SCOOP: A Cupertino elementary school forces third-graders to deconstruct their racial and sexual identities, then rank themselves according to their “power and privilege.”
I've obtained exclusive whistleblower documents from inside the classroom. They will shock you. 🧵
a parent whose kid is attending 3rd grade in Meyerholz elementary school (@MeyerholzE) , San Jose, CA (part of @CUSDK8 ) sent me this pic, telling me he is shocked that the math class is cancelled and replaced with this new Curriculum. pic.twitter.com/BC8cJNo2AX
Meanwhile, none of FUHSD'sschools were recognized by Niche. FUHSD parents are part of the problem that is Appeland and Silicon Valley in general.
Wednesday, February 24, 2016
Talked to ah Fai yesterday. Apparently the Cupertino City Council has approved the stupid "Hills" redevelopment of Vallco and a lot of other construction projects. The lot of them should be voted out of office. Unfortunately I don't think the economy going bust will take Apple out, but one can wish for it.
Despite the various attempts to revitalize it; this time re-zoning it to a mixed-use and adding more public spaces for people to congregate. Vallco Vision
(Because the mainlanders and the Indians have no other way to show they dominate the city...)
There is a rally scheduled for tonight at the Cupertino library/civic center for those protesting the proposed redevelopment of Vallco and its conversion to a mix-used zone (commercial and residential). Where were these people to protest against the Federal Government, drone attacks, its handling of ebola, etc.? Or to protest against the state government? Quite a few Chinese are involved, and I did see a white man helping distribute papers and talking up the cause. I don't know if he has been a resident all of his life, or if he is a new arrival like most of the Chinese. Residents should be concerned about the impact on traffic, though with nearby Apple HQ being built, how much worse could it get? And of course their precious schools are in danger of being overcrowded.
"If it makes things more difficult for my family and I, then I'll get politically involved."
Since $ is everything in this liberal society that they love so, then why shouldn't other people with money be able to have a say in how Cupertino is developed? And why shouldn't other people with money be able to move into Cupertino if they are able to afford it? Why should their interests have priority over the interests of others?
Techies and the like can afford the tickets. How many Asians (Chinese and Indians) will be there?
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Coming soon to Cupertino - Paris Baguette. (Where Tung Kee Noodle used to be, next to Target.) No doubt it will be a good hang out for the SAHMs and E. Asians. (Don't know if Indians are that interested in pastries - never seen them at the local places when I've looked.) There are some Koreans living in Cupertino, but not as many as in Santa Clara. Will Koreans living in Santa Clara come to this store, since it may be slightly bigger than the one on El Camino Real? I bet it will be popular with the 20- and 30-something single Asian women.
The number of locations, especially in Asianland (i.e. Cupertino) is astounding, especially with this economy. But its clientele is probably weathering the economic storm without too many problems, for now.
I had to drop by the local library today to print out some materials; the Indians were playing cricket again on the field next to the library. So how open and inclusive are the cricket networks and teams in the Bay Area?
Anglophiles may think that it would have been nice if the United States had adopted cricket as a national sport. But if anyone plays cricket in the United States, it's Indians and Pakistanis. We have baseball instead, just as we have field hockey or lacrosse rather than curling.
The big difficulty I have with football (and to a lesser extent, baseball) is that the risk of physical harm seems too high, unlike soccer, rugby, and so on. Unnecessary roughness is part and parcel of modern football; it could be that touch/tag football is probably less dangerous and better for amateurs playing a casual game. Do the British alternatives (along with soccer) require less equipment and safety precautions?
On the night of Independence Day, I walked to a local park to watch the city's fireworks show.
It was a diverse crowd, reflecting the demographics of the local residences. A lot of Indian families; you could smell some of them. Perhaps the distinct odor acquired through a specific diet is better than plain body odor due to sweat. It may explain how such a diet arose in the first place, given the temperature (and humidity) of certain parts of India.
There must have been a few thousand people at the park, all there to enjoy the fireworks display. Something pleasing to the senses after a nice day off from work, right?
Independence Day is devoid of meaning for these people; if they knew what it really meant they'd be out protesting instead of pretending all was well with a frivolous display of fireworks. They are ostensibly celebrating a dead constitutional order that no longer exists, for the most part. The date of its disappearance? The beginning of the WBTS for Southrons. It has been a multifaceted decay, beginning with the Federal judiciary, and then spreading to the legislative and executive branches.
One must also consider the degeneration of the states, along with the rise of the corporations and the moneyed elites, the destruction of communities that comes from a wrong notion of property rights and excessive mobility, already present at the inception of the colonies.
If the residents, my neighbors, knew political liberty, would they be voting for Democrats who seek to take political liberty away? I learned that disgrace of an Asian Paul Fong was re-elected, though it was no surprise. The day before, SB249 passed committee. An armed citizeny is necessary for a healthy republic and as a check on those who hold political office. But those who live around here have no desire to have that sort of control over their own lives. They're sheeple comfortable with their suburban middle-class life with all of its comforts and pleasures.
How many true patriots were in attendance that night, people who believe that they have roots in this area and will tough things out? How many are committed to the other people there?
A couple of deputies were on their bikes, doing crowd control and ordering people off the sidewalk. How can it not be detestable work if one does not possess the proper motivation or intention? I didn't find them to have a calm commanding presence; their attitude sounded more like annoyance with the crowd. A failure in inculcating masculinity, perhaps. Have the police academies lost the knowledge of what it means to be a true man? Having women, who learn an exaggerated notion of masculinity, present in law enforcement doesn't help, either, as this mentality starts to infect the men as well if they associate with one another too much as equals? (If they were really 100% alpha, wouldn't they put the women in their place, and subtly push them out of law enforcement? Or is that a harrassment charge just waiting to happen?)
While I was exiting a couple of Koreans passed by. Has the size of the Korean population grown that much here?
I do want to move somewhere else. Felton the other night for the music at Don Quioxte's; felt out of place. There were a couple of older white men with long beards in attendance. Ex-hippies? Or true country folk? I ddi feel a bit out of place walking the streets of Felton.
I don't know how long it has been closed, but they've finally removed the sign and other identifying marks of the local Chili's. I noticed this while I was driving today. For more than a year I had been wondering if it was still in business, since I saw very few cars in the parking lot at night. I used to go to the restaurant a lot with my family when I was in high school and afterwards. It was the successor to Denny's. (I remember one of the waiters there because he resembled Victor on The Young and the Restless, which was my mother's favorite soap at the time. He later went to a different restaurant, which opened down the street, in front of Longs/Lucky's. That restaurant didn't stay in business long - we went there once and the food wasn't as good as Denny's, which should say something. What happened to that waiter? That spot is now occupied by a Chipotle.) After not visiting Chili's for a long time (not since 2000 or 2001), I went back to this Chili's a couple of years ago for lunch with ah Fai. The food was definitely not as good as I remembered it, but maybe it never was. (Spicy chicken sandwich, anyone?)
One of the houses on the street is being sold, and despite the rain today, there are many interested buyers going to the open house. As I expected, many of them are Indians, and the rest are E. Asian (probably Chinese).
After being a taxi driver this morning, I decided to park and wait for Rancho San Antonio to officially open to the public. The number of early morning visitors was astounding. I think the first/lower parking lot was full by sunrise. I don't know what those people were doing while the park was officially closed.
It was amusing that a number of suburbanites would drive to the hills so they could jog or walk/hike. Yes, the air there may be better and it may be relatively safer since there are no cars on the trails, but to get to such a natural resource one must take a car, unless one is willing to spend a couple of hours walking and hiking to it. The presence of cars in the suburbs, and the necessary traffic lights to facilitate traffic, would of course add to the delay.
There was a number of 30-something (and older) women chasing their youth and attractiveness away. (I tend to agree that chronic cardio is not healthy but it also has an impact on your appearance, especially if coupled with a high-carb low-fat diet?) Hiking up the hills was quite a workout and when I reached the top of one, I started to doubt whether all that strenuous effort was worth it. The descent down the hill was enjoyable, though. Did I enjoy the hike for its own sake? Barely, especially when I was going uphill. But more importantly, it was difficult for me to have a proper sense of place there, even when looking at Silicon Valley from one of the vista points. Can I really say that this area is my own, when I own no land and have very few links to the people surrounding me? There were a lot of visitors, Indians, Chinese, and a few Japanese who remain in the area. Most were chatting away in their native tongues. What do I have in common with them?
I did see a number of quail and deer yesterday.
I walked by where St. Joseph's Seminary used to be. The seminary college was irreparably damaged in the 1989 earthquake. The diocese was going to try to sell the land to real estate developers but this was opposed by preservationists. The property eventually ended up being incorporated into the open preserve system. I don't know if the diocese can be
said to have "lost money" in the deal. It should have kept the land, perhaps - or turned it into a community farm
From the osp, I could see Maryknoll Seminary/Residence - what shocking things have been done to its interior or the chapel in the name of modernization and relevancy, the "Spirit" [of the age]?
There were some adult men flying their model airplanes... men and their toys. A hobby that would not be possible without cheap energy.
