Read the Daily Blat "Our Opinion" column of the 20th of May on "Stem-Care. To me, it was little more than an attempt by Ms. Bresch (nee Manchin), to try and give her father a big plus comes the General Election?
How anyone can get too woozy in the knees at a $5,000,000., donation on Stem (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Care (Curious, Active, Resilient and engaged), by a company that paid almost a $500,000., penalty/ fine for overcharging Medicare and Medicaid for EpiPens is beyond me? Plus, it is a 10 year program ($500,000.,/ Year). Smells a lot like all the little checks that come out of DuPont/ Chemours to various organizations to show what good neighbors and citizens the Companies are supposed to be?
There is NO doubt of the need for the children of West Virginia to get a far, far better education than what most are receiving not just today but in the next few decades. They will NOT succeed in getting this much deserved and needed education.
That is correct, I just posted that these kids are going to continue to fail for the foreseeable future. No matter the Pay raises, the Benefit subsidizing or whatever. This State sadly has a substandard Education System with little hope of improvement for sometime. And lacks the will and desire to change the System for the kids wellbeing.
The most needed instruction in the STEM courses will continue to attract some very smart kids but far too many no matter how smart will not get the formal education to tackle the courses in higher education that would enable to excel in the real world.
A Syndicated Columnist by the name of Mona Charon had a column in the Daily Blat on the 20th where she said a thing or two that made me blink and re-read it a few times. I am going to quote the passage from her upcoming book that will be out on 26 June.
"How do you mold decent conduct? Conscientious parents who teach right from wrong and a culture that reinforces those lessons. The feminists helped to weaken some of the mores and institutions that tended to control male lust and abuse. (That sentence said a mouth full). At the time, they thought they were fighting an unjust "double standard" but the sexual revolution damaged all standards and we continue to sift through the fallout".
There is a lot more in that column that makes for good and reasonable reading, but I was mostly impressed with the above.
Having as so many of the younger folks did not lived through the Bra Waving and Draft Card Burning 60s/ 70s, I had the opportunity to watch the unravelling of hundreds of years of "Standards".
One of the most detrimental today and I have listened to ladies who are well educated talk about not wanting to be hit if they do something wrong or just the simple lack of courtesy shown to women. I still open doors and my wife will get ticked at me sometimes for demanding that she allow me to open her car door or any door for her. There are reasons that it may be inconvenient for us, but it is the way I was raised. RESPECT, COURTESY, DIGNITY- these are not bad things for you, ladies.
And I noted too these ladies a few weeks back that I did not subscribe to the knock them out approach if they chose to not agree with a particular way they are being treated? I was also raised that you do not hit a woman. Today, the women in many cases are insulted if they are not treated equally- a good punch in the mouth for example.
It is noteworthy that many of the Ladies today are tough as nails and can hold their own for a while in a fisticuff. Even to the point of winning the brawl. That does not impress as my Aunt would take one of the old style glass beer mugs and clear a bar with it and not a man would take a swing at her. It just wasn't done.
We have lost so much as the in general men hating women of the 70s that took over as the second tier leaders of organizations like the National Organization for Women if I may quote Ms. Charon again? She noted these women lost sight of basic morality. Definition: NOUN
- principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behavior.
- a particular system of values and principles of conduct, especially one held by a specified person or society. (I will emphasize "Society" far more than myself as a person).
This "we want to be not just equal but better than you", has cost them more than many can understand or even recognize?
I grew up in a time when the man ruled the roost. Went out to "earn the bacon" and than came home expecting the woman to have it cooked for him. Times have changed, many woman are out working in world versus being the CEO of their homes and make also in many cases more money that the "significant other" if the one is even working?
The "stay at home spouse" being a man is not such a bad thing now if mutually agreed on? I have not been one in my time, but am not afraid of a kitchen, a mop or laundry. Just a matter of things that need doing and I do them accordingly. How about you fellas?
On a more real issue in the State Court System is the Audit that found some of the Justices and Staff were a bit loose with using State vehicles for no one seems to know what? Just and another example of the Abuse of Position, Power and Authority that goes on here. But as they like to say here in Vienna, "Don't worry about it, the City will pay for it". 'nuff said'.