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Sunday, December 27, 2020
California... 02
Every year, California enacts new laws, and every year, those new laws have an increasingly leftist tilt. This year is no exception, and the new laws couldn’t happen at a worse time.
California is one of a handful of states that enacted extreme lockdowns. Ironically enough, just as King Canute could not stop the tides (and was wise enough to know it), California’s spectacularly foolish leadership thought that it could halt a virus. It could not. All it did was delay the inevitable. The result is that, while the rest of the country is recovering from the Wuhan virus, California is getting battered and is now one of the world’s hot spots.
The lockdowns are wiping out restaurants, gyms, hair salons, and small retailers. Meanwhile, the big stores into which California consumers are being funneled (and, not so coincidentally, that make big political donations) are doing just fine. The state is becoming medieval, for the middle class is getting wiped out. There are the rich, the poor, and the government.
Many of the new laws going into effect on January 1, 2021, will pick up where the lockdowns left off, further destroying the economy and, along the way, increasing racial and sex divisions. The San Francisco Chronicle has a list of the more consequential laws, although the sheer volume of statutes in California means that everyone is almost certainly an unwitting scofflaw every day:
Because nobody knows better how to run your business than the government, the state is going beyond the requirement that publicly held companies with California headquarters must have a woman on the board of directors. Henceforth, the board must also have one person from an “underrepresented community”:
That person can self-identify as Black, African American, Hispanic, Latino, Asian, Pacific Islander, Native American, Native Hawaiian or Alaska Native, or gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender.
This is less of a problem than it appears because large employers in California are filled with college graduates. College graduates are the avatars of identity politics.
California’s taking racial stands. California was never a slave state. Additionally, less than 6% of its population consists of black people, none of whom have been enslaved or have ancestors who were slaves in California. Nevertheless, under AB 3121, California must look into paying reparations for slavery.
Racial obsessions are penetrating the justice system. The California Racial Justice Act says that, if a suspect can show racial bias, that may entitle the suspect to a new trial or different sentence. Remember that, just the other day, a snow-white Virginia judge announced that pictures of other white judges on the walls of his courtroom constituted racism.
For more impingements on the criminal justice system, AB 1196 bans chokeholds and carotid holds. Done right, these holds are less violent than tasers, batons, or guns. Police will be more vulnerable to violent or resistant criminals and more likely to resort to extreme measures to protect themselves and others.
If you’re young, you no longer need to worry much about the concept of “don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time.” Senate Bill 823, which goes into effect in July, closes California’s juvenile prisons. (When I was in junior high, our vice principal routinely warned us to stay out of “juvie.” Most of us did.) Local facilities will allegedly take on the load.
For decades, California has been a national leader. Trends that begin in California end up in the rest of America. That’s an unnerving thought when one considers that California has essentially hit the self-destruct button. We’re just watching the countdown to detonation.
Tuesday, December 8, 2020
Wesley says... 034
3) Let's have a DO OVER. May the best bio-robot/clone/cyborg being win!
4) I'm living in a world where billions live under a 7th century barbarian desert cult's mobsters' revelatory decrees, and Han Schwab-ist/Darth Vader 30th century Live-on-Mars HooHa technocrats. Distressing, really.
5) The Government is here for our own best interests. Huh?
6) NFL - Five oxen with a chariot driver and 5 Smithers vs. 5 gorillas and 6 passive-aggressive ex-cons.
7) When I say, "Dr. Fauci", does it elicit a sense of trust?
8) "Up your nose with a rubber hose!" seems fitting these days.
10) Some people do "Wake Up", but prefer to stay in their pajamas.
Friday, August 21, 2020
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Sunday, August 16, 2020
Not So Odd
POSTED ON AUGUST 15, 2020 BY PAUL MIRENGOFF IN CRIME
THE “ODD MIX” OF CHICAGO LOOTERS
The Chicago police arrested 43 people who participated in the looting spree along the city’s Mag Mile earlier this week. Who were these looters?
According to the Chicago Tribune, they were “an odd mix of peer-pressured college students, out-of-work parents, and convicted felons.” It would be interesting to know how much time the convicted felons had served, and for what crimes. Their looting could be another product of America’s under-incarceration problem.
Ostensibly, the looting was a response to a police shooting in the Englewood neighborhood. Yet, according to the Tribune, none of arrested looters was from Englewood.
In fact, no one who made a statement in court upon being arraigned even mentioned the incident. Not only was the police shooting a pretext for the looting, it was so far from the looters’ consciousness that they forgot to mention it.
The prevailing motive of this “odd mix” wasn’t “police brutality,” it was the desire to snatch free stuff and, at least some cases, to smash things. In other words, envy and resentment, not “social justice.”
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/08/the-odd-mix-of-chicago-looters.php
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Wednesday, December 11, 2019
Hershey Squirt*
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The 2 dollar dictators are relying on two pronounced human weaknesses or flaws that exist in a great many people. The first flaw is that many people lack any real sense of meaning in their lives. I know this is perverse, but way too many people gain a sense of personal importance by snitching on their fellow human beings. This helps to temporarily alleviate their lack of true self-esteem which is gained by genuine personal accomplishment. The snitch feels he or she is accomplishing something by tattling on a fellow human being. The second flaw in a great many of today's Americans is their lack of understanding of the concept and philosophy of structured liberty. They see nothing wrong with government mandating that healthy people must stay at home, or wear masks in public. Washington. Jefferson, and Madison all realized there are places government must not go, if men are to live in liberty. They would be aghast at both what is being done at the state and local government levels in regards to this pandemic, AND to the ACCEPTANCE of the state and local governments' dictatorial actions by a large segment of the citizenry.
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McCormick Place hospital’s cost to taxpayers? $1.7 million per patient. How the deal happened.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s aides defend her push for little-used coronavirus hospital built by Walsh Construction as important ‘insurance policy’ at a time of ‘immense emergency.’