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neonvincentThe first comment is the last one I left on Elaine Meinel Supkis' blog. She managed to get on my last nerve and that was before she jumped on the Trump bandwagon. The final comment might look familiar, as I recycled it in Trump threatens to 'Lock Her Up!'
My comment on Once Again, Most Math Winners Are Asian And Trump Attacked By Our Rulers For ‘Make America Great AGAIN’ Hats!
(I rarely comment at Elaine Meinel Supkis's blog, but I am still subscribed to it via email, where I scan for the rare articles where she doesn't seem Anti-Semitic and makes a point worth refuting or an error worth correcting. This morning, I read the following and immediately had a suspicion about it.)
"Many winners went to private schools but one, a kid from out of India, goes to Troy High School which is near where I live and I know that school well."
Sorry, wrong Troy. He went to Troy High School in Troy, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, not Troy, New York. Here are two paragraphs from a press release from Oakland University in Rochester Hill, Michigan that mentions him.
"Each year, exceptional high school students descend on Oakland University’s campus to take part in its Summer Mathematics Institute (OUSMI). The six-week program offers students the chance to study advanced math concepts and receive college credit. Two recent OUSMI participants are preparing for an international competition at which they will present a research project that started at the Institute. Troy High School juniors Justin Xu and Dhruv Medarametla collaborated on a graph theory project, studying the structural properties of a class of networks known as 2-Bijective Connection Networks, or 2-BCNs.
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The pair qualified for international competition after being named “Best Team” at the Science and Engineering Fair of Metro Detroit. The honor earned them a chance to compete at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, the world’s largest international pre-college science competition, which will take place May 10-15 in Pittsburgh. They will present a poster of their research to a judging panel of industry professionals and university faculty. More than $5 million in prizes is up for grabs, according to the event website."
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It doesn't change your point about Asian-Americans, men, and math, but it does show you need to be more careful about the examples you choose. Also, please add Troy, Michigan, being one of the most Asian-American cities in Michigan (large Indian and Chinese communities), along with Ann Arbor (Japanese) and Hamtramck (Bangladeshis), to your knowledge of Metro Detroit. Metro Detroit is not all poverty and ruin porn.
(It felt good to tell her off.)
My comment on Out Out, Damned Email!
"Bad judgement is Bill Clinton’s middle name!" Combined with what is generally a shrewd political instinct, which comes from his big head. It's when he listens to his little head that I worry!
That ties back into our host's post today. I have my doubts that Bill doesn't want Hillary to win the White House. I think he actually does. Instead, I think he doesn't want his wife to win the White House without his actions to help her being noticed. The problem is that he oversteps what is wise and seemly for a political spouse in his efforts to be seen helping her and some of his "help" is counterproductive in assisting Hillary, even if they work very well in focusing attention on himself. Secondary gains and all that.
Of course, if our host is right, then the contest becomes who wants the White House less, the Clintons or Trump. I think Trump may want to be President, but he doesn't want to do what is necessary to win it or actually do the work. Hillary does, regardless of her husband's passive-aggressive assistance. Advantage Clinton.
That's reflected in the polls. Wednesday, a poll showed Clinton leading Trump by seventeen points in Michigan. The next day, another poll showed Clinton leading Trump in Michigan by fifteen percent. Factoring in both those polls, Nate Sillver of FiveThirtyEight gave Clinton a ninety-one percent chance of winning the state, Trump at just over nine percent, and Johnson at two-tenths of a percent. Her "damned emails?" What "damned emails?"
My comment on Lit and Sputtering.
Including this dose of realism: "Unless the remnants of the Republican Party act responsibly and find a way to replace Trump with a capable candidate, the nation will get what it deserves: a clown in the white house at the climax of the Fourth Turning."
As I noted last week, the polls don't support Trump winning as the most likely result. That doesn't change the conclusion that Trump may be the candidate the country deserves, even if he's not the candidate that we actually need.
On the other hand, it always warms my heart to read our host reference Strauss and Howe. Their cyclical view of history has really helped me make sense of my lived experience, especially the 20 years or so, when I could look at current events and interpret them meaningfully in terms of going from the Third Turning into the Fourth Turning. The Crisis of 2020 is at hand, just a little early.
In particular, reading Strauss and Howe led me to expect elections in this decade to be organized around a single big issue. This year's election is, but it's one I didn't expect. All issues have been focused by Trump on approval or disapproval of multicultural America. That's why 2016 may not be 1968, but Trump is worse than Wallace.
Speaking of multicultural America, I have a drink for you, our host, and the rest of his readers, the Diversity Bomb Shot. Bottoms up and beware of the police robot!
My comment on How Not to Learn Magic: An Introductory Note
"One of the goals of magical training, to turn to technical language for a moment, is the equilibration of the lower self: in less opaque terms, the balancing out of the habitual imbalances of the personality, so that the aspiring mage can use his or her habits of thought and feeling rather than being used by them."
This is one of the reasons why I decided to get back into the Enneagram. As a form of spiritual work, it's all about "the balancing out of the habitual imbalances of the personality." It also satisfies my requirement that it not be too obviously magical. Hiding magic behind a variation of the personality theories of Carl Jung so that it looks like self-help psychology works for me. Also, understanding it as spiritual work instead of simple self-help has clarified my comprehension. I described the Enneagram as a system of occult knowledge to one of my colleagues and she told me that it was the best explanation of it that she had ever heard. Other people who merely described it as a personality typology didn't get through to her.
Of course, all the books I've studied have a blind spot; they don't try to filter out society's imbalances. Instead, they're all about trying to get the adherents better adjusted to modern society. In that way, the program behaves a lot like EST, which is a salesperson's idea of Buddhism with influence from Scientology. I'm not sure how to fix that issue. Maybe importing techniques from systems that address society's biases might help.
On the other hand, while it's a system that works on the self, it's not one that can be used to work on others beyond understanding them. I found that out by trying to use it to devise attacks on a adversary by use of "The Leaden Rule"--people attack others by using what they most fear others doing unto them. First, it was hard to pull off that strategy based on a proper understanding of what others fear instead of what I feared. Second, my attempts resulted in a lot of "raspberry jam" sticking to me. I ended up in court when I did such a thing to the wrong person! I think I learned my lesson the hard way from that one!
Greer: Pinku-sensei, I'd say your first mistake was choosing a strategy defined by "attacks on an adversary," rather than choosing an end state you wanted to achieve: "I want this guy out of my life," say, or "I want to accomplish this thing." If the other guy is preventing you from accomplishing something, especially, you don't include him in the intention -- if you do, you weaken the focus of your magic. If the other guy suddenly wins the lottery or gets a promotion and moves to St. Augustine, and so gets out of your way, why should that bother you, so long as you accomplish your intent?
My comment on The Morning After, Day 2, and Why I Can't Watch 2
"In 2010, under Manafort's tutelage, the opposition leader put the Orange Revolution on trial, campaigning against its leaders' management of a weak economy. Returns from the presidential election gave Yanukovych a narrow win over Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, a leader of the 2004 demonstrations. Yanukovych owed his comeback in Ukraine's presidential election to a drastic makeover of his political persona and, people in his party say, that makeover was engineered in part by his American consultant, Manafort."
And what did Yanukovych do to Tymoshenko after he won? Lock her up.
My comment on Once Again, Most Math Winners Are Asian And Trump Attacked By Our Rulers For ‘Make America Great AGAIN’ Hats!
(I rarely comment at Elaine Meinel Supkis's blog, but I am still subscribed to it via email, where I scan for the rare articles where she doesn't seem Anti-Semitic and makes a point worth refuting or an error worth correcting. This morning, I read the following and immediately had a suspicion about it.)
"Many winners went to private schools but one, a kid from out of India, goes to Troy High School which is near where I live and I know that school well."
Sorry, wrong Troy. He went to Troy High School in Troy, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, not Troy, New York. Here are two paragraphs from a press release from Oakland University in Rochester Hill, Michigan that mentions him.
"Each year, exceptional high school students descend on Oakland University’s campus to take part in its Summer Mathematics Institute (OUSMI). The six-week program offers students the chance to study advanced math concepts and receive college credit. Two recent OUSMI participants are preparing for an international competition at which they will present a research project that started at the Institute. Troy High School juniors Justin Xu and Dhruv Medarametla collaborated on a graph theory project, studying the structural properties of a class of networks known as 2-Bijective Connection Networks, or 2-BCNs.
...
The pair qualified for international competition after being named “Best Team” at the Science and Engineering Fair of Metro Detroit. The honor earned them a chance to compete at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, the world’s largest international pre-college science competition, which will take place May 10-15 in Pittsburgh. They will present a poster of their research to a judging panel of industry professionals and university faculty. More than $5 million in prizes is up for grabs, according to the event website."
https://www.oakland.edu/view_news.aspx?sid=34&nid=12196&archived=1
It doesn't change your point about Asian-Americans, men, and math, but it does show you need to be more careful about the examples you choose. Also, please add Troy, Michigan, being one of the most Asian-American cities in Michigan (large Indian and Chinese communities), along with Ann Arbor (Japanese) and Hamtramck (Bangladeshis), to your knowledge of Metro Detroit. Metro Detroit is not all poverty and ruin porn.
(It felt good to tell her off.)
My comment on Out Out, Damned Email!
"Bad judgement is Bill Clinton’s middle name!" Combined with what is generally a shrewd political instinct, which comes from his big head. It's when he listens to his little head that I worry!
That ties back into our host's post today. I have my doubts that Bill doesn't want Hillary to win the White House. I think he actually does. Instead, I think he doesn't want his wife to win the White House without his actions to help her being noticed. The problem is that he oversteps what is wise and seemly for a political spouse in his efforts to be seen helping her and some of his "help" is counterproductive in assisting Hillary, even if they work very well in focusing attention on himself. Secondary gains and all that.
Of course, if our host is right, then the contest becomes who wants the White House less, the Clintons or Trump. I think Trump may want to be President, but he doesn't want to do what is necessary to win it or actually do the work. Hillary does, regardless of her husband's passive-aggressive assistance. Advantage Clinton.
That's reflected in the polls. Wednesday, a poll showed Clinton leading Trump by seventeen points in Michigan. The next day, another poll showed Clinton leading Trump in Michigan by fifteen percent. Factoring in both those polls, Nate Sillver of FiveThirtyEight gave Clinton a ninety-one percent chance of winning the state, Trump at just over nine percent, and Johnson at two-tenths of a percent. Her "damned emails?" What "damned emails?"
My comment on Lit and Sputtering.
Including this dose of realism: "Unless the remnants of the Republican Party act responsibly and find a way to replace Trump with a capable candidate, the nation will get what it deserves: a clown in the white house at the climax of the Fourth Turning."
As I noted last week, the polls don't support Trump winning as the most likely result. That doesn't change the conclusion that Trump may be the candidate the country deserves, even if he's not the candidate that we actually need.
On the other hand, it always warms my heart to read our host reference Strauss and Howe. Their cyclical view of history has really helped me make sense of my lived experience, especially the 20 years or so, when I could look at current events and interpret them meaningfully in terms of going from the Third Turning into the Fourth Turning. The Crisis of 2020 is at hand, just a little early.
In particular, reading Strauss and Howe led me to expect elections in this decade to be organized around a single big issue. This year's election is, but it's one I didn't expect. All issues have been focused by Trump on approval or disapproval of multicultural America. That's why 2016 may not be 1968, but Trump is worse than Wallace.
Speaking of multicultural America, I have a drink for you, our host, and the rest of his readers, the Diversity Bomb Shot. Bottoms up and beware of the police robot!
My comment on How Not to Learn Magic: An Introductory Note
"One of the goals of magical training, to turn to technical language for a moment, is the equilibration of the lower self: in less opaque terms, the balancing out of the habitual imbalances of the personality, so that the aspiring mage can use his or her habits of thought and feeling rather than being used by them."
This is one of the reasons why I decided to get back into the Enneagram. As a form of spiritual work, it's all about "the balancing out of the habitual imbalances of the personality." It also satisfies my requirement that it not be too obviously magical. Hiding magic behind a variation of the personality theories of Carl Jung so that it looks like self-help psychology works for me. Also, understanding it as spiritual work instead of simple self-help has clarified my comprehension. I described the Enneagram as a system of occult knowledge to one of my colleagues and she told me that it was the best explanation of it that she had ever heard. Other people who merely described it as a personality typology didn't get through to her.
Of course, all the books I've studied have a blind spot; they don't try to filter out society's imbalances. Instead, they're all about trying to get the adherents better adjusted to modern society. In that way, the program behaves a lot like EST, which is a salesperson's idea of Buddhism with influence from Scientology. I'm not sure how to fix that issue. Maybe importing techniques from systems that address society's biases might help.
On the other hand, while it's a system that works on the self, it's not one that can be used to work on others beyond understanding them. I found that out by trying to use it to devise attacks on a adversary by use of "The Leaden Rule"--people attack others by using what they most fear others doing unto them. First, it was hard to pull off that strategy based on a proper understanding of what others fear instead of what I feared. Second, my attempts resulted in a lot of "raspberry jam" sticking to me. I ended up in court when I did such a thing to the wrong person! I think I learned my lesson the hard way from that one!
Greer: Pinku-sensei, I'd say your first mistake was choosing a strategy defined by "attacks on an adversary," rather than choosing an end state you wanted to achieve: "I want this guy out of my life," say, or "I want to accomplish this thing." If the other guy is preventing you from accomplishing something, especially, you don't include him in the intention -- if you do, you weaken the focus of your magic. If the other guy suddenly wins the lottery or gets a promotion and moves to St. Augustine, and so gets out of your way, why should that bother you, so long as you accomplish your intent?
My comment on The Morning After, Day 2, and Why I Can't Watch 2
Christie was another of last night's pseudoconservative luminaries, who also delivered a frothing denunciation of Crooked Hillary, "smil[ing]" as the arena's neofascistic mob "erupted in chants of 'LOCK HER UP! LOCK HER UP!," reports Slate's Michelle Goldberg."'LOCK HER UP! LOCK HER UP!'" Given Manfort's history, that takes on a chilling meaning. Here's what Wikipedia wrote about his involvement in Ukraine.
"In 2010, under Manafort's tutelage, the opposition leader put the Orange Revolution on trial, campaigning against its leaders' management of a weak economy. Returns from the presidential election gave Yanukovych a narrow win over Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, a leader of the 2004 demonstrations. Yanukovych owed his comeback in Ukraine's presidential election to a drastic makeover of his political persona and, people in his party say, that makeover was engineered in part by his American consultant, Manafort."
And what did Yanukovych do to Tymoshenko after he won? Lock her up.
