George Rebane
At our house the conversation turns to politics after the usual householder topics are covered and resolved. Both Jo Ann and I are political animals. Readers know my beliefs and propensities, there is here a long record of both, one that is regularly ignored by those of the Left. Not so many here know about the wife of my life. She is a longtime hardworking volunteer in various philanthropic organizations and in charge of our family’s giving. She is also a member of the NC Republican Central Committee, the Union’s editorial board, and the Nevada County Republican Women Federated. The latter is the local chapter of the largest organization of grassroots Republicans, and next week she will become the new president of the NCRWF. Did I mention that she’s also the family matriarch with our two daughters, six adult grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren? Me? I now try to devote as much time as possible to master the lifestyle of a classic flâneur of the Taleb school – you see, I have been blessed as a kept man by a very capable woman. Enough.
Recently we dissected the abortion issue (again). It’s a topic much discussed in these pages, but not so recently. The so-called ‘pro-life’ anti abortionists continue to miss the dominant argument to abet their cause. The ‘pro-choice’ promoters base their entire case on the mantra ‘A woman has a right to do with her body as she will.’ – my body, my choice.
The entire basis of the abortionists is that there is only one body and one life involved. That’s not true in any sense of the word, most certainly not clinically, and in many places, not legally. What the pro-lifers should continually point out is the singular ‘body’ in the pro-choicers’ mantra, and ask ‘how many bodies (lives) does your choice affect?’ Getting them to admit to the correct answer will change the nature of the debate on a pregnant woman’s rights, subsidizing abortions, who should be involved in the decision, especially in the pregnancy of a minor, and so on.
All ideologues, no matter their coloration, agree on the importance of controlling language as part and parcel of controlling thought (Sapir-Whorf and all that). The ongoing onslaught of the Left to cancel western culture requires strict adherence to language control, especially as it is taught in schools, used on the lamestream, and pontificated by progressive politicians. The tsunami of illegal entrants across our open southern border is a case in point. These arrivals are no longer illegal aliens, or even illegal immigrants. Today they are simply migrants. Everyone knows that people have innocently migrated here and there for ages, that’s how the world got populated. And the migrants from the south are simply people who decided to move to the United States, so what’s wrong with that? Read the poem on the Statue of Liberty.
In the same vein the press has banned Christmas tree. The thing we light and decorate in our living rooms during Christmas is now relabeled as the “holiday tree”. None of that European western culture need be acknowledged in lands both ancient and colonized. Today a new global world of equity is dawning. But a little attention reveals that the culture cancelling is very precisely directed. No one yet dreams of calling the menorah of Hanukkah a ‘holiday candelabra’.
And then there are pejoratives like ‘white supremacist’ and ‘racist’ which must only be used for their implied meanings but never ever defined. For to offer definitions, no matter how imprecise or ludicrous, would quickly torpedo their entire narrative in pursuit of social justice and equity. Substance in support of socialists’ apologetics is definitely not their strong suit.
We both could not help smiling (more like snickering) when we heard the latest report on NPR about BLM leaders going on media to lament that ‘armed white people are now running amok’, thereby making their rioters and pillagers to feel unsafe during their public activism. As odd as that may seem, we hope that more law-abiding people would carry in public, and have the strong belief that rioters assaulting innocents should not feel safe as they are promoted politically on the lamestream.
[13dec21 update] Ivermectin’s effectiveness subrogated to landing a $40M grant. A leading virologist and researcher, Dr Andrew Hill, republished his favorable findings on the life-saving effects of Ivermectin in order to satisfy the politically correct requirements for obtaining a sizeable grant for Liverpool University. Given the demonstrated performance of Ivermectin in saving lives during the Covid pandemic, Hill worried about changing his report that could then cost about a half-million lives since his research was one of the main inputs used by the WHO to recommend Covid therapeutics around the world. You can read all about this tawdry and deadly saga here. (H/T to reader)
‘Bend over and spread ‘em.’ Our State Dept admits this was the reception our diplomats got when arriving in China and succumbing to their government’s C19 tests via anal swabs. Understandably Foggy Bottom has been very silent about this new level of contempt Xi has for Team Biden. This latest foreign policy embarrassment was instituted in February 2021, immediately after Bumblebrain got sworn in. The insult was first discovered by The Hill to whom State admitted that it was carried out but under protest since the State Dept “never agreed” to the Chinese ignominiously swabbing our diplomats where the sun don’t shine. This was confirmed by Judicial Watch which filed a lawsuit after State stonewalled a FOIA request. (more here)
[16dec21 update] No disaster remains unattributed to climate change. The know-nothing activists are doing their best not to let the recent Midwest tornado disaster go to waste. They will be haranguing us with a passel of made-up tales that the whole thing is more undeniable evidence of preventable manmade global warming. However, suppressed historical data tells a markedly different story of huge multi-state tornado systems with hundreds killed that have devasted that region since white settlers started keeping records in the early 1800s. But such counter-narrative evidence is no match for the bullshit that now saturates lamestream outlets. (more here)
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