DANIEL GREENFIELD: THE WEEK THAT WAS PART 2
SURE THING
All the California papers are saying that Jerry Brown is bound to win. “Jerry Brown’s re-election a virtual lock” the San Francisco Chronicle declares.
Why? Because he has an approval rating of 58 percent. And an incredible 52 percent of those surveyed would vote for him.
Republicans shouldn’t even bother running against him because there is no way he could lose. Jerry Brown should instead focus on his presidential campaign. He could run on a platform of letting men in dresses use womens’ bathrooms and a light rail train to nowhere.
Governor Moonbeam may Become President Moonbeam
Kerry Gives $16 Million to Vietnam to Fight Global Warming
GOOD FOR THE BDS GOOSE
It might not be possible to see a bill through in the New York State legislature that would prohibit public funds from being used to in any way fund ASA events or publications… or ASA members and their work.
Considering how much the ASA relies on public universities, such a move might hurt them quite a bit. California would be an uphill battle. But it might be altogether doable in New York.
Fighting the ASA Israel Boycott with a Boycott
PUNCHLINE AT 11
Is Jon Stewart an obnoxious liberal pretending to be a comedian… or a comedian pretending to be an obnoxious liberal?
What’s the difference between a joke and the news? Not much when both have an agenda. There really is no difference whether the clown nose is on or off. except that when it’s on, you aren’t supposed to get offended or react with outrage. It’s all in good fun.
Jon Stewart has spent a long time hiding behind the clown nose. It’s hypocritical for him to complain about anything else doing the same thing.
Jon Stewart Outraged at Megyn Kelly Using his “Clown Nose” Defense
Are You Ready for a Feminist Programming Language? – There is to be no debugging. We need to do away with functional-centric, bugphobic attitudes in programming. You need to accept the program the way it is.
EXPLORE AND EXPLOIT
We’ve chosen not to have any long range plan for exploiting the moon. We’ve even crippled our deep sea mining by allowing the UN to claim profits from it.
Maybe Chinese exploration and exploitation will shake loose a Sputnik event. But that doesn’t seem likely right now. The deeper problem is that unlike our explorer ancestors, we divorced exploration from exploitation.
That was a fatal idealistic mistake that doomed the whole enterprise. It’s not a mistake that China is likely to make.
No, China Isn’t Restarting the Space Race
Is Harry Reid the Manchurian Candidate? – Nonetheless, one reporter did manage to ask what business Reid “expected to get done with a man he had called a dictator.” Neither Hu nor Reid responded.
THE BUCK STARTS AT THE TOP
After Theodore Roosevelt was the New York City police commissioner back in the 1890s and began walking the beat and yelling at corrupt cops, the role of commissioner hasn’t mattered all that much.
Take Ray Kelly, the man shoved out the door by Bill de Blasio as a dirty racist and fascist. But Kelly and Bill de Blasio both worked for the Dinkins administration and its “Have fun, commit crimes” policy.
Now Bill de Blasio is bringing back Bill Bratton… who was Giuliani’s police commissioner.
Why De Blasio’s Bill Bratton Appointment Doesn’t Matter
RISK MANAGEMENT
The old inequities of the health insurance system were logical consequences of how insurance works as a business in terms of managing risk. They were not arbitrary discrimination, they reflected logical and unavoidable differences that are inherent in insurance and risk pools. The inequalities and waivers of Obamacare are government-sanctioned and politically-motivated creations of favored and unfavored classes of citizens. Probably unconstitutional as well
Neo-neocon writes. That’s what happens when you exchange a rational, though occasionally impersonally cruel system, for one that is irrational and personally cruel.
The old system might screw you because that’s the way the world works. The new system will screw you because it thinks you deserve it.
INEQUALITY
Never does Cowan publicly list America’s richest people. Of the top 10 wealthiest individuals in America, three are self-made (Gates, Ellison, and Bloomberg). Of the next 10, four are self-made (Bezos, Page, Brin and Zuckerberg, who is 29 years old). In fact, if you descend down the Forbes 400 list, you will find self-made billionaire after self-made billionaire and few of the Wall Street hedge fund operators and bankers Cowan so decries.
In fact, Cowan’s vaunted income inequality metric has been driven not by Wall Street but by technological innovation and the network effect.
It has given a bright 23-year old the opportunity to turn down an offer of $3 billion for a company he founded just two years ago.
It has given a bright 17-year old the opportunity to sell a mobile app he developed in high school for $30 million.
The left has no response to this except to rant something about white men. Wealth in the United States has to be recreated. The wealthiest men are those who find new ways of making money, whether they inherited it or not. A static business model doesn’t survive in the free market.
You may be able to stay a millionaire if you inherited millions without working too hard, but you’re not going to be at the top of the heap.
A CUR AND ITS VOMIT
Taken as a whole these are the twenty to twenty five percent of citizens that form It’s irreducible base. They will never know anything other than the fable they told themselves long long ago. The truth will be out there but forever beyond their withered reach. If they could know what all the others now know, they would also know how vile their entire life has been; how colonized their minds; how enslaved their souls. And so they cannot know — or allow themselves to know — or permit others to tell them. Like the lost children of Hamelin they will follow their Piper into the cleft in the mountain and the cleft will, in time, snap shut behind them. They cannot be rescued or redeemed. Let them go. They are known as “”dead enders” because, in the end, they are as dead as all their pretty lies.
As for the rest — the ones that know and know that they know or are coming now to know that they know — treat them carefully. It will be like watching many millions slowly awaken to the horror of what they’ve done to themselves and to their countrymen. They will be ashamed of themselves and not a little sickened and weakened from their extended experience with political depravity. Not all of them will make it out of the mire. Some will be unable to bear the knowing and so will return to the unknowing; will go slide back into the muck.
From Gerard Van der Leun at American Digest
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