UNDEREDUCATED, OVEREDUCATED, OR JUST RIGHT

Growing up, everyone is undereducated.

From five, to fifteen, to twenty-five, the learning curve is steep.

After high school, you’re done? Noooo.

After a bachelor’s degree, your done? Nooooo

After a professional degree, or graduate degree, you’re done?

After all the learning, no matter how far you get, or how long it takes, we come to the same conclusion: We’re never done.

But people get tired of keeping up with the warp speed of social media ‘newspeople’ breaking the latest story, the latest discovery, all seeking validation for their ‘news scoop.’

Eventually it gets to the overeducated, the people who need to see every possible side to every story before deciding the cause and effect, the action reaction, the innocent and the guilty.

Even they get tired of sorting out right and wrong, trying to see both sides.

From Google AI:

 

“Fatigue makes cowards of us all” is a famous quote often attributed to both U.S. Army General George S. Patton and football coach Vince Lombardi, highlighting how physical and mental exhaustion diminishes courage, leading to poor decisions, negativity, and inaction. 

 

If you don’t have the proper conditioning to interpret a story, you either ignore it, or go with first impressions.

Which one works for you?

Because I’m a blogging superstar, based on what I suspect is bot-traffic, I walk the line between engagement and disappointment, which means keeping an eye out for the tie that binds.

I’ve spent considerable time with both the undereducated and overeducated.

In other words I’m married with kids who’ve grown up and have kids, and many lessons to learn before they’re done, which as I said, never happens.

Done? Not so fast, mister.

 

Local Events In Portland

From King5.com:

According to a statement from the Portland Police Bureau, officers responded at 2:18 p.m. to Southeast Main Street near I-205, the location of Adventist Health Portland, for a report of the shooting.

Officers confirmed at the scene that federal agents were involved in the shooting, which happened in the hospital parking lot.

 

From inside Adventist:

It was scary. Right on our street. There were some protestors there.

We didn’t hear anything till cops and FBI vans showed up. They taped off our campus.

The unmarked “US Customs and border” said they shot a male and female that were related to a gang. But bystanders and staff said it was ICE shooting at protestors.

 

From BBC:

Portland Mayor Keith Wilson, a Democrat, called on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to halt all operations in the city pending the investigation.

“We know what the federal government says happened here,” he said. “There was a time when we could take them at their word. That time is long past.”

 

I remember growing up with the story of George Washington confessing to chopping down a cherry tree.

 And Honest Abe.

I grew up knowing the police chief, the fire chief, and all was good.

Everyone was smart and did a good job according to this old Bangor Bear Cat.

I was a Bull Pup in junior high, a Bull Dog in high school, and a SOC Red Raider my first year in college.

The following year I was an Army E-3, then Oregon Duck, and finally a Portland State Viking.

You could say I know better.

Our elected officials deserve our respect and we honor them with our votes.

From school boards to presidents, we vote with the best intentions.

We vote for due process when people get arrested on suspicion of criminal acts.

Oregon had a governor, a rising star, who was destined for bigger things after being the Portland mayor and Secretary of Transportation for Carter in the 1970’s.

He had a brother who knew how to write a public service employee contract for himself.

 

Goldschmidt came to the school district from Eugene in 1999 as a highly-paid consultant hired by then-interim superintendent Diana Snowden.

Snowden is Goldschmidt’s sister-in-law, married to disgraced former Governor Neil Goldschmidt, who last year admitted to sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl in the 1970s while mayor of Portland.

Both of them ended up tarnished, one for his relations with a babysitter, the other for his work on behalf of ‘the kids.’

One of them is dead.

Mistrust is easy, gaining trust hard and made harder when overeducated achievers fail to meet common standards.

 

What Are Common Standards? 

This is a high school graduating group in 1973.

It was a regular event way back then, a regular event today, you know, common, setting a standard.

Who doesn’t have graduation group pictures? I’m the tall one in the back.

This is a college graduation with one of the boys. It’s a big deal and will always be a big deal.

 

 

With high school and college diplomas I’m confident of a shared knowledge of right and wrong.

This is a group picture of folks confusing the concepts of right and wrong on January 6.

 

 

From Whitehouse.gov:

 

The Democrats masterfully reversed reality after January 6, branding peaceful patriotic protesters as “insurrectionists” and framing the event as a violent coup attempt.

 

This is a group of German leaders after WWII gathered for a group picture.

They are highly educated with great experience in their field.

 

 

This is a picture of people who followed their leader until the very end of the war.

They reaped the consequences for their actions.

 

 

Haven’t we come a long way from seeing this kind of justice?

Are they all deserving of their last dance?

 

PS: When trusted officials actively distort the actions of their subordinates, who will pay the price?

 

PSS: When same officials lose the trust of their subordinates? That’s when the cost is rung up.

 

Thank you for reading. It’s my feeling that the fall guys will fall, but not before taking steps for a shorter fall.

How will that happen? 

Watergate is one template. From Google AI:

 

• Jeb Magruder, a former deputy director of Nixon’s re-election campaign, who told investigators he would plead guilty and testify for the prosecution, directly implicating White House counsel John Mitchell.

• Alexander Butterfield, a former White House aide, who revealed the existence of the secret White House taping system to the Senate Watergate Committee in July 1973. This revelation was arguably the most impactful, as the tapes ultimately provided the irrefutable evidence of the president’s involvement in the cover-up, including the “smoking gun” tape where Nixon is heard planning to use the CIA to block the FBI’s investigation. 

Other individuals who provided damaging information included:

• John Dean, the White House Counsel, who cooperated with prosecutors and whose testimony detailed the cover-up efforts.

• Mark Felt, the Deputy Director of the FBI, who was the secret informant “Deep Throat” and leaked crucial details of the investigation to The Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, building public and political pressure on Nixon’s administration. 

People today will work to reclaim their dignity when they feel the squeeze of history.