Political Asylum from the US

This is just another example of the US being a tyrannical government. I must admit after reading the article that I am surprised that Kurt Sonnenfeld is still alive. The US government has proved itself time and again to be outright killers. The political fallout must be enough of an inconvenience to let Mr. Sonnenfeld live. I'm glad that Argentina was willing to step up and provide political asylum. If I keep writing blog posts like this, I may "get" to go visit Argentina myself.

Conversation with a Barista in Grand Rapids

While visiting Grand Rapids this past week I decided to walk around and explore. I found a locally owned coffee shop and stopped there for breakfast and a cup of joe. Breakfast was good and the Sumatra that was freshly brewed was delicious. I engaged the Barista in some small talk and found out that she is going to the local college, GVSU. Social Work is her major of choice. She plans to go on and get a masters degree before going into the work place. We talked a little bit about her courses and she explained that there were not really any right or wrong answers in her program, "it is all about how you feel" and "your moral compass". It seems that this type of program would lead one to relativism, after all for the last four years she has not been subjected to any objective truths. This poor girl even mentioned that her grades are given according to the moral compass of each professor, which differs. In order for her to receive good grades in all her classes she would have to change her moral stance on issues. What type of mentality is this going to instill in students? Simply change your moral values whenever it may be beneficial to the current situation?

So the plan for the Barista was to finish her B.A. and then go on for her masters in the same field. If you assume that she was 19 when she entered college and completed her degree in four years then finished her masters in another 2 years, she would be a 24 years old with a masters degree and no work experience and likely hired on as a social worker. Can you imagine a 24 year old with relatively no life experience making judgment calls for families about if they can keep their children or not, based simply off of how she feels? Social workers have nearly unlimited amounts of power to ruin families.The only thing scarier than social workers with absurd amounts of power, is 24 year old social workers with little life experience and absurd amounts of power.