birthright citizenship

This so-called 'birthright citizenship'-- by which the children of people in the country illegally are American citizens at birth-- is something that few major countries have, and with good reason. It doesn't make any sense. India even abolished it entirely in 2004 because of illegal immigration from Bangladesh.

This right was supposedly created by the 14th amendment, but that amendment was framed to deal specifically with the rights of ex-slaves and their children. The notion that it dealt with children born to people in the country illegally has been created by courts over the last century and a half, in their interpretation of the phrase 'all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof.' This 'right' was created by courts, and it can be taken away by courts-- and should be.

cities for the civilized

We've got to get the thugs out of our cities. Barbarians shouldn't be living in cities. After all, the words city and civilized come from the same Latin root, civitas. After violent felons do their time, they shouldn't be allowed to live in cities.

standards, not quotas

We've got to get back to academic rigor in the schools. This will require several things. For one, affirmative action quotas that bring in less qualified blacks and Hispanics over more qualified whites and Asians should be abolished. I can see affirmative action in the sense of outreach to promising individuals who've overcome obstacles most young people haven't faced. These would be based mainly on economic disadvantage, though, not skin color or ethnicity. By the same token, we need to get back to tracking by ability level at the elementary and secondary levels. Like should be grouped with like; that way, everybody can learn at their top level. The bright students wouldn't be slowed down, and the less able students wouldn't feel swamped.

puerto rico

I see where the media are now trying to make FEMA's response to the hurricane damage in Puerto Rico out to be 'Trump's Katrina.' (This, of course, since the FEMA efforts in Texas and Florida have been largely successful). Forget that Puerto Rico is a thousand miles from Miami and that its road system has been pretty totally destroyed.

But I'm looking beyond that. I think we should fix Puerto Rico up, give it a brand spanking new electric grid, and then bid it a fond adieu as we grant it independence. God knows we should never let it become a state.

I've never understood why we've even kept that island this long. We granted the other spoils of the Spanish-American War-- Cuba and the Phillippines-- their independence long ago. What do we need Puerto Rico for? It's just been an albatross around our neck. We've thrown tens of billions of taxpayer dollars at that island to try to bring it into the modern world, and it just hasn't worked. They're in debt up to their eyeballs, a debt they can never pay off and are now (of course) trying to unload on the US taxpayer. Give it up for a bad job and move on.

nfl protests

The thing that strikes me about this NFL 'Take a Knee' nonsense is that it's a typical example of black people addressing problems of only tangential importance rather than the real problems they face in life. The problem, of course, is that the major problems black people face are largely self-created. For starters, what about the fact that three out of four black children are born out of wedlock? Now there's a real problem, but I don't see black people addressing it. Where are the protests about that? Where are the protests about the abysmal performance of black students in school? Or about the astronomical black crime rate (mainly against other blacks, of course)?  No, no, let's get rid of these Confederate monuments, that'll solve our problems! Bullshit.

celebrities

Who really cares what celebrities 'think' about anything? I'm not a Trump supporter, but I find the anti-Trump handwringing of so many of these Hollywood and TV celebrities almost comical. Who cares about the political opinions of these self-important blowhards? It reminds one of Laura Ingraham's book of a few years ago, 'Shut Up and Sing.'

I remember seeing a poll some years ago now that indicated the percentage of people who actively followed the careers of major show-business celebrities. Madonna was at the top of the list, but even then only 8% of the respondents said they followed her closely. The other celebs registered only in the 3-5% range. In other words, almost nobody actually cares about these people, yet the media try to tell us we're hanging on their every word. Not true. Shut up and sing.

oversexed

Is there such a thing as being oversexed? I think so, and it's 'strictly third world' (STW). Oversexed people, particularly males, are those whose lives are centered around the pursuit of sexual pleasure and conquest, to the exclusion of just about everything else in life. Their obsessive sexuality makes it virtually impossible for them to be active participants in a first-world society. For one thing, the menfolk are almost never willing to accept the responsibilities of fatherhood in a monogamous relationship. Beyond that, they don't educate themselves, don't hold down jobs, and (as often as not) do not obey the law.

For first-world people, on the other hand, sexuality is secondary to their other pursuits and ambitions in life. That's because they have things going on 'upstairs' and don't spend their lives 'downstairs,' so to speak. They also consider raising children properly in a two-parent family to be a primary responsibility. (This includes same-sex couples).

DACA

My problem with DACA is my problem with illegal immigration from Mexico and Central America in general: We shouldn't be letting in low-intelligence people from these third-world countries. We need to be bringing in skilled, high-intelligence people who are going to have high-intelligence children. I've said it before and I'll say it again: If we had 12-15 million illegal CHINESE immigrants in this country, but all their kids were getting straight A's and winning science scholarships, NOBODY WOULD CARE!

The fact is that these 'Dreamers,' like Hispanics in general, do not do well in school. Of those over age 18, only something like 5% of them are either in college or already have BAs. (This brings up another point the media doesn't like to mention: most of these people are not children, they're young adults in their 20s and 30s.)

separate country

I'm beginning to think there should be a separate black country on the North American continent. This would be an option for blacks who just can't stand it any more, being a minority in a non-black country. In their own country, they could do whatever the hell they wanted to do, as long as they were just doing it to each other.

We could probably cobble together parts of two or three southern states for this. New Orleans could be the capital. It's a port and a tourist center, so there would be no excuse for not having a decent economy-- although these people could probably never create one.

thugs off trains

We need to get the thugs off of public transportation. Decent civilized people have got to feel perfectly safe riding the trains. We need to get the thugs off of the buses and trains, off of the platforms, out of the stations.

For starters, we need to crack down on free riders. Many of these free riders are thugs who aren't paying their way. Beyond that, we should make the penalties for crimes committed on the buses or trains and in the stations two or three times what they would be for the same crime committed out on the street. So instead of going to prison for a year or two, you'd be going for five years, with no parole. This would act as a deterrent, but it would also get these idiots off the streets and give them a good punishment. Prison should not be fun.

mla

I want the United States to remain a first-world country. In fact, I want the United States to be the preeminent first-world country-- and that means being first in science and technology. Understanding science and technology requires mathematical-logical ability. We need a population in which just about everybody has a modicum of MLA and in which a lot of people have a very high level of it.

third-world california

It occurs to me that when the geriatric white leadership of California's Democratic Party (Brown, 79; Pelosi, 77; Feinstein, 84) finally shuffles off the scene, the state will quickly descend into third-world status run by the likes of Maxine Waters and Kamala Harris. There are already cities in California that are basically third-world-- think Stockton, San Bernardino. Unless something is done, that will be the future of most of the state. The Bay area and Silicon Valley may continue to prosper, plus a few enclaves in southern California, but basically the rest will become a third-world state.

intelligence, again

Low-intelligence people should stop reproducing. We don't need them. High-intelligence people should have more children; low-intelligence people should have fewer children. In particular, we want people with high levels of mathematical-logical ability.

The problem with low-intelligence people is that they may be basically ineducable and unemployable, particularly in the high-tech world of today. So these are the people who become the underclass, the welfare recipients and criminals. We don't need it.

intelligence

The future belongs to the intelligent, not to the stupid and violent.

health care

Now that we're dealing with health care again, it brings to mind a question: What do the productive people owe to the unproductive people in this area? I feel there should be a 'floor' of social services for everybody, and that includes health care. The problem is, what level of care should be afforded lower-class people who simply don't take care of themselves-- who eat crappy food and too much of it, who smoke, drink too much, do drugs, and don't exercise? What do we owe them on a spectrum between carte blanche and enough morphine so they're not in too much pain as they're dying from the diseases they totally predictably bring on themselves?

In the first place, with people like this, the emphasis should be on prevention-- to try to get them to stop doing all the bad things they do to themselves. So they would get lectured to a lot, and there would be various carrots and sticks to try to get them to change. Beyond that, part of the tit-for-tat of giving them basic health care should be that the taxpayer should be able to control their reproduction. Single women should be limited to one child, married couples to two.

natural selection

The question is, who will survive and reproduce? For starters, people shouldn’t have children they can’t support; they shouldn’t expect the government—i.e., the taxpayer—to pick up the slack. This way, the population of this country—and this planet—will get back down to a sustainable level, which it certainly isn’t at now.

Beyond that, what kind of people can support children? The one characteristic that you definitely will need in the modern world is a decent level of mathematical-logical ability. That’s what the modern world of science and technology is based on, after all. This is where the decent jobs are, and it’s only going to become more that way. But over time you will get a human population with a high level of mathematical-logical ability if people just don’t have children they can’t support.

intelligence

In general, more intelligent people should have more children, and less intelligent people should have fewer children. Mathematical-logical ability is particularly important. People shouldn't have children they can't support.

jost

JOST: Justice, Order, Science, and Technology. These are the basic elements of a First World America.