George Rebane

A couple of sad additions to the Liberal Mind department.  People who follow news and public affairs hear at least ten times a day another liberal or lamestream statement declaring with complete assurance that anyone who, at their cost, is unwilling to deliver abortion inducing prophylactics to a woman is in fact 1) imposing their religion on the woman and/or 2) interfering with the woman’s control of her own body.  While the stark reality is that the same agent makes no effort to deny the woman her opportunity to get identical prophylactics from any of a number of alternative and readily available sources.  (Revival of the Sandra Fluke war on women?)

And then in a similar vein we hear liberals and the lamestream continue accusing Bush2 of being responsible for hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, while Obama had/has nothing to do with the massive influx of illegal alien children crossing our southern border.  One was a horrific act of God/nature that struck a decades long Democrat mismanaged metropolis (more here), the other the result of an ongoing and purposive administration policy.

And then consider this email from VA’s Janet Murphy that recently went across the desks of VA managers nationwide.  It reads in part –

Please immediately stand down on any further communications with stakeholders, delegation members, and others regarding the access audit, wait lists, and accelerating care initiatives.  There will be a network director call this afternoon to discuss the way forward with communication regarding these topics and medical center/health care system directors will be briefed from/by their respective VISNS (various regional districts of the VA).

Upon this email’s disclosure, the newly appointed VA acting secretary, Sloan Gibson, immediately went on the air to tell the country that this “stand down” message was not really a directive to co-ordinate the continuing decades long cover up of how the VA published its fraudulent healthcare performance statistics, but simply a desire to give some clarifying guidance to the directors of the various VA districts, who obviously have no idea what has been going on under their management.

What is it with these people??  Are they evil, are they stupid, do they consider that the rest of the country is stupid?  How in hell is anyone of goodwill with an intact system of logic supposed to reach common ground with people who think and reason like that?  It is simply mindboggling to even contemplate finding a starting point.  The only redemptive part of such accusations and reports is that they sure make clear why we are a terminally polarized nation.

Ending on a happier note, this evening watching the news of the illegal influx of ‘Central American’ children (the Border Patrol believes a huge fraction are actually Mexican with no ability to resolve the matter), we heard that President Obama’s solution to the problem is to do nothing more with or at the border, but ask Congress for almost $3B for housing and processing the kids so that they can properly disappear into our countryside more quickly.  We were told that this amount comes to about $80,000 a kid.

Upon hearing this, my sweetie and no slouch of a woman, immediately announced she had the better solution to this national crisis – send each kid back to his declared country of origin with $5,000 cash in his pocket.  This would not only give rise to untold joyous reunions, but also bring the cost down to about $6K per head with the additional money going for short term housing/feeding, name tags, and airfare home.  The policy would be implemented with the concurrent directive that the Border Patrol (and National Guard if necessary) would again close the affected borders as required by federal law, else the kids will quickly be sent back for another $5K.  This response will immediately drive the price charged by the scumbag smugglers for future transport through the roof, and save over 90% of the currently requested amount.

[update]  In this morning’s (9jul14) WSJ is a short column ‘Confessions of a Computer Modeler’ by Robert Caprara.  Mr Caprara holds a masters in environmental engineering and has developed large scale models for the EPA and other government agencies and corporations.  RR readers will be familiar with his message on such modeling, especially as he describes their use in the ‘science’ and politics of climate change.  He hits all the high points and cites examples of how such models are constantly used to produce results desired by the ‘customers’ who pay for their creation and exercise.

What should impress some of the DIO religionists is the ease with which a large scale model can produce a smorgasbord of results from which the tastiest ones can be selected and then paraded as objective science to the ideological scoundrels and, of course, the sheeple – it’s a 24/7 global enterprise.  This is not the place to review the details of what has been presented in these pages, Caprara’s piece gives a good thumbnail summary.  However, I will point out that even the models he discusses are much simpler than those ‘general circulation models’ used to predict catastrophic temperature and sea level rises (explicated in these pages).  Such GCMs contain many more opportunities for bamboozlement because they are cobbled together from tens of submodels by scattered ‘experts’ in such domains as atmospheric water vapor, high altitude ozone dispersal, spectral aborption by subtropical vegetation, thermodynamics of shallow water energy exchange, South Pacific circulation, …, you get the idea.

What really causes laughter and tears is how the double dummies, from Obama to the local leftwing loonies, hold themselves in high esteem as caring people in the know, people who need to educate the rest of us and vacuum our wallets to pay for ‘green’ projects and policies that have no impact on their stated objectives while causing immeasurable damage to everything such diktats touch.  DIO??  Sorry about that, it’s the well-rehearsed 'Debate Is Over!'