Too late but still sort of good
After serving Goldman loyally for 7 years, Obama is trying to accomplish a few good things in his last year.

(1) Normalizing with Persia. Because he allowed the deal to be 'examined' by Congress, I was pretty sure he wanted to kill it. That's how things normally work. But it appears that his agents were actually pushing for approval, which he finally got. This is an absolutely good thing.

(2) Normalizing with Cuba, though he didn't have any real opposition there because Israel isn't interested in Cuba. Also a good thing. [As noted before: It seems odd that the Jews are NOT the strongest enemies of normalizing with Cuba. The 1959 revolution was primarily about ejecting US corruption from Cuba. Communism came later as a condition for Russian proxy support. US corruption meant the Mafia, and most of the Mafiosi in Havana were Jewish. But the explanation is simple. The anti-Persian force isn't really "American Jews", it's Sheldon Adelson. And if you ask who stands to gain most from returning the Jewish Mafia to Havana, you get the same answer. Not "American Jews" in general, but Sheldon Adelson in person.]

(3) Common Core. Both union thugs and Repooflicans oppose it, which tells you all you need to know; but the details are ALSO good. A strong move toward experiential and job-based education.

(3a) Yesterday's little event with the Arab nerd who was jailed for MAKING a clock-type gadget. A strong gesture against idiot educrats. As usual the media are getting it wrong, calling it

No, it's just idiot educrats being their usual literal rigid wooden-brained selves. They correctly perceive that the government hates Muslims, so they obey the government by clamping down on every "suspicious device". Celebrating the young nerd, Obama is hitting two points at once: Educrats need to think before jailing, and MAKING THINGS is good.

Later: Oops. I was fooled. The kid wasn't just building a clock-type device. He was intentionally building it to look like a bomb, as a provocation. So some degree of punishment was justified. Maybe suspension or expulsion, probably not jail.

(4 maybe definitely!) While shouting the usual anti-Russian shit, Kerry worked productively WITH Russia to get the Persia deal done, and now seems to be ready to work WITH Russia on Syria. The anti-Russian noise is especially nasty because WE STARTED THE WAR. Putin understands that the only way to get peace is by restoring Assad. Kerry seems to understand this point as well.

Couple days later: This additional news moves the Maybe Good Thing to Definitely Good Thing. "Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter have agreed to re-establish military-to-military contacts between the countries." More formal connections means more of an opportunity for Russian sanity to counteract American hyperbonkerness.

Labels: Experiential education, Гром победы

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