Obama: College for Everybody with No SATs?!

Senator Obama now has a solution to education: little or no testing and, of course higher taxes.[1] This is a predictable hope from somebody who practiced ‘community organizing,’ a crude euphemism for rabble-rousing the poor in Chicago using the Communist Saul Alinsky Methods of radicalism. Obama admired Saul Alinsky, a loudly proud Marxist and street hustler. So did Hillary.

The difficulty in the education of minorities is described by the existence of a social phenomenon known as the education gap. [2]  This gap is the difference between average test scores of white and blacks 100- 85 for a 15 point difference. These 15 IQ points have even been acknowledged by the New York Times.[3] This gap was first noticed about 1905 [4] in the early research on cognitive skills and has persisted in almost forms of education in all the school districts and is described in detail by the publication of The Bell Curve.[5] There have been hundreds of millions of IQ tests given since 1910 and these tests appear in different forms such as the military tests and some tests administered by corporations to screen potential employees. This summary of the Bell Curve studies merely stated the obvious existence of such a gap and was based on public test scores and was immediately assaulted by the left as racist.  Perhaps the critics think the book actually changed the test scores. Many seem to think that the publication of his book actually created the gap, or worse. Minorities cannot compete with whites on standardized tests. We can all argue about this gap and the reasons that it exists and grope for ‘root causes’ and other clichés, but the fact remains that minorities cannot as yet compete against whites in academia, the corporate work force, or more particularly Asians, in the academic arena. So, in nearly all of the 14,000 school districts across the land there are no school systems where blacks routinely score higher than whites on standardized tests with roughly 50:50 population ratios. These tests have been stringently rewritten expunge the ‘white bias’ and ‘be fair’ and when re-administered have produced the same results; A15 point deficiency is nearly always observed. If the 15 point gap was a myth then we would expect to see about half the school districts showing blacks populating the upper half of the academic population and we observe essentially none of this,. Money is not the solution as the Washington, DC, school system spends the most money on their students and have probably the worst academic record in America.[6] Money is clearly not the answer.[7] The lefties tacitly admit (without saying it directly) that affirmative action is absolutely necessary for many minorities to compete in our society. They either don’t have the cognitive skills or refuse to use them, or a combination of both. The use of race-norming was used to disguise this gap. [8]

In any given large group, noting that statistics for intelligence do not apply to individuals, we can expect to find a bell curve. There are bell curves for blacks and whites and Asians and Hispanics and Jews and such that all have a similar bell shape except that the mean is different for certain groups. The width of the curve is expressed in standard deviations.[9] So, if we choose to discuss ‘purple people’ to avoid any race arguments we might find that the IQ ranges from 65, below which there is no way to measure the central cognitive tendency ‘g’ to a median of 100 to an upper limit of about 180 or so. Traditionally, those with higher IQs have gone on to college and the SATs correlate well with IQ and successful graduation. Generally, the minimal IQ level for a medical doctor is about 120 and is about the same for lawyers and CEOs as the latter pair seem to attract the most intelligent.  College is appropriate for about 20% of our citizens.

Okay, now we have to realize that in a modern society we must have sanitation engineers, clerks, teachers, physicists and brain surgeons and that these jobs require different cognitive skills. Our society would have to change significantly and approach something resembling Cambodia during the Pol Pot Khmer Rouge days to ‘equalize’ our citizens in jobs and economic terms.[10] Those people with obviously higher IQs or with soft hands were suffocated with plastic so that the resultant society was more homogeneous. The Russians performed a similar social miracle with the liquidation of the stubborn kulaks[11] and that solved some major problems in their utopia. In the Cambodian society, the skill base was strictly limited to agricultural work except for the political dictatorship so that anybody could trade jobs with anybody else and the outcome would not change. The cities were emptied. Those who complained were liquidated thus enhancing the food supply for the dedicated and true believer and facilitated the streamlining of the government. The left likes things simple and tidy.

So, how do we choose our brain surgeons? By lot or political party loyalty norms as the Russians did for 74 years? Can we imagine electrical engineers with an IQ of 85 designing new and better gadgets while another purple person with 100 points higher works as a sanitation engineer? Yes, we certainly can as we inspect the vision of the left.  In our purple society we would still have to match job skills with the cognitive skill base required for that job or accept disaster. Disaster is very acceptable for the left and that is why they would accept a society based on welfare and having most of the citizens work for the government. There is no evidence that the far left can even tolerate a prosperous society.

The Obama Solution to the problem of education lies in the leftist intrinsic hatred for private property and capitalism. He is a product of the gutters of Chicago and rabid Marxism of the mean streets and brings this openly into his campaign. His angry wife parrots this view. The leftist societies like the USSR, Cuba, North Korea and other social latrines are abject failures and everybody knows this. But, for the rabid left, which can be the only way to describe the left-liberals in the US now, this IS a solution. Big government is the only answer to any left liberal question and dumbing down[12] our society by placing the ‘average’ person in control of the economic and governmental levers of society is exactly what they need for a political success. The poor have nothing according to the preaching of the far left so why not vote for Obama and hope for a job as a university professor or brain surgeon or court magistrate?

The proof of the far left and their intent appears quite openly in the failure of the massive social programs such as HUD, War on Poverty, The Great Society and other monstrosities. They have never apologized for these outrages. They only demand higher taxes and opportunities for more of the same. More proof of what the unsupervised leftists in the minority sectors is seen when mostly black liberals get control of cities such as New Orleans, Baltimore, Philadelphia, NYC, East St Louis, Detroit and others. These places are the centers of crime, sloth, sodomy, shootings and abject failure:

Murder in the Cities with left-liberals in control.

So, if Senator Obama wants to convince us of his intentions with this kind of fluff:

"China is graduating eight times as many engineers as we are," he said. Obama, rightly, noted that that's a big problem "in a world where good jobs can be located anywhere there's an Internet connection -- where a child in Denver is competing with a child in Beijing and Bangalore."[13] [Emphasis is mine in all quotes.]

China has 1.4 billion people, some 4.3 times our populating. India is doing better with the highest educated work force on the planet. We actually expect more, but China has a billion poor so who knows?  A child from Denver whose parents have little use for education and are more interested in sports or drugs cannot compete with anybody unless he or she has the drive and cognitive skills to get into college and work hard to learn engineering. Obama will provide a free ride here with no academic responsibilities. This is a circus.

Obama rants on with this phony promise:

“Then, Obama said he'd make community college free, as in beer.”As president, I will ... make community college completely free," he said.

In return, students must agree to teach, volunteer, or join the Peace Corps, Obama said, curiously leaving out the military as means through which kids can "serve their country" to get a free pass into higher education.”[14]

Teach what? How to be a loser and political parasite?

Obama, if his Ivy League education is authentic and he is not just some token who has had very narrow political training, which might be supported by observing that he listened to Jeremiah Wright for 20 years, a lunatic and hopeless racist, merely honks the sorry old kazoo of the socialist left. They want more ‘education.’ This is elitist paternalism.[15] The left still believe that they have something to contribute to society beyond sodomy, chaos, failed government and the mind-expanding effects of drugs.

To think that we cannot test individuals to see where they might be best employed in our society argues against China and India’s impressive academic credentials. They don’t test?

We have to accept the very ugly fact that Obama is just the far left product of gutter Communism and that he knows there is no hope for the inner cities without taxing the rest of society and reducing the suburbs to the same social and economic levels. We can look to Washington, DC and ask: why can’t you make education work there with the excessive money that is wasted there? Why not explain to us about the sloth and crime rates in New Orleans, Detroit and other leftist enclaves? Do they have community colleges in those places? How much education does a drug dealer have to have to make a million dollars in the hood?

Does society really need a college education for their dope dealers, abortionists, muggers, welfare recipients and rabble rousers? Why not convert our prisons into community colleges and see how that works?

Without testing, the left can always claim success and avoid any responsibility for the failure of their politically defined ‘graduates.’ Metrics always sort out the losers and show us what the left is like and what they have to offer.

An ignorant population is the only one that the leftists can govern so they pursue the dumbing down of American so their political constituents can compete. Money and power are what they want and the tax base can be milked until the system collapses then they will blame capitalism. Dekulakization[16]is their goal. They cannot tolerate those who oppose socialism or have the cognitive skills to finess the crass tenets of the forms of socialism that has ruined Europe and most of Asia. The let has learned nothing from the 100,000,000 dead bodies they left scattered around in Europe in Marxist purges.

If they cannot round up the non-Marxist anti-believers they can certainly tax them away from their power base, quench their individualism  and teach the proper use of socialism to their cadres in free community colleges. The government will pay them impressive salaries with the best benfits in the world.  Such is happening to California now, a hopeless case heading for certain bankruptcy and probable civil war.

Obama is a slick  politial constuct carved out of primitive leftist political theory and can best work the dispicable  levers of racism and marxian ecnomnics for the Democrats. It a testamant to the Democratic Party that Saul Alinsky, whose mental and personal hygienes could not approach the common goat, is the enchanting idol for our two presidential candidates. That is very telling.

rycK

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The EcoNazis and Reality: Klaus Offers to Debate Al Gore.

The flight from reason of liberals is based on the frantic quest for political power [read tax mongering here] and has elevated al Gore and his EcoNazis[1] to grand heights.  There is so little time left to save the planet!  Al Gore has pledged he will eliminate the internal combustion engine and other anti-capitalist maneuvers to save the planet, or, in the immortal words of Ted Turner to ‘save us from cannibalism,” or words to that effect. No matter that their computer models and other feather and drum ensembles give the wr0ng predictions. This is all politics and devoid of any science.

All this hysteria is enabled by mental freak show hucksters like Rachel Carson and screeds like her maudlin screed Silent Spring.[2]She was sick in body and mind and lashed out in fury at something that did no harm. DDT is not harmful to birds or anything else except mosquitoes.[3]  This bit of pseudo science actually surpassed the political follies of Lysenkoism[4] [5], the wild magnetic healing machines of Mesmer[6] and reminds us of the wizard Merlin. [7] All this is phony and all attempts to ‘predict’ the future of natural resources, temperature and such have resulted in abject failure. The phony book: The Limits to Growth[8]used acomputer model that hilariously predicted we would run out of oil, copper and lead by 1992 and deplete our natural gas reservoirs by 1993. These fools actually produced a revision of their ‘model’ in the 90s which was ignored.

 But, when there is a mass movement, the loonies pile on the mattresses as Eric Hoffer [9] warned us.

Read this summary of this True Believer and see if the description fits the contemporary left-liberals and their racist allies:

“Hoffer argues that mass movements such as Fascism and Communism spread by promising a glorious future. To be successful, these mass movements need the adherents to be willing to sacrifice themselves and others for the future goals. To do so, mass movements need to devalue both the past and the present. Mass movements appeal to frustrated people who are dissatisfied with their current state, but are capable of a strong belief in the future.  As well, mass movements appeal to people who want to escape a flawed self by creating an imaginary self and joining a collective whole. Some categories of people who may be attracted to mass movements include poor people, misfits, and people who feel thwarted in their endeavors.”

This describes losers, the soul of the Party of Democrats as we now know it.

The loonies and others described by Hoffer include a significant number of ‘scientists, who, in nonscientific mandates, tell us that the ‘science is over’ and what they offer is fact. Science does not operate in this manner.   Science is always open to discussion of data and theories are always subject to verification and question. Not so with the EcoNazis, who pronounce that their stuff is the Final Solution to ecology and there is no need to question their words. The arrogance of this stance soars beyond ignorance and sleaze, but it works for the politicians. In the political arena, the ‘facts’ can always be forced to confess to any allegation. Scientific charlatans can bring about this stunning political feat by forming a simple ‘consensus.’ We can just hold a meeting, smoke some dope in university settings, and decide what the current laws of physics ought to be if most of the attendees are merely ‘concerned’ and federal funds are on the drum.[10] The fact that the weather veered off in its own direction made the ‘scientists’ and their models look like fools. [11]

It seems that 21,000 scientists, I among them [12], have refuted this garbage but Al Gore and his political minstrel show players honk their kazoos and calls for more taxes and bans on energy. They have nothing except our tax monies.

The Czech President Klaus now is ready to debate al Gore on climate change:  

“Washington - Czech President Vaclav Klaus said Tuesday he is ready to debate Al Gore about global warming, as he presented the English version of his latest book that argues environmentalism poses a threat to basic human freedoms. "I many times tried to talk to have a public exchange of views with him, and he's not too much willing to make such a conversation," Klaus said. "So I'm ready to do it."[13] [Emphasis is mine in all quotes.]

The phony scientists cannot stand to have their final conclusions questioned or their computer models tested as they know that the scientific basis is equivalent to shoe scrapings. Thus, they must keep silent and appeal to the political groups who need the money and could care less about the weather or the science.

C. Edmund Wright comments on this:

“When you understand this concept and examine the theory (also known as fact) that extreme environmentalism is a totalitarian ideology, it makes sense on many levels. Not the least of which are the resulting effects of totalitarianism or enviromentalism [sic] on free markets and more pointedly... the vast "coincidence" of the leftist and green movements' leaders. Apparently, inside The Beltway pundits have never bothered to even examine it. And they admit it.”[14]

This is the tip-off: the EcoNazis formed ranks about the time the USSR went bust and placed their efforts in other areas. They relied on the Clean Air Act and Endangered Species Acts to work their radical Marxist political levers.

From the 20s Von Mises warned us of Communism[15] Later Hayek, about 1943, ampllified his remarks and cofirmed his theories.

 “Hayek argued that countries such as the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany had already gone down the "road to serfdom", and that various democratic nations are being led down the same road. In The Road to Serfdom he wrote: "The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics it becomes necessarily the supreme rule." [16]

Now, Communism andEnvironmentalismare indistinguishable.

Al Gore’s Marxist credentials are well established as he inherited this disease from his father, a stooge of the Russians as a lackey for Armand Hammer whose father founded the Communist Party USA with Stalin’s blessings.[17] So, why should we continue to believe in this worthless quest for our tax money? Is this not mere Marxism in a green skirt?

The answer is frustration, hate, sorrow and drug addiction on the part of nearly half of our society. Hoffer described these people perfectly. Part of our society has degenerated into a quivering mass of maudlin, whining criminals and sodomites who have no future without feeding on the tax base. We have 2 million criminals in prison at this time and probably 5-10 million felons running free in the streets. The left welcomes Hispanic criminals into their midst in many cities and protects them from authorities and justice. The rabid left use racism, crime, support illegal immigration, promote drug use and celebrate addiction and grunt and grab for public money in every corner of our society. They are frustrated and lost.  They infest our schools and colleges and ‘teach’ anti-Americanism as they promote Marxism and its later forms. They have no shame, but do have the wild support of the United Nations and   any third world country that begs for alms.  They ally with Islamo-Fascism who chant ‘Death to America’ along with the terrorists. Depression and revolution are their only roads to victory.

Al Gore will not debate the issue as the phony EcoNazism is political and has no basis in fact.

Our society is sick and Obama and his racists will exploit that sickness.

rycK

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The NYT Talks about Telling the Truth with Half Truths. Walter Duranty Would Be so Proud.

In a decent propaganda piece the writer needs to give mostly the facts as Hanoi Hanna [1]did in her Vietnamese radio broadcasts to the US military forces or as sanctioned by Omar Shariff, in the movie Tamarind Seed:[2] “Tell the truth most of the time so that an occasional lie will be believed when necessary.” [or words to that effect]. Here, one of the lesser, but still dedicated liberals tries his hand at explaining the ‘truth’ about the ‘truth’ about the oil crisis and that here is only one alternative.

The construction, entitled Truth or Consequences[3] by Tom Friedman begins with this:

“Imagine for a minute, just a minute, that someone running for president was able to actually tell the truth, the real truth, to the American people about what would be the best — I mean really the best — energy policy for the long-term economic health and security of our country. I realize this is a fantasy, but play along with me for a minute. What would this mythical, totally imaginary, truth-telling candidate say?” [Emphasis is mine in all quotes.][Also, this link references all quotes in this blog unless specifically designed otherwise.]

In terms of a propagandistic construction this is not bad as the door here is opened for speculation about what politicians might say under a heavy dose of truth serum. Of course,   this is not reasonable as our planetary culture seems to utilize some macabre reverse Darwinian Selection process that selects the worst possible liars and sleaze bags as our ‘leaders,’ but we can play along here for educational purposes. We already know what the NYT intends to tell us, because that is part of the party line: we don’t like private property or capitalism. The key to this screed is based on ‘telling the whole truth’ and this will be suppressed today, as usual,  at the Walter Duranty Papers.[4]  They deal only in half truth mixed with leftist ideology and cryptomisoxeny. [5]

More oozes forth:

“For starters, he or she would explain that there is no short-term fix for gasoline prices.”

 Now, that is the truth, but we need a little truthful fluffiness to give the reader the false notion that the rest of this essay is also grounded in truth. Note the little gender slip here. Hillary is out as far as the Times is concerned. [6]

“Cynical ideas, like the McCain-Clinton summertime gas-tax holiday, would only make the problem worse,…”

The cynicism here refers to a tax cut, something so abhorrent to the left that it cannot even be discussed with any coherence. His brother in economics on the NYT staff [some krugmaniacal essayist] actually uses terms like Tax Zombies [7]to criticize and demonize those who would take money away from the ‘people.’ Actually in Europe, now having riots and blockages and more,  the 19% VAT tax might be lifted with some effect.[8] But, as they could not handle the cars being burned or being overrun by Islamo-Fascists either so we shall see. Losing 100,000,000 good citizens since 1870 in nasty wars has affected their gene pool we might surmise as we view the incoherent sputum of European Leadership such as the Prince of Wales. [9]This effect will be discussed later in my refutation of this NYT fluff.