So much is going on it’s hard to ‘pick’ just one thing to focus on…
Harvard is saying they are a ‘private’ college so don’t have to abide by the rules Trump has signed, but if that is actually true, WHY do they get Federal money? And the IRS is looking at their tax exempt status… Could get interesting.
The so called ‘innocent’ MS-13 guy in MD (who is an illegal from El Salvador) apparently isn’t as innocent as the left is saying, based on LEO reports. Van Hollen’s (D-MD) trip yesterday to ‘bust him out’ was a total failure. Van Hollen never got him released or even got to talk to him.
Even after SCOTUS slapped down Judge Boasberg, he’s STILL going after the administration, now saying he has ‘enough’ to file contempt charges…
There is apparently some ‘push back’ on the all female 10 minute Blue Origin flight (with NEW flight suits), questioning its effectiveness. Meh…
Boeing stands to lose another $1.2B this year, as China is apparently no longer accepting US built aircraft (they had, I think, 10 on order).
Newsome, CA’s gov, it now apparently suing the administration, saying the tariffs are illegal. This after he tried to negotiate ‘separate’ tariff deals for CA with various countries, saying CA is ‘the 5th largest economy’ in the world…
And so many others…sigh
Good people don’t like being called Nazis, and millions of them will go to the polls simply to vote against whoever is smearing them. So let that be a lesson to you asswipes who have been doing that!…
And in other news it is being said by those that know, Michele Obama has weighed in on the Illegal’s Children now. They’ve had over 20 years to solve this problem before it became President Trump’s crisis. They wanted to encourage these people to flood this country illegally. Why don’t they put some of their vast wealth where their mouth’s are to help these people stay south of her border or in Texas, instead of polluting our Cities?
In other words, shut up you Lefty Ladies, because you are part of the problem. So please just go away and enjoy the millions that you have pocketed since your hubby’s presidency .
And not one a single word about when Obama was encouraging these ILLEGAL’S and Unaccompanied Minors to come here. He even flew thousands of them in. Not a single word from Bubba Clinton whose scumbaggery foundation, and his sexual escapades or his criminal wife compromising our National security. Or their supposedly helping that criminal Bill, and Hill Clinton’s rebuilding Haiti and nothing was ever done. No not one world from Hillary who always opens up her big mouth to everything, so NO Hillary you have no business lecturing anyone about programs that your husband signed into Law when you both were screwing the American public….so sit down and STFU!
And talking about dummies how about Joe Biden’s come back speech the other night, where he called Black people “COLORED” PEOPLE! ? Thank God he’s in a place where he can’t hurt anyone now!. Another Brain-Dead EX- President who thinks that he’s the Know!
Harvard WILL lose their case. If a school takes $1 of federal money, they have to follow ALL federal rules.
This was established by Hillsdale in the 1970’s and confirmed by Grove City in 1984, and several more conservative institutions since then.
Was it Harvard or somewhere else that went through this a couple years ago with military recruiters? Yet more precedent…
Jon- Agreed!!!
I got a big kick out of the media calling the ladies on the Blue Origin flight “crew”. I don’t think they know crew actually work during flights. No mention if anyone blew their cookies during the ride.
Bless her heart, Katy Perry gave an interview afterwards that was complete verbal diarrhea. If I had some talent I would add the speech to a video of a cow with the scours.
Boeing got REALLY stupid when they set up facilities in China to build airliners, and train the Chinese on the intricacies of building current large aircraft. Idiots. As soon as the Chinese think they are up to speed, Boeing’s world wide business will go away, as Boeing will never be competitive cost-wise after that point. No idea what idiot in Boeing thought this would be a good idea, but the workers should hunt him/them down and hang ’em.
Boeing is interesting, and definitely the PRC is interesting.
Re: BlueOrigin.
Biden regime was pushing a series of three launches for Artemis, for various ends. Would have been darkly hilarious if DIE technical project management had blown up one of those with passengers, but it is probably better than residual sanity instead caused schedule delays.
BlueOrigin is maybe an also ran, but bravo for someone who wanted that flight making it happen in a safe and relatively sane manner.
Broader legal system point on several issues, things are certain to be difficult. Americans have been for generations divided on unstated legal questions that are not truly settled even inside someone’s heart. Then we have some number of academic trained communists, who have an entirely different way of experiencing stuff, and have a different perception of fair and of resolved. This means that we will not have any good fast resolution to any of our legal discussions.
Re: Harvard, and the other universities, I think broad penalties are, given full consideration of the context, narrow and quite targeted.
The medical research matter, is not actually an argument, because Harvard cannot be trusted not to hire Mengeles, and the medical research of Mengeles tends to actually be of zero value, not whatever value Harvard might administratively assign to it.
I tend to think that neither the field of Education nor the field of Engineering belong at research universities, which sounds even handed, but is not. I think Education is theoretically unsound, and being at a research university lends it undeserved prestige, and makes its ‘research’ seem more valid to people than it can possibly be. In particular, the parts of the Engineering Education sub-field that borrow from Education are potentially harmful. Engineering, I think it is more practical to ensure a future for engineering professional schools by removing them from universities than it is to expel every other academic field from the universities.
Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics maybe do not deserve a kicking for gross stupidity.
In general, I am not of the opinion that ‘we’ can verify that ‘science’ done at universities is science and not fraud. I think some PhD can maybe be equipped to verify parts of their own work, but I have a very narrow view of that. There are things about personal character, incentives, and the ideas borrowed from other fields or specialists that ‘we’ simply do not have a shared knowledge of. I personally leap to the conclusion that characters and incentives may be extremely bad, and I think I can show that some of the borrowed ideas were not used correctly. We can concede that I am personally an awful human being, and am personally grossly ignorant about many relevant things, and that does not necessarily exclude and invalidate all of my critiques of tertiary schools.
I think that a lot of the behavioralist fields, when you read between the lines of the speech control, are saying that their political position is that 90%+ of Americans should be murdered.
I think it is very bad for them to be saying this, because I think they might be serious about it, might try to act on it, and might be successful at getting students to do some of it.
I do not think that the faculty, in general, have honestly re-triangulated, and are honestly trying to correct course. I think that senior university leadership must either be blind or be dishonest. Blind is perhaps most likely in the majority of cases, because faculty specialize, they are rarely actually functioning generalists.
I think the appropriate remedy is to replace replaceable leadership until policy changes are verified on a half-dozen to a dozen points. I think any amount of financial pressure brought to bear may be legitimate, even if the expected value of the future research is not actually zero or negative, because I have long felt that the winning mental strategy is ‘if in serious doubt, write off potential gains, and walk away’. It irritates me that the state level public discussion has continued to be about investment in tertiary education, and gains for the state government doing the investing.
But, I know I have biases in analyzing this, that are dysfunctional to the point of arguably counting as mental illness.
The missteps of academia, and the problems of the place they are in, is several topics that are of great academic interest, that the academic consensus is not well equipped to answer. Academia and the public do not have the shared understandings to discuss the now very important differences of opinion and perception, and resolve them in any way that persuades everyone.
I think the academic world has been having an ability to assign an value to academic occupations, and had those accepted by the public, and that academia’s belief in that valuation is too high compared to the valuation assigned to ‘uneducated’ occupations.
Natural mistake, very easy to make when trying to project the future, given how extreme the recent past changes have been. But, cutting the federal research programs, the federal loans, and the educational grants, and letting the faculty hustle, might be the best way to reset prices and allow for a correct accounting of the economy, and relative economic value to be made.
The economy was shut down, to a significant degree, very expensively. Lots of people have a pressing need to stop that from happening again. The costs of research eliminated, or just stopped and restarted, by budget cuts, may still be better than the costs of otherwise gaining assurances.
Trump is certainly quite seriously suspect in some of the things he is responsible for, as well, but on this policy I think he is representing the best interests of the public.
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r.e. Boeing sales to China: I read recently that the aircraft destined for China had been partially paid for and that there was a backlog for this particular model to other customers. If that’s true, that’s a win for Boeing – pocketed money from the deposit and early delivery for other customers.
Blue Origin – seems that they’re fighting to remain viable and visible. This “flight”, while nominal in the whole, was more of a publicity stunt than anything.
All- Excellent points! WN- I’m not ‘sure’ Boeing isn’t going to lose the $$$.