Scattershots – 11oct19 (updated 13oct19)

George Rebane

Nevada City mayor Reinette Senum calls for the “dismantling” of PG&E during the windless Wednesday night protest in front of city hall.  “During the protest Senum questioned PG&E’s decision to shut off power, saying that although she supports the move in cases of extreme weather, it should proactively turn it back on when that weather doesn’t materialize.”  Whadda concept!  She got a bit lost when she advised us that “anything that we’re dependent on – water, power, banks – should be owned by the public.  PGE is already owned by the public about as much as it can be – public company and public monopoly.  But her and my bottom line is that today’s policy of power outages is not a solution to anything.  And did you notice the full page ad by the PGE workers union in today’s Union?  It basically said ‘don’t blame us for the butt stupid political decisions to turn off the power when dangerous winds don’t materialize.’ (more here)

Stupid people should not use wild rivers for recreation.  One woman who spent a night on a rock in the South Yuba from which she could have easily waded ashore, according to the incident commander, required two helicopters and a rescue team to hike in to get her off the rock.  I hope the Washington fire department at least got some training out of that woman’s idiocy.  The rest of her party were no brighter between the ears.  They drove a two-wheeler off road into the brush to their illegal campsite and got their truck stuck.  That was an extra task for the rescue team in order to get them out of there.

Sen Lizzy Warren continues to promise her intent to “remake capitalism”, and is drawing the support of big corporatists who see her socialism as the easy way for big established companies to use government to stifle competition.  It’s a good bet to make on the coming election – all upside, no downside.  An early action to endear them to a lot of people is their current amicus brief filing to SCOTUS opposing the President’s bid to rescind DACA, and maintain that Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act can be used to protect LGBT workers.  None of the worthies running these enterprises remember Lenin’s observation of capitalists ‘who will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.’

Government enforced green policies will grow the economy is the oft-heard progressive refrain on these pages and across the land.  More sober assessments note that, for example, subsidized EVs still make up only 1% of the car market of which 100% of them are sold at a loss to the manufacturers according to the auto industry.  No one here is saying that EVs will not be the desirable mode of personal transport when batteries finally become sufficiently capacious and cheap enough to make such vehicles for a profit that people will buy.  That day is not here yet.

[Later]  Sorry to see FN's gay, progressive afternoon news host Shepard Smith leave the network.  He was one of the major figures in otherwise right-leaning network who was unabashedly leftwing, and thus gave proof that FN was not at all like the lamestream and Dems like to characterize it as the network for xenophobics, homophopics, and neo-Nazis.  Although,  I wish that Smith would have been given an opinion hour to compete with the likes of Hannity and Tucker Carlson, since he almost always slanted his news delivery into an opinion piece more akin to what MSNBC would offer.  Now we have Bret Baier left as the mid-road news stalwart, and Chris Wallace as their liberal senior Sunday pundit doing weekly wrap-ups.

[13oct19 update]  Millennials are fleeing big cities and moving to America’s small towns. (more here)  They’re doing it for all the right reasons, and in many ways imitating Venezuelans fleeing their cities and even their country because of how years of socialism under Chavez and Maduro has brought a once rich land to its knees.  Today one of our most prominent Democrat anti-American congress critters, socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, has upped here ante to make the United States into a proto-communist country with her new bill ‘A Place to Prosper Act’ (HR4508) which has become the first legislation for her overall ‘Just Society’ program.  The details of this act promise to pauper the country – that is always the way of the Left, their programs promise prosperity and deliver poverty.  Important to note is that Sen Lizzy Warren endorses AOC’s latest insanity.  (more here and here)

Comments

[scenes]

re: Ms. Reinette

lol, she just loves that podium.

Problem, heavily regulated 'lectrik company is a monopoly. Solution? Have the government run it. and then important science news about smart meters, 5G, probably vaccines/crop circles/chemtrails.

Is this great or what?

Hopefully the crack KVMR news team, assuming that they are on the air after their D cells ran out, can explain just why progressives should run matters. Any interesting idea will be considered (town ownership of local 'lectrick distribution? backup power requirements for gas stations? pedal powered generators at the bars?), but Trump Russia collusion will still be the order of the day.

It's no surprise to me that the English forgot how to make good pottery once the Romans left, there's never any guarantee that civilization swings in a perpetually upward arc.

[fish]

Posted by: scenes | 11 October 2019 at 01:53 PM

You sir have an acid pen.....AND I DIG THAT ABOUT YOU! Welcome back!

[fish]

Question O' the day......

If democrats are against fossil fuels why do all of their kids work for Ukrainian gas and oil companies ?

Carmine Sabia
@CarmenSabia

[Barry Pruett]

Reinette was right. This whole thing is not what it appears to be.

[L]

Shep lost my respect with his disgraceful public breakdown over hurricane Katrina. The lament about cannibalism in the Super Dome did it for me...

[Walt]

Now how bout rounding up some of the homeless to help clean up their own mess? Is that too much to ask?
https://www.theunion.com/news/glenbrook-basin-clean-up-set-for-saturday/

It's not like they have somewhere important to be.

[Walt]

Will the next mandate from Gavin Nuisance be required backup power for all new construction, right along with all those solar panels?
Has the whole house generator suppliers and manufacturers been lobbying the LIBS in SAC yet? Why stop there? Mandate it for every home, and a fine for those who don't comply.
It's as important as healthcare,,, right?
How can a LIB argue with that?

[Walt]

They never learn. ANOTHER rigged question, this time it's for She who Lies through Teeth.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/12/elizabeth-warrens-viral-answer-at-lgbt-town-hall-sparked-by-hrc-board-member-and-likely-donor/
"The audience member at Thursday’s CNN and Human Rights Campaign (HRC) town hall, who set Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) up for a “viral” answer on faith and traditional marriage, sits on the HRC Board of Directors and has donated thousands to the Massachusetts senator, according to reports."