George Rebane
Gentle reader, we again return to RR’s department of poetry. For the new to these pages, this is part of our cultural outreach that emphasizes the ‘rhyme’ part of our overall Rhyme and Reason offerings. Actually, today we sample a reprise of an earlier poem for an earlier time entitled Deflected Dialogue –Upon reflection, it turns out that the times have not changed all that much for certain factions of our political spectrum. Hence we are able present for your edification, Deflected Dialogue Redux -
Ruminations – 27sep17 (updated 1oct17)
If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today. - Thomas Sowell
George Rebane
Canada, the beloved of anti-American liberals, “has an urgent message for immigrants in the US fearing deportation: Don’t count on us for refuge.” The reality of unmitigated migration of illegal aliens impacts smaller countries sooner, but the eventual impact on larger countries is no different, only delayed. (more here)
The (guess who) innumerates of the land are again enraged that those who pay the lion’s share of government revenues will get the biggest dollar reduction in their taxes under the proposed tax reforms. Their solution? Only those who pay little or no taxes should benefit. The ones who hire those who can or will work should continue paying at least what they pay now, maybe more.
Keep an eye on how government(s) will keep their ever-watchful eye on big tech companies such as Google, Amazon, and Facebook. Besides providing their well-known services, such companies are also leading technology innovators as they seek to expand their markets. Their increasing regulatory burdens will definitely modify how they game tomorrow’s ‘system’, and don’t bet it will be to the benefit of the rest of us. Recall ‘We’re from the government, and we’re here to help.’
Christian churches are becoming more frequent scenes of violence as the latest Tennessee church shootings underline. In some religious communities, e.g. Islam, mass killings in their places of worship are now a common feature. In the US, security consultants advise churches “organize security committees and make other suggestions they believe will lessen the risk of attack. That can include installing surveillance cameras, hiring armed guards or allowing members who are police officers or trained, licensed civilians to carry concealed handguns.” Modern times. (more here)
[29sep17 update] Nevada City, that hotbed of progressive sentiment and thought, has again determined that wireless is evil. ‘We can’t let the first cell tower in, because other wireless service providers would soon follow.’ Oh my! And then there’s their science argument – all EM frequencies are bad no matter their strength – substantiated in the same vein as their embrace of consensus global warming science. Other rural communities in this 21st century would welcome and do everything possible to increase their town’s connectivity as a mainstay of commercial activity, development, and general prosperity – but not the unfunded People’s Commune of Nevada City.
SCOTUS is about to pull the plug on mandated contributions to the Democratic Party when it rules on Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, who today are forced to contribute to party coffers and candidates through their government employee unions through mandatory payment of ‘dues’. Those unions supply the major monies to support all manner of socialist causes in the country. Justice Gorsuch’s advent on the court will continue the work that the late Justice Scalia started to let government workers decide their union memberships.
And speaking of Justice Gorsuch, he is now the latest raison d’hysterie for our great moral milepost Sen Chuckie. It seems that the justice gave a speech to a conservative group in the Trump International Hotel down the street from the White House, which to the lefties is clear evidence of pernicious portent of SCOTUS going rogue – and who knows, it may even have a Russian connection. I can’t find many ruffled feathers about the years-long and obvious corruption surrounding Dem luminaries like DiFi, Mad Max, and Principled Pelosi. (I can already hear the cries from our leftwingers, ‘What corruption, where?!’)
[1oct17 update] Notice all the rage on the lamestream to convince their audiences that the federal government 1) is responsible for holding every American harmless in the face of natural disasters, 2) must immediately provide succor and remedies for any and all damage and injuries, and 3) President Trump, since assuming office, is the first president to have degraded federal response agencies to a level that his belated and niggardly relief efforts are totally insufficient to provide Puerto Rico any benefit. And, truth be told, he did all this because he is a racist, since Puerto Rico is primarily a Latino territory.
Review President Trump’s assessment of the one critical Puerto Rican mayor (out of over a thousand) the lamestream dug up to excoriate him and his administration in light of this Puerto Rican CEO who has been on the scene for years – The head of an international engineering firm in Puerto Rico said in an editorial Saturday that when the time came to send 50 of his engineers to help in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, he bypassed local officials and went straight to FEMA. The reason, said Jorge Rodriguez, the CEO of PACIV, in an editorial in the New York Post, is that “for the last 30 years, the Puerto Rican government has been completely inept at handling regular societal needs, so I just don’t see it functioning in a crisis like this one.”…“Even before the hurricane hit, water and power systems were already broken. And our $118 billion debt crisis is a result of government corruption and mismanagement.” (more here) Culture counts.
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