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George Rebane

Americans have always been told to keep their powder dry; well, the Democrats want you to let government take over that job.

Systemic unemployment, in conjunction with the Singularity a much discussed issue on these pages over the years, is now beginning to draw the attention of more and more analysts, commentators, and media outlets.  A reader and correspondent picked up this piece from PJ Media that acknowledges (here) that the disappearing jobs (even for the middle class) will not be replaced by new jobs to re-employ the growing cohort of the permanently redundant.

[update]  Mr George Boardman, our intrepid columnist in The Union, today echoes (here) the liberal line that longtime school choice advocate and now SecEd Betsy DeVos is β€œunqualified” for her new job; so unqualified in fact that progressive punks physically denied her access to a school she was scheduled to visit.  But the real question for Mr Boardman is β€˜If DeVos is an unqualified SecEd, what did all her qualified predecessors accomplish for America’s public education during the preceding decades?’  Take your time.

[14feb17 update]  A passing note on retired Gen Flynn’s resignation.  He did the right thing to resign.  And he did the right thing to talk to his Russian contacts as a member of the duly elected incoming president’s team – such a conversation was neither a first in our history nor a violation of the Logan Act.  And he was unbelievably foolish to lie to VP Pence about the affair; it was for that that he had to go.

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184 responses to “Ruminations – 13feb17 (updated 14feb17)”

  1. uote is happening Avatar
    uote is happening

    Newsweek headline!!!
    Another bombshell: US allies also intercepted contacts between Trump campaign and Russian operatives
    There is a huge concern that Trump can be blackmailed because he is so sloppy in his dealings and doesn’t have a clue what he’s up against.
    http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/another-bombshell-us-allies-also-intercepted-contacts-between-trump-campaign-and-russian-operatives/

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  2. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Vote ie happenning is actually me-Paul Emery. Been using a different computer

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  3. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: uote is happening | 15 February 2017 at 03:51 PM
    That’s incredible…….Newsweek is still publishing?

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  4. George Rebane Avatar

    While we’re all hyperventilating about seeing the transcripts, should we not in the process practice a little republicanism bequeathed by our Founders, and let our elected representatives have a first peek (in the appropriate committee) to determine what would be in the country’s best interests to release to the world? After all, that’s what representative government is all about.

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  5. Walt Avatar

    Trump needs to clean house of every LIB., and RINO near him, with ANY access to classified info. The Nevertrumpers have been busy.

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  6. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Sounds like the inquisition Walt. Or the French Revolution. What do you propose we do with them after their extraction? How about all the foreign governments that have been taping and hacking away including the Ruskies?

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  7. Walt Avatar

    We can always sink that Russian spy ship that’s parked just off the East Coast. How bout that Paul?
    The leakers are criminals at this point. Funny how all of a sudden the LIBS find religion
    about criminal activity within politics. Before Trump got elected, not one bitch about Hillary’s criminal activity. Forget her “pay to play” fun and games? LIBs were more concerned about the news getting out.

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  8. George Rebane Avatar

    Walt 419pm – Excellent point Mr Branson, but you aren’t really expecting a response to your observation are you?

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  9. Walt Avatar

    No Really Dr.R.,, the usual suspects scatter when the lights come on.
    I had to laugh at what Paul said the other night. Since when did he abandon “yesteryear”, and actually bring up the “hear and now”?
    Sorry to break the news to Paul, but “O” is far from “gone” as you put it. He’s still lurking in the shadows out to screw Trump any way he can. “O”‘s minions within gov. are busy doing just that.

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  10. Walt Avatar

    So.. Someone who was really butthurt that “he” didn’t get elected, thinks it’s OK to leak info.
    http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/02/15/evan-mcmullin-cia-must-defy-president-defend-constitution/

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  11. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Walt @ 435- One of 0’s enthusiastic minions is our own resident druid, poor ol’ PE. πŸ˜‰

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  12. BradC Avatar
    BradC

    Check out this one! I have another good idea – let’s just terminate the IRS! At least he is thinking ‘big’,
    http://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/15/freshman-republican-congressman-reveals-bill-to-abolish-the-epa.html

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  13. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Why introduce a bill to abolish the EPA? EPA was created by executive order in the tricky dick administration. President Trump can erase it with the stroke of a pen and return the budgeted money to the treasury.
    I have a better idea BC, abolish the dept. of ED along with most of energy as well as EPA. πŸ˜‰

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  14. BradC Avatar
    BradC

    DonB- why stop there – just keep slashing, yeehaw!

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  15. Walt Avatar

    Scrapping the EPA is old news Brad. Didn’t you see the reg. writers crying their eyes out
    when the news hit? And you wonder why Oroville dam overflowed. They thought they scams were Trump proof.(uh,,, NOPE!) Every reg. they wrote and tried to enforce never went to Congress for approval. The EPA never had the power to write laws, yet did it anyway when LIBS had control. The party’s over. A group of people I have no problem seeing in the unemployment line.
    OH them money that will be saved from grants the EPA handed out to the ECO kooks.
    No more shrimp on treadmills, or if human porn works on lower primates.The list of stupid studies to glean a huge grant money check is endless.. until now.

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  16. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    We were talking about which depts. to shutter BC, as far as budget cutting that’s a whole different conversation. I look forward to the staff cuts at the bloated bureaucracies with a special focus on contractors. The use of continuous contractors to duck staffing limits has grown to epidemic proportions all across govt. Then you have all the global warming staff in every dept. Drain the swamp baby!
    Those cuts will more than offset the DOD warfighter increases. πŸ˜‰

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  17. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    TRump does a good enough job of self destruction without the help of Obama. It’s a new thrill every day.

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  18. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Trump has fallen in Reuters from +8 to -4 in two weeks. Also he’s fallen 5 points in Fox to +1 from+6.

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  19. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Thanks for the irrelevancies PE.;-)

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  20. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Glad to see the trail has gone from Flynn to President Trump, the real prize. Flynn, with his 34 years of service and all his work in Military Intellence and Intel would know as a matter of fact that all calls to the Russian Ambassador are taped, as well as the Russian Foreign Service. Flynn had assumed foreknowledge that what he was saying to the Russians was being intercepted by the NSA.as per standard operating procedure. Bet there are many more recordings from Flynn as well as many many people that work for for the NSA and Obama’s political boys. Boys that are not on the payroll. Private citizens, Release them all!!
    There ain’t nothing on Flynn. If they had anything, the Obama plants would have leaked it last week.
    Now, Scene’s 3:04pm link is very interesting. Probably nobody read it in the haste to impeach Trump. But, as of Jan. 12th, the NSA (per Obama’s EO) now has broad powers to spy on and record phone conversations of innocent private citizens.
    That means if there are any transcripts of private citizens BEFORE Jan. 12, 2017, Obama was running a police state. Release all the transcripts, all of them!!!
    https://pjmedia.com/trending/2017/02/15/surprise-at-the-end-obama-administration-gave-nsa-broad-new-powers/

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  21. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    My favorite3 quote for the day
    “If Trump hopes to tame the leak monsterβ€”something no other leak-hating president has ever doneβ€”he might want to stop lying first so as not to antagonize the leakers. But you know how likely that is.”
    http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/02/dear-baby-donald-leaks-are-american-214785

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  22. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Yeah Brad it takes a Pubber to come up with that one. Our moral guardians,the Republican Party. He’s vice president of Arizona’s Republican Party none the less. Here’s a quote from the story.
    “The vice president of Arizona’s Republican Party resigned late Sunday night after advocating for the forced sterilization of poor women on Medicaid, according to the Arizona Republic.
    During his talk-radio show on Saturday, former state Sen. Russell Pearce said “You put me in charge of Medicaid, the first thing I’d do is get Norplant, birth-control implants, or tubal ligations…Then we’ll test recipients for drugs and alcohol, and if you want to (reproduce) or use drugs or alcohol, then get a job.”

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  23. ScenesFromTheApocalypse Avatar
    ScenesFromTheApocalypse

    Given the high degree of surveillance now possible on any public figure by most governments (and some companies), you can imagine what’s sitting in the vaults somewhere. They probably show scenes from the Lolita Express on movie night at the Kremlin. At this point, I think that practically anyone can be blackmailed. It’s a new age.
    Just for the sake of fairness, here’s some meat for the wolves.
    https://sputniknews.com/us/201702151050723578-intelligence-community-war-trump/

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  24. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    You know Flynn was sending intelligence report after intelligence to the White House. Flynn was furiously firing off Intel to Obama, which the White House ignored. Stuff like the intelligence assessment was the rebels fighting Syrian Prez Assad were ISIS and ISIS controlled. He also repeatedly informed Obama that Turkey was turning a blind eye to the ISIS build up in Syria.
    Later Flynn revealed that he never met once with Obama over the 4-5 years as being his Intel guy.
    Just a little side story. Nothing to go with impeachment, lol. Flynn had to go. His assessments of what was really happening was a threat to Obama’s world view and Barry Obama fundamentally transforming America into his image.

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  25. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    I for one am glad the Russia trawler is off our coast as these fabulous Russian ships have been continuously off our coast for years. But, gasp!, they are going to fire off cruise missiles. They are spying on us!! No silly, they are going to launch missles at us.
    The Russian ship is 30 miles off our coast to protect Trump from the hooligans and the from the lawless Obama Shadow Government. We all know his goons roam the streets looking for Deplorables who need to get their minds right. Thank goodness for Putin sending more Russian ships off the West Coast to protect Trump and his Irredeemables. They were too late to help this old man from the wrath of the Bedwetters. They are a violent lot with no sense of humor. Puppets, drinking the opiate of the feeble minded. Puppets, raging puppets.
    http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2017/02/15/rohrabacher-staffer-71-knocked-unconscious-by-group-delivering-valentines-day-cards/

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  26. BradC Avatar
    BradC

    BillT@644pm – Thanks, I feel safer now.

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  27. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Breaking news! New development.
    https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/a.235087906641439.1073741826.235086849974878/797914440358780/?type=3&theater
    Hmmm. Isn’t Brenan the guy who lied to Obama and Congress?? Boy, without Snowden, we would have never known he lied to Obama, to Congress, and to the American people.
    I think Trump should have handled Flynn the same way Obama handled Brennan. I know, the exploding heads ran over here and suddenly changed their rules and we cannot talk about things of yore. They set the rules on Dr. Rebane’s’ blog, ROFLMFUEO! Too funny. I know, I know, the world began today.
    The silver lining is we never have to hear a peep about “Bush lied, people died!” ever again. Bush Derangement Syndrome is officially put in its final resting place. Thankyou Statists!! Thankyou, Thankyou, Thankyou.

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  28. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Not with me Bill. Bush was the worst President in modern history. We were attacked on our homeland with thousands of casualties. Also we were pulled into a fake war in Iraq based on lies that our current President Trump says should have led to Bush’s impeachment. Also he took a thriving economy inherited from Democrat Bill Clinton that had a near balanced budget and left us with the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression and a nearly doubled national debt. The War in Iraq cost us Trillions of dollars and thousands of American lives. We’re still engaged in Bush’s other war, the war in Afghanistan.
    Yes, the worst President in modern history until……………well.

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  29. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Yes, the worst President in modern history until…….. 0. πŸ˜‰

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  30. BradC Avatar
    BradC

    Here is an interesting read, California success story.
    http://boingboing.net/2016/09/19/this-couples-business-uses-m.html

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  31. Walt Avatar

    Paul. I really think you need to take off your shoes and socks to get a good count.
    Put down the common core text book. You missed PLENTY to add to the tabulation.
    “O” racked up more in debt than all administrations combined. That’s not new news.
    And what do we have to show for all that? jack sh*t.

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  32. Walt Avatar

    How a certain voting block would bitch if this had happened to “O”.
    http://dailycaller.com/2017/02/15/exclusive-how-the-nations-spooks-played-the-game-kill-mike-flynn/

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    EXCLUSIVE: How The Nation’s Spooks Played The Game β€˜Kill Mike Flynn’
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    “National Security Advisor Gen. Michael T. Flynn (ret.) β€” who resigned Monday β€” was the victim of a β€œhit job” launched by intelligence operatives, Obama government holdovers and former Obama national security officials, according to former intelligence officials ”
    Every one needs to be ferreted out and charged criminally.

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  33. Walt Avatar

    Wow! Now how did that happen?

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  34. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Walt
    It was Flynn who lied to VP Pence. How was that a hit job or was it ok that he lied?
    So was it OK that Bush doubled the national debt?

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  35. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    There you go again, reading without comprehending PE. πŸ˜‰

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  36. George Rebane Avatar

    BillT 720pm – “They set the rules on Dr. Rebane’s’ blog …”; please explain.
    And then there’s PaulE’s 730pm about another Bush2 bash of things that president had little or no control over. Funny how libs can always refer to past Republican iniquities, and then when a conservative even presents a hint of the planned devastation of yore, it is suddenly “who gives a crap” what happened before when the tables are turned. As all were informed here years ago, there is no longer any middle ground.

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  37. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    I’ll ask you the same question Don. Pretty simple to answer.

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  38. George Rebane Avatar

    Dear People – I am thrilled and heartened by the debate that enthusiastically continues in these pages, and I thank all participants for their heartfelt contributions. Any third party reader of these streams will quickly get the tenor of the national debate that is ongoing today – a public service indeed. RR is honored and humbled to serve as the venue. Keep it up and give it all you’ve got!

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  39. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    George
    Are you serious when you say that Bush had ” little or no control over” the war in Iraq or the financial crash or being caught blindfolded on 9-11 after being warned about the threat of Bin Laden in special meetings with security and intelligence. Were these things all his fault? Of course not but he was President of the United States and they happened under h is watch.

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  40. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Poor ol’ PE has a monkey on his back, its as bad as being a crack head. Poor ol’ PE is a poll head! One poll that we wont see PE posting is the new one on Breitbart showing the Prez. beating fauxcahantas for el presadente in 2020. πŸ˜‰

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  41. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Breitbart poll Don? You must be kidding.

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  42. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Hey PE, they now have a lotion to clear up those eruptions of your Bush derangement syndrome. Its hash oil based I heard. πŸ˜‰

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  43. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Not their poll you silly poll head. They reported about a new poll. PE @ 1013.

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  44. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Okay Don thanks for straightening that out. Should have just mentioned who conducted the poll.
    Here’s one for you Don
    It was Flynn who lied to VP Pence. How was that a hit job or was it ok that he lied?

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  45. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Why, why, why? I really have to check the mmp-5 and see if repetitive utterances is listed as a Trump Unhinged Rhetorical Disorder symptom. πŸ˜‰

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  46. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    For the record I hope BDS never goes away out of reverence to the thousands killed in the needles war in Iraq, the victims of 9-11 which could have been prevented and the millions who lost their jobs, homes, and savings by being looted by vulture capitalists.

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  47. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    “It was Flynn who lied to VP Pence. How was that a hit job or was it ok that he lied?”
    -pe 1034
    Paul, do you have any primary sources on those assertions, because I don’t know how one can do it properly without a confession from Flynn, corroboration by Pence and text courtesy the leakers unlawfully releasing details of highly classified and possibly illegal wiretaps through partisan journalists.
    Regarding BDS and TDS, I’m sure some of the mentally ill have cogent rationalizations regarding the desirability of their favorite derangements.

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  48. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    “Yeah Brad it takes a Pubber to come up with that one.”
    Eugenics was a “Progressive” movement, Paul. Planned Parenthood has the majority of its abortion centers in the poorest neighborhoods.
    Even now, progressive bigots such as the author Chris Mooney, (a BA in English) promotes a neurological basis to explain why people who arrive at different conclusions than he does… here’s a parallel to that…
    “The political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union originated from the concept that persons who opposed the Soviet regime were mentally ill because there was no other logical explanation why one would oppose the best sociopolitical system in the world.”
    https://academic.oup.com/schizophreniabulletin/article/36/1/33/1871265/Political-Abuse-of-Psychiatry-An-Historical
    Paul, remind me, what was the story you were telling me late last Spring or so, face to face over coffee… how the problem was going to be how to help Republicans cope with the collapse of the GOP’s role in the US after the election? Do you remember where you read it, heard it or watched it? What were the details?

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  49. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Dr. Rebane @ 8:55 pm.
    “Changing the rules….”. I was referring to Mr. Cross (and later the mentally ill guy) coming over to post on your blog declaring we cannot talk or mention what Obama did 30 days ago because he is talking about Donald J Trump. No moral equilavency!! We are talking about Trump, forget everything else! Cannot mention any other President, forget that!! You cannot go there, you must not go there.
    Dr. Rebane, it is so typical of the Control Freak libs. Mr. Cross (and later the mentally ill guy) tell you and us what and what not can be discussed. “Forget Hillary!, forget what Obama did, do not bring up anyone but only what I am talking about!! We have only one President at a time and you must discuss only the current President. I demand it”.
    The above, Dr.Rebane, is what I was referring to with much amusement and astonishment. For years, if the designated topic was an Obama policy and it’s ramifications, we could not go 10 minutes without Punchy running over here screaming with his hair on fire “Bush lied, Bush did it too!” A planned deliberate strategy to deflect all criticism off Obama and require all discussions of Barry Sugar Frosted O may only proceed in the context of President George W Bush’s greater sins. Now he says Trump and only Trump is to be discussed, ROFLMO. You just can’t make this stuff up.

    Mr.Cross has repeatedly demanded over several days that Trump can only be discussed divorced of any mention of Trump’s opponent he (we) crushed a few months ago and her role in handling sensitive material in relation to the topic of Flynn. Now the retarded DJ guy even says the topic is Trump, forget Hillary, forget Obama the Big Zero, lol. Oh the duplicity is sooooo rich. They set the rules and we must follow,. Beam me up Scottie.

    Well, speaking of current Presidents, I cannot recall Biibi N. ever looking so happy. In fact, I cannot ever recall an Israel Prime Minister ever being all smiles after meeting with an United States President. This is fantastic news on another slow news day. I hope the news cycle has some news worth reading today after slowing down the past two days. Like watching paint dry, except or the comic relieve provided by BDS and TDS.

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