April 22nd 2020
It’s Springtime in Vermont
7:21 am
It’s 23 deg. F. with a real feel of 12 deg.
It’s Earth Day, and…
Vladimer Lenin’s birthday
Coincidence….???
The Party of Hate !
And the Party of DEATH!
It’s unsettling to know that a great number of people in this country would not have a problem with millions of their fellow citizens dying of COVID-19 (not themselves of course) and the economy destroyed in exchange for a guarantee of Trump losing the election.
Old Nathaniel Grigsby knew what he was talking about.
And 130 years later nothing has changed.
V.T.C. is closing ?(!)
This is hard to believe but then again perhaps not.
Vermont State Colleges could close three campuses and cut hundreds of employees as part of a system-wide transformation in light of financial losses from the COVID-19 pandemic. The recommendation came from Vermont State Colleges System Chacellor Jeb Spaulding on Friday. As part of Spaulding’s plan, the residential campuses of Northern Vermont University in Lyndon and Johnson would be closed and their liberal arts programs would be transferred to Castleton University. Furthermore, the Randolph Center campus of Vermont Technical College would close, consolidating to locations in Williston and throughout Vermont prior to the 2020-21 academic year.
I graduated from V.T.C. back in the mid seventies. My class numbered 188 people of which only 12 were women. Needless to say you didn’t go to V.T.C. for the social life. Even way back then women were being encouraged to take S.T.E.M. courses. Many women chose not too. Much to my disapointment.
As of now the COVID-19 pandemic may be looked at as the coup-de-gras to the social rot that has been building for decades. Liberal/progressive policies that have degenerating business (job creation), the family (save the planet, don’t have children), Men (white men in particualr), and havin faith in something higher than ourselves.
Things have changed a lot in the past 45 years…
Our K-12 government schools are now little more then Marxist indoctrination centers, the teachers have become political commissars. Their main mission statment being: white people are racist (BLM), and we’ve only 12 years to save the planet (lets go on strike and disrupt peoples lives ).
And of course..Students also now have the ability to attend college on-line, which makes brick and mortar buildings like classrooms, dormitories, auditoriums, libraries and cafeterias rather superfluous.
A shrinking pool of young people, anemic job growth and opportunities, high taxes, political correctness, this outcome was inevitable.
It’s a beautiful campus. It will be a shame to see it empty, its sports teams extinct. The hundreds of jobs lost.
And they taught real world stuff there, none of this safe space politically correct B.S..
Vermont Technical College 1866-2020. Sad.
Bernie endorses Biden !
Bernie Bro’s (and sisters) hardest hit.
Bernie is a loser. Everyone in the State of Vermont who voted for this cretin, everyone who has a Bernie bumpersticker on their car (“Feel the Bern”), should get another one that says (“Berned again”) should be embarrassed.
How Long ?
This last winter was milder then the previous two. but the old man doesn’t seem to want to leave.
28 deg. F
Along with everything else that’s going on (the Corona lockdown and the slow slide into a police state) this is quite a depressing time.
But this too shall pass…tomorrow is Easter. Celebrate the risen Christ.
And if the police forces of the State arrest you on your way to Church tomorrow (for the public safety they will say) remember the Apostle Paul and the time he spent in prison.
It is no disgrace to sit in jail for Christ.
For the Lord hears the needy and does not despise his own people who are prisoners Psalm 69:33
Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body. Hebrews 13:3
“Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it” (Matthew 7:13-14
A Joyous Easter to everyone !
Being cooped up for a long time…
and sometimes you do things you’d never normally do.
One can only hope…
That perhaps there will be justice...
At least the wheels seem to be grinding, albeit very slowly.
Old Commies never die…
They just fade slink away.
Bernie has folded his tent.
The Bernie Bro’s got Berned… again. Suckers !
… Way back in February the nomination appeared to be Bernie’s to lose. He accomplished it.
Bernie lost to Joe Biden, who has dementia and has been accused of sexual assault.
The mainstream Democrat party never liked you Bernie.
Everyone with a Bernie bumbersticker on their car should be deeply embarrassed.
Bernie should resign his Senate seat…now, and retire to his lakeside dacha. Or one of his other two homes.
History will not be kind.