standing orders (which I had to memorize quite quickly at the time) regarding this situation. The main thing was “the two man rule” because we were authorized to apply lethal force without first getting permission to engage. This was to prevent the theft, tampering, destruction or detonation of a nuke and it took a consensus between the two Marines to shoot. Interestingly it was only Marines that command felt certain would in fact shoot that ever drew this duty.
(Sailors hated this because every time the multi-ton hanger bay aircraft elevator doors would slam it set off the collision alarm, the thing that lets everyone know the ship had hit something or had been hit by something. Like an anti-ship missile kind of hit by something. If you’re handling nukes there are normally also flight operations underway with aircraft riding the elevator from the hanger bay to the flight deck. In a hurry. At that alarm the “two man rule” went into effect and we would order the sailors handling the physics package to “Step away from the weapon RIGHT NOW!”. and we took charge of the security of the weapon. This interrupted their workflow and we all knew that it was probably the hanger elevator doors but orders are orders. As we were giving that order we were shouldering and pointing loaded rifles at them, which is very unpleasant for anyone. If one Marine said “FIRING” and the other concurred the next sound would be two or more sailors dying by rifle fire. If anyone attempted to compromise the weapon we were implicitly expected to die defending it. It’s not a trivial thing as it’s the last fail-safe to protect a nuclear weapon so we took the duty very seriously. The sailors not so much.)
So that’s my take on and experience with the “four eyes principle” and I’m not sure from context that is what you meant. Being always willing to learn something new, if you could elaborate I’ll become more educated.
Oh, English law was not simply for the right to keep and bear arms, for a long time it was a requirement for a freeman to keep and train with a warbow. You can’t win most of the battles yet lose the Hundred Years Wars without a bunch of yeomen with longbows.
You’ve also got the existential threat of nuclear armageddon hanging over your jewish retirement home.
I am starting to think various central American countries like Belize would be safer and saner retirement locations.
It’s an amazing indictment of the current state of the USA, that moving to Israel (with all the attendant dangers) would seem like a rational choice.
I suppose some of “the attendant dangers” are relative based on where you live. Murdersville, USA, aka the bad parts of most any large city run by Democrats probably isn’t any more likely to get you shot than a suicide bomber in Jerusalem.
Agreed. Dead by gang-banger, rioting Lefty anarchist or dead by suicide bomber is still dead.
I actually had this same conversation with an Aussie school principal in Redcliffe. He claimed Australia was an utopian paradise underappreciated by those who live there and that America was a cesspool of gun violence. By the end of the conversation he could still make that claim but but falsely as he could no longer honestly believe it was true.
(Shrug) I’m not sure that’s any worse than the threat from an EMP attack knocking us back to the dark ages here in America. One is a quick death by vaporization and the other is a lingering death by starvation, disease and at the hands of fellow “Americans”.
I know some people who retired to Costa Rica that are quite happy with their circumstances. Even in a relatively stable Central American country there’s still always the risk of spill-over from the less stable ones. Regimes tend to change pretty rapidly in those places too. My friends in Costa Rica have a 38 ft. sail boat they keep stocked and ready, just in case.
As for myself, I’ll never leave the borders of the US again in my lifetime. I used to love to travel and did a hell of a lot of it but now I hope to never see in the inside of an airliner again. I’m home, I’m staying home — Win, lose, draw, sink or swim.
I think both you and Scott underestimate exactly how collectivist Israel is.
It was founded by proud socialists, and they held it for generations. They still hold most of it, including education and judiciary (sounds familiar?).
Yes, they have been moving to the right, but last I checked, their other mainstream party, the Labour, still sent its delegations to Socialist International Congresses.
I lived and operated out of Israel for over a year between mid ’82 and late ’83. That was decades ago when Israel was not only more socialist but a lot poorer. When I was “in country” I stayed with friends on a moshav (a privatized kibbutz) for f–ks sake. I’m well aware of the socialist nature of Israeli society. I’m also aware of the high degree of personal liberty available to anyone who is a citizen of Israel. Having seen all of this first hand, up close and personal …
I can’t speak for Scott but I’m not underestimating, overlooking or misunderstanding one damn thing.
It’s insulting when people say things like you did. Maybe you didn’t mean it that way but it comes across condescending as hell to make the assumption that I’m not in possession of ridiculously common knowledge and talk down to me like that. Most others will ignore your rudeness and just let it go, I won’t. Try framing your comments and replies to people in a more respectful manner.
I didn’t intend it to sound condescending, and your claim of rudeness looks baseless to me, but you feel what you feel.
My view is that your reply is angry out of proportion, but again, unlike you, I am not about to start teaching strangers manners. I’d rather ignore you in the future.
Well I’m not going to ignore you. You’ve previously and elsewhere said a few things I strongly agree with. Just because you offended me this once doesn’t mean I won’t read and consider what you say henceforth. I can be truculent when I think it’s warranted but not so childishly petulant as to “ignore you in the future”.
If you don’t intend to sound condescending then don’t accuse people of underestimations, lapses, “forgetting about …” etc. You have no basis for such a position and it’s insulting. If you’re not aware that kind of thing is insulting then that’s your lack not my “reply being angry out of proportion” that is the problem. I don’t give a fig about “proportional response”.
I’m actually quite reasonable to people who are civil to me. Accusing me of underestimating a thing I know very well, probably as much or more than you do, is uncivil. I’ve had the same conversation we’re having with other people. People with whom I have later gone on to have quite interesting and civil discussions. It’s your call, I’m telling you I won’t tolerate an insufferably condescending, unmerited superior attitude. I don’t give a flying rat if you think that’s baseless or not, I’m telling you it is not. Full stop.
This isn’t Twitter or Facebook, you do well to assume that people here are at least as intelligent and/or educated as you are. Thus …
As far as “teaching strangers manners” goes … If a stranger has manners then no lessons are needed. You can talk to others that way, that’s their business. If you talk to me that way I’m going to make an issue of it. I don’t do that to others and I won’t have it done to me.
No, I did not accuse anyone of anything. I said I thought that you underestimate the collectivism of Israel, and I still think that based on your initial comment and reinforced by your view of their “high degree of personal liberty.”
I also don’t know where you are quoting the “forgetting about” part from, because those words don’t appear anywhere in my two comments.
To reiterate, I did not intend to insult, but if you insist on seeing it that way, well, I can only share your sentiment in not giving a fig.
As an aside (and again, I don’t mean it as a sleight), if you thought my comment was so insulting as to warrant an angry outburst, then how would you intend to function in Israel as a home rather than a work or tourist destination? I am sure you would agree that they are in general far more abrasive than many here would tolerate. They call themselves “Sabra” for a reason, and they are quite proud of it.
Now, why did I have the impression that you underestimate their collectivism (the context being the new laws in Australia)? Two reasons.
1) An assumption, which, I admit, I was wrong to make about a stranger. The assumption is based on my personal observation, which has not been contradicted once in my experience, that pro-Israel American Christians (and your “Neither Scott nor I are Jews” led me to yet another assumption that you are one of them) tend to idealize the country. There is nothing wrong or unusual in that, but Israel does tend to make people either hate it or love it intensely, and unless somebody from the outside follows their politics and society for whatever reason (and for non-Jews there are fewer reasons to do so), one tends to overlook the warts.
2) I think we now have a good benchmark of collectivism of a people, as well as of “degree of personal liberty,” in that people’s response to the COVID situation. And in Israel people put up with the amount of government restrictions and interference that is pretty disturbing.
Their lockdowns (and they are on their third now) were so tight that they would make Newsom blush, with the government detailing many thousands of actual police with the sole job of enforcing them. And yet, based on what I read and see from my friends there, people as a whole (minus some in the Haredim and Arab sectors) submit to them to the degree that I think even Californians would not accept.
Back in late last March their government has come up with a phone app that literally tracks the phone’s owner, determines, based on its real-time database, if he had come in proximity with somebody infected, and if so, alerts the person with instructions. At a certain point last summer, they had something like 2.5M people install the app, out of the total of about 6.8M cell phone users. There is no way anything close to a third of Americans would accept such an enormous intrusion. In Israel, they did.
And now they have these “green passports” which they give out to those they had vaccinated, and holders of said “passports” get serious chunks of their former freedoms back, although by no means all of them.
One can certainly argue that what they do is reasonable and good and needed, but that is beside the point. I would assert that those are not behaviors of a people that values individual liberty. It is a behavior of a people that views the “common good” as vastly more important.
They have a good reason to be that way. They are a small country in a non-stop war and facing extinction for their entire existence. One could argue they need that for survival. But those are collectivist behaviors.
Brilliant deflective segue from the topic I was addressing to the topic you wanted to address in the first place … and could have done so had your rude behavior not become the topic needing to be addressed.
As it stands, the topic you so badly wanted to bank off of me is not what I was talking about, nor will I as you have not merited that consideration from me. Had you simply put it in the vein of “That’s not how I see it because …” and forgone the condescension we might have been addressing that instead of your dig at my ‘underestimation”.
I’m not telling you what to say, merely providing an example. You don’t seem to be able to discern such differences as I never cited you saying anything about forgetting about something, that too was a simple and I would have thought obvious example — Of the sort of condescension people do and especially when they are totally unaware that they’re being condescending.
You made another false assumption, btw. I’m not “angry”. You haven’t seen me angry and if you had you’d know the difference Just because someone applies strong wording does not automatically mean they’re “angry”.
Accusations of “anger” are a tactic people use to try to diminish the position of others. I reject that further accusation also.
As we both know, when one is intent on being offended, one finds offense.
I explained my point of view. That is all that is merited.
someone please convince me this is not a Communist government
His Fraudulency the Second delivers to his Masters in CCP, nothing to see here.
The problem with making any education policy based on the grievances of people who are labeled as victims is that it’s a skewed perspective. People who are encouraged to stew in their grievances will never be satisfied with anything short of the annihilation of everyone and anyone they feel has wronged them. Without finding a way to have forgiveness, there’s never enough retribution to make them feel whole. All evidence of Western Civilization History could be permanently deleted from the curriculum, and there would still be burning hatred to be avenged. The Antifa and BLM vandalism and rioting shows that at some point the mob is beyond reason and control, especially by the people who stoked the fires.
… and that is why the philosophy of intersectional victimhood works so well and is so hard to counter.
It’s evil. A definitions of evil is “that which destroys the good, which devastates good people”.
Back when I was living in LA, I went to Disneyland and rode Pirates of the Caribbean… musta been, at least, once a month. And I’m always observant of “Talk Like a Pirate Day”. Sept 13.
Surely that’s enough to earn me a Masters in Pirate Studies. If not a PhD.
If you are accepted to university, but lack the skills/ability to pursue a “traditional” degree, do you get to make up your own PhD program so you can show just how special and edgy you are?
Wonder what “school” she attended and how much she went into debt for that “degree”?
Scott, one can’t be “a great guy” and a Green Bay Packers fan.
Hey! As a Cheesehead I have to say, since Americans own the Packers (and not some conglomerate of tycoons) they really are America’s team. Of course we’ll have a lot of good people as fans.
(in a light hearted sort of a way).
I’m a Bears fan so nothing, no matter how logical or rational, will ever make me hate the Packers any less.
I’ve been a Packers fan since about 1966. Go Pack!
But the teachers are vaccinated so they can’t get sick. That’s the whole point of getting vaccinated.
Do we want people that stupid “educating” children? However I’ve found those most adamant about not getting sick tend to be entirely emotionally driven. Totally impervious to facts.
They swallow the “special drink” without question and have been scared into believing the rona “pandemic”.
They know they can manipulate the union rules and overdramatize the effects of rona so they can still get paid and not have to do their jobs.
If I had school age children, I wouldn’t let them near “teachers”.
I was very fortunate with my two boys as they were given a full scholarship to a local parochial school (Lutheran) from K-8. That’s as far as that school went. So they had a good educational foundation by the time they went to the public high school and the high school where we lived was a very good, well rated school too.
My nephew had to attend LAUSD public schools in S. Los Angeles County and I could not believe how horrible those schools were. The kid literally could not go to the restroom without getting mugged and everything he had of any value taken from him. Every time. He had a teacher who didn’t teach and couldn’t be fired. The guy couldn’t teach because he was deaf as a post and nearly incapable of interacting on any level with his students, which didn’t stop him from handing out failing grades to the ones he didn’t like. My nephew is part of the reason we all left CA …
So comparing those examples and considering that by extrapolation everything has gotten worse in the meanwhile … I can’t imagine what it’s like to have to try to get one’s children educated these days.
While it’s tempting to believe we’ve hit the pinnacle of absurdity and evil in human behavior I’m sure we have miles to go before we finally evaporate in the noxious fumes and poisonous atmosphere we have created. Or…if you are so inclined, our world is awash in a growing hoard of demons whose foothold is gaining. These demons make Screwtape seem like a benign old grandfather, passing along his wisdom to his acolyte, but the acolyte has become the professional now, and is vying to unseat Lucifer for Top Demon status. Humans, ever afflicted with hubris, are sitting ducks, herds of sheep or packs of lemmings – take your pick – blithely oblivious of the creeping miasma of social justice from those who value materialism, fame, and self-aggrandizement, but most especially believing they have the right to determine the choices and decisions of their fellows.
That being said, there are plenty of people, many of whom congregate here, who are wise to the wily ways of demons, and being safety in numbers, it is good we have a place to shelter here at BW.com.
Hear! Hear! Great post! Thanks for sharing your views.
VERY WELL SAID !!!
“…the 1958 Walt Disney documentary, White Wilderness, Part II. In great part, it’s how the lemming-suicide myth began.
In the second video, you’ll see how similar film footage was created. Captured lemmings were placed on a turntable to simulate the migration and chased over a cliff into the sea.”
Interesting. I’ll have to watch that documentary. I think I do recall reading that the claims about lemming behavior was fiction.
I agree– Well Said!
But, are you sure there’s safety in numbers? Tell that to 6 million Jews…
Numbers are relative. If there had only been 3 million Nazis and the Jews had guns that situation would have been wholly unlike what transpired. The proof this is so is the continued existence of the Jewish State of Israel.
I’m hoping but no longer certain that there are superior numbers of real Americans who when push comes to shove will be on our side. Note that doesn’t mean a majority of Americans, just a superior number willing to act in whatever fashion is called for when the detriment to our society becomes too obvious for even a corrupt media to slant.
Regarding Piratology, somebody had a great quote reagrding Talk Like a Pirate Day – “I’d participate, but I don’t speak Somali”
Arrrr me matey. That be the truth.😆
That was me.
A big question about Fairfax’s proctor solution is… WHY IN THE ACTUAL F*** HAVE YOU NOT BEEN DOING THIS SINCE SEPTEMBER?!?
Sincerely,
A very p***ed off neighboring Arlington Parent
It’s all about two things:
I realize that you know this, but I was compelled to write it down.
Or, as I explained to some sympathetic Arlington parents as to the Teacher’s Unions’ rationale: “Becasue f*** you, that’s why”
Unfortunately, I find myself using similar phrasing in response to much of what is occurring in society today. My self-diagnosed Tourette syndrome is in overdrive lately.
I understand that compulsion. 🙂
Agreed with Scott on integrating Black History Month into regular history, also will never happen. Too many Power Pimps have too much of a stake and too much influence to let go of racial separatism
Back in my grade school days we had a schedule of topics that we studied at specific times of the year, determined by the grade you were in. In 5th grade we studied American History in detail, including segments on the Civil War and the Underground Railroad, and Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver, Frederick Douglas, etc. We learned about Crispus Attucks alongside Thomas Edison, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. We knew the names of these great Americans, and felt pride in all they accomplished for mankind. We were intrigued and inspired by people who worked their way up from slavery to positions of authority and respect.
Same here.
How can one ascribe the leftist/elitist penchant for tearing down everything good about this country and our history to anything other than hatred, envy and the desire to elevate themselves by bringing down the multitude of us who value and appreciate the goodness, while also recognizing the imperfection, of America.
What is taught in schools now and since the 70’s is a travesty, a well-planned and executed attack on our children, subtly and effectively turning them into indoctrinated parrots of evil ideology. The Teacher’s Union is nothing but a cover for the CCP. Both they and the department of eduction should be dissolved.
I wish I could say I was astute enough when my son was in school to be more aware and vigilant about what he was learning. I dropped the ball big time as did his dad. We allowed the public school system and later university to indoctrinate him into a progressive. Even while reading Ayn Rand and Tolkien, and believe it or not teaching himself Latin while reading Gibbon’s The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire, and listening to music like Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana, and instrumentals by Yanni, while in high school, the indoctrination embedded itself. We let it happen, blissfully unaware, so proud of his full scholarship for both undergrad and graduate studies, never thinking for one minute that underneath an education in geology at Notre Dame no less, he was being gulled and lured into a progressive mindset. Still….I’m seeing hints and glimpses that he may be seeing the truth behind the lies and propaganda, especially since the debacle of the election. I think there is hope for him.
I can see by what you say and the way you say it that you are a good, educated and conscientious person that I’m proud to have on my side. Don’t beat yourself up too badly over that situation, all is not lost.
You know the old saying, “If you’re not a liberal at 21 you have no heart, if you’re not a Conservative by 45 you have no brain.” … Or something like that, I’m paraphrasing.
Your son sounds smart enough to figure things out for himself. The thing is, with someone like that, they have to figure it out for themselves as they are otherwise locked in behind a nearly impenetrable shield of confirmation bias and peer approval.
I submit to you that had the indoctrination not embedded itself to the extent it did your son likely would not have gotten those full scholarships etc. In the modern educational system the deck is stacked and the cards marked.
I have a son of the same caliber but took a different approach. Because I had literally global experience prior to raising him I had a very different worldview than most parents around me. I encouraged him to consider using the military to get to where he wanted to be. (Note that when you use the military, the military also uses you. I was acutely aware of this and made sure he was too.) I and some friends managed to wrangle him a full scholarship paid for by the Navy through an obscure program that does that sort of thing. He got his first 4 years of school completely paid for including books, tuition and living expenses in exchange for a six year commitment as a Naval Officer. He chose aviation and put in his time, accruing 3 Master’s Degrees along the way. Today he’s second in command of a major Naval base and looking at a decent retirement at what I would consider a young age that will allow him to pursue his interests in aviation in a well paying civilian job.
Though I am exceedingly and obviously proud of him I’m not saying this to brag. I want people to understand that there are still avenues of approach available for their offspring that do not involve embedded indoctrination. People need to be aware of that so that they can avoid the pitfalls. It’s not easy to avoid the traps set by a stacked deck with marked cards but it is possible.
One of the greatest comforts to me as a result of this is not only a secure future for my son and his family but the knowledge, gained through him, that the people who run our military are not deceived by the Leftist embedded indoctrination. Those people are still patriots for the most part. If the collapse of our American Way of Life ever degrades this nation to the point where military power makes the difference I know which way those people will jump.
In fact a few years ago at the ceremony where my son graduated from the Naval War College (and the 3rd Masters Degree) I personally heard the DNO (Director of Naval Operations), an Admiral, remind the graduating class of their Oath. During the Obama Administration. This gives me considerable hope.
Thank you for your kind words and encouragement. I came from a military background and wish I had had the foresight, like you, to encourage my son to consider the military. In fact, while he was studying for his PhD at Notre Dame he was asked by a Navy recruitment officer to consider signing up for service in the nuclear sub program. He gave it some serious consideration and I certainly didn’t discourage him, but instead he stayed on to teach at ND and then take a position with NASA in Houston after his newly minted Masters in Chemical Engineering wife took a position with Exxon Mobile.
I will say that while his politics lean left, he lives quite conservatively – married 11 years, with 2 children who were never in daycare (he put his career on hold to be the stay-at-home dad) after this wife’s position transferred them to a refinery in Joliet, Ill. They have no debt, and live well under their means. Very family oriented and involved. Their childrearing practices are not at all progressive: gentle but firm guidance, no cable television, selective entertainment, electronic devices kept to a minimum and used under supervision, no cell phones for the kids. Both son and wife are Scout leaders (sadly, not the scouting program of yore). Well, I won’t go on – I’m just consoling myself at this point. So I am grateful for all that. He teaches geology at the Joliet Junior College, and is up for the professorship of the course once classes resume. Being employed in higher education almost demands at least a facade of leftist ideology, unfortunately. I wanted him to homeschool the grands, but he felt they would be better served otherwise. I highly disagreed, but failed to change his mind.
You are a father whose wisdom has yielded a son who has achieved great success. Congratulations! You both have a lot to be proud of and it is uplifting to hear about it. It’s gratifying to know you have chosen this location on the internet on which to spend some time. I like being in good company.
Since I’m the first to comment here I’ll throw one out to us Startoloungers. Ron Swanson made a great point in one comment about disabling that stupid autoplay that causes Rumble to autoplay the next video here. Can we make a thread off of my comment here for us to look for a solution & share notes?
I have also been unsuccessful in my search to disable the autoplay of rumble vids. I will keep looking, but I’m not sure if it’s possible without Scott’s help with the embedded video configuration.
Yes, please.
The “rel” option appears to be the solution when set to 0. (full Rumbleplayer documentation found here https://www.rumbleplayer.com/developers/Rumble-Player-API.html)
I tried to paste in a screenshot of the Optional config parameters section where this is explained, but no-go.
Example code based on the video on this page:
Rumble("play", {"video":{"id":"vb4w8n"},"div":"player","resize":"full","opts":["force_ga_load"], "rel": 0});As I thought, this will require the help from Web McMaster
You rock, Jonathan! Hopefully Scotty will see this…
I’d also hope that there is a way to activate the forward and back arrow keys to skip ahead and back in the video, and the up and down arrow keys to affect the volume.