George Rebane
Our very own Paul Emery is producing the new Dalrymple MacAlpin musical ‘Make Believe’ that premiers tonight at the Nevada Theater (more here). Paul is arguably our county’s most prolific producer of both theatrical dramas and musicals, and also musical entertainment events at various venues in our community. The former hippie cum community icon is also a walking teddy-bear, garnering hugs from ladies on Broad Street every hundred feet or so, and from diverse restaurant patrons when we’re having our regular lunches. Jo Ann and I will be in the audience tomorrow night to enjoy his latest theatrical enterprise.
The 25jan19 Union ran an Other Voices column by a Mr Joe Keeble who demonstrably has bad luck when he tries to think. In his contribution to now normative Trump bashing (a good day to do it given the Roger Stone indictment) the gentleman confuses levels with rates (the popular progressive pastime of ‘derivative diving’), and also duns the harvesting of low hanging fruit just because more of it is harder to get. He applies all this cognitive cogitation to current border security and 'illegal immigration' happenings, real and imagined. People with fully functioning logics can enjoy his distracted diatribe ‘Proud to be a criminal’ here.
[27jan19 update] Pelosi ascendant. President Trump lost big time to the Dems led by Nancy, proving again that elections have consequences. And I don’t see where this will end since there is nothing in the current state of affairs that would induce the Dems to negotiate in any better faith during the next three weeks than what they have been doing. They’ve already bagged the political benefit from the Dreamers, and now are focused on keeping the border as porous as possible as more migrant caravans head north. Can someone explain how this latest decline in American sovereignty will be halted, or are we now finally on the socialist slippery slope?
[28jan19 update] Our favorite liberal Union columnist and RR reader, George Boardman, recognizes VDH’s recent assessment of California’s decline (here), and then puts up mighty counter arguments that then auto-destruct in his closing paragraphs (here). Expanding on whether and how California is being taken down is itself worthy of extended debate.
Governor Newsom (apropos the above) is continuing, some say accelerating, CA along the path to an inevitable socialistic abyss. So argues T.J. Rodgers, CEO of Cypress Semiconductor, in his very persuasive ‘Another California Tax Grab’. Rodgers also points out that no more silicon wafers are manufactured in Silicon Valley – way too expensive, which motivated him along with all the other chip manufacturers to locate out of state. Comparing his data with Mr Boardman’s arguments is instructive.
America’s cybersecurity war with the world’s bad guys is not going very well. One of my WashDC spies pointed to some scary reading that made my toes curl the wrong way. The basic message from a Pentagon assessment report is that our enemies are countering our security measures faster than we can counter their penetrating attacks – and the situation is not getting better. The big problem is that we don’t have enough tech talent to build and man our cybersecurity barricades. (more here)
‘UAE Slowly Loosening Constraints on Religious Freedom’ reports the 28jan19 WSJ. Heartening piece about some commendable progress in Islam – credit where credit is due, but the road ahead to the 21st century is still long and filled with chuckholes.
[29jan19 update] Trump ascendant with the Dems' core galloping leftward. "The energy in the Democratic Party is entirely on the left, and as Hillary Clinton discovered, the nominating process is going to drive the Democratic candidates to get as nutty as necessary to please the new generation of radical bigots." Newt Gingrich
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