George Rebane
The new sport in Washington played by Congress, unions, and big corporations is chipping away at Obamacare - causing chaos in the small business sector. Everyone wants to hide from the crap coming off the fan, and leave the other guy fully exposed. Already eight components of it have been delayed or canceled. And the liberals are still keeping a stiff public upper lip. Reason aside, as always.
Meanwhile, the Big O is asking Americans not to be so “cynical about our government”. Giving lie to that statement before inhaling, the President then promised to do a major overhaul to improve the efficiency of the federal government - a plan for "smarter government". Seat belts please. Abandoning any pretense of humility, he is going to make it run like the well-oiled machine that was his campaign (pick either one). Well there’s one part that he has already integrated beyond extraction, and that is Chicago style politics, starting with the Big Lie and the Bypass Congress two-step. The rest of the makeover will be harder, because in his campaign organization he could can those who couldn’t.
The new sport in Washington played by Congress, unions, and big corporations is chipping away at Obamacare - causing chaos in the small business sector. Everyone wants to hide from the crap coming off the fan, and leave the other guy fully exposed. Already eight components of it have been delayed or canceled. And the liberals are still keeping a stiff public upper lip. Reason aside, as always.
Meanwhile, the Big O is asking Americans not to be so “cynical about our government”. Giving lie to that statement before inhaling, the President then promised to do a major overhaul to improve the efficiency of the federal government - a plan for "smarter government". Seat belts please. Abandoning any pretense of humility, he is going to make it run like the well-oiled machine that was his campaign (pick either one). Well there’s one part that he has already integrated beyond extraction, and that is Chicago style politics, starting with the Big Lie and the Bypass Congress two-step. The rest of the makeover will be harder, because in his campaign organization he could can those who couldn’t.
Nobody in Washington knows what to do about the government’s student loan program. According to the CBO, raising rates to 6.8% (to quietly help fund Obamacare) will still leave the program about $90B in the hole after 2020. Congressional Democrats are telling people not to look behind that curtain, and the lamestream has dutifully fallen in line. So now we have a formerly privately run program taken over by government so that it will cost less for the students and bring in a little for Treasury’s coffers. Turns out it will cost the students more, lose money in the process, and have the taxpayers again make up the difference. (Some still wonder why I use the term ‘sheeple’.)
The latest from the religion of peace is the wanton and spontaneous murder of three women in Pakistan, and one Coptic priest beheaded in Egypt. The mother and two daughters were butchered by townsfolk because the two girls were taped gleefully cavorting (dancing, gasp!) in a rain squall. The mother was included in the hat trick because, for some unknown reason, she apparently protested the butchering of her daughters. Now I’m still looking for a reasoned opposition to my plan that calls for sending them all a continuous supply of guns and grenades, along with timely satellite intelligence showing where concentrations of the opposing sects are hanging out.
Heard of the new Agenda21 compliant government environmental program called Blueways? So designating a river promises to go way beyond the ‘wild and scenic’ appellation now in practice. A Blueway river will contain all the lands included in its drainage basin, which, of course, will eventually have to be ‘preserved’ from, you guessed it, you and me. The initiative, quietly introduced in 2012, is now drawing some attention because states and landowners are beginning to fight this latest encroachment on property rights (more here). Environmentalists advise not looking too closely behind this curtain also.
The July 2013 issue of the prestigious IEEE Spectrum contains the feature piece asking ‘Are Electric Cars Really Green?’. The quick answer in 'Unclean at Any Speed' is a robust NO. But the details of the proof are way beyond the abilities of the environmental faithful to comprehend – most due to misconfigured neural structures, but some due to not wanting to look at the evidence.
To put a bow on it, Bret Stephens in the 9jul13 WSJ asks ‘Can Environmentalists Think?’ Resolving the question in their favor and long argued in these pages, the answer is again a clear NO (else we’d have to put them all in the evil column). The latest evidence comes from the crude oil train wreck in Lac-Megantic, Quebec. This edition of the expensive pipeline on rails went off the same when someone forgot to set the handbrake before going for a beer or whatever. But the point comes back to the enormous amount of oil that is transported via tank cars across North America because environmentalists don’t understand utility theory and wouldn’t know what to do with it, were it tattooed on their backsides. Their religion is strong, and a main tenet is still to stop the construction of pipelines like the Keystone XL. Better to run those trains through populated areas. When was the last time a pipeline caused so much death, destruction, and pollution in North America?
[10jul13 update] An update on the fundamental transformation of America would be incomplete without recording that our government has now brought the nation to a state wherein 101M need some form of food aid ranging from school lunches to food stamps. This brings it up to about one in every three Americans. That's progress indeed and the direction is clear. Now where were we in vilifying those who actually pay for all this food?
[11jul13 update] This baby just refuses to abort. Now we learn that Congress is about to be presented with a report on Obama’s long form birth certificate that the White House floated way back when, and hoped would pass muster. Well that it did with the all the Fundamental Transformers, but the rest of us, who took a look at the sophomoric attempt, quickly pronounced it an obvious fraud (here). Well, one of Obama’s own crew, “certified handwriting analyst and forensic document examiner” Mr Reed Hayes, has been asked to examine the evidence and has pronounced the released long form a blatant forgery. (Full disclosure, I too have credentials, both academic and work experience, in signal processing and image analysis, which were not overworked in assessing said 'certificate'.) In a sworn affidavit Hayes states –
“…based on my observations and findings, it is clear that the Certificate of Live Birth I examined is not a scan of an original paper birth certificate, but a digitally manufactured document created by utilizing material from various sources, … In over 20 years of examining documentation of various types, I have never seen a document that is so seriously questionable in so many respects. In my opinion, the birth certificate is entirely fabricated.” (more here, and H/T to reader)
The latest from the religion of peace is the wanton and spontaneous murder of three women in Pakistan, and one Coptic priest beheaded in Egypt. The mother and two daughters were butchered by townsfolk because the two girls were taped gleefully cavorting (dancing, gasp!) in a rain squall. The mother was included in the hat trick because, for some unknown reason, she apparently protested the butchering of her daughters. Now I’m still looking for a reasoned opposition to my plan that calls for sending them all a continuous supply of guns and grenades, along with timely satellite intelligence showing where concentrations of the opposing sects are hanging out.
Heard of the new Agenda21 compliant government environmental program called Blueways? So designating a river promises to go way beyond the ‘wild and scenic’ appellation now in practice. A Blueway river will contain all the lands included in its drainage basin, which, of course, will eventually have to be ‘preserved’ from, you guessed it, you and me. The initiative, quietly introduced in 2012, is now drawing some attention because states and landowners are beginning to fight this latest encroachment on property rights (more here). Environmentalists advise not looking too closely behind this curtain also.
The July 2013 issue of the prestigious IEEE Spectrum contains the feature piece asking ‘Are Electric Cars Really Green?’. The quick answer in 'Unclean at Any Speed' is a robust NO. But the details of the proof are way beyond the abilities of the environmental faithful to comprehend – most due to misconfigured neural structures, but some due to not wanting to look at the evidence.
To put a bow on it, Bret Stephens in the 9jul13 WSJ asks ‘Can Environmentalists Think?’ Resolving the question in their favor and long argued in these pages, the answer is again a clear NO (else we’d have to put them all in the evil column). The latest evidence comes from the crude oil train wreck in Lac-Megantic, Quebec. This edition of the expensive pipeline on rails went off the same when someone forgot to set the handbrake before going for a beer or whatever. But the point comes back to the enormous amount of oil that is transported via tank cars across North America because environmentalists don’t understand utility theory and wouldn’t know what to do with it, were it tattooed on their backsides. Their religion is strong, and a main tenet is still to stop the construction of pipelines like the Keystone XL. Better to run those trains through populated areas. When was the last time a pipeline caused so much death, destruction, and pollution in North America?
[10jul13 update] An update on the fundamental transformation of America would be incomplete without recording that our government has now brought the nation to a state wherein 101M need some form of food aid ranging from school lunches to food stamps. This brings it up to about one in every three Americans. That's progress indeed and the direction is clear. Now where were we in vilifying those who actually pay for all this food?
[11jul13 update] This baby just refuses to abort. Now we learn that Congress is about to be presented with a report on Obama’s long form birth certificate that the White House floated way back when, and hoped would pass muster. Well that it did with the all the Fundamental Transformers, but the rest of us, who took a look at the sophomoric attempt, quickly pronounced it an obvious fraud (here). Well, one of Obama’s own crew, “certified handwriting analyst and forensic document examiner” Mr Reed Hayes, has been asked to examine the evidence and has pronounced the released long form a blatant forgery. (Full disclosure, I too have credentials, both academic and work experience, in signal processing and image analysis, which were not overworked in assessing said 'certificate'.) In a sworn affidavit Hayes states –
“…based on my observations and findings, it is clear that the Certificate of Live Birth I examined is not a scan of an original paper birth certificate, but a digitally manufactured document created by utilizing material from various sources, … In over 20 years of examining documentation of various types, I have never seen a document that is so seriously questionable in so many respects. In my opinion, the birth certificate is entirely fabricated.” (more here, and H/T to reader)
A Blueway river will contain all the lands included in its drainage basin.....
Blue....blue?
What the hell happened to green.
Steve can you pen a memo to the home office and see if they'll make up their minds about the color choice?
Posted by: fish | 09 July 2013 at 01:59 PM
I have fished the White River and know for a fact that it is brown.
Posted by: stevenfrisch | 09 July 2013 at 04:12 PM
Central planning requires the enslavement of individuals to the collective; Obamacare is just another example. Our country needs a leader with a freedom bias.
Posted by: TheMikeyMcD | 09 July 2013 at 04:30 PM
When I was doing battle on Wild and Scenic (and stopped it for a few years) on the South Yuba, one part of the law said the river "corridor" would be protected from evil humans. the corridor was a distance up the canyons (I think a average of 1/4 mile each side) which would be "zoned" for additional "protection". There was also a lot of discussion on the "watershed" and the "viewshed". The Yuba Watershed Institt was created by the nuts on the ridge in order to "control" things going on there. The YWI is now a protestor of the proposed San Juan Mine. I also recall the first time the mine was in hearings in 1993 and the BLM and State Parks were there trying their best to defeat the mine. Using watershed, pristine water in a couple of creeks, etc. We beat them but they never go away. Just as global warming became climate change, the left changes the names but the players are all thesame. Blueways, oh how pretty.
Posted by: Todd Juvinall | 09 July 2013 at 09:01 PM
Dr Rebane: My, your latest writing has a nice smooth flow to it. Nice beat and quite rhythmical. You are developing into a good writer. I wanted your post to continue, but alas, all good things come to an end.
Every so often each American President steps out and proclaims they will end waste, fraud, and abuse in Washington and make it a "smarter" government. Lean green mean government machine.
Well, leaner?, never! Meaner is more like it....meaner and fatter. So fat that government looks more like a beached blue whale than one of those ladies that Richard Simmons cares deeply about. And just as worthless as a rotting carcass on the beach. Can't move it, can't bury it, can't blow it up....what to do with a bloated beached whale during the summer time? What to do, oh what to do?
http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2013/02/20/Why-Obamas-Pitch-for-Government-Reform-Hit-a-Wall.aspx#page1
There is a new office in Obamacare. Good pay. Many employees added. They don't do a thing about health insurance. Nada. What they do is go around and make sure there are enough minorities hired in government who are working on Obamacare. Many regional offices. So, someone gets paid with a large staff spread throughout the amber waves of grain to make sure those who are actually working on administrating Obamacare are of the right color?
No, Obama can only tweak the edges. Being a Federal employee is cool again. Screw the costs. Its for the little people who need health insurance.
Posted by: Bill Tozer | 09 July 2013 at 10:22 PM
Toodles, time to turn the garage calendar. From 1952 to 1953 at least.
Wild & Scenic on the South Yuba has proved to be a huge economic boon. So, doing the economic analysis, you were 100% wrong.
Here's the good news: as I mentioned before, at Burning Man this year there is an art project entitled "The Juvinall." It is interactive, and even you can participate.
We will be adding your faulty economic analysis to the project. The squirrels will be elated I am sure, and the new lever will be labeled "How to Cut Your Losses" which is connected to either a whoopee cushion or a glass of curdled 2% milk.
Posted by: Michael Anderson | 09 July 2013 at 10:41 PM
I still recall how the eco nuts alleged there would be this huge influx of dollars to the county as they gained Wild and Scenic thru subterfuge with a State Senator from the Bay Area. Never happened. In fact the river was shut down after they took over because of some form od algae or other creatures made it unswimmable. Then one of the Board members of the river saviors thumbed their nose at the rules they agreed to and built a huge structure within the "protected area" and so it goes. Only the elite can get away without playing by the rules. But when there are apologists like MichaelA, who attends perverted gatherings like "Burning Man" the left gets away with their hypocrisy. Now you have topay to park at our own river. Soon there will be a charge to use it. What a hoot!
Posted by: Todd Juvinall | 10 July 2013 at 07:49 AM
Todd, the river was closed 4 years ago for about a week to analyze the algae and then it was given the all clear. Man, the things your creakity old mind latches on to, it's amazing.
Michael Funk? Yeah, you might get some traction there. Bob Lickter was looking into that situation with vim and vigor right before he died. But still, pretty small potatoes in the big picture.
Regarding your continued stupid and ignorant comments about Burning Man, it's the biggest large-scale art festival on the planet, with an annual budget approaching 30 million dollars. For Silicon Valley's beau monde, it's required attendance at least once. (They say it brings out their creativity, or something.) The irony is that if you ever attended, you would find many nutcrackers just like yourself: farmers, builders, ranchers, Republicans, shit-kickers, suspender-wearers, all from the local area, who have been attending for years and have come to love the event and bring their own 4-H feel to the various displays.
So, let me just emphasize again that you are complete idiot when it comes to Burning Man, and your comments continue to die in /dev/null (unless I decide to respond, which amuses me to no end).
Lastly, regarding the parking charge at the river, aren't you of the ilk with an opinion that people who use services should pay their own way? Seriously Todd, whenever I read your posts I get a serious case of whiplash. Are you sure you are not the evil twin of Garlic, the guy who fell out of the tree and died on Tuesday? He was designing and ingesting hallucinogens of his own manufacture and I often wonder if you are doing the same.
Or maybe it's something in the waffles at Humpty Dumpty. I dunno...
Posted by: Michael Anderson | 11 July 2013 at 07:37 PM
George, regarding today's update, are you sure you want to associate yourself with WorldTribune.Com?? Let's look at some of today's headlines:
"Obamacare: ‘Fiasco for the ages’ will be one long, fun-to-watch train wreck...Congress passed it, the messiah signed it, and we’re beginning to see what happens."
Seriously? The "messiah?" Hardly journalism.
"‘Home of the gay’: Supreme Court backs cultural Marxists subverting nation’s founding values...The homosexual lifestyle — once considered a moral abomination — is today not only accepted, but celebrated. The results are obvious and pernicious: The creation of a militant secular America bent on eradicating our Judeo-Christian heritage."
Utter nonsense. No big cities in America support this abhorrent garbage. And big cities rule (better stated, magalopoli). Game over in America for those who don't support gay marriage. Anyone who believes this crap written above better start finding a place to move to that believes differently: you are out-voted, you are out-numbered, your ideals have been tossed into the ash heap of history. As I said, the game is over.
"President Barack Obama has launched a drive for a U.S. alliance with the ruling Muslim Brotherhood movement in Egypt, a leading analyst said. Analyst Barry Rubin asserted that Obama has formed a U.S. strategic alliance with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and other countries."
Really? I think not. Obama has been dealing with a shit sandwich that was created by first Bush II, but then also the last 6 presidents going back to Nixon.
I will give you this, George. At this point, the place is so fucked up that sending a huge amount of arms to all of the disparate factions in the Middle East might be the planet's only hope. These bitter and avenging people, who have lost so much for so many generations, might not survive into the 21st century. They are so damaged that it appears there is no hope for them. I hope that is not true, by my instincts indicate otherwise.
Posted by: Michael Anderson | 11 July 2013 at 08:04 PM
Alabama, here we come!
http://www.alternet.org/south-dragging-rest-nation-down?akid=10653.6940.cYrfs1&rd=1&src=newsletter864267&t=9&paging=off
Posted by: Michael Anderson | 11 July 2013 at 08:12 PM
George, I have a final post you need to fish out of the Typepad silly bucket. Thanks.
Posted by: Michael Anderson | 11 July 2013 at 08:50 PM
MichaelA, you crack me up. You defend and attend a mass perversion Burning Man and then discuss my privates at the airport Xray. I honestly think you have a screw loose. There are some good psycho-therapists I hear right here in river city. Burning Man was attended many times by a tenant of mine and I have seen the pictures. It is a perv event, plain and simple.
Regarding the folks that built houses in the "corridor" those same people excoriated others for having done over the past. You can defend those hypocrites all you want but if you do you are the same as them. It appears you are a hypocrite. Parking at the river was free all my life until now that you and your ilk have control. The river was open to all and it was never closed in my memory by algae before the river "protectors" got their law. I see you have no opinion on the State Senator who carried the bill for the Wild and Scenic even though the representatives from this district would not. No MichaelA, you just have it all wrong and you are simply on the wrong side of reality.
Whiplash? I defend things that have meaning for people such as traditions of beauty and wonderment. You are a alien being who has no history in anything.
Posted by: Todd Juvinall | 11 July 2013 at 09:36 PM
Todd, bar none, you are the stupidest person in Nevada County that I have come across. How you ever became a supervisor will have to be left to the historians as they paw the goat entrails.
Perhaps we should allow the dear readers some peace and never speak of each other again? I will agree to that, if you will agree as well.
Posted by: Michael Anderson | 11 July 2013 at 09:45 PM
MichaelA, you crack me up. You are just a little man with a complex against those that succeed. I was elected twice in a district they said I would never win. The people like me, I am honored to have won election and served with some real good people. You have done nothing but like most on the left you call others names then run and hide. What a hoot!
Posted by: Todd Juvinall | 11 July 2013 at 09:56 PM
What a hoot, etc.
Posted by: Michael Anderson | 11 July 2013 at 10:44 PM
I have to share just how well our government employees respect their jobs,
just to screw with someone. I have to admit it, it took some balls.
Now FOX news in the bay should have known they were getting their chain yanked.
“KTVU has just learned the names of the four pilots who were on board the flight. They are Captain Sum Ting Wong, Wi Tu Lo, Ho Lee Fuk and Bang Ding Ow,” the anchor said. “The NTSB has confirmed that these are the names of the pilots on board flight 214 when it crashed."
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/07/12/watch-local-tv-news-station-gets-punked/
Yes,, the NTSB confirmed and apologized for the idiot.
Posted by: Walt | 12 July 2013 at 07:50 PM
Walt 750pm - This is really hard to believe. Just got back tonight from the NC Air Fest where these names were going around as something from a joke email. Had no idea that the joke was started by an NTSB employee. But it's hard to believe that no journalist or news editor picked up on the joke before putting it on the air. Is this a new low for the profession?
Posted by: George Rebane | 12 July 2013 at 10:01 PM
New low for Man Hung Lo
Posted by: Bill Tozer | 12 July 2013 at 10:12 PM
If you thought this was wild, there is a Chinese restaurant I know of
that has put together a menu using the same uh,, wordage,, and lets say,, for "adults only".
I wish I saved a copy of that menu.
Posted by: Walt | 13 July 2013 at 10:13 AM
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/farmers-raisin-hell-over-raisin-133020135.html.
Just a coincidence, nothing more. Why people are cynical about their government is a great mystery.
Posted by: Bill Tozer | 04 September 2013 at 08:51 AM