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Pete Buttigieg Hates Americans

January 15, 2024 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

Diversity is killing us. In March, 2022, the FAA updated it’s DEI policies.

From the FAA’s Diversity and Inclusion page.

The mission of the FAA involves securing the skies of a diverse nation. It only makes sense that the workforce responsible for that mission reflects the nation that it serves.

That doesn’t make sense at all. It makes sense to have a workforce that is the most competent that can be found and have a dedication to safety.

Individuals with targeted or “severe” disabilities are the most under-represented segment of the Federal workforce.

The FAA is committed to hiring more people with ‘severe’ disabilities to up their share of the federal workforce. The FAA is targeting people with specific disabilities.

Targeted disabilities are those disabilities that the Federal government, as a matter of policy, has identified for special emphasis in recruitment and hiring. They include hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism.

There is no problem with the FAA hiring dwarfs or paraplegics. Hiring people to work for the FAA with severe intellectual or psychiatric disabilities is intended to undermine the organization and put Americans in danger.

If managers meet people who are too disabled to pass up, they can hire on the spot.

On-the-Spot Hiring
A non-competitive hiring method for filling vacancies with Veterans and/or individuals with disabilities. Managers can choose to fill an open position through the On-the-Spot hiring process given they provide the required documentation for doing so.

Pete Buttigieg is Secretary of Transportation. His only qualifications are that he is gay and went to Harvard.

DeadBolt Obstacle Course

January 14, 2024 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

It’s 10^o F and windy, so the wind chill is -9^o F. The wood stove is going full blast. To get the fire going in the morning, there is a bin of scrap wood to throw on the hot embers. That gave me an idea for inside fun.

A couple of split logs and a bunch of scrap wood makes a good course for the DeadBolt. It’s a live course because the scrap wood moves under the car. To improve FPV visibility, the car body was removed.

While driving DeadBolt, Sparky kept coming over. The sound of the RC car always meant he had a chance at snatching some food.

Institutions have failed us.

January 12, 2024 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

Douglas Murray says that Americans have lost faith in institutions because of Fauci’s lying. It’s much worse than that.

Fauci did more than lie to the American people. He encouraged draconian measures to ensure compliance. Lawsuits are ongoing for people who were fired from jobs for not getting vaccinated.

Claudine Gay, the former president of Harvard, helped squander the credibility of institutions. We now know that diversity hires are everywhere. Once they get in, they can’t be removed because they can’t be criticized.

Much of the WOKE corporate agenda come from BlackRock, the world’s largest investment management company. Publicly traded companies were given an ESG score to indicate their compliance with environmental, social and governance benchmarks. That’s what it took to ruin two of America’s strongest brands. Budweiser and Disney squandered billions, and they won’t come back.

Now that we know all this, it would be insane to trust big government, big business or big colleges. Institutions want to rebuild their reputations, but they won’t apologize and they may be too infected to be saved. It can get better, but there is going to be a lot of wreckage left behind.

Keep it in the distant family.

January 11, 2024 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

Sperm counts and fertility have been dropping for a hundred years. This could become a problem.

Women having fewer children could be explained by societal changes that mostly converge to women having more life options and control over their fertility. The drop in sperm count is not easy to explain, but everybody wants to attribute the decline to whatever agenda suits them.

In my first quarter at The Ohio State University, I took Bio 100 because, at the time, I was majoring in natural resource management. Everyone majoring in a non-STEM field took it.

The professor was an engaging lecturer, with some wit. He was explaining dominant and recessive genes, and explained how inbreeding increases the chances of passing along harmful, recessive traits. He ended with, “So if you want to have the healthiest kids, breed with someone of a different race.” In 1979, this was a mildly subversive thing to say.

Sparky Wins the Chicken Run

January 10, 2024 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

Playing Chicken Run today, Sparky snatched the prize five times.

When the chicken was gone, pepperoni was the prize. It’s aromatic, so got Sparky’s attention. I was concerned that it might mix up Sparky’s innards, so today, we switched to kielbasa.

Driving with FPV, is deceiving. I seemed to be winning, keeping Sparky on the jump, but when I checked, the prize was gone. Driving without the FPV, I see how Sparky cleverly comes from behind or wheels around, and snatches the prize without me even knowing he was there. And, Sparky can shimmy under the coach.

I’m not sure the prize ever made it to the solarium and back. Sparky won, 5-0.

Beyond the Black: Americans Push Back

January 9, 2024 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

Beyond the Black: Americans Push Back

We all need to refuse to consent. Since politicians are nothing more than bullies, such defiance will quickly cause them to back off. Both Illinois and St. Louis this week clearly proved this.

Good, we need more of this and perhaps the government will get back to just doing it’s job. This is not just happening in America.

WSJ: Cheating Crisis on Campus

January 9, 2024 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

WSJ: Cheating on Campus

“When my peers are found responsible for multiple instances of inadequate citation, they are often suspended for an academic year,” wrote the student who sits on Harvard’s honor council, which adjudicates peer academic-integrity violations. “When the president of their university is found responsible for the same types of infractions, the fellows of the Corporation ‘unanimously stand in support of’ her,” as the body declared in a Dec. 12 statement.

Sparky is Russian

January 7, 2024 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

I found a deer skull in the woods. This counts as Sparky’s Christmas present. We are leaving it outside for now because nobody wants a skull dragged around the house. Well, Sparky does. It might get mounted in his crate. Sparky would like that.

Sparky got his present today, on Russian Christmas, so that may be a cosmic sign that he’s Russian. That would explain a lot. He only understands English when it suits him and he likes bread and salt. Sparky is warm-hearted, fatalistic and reckless, so the epitome of the Russian soul.

Sparky playing Chicken Run

January 5, 2024 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

Sparky and I have the outline of a good game.

This is the Deadbolt. An FPV camera is mounted on the front and a tray is placed on the roof rack. A piece of chicken is placed in the bait tray.

My advantage is that Sparky gets skittish when Deadbolt is coming at him and the Deadbolt can drive under a couch to be safe.

Sparky’s advantage is that he is faster and more maneuverable than Deadbolt and I can only see straight ahead.

To keep it simple, the video was recorded by the Fat Shark FPV goggles, so the quality is poor.

Deadbolt is hiding under the couch. Sparky knows there is chicken somewhere, but since he hasn’t connected the dots, Deadbolt ran him down.

This time, Deadbolt is waiting with it’s back to the wall so Sparky can’t sneak up. Since Deadbolt isn’t moving, Sparky gets bold. When the screen gets a bunch more interference lines, that is me hitting the gas, but the battery is low. Too low to escape, so Sparky snatches the chicken.