Odds & Ends

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Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc (META.O) has delayed finalizing the budgets of multiple teams as it prepares a fresh round of job cuts, the Financial Times reported on Saturday.  More than 11,000 jobs had been axed back in November.  That happened at the same time as Amazon and Microsoft announced the elimination of thousands of jobs.

I guess this is the job that Biden said on Tuesday that he wants to finish.  That being the destruction of the US economy.


Apparently Biden wants to show just how tough he is.  Three objects have been shot down in last couple of days.  The first was over Alaska.  Again, why couldn’t that have been done with the Chinese balloon?  Oh, that’s right.  No one in the public was aware of these spying activities going on.

The next was over Canada.  I assume we had the permission of the Canadian government to take this one out.  The most recent was over Montana.

I am just curious.  These “objects.”  Just what are they?  Are we using missiles that cost much money to eliminate something very cheap?  Is this just an exercise to distract the public from the disaster of an administration in Washington?


The chance of passage of this bill is nil.  Even if it reached the President’s desk, he would most assuredly veto it.  And I cannot see it getting through the Senate either.  The Democrats are too deep into the pockets of the teacher’s unions.

However, Representative Barry Moore (R-AL 2nd) has introduced legislation that would abolish the Department of Education and give States control over public school spending for elementary and secondary education.

According to Moore:

“The Department of Education is a nest of radical D.C. activists masquerading as educators pushing indoctrination schemes of radical anti-American ideas. For our children’s protection, it must be abolished.

“Across our country, we have seen taxpayer dollars used to expose children to radical gender and race ideologies without the consent of their parents. The education of our children should not belong to the federal government – it is time to return those rights to parents.”

Federal education dollars should follow the child not be given carte blanch to public schools.  Some states are taking this approach, that is school choice, which could bring some accountability to our public school system.