Month: November 2021

AZ Republican Tea Party

In a repost of the blog I did in 2015 when Diane Douglas was elected to the head the Arizona Department of Education, I discuss the nature of the effort to reduce government by the TEA party. This epistle is to refresh your memory, connect some dots, and continue to spur you on to vote in ALL elections.

The Arizona Republican party has been hijacked by the TEA party members to the point that good, responsible, long-standing Republicans are leaving the party. Party actions like censure and voting individuals out are now commonplace. A responsible moderate Republican has no where to go for party support.

The reason I am bring this up is that in the six years since we were so badly hurt by Diane Douglas’s TEA party, we may have relaxed and forgotten. The effort required to remove her, the time lost, and the tragic losses schools and students received from that incompetent cannot be forgotten.

Most people have no idea how complicated school finance is. Arizona residents pay taxes to the state and federal revenue departments. In Arizona the school district taxes on your property levied by the school districts DO NOT all make it to the schools the taxpayer sees on the tax bill. The game at the copper dome is to mix that state income into the General Fund so that it can disappear administratively. The money we thought got to the school is winnowed down to much less.

TEA party members do not want this or any other taxing. Public education is under the crosshairs of these ax handlers who for the most part starve public education and have no one in the public education system they would advocate for. Retirees along the Colorado river who want the governments checks are also the ones unwilling to support their state civically. The lead of the Arizona Republican party is such an individual who arrived here from West Virginia and has actively lead the TEA party devastation, the “stop the steal” anti-American activity, and saw to it that dialog in the caucuses was extinguished.

Lately I have watched the bogus “audit” of the last election foisted on the voters of Arizona by this same group of individuals. It cost us millions, broke the chain of custody of the ballots, threatened and injured Elections staff, and broke the voting machines. No miscount of the ballots was found. When we got to the US congressional meetings on this activity, we got to see Gosar, and Biggs carry on the lies and destructive monologue of streaming dog whistles now familiar to the educated and informed voters of Arizona.

The previous incompetent president, purported to be a savvy businessman who many of theses off-base dolts seem to love, is not far from many States Attorneys and the Federal Department of Justice taking him to task for criminal activities, treasonous activities, illegal nepotistic activities, gross financial misconduct, tax evasion by fraudulent means, and profiteering at the American voter’s expense.

All the while these same TEA party members and their kindred leadership of the Arizona Republican party have incited the masses to believe a grand conspiracy is afoot. It is apparent that the previous incompetent president did have a genius for spreading lies by way of the “liar’s dividend”. This has been emulated by every one of the now despotic leaders of the Republican party in Arizona. They divide, demean, spread falsehoods, abandon fact, lie, obfuscate, redirect and carry on.

FACTS

Joe Biden won the presidential election in 2020.

The DOJ is busy working on the previous incompetent’s law breaking.

Twelve States Attorneys General are after the same guy our Arizona Republican party leadership worships.

The present 2021 Arizona Republican party leadership continues to serve the previous incompetent’s lies.

Bernard Lambert – November 19, 2021

New To Politics

Any effort that reduces the flow of money to education is an assault on the children and all our futures.

“New to politics?” (Reposted November 29, 2021)

Many patrons of the political parties and promoters of new party platforms within an established party seek to bring change by way of running for the positions in government offices without thought as to what the “power” of the office may be.  Case in point the Superintendent of Education for the State of Arizona acts as if she was a superintendent of a school system.  In fact and law the Arizona state Superintendent of Education is an administrator of the legal means the state has to deliver education and funding.  Policy making is not part of that role.  Directing dollars to the education of children is.

Tea party stands for taxed enough already.  Their modus operandi is to reduce government spending and thus reduce taxes.  Moderated forms of this often speak to more efficient or effective spending of the taxes collected.  In any event it is cutting without any follow-on planting or harvest.  Any effort that reduces the flow of money to education is an assault on the children and all our futures.

A platform of the TEA party’s Diane Douglas is, and only is, to eliminate “common core”.  It is a denigrating misnomer used to promote the propagandist’s line.  It is claimed in sound bites that the Federal government is dictating what to teach.  Nothing can be further from the truth.  Now let me show you how the failure in cognition and reasoning of the TEA party, as well as the egregiously novice approach of the TEA party, falls out as opposition to Federal law and thus does damage to our children’s future. 

Their rallying point is “the Feds can’t dictate to us”.  While there are many things the states have the power to do with and for the education of the masses, they cannot tell the United States government how they, the states, intend to spend the Federal dollars sent to the states for educational purposes without adhering to the laws, rules, policies, regulations, et al that accompany the acceptance of the funding.  If the TEA party focused their campaign on this they would have to be opposed to the following: publicly open, comprehensive, all-inclusive, processes conducted to create educational opportunities, means, and outcomes that are identified as necessary by the process participants from state government, business, the public, academia, and the United States Department of Education. 

They, the TEA party, are and have been opposing the very ones that participated in the processes in the first place.   The ignorance of law and policy even provided us with the high drama of the TEA party firing members of the Arizona State Board of Education; a “power” she does not have.  What was a statewide, all inclusive, consensus of purpose, plan, and operation that has been in effect for years is now under attack by the unlearned, power hungry, ill-spoken, obviously uninformed, ax-handler proxy from the TEA party.

God bless America. God damn Diane Douglas and her TEA party.

Bernard Lambert   May 15, 2015

Bad Recruiting

The methods used today fail to connect the capable and willing contractor or employment seeker with good jobs.

I have experienced a great increase in job offers; all at 1970’s prices. None have come from the actual consumer of my professional services.

Many of the people that contact me are reading from scripts and have no idea what your expressing in technical jargon. Yet they are your first assessment.

Subsequent contacts in the chain of those contacts prove a further distancing from a firm understanding of the job.

Technical questions cannot be answered.

The automated scanning of resumes to create matches for the solicitors to contact you, miss critical points like REMOTE ONLY.

Could real people contact me after reading the resume and visiting the websites please. Be a check signer; a decision maker with needs.

The “Novice Threat”?

Novice threat…

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The idea that novice or inexperienced people pose a threat belies the fact that the process to get those individuals to mastery is a very secure method due to the process of passing through those apprentice, novice, journeyman, and master programs. Absent of that, how will one read about it, write about it, talk about it, and do it?

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In IT, certification is insufficient without seat time at the consoles of those tools and devices. The addition of deep problem solving skills and a great deal of experience are the necessary requirements of these complex IT jobs.

For those new to IT, the question is often “How will they get any experience when locked out of job experience?”.

Your thoughts please

NANOG > NewNANOG

November 11, 2021 – Bernard Lambert

The North American Network Operators Group originally came out of Merit University as a function of network study and research. I always found it handy to track Internet core transit problems and solutions. It began over thirty years ago. You can join NANOG lists at https://www.nanog.org/resources/nanog-mailing-list/nanog-mailing-lists/

Back in February 2011 – https://www.merit.edu/news/new-agreement-transfers-nanog-trademark-and-resources/

At this seclists.org you can read all the listserve messages that come from them up to today as well as a wealth of other network operating and security lists. They keep all the messages nicely indexed so you can see what is going on or has gone on in the past.

Another resource for you may be the http://readlist.com lists archives.

Bernard Lambert – November 11, 2021