George Rebane
The Trump haters led by the NYT did their best to relaunch the smear campaign against Justice Kavanaugh. The formerly prestigious newspaper continued to dig its journalistic grave by publishing a carefully constructed story of another sexual escapade the Justice was supposed to have participated in as an undergraduate, and then later had to ‘amend’ it in response to a public outcry for the truth. Well, it turns out that in the process the NYT rolled another fake news honey wagon down the street, immediately onto which jumped about twelve leading Dem presidential candidates to start spreading its contents through the lamestream media. Our moral high-ground progressives (witness also these pages) have decided to respond with their usual crickets. It’s telling that even Nadler is not going to touch this one with a ten-foot ladle.
Fox News should review the grade school credentials of some of its news editors. Tonight on Bret Bayer a map showing the latest Iran/Saudi crisis had Oman labeled as the UAE, and the entire Arabian Sea as the greatly expanded Persian Gulf. Our criticisms of the post-Great Society disaster in educating America’s kids is confirmed daily in what we see and hear on the news.
[17sep19 update] My main desktop computer died on Sunday morning. And I mean died, like in DEAD – even its operating system Windows10 did not load, it just got to BIOS and went belly up. The tech mavens at Quietech (my goto PC docs) diagnosed it as having a hardware failure that required ordering a replacement part from China which will take at least a week to arrive. Having PCs since ‘Day One’, I have never experienced such a failure in over 40 years. We always have a bunch of computers around the house, but losing my main brain left me somewhere between devastated and discombobulated (I think psychiatrists know the difference). The emotional experience was/is an interesting episode, and very revealing about my dependencies. The dearly departed and about to be resurrected is a very large and very fast Alienware laptop game computer that can juggle multi-million element matrices in a single bound (yes, I still spend time messing with such beasts). Now Jo Ann has the only working Windows box left in the house; the rest of our laptops, pads, and phones are all Apple products – e.g. I’m typing this on my MacBook Pro which lives in the front room by a comfy couch. My self-indulging response to all this is having another super-fast (AMD 8-core, 16 thread) Windows tower built that will be delivered with a new 32 inch high-res monitor which will join my formerly biggest 27-incher. Both of us got addicted to two-monitor setups some years back, and having only one screen to work with is now downright stifling. Anyway, that’s more than you wanted to know about my current emotional shock and functional deficit.
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