Look to him who comes in with another’s concern in order to go out with his own. … Gracian #193
George Rebane
No debate about replacing Justice Scalia should proceed before the Democratic precedents denying a sitting Republican president the same privilege receive full airing. At that time the debate should commence with the Dems demonstrating why the case is different today when one of their own occupies the White House. Here is what one of the Dynamic Democrat Duufuses, Sen Schumer, has to say about it – pay attention all you liberals who gleefully cite past Repub ripostes.
“The Use of Cash is really a Civil Rights issue.” (more here) The latest Agenda21 objective involves the central planners’ desire to monitor and control ALL financial transactions. But first we must eliminate cash, and the first step in that direction is making cash more cumbersome to use as a medium of exchange and store of value. (Electronic money serves equally as a unit of account.)
Closing Gitmo for the purpose of denying ragheads a recruiting icon again exposes the bankruptcy of liberal logic. If/when the Muslims are moved to stateside SuperMax prisons, outfits like ISIS will have even more draconian pictures of prisons to put up on their recruiting websites. This is lost on progressives. (Gitmo continues to be a valuable outpost of America’s power and presence in the Caribbean, and apparently citing its maintenance costs have not served the pro-Islamist stance of this administration.)
The proposition that America’s minorities – especially our blacks – do not serve their best interests in the voting booth becomes easier to demonstrate with every passing year. And that is why the maintenance of union schools is paramount in the progressives’ agenda, for it shuts off the only peaceful escape from the clutches of creeping, now galloping, collectivism.
[24feb16 update] What most people forget about Gitmo is that it is also a very strategically located piece of US real estate in the Caribbean, useful for everything from projecting power in the region and points south, and staging humanitarian aid that includes being a temporary repository for migrants. It remains also the penultimate trump card in dealing with communist Cuba (a fact lost on the current community organizer). That it is a legalistically convenient detention facility for ragheads taken from the battlefield has been much covered elsewhere and needs no rehashing here.
Remember last December’s climate change conference in Paris from which all left with lots of promises and good feelings? Actually it turned out to be yet another good collectivists' cathartic and dumping ground for progressive bullshit. Reports coming in from around the globe indicate that no one is doing anything to even pretend to move the needle on preventable global warming. Brazil, with its economy in the toilet continues to burn ever more rainforests, is the posterchild here. It demonstrates once more to the double-dummies of the Left that only rich countries can maintain a clean environment and afford the destructive environmental histrionics that their socialistic governments impose. And these are the very same people who haven’t a clue about what generates wealth and how governance can support such enterprises.
The Collective Cricket Core reports on the declining interest in the primaries among Democrat voters. While the Republicans’ participation is reaching new heights, those of the Left are staying home, and for a good reason given their choices. Only the undereducated young (millennials) desperate for a tolerable lifestyle – even if it only means opening checks from the government – are out there in numbers drinking socialist kool-aid. Most older Dems have seen the ‘benefits’ of what Bernie and now Hillary are promising, and they just shake their heads and give the primary season a pass. None of this known to the la-la land leftwing pundits and bloggers who continue to happy dance in the streets for reasons they themselves know not.
[28feb16 update] Facebook confirms the country's extremes of political polarization. The vitriolic exchanges on the social medium have gotten so bad that people are ‘Unfriending’ each other based on their support of certain candidates. Worse, many are reporting that they now hesitate going on Facebook because they are apprehensive about their session becoming “stressful”. Facebook management hopes that things will again become friendlier after election season.
Warren Buffett’s annual letter to shareholders reveals that he now believes in the reality of systemic unemployment (as long discussed on RR), and that the solution is simply government writing regular checks (“safety net programs”) to those who claim they no longer can sell their skills on the job market. Mr Buffett is a likeable corporatist who knows better than Trump about how to play politicians. As such he exemplifies the Rebane Rule of capitalism – the bad part of capitalism is that it will game the system; the good part of capitalism is that it will game the system. In this election he is a Hillary supporter presumably because she has demonstrated her reliable malleability to money.
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