Although I prefer to comment on a single subject, from time to time I need to scan my stack of stuff for topics I have saved, thinking they were worthy of future comment.
Unelected Bureaucrats
I feel especially confident in my selection of topics for commentary when a major publication or other media outlet follows with reporting on the same topic. While I have frequently commented on unelected bureaucrats in positions who control our lives, on April 29, 2023 I named several of them in “Those Unelected Bureaucrats Pushing the Biden Agenda.”
On May 12, 2023, Saul Anuzis, writing in the Washington Examiner, wrote a piece, “Unelected Biden administration bureaucrats are threatening the financial stability of the public when they need it most.”
One Such Bureaucrat
Climate czar John Kerry, is one of those unelected bureaucrats; the man advising President Biden in his effort to transform the country to go all-electric while weaning us off fossil fuels. Costing taxpayers billions of dollars I might add.
Kerry made news when he was spotted in the crowd at the coronation of King Charles, wearing a chest-full of medals on his suit. It was on November 6, 1971 that “Swift Boat” Kerry said he “gave back” the medals he earned with his service in Vietnam, saying that “in a real sense, this administration forced us to return our medals because beyond the perversion of the war, these leaders themselves denied us the integrity those symbols supposedly gave our lives.”
Running for president in 2004, Kerry flip-flopped on whether he had thrown out his medals, but there he was at the coronation proudly wearing them.
Two Windmill Tales
It seems as though national defense was of no concern to the Biden administration when they set a goal of generating offshore wind power off the coasts of North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware.
While the Interior Department consulted with fishing industries, shippers, environmental groups, even the wind lobby, the Pentagon was not considered.
Offshore wind turbines three times the height of the Statue of Liberty could interfere with training and radar, and could pose potential interference for radar systems involved in air traffic control, weather forecasting, homeland security and national defense missions.
As it turns out, the administration was merely interested in having the windmills constructed there to meet its green energy goals. What they don’t want you to know is that offshore wind is three times more expensive than onshore wind or gas power while reducing the reliability of the electric grid.
In flyover country, however, residents are getting tired of the flashing red lights atop wind turbines, recognizing that they are just the latest problem with the turbines after experiencing the whoop, whoop, whoop sound of the turning blades.
Kansas and Oklahoma recently passed legislation limiting them to be turned on when aircraft are approaching. A similar measure was passed in North Dakota in 2017.
A Hollywood Celeb Comments
I don’t often pay attention to what Hollywood celebrities have to say, but when Richard Dreyfuss recently appeared on Fox, I listened as he spoke of his interview on PBS Firing Line with Margaret Hoover.
I think I last saw Dreyfuss in the 1995 movie, “Mr. Holland’s Opus,” and before that “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” in 1975. Needless to say, I don’t go to a lot of movies.
Speaking on how diversity and inclusion had infiltrated the motion picture business, Dreyfuss said, ”it’s an art. No one should be telling me as an artist that I have to give in to the latest, most current idea of what morality is. What are we risking? Are we really risking hurting people’s feelings? You can’t legislate that.”
Then came the quote that caught my ear: “You have to let life be life. I’m sorry, I don’t think there is a minority or majority in the country that has to be catered to like that.”
Well said.
A Diversity Experiment
Regular readers may recall that I have been critical of weak-kneed Pentagon leadership, unwilling to stand up against the Biden administration’s “all of government” participation in addressing diversity and equity. Since 2020, the Pentagon has also caved to addressing systemic racism, and even climate change.
Now it has been revealed that in the Air Force’s effort to improve diversity in the ranks following the death of George Floyd, they identified an extreme lack of racial and gender diversity among so-called “rated” officers, like pilots, who are most often promoted to top leadership positions.
So, in March 2021, the Air Force set out to improve gender and racial diversity metrics in rated careers. They clustered racial minorities and female trainees into one class dubbed “America’s Class.” They even had an embroidered class patch with the motto, “Hand-Picked for Excellence.”
Results of the clustering experiment was “inconclusive, as the minority students did not progress at faster rates than in previous classes.
Lastly, You May Have Missed This
Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has a medical condition called spasmodic dysphoria, which affects the muscles in the voice box, causing the voice to sound strained or hoarse. It causes involuntary movements or spasms of the vocal cords.
May God continue to bless the United States of America.
