Archive for February, 2017
Prison Reform Front and Center
In the wake of the Vaughn Correctional uprising that ended in the death of Steven Floyd, prison reform is on the minds of many. It’s too bad that it took the death of a guard to put prison reform on anyone’s agenda. But this is the way things work in the States, we wait till something spirals out of control before we do something about it.
February 7, 2017 Open Thread
Route 1 Access for Dover Mall, Smyrna woman poisons husband, Girl Scout robbed, Aubrey Plaza
Dover Paid Out $300K For Cop Kicking Man in Jaw
Often times we bust on the News Journal, but in cases like this, the News Journal did a lot of good to get this information out in public.
“Any negative polls are fake news”
Donald Trump tweeted this morning, “Any negative polls are fake news, just like the CNN, ABC, NBC polls in the election. Sorry, people want border security and extreme vetting.”
Delaware Requires Public School Teachers and Administrators to Force Students to Recite the Pledge of Allegiance
When the Department of Education has procured and distributed American flags in each free public school, any principal or teacher of such free public school who fails to require the salute and pledge as set out in § 4105 of this title shall be fined not more than $50 or imprisoned not more than 10 days.
Culture Beats Strategy
Once you’ve internalized this axiom; “Culture Beats Strategy” it is easy to easy to see every contest or competition through that lens. That was a nice strategy the Atlanta Falcons had last night. too bad that were playing against a team with a strong culture. A strategy is a nice thing to have. A culture is essential.
When a team, group, company or family builds a culture it doesn’t need for things to go perfectly. People know what to do in situations that haven’t been thought through and game planned. A team with a culture has a lot of group cohesion around a few basic assumptions. People can take independent action because they know the organization’s goals without having to be directed. A strategy is merely a list of things you want to happen. A culture operates on an entirely different plane.
When Republicans beat Democrats with policies that add up to a lot of threadbare nonsense under the most fleeting scrutiny – they are winning on culture. Democrats seem to be constantly confused about this. They shouldn’t be. Culture beats strategy.
Group membership means something to people in a culture. Group membership is a means to personal ends for people executing a strategy. Members of a culture share values, spoken and unspoken, and you don’t need to explain how any given policy fits into the values of a culture. It either does or doesn’t on its face.
February 6, 2017 Open Thread
More Lieutenant Steven Floyd news, Delaware fears adverse of effects of immigration ban, Polar Bear Plunge, warm January, gas prices continue to fall
February 5, 2017 Open Thread
Paul Worrilow, Prisons, Lieutenant Steven Floyd, Betting, Richard Allen School
News Journal Kisses Lisa’s Behind
One of the poorest excuses for ‘journalism’ I’ve read in a long time. Made me want to ‘fwow’ up: http://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/2017/02/03/after-month-blunt-rochester-finding-her-direction/97395588/ The guilty journalist is one Adam Duvernay. Who may well be auditioning for a role as her press secretary since this puff piece is a PR release if ever there was one. A couple of […]
February 4, 2017 Open Thread
Lieutenant Steven Floyd news, DSEA election issues, Dover must release settlement, DuPont Country Club
Charlie Copeland, History has its eyes on you
This is from Eliot Cohen writing in the Atlantic:
For the community of conservative thinkers and experts, and more importantly, conservative politicians, this is a testing time. Either you stand up for your principles and for what you know is decent behavior, or you go down, if not now, then years from now, as a coward or opportunist. Your reputation will never recover, nor should it.
This is from Charlie Copeland writing to stir Republicans to call Senator’s Coons and Carper:
President Trump has kept his promise to nominate a Supreme Court Justice in the mold of Anatonin Scalia. He kept his promise last night when he announced that he had chosen Judge Neil Gorsuch for the High Court….
Already, the liberal elite are working hard to ensure that Senators Tom Carper and Chris Coons vote against Judge Gorsuch. They will use every means available to twist their arms so both of Delaware’s senators fall in-line with their extreme progressive agenda.
One day Copeland is going to have to answer for what he did during the popular vote losers reign of malevolent idiocy. I suspect when that day comes, Copeland’s excuse will be that he was just doing his job.
Gregg Popovich Talks About Black History Month So Even White People Can Understand
I think if people take the time to think about it, I think it is our national sin. It always intrigues me when people come out with, “I’m tired of talking about that,” or, “Do we have to talk about race again?” And the answer is, “You’re damned right we do.”
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