EDU-NATIONAL DISGRACE

The 'education' unions in America are peopled by the same low-life, pinko activists as those in Australia. 

To these intellectual vandals the whole idea of 'education' comes way down the list of desirable outcomes after personal ambition, money for nothing, status, virtue signalling, political correctness etc. Thomas Sowell charts the political bastardy in not allowing 'charter' schools to open, usually because the charter system, though still public, gives meritocracy room to develop and the socialists "don lak tha'" 

As a result of the charter schools' educational achievements, it is not uncommon for thousands of children to be on waiting lists to get into such schools -- in New York City, tens of thousands.
This represents a huge opportunity for many low-income, minority youngsters who have very few other opportunities for a better life. But, to politicians dependent on teachers' unions for money and votes, charter schools are expendable.
In various communities around the country, charter schools are already being prevented from moving into empty school buildings, which would allow them to admit more children from waiting lists.
Denying these children what can be their one chance in life is a new low, even for politicians.

.....Such comparisons in New York City showed, almost every time, a majority of the students in the traditional public school scoring in the bottom half in both math and English, while the percentage of charter school students scoring in the top half was some multiple of the percentage of other students scoring that high.  [Thomas Sowell]

To see the results of our own rapidly deteriorating, semi-socialist educational system we only have to observe how the grades of Australian students are falling.

I suspect that if one plotted a graph charting the plunge it would be roughly equal to the amount of wasted extra money both Labor and  the 'liberals' (Labor-lite under Turnbull) have shovelled into the system.

THINGS FALL APART

Female Presbyterian minister standing on the steps shouts at Trump visiting the Tree of Life Synagogue: 

"you're not welcome here, we welcome everybody".

She's completely unaware of the absurdity of the statement.
Its almost a haiku of cognitive dissonance and yet the left insiders no longer possess the ability to recognise the contradictions emerging from their own mouths.

A 'blood dimmed tide' indeed

YES, NO, BUT, WHAT THE!

Marx goes PoMo via his nefarious acolytes never ending quest to destroy the most successful civilisation our flawed human world has ever achieved, primarily because it did so on the 'wings' of the Judeo-Christian worldview:

"The beginnings of identity politics can be traced to 1973, the year the first volume of Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago—a book that demolished any pretense of communism’s moral authority—was published in the West. The ideological challenge of socialism was fading, its fighting spirit dwindling. This presented a challenge for the Left: how to carry on the fight against capitalism when its major ideological alternative was no longer viable?

The Left found its answer in an identity politics that grew out of anti-colonialism. Marx’s class struggle was reformulated into an ethno-racial struggle—a ceaseless competition between colonizer and colonized, victimizer and victim, oppressor and oppressed. Instead of presenting collectivism and central planning as the gateway to the realization of genuine freedom, the new multiculturalist Left turned to unmasking the supposed power relations that subordinated minorities and exploited third world nations.

..........The original battleground was the American university, where, as Bruce Bawer writes in The Victims’ Revolution: The Rise of Identity Politics and the Closing of the Liberal Mind,
The point [became] simply to “prove”—repetitively, endlessly—certain facile, reductive, and invariably left-wing points about the nature of power and oppression. In this new version of the humanities, all of Western civilization is not analyzed through the use of reason or judged according to aesthetic standards that have been developed over centuries; rather, it is viewed through prisms of race, class, and gender, and is hailed or condemned in accordance with certain political checklists.  "[M Conttinetti]

Western civilisation is a mess, even at its loftiest point it was riddled with weaknesses, betrayal, dishonour, corruption and every failure known to mankind(sin?), but like Churchill's take on Democracy it was infinitely preferable to its alternatives:

"...indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…"

It appears that our erstwhile younger folk egged on by the globalist elite and desacrilized Hollywood sybarites and 're-educated' by neo-Marxist neophyte totalitarians with a penchant for allowing  children to direct the 'learning' (via critical theory from the Frankfurt school) resulted in cohorts of  graduates with a notable inability to think, reason research and/or comprehend consequences, we now end up with a voting population ripe for conquest.

As I have said before and will repeat ad nauseum; when they get what they think they want they are not going to like what they actually get....if history is anything to go by and unlike the bulk of educationalists today I believe history is an accurate indicator for the future.

STEAMING SWAMP PILE

Cognitive dissonance and Trump derangement syndrome are like trans-rational dance partners:

"Oh, and it’s all Trump’s fault because Trump is magical and omnipotent and he personally approves Arab hit team operations in Asia Minor. Or maybe it’s Jared Kushner who did that. It’s hard to know which of the White House masterminds (who we are simultaneously informed are scatter-brained half-wits) is pulling the strings around the world. After all, no Neo-Dark Age potentate ever murdered anybody until Felonia Milhous von Pantsuit lost." [K Schlichter]

HEY DUDE, I LOVE YOUR TATOOS MAN...

I have just read a post about an experiment in America where a drug was administered to a group of volunteers for the express purpose of 'making them more friendly towards refugees/immigrants'.

[The title of the study is, "Oxytocin-enforced norm compliance reduces xenophobic outgroup rejection." (Reference: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 Aug 29;114(35):9314-9319.)]

Huxley embraces Orwell.

I also happened to be watching TV last night, a favoured programme which for 3 seasons has managed to maintain some balance in the political arena...not so with the new series. It has adopted a much more radicalised left-wing perspective even getting Hillary Clinton in to lecture the viewers about 'loving multiculturalism and hating nationalism'....this is a direct attack on the concept of countries having borders and an unrepentant promotion of the idea of globalisation. As in the study of Oxytocin the idea is to change behaviour, not address legitimate issues such as overcrowding, the loss of identity, crime, etc

Behind this agenda is a belief that the human being is nothing more than a biological machine to be manipulated by those in power to do what they believe is best for everyone[actually themselves]. With a TV programme it is possible to switch off as I did, however when it gets to the point of tampering with our water supply the effects are much more sinister.

Welcome to our Brave New World.

PS......thank you Hollywood for being so stupidly unsubtle which provides me with the opportunity to stop watching TV and begin to reawaken my studies of the glories of Western Culture. So much to catch up on, so much wealth and richness of reading.

MIKES ART PROFILE

I am beginning to emerge from a long hiatus regarding art and am re-publishing my Wix art profile detailing some works over the years...appreciate any and all feedback.

Because this is an ongoing process I realise that I have duplicated some images and have left others out but I am editing every day and would appreciate suggestions.

Ciao

https://mcmeekanmike.wixsite.com/artprofile

EXPERT, SCHMEXPERT

Leave it to our 'expert betters' to keep on keeping on with the comedy gold routines:

"When Trump’s electoral victory became apparent, Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman warned that the world was “very probably looking at a global recession, with no end in sight”. In fact, since the election of Trump, America has achieved solid and uninterrupted economic growth. Unemployment, and particularly black unemployment, is lower than it has been for many years. Home ownership is up. The stock market continues to climb. New industries have started and old ones have been revived. Trump’s America is prospering."[Hal Colebatch]

Pretty much every 'expert' these days is more influenced by ideology than fact and they prove it every time they predict some new doom and gloom scenario. The population explosion, the starvation of the world, the world running out of fossil fuels, the climate change scam, you name it they have got it wrong.

In fact just like the 'magicians' of Pharaohs court when confronted with Moses, all they manged to do was make a bad situation worse. Follow the money (especially taxpayer dollars) and you find the motive.