Reflections From a Murky Pond

Muslims and their Dhimmi shills keep claiming that Islam is the religion of peace and that Muslims are, except for a tiny few, nonviolent. They’re pretty adamant about this point…

Judge Muslims By Their Words

Perhaps it would be wise for Mankind to judge Islam and the Muslims by their own words. Perhaps we should believe the Muslims when they so plainly and earnestly tell us things.

After all, Muslims have been telling us this for over a thousand years and they’ve never wavered from their position or assertions. Isn’t it past time that the Civilized World believed the Muslims and acted accordingly with a due dispatch?

Fishing has been a mainstay of Man since paleolithic times and has always played a major part in American life, society, and culture. As such, it makes a great analogy for most of our endeavors.

That’s why I’ve posted before about teaching people to fish and the differences between private sector and government fishing.

Fishing For Eaters And Takers

One thing about fishing, though is that you’ve got to use the right bait or you’re going home with an empty stringer or creel.

This is one thing you’v got to hand to the Democrats – they’ve known the right sorts of baits to use when fishing for Eaters, Takers, and all sorts of society’s bottom feeders. They’ve consistently reached their catch limits for generations.

File this one under Irony, or Schadenfreude, or Laugh So You Don’t Cry…

Federal Emergency Irony Management Agency?

Staten Island, battered fairly badly by Sandy, found out as Wednesday’s Nor’easter was rolling in that FEMA was closing it centers due to inclement weather.

So four more years of Obama barring oddities in the election results and direct action by individual Americans, both rather unlikely events.  As the Republicans easily maintained controlled of the House and continue to have enough seats in the Senate to easily block the more egregious efforts of Sen. Harry Reid, it’s also four more years of exactly the same things as the last four years.

We had the chance to change things by electing Mitt Romney but failed to do it. So now we’ll stumble along and get nowhere that is worth going as the economy continues to falter and stagnate and businesses limp along, flee the country, or fold.

This is the outcome I predicted for the 2012 elections.  It not the outcome I wanted but, given the nature of modern society, it’s the outcome I expected.

Alan Scott, one of Reflections From A Murky Pond’s regular commenters, made a pithy statement about what passes for a college education in this dissolute and degenerate modern world.

All of those college graduates might want their money back from their Professors now that they see what their education is worth in the real World.

He makes a good point. The new normal for a college graduate is unremitting unemployment or “underemployment.” Couple that with a massive student loan debt and it’s obvious that something has to change.

A Practical College Education

Given that even the “professional students” may graduate before America can fix and recover from the last four years of ineptocracy, if we even can since Obama might be reinstalled in the White House, it seems to me that we need to shift the curriculum to a more practical education for these students. College is, after all, supposed to prepare young people for life in real world.