The lack of professionalism in these Senate confirmation hearings should be a wake-up call for all Americans. Too many U.S. Senators are making a mockery of the process and are being vile to good people—we need better leaders in Washington. pic.twitter.com/8sS0EEPpKO
— Catalina Lauf (@CatalinaLauf) January 29, 2025
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We will,only get better leaders when the people demand, and vote to better people. I wonder if we could go on strike as voters if the people running aren't to our liking because the party doesn't allow the people of our choice to run?????
Should be. I will share this since it goes with this topic. I have been designing and printing out an organized list of Trump's Appointees and Confirmations and taking them in to my church pre-service prayer group.
I have found complete sloppiness in any number of other publications, as far as capitalization and getting titles correct.
The sloppiness goes from not capitalizing titles, or even getting the titles correct. It is all on WhiteHouse.gov, and they couldn't be bothered to look up the correct titles.
Department of Interior might be listed as interior department, as an example.
So, Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense, is listed as Secretary of defense in one source.
Lee Zelden, EPA Administrator, is listed as 'EPA administrator' in one source.
Doug Borgum, is just floating as "Interior." Interior WHAT. (AP)
Tulsi Gabbord, Director of National Intelligence, is 'director of National Intelligence.'
Pam Bondi, A.G. is attorney general, (NBC).
Journalism is supposed to be a profession. It requires a degree in Journalism from an accredited college of Journalism within a recognized college or university.
So, what happened?
What happened????? They all went communist, the schools and the students!
We know they went commie. But I think it was something else. The President of our college, prior to the next ballot referendum for more tax money, pushed for higher academic standards to prove our school was doing a good job. At that point I was still part-time. I was over in duplicating, waiting in line to print copies, listening to several adjuncts from the same dept. They were talking about lowering the grade range in order to make it look good. I think it was Psych., always a huge dept. on any campus. It would have been easy for v them and they would c have made a huge impact. So they did. If adjuncts knew, it was real. So, they, and probably other depts. made the President look good. The county referendum passed. He is still there. Unfortunately.
Lowering the standards goes back a long time.....many decades!
I remember when I was learning to write, this was under communism we still had ink wells and dip pens with the paper that absorbed the ink spills ( sorry, don't know what it's called in English, I never saw it since I've been here). Eventually we had fountain pens, ballpoint pens didn't come to Eastern Europe until I was in 7 or 8th grade. The point is we were thought to strive for perfection, the dip pens dripped but could be controlled with great care, if we had a drip on the paper we had to rewrite the entire sheet. Shape, size, tilt, down to all the diacritical marks like umlauts had to be perfectly placed over the letter, or you had to start over. They drove into us the understanding of some things are not changeable, rules must be followed, neatness, pricisness, accuracy is demanded. This taugh us to pay attention to detail, to see, notice and care about the seemingly small, unimportant things.
What we need in America is to go back to classical education, it survived for centuries for a reason, they created thoughtful, critical thinkers, it fed the mind and the soul, it gave us well rounded, knowledgeable men like our founders.
Thank you for your true-life story, Ilona. And I completely agree with you on everything you wrote. Classical education, classics, sentence diagramming, true literature, science. Other nations are far superior to us now. My Japanese live-in student earning the right to prove his English skills here, said that from his first day in first grade, he took Japanese, Chinese and English, the entire time he was in school. He had memorized the Periodical Table of Elements. Funny thing was due to Japanese cultural roles, he was completely unhousebroken, lol. My terms. Banged cabinet doors at 5am. Completely ignorant of household responsibilities. Never even noticed that my cat had knocked over the Christmas tree. Say what???!!
Unhousebroken is very far eastern! lol Asian kids are extremely spoiled, catered to, and protected from all responsibilities outside their schoolwork. The pressure there is enormous!
We can have our children do extremely well in school if the demand is a societal thing, and demanded, expected in general by most of society. But they can learn other (household, sports, music) responsibilities and social graces at the same time....kids capacity to learn is amazing especially at early ages, and it isn't unusual for them to pick up 2,3, 4 languages because of exposure, it happens in europe all the time especially since TV programs overlap borders, and kids simply learn by hearing. My grandfather spoke 7 languages, only learned two in school.
We must be demanding on our schools, teachers, parents, and the children to be in a leadership role in the world. It isn't just a personal need, but also a national responsibility!
Wow!!! 7 languages!!! Really impressive.
I think in the Asian cultures, women are tasked completely with anything related to household. Part of same story. When Masaki's parents came to visit America, they took my Mom and me out to dinner at a very nice place. She did all the talking. He said almost nothing. Paid the bill, that's what he was there for, but the women are tasked with all things home, entertaining, etc. Even through listening to the music there, and a long dinner, he said maybe two sentences total.