A while back, I read about how the father of the Thug-Bully in Ferguson MO, who’s death sparked the BLM movement was asking where all that sweet, sweet BLM money was going…’cause they certainly weren’t seeing any of it in Ferguson.

BLM cofounder Patrisse Cullors responded that not only was the organization “focused on a ‘need to reinvest into Black communities.'”, but they were also “taking the dollars we were able to raise in 2020 and building out the institution we’ve been trying to build for the last seven and a half years”

Well, now we can see the clear fruits of that labor:

A secluded mini-compound tucked into L.A.’s rustic and semi-remote Topanga Canyon was recently sold for a tad more than $1.4 million to a corporate entity that public records show is controlled by Patrisse Khan-Cullors, 37-year-old social justice visionary and co-founder of the galvanizing and, for some, controversial Black Lives Matter movement.

So see: BLM is properly investing the money they take in to support black communities by purchasing their leadership expensive homes in them. Oh…wait…whoops.

So, I guess “investing” in black communities doesn’t involve actually, you know, living in them.

In all fairness, I can’t say I blame her. I wouldn’t want to live in the environment that the BLM movement has engendered either what with the skyrocketing crime rates and penchant for breaking out in rioting, firebombing and looting in memory of any black criminal killed or injured by police while resisting arrest. Who would want to live like that? If I’d made millions of dollars of the past few years I’d be moving to a less volatile neighborhood as quick as I could too.

During the Trump Administration, US Auto manufacturers pledged to bring production back to the US in light of relaxed regulation, a better business climate and lower taxes…and were on their way to living up to those pledges.

But the Trump Administration is no longer a factor, the Harris Biden administration is driving the bus. What does that mean for jobs?

The United Auto Workers are angered about a decision by Ford to move production of a new electric vehicle from Avon Lake, Ohio, into Mexico. Ford previously agreed to spend $900 million on a new product line for the Ohio plant; however, according to the UAW the location has shifted.

Poetic justice? To me it’s just sad. Many years ago my Father lost a job he loved that he’d been doing for over 20 years because of shortsighted unions that cared more about their own power than the workers they were supposed to be representing. I guess you can say they’re consistent if nothing else.

The black unemployment rate rises even as all other demographics continue to fall.

I’m really surprised the reporter didn’t throw in a couple of “unexpectedly”s just so we’re clear that this eventuality that has been predicted repeatedly by people on the right was completely unforeseeable.

Hmm…wonder what could possibly be going on. Let’s see, the borders are effectively open to unfettered illegal immigration at the same time that democrats are pledging their sacred honors to achieving a $15 minimum wage.

Seems to me that employers are shedding themselves of relatively expensive US citizen low skilled employees and hiring illegal alien low skilled employees that are willing to work for much less. And, as a bonus, minor details like “minimum wage” don’t really apply when you’re already hiring them illegally.

But, hey, the Democrats keep telling us that they HEART blacks and other minorities, so, you know, it doesn’t matter that their policies actually hurt them rather than help right?

There’s apparently a shortage of semiconductors right now.  I can virtually guarantee you that this shortage has been caused by government actions of one kind or another either through onerous regulations or disincentivizing taxes or whatever.

But now that the government has recognized the shortage that they’ve caused, don’t fear…they’re coming to the rescue with billions of dollars.

“I’m directing senior officials in my administration to work with industrial leaders to identify solutions to the semiconductor shortfall,” Biden said on Wednesday. “Congress has authorized a bill but they need … $37 billion to make sure that we have this capacity. I’ll push for that as well.”

What are those billions of dollars going to go to? Why lining the pockets of bureaucrats and their cronies of course. And once the gravy train starts, it can never be stopped…so you can fully expect the supply shortage to worsen significantly and never end.

Three years after instituting “gender neutral” physical fitness standards, the Army has come to the shocking conclusion that men and women are different after all.

Early on, in Sept. 2019, preliminary scores made public of 11 battalions showed a stark performance divide between men and women, sparking criticism from soldiers and advocacy groups. Maj. Gen. Lonnie Hibbard, the commander of the Center for Initial Military Training, said in Nov. 2019 that the Army would likely make adjustments to the test over the next three to five years before it was right.

Just reading that, I was starting to become curious as to how they’d “adjust” a physical fitness test to make women more competitive with men. Perhaps include flexibility standards to offset the strength and endurance standards?

But then it became clear that what they’re considering is going back to having different standards for men and women.

Standards for transgender soldiers were not discussed, but that brings in a whole new problem: Are men that dress like women going to be measured by the male standards or the female standards?

But I digress.

Part of the problem is that physical fitness scores serve a significant role in eligibility for promotion in the military. I would assume that in the Army, which trends toward more physical roles in general than the Navy in which I served, this would be even more important.

With unisex standards and scoring, the men are, in general, going to significantly outscore the women, which, absent some sort of “grading on the curve” in the promotion process, would severely inhibit the women to gain promotions and recognition. Basically, pretending that men and women are the same (which is a primary plank of the feminist platform) results in the exact opposite of advancing the interests of women.

And it only took three years and untold millions of taxpayer dollars to reach the conclusion that any high school athlete could have told them for free.

Interestingly, I actually agree with the unified standards.

If a particular job in the military requires the performers of that job to be able to, say, run 1.5 miles in 10 minutes, or do 50 pushups in 2 minutes, or bench press 200 lbs, then those are what the standards should be. It doesn’t matter whether you have innie or outie plumbing, if that’s what the job requires, that’s what it requires. If you can’t meet the standards, you shouldn’t be in the job because in the military, your team-mates LIVES depend on you being able to do your job.

Either you can do it, or you can’t.

But we can’t have that, because it makes for unequal outcomes and in the world of the left, it’s not about equality of opportunity, it’s about equality of outcomes.