George Rebane
That Lady Justice today only wears a patch over one eye is apparent to at least half the country. Mueller’s ongoing investigation, along with the FBI et al investigations that preceded it, gives clear and compelling evidence to the bloom of corruption that has compromised our justice system over the last decade. Kim Strassel’s ‘When Justice is Partial’ in the 24aug18 WSJ compiles a short and bitter summary of what has gone down. And here is the strong letter to follow by Canadian Conrad Black.
As our commenters note, white farmers are beginning to have their lands seized, something that South Africa’s ANC party announced, most history-aware people believed, and the Left (led by its oracle NYT) whole heartedly denied and denigrated President Trump for his sentiments on it. Here is another report on it from the UK.
Do notice more than ever today that the Left firmly believes that the money you earn actually belongs to the government, which then deigns at its pleasure to leave you spend some of it? And the Right believes that what you earn is yours from which you contribute as little as possible to the government so that you can spend of it as much as possible for yourself and yours. Another leftie letter in today’s (25aug18) Union makes this point clear as it decries how much of the people’s money the rich are allowed to keep, clearly taking it from the pockets of the poor – the eternal zero sum game of the socialists cum communists.
Our local KVMR as a public radio outlet actually should be in line for more discretionary spending of its government subsidy that will come to them through the PBS. Howard Hussock of the Manhattan Institute asks “Why should (public radio) stations have to pay for ‘Masterpiece Theatre’ or national radio programming”, instead of devoting more of their journalistic talent for local coverage that includes providing online content such as podcasts and videos? (more here)
IMHO National left/right polarization will make a quantum leap to a much higher level in the next twelve months, exceeding by far anything we have witnessed to date. On the local level it is already rare for the mixing of conservatives and liberals in scheduled small social events. Today both sides literally feel uncomfortable being in each other’s company and have to restrain conversation to exchanges of banal daisy talk in order to keep the peace. And both sides feel totally reasonable in their sentiments since each is convinced the other side wants to take the country down the path to hell.
[27aug18 update] Trump’s trade triumph with Mexico is desperately being denigrated by our looney Left that claims the president’s very measured and salutary description of the new trade deal is a sign of his “walking back” the tactic that started with tariffs and promised a trade war. Wiser heads now understand that the tariffs gambit was really the first step in a process of nouveau reconciliation of beneficial trade agreements that will now cascade with our trading partners like a row of falling dominoes. The final act will be the renegotiation with China. But you can bet the ranch that Team Schumer, Pelosi, Waters, …, and the lamestream will do all they can to misrepresent this progress to their lightly read constituencies, a good sampling of whom now populate Nevada County.
[29aug18 update] The 27aug18 Sandbox has a heated discussion about right/left “violence”. Paul Emery sent me this photo as evidence of rightwing violence in Nevada City. It is posted here to further the discussison.
And there is more to the story. PaulE sent me another photo of the same sign he reports was recorded by a colleague on 9 May 2017.
[31aug18 update] Does anyone else notice that it’s ALWAYS the Left that attempts to relate the mention of simians, no matter how remote or innocent, as a referent to the Negro race? No one else ever seeks to make hay out of that hateful connection.
The platform of the Democratic Party has now condensed down to 1) Impeach Trump, 2) Open our borders (abolish USA), and 3) Nationalize healthcare (‘Medicare for all’). Oh yes, did I mention ‘Impeach Trump’, in case more has to be said?
Nationalism has always been a dirty word for global collectivists, now it is officially a dirty word for progressive Democrats. For review, the formal definition of nationalism is “a political, social, and economic system characterized by the promotion of the interests of a particular nation, especially with the aim of gaining and maintaining sovereignty over the homeland.” By that, I am and have always been a nationalist, with the addendum that if our national interests contend, I will always promote America’s interests over that of any other nation, organization, group, … .
MIT-created programming language Julia 1.0 debuts. The dynamic programming language, which is free and open source, combines the speed and popular features of the best scientific and technical software. (more here) Meanwhile, Lithuanian primary school kids will start learning informatics and computer science in a 100-school pilot program designed for nationwide implementation. Small countries like Lithuania have no choice but to develop their human capital on steroids if they are to remain commercially competitive and a sovereign nation-state. (more here)
Here’s a little quiz – what are the commonalities between Obama’s 2012 candidacy when he had a Democrat Congress behind him, and the upcoming midterms. Please take a little visit back to yesteryear (here) and compare the arguments before you answer.
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