George Rebane
Gov Jerry Brown demonstrated to many of us that he has entered his dotage. The man called Sen Ted Cruz “unfit for office” for no other reason than the senator’s rejecting the politicized consensus of manmade global warming to which Moonbeam added that the same scientists now blame current weather events on a roundly rejected long-term prediction that clearly contradicts what we observe daily.
Sgt Bergdahl has been found culpable of desertion in an investigation headed by a two-star general conducted over the last year. A three-star next in line has reviewed the findings and has found them to be sufficient to indict a man who spent five years with the Taliban, and then was retrieved through the release of five raghead combat commanders. We expect him to be court-martialed and sent to Leavenworth for the rest of his life. However, there will be no reprieve for those who gave their lives searching for Bergdahl, and those yet to sacrifice theirs when these commanders are repatriated by the Taliban. The shame of the whole affair lies with our leadership who should have left Bergdahl with his new Muslim comrades to demonstrate his allegiance by either joining their fight or making good his escape.
Well, we have finally led the Saudis from behind to take the initiative and assemble a coalition of ten nations (excluding the US) to strike the Houthi rebels in Yemen. The Houthi have driven out the legitimate Yemeni government backed by both the Saudis and touted by Obama as proof positive that his anti-terror policies were working. But when his latest of big lies was exposed by the rapid and unexpected rebel attacks, our Community Organizer in Chief ordered the Marines guarding our embassy in San’a to lay down their weapons in exchange for safe passage high-tailing it out of the country with our diplomatic staff. In days gone by the Marines would have fought to hold the embassy until one of our nearby assault task force units got there to explain the matter to the Houthis. But those days are gone at least until January 2017.
[26mar15 update] Growing hundreds of dollars of almonds for thousands of dollars of water. That is another quiet result of government’s misallocation of water subsidies. That data is presented in Mother Jones (more here). It turns out that in more open and competitive markets resources are automatically allocated so that the cost of the finished products is minimized. But even small subsidies tend to cause major misallocations of such input resources – water in California is an example of that in spades. H/T to reader for this.
The wonders of smartphones. Fred and Margie Buhler make up part of our ‘road warriors’ party. They are known to Nevada County residents for their long years of supporting community causes. Fewer know that they are also expert photogs, and take marvelous pictures on their many travels. Last night Fred emailed me the nearby photo he took a few hours before on a walk here in the Arizona desert. He took it with his new iPhone6, and I was blown away by the result. The actual picture is even better than what you see here since I decimated the resolution for this post, but you get the idea what can be done with the smartphone in your pocket, especially if you know ‘how to paint with light’.
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