Imperial China was run by bureaucratic scholars. They studied and strived for credentials in order to climb the ladder of achievement in the Chinese bureaucracies. Driven by Progressive policies, the United States has been moving steadily toward this model for some time now. The result is a ponderous federal bureaucracy that is unanswerable to the People of the United States. These policies are anathema to the founding principles of the Unites States.
The pendulum of change is beginning to swing back in reaction to this historical crime. There is and will be much strife as the modern-day mandarins fight to keep the power they have taken. Hopefully, we will avoid an all out civil war and economic ruin.
Below is an article that exemplifies these American mandarins and their mindset.
"I know you’re working on that book about the new socialism, and I
think it will be timely. It seems to me that totalitarianism is not
arriving in the U.S. via the stern face of Big Brother staring down from
the screen. It’s coming from the college student who says we shouldn’t
view a photo of pure, untrammeled joy. And the thing is that they can’t
see that joy, not just because they’re puritans, but because they have
no historical consciousness. They have no sense of what so many
Americans sacrificed in the years leading up to that famous kiss because
they never really learned it. I’m not a gung-ho America First guy—I’d
be an expat in a second if I could get my wife on board—but the K-12
textbooks have gotten insane. They really do stress the failures of the
country, the bad angle of every story, the endless
aggressions-in-hindsight that form the modern wokescold.
Look, I get it: this country has done terrible things. We continue to
do terrible things. But there are no pure good guys and pure bad guys.
We are crazy if we don’t think for one second that the things we
consider good and just today will be denounced as oppressive in 30
years. To say that we shouldn’t look at an image that shows the joy of having just defeated the f’ing Nazis is just insanity."
Click here for the article: Life Among The Wokescolds
Sunday, February 24, 2019
Saturday, February 23, 2019
Does a Beresheet on the Moon?
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It will land on the moon between where Apollos 15 and 17 missions remain. I do not know if they will be pointing a camera to look for the Apollo sites but if they do and we see the images I would consider that to be awesome in itself.
You can watch SpaceX launch and rocket recovery in the video below.
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Sunday, February 10, 2019
Watershed Cartography is Fascinating
I have always been fascinated by maps. From the road maps I used until GPS navigation became common to the topographic maps we used for land navigation in the service.
These maps by Hungarian cartographer Robert Szucs are works of art.
Spread-eagled across the
central part of the United States, the Mississippi's drainage basin
covers all or parts of 32 U.S. states (and two Canadian provinces). The
easternmost point of Ol' Man River's catchment area is really far east:
Cobb Hill in northern Pennsylvania. Here rises the Allegheny, tributary
of the Ohio, which in turn flows into the Mississippi at Cairo,
Illinois. Image: Grasshopper Geography
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