I am back to active blogging.  I sat Shiva for my father and took 8 days off.  Thank you very much for all the support and positive comments on my last post.  It really meant a lot.

Now to my griping.

I caught an article over at the New Yorker Magazine titled THE BIG UNEASY What’s roiling the liberal-arts campus? about the goings on on Oberlin and other college campuses.

About halfway down the article the president of Oberlin, Marvin Krislov, was interviewed and said: “I don’t know if it’s related to the way we parent, I don’t know if it’s related to the media or the pervasive role of technology—I’m sure there are a lot of different factors—but what I can tell you is that every campus I know is investing more resources in mental health.  Students are coming to campuses today with mental-health challenges that in some instances have been diagnosed and in some instances have not. Maybe, in previous eras, those students would not have been coming to college.”

I would have to agree with President Krislov, it has to do with the way these kids were parented which caused these kids to have a mental illness.  It’s called extreme liberalism.

The article features an interview with Oberlin dropout Cyrus Eosphoros.  Eosphoros caught the attention of the author for leading a demand for a trigger warning on the tragedy Antigone.

Eosphoros dropped out of Oberlin because the school was just too racist and oppressive for him to handle.

“There’s this persistent, low-grade dehumanization from everyone,” he said. “Somebody will be, like, ‘Yeah, I had a class with a really great professor, and it was wonderful,’ and I’ll be sitting there, like, ‘Oh, yes, that was the professor who failed me for getting tuberculosis,’ or ‘That was the professor who, because I have double time on exams, scheduled them during lunch.’”

The author postulates “some would call such students oversensitive.”  No. Shit.

I highly doubt that Eosphoros was flunked out for getting tuberculosis.  No professor would every say “I’m flunking you because you got sick.”  Ever.  Eosphoros most likely flunked because he missed too many days of class because he got sick.  Here’s the thing.  Oberlin has a medical leave of absence available for students who have to take off due to sickness.   Eosphoros probably didn’t fill out the right paperwork and just stopped showing up.  That’s not the professors fault.

How about double time?  Well as someone who has taught classes in a university, the professor probably has limited time to proctor the exam.  You can’t really give up office hours that other students need access to.  The other times of the day are booked for class.  So a lunch hour is the most convenient time.  Too bad Eosphoros can’t appreciate the extent to which the professor went to accommodate his special needs.

If it was just one student, that would be one thing.  But it’s not just Eosphoros, it is the student body.

Robert Bonfiglio, the chair of the Student Union Board said about the student body “People are so amazed that other people could have a different opinion from them that they don’t want to hear it.”

Jasmine Adams, a senior and a member of the black-student union, said: “I literally am so tired of learning about Marx, when he did not include race in his discussion of the market!”

Wow.  I am almost at a loss for words.  For this kid, simply being indoctrinated as a Marxist-Communist isn’t enough.  That’s passe at this point.  She needs her anti-capitalism flavored with some good ol’ fashioned race hate and bigotry.

“As a person who plans on returning to my community, I don’t want to assimilate into middle-class values. I’m going home, back to the ’hood of Chicago, to be exactly who I was before I came to Oberlin.”

Now I want to know why Jasmine Adams wanted to go to Oberlin.  What is the point of going to college if not to try to and better yourself.  What is the point of spending $49,928 per year to go back to the ghetto and life that ghetto life?

More than thirteen hundred students signed a petition calling for the college to eliminate any grade lower than a C for the semester, but to no avail. “Students felt really unsupported in their endeavors to engage with the world outside Oberlin.”

These kids sent a petition to the President of Oberlin demanding stipends for protesting and credit for social activism.  They claim that their activism is interfering with their schooling and they needs to have their grades fixed to accommodate their busy social justice work.

Let me address these student’s concerns:

*Clears throat*

As students, it is true that you are the customers of the school.  But allow me to clarify what it is that your tuition pays for.  It is not for grades.  It is not for a degree.  It is for the services of the professors to teach you the fundamental skills various accreditation boards have decided you need to know to obtain your desired degree.  You have to put in the effort to learn what you are paying for us to teach you.  Just because you spent nigh on $50,ooo per year doesn’t mean that you deserve a good grade.  If you didn’t hold up your end of the bargain, to try and learn from those who are teaching, you don’t deserve anything but to fail.  Protesting and activism is not why you are in school.  If your focus is not on your education, you are wasting your money and your professors’ time.

There is something seriously wrong with these kids.  They are broken and they system that made them is broken too.  I just hope that education survives this SJW movement.

(CNN)New Orleans Pelicans player Bryce Dejean-Jones was shot to death early Saturday in Dallas, with his agent saying it happened because the player mistakenly entered the wrong apartment.

A Dallas resident told police he heard someone enter his apartment by kicking open the front door, police spokesman DeMarquis Black said in a statement. The resident said “he called out to the individual, but was not answered,” and when the resident’s bedroom door was kicked open, the resident fired his gun, police said.Dejean-Jones collapsed in the breezeway, police said. He was transported to a local hospital, where he died from his injuries, Black said.

Source: NBA player Bryce Dejean-Jones fatally shot – CNN.com

It was just a mistake. Hell I don’t use the keys to in my house, I just use a battering ram to open the door.

Police had no immediate response to Nichols’ comments.

“There is no information that suggests the deceased Bryce Dejean-Jones knew the apartment resident, or was armed as he entered the apartment,” Black said.

The basketball player’s agent, Scott Nichols, said Dejean-Jones was in Dallas to visit his girlfriend for his daughter’s first birthday.

Oh hell yes, I have seen them. In fact I belong to one of the categories….

Hat tip to Gail Pepin.

I have edited my first post on plating steel. Added pictures and a better discription. check it out please. I will be adding more on the Winchester receiver plating project this Sunday and Monday. See y all soon.

They are into a new push for Universal background Checks. But it seems they are no paying attention to the latest news, specially from the TSA. This is a Facebook post that came out today. I have a feeling they chose the wrong government entity for comparison. Just a hunch.

From May 23:

WASHINGTON — Facing a backlash over long security lines and management problems, the head of the Transportation Security Administration shook up his leadership team on Monday, replacing the agency’s top security official and adding a new group of administrators at Chicago O’Hare International Airport.In an email to staff members, Peter V. Neffenger, the T.S.A. administrator, announced a series of changes that included the removal of Kelly Hoggan, who had been the assistant administrator for the Office of Security Operations since 2013.Beginning late that year, Mr. Hoggan received $90,000 in bonuses over a 13-month period, even though a leaked report from the Department of Homeland Security showed that auditors were able to get fake weapons and explosives past security screeners 95 percent of the time in 70 covert tests.

Source: T.S.A. Replaces Security Chief as Tension Grows at Airports and Agency – The New York Times
And actually travelers would love to see a reduction of 40% in the TSA screenings since they have become so cumbersome and slow.

Airport screening delays have caused more than 70,000 American Airlines (AAL.O) customers and 40,000 checked bags to miss their flights this year, an executive for the airline told a U.S. congressional subcommittee on Thursday.

Source: Airport screening made 70,000 miss American Airlines flights this year | Reuters

That is just American Airlines!

Seriously, there has to be NRA people infiltrated inside the Gun Control Organizations sabotaging the crap out of their programs. That or they are utterly stupid.

I’ll go with #2.