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  • George Rebane

    The corrupt ‘science’ (it does not deserve the name) behind the global warming hysteria is unraveling by the day, and the lamestream media is doing everything it can to hide the reports and the devastating supporting facts.  Today the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology issued a press release corroborating the reports now emerging that NOAA’s so-called Pausebuster paper, intended to show that there has been no temperature pause over the last 20+ years, is a deliberately perpetrated, politically motivated fraud based on crapola for data and worse for its processing.

    You can read the initial break of the story on the Powerline blog here and then the House press release here.  This report was timed to impact the most recent Paris circus on climate change and was considered a success in keeping the hysteria going and growing.  It will be acknowledged as possibly the most influential fake news story fabricated in the last two years.  And the Left is doing its damndest to keep the low-information sheeple from getting the news.  Readers in California, and in our neck of the woods, don’t have to go far to listen to the bleating of progressives who don’t have a clue about the science, data handling, and computer processing that they are told to worship on the altar of Consensus Science – Hallelujah!

    Hat tip to RR reader, fellow blogger, and compatriot Russ Steele for the timely heads up on this.

  • George Rebane

    More signs of our times.  SESF Executive Director Russ Steele and I along with our brides attended a robotics competition last Sunday at the Folsom campus of Intel Corporation.  One of the teams competing was from Nevada Union HS, and we were there to root for the home team.  They did quite well, but I’ll let Russ fill you in on the details since he is preparing a piece on the event.  SESF has been deeply involved in STEM education of our county’s youth.  SESF writes and funds the annual TechTests and TechTestJrs merit exams, give seminars on taking tests, and run the TechMentor program for special students.  But nationwide things are not looking all that good, since our K-12 school systems turn out overwhelming numbers of kids who can’t read, write, or reason (more here and H/T to a reader for this latest heads up).

    The leftwing mobs protesting free speech on campuses are growing more brazen as witnessed at UC Berkeley yesterday.  Now violence is becoming the norm with fires, rocks, and broken windows as the campus police stand by helplessly not certain whether to enforce the law or run and hide.  One of my current books has been Der Führer (1944) by Konrad Heiden, a detailed history of the rise of Adolph Hitler and National Socialism in prewar Germany.  Today’s headlines reflect mirror images of how our radical (or is it normal?) Left dispatches its ideological opponents similarly to how the SA brown shirts shut down opposition to the Nazis even before they were known as Nazis.

    Today one of NPR’s daily hit pieces on Trump featured a Democrat senator opposing Judge Gorsuch for being "out of the mainstream" since he is not a supporter of Roe v Wade.  Mainstream?  Yes, as the litmus test the senator cited that 80% of Americans support RvW.  Someone should inform the beltway sequestered politician that 99.9% of RvW supporters have no clue as to what that law actually provides for, and what factors comprise its deceptively named ‘women’s healthcare’ issue.

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  • George Rebane

    • Trump’s temporary travel ban created “chaos” caused by demonstrators.
    • Europe’s leaders castigated Trump while they build walls to keep Muslims out.
    • No one brought up the president’s constitutional obligation to secure the country nor quoted the specific US Code that enables him to lawfully do exactly what he did that also duplicated bipartisan 2015 Senate legislation.
    • Gov Moonbeam kept Vietnamese out of California because we already had “too many strange and poor immigrants.”
    • President Carter had bans on Iranian immigrants.
    • ‘American values’ have historically included constitutional exclusionary laws for people permitted to enter the country (I and my family were subjected to such laws in effect when we immigrated).

    The Fourth Estate outdid itself over the last four days fomenting what it reported as “chaos” at the country’s airports that erupted as a result of President Trump’s order to stop travel from seven terror breeding countries.  The travel ban is temporary and could have been implemented with more warning.  But it was another campaign promise delivered.

    The hiatus is supposed to let Homeland Security improve their ability to filter terrorists before they land on our shore.  But suddenly our president living up to his constitutional obligation to secure America by acting to the letter of established law has now been deemed to violate America’s “values”.  And the outrage was duly expressed by pre-organized sign carrying mobs bussed in to clog airports’ boarding gates and baggage areas – i.e. the reported chaos was not created by the legitimate traffic and operations at the airports.

    To the unread this was supposed to be the chaos caused by the presidential order, and all lamestream outlets, abetted by Fox News, carried videos of the screaming hordes.  Even former President Obama lauded all the good folks out there protesting the new president’s policies.  The entire circus came off so well that one might even think it was orchestrated.  According to government tally, the actual count of detainees during the weekend was about 110 out of over 300,000 travelers coming to the United States.

  • [This morning on NPR they had a Dem senator telling us why the Dems didn't show up at another committee hearing to vet one of President Trump's cabinet nominees.  He said they had to do it because "we have few remaining levers to pull" to exert their influence in Congress.  No one asked nor did he wonder why the Dems wound up with so few levers in Congress, in the governors' mansions, in state legislatures, … .  It was as if the Dems had nothing to do with this act of God.  But I know the real answer – the goddam voters didn't check all those polls (as cited here) before casting their ballots. gjr]

  • Not all liberals are stupid; many of them just have bad luck when they try to think.

    George Rebane

    [An edited and ‘liberally’ criticized version of this post was published (here) in the 4feb17 issue of The Union.  I answer my critics here.]

    Well, it’s now official – multi-kulti does not work.  There are limits to cultural differences that even progressives have come to understand.  It wasn’t that long ago when anyone suggesting our Great Divide is real was castigated by the Left, and accused of being everything from a racist to a traitor.  Even the comment streams of these pages are witness to such vitriol from locals of a socialist bent.

    However President Trump’s victory has suddenly changed all that.  As the former ‘Never Trump!’ crowd recovers from its apoplectic shock (similar to PTSD) and reorganizes into legions of ‘Trump Trashers’, many of their leading lights are rethinking the entire idea of the American republic.  And California, of course, is the mother temple of all such advanced collectivist thought.

    CalexitFormer notions of the Great Divide describe a reconfigured 21st century US with new states calved off existing ones to create homes for more like-minded Americans to continue the Great Experiment within a more diverse set of the Framers’ laboratories of liberty and democracy. The current ‘State of Jefferson’ movement to create Northern California is an example of this.  (see also RR’s Great Divide)

    More radical ideas describe the country divided into a confederacy of culturally cohesive states that would still be under one federal government with a revised or redrawn constitution.  Nevertheless all of these approaches to more responsive governance have retained a United States of America.  We all would still be Americans.

    But today the globalist oriented socialists have come to conclude that there really exist irreconcilable cultural differences that reach down into the roots of a peoples’ fundamental ideology of how society should and actually can work.  This Trump-induced epiphany is in some sense also a unifying factor, since the Right has held this belief for decades.  Both sides now share a fundamental belief that may serve as a stake in the ground from which to search for a less drastic longer term solution than secession.

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  • [I was perusing RR's hoary past to note the constant torrent of comments predicting the assured and imminent demise of the Republican Party for this or that outrage according to our tireless local progressives.  I also note that no one from the Right has been foolish enough to predict the Democrats' demise for doing some really dumb things over the last decade of these pages.  So does that mean that there is no learning taking place on the Left (my favorite hypothesis), or do these adamant worthies subscribe to and unabashedly place their hope on the unfortunate truth that it is possible to fool most of the people most of the time? (This is my own observation over the decades that completes the standard shibboleth 'You can fool some people all the time, and all people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.'  Well, you don't have to; fooling most people most of the time works out quite well as confirmed by most astute observers.)  gjr]

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  • George Rebane

    The progressive media pundits and political cartoonists have gotten a reprieve on creativity.  For at least the next four years they will each get a pass by posting a Trash Trump piece.  I suppose that’s only fair, but while the conservatives didn’t have that latitude with our recently retired Sec8 president, they did have plenty to critique about what the man actually ‘accomplished’.  Progressives and mid-roaders are not about to wait for Trump’s demonstrated performance, since it’s much easier to fabricate incisive commentary out of whole cloth for a constituency that can’t find the mid-east on the map.

    It’s turning out that genetics matters in determining a person’s ability to achieve, and hence we all are different based on our heritage.  The recent science is reviewed in The Genome Factor by Conley and Fletcher.  It corroborates the earlier findings in Nicholas Wade’s A Troublesome Inheritance much berated by the Left when it came out (here).  How does the Left get away with claiming to base their policies on science when the record shows the exact dismal opposite that started with its support of eugenics and Lysenko’s plant genetics in the early 20th century.

    Reading the papers this morning prompts me to ask if anyone ever notices that when homosexuals hold an event, it is widely celebrated and we pat ourselves on the back for being tolerant and inclusive.  But no one would dare attempt to hold an event for heterosexuals because even conceiving such a thing will get you vilified and branded as homophobic.  Is that how we constructively ban events celebrating being straight?

    National Propaganda Radio may finally be defunded by the federal government.  That news outlet is the posterchild of the lamestream media as noted here for many years.  With President Trump in office they are now on steroids trashing everything about him and his team.  Here is more on ‘Trump Should End Government Funding of NPR’s Biased News’.

    Trump stopped Obama’s midnight transfer of $221M to Palestinians as the last gasp of a blatantly pro-Islamic administration.  Rebane Doctrine for such funding is to pay them for not committing acts of terror against Israel.  The algo would go something like this – say, $X is our annual budget for Palestinians.  We credit/pay them $X/365 for each terror-free day.  When an act of terror occurs, payment stops for, say, 60 days.  For every subsequent act of terror that occurs during the no-pay interval, another 60 days is added to the end of the current no-pay period.  Payments resume when the accrued no-pay period ends.

    Finally, here is the newest example of Orwellian NewSpeak that allows progressives to maintain with a straight face that ‘free speech is censorship’, and ‘censorship is actually free speech’.

    [update] Ketchup money?  Here’s another egregious example of why we will never be at peace with the Left – they are evil even unto the marrow of their bones.

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    Better men than me need to explain the following.  Perhaps some of our progressive readers are up to the task.  Or not.

    KetchupMoney2

  • George Rebane

    [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 25 January 2017.]

    OK folks, it’s time to take a break from politics and give our Trump trashing muscles a short rest – I’m sure we’ll be back at it soon enough, but in the meantime let’s talk about important things like the existence of God and the fate of mankind.  Scientists have made some very interesting recent advances that shed more light about the coming Singularity and also our understanding of God.  And in an intriguing sense these two ideas seem to have become entwined.  You may recall from past commentaries that Singularity is the anticipated event when machines reach and exceed human intelligence – that is, they become super-intelligent and no one knows what will happen to us all after that.  Many predict this event to occur during this century, perhaps even before 2050.

    Today we live in the pre-Singularity years and witness accelerating technology surmounting humans in ever more complex skill sets that require higher and higher intelligence.  The visible result is growing systemic unemployment – more and more people leaving the workforce who can no longer sell their labor to maintain their quality of life.  You might also notice that few if any politicians want to talk about that since no one knows what to do about it.

    Now consider world renowned physicist Michio Kaku, recognized for his work in string theory and cosmological philosophy.  Those are the fields attempting to unify Einstein’s relativity and Bohr’s quantum mechanics, and puzzle on the foundation of the universe and our place in it.  Dr Kaku is one of a growing cadre of scientists on the frontiers of human knowledge who no longer dismiss the notion of a universal super-intelligence or God.

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  • [The pro/con outrages in the news about President Trump are filling up sandboxes even faster than usual. And the spate of eagerly published fake news stories that get retracted regularly now are keeping several pots boiling in the intervals. gjr]

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  • George Rebane

    Dr David Gelernter, professor of computer science at Yale and one of my favorite systems guys, writes the title article (here) in today’s (23jan17) WSJ.  It is an important look into the near future of higher education, and reflects everything we have been talking about in these pages – in short, I agree with the good professor’s assessment of today’s higher education and the most probable direction it will take in the coming years.  Gelernter starts with what is obvious to many of us –

    U.S. colleges are failing—the fancy-pants institutions along with the rest. … Today’s colleges give students no idea of the structure of knowledge: the topics they should learn, the books and skills they should master. Educators refuse them the guidance and stiff requirements they need and often want. Colleges refuse to provide the survey courses, especially in arts and humanities, that students need to build an educational foundation. Instead, too many teach politicized courses and assign slanted readings and random garbage.

    We all should and will have more to say about this.  So read the article and sound off, because the crap that’s going on now in our colleges and universities is destined to take down our republic.

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