George Rebane
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The Left likes to make lying a pastime unique to Republican politicians, especially President Trump. None of them probably noticed that literally all of the Dems’ leading lights on the Judiciary Committee told whoppers when they grilled Judge Kavanaugh in their vain attempts to pry something loose that wasn’t there. One of them claimed Kavanaugh’s nomination should be thrown out because he was nominated by a president who is an “unindicted co-conspirator”, which Trump is not. And another one claimed to be the modern-day self-sacrificing Spartacus for releasing committee documents against committee rules, documents that the committee released to him the previous day. But the lying demagogue just had to have his grandstand for the cameras. (It turned out that the document in question to show Kavanaugh’s racism was a nothing-burger that indicated exactly the opposite.) The other Democrats on the panel all did their best to bamboozle their constituents when it came their turn, and given the nature of their constituents, some were undoubtedly successful.
NPR’s daily dump on Trump featured author Bob Woodward talking about his new book. The interview revealed either how little Woodward knows about executive decision making, and/or the severity of his TDS. Those familiar with how an executive uses staff for solving problems knows that asking the right questions (formulating the problem) and generating good alternative solutions are the most difficult parts of the process. Woodward and the mainstream are now citing how a staffer surreptitiously took a supposedly disastrous letter off the president’s desk before he could sign it. The truth of the matter is that the letter (to South Korea on trade), clearly marked as a draft/WIP, was one of several alternatives for the president’s review. Then Woodward takes the president to task for asking ‘why do we have NATO troops in Europe?’ and the same question for South Korea. Trump is represented here as a double dummy for ‘not knowing the answer’, and SecDef Mattis’s proper answer is characterized as making things clear to an ignoramous. The real ignoramous is Woodward and Team Lamestream, who have no idea that asking ‘zero base questions’, especially when concerning long unquestioned totems, is a fundamental task of an experienced executive in the process of taking critical decisions.
The Coddling of the American Mind describes the cognitive fragility and brittleness of today’s young. The just-released book written by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt – two lifelong Democrat academics – raises yet another alarm about how the progressives have managed to screw up an entire generation plus of Americans with massive deficits in being able to “understand nuances” of arguments, and being totally intolerant and fearful of any idea, concept, or notion that questions or goes counter to their carefully taught intellectual and socio-political underpinnings. This, of course, is massively denied by the country’s Left as witnessed even in these pages. Neither author is able to suggest a ready remedy to bring these millions of mind-mangled minions back into the realworld.
California proves itself once more “100% certifiable” as a government of grifters sustained by an electorate of malleable idiots. Our progressive Democrats now mandate that the state get 50% of its electricity from renewables by 2030, and 100% by 2045. The impact of all this will be utility bills through the roof that will devastate the unsubsidized poor and drive more wage earning taxpayers to other states. Only the coastal elites will not notice the economic devastation. Today Californians already pay the highest rates for electricity which have increased more than 25% since 2013. Given the natural gas-powered back-up plants required, the heavily subsidized wind and solar alternative will not even make a noticeable nick in reducing CO2. (more here)
[11sep18 update] Global alarmists claims refuted by another score of credentialed experts in their individual fields. The details can be accessed on Russ Steele’s blog here. His report concludes with “The well-documented invalidation of the ‘three lines of evidence’ upon which EPA attributes global warming to human-caused CO2 emissions breaks the causal link between such emissions and global warming.” Worth checking out as we continue doing battle with the politically motivated True Believers in consensus science.
This year’s 9/11 memorial will again be held at the gravesite of Ambassador Christopher Stevens in Grass Valley this morning. The Nevada County Republican Women Federated maintain the ambassador’s grave, and regularly observe various anniversaries there throughout the calendar year.
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