George Rebane
Former Union publisher Jeff Ackerman writes (here) that Californians today pay and average of $4.02/gal for gasoline while the rest of the country averages at $2.64/gal. And the escapee to Oregon goes on to point out that all of this is self-inflicted pain that the state’s voters are way past having enough between the ears to change course as Sacramento does its best to accelerate dumb laws/regulations and spread our epidemic across the country.
Gun confiscation was again disguised at the Giffords/March for Our Lives “gun safety forum” in Las Vegas. The Dems are having problems coming together on which or whether to back such confiscation schemes as mandatory buybacks. Even Moms Demand Action have stopped short of buybacks, which leaves Beto (of AR15/AK47 fame) and the klatch of radical socialists more isolated than ever. Many of us hope Beto will double down on his ‘Damn right, we’ll take your guns!’
No more masks for Hong Kong protesters. An old British colonial law is to be invoked to threaten protesters with eventual arrest when they reveal their faces to government operated face recognition software that is being installed all over China today. Here we are considering doing the same, starting with neighborhood watch cameras for recording night time crime (and anyone else who is on the street after dark). Soon after, we’ll be fighting daytime crime and questioning people who are recorded being out of their own neighborhoods. Isn’t technology wonderful?
[4oct19 update] Volker’s House testimony and release of tweets are the first real disclosures that may seriously put Trump’s tit in a wringer in the ongoing impeachment saga. Trump is by no means the first president to seek and get foreign aid against political opponents for some horse trading. But back then it was no big deal and a known prerogative of office. IMHO, if the sought aid concerns a material revelation about the character of a political opponent, then I don’t oppose such information gathering. However, I do oppose purchasing fabricated ‘evidence’ of an opponent’s bad character from foreign sources.
[6oct19 update] Harvard on capitalism (here) – whouda thought?
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