Snippet 21 -- Deceptive Education

 What could be said of a blog renamed :  

"The Piece, Bit, Excerpt, Snippet Quarterly" ?

Not much, I guess.  Therefore, welcome once again to Bernie's Blazar. 

This occasion is the result of an excellent article by Dr. Julie Ponesse* in the Epoch Times from which I have extracted, with respect, a morsel of her higher comprehensive perception. 

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We live in an era of pseudo intellectuals, pseudo students, and pseudo education.

Dear class of 2026

Welcome to the beginning of the rest of your life !  Ahead of you is four years of a lacklustre education which will saddle you with a debt from which you may never emerge.  Your professors will teach you not how to think but what to think, and their invitation to question will be just a pretence.  Before you leave today, you can register for courses on critical thinking and free will, but make sure to stop at the vaccine clinic on the way out to get your mandated COVID booster. 

* Dr. Julie Ponesse is a professor of ethics 

who has taught at Ontario's Huron University College for 20 years.  

She was placed on leave and banned from accessing her campus 

due to the vaccine mandate.  

Snippet 20 -- Gene Therapy

 "Not a vaccine in the medical definition, the COVID-19 ‘vaccine’ is really an experimental gene therapy that does not render immunity or prevent infection or transmission of the disease."

( Well, who would have guessed ? )

WORDS OF WISDOM

 

''It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.''

Moliere

Snippet 19 -- The Desperation of Trump-haters

When is a snippet a small piece ?  A small piece of Ukraine illustrates an item of Earth-shattering proportion.  Another example is Apple Books, 'Read, listen, discover -- All in one place'.  Well, really, that's just a short advertising statement, snipped ignorantly.  So, now, as I absorb the studied words of Conrad Black's latest lengthy article about the desperation of Trump-haters, do I copy every agreeable word, change most of the adjectives with similes, and claim it as my own ... and, still, risk plagiarism, or do I resort to a snippet (again).  

Peggy Noonan and I [Conrad Black] have recently confirmed that our political disagreements absolutely won’t stand in the way of our long friendship.

This is timely, as in her latest pronouncement upon the ever-shifting and more desperate perspective of civilized Trump-hate (defined here as making some effort at analysis, no matter how nonsensical, and not just primal scream therapy like most Trump-haters) in her column in The Wall Street Journal on June 16, she presented the most delusional version of the Trump-cancellation argument that has yet been made by any otherwise serious person still capable of rational comment on the subject.

The five thin and vibrating tent poles holding up the porous canvas of Trump-denial now, according to Noonan, are: 2020 was a pristine election incapable of serious doubt; Trump was trying to overturn the election result by intimidation on Jan. 6, 2021; there’s no merit in the Trumpism-without-Trump argument—his administration was a complete failure in every policy area; his scores of millions of supporters don’t really support him and they’re deserting him; and all those who turned themselves inside-out—and in some cases violated election and vote-counting statutes—to bring Trump down have no responsibility whatsoever for the almost indescribable catastrophe of the present administration.

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Barring terrible tactical errors, of which he’s capable, Trump will be back, and will return much wiser and more formidable than we remember him.

Conrad Black (The Epoch Times)

Choose Your Fighter: The F-35 Saga

I am much too dismayed, alarmed, angry, by this news, that I have become afflicted by the syndrome of 'word-block', such that there is an urgency to publish it ... anywhere.

"After years of delays, Canada is upgrading its air force and replacing its fleet of aging CF-18 fighters with (88 of) the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II — a jet the Liberals once vowed they would never buy. The stealth fighter jet has long been touted as the future of aerial warfare, but the debate over buying (at $19 billion) a fleet has dragged on for more than a decade, (... maybe another decade before entering service) starting under the Harper government." "On the campaign trail in 2015, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the F-35 would be a "nightmare" for Canadian taxpayers. "

Maclean's