The arrival of the Covid-19 pandemic in the middle of a Presidential election year has created something akin to a “Perfect Storm”.  At a time when we should be putting our personal political preferences aside and working for the common good, the venomous attitudes toward President Trump and his administration, are rising to the surface like the scum on a fetid pond.

Since Hillary Clinton lost to Trump in 2016, the attitude of the Democratic Party and the majority of the national media has morphed from shock to “Resistance” to revenge.  Even as the administration has geared up to fight this pandemic, the piling on never ceases. 

First, Trump was racist and xenophobic by shutting down travel from China in January. Then he was incompetent for not shutting it down sooner.  Next, he was incompetent for not listening to the medical experts and getting the test kits out fast enough.  Now he is incompetent because he did follow the advice of the CDC, which produced faulty kits, that had to be recalled and replaced. Continue reading The Perfect Storm →

Have you ever hear of the “DOH Theory”?   It’s alive and well, growing as fast as the Covid-19 virus in various government agencies, and it’s consequences are every bit as dangerous.  I’ll explain.

“DOH” stands for Didn’t Originate Here.  In businesses and bureaucracies all over the planet there is an unwritten law among managers, especially bad managers.  It goes something like this: 

Never acknowledge a good idea or concept which someone else brings to your attention, especially if it goes against standard practices or established protocols

Why, because it might be true, and that would make you look bad to your superiors, because you should have thought of it yourself.  The really bad managers take the idea, bury it for a few weeks or months, and then, with a little bit of repackaging, present it to their superiors as a new, original idea.  See how that works.

Enter the Covid-19 virus pandemic.  The various federal agencies who are tasked with protecting the health of the nation are quickly exposed as being at least partially unable to do that task.  They include the Center For Disease Control (CDC), the National Institute Of Health (NIH), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).  All these bureaucracies jealously protect their own turf and their Directors are well aware that they are appointed to their positions, and as such subject to dismissal.

It is apparent that Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of NIAID, is becoming somewhat disenchanted with President Trump, because he is not blindly agreeing with everything being said or done by members of the above mentioned agencies or indeed even the members of the Coronavirus Task Force under Vice President Pence.  He shouldn’t.  As our elected President, it is his job to listen to his advisors, and then ask questions about things they say before taking that information as gospel to the American people.  Here is a vital case in point.  Continue reading The DOH Theory →

In his inaugural address for his first term beginning in January of 1933, the newly elected President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, made the following statement:

“This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.”

Much the same could be said today.  The moneychangers in the temple of Wall Street need to be cast out, because their actions have unreasonably spooked and frighted the people of this country.  The financial rollercoaster ride of last week appears to be repeating itself this morning, and we must all ask ourselves,  WHY? 

A class Five hurricane is not bearing down on our coasts.  There will be no disruption of food sources, but people are reacting as if there will.  Grocery store shelves are emptying out, and the very sight of that causes panic.  Covid-19, the latest in a long series of coronaviruses, is disrupting our daily lives.  There is no denying that fact. But it is not a Bubonic Plague, Cholera or Yellow Fever event.  Continue reading Fear Itself…….. →

Somewhere along the way, this country has mixed up the concept of merit versus diversity.  It’s mostly a liberal concept, but along with many other things, they have foisted it off on all of us.  We are told to accept the concept that if we aren’t a “diverse” society, we are automatically a bad one.  Let’s look at how a dictionary describes the word:

di.ver.si.ty

the practice or quality of including or involving people from a range of different social and ethnic backgrounds and of different genders, sexual orientations, etc.

As in many area of life, on the face of that, it doesn’t sound too bad, does it? However, digging deeper into the subject you find that nasty devil in the details.

Whether it’s who cuts your lawn, maintains your teeth, teaches your children or any of the hundreds of situations we encounter in our lifetimes, it shouldn’t be about the race, gender, religion or sexual orientation of the candidate. What should be the determining factor is their level of education and skill which prepared them to do the job at hand.  Obviously their character is a factor as well. You probably wouldn’t want a surgeon to operate on you if you were aware that they also were a convicted axe murderer. Continue reading Diversity vs. Meritocracy →