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’.
Scattershots – 2mar21 (updated 4mar21)
George Rebane
Those who judge the past in terms of the here and now are doing a great disservice through their ignorance of the then and there.
The Left’s promotion of America’s new cancel culture is in full swing. We now have full scale censoring of politically incorrect content on our mass media – broadcast, internet, print, entertainment, … . This incorporates the modern version of book burning. The latest volumes to be ‘digitally burned’ and no longer available from major outlets include Justice Clarence Thomas’s ‘Created Equal’ video and , and now Dr Seuss. Dr Seuss has been an icon of Americana and children’s literature for a couple of generations now. Even an annual children’s reading day (2 March) was ensconced to recognize the birthday of Theodor Seuss ‘Ted’ Geisel (1904-1991). But today our commissars of correct culture have deemed many of his works to racist and contain “crude and offensive stereotypes in several drawings of blacks and Asian-Americans.” But those well-read in the country’s leftward lurch will recognize that such book burnings are nothing more than pages out of Stalin’s and Hitler’s playbooks to erase the old culture in order to make room for instilling their brave new world. It was ever thus. (more here)
Common culture counts. That has been a fundamental tenet of RR, and is now being adopted by many other national voices to counter the Left’s all-out assault on America’s traditional culture. Six former US education secretaries co-authored ‘America Needs History and Civics Education to Promote Unity’ (2mar21 WSJ). In there they cogently argue for a national education plan “to help teachers instill an understanding that is complete and honest but not cynical.” The 6jan21 frustration that was expressed by Americans on the Mall and in the Capitol is a harbinger that the country’s political leaders, those who truly want to promote unity, should take careful note of and respond with appropriate legislation and regulatory relief for our public schools. It’s a tall order the chances of success for which are not high given the entrenched collectivists in politics and the teachers unions. Nevertheless, the authors cite the ‘Roadmap to Educating for American Democracy’, the culmination of a 19-month project by 300+ “scholars, educators, practitioners, and students from diverse backgrounds.” (more here) In sum, a minimally common culture for a constitutional democracy “requires a citizenry that has a desire to participate, and an understanding of how to do so constructively, as well as the knowledge and skills to act for the common good.” The Roadmap provides the guidance for the several states to develop curricula that can provide such an understanding.
Joe Biden puts all his credibility chips on a Big Lie, and takes a page of bombast from Trump’s playbook. He and Team Biden, echoed in the lamestream, now trumpet the claim that he is the nation’s savior from Covid-19. Specifically, “he is staking his legacy on the lie that the pandemic was out of control until the day of his inauguration.” And a more comprehensive segue to the old days of ‘journalism’ was made possible by the former president’s CPAC speech. The hiatus is over, we can now stop having to explain (or avoid) Biden, and shift back to coverage of Trump topics that fit like an old shoe. Gerard Baker says it best (here) –
The return to the limelight of a certain former president has triggered an unfortunate but probably inevitable relapse for the Trump addicts of our news-gathering class. They’d gone cold turkey for a whole month and there were tentative, encouraging signs that the cure might be taking. Deprived of their favorite drug, some were gingerly discovering other, more wholesome pursuits: tackling the mountain of evidence that Andrew Cuomo might be a mendacious, incompetent, bullying sex pest; investigating the slight but tantalizing possibility that not all of America’s social and economic woes can be attributed to white supremacy; slowly weaning themselves off the urge to ask penetrating questions of the White House about Joe Biden’s rescue dog.
What must ol’ Bumblebrain do now to get back into an adult-level news cycle? After all, he’s still the president. Isn’t he?
[4mar21 update] A CPAC puzzle? A straw poll was taken at the recent CPAC conference at which many Republican luminaries – including former President Trump – spoke. The poll indicated that 68% wanted to see Trump run for president in 2024, and only 55% wanted to see him nominated for the office. This conservetarian doesn’t understand how the excess of the 68% would have him become a Republican candidate in 2024 without first being nominated – especially after he made clear that he would not support or start a third party. From my perch it looks like a collective brain fart. Other solutions most welcome.
The Capitol Fortress. Thousands of troops remain guarding our razor wire wrapped Capitol. Why? The Dems insist on fake intelligence reports of another imminent attempt at a rightwing ‘insurrection’ (when there never was one in the first place). The disorganized and frustrated mob that charged the Capitol on 6 January had no idea what they were doing or were supposed to do. They got in only because the on-duty Capitol police were incompetent in every aspect of operational planning and execution, or ordered to allow a politically useful penetration of the building. And the mob had nothing to do with the deaths that day, that was another fabrication by the Dems and their lamestream media. So, the whole thing today was a set-up for the Dems kabuki security theater to defend against a supposed repeat today of 6jan21. This attack was supposed to occur according to some unknown advisory from an unknown agency in our intelligence community – perhaps the FBI. In spite of today’s nothing burger, the military will continue to occupy DD for another two months – to defend against some unknown threat - at which time another fake intelligence advisory will launch the next phase of political histrionics to keep the public apprised of their assigned place under the heel of the state.
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