Ruminations – 9jan18 (updated 11jan18)

George Rebane

If Oprah runs for president in 2020, I guess our progressives will then label her as a “liar” since she has long maintained that she would not run for public office.  You think that standard has application on both sides of the aisle?  Nah, neither do I.

The Dems and their El Salvadorean (et al) ‘temporary’ aliens have adopted Lucy’s argument for Charlie Brown to kick the football again.  Just let us in to stay for a while to get relief from the crappy situation in our own land, and we’ll go home peacefully when our time is up.  But now, ‘Oh, look at all the kids we’ve had and how much we enjoy it here, and we can’t go back home now because it’s still too crappy there.’  How many times does that vote-buying amnesty football have to be pulled before the Repubs wise up and not play that game anymore?

Our own Russ Steele has a piece (here) in the 9jan18 Union advocating broadband in which he points out “Communities with high-speed internet grow faster than those with just limited broadband access, according to studies.”  I think he’s identified why Nevada County is adopting broadband, cell reception, and other growth inducing technologies at a snail’s pace, and it might just have something to do with flying in tight formation with Agenda21.

The Union published the names of its new editorial board today (here).  And I’m pleased to point out that my bride Jo Ann made the cut.

It turns out that all those pro-capitalist Republicans in Congress are piss poor at marketing their new tax reform law.  On social media we have the Repubs’ “#2059More” vs the Dems’ “#GOPTaxScam” – I kid you not, more here.  Some people should apply for a full tuition refund for their MBAs in marketing because their schools didn’t teach them anything.  Meanwhile prune-faced Pelosi continues unabashedly to publish her lamestream-ignored and widely accepted lie, that the new law would “raise taxes on 86 million middle class families.”

In the Stats for Fun’n Profit Department we see that California’s unemployment rate of 4.0% beats the national 4.1% rate.  As a lifelong practitioner of the mathematical arts, it is always amusing to see how you can mangle squigglies until they yield the desired answer, no matter how mind boggling.  We recall that one third of the country’s welfare recipients live, and are apparently gainfully employed, in the Golden State (natch!).  BTW, Nevada County's unemployment is reported at 3.4%, go figger.

[10jan18 update]  The 10jan18 Union published a letter from its former editor who again duns columnist and RR reader George Boardman.  For some years now the FUE has been on a rag about Mr Boardman, who on that same palette is joined by several others like cartoonist Bob Crabb, the Union’s management, and even yours truly just to underline a point.  The letter itself drips of the journalist’s trademark pettiness (here), and its publication for all to see explains the newspaper’s tongue-in-cheek for letting light shine on its number one critic ensconced in perpetual high dudgeon.  Sweet.

Former CA criminals who can’t get a liquor license are now being encouraged by Sacramento to become “Marijuana Entrepreneurs” and start selling pot under the state’s new legalized MJ law.  Jason Riley details (here) this latest butt-stupid progressive policy to spread social justice and equal opportunity, all that since most of the targeted would-be ‘entrepreneurs’ to receive the state’s latest “affirmative action” benefits are Hispanic or black.

By any measure the IRS is an action arm of the Democratic party.  Now it claims immunity from congressional oversight because (seatbelts please) “its rules lack a ‘significant economic impact’ because they’re ‘derived from’ statutes.”  You can read the details of this latest dose of progressive pabulum in a report by the Cause of Action Institute reported in the 10jan18 WSJ (here and here) where they correctly conclude - This is pablum (alternate spelling). Were it correct, rules from every federal agency would be exempt from oversight, since all agency rules are based in statute. If other agencies adopted this mind-set, it would gut oversight of the regulatory state by the elected branches.

Ever notice the ratio of crappy leftwing vs rightwing policies and proposals?  A short perusal of RR and its comment streams reveals the butt-stupid ratio (perhaps a new public policy metric) to be somewhere between 50:1 to 100:1 in favor of the Left.  The above two entries in this post are just some recent examples from a tsunami of thousands which this country must endure daily.  And also notice when a Republican blunder is encountered, the lamestream and, of course, our local lefty neighbors in these pages go ballistic.  But the constant daily stream of progressive potholes encountered as the country bravely marches into the future is totally ignored in the national media.  Were it not for conservative talk radio, cable news, and rightwing blogs, we’d hear nary a whisper of this silent disaster unfolding.  And some still wonder what are the forces that continue to widen the breach between us.  Some futures are easy to foretell.

[11jan18 update]  Well sumbich, the Princeton Environmental Institute has published its recent study in the prestigious Nature reporting how current climate models (actually called the General Circulation Models) underestimate the effects of clouds on earth’s temperatures.  Even with these findings they still have to tow the party line, but the seams in the ‘Pay no attention …’ curtain are clearly fraying.  I have been among those who for years pointed out that and other weaknesses in the GCMs used by the global warming hysteria mongers.  Now it seems that one of their own is becoming more skeptical of the purveyed ‘science’ that camouflages our knowledge of what’s really going on with earth’s constantly changing climate.  And again, the PEI guys can only assess their particular part of the enormously complex GCMs which are cobbled together by dozens of cloistered specialists each contributing their part to the resulting Mulligan stew.  (more here and here)

Comments

[fish]

….and in furtherance of efforts to anoint President Winfrey.

from drudgereport.com

WOLFF ADMITS: DIDN'T INTERVIEW ANY WH CABINET OFFICIALS FOR BOOK...

Publisher rushing to print million copies...

Dozens more 'resistance' books scheduled for 2018…

Look in the fiction section of your favorite bookstore!

[Don Bessee]

It always ends up this way lefties-

https://nypost.com/2018/01/08/red-robin-will-offset-minimum-wage-hikes-by-canning-busboys/

;-)

[Don Bessee]

It was all fine when 0 was in the WH-

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/01/09/dems-change-tune-on-border-wall-after-backing-barrier-under-obama.html

;-)

[George Rebane]

DonB 1056am - not understanding the basics of business and economics is a curse on both the Left and Right. The Left because it is they who must live with the deficit (but then, ignorance is bliss), and the Right because they always get the blame for the Left's ill-advised policy nostrums.

[Scenes from the Apocalypse]

re: DB@11:13AM

Of course, but it doesn't matter even a tiny bit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7LGoHV3aKs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnOpGI0qRhA

If Trump stood there and read the dictionary in a public address, the cry would be on to outlaw the English language.

This is all politics at it's most visceral and least logical.

Which begs the question, why spend even a second arguing or interacting with the Pelline/Emery party? All it does is pollute this blog and serve the purpose of what is called a 'thread slide'.

Heck for all I know, maybe all of those DACA kids are cute 8 year olds who are also college honor students. You never know.

[Covfefe!]

Now disgraced bozo Joe Arpio is running for senate!!!
Unfortunately you cannot make this stuff up!!!

[Scenes from the Apocalypse]

re. Covfeefefel@12:31

I wondered if he might do that. Cool. He's old, but you do have to admit that he seems remarkably healthy and could easily last the term or more.

I give you Arpaio on the wonders of disciplinary meatloaf.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYc0Mx9Crtc

I'm loving this timeline.

[Walt]

LOL!! The self proclaimed "slave" shows up. Tell us all about that "covfefe". Where did you come up with that?
Yup, On the Daily Caller comments it's "covfefe is my slave name".
Yaaaa.... The DC clean out the TROLL bin? Had to start over?

My kid in Az. is real happy Joe is running.She and the hubby will vote for him.
He sure is better than the crack smokers and embezzlers LIBS elect.

[fish]

Those who say what Punch is loathe to admit…..

LEAKED MEMO: DREAMers Are ‘Critical’ To Dems ‘Future Electoral Success’

Busted you old democrat "Deck Stacker"!

http://dailycaller.com/2018/01/08/leaked-memo-dreamers-are-critical-to-dems-future-electoral-success/

[Bill Tozer]

@2:25 pm

“The memo, co-authored by former Clinton communications director Jennifer Palmieri...”

Boy, the name Jennifer Palmieri keeps leaking out time and time again.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/4364

https://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/clinton-campaign-wikileaks-230822

[George Rebane]

It sure is interesting if we could peer into a liberal mind (1231pm) and find out what in there would call Joe Arpio(sic) a "disgraced bozo".

[George Boardman]

When Trump was running for president, he said the unemployment number was fake and that the real number was much higher. Now that he's president and the number is at record lows, he takes credit for it.

Sheriff Joe's running for the senate? The next Roy Moore.

[Walt]

Sheriff Joe should do pretty good. The piece of,,,, work that replaced him is doing a real crappy job.( but that's LIBs for ya')
Only illegals and criminals like the guy.( and far Lefties)
Now don't forget it was "O"'s injustice dept. that did the railroad job on Joe.

Now,,, if you happen to search "maricopa county sheriff"
It's all Sheriff Joe.. Just one story(maybe two) of the "new guy".

[Walt]

Hay Boardman!,, Nic to see made it. So what will the bogus charges be this time on Sheriff Joe? What skank will be hauled in front of the press?

As for the unemployment numbers,,, well,, they are using the same stats as LIBS. (U3) I would love to see the U6 dusted off.
Yup, lets get back to using real facts. Not just the ones that help make things look good for elected politicians. ( Most of the elected in Ca. would be tarred and feathered if the real news got out.)

[Todd Juvinall]

Trump is trying to make sure the numbers are judged the same. No problem for anyone as far as I can tell. Sheriff Joe was unjustly convicted and his pardon was totally justified. Not one "fast and furious" oBamaite ever got as bad a treatment as Sheriff Joe. And there are not "sexual" harassers allegations like there was with Moore. Now we see Stan Lee, the 95-year-old creator of Marvel comics getting hit with harasser charges. Way overreach by the shysters. Anyway, America is so amazing that people like Boardman and me can see the same thing and come to 180-degree different conclusions and no one goes to jail. LOL!

[Don Bessee]

This should have been posted here-

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/01/09/nyt-freaks-out-employers-prepare-to-compete-for-american-workers-as-temporary-immigrant-work-force-is-sent-home/

Many American businesses are already crying foul, concerned that the loss of foreign workers will force them to raise wages to make jobs more attractive to native workers. Some are even threatening to shrink their businesses rather than raise wages, a classic sign of uncompetitive behavior that economists call “monopsonistic.”

;-)

[Bill Tozer]

Topic: Not really about the temporary alien El Salvadorans as such, but more on the lines of illegal aliens and uneducated, unskilled immigrates in general, many who are illiterate in their native tongue. From 2003, worth the time to listen to the 3 minute audio.

http://www.marklevinshow.com/2018/01/09/former-dem-gov-dick-lamm-on-how-to-destroy-america-3/

[Bill Tozer]

Ok, are you ready for Your Oprah Fix?. “Not in it to lose”

https://youtu.be/GZpMJeynBeg

[Don Bessee]

Anyone surprised?

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/01/10/migrant-controversial-teen-love-documentary-childrens-tv-channel-adult/

;-)

[Scenes from the Apocalypse]

re: DB@12:27PM

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/10/swedish-dentist-reveals-80-migrant-children-actually-adults-fired-now-may-lose-home/

although it's hard to beat this picture from (I think) Sweden:

https://i.imgur.com/Qf19lOB.jpg

Given the craziness of the modern Green Libertarian, my favorite situation had to be this one:

http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/sport/327002/nz-transgender-weightlifter-creates-history

[Scenes from the Apocalypse]

re: BT@10:51PM Dick Lamm audio clip....

It's a good find, but no different than digging up anything else from prior politicians on the matter. It'll either be forgotten (like the Obama or Clinton video clips) or they'll be viewed as heretical creatures of their age.

I wonder sometimes where the modern tendency to xenophilia came from. About as close as I can think of might be the style in mimicking European fashions in China or Japan at the turn of the last century, although there was no love lost for Englishmen in those places. I'd truly love to hear a member of the Pelline/Emery party justify mass immigration from the third world, at least in phrases that don't involve the word 'Nazi'. Given that neither one (assuming they are different people) ever try to actually make a case for anything, it's probably never going to come up.

It's hard to avoid the opinion that there are two types of people, nationalists and extinct. Counter-examples are always welcome.

[George Rebane]

Scenes 113pm - "... nationalist and extinct." An interesting binary indeed Mr Scenes. Flies in somewhat proximal formation with Rebane Doctrine's prescription that multi-kulti rarely if ever works - the dominant culture always winds up reducing the others to insignificance. For 'rarely' one can cite Switzerland, and theirs is a unique form of governance that allows territorial separation of the three dominant cultures. Starting from where we are, that is not a reachable endpoint.

[Scenes from the Apocalypse]

Post Napoleonic Switzerland is an interesting case. I've never lived there, but have the feeling that they work very hard at sharing a common culture and civic life (perhaps universal conscription aids in this) which even overcomes the language differences. Dunno what it'll be like when the country has a couple of hundred more years built into it.

It seems to me that nationalism doesn't have to be necessarily based on any kind of perfect homogeneity. It's probably enough to feel a medium-strong sense of community combined with a very powerful external threat. That's a likely cause for the formation of Russia for example, that is to say the presence of steppe tribes forming an existential threat.

In any case, Team Blue seems to be formed of people who possess the opposite of nationalism. I honestly can't think of a historic analogy to this. The case of Alaric really isn't one you should ignore.

[George Rebane]

Scenes 138pm - Agreed on the requirement for "any kind of perfect homogeneity." But the Swiss have come to see themselves as three harmonious cultures bound by a strong confederacy that regionally covers their mountainous redoubt wherein each two see the remaining one as a critical member of a stable three-legged socio-political structure.

And yes, what the Left is forging in America does indeed prepare the country as an inviting conquest. Without much difficulty one can count two, perhaps three, Alarics awaiting their opportunity.

[fish]

NOOooooooo…….The Narrative…….what of The Narrative?

SKorea president credits USA for talks with North…

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jan/10/moon-jae-south-koreas-president-credits-donald-tru/

[George Rebane]

fish 333pm - Well, of course. Until Trump started pointing out the size and reliability of the countries' respective "buttons", we had 25 years of the same ol' same ol'. And all the wizened Washington wags were advising another dollop of Einsteinian insanity as the way forward with the fat kid.

[fish]

Your double entendre laden headline of the day…..

Huma Can't Give Up Weiner; Divorce Called Off…

While theirs is a marriage of obvious "Clintonian" dignity I'm pretty sure that wiener isn't, but immunity from spousal testimony is, what Huma is interested in!

[Bill Tozer]

Mr. Scenes from the Apocalypse:
1) Dick Lamm’s text and clarity on point #8

“Lastly, I would censor Victor Davis Hanson's book, Mexifornia. His book is dangerous. It exposes the plan to destroy America. If you feel America deserves to be destroyed, don't read that book."

http://www.safehaven.com/article/4837/how-to-destroy-america

2) Sweden you say, or was that Switzerland? The definition of disappointment is when you thought you picked up a fine open minded Swedish lassie on Friday night, only to discover later she said Swiss, not Suede. Old joke, probably over most Puritains’ heads.

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/01/10/switzerland-rejects-citizenship-bids-residents-welfare/

[Don Bessee]

Guess what? Pink pussy hats are racist, sexist and genderest!

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/01/10/pink-pussyhats-why-some-activists-ditching-them/1023061001/

;-)

[Russ]

How the American Education System Suppresses Critical Thinking
By Joe David in the Observer

In an article entitled, “Undoing the Dis-Education of Millennials,” the author, Adam MacLeod, an associate professor at Faulkner University’s Jones School of Law, summarized his observation of his students. “For several years now my students have been mostly Millennials. Contrary to stereotype, I have found that the vast majority of them want to learn. But true to stereotype, I increasingly find that most of them cannot think, don’t know very much, and are enslaved to their appetites and feelings. Their minds are held hostage in a prison fashioned by elite culture and their undergraduate professors.”

[,,,]

I once called government education a multi-billion-dollar racket. In truth, it is more than that. It has become a propaganda machine used by the establishment to strengthen its political base with the next generation of voters. By weakening learning with unsuitable programs and creating academic chaos in the process, it has widened the opportunity for teachers who may have a particular political bent to indoctrinate students without accountability and prepare their students for a new world order.

http://observer.com/2018/01/american-education-system-suppresses-critical-thinking/

[Russ]

Higher Education Is Drowning in BS

By Christian Smith JANUARY 09, 2018

I have had nearly enough bullshit. The manure has piled up so deep in the hallways, classrooms, and administration buildings of American higher education that I am not sure how much longer I can wade through it and retain my sanity and integrity.

Even worse, the accumulated effects of all the academic BS are contributing to this country’s disastrous political condition and, ultimately, putting at risk the very viability and character of decent civilization. What do I mean by BS?

The BS list is rather long, check it out here.

https://www.chronicle.com/article/Higher-Education-Is-Drowning/242195/#.WlYPZRqyBPg.facebook

[ScenesFromTheApocalypse]

re: Russ @5:54/6:49

Dude! Get with the program!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2018/01/09/why-social-justice-warriors-are-the-true-defenders-of-free-speech-and-open-debate

In any case, the Green Libertarians will fight to the death to maintain control of schools. That toolkit, along with ownership of MSM and mass immigration from the Third World, is a completely essential source of power for bringing down Western Civilization. Now that they've added the social media monopolies, as evidenced by this last election and aftermath, I expect that victory is in the wind. The Trump victory was a bit of defeat snatched from the jaws of victory and likely explains the craziness, partly due to it's being so unexpected.

I sometimes think that Skynet will be our only savior from the Pelline/Emery party. It's a great unknown, but anything is better than living in a metastasized version of Evergreen State College.

[George Rebane]

Russ 649am - Thanks for these updated epiphanies. While useful in general, I can't help wondering where these worthies were twenty years ago when the country's anti-intellectual disease was already epidemic in our schools. For longtime RR readers this has been a constant theme in these pages for which I have taken much heat from those who promote a dumber and more politically compliant America.

[Bill Tozer]

A short piece on education by Walter E. Williams

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/53321

In related posts,

https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1235746259892742/?type=3&theater

Critical thinking:

https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1234590740008294/?type=3&theater

[Bonnie McGuire]

Russ you probably remember some of us used to write about it in the Union all the time. Our country took the Soviet Unions recommendation on how to remake America from within via the education system....public education, and the media. As always those that notice and speak up become great targets for those throwing rotten eggs. Same o scenario recorded by archeology, history and predicted by prophets over and over. Kind of like a time capsule where we're all getting an education, and eventually take the test before graduation...Ya know, like in the days of Noah and Lot? I've been fortunate to have known many interesting individuals (during my life) who shared their experiences and education. Here's one that caught the attention of my professor at Writers Digest School...who couldn't wait to find out more about what he didn't realize. (Follow the links within.)
http://www.mcguiresplace.net/Stories-Random%20Thoughts-Treasure%20Hunting

[Russ]

Bonnie @06:10 PM Interesting story. There is a lot we have yet to learn about our ancient history. It seems like every new discovery raises more new question than answers.

[Russ]

Bonnie @06:10 PM Interesting story. There is a lot we have yet to learn about our ancient history. It seems like every new discovery raises more new question than answers.

[Russ]

In support of PEI Findings in the 11 Jan Update

485 Scientific Papers Published In 2017 Support A Skeptical Position On Climate Alarm

During 2017, 485 scientific papers have been published that cast doubt on the position that anthropogenic CO2 emissions function as the climate’s fundamental control knob…or that otherwise question the efficacy of climate models or the related “consensus” positions commonly endorsed by policymakers and mainstream media.

These 485 new papers affirm the position that there are significant limitations and uncertainties inherent in our understanding of climate and climate changes, emphasizing that climate science is not settled.

http://notrickszone.com/2018/01/04/485-scientific-papers-published-in-2017-support-a-skeptical-position-on-climate-alarm/

[Don Bessee]

The deep state in action-

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/01/13/moby-claims-cia-asked-him-to-post-about-trump-and-russia.html

;-)