George Rebane
Progressives moving to suburbs and small towns after they have soiled their coastal urban areas. Almost half of San Francisco residents now want to leave the shithole city. These people – overwhelmingly ignorant and anti-capitalist – are like locusts and will also devastate their new homes wherever they land. The process will not take place overnight, but it will be inexorable, especially if their states continue to adopt the disastrous policies of California. Nevada County turning ‘blue’ is a poster child for this migration of socialists blind to socialism. (more here, here, and here)
James Dean lives again through the magic of CGI (computer generated imagery) in an upcoming movie. (here) In my field we foresaw the resurrection of dead, iconic movie stars almost 40 years ago when then nascent CGI technologies made their way into smaller companies that started servicing the movie and TV industries. (My own company and Hughes Aircraft were the first two west coast companies to establish the then advanced computer graphics labs for defense work.) The current owners of these movie stars’ estates will have a chance to cash in again. The impact of such a CGI resurrection on opportunities for today’s myriads of living actors is TBD.
University of California prepares to abandon academic meritocracy. The Left’s constant push to compromise America’s future is making additional inroads in a field they pretty much have dominated and devastated our educational systems with their ‘social justice’ organizations now threatening to sue UC if it continues to use standardized testing (think SAT and ACT) as a basis for admittance. As always, these anti-American warriors use the bogus argument that meritocracy discriminates against minorities. Has anyone taken a walk on a UC campus lately? Does anyone think that developing any realworld system – inventing an algorithm, writing a program, or building a bridge – will benefit from fewer or incompetent STEM graduates?
‘California’s Disastrous State Illustrates Limits of Progressivism’ writes Victor Davis Hanson in his lates review of how our state has been turned into a third-world wannabe in the hands of the resurrected Socialist Party of America who still use their old name of Democrats. Unfortunately, the limits of progressivism will be achieved when California becomes a social wasteland toward which it is now accelerating. And the local idiots still think it's only some obscure foothill codgers who hallucinate about the state's long downfall.
[10nov19 update] My skepticism about the reality of preventable man-made global warming is nicely summarized in this article written by climate scientist Dr Jay Lehr. It incorporates most of the factors that I have addressed over the years about the global warming issues as part of Rebane Doctrine. (H/T to reader)
[13nov19 update] Apropos to the above update, another Democrat has outed a previously hushed truth about the public positions and policies of progressives. Sen Mazie Hirono (D-HI) publicly admonished Americans “to fundamentally change the way they think about climate change” – more specifically, she urged that people “believe in climate change as though it’s a religion, it’s not a science.” (more here) This, of course, has been a major Rebane Doctrine tenet about preventable manmade global warming in these pages for years.
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