George Rebane
If Oprah runs for president in 2020, I guess our progressives will then label her as a “liar” since she has long maintained that she would not run for public office. You think that standard has application on both sides of the aisle? Nah, neither do I.
The Dems and their El Salvadorean (et al) ‘temporary’ aliens have adopted Lucy’s argument for Charlie Brown to kick the football again. Just let us in to stay for a while to get relief from the crappy situation in our own land, and we’ll go home peacefully when our time is up. But now, ‘Oh, look at all the kids we’ve had and how much we enjoy it here, and we can’t go back home now because it’s still too crappy there.’ How many times does that vote-buying amnesty football have to be pulled before the Repubs wise up and not play that game anymore?
Our own Russ Steele has a piece (here) in the 9jan18 Union advocating broadband in which he points out “Communities with high-speed internet grow faster than those with just limited broadband access, according to studies.” I think he’s identified why Nevada County is adopting broadband, cell reception, and other growth inducing technologies at a snail’s pace, and it might just have something to do with flying in tight formation with Agenda21.
The Union published the names of its new editorial board today (here). And I’m pleased to point out that my bride Jo Ann made the cut.
It turns out that all those pro-capitalist Republicans in Congress are piss poor at marketing their new tax reform law. On social media we have the Repubs’ “#2059More” vs the Dems’ “#GOPTaxScam” – I kid you not, more here. Some people should apply for a full tuition refund for their MBAs in marketing because their schools didn’t teach them anything. Meanwhile prune-faced Pelosi continues unabashedly to publish her lamestream-ignored and widely accepted lie, that the new law would “raise taxes on 86 million middle class families.”
In the Stats for Fun’n Profit Department we see that California’s unemployment rate of 4.0% beats the national 4.1% rate. As a lifelong practitioner of the mathematical arts, it is always amusing to see how you can mangle squigglies until they yield the desired answer, no matter how mind boggling. We recall that one third of the country’s welfare recipients live, and are apparently gainfully employed, in the Golden State (natch!). BTW, Nevada County's unemployment is reported at 3.4%, go figger.
[10jan18 update] The 10jan18 Union published a letter from its former editor who again duns columnist and RR reader George Boardman. For some years now the FUE has been on a rag about Mr Boardman, who on that same palette is joined by several others like cartoonist Bob Crabb, the Union’s management, and even yours truly just to underline a point. The letter itself drips of the journalist’s trademark pettiness (here), and its publication for all to see explains the newspaper’s tongue-in-cheek for letting light shine on its number one critic ensconced in perpetual high dudgeon. Sweet.
Former CA criminals who can’t get a liquor license are now being encouraged by Sacramento to become “Marijuana Entrepreneurs” and start selling pot under the state’s new legalized MJ law. Jason Riley details (here) this latest butt-stupid progressive policy to spread social justice and equal opportunity, all that since most of the targeted would-be ‘entrepreneurs’ to receive the state’s latest “affirmative action” benefits are Hispanic or black.
By any measure the IRS is an action arm of the Democratic party. Now it claims immunity from congressional oversight because (seatbelts please) “its rules lack a ‘significant economic impact’ because they’re ‘derived from’ statutes.” You can read the details of this latest dose of progressive pabulum in a report by the Cause of Action Institute reported in the 10jan18 WSJ (here and here) where they correctly conclude – This is pablum (alternate spelling). Were it correct, rules from every federal agency would be exempt from oversight, since all agency rules are based in statute. If other agencies adopted this mind-set, it would gut oversight of the regulatory state by the elected branches.
Ever notice the ratio of crappy leftwing vs rightwing policies and proposals? A short perusal of RR and its comment streams reveals the butt-stupid ratio (perhaps a new public policy metric) to be somewhere between 50:1 to 100:1 in favor of the Left. The above two entries in this post are just some recent examples from a tsunami of thousands which this country must endure daily. And also notice when a Republican blunder is encountered, the lamestream and, of course, our local lefty neighbors in these pages go ballistic. But the constant daily stream of progressive potholes encountered as the country bravely marches into the future is totally ignored in the national media. Were it not for conservative talk radio, cable news, and rightwing blogs, we’d hear nary a whisper of this silent disaster unfolding. And some still wonder what are the forces that continue to widen the breach between us. Some futures are easy to foretell.
[11jan18 update] Well sumbich, the Princeton Environmental Institute has published its recent study in the prestigious Nature reporting how current climate models (actually called the General Circulation Models) underestimate the effects of clouds on earth’s temperatures. Even with these findings they still have to tow the party line, but the seams in the ‘Pay no attention …’ curtain are clearly fraying. I have been among those who for years pointed out that and other weaknesses in the GCMs used by the global warming hysteria mongers. Now it seems that one of their own is becoming more skeptical of the purveyed ‘science’ that camouflages our knowledge of what’s really going on with earth’s constantly changing climate. And again, the PEI guys can only assess their particular part of the enormously complex GCMs which are cobbled together by dozens of cloistered specialists each contributing their part to the resulting Mulligan stew. (more here and here)
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