Saturday, January 11, 2025
I got a feelin' called the DEI blues
It’s been a tough week for DEI. Maybe many on the Left are singing that song by Hank Williams about having a feeling called the blues since the fire hydrants didn’t pump water.
It’s hard to believe that a city (or state) can spend so much money on DEI and end up with so many incompetent people running things. Maybe they need to check out the courses and ask if anyone is teaching anything about resolving anything. I guess it was all about feelings and social justice.
Like other blue spaces, Los Angeles is paying the price for focusing on DEI rather than results. Let’s check the story from Joel Kotkin:
This disaster reflects the failure of the one-party progressivism currently dominating governmental structures. In this worldview, basic infrastructure is less important than addressing climate change and “social justice”; measures such as building dams or hardening the electric grid are demoted to a secondary role, with catastrophic effects.
While the fire may not reverse this mentality, it has demolished the reputations of two major adherents: LA Mayor Karen Bass and California Gov. Gavin Newsom. Even as federal authorities warned of fires, Bass elected to take a junket to Ghana at the behest of President Biden. She came back to a city ablaze, with thousands of Angelinos having lost their homes and businesses.
Yes, a bad day for Karen and Gavin too. Of course, Karen can always move to Cuba and tell us about their wonderful power grid and health care system. Or Gavin can always pursue a career doing Brylcreem commercials. Wouldn’t you love to see Gavin saying “A Little Dab’ll Do Ya!”
The LA fire episode will convince many to vote differently while others will restart their lives elsewhere. It will be the nightmare of nightmares to rebuild these homes in light of all the regulations in what they used to call the Golden State. Add to this that the insurance companies pulled out and most people can’t just write a check to bring back their dream homes. It may be cheaper to cut your losses and head to another state where starting over might be a better option.
What about voters? Will they change? I’m not sure because so many have benefitted, and will continue to benefit, from government or the public sector unions. Of course, it may change when the Democrat legislature realizes that there is no money no matter how much they hate Trump.
Maybe the silver lining is that voters will finally figure out that having a city run by lesbians may not be as important as having fire hydrants that pump water. In the end, city councils and local government are about taking care of people, not just fulfilling gender equity fantasies that cost money and graduate such incompetent people.
Our prayers and best wishes are with those impacted. We’d love to have you in Texas but please don’t forget why you left California.
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I got a feelin' called the DEI blues — It's been a tough week for DEI. https://t.co/LXYlQvhfei
— American Thinker (@AmericanThinker) January 11, 2025
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January 11, 1989: President Reagan's farewell speech
Most of us remember reading about presidential farewell speeches in our U.S. history class. I remember my high school U.S. history teacher discussing President Washington’s farewell address and the line about staying out of “foreign entanglements.”
The other memorable farewell speech was President Eisenhower and the reference to “the military-industrial complex.” By the way, that speech is often misunderstood. President Eisenhower was warning us about corruption, not having a strong military.
On this day in 1989, we watched President Reagan’s speech. It was probably more emotional than political for those of us who got involved in politics because of the Reagan candidacy. (I still have Reagan ’76 bumper stickers!)
He did say something that night that we should think about, as Steven F. Hayward reminded us:
“Reagan bestowed full credit on the American people rather than himself.”
Frankly, that’s the lesson future presidents could learn from President Reagan’s speech. Accept responsibility for your mistakes, but give the people all of the credit.. We still love President Reagan so many years later.
January 11, 1973: AL approved the DH
On this day in 1973 or 2 months before players reported to spring training, the American League adopted the "Designated Hitter" effective for the upcoming season. Until 2020, or the COVID season, the American and National league played with different rules. In other words, the pitchers hit in the National but a hitter is designated to hit for the pitcher in the American.
By the way, Ron Bloomberg of the Yankees was the first DH in AL history. He came to bat in a game at the old Yankee Stadium.
We remember Rod Taylor (1930-2015)
We remember Rod Taylor, who was born in Australia on this day in 1930. My memory of Rod Taylor is "The birds", a very scary movie and then on a couple of Doris Day movies.......He was also the star of "The Time Machine" ...........he died in 2015 at 84.....
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What a horrible way to end a wonderful season
It's gonna take some time for the NFL to convince me that Dez Bryant did not make that catch in Green Bay. He caught the ball and came down with it. To be fair, there are experts saying that he didn't really have control of the ball.
Anyway, the season is over and all we can do is imagine what Dallas would have done on the 2-yard line.
For now, let me congratulate Coach Garrett, the coaching staff and every player for a great season. This team certainly put the Cowboys back in our hearts and we can't wait for next September.
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