George Rebane
Here on Hind Tit Road our power went out on 27 March for the second time and has been out since. I scheduled an immediate delivery with Amerigas when it first went out on 21 March and was promised delivery during the next two days – nothing. Numerous calls to their call center allowed me to talk to a bunch of east Asians who had been taught carefully to lie to their customers – all the way up from the supervisors to their ‘Dispute Resolution Center’, and all of them were expert at bullshitting their customers. The entire company appears to be fashioned on ignoring customer fulfillment needs, and responds only to internal convenience. Finally, yesterday as heavy snow again began falling, a marginally competent Amerigas driver shows up with our propane delivery. He goes on to make difficult the simple job of pulling up next to the tanks and filling them. But now we have several more 24/7 days of running our faithful 24KW Generac. Time order more tomorrow, and install another 500gal capacity when the snows stop.
Meanwhile, PG&E makes spam calls to their customers claiming to inform on latest estimates of power restoration while saying nothing of the sort – we have been totally in the dark, figuratively and literally, as to when a semblance of normalcy will return. Rumor has it may be tomorrow. This what passes for meritorious and competent service in today’s big corporation America.
[6mar23 update] Central control of everything by teams of experts. The Pacific Legal Foundation has released the documentary video ‘Trust Us’ that takes America through the history of bureaucratic control during the administrations Teddy Roosevelt all the way to the present day. It makes clear that FDR did nothing to shorten the Great Depression – he lengthened it and made it more severe – and that LBJ’s Great Society spawned a scourge that is still with us and has worsened all of our lives.
There is nothing in this telling that will be understandable to today’s progressives, especially of the woke-bent. These people are terminally ignorant willing believers, ready to hand their fates, fortunes, and futures to the administrative state run by faceless technicians claiming expertise of which they have none. But then again, there’s the off chance that watching the video …
[8mar23 update] Power finally came back on today at 1530. It went out at 2350 on 23 February, and the Generac has been running 24/7 ever since, consuming 2-2.5gal/hr from a 500 gal tank that was topped with 186 gal refill in the interval. Turns out the break came from one of our old oaks falling across the power line on our neighbor’s property on the other side of the fence that separates us – of course it took out a section of the fence. Several other trees also came down in our forest. Time to buck them and stack them by the splitter ready for another season or two of firewood. It ain’t cheap.
Peeking Into Progressive Minds
George Rebane
As most RR readers know, the Rebanes have been in local leftwing crosshairs for some years now. Jo Ann’s prominence in Republican circles - Nevada County Republican Central Committee, President of Nevada County Republican Women Federated, ... - and her long hitch on the Union’s editorial board have reserved for her a regular ration of opprobrium from our Left. In today’s (29dec22) Union she garner’s the paper’s Hits & Misses column headline – ‘Miss to Rebane’s comment on immigrants’. Thereunder reader Richard Howell writes, “To Mrs. Rebane’s comment (12/23) ‘… five million illegals and hundreds of thousands of known got-a-ways(sic) invade our country?’ Actually, 5+ million were intercepted trying to cross illegally into the U.S. Perhaps next week she can write a ‘Hit’ comment for our border patrol under President Biden.”
Can’t rightly tell whether the man is terminally bamboozled by the lamestream’s misreporting our border crisis, and thinks that the 5+ million were denied entry, or that when illegals are intercepted by the border patrol on our side, they then have broken no laws and it’s OK for them to be turned loose and stay here. And wanting a hit for Biden is beyond ludicrous – the president who has created the most porous border in the country’s history, and is personally responsible for tens of thousands of migrant and America’s drug overdose deaths that continue to mount daily.
Also right below was the following letter from a George Roberts to the editor labeled ‘Misguided immigrant comments’.
I just finished reading Joanne Rebaine’s (sic) hits and misses holiday rant (12/24) about the asylum seekers. She must have special glasses to have spotted specific “sex traffickers, fentanyl dealers and terrorists.” Sort of like Trump’s “rapists and murderers.” I don’t have those special holiday glasses. All I saw were some poor, cold, hungry, scared but hopeful human beings. I think the Christian bible would call them the most vulnerable and precious of god’s children. “Feliz Navidad” to Ms. Rebaine.(sic)
It is clear that Mr Roberts belongs to the country's tens of millions of news nebbishes who don’t have a clue about what’s really going on at our southern border and its follow-on impact across the entire land. The lamestream media has so effectively papered over the ongoing tragedy that it’s coverage and communication to a large population, one with purportedly free speech rights, will be studied for years by anthropologists, sociologists, and political scientists as one of history’s most effective campaigns of large scale propagandized fake news. The Third Reich’s Göbbels and the entire Soviet ‘truth’ nomenklatura were not able to convince even a smidgen of their populations to their versions of ‘truth’ (Pravda).
The dimensions of Roberts’ ignorance are immeasurable. He hasn’t an inkling that the overwhelming share of illegal aliens from all over the world come not as asylum seekers, but only economic opportunists (including criminal) who take advantage of Biden’s abandonment of America’s national security.
But dear reader, we must remember that the final and perhaps greatest tragedy and threat to our republic is that the country is swarming with mind-mangled people like Richard Howell and George Roberts.
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