‘Remember, the government cannot give anything to anyone that they have not first taken away from someone else.’ Anonymous
George Rebane
The Democratic Party’s sharp move to the left during the last ten years is now visible to all save only the most politically myopic among us. Daily dunnings of fellow Democrats (especially in California) for not being sufficiently progressive or socialistic are now common. The dismal dumbth of Millennials has given impetus to the Left’s elites to strike now before life’s experiences start creating doubts in those numbed minds. This ideological migration has caused the so-called middle to also move leftward. (more here)
California has already started implementing the Great Divide as our vanguard proto-socialist 'nation' that today exercises its newfound sovereignty by choosing which federal laws to follow. According to the one-party legislature in Sacramento, there are more initiatives on the way to maintain the state’s headlong rush into collectivism. It is has been clear for years that in Sacramento, the interests of Republicans and conservatives in general have not been represented, and today are being actively rolled back as fast as the state's bureaucracies can act.
Echoing RR, William McGurn in the 27feb18 WSJ writes in ‘Our Childish Gun Debate’ – “… the public debate about how Congress ought to respond to this latest mass shooting is guided by two broad principles. Dubious on their own, they are even more witless when combined. The first is the idea that the most important thing is to 'do something'. The second is that we ought to look to high-schoolers for the answer.”
Hillary and Barack are fawning acolytes of Saul Alinsky, the communist who is finally recognized as the father of America’s political schism that has now morphed into the country writhing with tectonic tenets like the Great Divide.
On the tenth anniversary of W.F. Buckley’s death (27 February 2008), we remember that he “wanted American institutions to affirm capitalism on the grounds that it created more wealth and higher civilization than any alternative. He wanted them to acknowledge that not all cultures were equal and that the Judeo-Christian creed was superior because it recognized that man was created in the image of God. That premise, he held, was the source of all liberty, justice and law.” (more here)
[update] Snowstorm of the century or not is expected to start tomorrow night. The meleagris manning our weather guessing agencies are all over the map. As opposed to forecasting 2-4 ft of snow at 3,000 ft, we have others guessing that it will be only rain and slush. I guess diversity has struck the meteorological industry, today you can select the forecast most commensurate with your needs. I’m worried about how all this diversity will affect people’s decisions to attend Friday night’s MIM Amaral Center concert at the fairgrounds featuring the Sacramento Philharmonic (more here).
Speaking of weather predictions that feature probabilities from 0% to 100%, all of them effectively insane (in the technical sense) and changing daily, RR is willing to hold a seminar for the more mindful meleagris currently engaged in such futile pursuits – they know not what they know not. During the seminar we will cover the correct way to analyze and report probabilistic events yet to emerge from complex stochastic processes. As a sidebar and to inject some levity into an otherwise technically intense presentation, we will also discuss the hubristic aspects of general circulation models as used to predict water levels and temperatures a century from now.
Festung Academe – governors are planning to fortify their states’ schools with barbed wire, metal detector entry points, steel doors, bullet-proof glass, and armed sworn LE officers, but all of these worthies are against any trained teachers and staff with CCWs. That is supposed to send a wrong message to kids who will also be encouraged to show up in Kevlar vests and helmets. Even Florida governor and Republican Rick Scott has had a generous draught of that Kool-Aid.
The nation’s critical thinkers have concluded that the NRA was responsible for Parkland and all the other school shootings. In the next phase of the nation’s schism companies will declare themselves either conservative or liberal by their silence or vociferous opposition to and severing ties with the NRA. It seems that the fault really lies with all of us millions of NRA members who need an extra layer of public punishment, such as Delta’s decision to discontinue giving NRA members discounted fares they also give to many other affinity groups and organization members. I’m not sure that these businesses want to jump into politics with both feet.
[1mar18 update] Gag orders. Are there any legal mavens around here who could explain to us the origin of gag orders and their legal basis for suppressing the First Amendment rights of people who have not been convicted of anything, and whose subsequent speech would not affect national security. I can't find any support for gag orders in the US Constitution; where is it hiding?
[3mar18 update] How do we evaluate the wisdom of California’s public opinion polls on new public policies given that almost 40% of the state’s residents depend on a government check to maintain their quality of life? I throw this out as another point of discussion in light of the last such enquiry (above) to our RR readership having gone over like a turd in the punchbowl. I guess circling familiar barns is a lot more fun.
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