I found this link over at Slatt’s blog.
I have seen something similar before, although I can’t remember where. But it sums up my personal views very well. The entire speech is in the extended post area below if you’re not interested in viewing comments over at Free Republic.
It is really about time for our President to say something similar, especially in regard to Mexico and the UN.
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On this day, 32 years ago, I was also here in San Antonio. At Lackland. Wondering why people felt the need to yell at me.
That first day took me a lot of places, and began my real education.
Some people love to travel. I’m tired of it. I’ve spent a huge part of my life in hotels, VAQs, BOQs, and tents. It is always good to get back to my own house, family, and routine.
I’m not a social person. It is very hard work for me to engage in small talk. I can do it, but it really wears me out. Today is a perfect example. There is a reception going on for the symposium I’m attending, and here I sit in my room writing and watching the Golf Channel.
Not that I don’t try. I went into the area twice looking to talk with a young man who now works at Arnold Engineering Center on the rocket test cell I helped rebuild twenty years ago after it blew up. He wasn’t there, so I grabbed a Shiner and stood around eating munchies. I waited about twenty minutes and left. Too many people there talking about things I don’t understand. And I don’t have a personality. I can remember being in meetings when everyone paid close attention to what I had to say. I often could dominate a meeting whether I was in charge or not. But as soon as business was complete, I became a non-entity.
I’ve told the boss I don’t like to travel beyond the borders of the Republic, so most of my trips are to Houston, Fort Worth, or San Antonio. I love all three (Dallas is okay, too) and they all have nice golf courses. I plan on spending some time on one tomorrow afternoon.
Dave Pelz has done a lot to identify the real physics of golf, especially the short game. Both his Short Game Bible and Putting Bible have information not available anywhere else. Because he is a physicist, the analysis he did for both is solid experimentally. And, because I’m an engineer, it all makes sense to my logical thought processes.
Dave has reached his limits, though, when he begins to describe how to take this information and put it to work. I don’t mean that his drills aren’t of value. They are. And probably of much more value than those developed by most instructors.
What bothers me is that many of them can’t be done by regular golfers. Dave seems to think we all have exclusive access to a practice green with a 100-yard approach area and various bunker configurations. I don’t. Nor does anyone else I know.
Dave likes to say things like “Set up a 10-foot radius circle around a hole on the practice green….” If I tried to bogart 314 square feet of practice green out at the course, those old guys would run me out of town. Today on Golf Channel Academy, one of Dave’s PGA friends showed how to work on putt alignment. He used a T-square to make a mark perpendicular to the putt’s line. And he made the mark by scratching it in the grass on the green. “Just tell the course superintendent the grass will heal itself in a couple of days.” Right. Course superintendents are so understanding when folks destroy their work.
I try to apply the things Pelz has found to work through research. I just doubt he’s done much research on course management attitudes.
A CNN report offers Kerry some advice: Become the uniter Bush promised he would be.
The point of the story was that Bush promised to unite the country, but has failed to do so. In fact, Bush is the cause for division in the country.
I remember how Bush handled things in Texas. He did unite both parties in many things. When he took the oath of office in January 2001, however, the Democrats had already decided they would never work with him. He tried, and made a lot of conservatives mad when he did. Standing at a podium gushing over his “friend” Ted Kennedy made many sick, including me. Ted has never been anyone’s friend, let alone a Republican’s.
Bush went the distance in trying to unite, but there was never any chance of successs. If the Democrats want a President who can unite the country, they are looking the wrong way. The one they have is willing if they are.
Students attending Morehouse College, Xavier University, Howard University, Fisk University, and Tuskegee University should be clamoring for help from the Federal Government. They are all receiving an inferior education.
Wow. That ought to rattle a few cages.
But it isn’t my conclusion. The “education experts” determined that. A web site championing “diversity” in higher education has posted a report titled Who Benefits from Racial Diversity in Higher Education?:
These recent empirical studies suggest that there is a sound educational justification for institutional attempts to create a racially diverse student body. The presence of racially underrepresented students appears to contribute to the total institutional environment and particularly to the education of white students. Thus, increasing the numbers of students of color on campus not only expands opportunities for those “additional” students of color who enroll, but also enhances the educational experiences of white students.
Statistics reveal that too many colleges and universities are still racially homogeneous; too many of our classrooms are all-white or predominantly white.
In today’s San Antonio Express-News, writer Matt Flores decies the lack of “diversity” at UT and A&M:
But more than 50 years after civil rights advocates hailed the Supreme Court decisions as major victories, higher education in Texas continues to face significant challenges in equalizing opportunities between Anglos and non-Anglos.
Absolutely right, Matt. Anglos don’t have equal opportunity. They must perform better than non-Anglos to gain admission to either of those schools.
Why is it okay now for black students to attend inferior schools? Thurgood Marshall and many others fought to make sure there were no longer black schools and white schools. Yet even today, there are still black colleges. Are these students not upset that they are not receiving the benefits of a racially diverse student body? After all, diversity “enhances the educational experiences of white students.” Does it not do the same for black students?
It is time to put an end to all racial preferences in education. Every student in this country has the same opportunity to learn. Some don’t feel the need. If they cannot learn the basics required in high school, how can they hope to succeed in college when many of those who do better have difficulty?
There are plenty of programs available to help disadvantaged high school graduates with funding, which is the only real disparity of opportunity. Yet even without that, local community colleges offer inexpensive education anyone with a job can afford.
So opportunity continues to be defined by skin color, because there is no other way to defend preferences.
And how do Japanese students survive in their racially isolated schools? I think those students are beating American students in every area. So much for theory.
I now believe I understand why the Left hate Bush. Actually, they fear him.
They view him as omniscient. And stupid at the same time. They are so sure of his clairvoyance they want him to apologize for everything that has happened during his tenure.He knew something would happen on September 11, 2001, and did nothing to stop it. He must apologize and fire George Tenet. He knew MPs in Iraq were going to abuse prisoners, yet did nothing about it before it happened. He must apologize and fire Rumsfeld.
His religiosity only compounds their fear. Maybe they worry he is the Second Coming. Democrats own all the fiery crosses, so Bush might be wise to stay away from gardens for a while.
No, he’d see it coming, and if he didn’t the Left would want him to apologize for being crucified.
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