Why Californians Are Coming Here

10/21/20 Idaho Statesman has an interview with an Hispanic lady explaining that she brought her family here because she no longer felt safe being a Trump supporter in Sacramento.

They may be driving up real estate prices,  but they are not turning the state blue.  

That's the native Idahoans most of whom have never lived under Blue government. 

Sing Along with the Bee Gees: "Tragedy"

12/1/2020 Slate warns that the whole progressive agenda is in danger because Trump's appointees to the Court look unfavorably on the delegation of executive power doctrine, which allows Congress to pass laws without identifying precisely what needs to be fixed and telling the "experts" to make the rules. 

Just think!  Congress might have to think out the details and be responsible for what they do!  You can see why there is progressive panic!

Paranoia Runs Deep, Into Your Life It Will Creep

I was told by someone who visited two different doctors recently that a number of patients have said they will not get the COVID-19 vaccine because of the tracker in it.  

I know microelectronics is getting smaller and smaller, but through a hypodermic needle? What antisocial media started this?

What Language is This Spam?

 I am sure it isn't a Nigerian prince!

Bol by som rád, keby ste mi umožnili prostredníctvom tohto média požiadať o vašu spoluprácu a zabezpečiť si príležitosť investovať s vami vo vašej krajine.

Progressivism Through the Ages

 I was preparing my 14th Amendment class for the spring semester and I was looking for a reputable source concerning Sweden's mandatory sterilization laws (1934-74).  I found this 8/29/1997 Washington Post article:

The victims were young and mostly female, judged to be rebellious or promiscuous, of low intelligence or perhaps of mixed blood. One was a young woman whose priest believed she had not learned her confirmation lessons well enough, another who couldn't read a blackboard because she did not have eyeglasses and was deemed to be retarded.

In the eyes of Swedish authorities, they were misfits in a forward-looking nation, and for that they paid a terrible price: sterilization at the hands of the state, often against their will. From 1934 to 1974, 62,000 Swedes were sterilized as part of a national program grounded in the science of racial biology and carried out by officials who believed they were helping to build a progressive, enlightened welfare state.

8/29/1997 Associated Press:

Like Sweden and many other European countries, Denmark began its sterilization program in the grip of enthusiasm for eugenics, the belief in improving the human race by controlling breeding.

The theory was founded by Sir Francis Galton of Britain in the 1880s. It acquired popularity in the early half of the 20th century, when many nations, including the United States, sterilized people declared insane.

``In Denmark, eugenics was considered an obvious solution to huge social problems,″ Koch said.

The forced sterilization program in Denmark mainly was directed at people who were mentally handicapped, Koch said.

 

Concept: Hokey. Result: Entertaining

 It was a free sci-fi movie on YouTube, so I started it while on the treadmill.  The Enterprise task force is sunk off North Korea.  Someone has mastered stealth technology for a surface ship and a directed EMP.  They are using it to attack U.S. and South Korean targets.  Who are the obvious bad guys?  

Pretty much all of our supposedly EMP-hardened electronics on which our modern armed forces rely no longer works, including our fly-by-wire aircraft.  

Fortunately, the USS Iowa is on a world farewell cruise, headed to a final berth as a museum.  Curators are busy returning it to World War II technology.  EMP?  What's that?  

So why is it sci-fi?  Someone is trying to start World War III to take over the smoldering ashes.  Really great fun, and nice use of file footage and it appears some video games okay simulation of an Iowa-class battleship.

Interesting TV

 My wife and I were watching a history series: The Story of Europe.  The narrator reached France just before things became ugly.  A small number of people at the top living ostentatiously luxurious lives, looting the starving peasants, while convinced of their right to do so.  Both of us immediately recognized the parallels.  A small number of billionaires and decamillionaires and hectamillionaires living large, while the Deplorables often are just getting by, many of whom in their despair are destroying themselves with meth and alcohol.  This increasingly blatant election theft may be setting us up for something as bloody and ugly as the French Revolution, especially if Biden and Beto try to attempt a gun grab as a step to greater tyranny.

Then we watched a marvelously done BBC production of Les Miserables (there is no singing, except the Marseilles).  It captures the desperation of post-Napoleonic French peasantry.  The 1830 Revolutionaries are portrayed as a mix of idealistic college boys, oppressed peasants and workers, and common criminals.

 You are doubtless aware of the famous Delacroix painting commemorating it:

 

 

Watching their street battles with the French Army at the barricades brought to mind several points that may be relevant if things get ugly.

 

1. The larger your group, the more chance that a Javert (the evil policeman chasing the reformed, even virtuous ex-con Jean Valjean) will infiltrate.  Lone wolves are by far the most secure method of operations.

2. Not every ally will be people you would want over for dinner.

3. People you would not expect (even wealthy people who you might expect to be on the other side) may surprise you, in a good way.  I suspect that I am at the low end of the demographic of the average Biden contributor.  People with aspirations for a private jet (or at least a timeshared private jet) but unlikely to get there.

4. Direct confrontation with regular Army is not likely to be successful.  The 1830 Revolutionaries are expecting much of the French Army to change sides.  In America, I would expect National Guard troops to do so; they have been held in contempt by regulars in the Middle Eastern wars, and many are more civilian Deplorables than regulars.  I do think in a real, civil war, many regulars may suddenly lose their accuracy of fire and some may retreat from the field having conveniently left rifles, magazines, grenades behind.

5. Much of armed resistance are likely to be older people with only a few years left, for whom death in battle for a great cause may seem pretty good compared to the evils that old age (70s, 80s, and 90s) visit upon us.  An interesting quirk of the Constitutional definition of treason:

The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason, but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture except during the life of the person attainted.

As I understand that, even if you are convicted of treason, or declared a traitor posthumously, your estate can still be inherited.