George Rebane
AG Loretta Lynch said yesterday that there was not enough evidence to connect San Berdoo’s terrorists with any specific religion. For that I called her a double dummy. Upon reflection, that overly generous attribution was in error, and I withdraw it. English currently does not have an appropriate term that accurately describes her level of ignorance and/or cynicism. Therefore I must await an expanded lexicon.
Many of us notice that the Left immediately starts hyperventilating about gun control in the aftermath of the latest Muslim massacre. This serves two purposes – 1) pursuit of an ever more compliant America to prepare the country for global governance, and 2) the Left’s mindset allows no viable opposition to the spread of radical Islam and its global caliphate. William McGurn (‘The Liberal Theology of Gun Control’) also argues this point. Our electorate's ignorance of this organic deficit constitutes a clear and present danger to America remaining a sovereign nation-state. (Isn’t it interesting that both the Left and Islam seek to rule all of humanity under a single world order?)
One person, two-thirds vote. This is the important case that SCOTUS is now chewing on as it reconsiders the population bases for the states’ drawing of district lines. If all mirror foggers are counted, then districts with heavy illegal alien and other non-voting populations will increase the clout of those in the district who can vote. This is a violation of the 14th Amendment, and I hope SCOTUS hearing Evenwell v Abbott has sufficient external plumbing to recognize such violation. (more here)
Trump’s proposed Muslim ingress ban has gotten every other politician’s undies in a bunch. The Donald says we should stop all Muslims entering the US until our government comes up with a viable policy (any policy?) that recognizes and deals with sources of radicalized Islamic terror. Given the role of taqiya (about which no one wants to talk), the reticence of our moderate Muslims to expose their own radicals, and the lengthening record of massacres by Muslims, Trump has voiced that which many (most?) Americans support given this administration’s abrogating its responsibility to secure the country. In response to such outlandish pronouncements, Trump’s poll numbers have finally surged well north of the 25% region where he seems to have been stuck for a long time.
[Update] Power went out on Cement Hill this afternoon and is not expected back until late this evening, unless PG&E postpones it again. During these times I am reminded that PG&E and all other utilities don’t really work for the consumers of their product. They are monopolies that work for their state public utilities commissions. The PUCs are faceless bureaucrats with totally different agendas to fulfill – it is they who regulate and set the rate cards for the utilities. When a neighborhood like ours loses power (today for a reason that clearly was not an ‘act of God’), they will take their own sweet time to get it repaired so as minimize some cost function that does not involve my inconvenience. And the progressives want the government to control ever more of the production and distribution of our goods and services.
[9dec15 update] A commenter under "… A Cancer on our Nation" contributed this little piece of American law that seems to render moot remarks offered by Sen Cruz on Muslim entrants, and remove considerable sting from Mr Trump's blanket dictum. Wonder why no one has brought this up in the national debate.
8 U.S. Code § 1182 – Inadmissible aliens
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(f) Suspension of entry or imposition of restrictions by President
Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate.
Posted by drivebyposter, 9dec15 634am
And a reader and correspondent sends the report ('America's Muslims object to Obama's push for more self-surveillance') by Reuters. The responses coming in (as in this example) from the country's mosques are not very hopeful, instead they do support the polling results (reported here) of the attitudes of America's Muslims toward jihad, shariah law, the caliphate, and support of ISIS. RR's proposition that there are a lot fewer 'moderate Muslims' among us than claimed by the Left and the lamestream stands.
Meanwhile another correspondent sends a report by the Associated Press on the impacts of climate change –
The Arctic Ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot, according to a report to the Commerce Department yesterday from Consulate, at Bergen, Norway.
Reports from fishermen, seal hunters and explorers all point to a radical change in climate conditions and hitherto unheard-of temperatures in the Arctic zone.
Exploration expeditions report that scarcely any ice has been met as far north as 81 degrees 29 minutes.
Soundings to a depth of 3,100 meters showed the gulf stream still very warm.
Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared.
Very few seals and no white fish are found in the eastern Arctic,
while vast shoals of herring and smelts which have never before ventured so far north, are being encountered in the old seal fishing grounds.
Within a few years it is predicted that due to the ice melt the sea will rise and make most coastal cities uninhabitable.
This report was published in the 2nov1922 issue of The Washington Post 93 years ago.
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