It has been really windy today. We discarded the notion of riding the bikes, so we hiked. That got cut short because the gusts were high enough so that when stepping down a boulder, one felt they were being pushed over. It was very unpleasant. Phoenix is getting rain, we are not. It's like Tucson has a protective shield over it.
That chunk of cloud was moving fast.
So, DEI, the great evil. It's a hiring thing, one tries to hire a diverse group of people. Different backgrounds make for different perspectives, and improve decision making. Now, ending DEI has become a tool to erase non-white men and all women. Arlington Cemetery has a web site, they're removing non-white men and all women from it, to include Colin Powell. From this Task and Purpose article we learn the following.
But in recent weeks, the cemetery’s public website has scrubbed dozens of pages on gravesites and educational materials that include histories of prominent Black, Hispanic and female service members buried in the cemetery, along with educational material on dozens of Medal of Honor recipients and maps of prominent gravesites of Marine Corps veterans and other services.
Cemetery officials confirmed to Task & Purpose that the pages were “unpublished” to meet recent orders by President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth targeting race and gender-related language and policies in the military.
Gone from public view are links to lists of dozens of “Notable Graves” at Arlington of women and Black and Hispanic service members who are buried in the cemetery. About a dozen other “Notable Graves” lists remain highlighted on the website, including lists of politicians, athletes and even foreign nationals.
This is disgusting. Teaching modules are removed, maps to notable minority graves are gone. To see the website now, you would think that only white men ever fought and died. Apparently non-white men and women are bad, white men are good.
47 is reiterating his desires to take the Panama Canal, the military has been tasked with planning for an invasion and take over. He's also still talking about Greenland. In front of the head of NATO he blathered on about how the US needs Greenland for security purposes. The stock market continues to express its displeasure with tariffs. Tesla stock continues to plummet, if it gets low enough the people who put up the money to buy twitter, may call the loans.
That's all I have the energy to list today.
Update to post: there is now a possibility of some rain here.
OMG,
ReplyDeletebut I do love your sky photo and the desert!
I would love to see the chickens come home to roost for Elon, if his loans get called in.
ReplyDeleteI do hope the winds die down and you get some rain.
ReplyDeleteThe rest...it is amazing how much damage can be done in a little less than 60 days.
I posted a link to the cemeteries on fb. That is horrifying to me. I also have my post for tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteI feel the same way about Wharton. There's an invisible dome over it that prevents us from getting rain while all around us does.
ReplyDeleteI fail to see how Arlington's website including people of color and women is DEI. These people served honorably and are buried there. What, are they going to dig them up next? Learning the history of these people and who they were is now DEI? It's just so fucking ridiculous. If you go in person to see the grave will they refuse to tell you where it is? All white is pretty fucking DEI if you ask me. Elevating someone just because their skin is white.
trump wouldn't know his ass from a hole in the ground. I'm still waiting for those republicans who are not insane, to stand up. WTF!
ReplyDeleteOur world grows sadder and sadder. Elon has enough haters to leave. Even that little boy's mother.
ReplyDeleteThank you for posting about Arlington cemetery scrubbing the archives of all but white male soldiers. To me, this is so insane I can’t even.
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