George Rebane
Biden on gun control smirked at the notion of guns in civilian hands being effective against a tyrannical government. He cited that any such insurrection against our federales will require disgruntled citizens to have at least “F15s and a few nuclear warheads” to be successful. This is the common hypocritical response of the Left that feared the unarmed 6jan21 Capitol mob as insurrectionists, and then continues to fear a population legally armed with politically-identified “assault rifles”, guns very seldom used by criminals to perpetrate ‘gun violence’. The Left knows and has always known better than anyone else of what an armed citizenry is capable. Bumblebrain now demonstrates daily that he the nation's ‘compleat idiot’ when it comes to governance, history, and human nature.
Rodney King’s ‘Why can’t we all just get along?’ is still an attractive nothing-burger for far too many light thinkers. Mr Ryan Smalley writes (here) in the 25jun21 Union about the “true silent majority” that would be able to ‘just get along’ were they given a chance through a centrist third party on our political scene. Unfortunately, he does not understand the nature of our polarization which involves diametrically opposite futures for America (see ‘Toward Unification’), and believes, that magically, the center will spontaneously coalesce to a collection of commonly supported public policies that its elected politicians will be able legislate, and we will all live happily ever after. These policies will have the magical quality in that they will come into being without any notion of a commonly held or resolved view of America’s tomorrow. As I’ve pointed out ad nauseam, our country is full of such Rodney King disciples who are incapable of understanding the problem and making progress toward a solution.
Juneteenth was sensibly opposed by 14 House Republicans. All of them, including our Doug LaMalfa (here), explained their reasons to their constituents. In a 25jun21 letter to The Union, a history-deprived and poorly-read Dean Olson could not fathom why anyone would oppose Juneteenth as a federal holiday. Reps LaMalfa and McClintock published their most reasonable reasons for their oppositions, which were, of course, both ignored and/or misunderstood by our more progressive neighbors. In its comment stream RR reader Gregory attempted to set them straight. My own views are memorialized in ‘The Joys of Juneteenth’.
SBC job opportunity heads up. The unfortunately misnamed Sierra Business Council is looking for some equally unfortunate individual who is required to have at least a high school education and “min 1-2 years” experience having done a long list of analytical tasks in the energy audit and consulting field. And s/he will do all this for the princely sum of $20-24/hr as a “Planning Technician”. This is less money that most property owners pay for an illegal alien doing weed eating on their property in preparation for fire season. Nevertheless, as a RR public service, interested parties can get more information here and here.
[26jun21 update] Here is that lying SOS Bumblebrain announcing agreement on an infrastructure bill that later he immediately made conditional on the passage of the most horrendous economy destroying tax increases in American history. Have no idea what passes for thinking in that wrinkled melon on his shoulders. This latest Big Lie is a sure fire reason for Republicans to walk away from the whole thing. (H/T to reader.)
[Later] Bumblebrain has no idea what he says into a mic. Apparently his handlers got tangled up with his first message. Now he’s making “perfectly clear” again, this time that he will not hold infrastructure hostage to the humongous $4T vote buying bill of goodies that the Dems want to also pass. But it ain't over yet - the adventures with an addled president.
A rehab that worked. (The following from a correspondent.)
After 6 burglaries, 3 car thefts, multiple illegal trespasses, an ongoing cocaine and alcohol addiction, committing 2 violent home invasions, 3 armed robberies, dealing Fentanyl and Meth, passing counterfeit money, beating 4 victims senseless and being arrested 23 times since 1998, George Floyd hasn't committed a crime in over one year now!
BUT.....IT DID NET HIS FAMILY $27 MILLION FROM THE STATE AND $20 MILLION FROM A GO FUND ME ACCOUNT.
We are one sick country to fall for this scam! Not to mention that our demented President and his VP met with the Floyd family on May 25th, the one year anniversary of his death and Nancy Pelosi, in June, 2020, gave the Floyd family a folded American Flag that had flown over the Capitol on the day he died, as though he were a fallen hero! How SICK is that?
[27jun21 update] The Defense Departments UFO report is essentially a cover-up nothing burger. They told the country that they didn’t know what was happening and what is behind all the sightings recorded by the military from their ships and aircraft. That kind of ignorance from our mainline national security institution is pretty scary in and of itself. So now we’re supposed to remain sanguine about UFOs buzzing our aircraft and ships, and demonstrating kinematics and operational domains unknown to us mere terrestrials. Given the information so far, my assessed probabilities are P(extra-terrestrial) = 0.8, P(terrestrial) = 0.2. ETs have had billions of years to populate our galaxy and/or send info gathering drones anywhere they want. (My take on SETI is here, here, and here.)
[29jun21 update] The Democrats, all of whom are guilty of fomenting the nation’s crime wave with countable marginal deaths that can be laid directly on their feet, have now run out of all excuses for their horrible values and social ideology. Their last gasp is to apply Saul Alinsky on steroids and blame the whole thing on the Republicans. And you know what? Their constituents are sufficiently dense between the ears so that a goodly share of them will actually believe the bull crap now being trumpeted through the lamestream. Maybe some will even come here to exhibit their gray matter. ‘A nation ignorant and free …’
Dark Days Diary – 28jan21 (updated 30jan21)
George Rebane
Quietech in Grass Valley is a very capable local computer service store owned and run by Melissa Hannebrink. The Rebanes have been satisfied customers since Melissa’s retired father established the business. This morning Melissa sent her customers an email that begins with, “I am writing you today with a very heavy heart. As I have shared with some of you, here at Quietech we have endured daily abuse over the past 10 months. By enforcing basic COVID guidelines, there are some who feel their rights are being infringed upon. In addition, we have some who walk through our doors and are so disappointed to find that they aren’t next in line, or that they can’t have their device fixed on-the-spot, that they have full-blown tantrums. These unfulfillable expectations, in addition to the pressures of COVID, seem to be creating the perfect storm for abuse, shockingly even from some of our longest-standing clients. This morning, we had an incident that went too far. We decided to temporarily close to regroup, although the last thing we want is to close our doors and stop helping those in our community who need us.” As the country sinks into its woke-powered autocracy, we will be reminded more frequently than ever that a gossamer thin veil separates civilization from barbarians at the gate.
Welcome to the After-Trump Era. Victor Davis Hanson explains the matter to us in his latest commentary. There he points out, “During the Trump Age, the president was supposedly responsible for every death from COVID-19. Now, the media report that career scientists and health administrators in the federal government, especially at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, were largely to blame for past slow testing, and were tardy and lax in apprising the nation of the infectious threat. … In the new age, expect the media and government to suddenly resent any pushback against a sitting president. Questions about the Biden family’s past multimillion-dollar influence-peddling overseas or Biden’s cognitive ability can no longer be asked. … None will compare the recurring violence of Antifa or Black Lives Matter to that of Islamic terrorists. None will compare Biden, who dismissed Antifa as a mere “idea,” to Mussolini or the Nazis. Any retired officer who smears the president, we will be reminded, would violate the Uniform Code of Military Justice. … The media, Silicon Valley, Wall Street, Hollywood, top retired military brass, corporate America, universities, and professional sports are all recalibrating the truth for our Year One. … In about a month, they will have it down. And soon, we won’t even be able to tell the old reality from the new.”
[29jan21 update] Danny Pearl’s killer is set free by Pakistani courts (more here and here). Pearl, WSJ’s South Asia bureau chief, was kidnapped and beheaded in 2002. Danny’s parents, who have been fighting the Pakistani justice system for almost twenty years, stated “Today’s decision is a complete travesty of justice” that “puts in danger journalists everywhere, we urge the U.S. government to take all necessary actions under the law to correct this injustice.” RR has covered this Islamist travesty in previous posts here and here.
[30jan21 update] Ms Hannebrink has surprisingly taken exception to my above Quietech entry. Her remarks with my reply may be found @1058am in the comment stream. I find it remarkable that she seems to think that I ascribed a political leaning to her remarks, especially when I explicitly declined to do so.
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