Nursing, like any labor-intensive field, depends on practice for it’s expertise. It’s easy for a kid in his basement to write programs, but less so for him to learn how to start an IV.
But Ms McRae is also concerned that programmes like Lambda School, though well-meaning, risk undermining existing educational institutions by offering a quicker route to work.
I fail to see how this is a Bad Thing.
The kind of intense optimisation which Lambda espouses cannot, she worries, replace conventional learning, which strives to create not just capable workers but rounded individuals.
Liberal arts, maybe; nursing, not so much. I don’t care if the nurse treating me is a ’rounded individual’, I just want to know that she (or he) is a good nurse.
This ’rounded individual’ bullshit was fine when it applied to the children of the upper-middle class; nowadays (a) that’s not why people go to school, for the most part, and (b) schools don’t do that worth a shit any more.
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The Left understands, as many on the non-Left do not, that controlling the language that is used in discussion goes a long way toward controlling the discussion. The Drive-By Media don’t even have to think about it; they know it in their bones.
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The government crisis in Spain has been going on for than a year. Pedro Sánchez became the head of a minority government in June 2018 after the Spanish parliament passed a motion of no confidence in the right-wing government of former Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy. Sánchez, who is the secretary-general of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE), was able to secure victory thanks to support from the left-wing populist party Podemos, as well as Basque and Catalan separatists. This ill-matched group was unable to operate for long without a common enemy, however, and the eight parties proved incapable of negotiating the day-to-day issues involved in running a country.
This is the fundamental flaw with ‘proportional representation’. Every little collection of political quirks has its own ‘party’, because only parties are represented, and every one of them has a flyspeck of representation in the legislature; there is no one set of policies that can command majority support, and therefore a governmental system that depends on their being such a majority is crippled.
The only place where a parliamentary system has ever worked decently is Britain, because Britain was trained by several centuries of ‘court vs country’ combat to think in terms of there being two (and only two) sides to every political issue, which is what makes the system work — and, even now, that has been breaking down as British political culture gets corrupted by mainland European notions.
The American system has a built-in safeguard against this sort of deadlock in the form of Americans voting for an individual candidate rather than a political position in the form of a party — sure, party labels are significant and party feeling gets intense but what is actually elected is an individual whose political positions may or may not line up with somebody else in the government. This is how you get Republicans like John McCain and Rand Paul and Democrats like Scoop Jackson and Sam Nunn and Joe Liberman. If there were a plot of members of Congress by political position it would be a spectrum from far-right to far-left, much as in a European parliament, but at some point it would still be divided into two ‘sides’, and only two sides. Government functions that depend on their being only two formal sides to policy questions can therefore function, however complicated things might get concerning actual policies and legislation.
Even when minor ‘parties’ and ‘independents’ make it into a legislature, they still have to line up with one of the official ‘sides’ if they’re going to avoid being ignored. There has never been a time when a ‘third party’ has held the balance of power between the two official ‘sides’ as perennially happens in non-American governments. There is no chance of a ‘minor party’ being given a cabinet position in order to bring them aboard a ‘coalition’, as commonly happens in a non-American government, because the executive is always in the hands of a single side and, more importantly, in the hands of a single person. The centralization of effective power in the hands of the British Prime Minister over the last hundred years is a reflection of the need for such a focus for executive direction. The traditional practice of individual cabinet officials determining policy in their areas of responsibility, which characterized British governmental methodology through the end of the 19th century, couldn’t survive the pressures of modern political life.
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“My frustration,” writes Peter Schweizer in his new book, “Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends,” “is not that the solid reporting on Trump has been too tough, but that the reporting on the Obama administration has been way too soft or in some cases nonexistent.” The author of the 2016 sensation “Clinton Cash” says Trump and his children didn’t invent the blurring of government and business, and details a number of ethical violations on both sides of the political aisle. One example: the little-noticed private equity firm run by the sons of Democrats Joe Biden and John Kerry, as detailed in this exclusive first excerpt.
Crooked Democrats — who knew?
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Nine million patients a year are seeing crucial hospital appointments and operations cancelled by administrators – almost triple the number a decade ago, official statistics show.
Patients groups said too many vulnerable people were being treated as though they were “lucky to get an appointment at all” with slots routinely called off at the last minute, sometimes repeatedly.
How about that GREAT government-provided health care? Don’t you wish we had a system like that in the U.S.?
A fundamental characteristic of a service provided by the government is that when the government fails (or refuses) to provide it, you have nowhere else to go.
Matt Hancock, the Health Secretary, last night vowed to “fundamentally overhaul” the system in order to tackle the failings and spare patients distress and harm.
Raise your hand if you think that will ever happen.
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Soldiers exchanged gunfire raiding a building in Sennal Kiramam, Sainthamaruthu, in eastern Sri Lanka, with residents hearing several explosions.
Earlier, detectives had found nearby a cache of explosives, drones and an Islamic State group banner and robes used in a propaganda video recorded before the bombers detonated in crowded hotels and restaurants. The bombers filmed themselves swearing allegiance to Islamic State in Iraq and Levant (Isil) before they killed 253 Christians, hotels guests and staff.
Your successful democratic citizen uses themselves as a means to this success. They use their time, their personal appeal, and even their bodies in order to become chosen by the system. This makes them both obedient and amoral.
Such a person will memorize reams of useless data, repeat it on command, and pretend it is real in order to get ahead; they will shame others who do not bleat the same things. They will attend jobs and school for however long is required to get that gold ring.
Even more, such a person learns to scorn their task. They are taught in school that nothing really matters in reality, since all that matters is having the right answer according to the system.
And the normalization of the abnormal marches on….
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Carbon dating has already indicated that the bones are from a person who died between 1590 and 1620, while DNA tests have confirmed that the bones are of a Westerner from northern Europe. Japanese researchers are planning to reach out to sources in Britain to try to trace the Adams family line to a surviving descendant in order to compare the DNA.
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The mayor of Baltimore has been running a grift: She self-published her own stupid children’s books about health, about the unimaginitively named “Healthy Holly.”
She made these books available. To, for example, health care providers looking to sign lucrative contracts with the city of Baltimore.
And you won’t believe this –health care providers looking to sign lucrative contracts with the city of Baltimore bought tens of thousands of copies of this self-published book, putting a great deal of money in the mayor’s pockets, to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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A Massachusetts judge was indicted for “conspiracy to obstruct justice” after she allegedly impeded an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer from detaining an illegal alien.
The indictment was handed down by the U.S. Attorney’s office against Judge Shelley Richmond Joseph on Thursday. Richmond and trial court officer Wesley MacGregor, her fellow defendant, allegedly conspired to keep ICE from detaining the illegal alien last year.
The illegal alien had previously been deported twice and was the subject of an ICE detainer after having been arrested in Pennsylvania for narcotics possession.
It’s high time some of these scofflaws went to jail.
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People were migrating, on the whole, to states in the south and west, according to researchers. The reasons they cited for that were lower costs of living, state budgetary challenges, weather, and job growth, among other factors.
If they had asked about ‘absence of crazy socialists’, I’m sure that would have gotten a lot of play.
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he Commonwealth of Virginia, where statues of Confederate heroes like Lee and Jackson have recently been removed, is about to erect a monument in downtown Richmond to Nat Turner, the leader of an 1830 slave rebellion.
Outside of the various hives on the modern Left, it is generally assumed that the natural progression of democracy is toward some form of dictatorship. What starts as a sensible idea by sensible people leads to an expansion of the franchise to include a majority of people, who are not sensible. This inevitably leads to instability. The system first breaks down into factionalism and then becomes both corrupt and inept. The solution is the man of will, who will cut through the process and impose order on the chaos.
This is why the Founders were steadfastly opposed to democracy. They knew their history and their political philosophy. They also understood human nature. It is also why both sides of the Progressive order have rewritten history to have the Civil War as the second founding. Ben Shapiro cannot sing the praises of democracy if the authority to which he is appealing was opposed to it and to him. It turns out that democracy not only corrupts the present it must corrupt the past in order to legitimize itself.
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Baltimore is the city ZMan calls ‘Lagos on the Chesapeake’.
The 69-year-old mayor is under investigation by the Maryland Office of the State Prosecutor after selling her books to University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) for $500,000 while on the system’s board.
Baltimore City Council members called on Pugh to resign in an April 8 letter. Pugh’s office said she “fully intends” to return to her position, The Baltimore Sun reported.
Urban corruption appears to be stereotypically Democrat; certainly Republicans have been caught with their hands in the cookie jar (especially in Illinois, thanks, I suspect, to the Chicago influence), but Democrats certainly seem to comprise over 95% of them. The great political machines — Tweed in New York, Pendergast in Kansas City, Daley in Chicago — were all Democratic.
In a bid to enhance interaction and business with the Chinese in Kano State, the Emir of Kano, Emir Muhammadu Sanusi II has approved the appointment and instalment of a Chinese man, Mr Mike Zhang, as a chief and leader of the growing Chinese community in the northern Nigerian state.
Thanks to its urban-growth boundary, Denver has a housing affordability problem. Apartment rents have increased by 65 percent in the last decade, while the nationwide cost of living in that time rose by just 18 percent and rents nationwide increased by an average of 28 percent.
If you restrict supply, the price goes up. That’s elementary economics, too elementary to appeal to state ideologues legislators.
For hundreds of years, some form of question about citizenship has been included in the United States census form. But now that Donald Trump was president it’s suddenly a problem of epic proportions, that’s according to the liberal media.
TDS makes all things problematical. The census can ask what kind of car you drive but dooooooon’t you dare ask about citizenship.
Wake Forest University is hosting a series of “listening sessions” for faculty and staff of color that aim to advance inclusion efforts on campus.
The listening sessions come amid ongoing racial tensions on campus, including a protest Monday at which some students decried the “white supremacy” that allegedly runs rampant at the private, North Carolina institution.
War Is Peace — Freedom Is Slavery — Ignorance Is Strength
Much of the gold was not recorded in the exports of African states. Five trade economists interviewed by Reuters said this indicates large amounts of gold are leaving Africa with no taxes being paid to the states that produce them.
That’s what really burns their asses — the government isn’t getting to wet its beak. That’s what makes it a ‘black market’.
Whenever you see the term ‘black market’, it indicates that some government isn’t getting its cut.
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A US judge gave the cops permission to force people’s fingers onto seized iPhones to see who could unlock them, a newly unsealed search warrant has revealed.
There is a story, don’t know whether it’s true, about a French Foreign Legion officer who was so offended by the prospect of police taking his fingerprints that he put his fingertips on a red-hot stove, guaranteeing that all they would get would be scar tissue.
I imagine that this applies to Apple’s ‘face recognition’ as well.
Which is why I use a complicated passphrase rather than any of the it’s-convenent-to-you-and-even-more-convenient-to-the-state ways of unlocking my phone.
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For the millions of third-party sellers on Amazon’s marketplace, maintaining a successful business is a constant battle to rank high in search results, collect positive product reviews, and keep up with Amazon when it releases its own branded versions of sellers’ most successful products. This intense competition has led to the emergence of a secretive, lucrative black market where agents peddle “black hat” services, sometimes obtained by bribing Amazon employees, that purportedly give marketplace sellers an advantage over their rivals, according to documents obtained by BuzzFeed News.
This is from BuzzFeed so I’d want to get it confirmed from another source.
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San Francisco – thanks to its balmy year-round climate and hospitable reputation – has long suffered from growing homelessness which, despite the city’s nosebleed-inducing taxes, it has been unable to curtail. This led to articles such our recent piece documenting the city’s 132,562 cases of human feces on city streets. As we noted then, San Francisco hosts an estimated homeless population of 7,500 people. As a result, affluent sections of the city have become borderline dangerous with open-air drug use, tens of thousands of discarded needles, and, sadly, overflowing human excrement.
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