Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other. Oscar Ameringer
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‘Black Lives Matter – but Reality, Not So Much’. National columnist and keen observer of the social scene Jason Riley agrees with RR’s long-held position on the unmitigated crap that the liberals have been handing out to the black community about how valuable such lives are. A look at the progressive programs over the last 40 years paints another picture. Only the local loonies are unclear on the concept.
Our Designated Reader reports that the FUE continues to burnish his journalistic credentials claiming that The Union is biased 3-1 against AGW reporting. The fact is that, starting with the 29aug15 Newsom column, the newspaper published two additional pro-AGW columns in quick succession – 5sep15 by Barbara Rivenes, 7sep15 by Edlin Patterson. This left the score 3-1 against the skeptics of which Bob Hren’s 5sep15 piece was the only rebuttal until Russ Steele’s letter and my 8sep15 Other Voices joined Bob’s article. Now with Todd Juvinall’s letter, the score is 3 pro-AGW columns vs 2 skeptic columns and 2 skeptic letters. That seems pretty even-handed to me. But don’t expect any change from the Lamestream Liar.
A sandbox commenter posts some words attributed to reader Mr Steven Frisch that so clearly illustrate the Left’s use of the Saul Alinsky paradigm – accuse the other of exactly what you are doing. In the skeptics’ blogs (including RR) the ‘science’ behind the AGW hysteria is dissected and countered in detail. And on the True Believer blogs all you find are ad hominems against those who present evidence of fraud and error in the disseminated and swallowed consensus science. So what’s a Leftie to do in such a case? Why, just accuse them of what you do.
The Cato Institute just published a massive comparative study of the EU’s welfare systems. No country advertises that its welfare and entitlement programs range between the dysfunctional and the unsustainable (America’s leftwing lemmings lap up these lies by omission while continuing to worship at the altar of European socialism.) The bottom line is still that, led by Denmark, all the EU welfare programs make weaning recipients next to impossible by the implicit marginal tax rates they impose on people exiting the program for a job. And today all EU member states are scrambling to find ways to cut back their entitlement and welfare disbursements without bloodletting in the streets by Europeans who have grown quite comfortable with the status quo. Cato compares their folly to ours, and it ain’t pretty. You should at least read the Exec Summary of ‘The Work Versus Welfare Trade-off: Europe’.
The EUs Muslim migrant onslaught continues unexamined. We’ve recently discussed its other details under my recent KVMR commentary, ‘The Great Cultural Divides of 2016’, but here is an additional thought that occurred to me. It is remarkable how rapidly the globalists can embed the 'right to ubiquitous movement and residence' into a population that has for its entire existence lived under strict authoritarian rule where no such rights previously existed. We see videos of Syrians, who have passed through lands where their life and limb are not threatened, demand to continue their progress toward more safe and salubrious destinations, there to start new lives. They give no thought to the rights of the people through whose countries they tramp, or in whose lands they will plant their divergent and dysfunctional cultures. And the west’s governments (including ours) are so riddled with globalists that there is no chance that the question of such assumed rights will be raised. If someone from a failed state declares himself a refugee, then today he has an automatic worldwide right to your work and wallet. And our addled leaderships continue to be surprised by reports that such insane welcoming policies and de facto recognition of migrants' right to transnational migration are motivating additional hundreds of thousands to begin their journeys northward. When did territorial sanity and sovereignty die?
[11sep15 update] I just put down the phone with Supervisor Nate Beason. Now that Ms Heidi Hall has announced her candidacy for District #1 supervisor, I wanted to reinforce my previously stated intention to support Nate were he to run again. On this call I urged him to go for his fourth term, and told him that Jo Ann and I are in his corner should he decide to run. In talking to many people of my persuasion, I have not run into anyone who would not support Nate Beason in a race against our new socialist-in-waiting Ms Hall. The last thing we need in these foothills is another leftwing lackey to launch their political career promoting Sacramento's internationally recognized insanity in Nevada County. Nate said that the Beasons will announce their decision in the next week or so, and the phone call left me hopeful.
[13sep15 update] Ferguson was a total lie from beginning to end – "Hands up, don't shoot!" was bullshit, and the 'protesters' were thugs hired and imported. They were hired by MORE, the successor outfit to Missouri's ACORN, now bankrupt. But then MORE stiffed the 'protesters' who are picketing to get their checks. Another hard left organization MAU is urging MORE to pay up since the thugs did what they were contracted to do. The full story is reported by NEWSMAX here. At every turn the Left lets us know that they are not only stupid, but also just plain evil. (H/T to reader)
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