George Rebane
None of the rabid opposition to border security makes sense, and even less so with the passing months. We supposedly look at and experience the same world, yet obviously live in different universes. Physics may have an answer for that, but everyday logic in the conduct of human affairs does not, especially if we assume that both sides are working for a strong, independent, free, and prosperous America. Logic clicks back into place when we remove that assumption.
Israel’s wall costs $2M/mile. (more here) That is a good stake in the ground to estimate the cost of our border security infrastructure which would not be a 2,000-mile concrete wall, but would instead consist of other barrier approaches and supportive detection and localization systems. Posit $3M/mile for our southern border, and the cost would come to $6B. And that includes all of the overhead. Claiming that our border property owners will fight the increased border security is a red herring that does not jibe with what actual property owners are saying. It is they who have suffered at the hands of illegal entrants whose criminal activities transiting their property has made living on the border dangerous.
Was sorry to see today’s (11jan19) Union column by publisher Don Rogers. His arguments against border security ignored all the marginal impacts on crime, culture, and costs of a porous border outlined in ‘The mangling of managed minds’. It seems that being blind to that line of reasoning is a widespread malady among our Left, for it always appears to form the basis of their resulting fractured logic for opposing Trump’s border security policies, aka the same ones that the congressional Left supported not so long ago.
Bright fiber in Nevada County is a reported go, but details about the scope of the project are less than skimpy. All that’s reported in The Union (here and here) is that 2,000 homes along Hwy 174 will be getting enhanced broadband in about a year. But there is more than enough detail on the bureaucratics and the funding to roll your eyes. However, people who don’t happen to live along 174 haven’t a clue as to how this project will advance the rest of the county toward 21st century connectivity. In short, after reading the reportage I again had to strap on my ‘Pardon me but you have me confused with someone who cares’ button. Maybe more informed readers will provide the much needed information.
Ex-Muslims of North America is an organization of former American and Canadian Muslims united to spread word about ‘the religion of peace’ and support those who have left and are contemplating leaving Islam. Their position on their former faith parallels that of RR. Islam is still in its ‘Accept Allah or die!’ phase of maturing. But unfortunately this is happening in a much more connected world laced with an abundance of very deadly technologies. Just to be clear, all major religions have and/or are still going through such a violent and uncompromising phase. Christianity most certainly had its ‘Accept Jesus or die!’ epoch in the centuries after Rome, starting coincidentally about when Islam was born on the Arabian peninsula.
[12jan19 update] Fact checking Trump. Leftwing readers here have been taking President Trump to task for his ‘lies’, the overwhelming share of such are easily identified as political bluster of the kind that can be tallied for any politician on either side of the aisle. There are however certain statements from a politician that are intended to elicit and/or support public support for government policy. Such weighty claims are usually easy to fact-check either at the time of delivery or subsequently. President Trump’s recent border security speech from the Oval Office contained a number of such statements. Here is a fact-check summary of five of the most important ones from that speech.
Venice, CA now importing SF values. Beautiful seaside community of Venice in SoCal is rapidly becoming the next ‘sierra hotel’ city in the state, joining Anaheim and the long-enduring People’s Republic of Santa Monica as newly risen exemplars of socialist governance. The Hollywood Reporter has the details in its ‘LA’s Battle for Venice Beach: Homeless Surge Puts Hollywood’s Progressive Ideals to the Test’. There “with swelling transient encampments abutting seven-figure homes, the beachside enclave has emerged as a flashpoint for the inequality shaping Los Angeles — and a real-world test case for the liberal ideology of the area’s showbiz residents.” (H/T to correspondent)
[13jan19 update] Conjecture: NYC mayor Bill deBlasio is a communist, having passed to the left of all remaining progressive milestones. (more here)
[14jan19 update] Whether you like or regret (like me) many of our President’s tweets and hipshot repartees, this is what many Americans believe is really the case.
[17jan19 update] Border barriers (walls, fences, …) “don’t work and are ineffective” maintains the Democrat leadership and their nationwide constituents. Border security officers with long years of experience maintain exactly the opposite. I have not found any journalist with the wit or temerity to ask people like Pelosi, ‘What evidence do you have about border barrier systems that overrides the testimony of our border security professionals and which supports you continued assertions that such border security infrastructure “doesn’t work”? (We’ll address the “immorality” question another time.) Asking the Democrats to produce such evidence would put this debate on the fast track to resolution, not only with regard to border security funding, but also the government shutdown. RR readers know the disdain I have for the journalistic profession, I have found almost all journalists to be alarmingly ignorant hacks with little or no spine to seek out and report truth that is counter to their publishers’ and/or editors’ agendas.
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