A happy finish gilds everything, however unfitting the means may have been. Which explains why at times it should be the rule to offend the rules, when it is not possible by other methods to attain a happy ending. Gracian #66
George Rebane
‘My way or the highway!’ were the responses to the 13feb21 column by my favorite conservative Union columnist (here) wondering how Biden’s calls to unify would work as the country’s Left continues to vilify the tens of millions on the Right who voted for Trump. The strong answer from our locals echo their national response, and confirms that there is no middle ground.
‘On second thought, no witnesses needed.’ After they sobered up, that was the Dems’ second cut this morning at wanting to call witnesses. The Repubs’ first witness would have been Mrs Pelosi answering questions of what/when she knew about the Capitol riot and a whole lot of other stuff. Her testimony would have resulted in either Perjury City (and an orange jumpsuit) or blowing the Dems case, not only for this impeachment, but also for every little lie and dirty trick that went down over the last four years. No, no, no, can’t let that bird sing.
Our Supes have been pretty spineless during Newsom’s insane lockdown diktats. There has been no science or logic to back up statewide and local policies to, say, prevent indoor eating at restaurants. Other neighboring counties – e.g. Yuba and Placer – already have indoor eating as brave restaurateurs allow their customers to decide on their aversion to C19 risk. In Nevada County our eateries cower compliantly under the leadership of county officials who dare not raise a peep against almighty Sacramento. Well, today we read Board Chair Dan Miller will put on the next agenda an item “to further discuss state restrictions.” I guess we’ll now inch forward one vertebrae at a time.
California mistakenly gave convicts over $30B federal C19 relief dollars. That according to Assemblyman Kevin Kiley (R-6th district) who stated today that further evidence has emerged indicating that a lot of that money wound up in the hands of LA and Bay area gangs which they have used to buy guns. Any past increase in criminal gun violence has always been used to launch the next leftwing assault on the 2nd Amendment to roll back gun rights for law abiding citizens. That is beyond progressive logic, but simply a continuing scam to eliminate civilian arms. Great Divide.
[14feb21 update] More Covid fraud exposed. For most of the past year RR has examined the C19 pandemic in detail with analytical models and numerous cited sources. As reported, my own findings have always indicated that there has been something funny going on in the feds’ C19 reporting and recommended response policies – things didn’t tie, and most certainly did not follow cited science. The scope of and responses to the whole pandemic seemed to be politically motivated and manipulated. Early on I also examined the ‘excess deaths’ aspect of C19 and found them to be minimal as did others (here). Recently more detailed analyses of CDC releases expose how the institution has played fast and loose with its reporting of C19 cases and deaths. A summary of the findings are here, and a detailed report of how the data was manipulated can be downloaded here. (H/T to reader)
[15feb21 update] Equity on parade. So, the guy who made $8/hr will now get $15. The guy making $11 gets $15, and the guy who made $15 gets $15. And as a result, that hard worker is on the bottom again. (And don’t even start me on the well-known principle that a rising minimum wage floats all prices.)
Covid deaths as you like them. A regular reader sent the following graphic that he dug up on the CDC website (here). He makes a cogent argument that IF these reported numbers of simple body counts are true, then there are indeed ‘excess deaths’ (from the projected norm) that can be plausibly attributed to C19. At this point of (C19 and other) stats flying this way and that, it is hard to determine what to believe, since both journalism and govt agencies have now succumbed to publishing injections of political propaganda. But for completeness, you are invited to make up your own mind.
Billionaire Bill “has a master plan for battling climate change” and ending our dependency on carbon and other bad stuff. He will reveal it all in his How to Avoid Climate Disaster that will be published this month. Using a lot of “analysis”, Mr Gates has been able to reduce the whole thing to “a simple plan” that most of us should be able to understand. He has started a couple of green venture funds with other very rich people, and, of course, he has a funded a sophisticated lobbying organization that can buy politicians by the dozens. The latter to make sure that appropriate laws and regs get passed so that the venture funds make a lot of money investing in green start-ups protected from open markets by the government gun. (more here)
The leftwing commenters to Jo Ann’s 13feb21 Union column have a hard time understanding her point about Biden’s call for national unity. It was Biden who issued the call, not Jo Ann. All she’s doing is asking how one can respond to such a call if the Left continues to call people like her bad names and accusing her of doing bad stuff in being a Republican who supported Trump. Understanding that seems to be a bridge too far.
[17feb21 update] NAACP sues Trump and Giuliani under guise of violating the 1871 KKK Act as reported in the 17feb21 WSJ. That is another blatant exercise by the transformed leftwing civil rights group to enlarge the country’s division, keep reminding blacks that they continue as victims, and that they should remain on the plantation cared for by their elitist black political leaders who have learned to play the game. (more here)
Texans are freezing their symbolic balls off. The energy richest state of the Union has its energy generation and distribution grid and its energy market in general so badly mangled by its (Republican) state government kowtowing to federal mandates, that there is not enough functioning power generating capacity available as inclement weather knocks out their fair weather wind turbines. Playing ball with the global warming Left invariably gets the bat shoved up your butt sideways as California already has demonstrated. Global cooling – it’s a comin’.
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