and those who are not drunk/stoned but have no clue how to drive here, nor do whty have driving licenses, insurance, etc. Thus when José takes dicey odds and runs that red light and slams into another car loaded with a family and causes severe injuries and totals both cars, there IS no “handle” of responsibility as there is with a legal licensed insured citizen.resident. So M insurance rates rise……
send them back to from where they came. Let them do those things “back home”.
Strange how the weight of their lawlessness and that of the refusal of government to UPHOLD our laws (you know, the ones they swore to uphold and defend when they became government officials ……) throws the door right off its hinges and puts US at higher risk and expense.
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Discussion on City Journal 16 comments
Protecting America from Lone-Wolf Terrorism
There is one more defense you utterly fail to mention, bu coming from the Eff Bee Aye this is no surprise.
Encourage and enable all law abiding citizens to go about their daily activities whilst suitably armed to ensure their own self defense, and or that of innocents around them. How often to we read of someone getting shot to death whilst they are utterly defenseless? As I understand, almost NO ONE can lawfully go about in public in the DC whilst armed…. as is, per our US Constitution, every free citizen’s RIGHT and responsibility. WHY is this so difficult to comprehend…….1 ReplyView in discussion
Discussion on City Journal 40 comments
Rioting Mainly for Fun and Profit
Perhaps… as long as he remains free instead of being arrested for his vile role in the whole charade.
I promise I will not shed one dry tear oReplyView in discussion
(you didn’t pick up on his sarc font, didjya?)ReplyView in discussion
tionicoIvan van Ogre 9 days ago
Yeah, wouldn’ wanna hurt their widdow feewings, now, would we?ReplyView in discussion
Both Portland OR and San francisco had four WalMart Supersores each close up and get outta Dodge because he were losing $$Mns every year due to looting, theft, vandalism, I laughed out loud when I learned that in San francisco the company simply moved what merchandise remained in the store, closed the doors, and walked…… and left the City holding the now-unpaid lease on those four properties. It was the direct result of City government the lawlessness destroyyed those stores. And the City got left holding the empty money poke the lease payments were supposed to fill. I thought that was the closest thing to justice to befall the City o San francisco in many years. The City ended up eating their refusal to do their job. WalMart got to them, to which I loudly cheered……
San francisco scoundrels served up their own supper then had to eat it. Good on ‘em!!! And gooder on WalMart for doing the right thing in the end. They still took a big bath, but got some harsh licks in as they laced up their walking boots and went walking.1 ReplyView in discussion
Discussion on City Journal 220 comments
The “No Kings” Protest Is Pure Fantasy
So, three people showed up, along with two dogs and fourteen cats?3 ReplyView in discussion
Discussion on City Journal 162 comments
Nothing About the L.A. “Protest” Is Organic
tionico2 if by sea 18 days ago
NO ONE is challenging your right to protest. But throwing bricks at PEOPLE, burning cars, etc, is NOT protest. It is war. One is legal the other is not. Let’s see if you possess a sufficient level of intelligence to distinguish between he two. So far you have not done so well with this challenge.1 ReplyView in discussion
tionico2 if by sea 18 days ago
ONEMORETIME what is going on in Los Angeles of late is NOT “peaceful protests”, and no amount of repetition will make it so.ReplyView in discussion
tionico2 if by sea 18 days ago
Reallity check, 2. What is going on in he LA area is NOT “a big protest” it is violent insurrection against duly appointed and functioning federal government agencies DOING what federal law mandates they do. The fact that Dopey Joey Bidung was too busy eating ice cream and taking naps to SECURE our southern boundary does not mean we now must allow those who illegally entered to remain here.
And your association of this criminal violence with what our patriot forefathers did on 18 and 19 April 250 years ago is inappropriate. They had received credible reports of the government’s unlawful plan to steal privately owned property from law abiding citizens and simply moved out to prevent it. That government unlawfully fired upon the people who were breaking no laws. This after decades of attempting to impose unlawful restrictions and taxes upon their fellows.
STUDY our history.ReplyView in discussion
tionico2 if by sea 18 days ago
the donor/purchasers HAD to know about some specific plan to, say, throw bricks at police, line up five deep, all holding identical flags and wearing the identical funny looking hats and teeshirts, else HOW could all that happen at the same time and place and yelling the same slogans/chants?
You sound like you are either incredibly naive or complicit.1 ReplyView in discussion
you mean, when someone orders and pays for a pallet of bricks to be dropped at some random downtown street address where there is no construction project, it can be an indication of someone’s organised plans to USE them for, say, throwing at police? Well, I NEVER……. (not)4 ReplyView in discussion
tionico2 if by sea 18 days ago
Being organised IS not a crime, you are correct. HOWEVER, being organised to COMMIT crime, which is what is clearly happening in this mess, IS a crime and needs to be punished appropriatelyReplyView in discussion
Discussion on City Journal 266 comments
Trump’s Unapologetic Defense of the Rule of Law
I have family and long time friends living in that crazy state….. and even the “liberal” whackjobs amongst them, are glad to finally see the Gabbling Nuisance getting trimmed down a few notches. We had plenty of “wetbacks” in our area, but they were hardworking family folk trying to make their way in life just like the rest of us.
Things have changed for the worse since then. And The Nuisance is an YOOOOOGE driver of the downhill slide been going on for quite a while now. Most of the ones I know still wish him to disappear…..ReplyView in discussion
I remember watching that on the TeeVee set when I was in grade school in California. I killed my TeeVee set in 1972 and don’t miss it, but I think its amusing to see Trump doing the same thing. We had quite a strong Mexican community in my town in Orange County then, and I always loved when their culture was on display at fiestas, cumpleaños in the parques, and weddings.. OH the weddings, feasting, music and dancing….ReplyView in discussion
purchased in large quantities on he cheap by local “organisers” for eye candy to dress the sets for the “reconquista”1 ReplyView in discussion
tionicoCynthia Curran 18 days ago
Is this the same Sheriff who got onto the local TeeVee stations a few times and openly encouraged county residents to come on down and get your concealed pistol permits? He openly declared we NEED honest armed citizens to help as a deterrent to crime.
I don’t know whether many did take him up on his request/offer, but I have observed over time that the crime stats in Riverside and San Bernardino Counties are amongst the lowest in the State. I think only Amador County is anywhere near as safe as these two.ReplyView in discussion
tionicoJonathan Galt 18 days ago
OR the taking of responsibility for their own when gummit fails to do their assigned job.2 ReplyView in discussion
The thing that makes me saddest about Trump’s response to the mayhem is this: we won’t get to watch as a new group of “Rooftop Koreans” take their own security into their own hands, local government “responsible” for said security not being present.ReplyView in discussion
Discussion on City Journal 103 comments
Trump Should Crush the L.A. Riots—with a Subtle Hand
and the above note on “Secret hit squads in unmarked vans” taking part in the game is news to me. NO ONE else I know who was there knew anything about them.
I did hear a few reports of “vans” being used to “fly away” some of the ringleaders who had managed to get themselves into a “tight spot”, called for the escapemobile to quietly ferret him to safety so he could remain free to fight another day. Let’s face it: there was a pretty sophisticated guerilla force in operation during those times. Many of those organisers are now deeply ensconced into Portland’s and Oregon’s political machine now. And many more have helped to rig the elections and voter “registrations” to maximise the illegal voting system. I’ve read of one team that decided to get an eyeballs on look of a “residence” address with some 250 “voters” “living” there. Took quite the search to find it. They observed a derelict mobile home on a few wooded acres near the airport, roof half gone, one side fallen down, driveway so overgrown it was missed the first few attempts to locate. And 350 “voters” “lived” there?
I’ll lay high stakes at long odds all 250+
“residents” still “live” there.ReplyView in discussion
I have lived in the Pacific Northwest since 1980. Vancouver Portland area. I am well aware what went on during the riots. Portland’s worse than useless “mayor” failed/refused o deal with the rioting.. and the fedgov backed down and him rule. The “grand central” of infamy was a federal courthouse in downtown Portland. EVERY NIGHT for over a year there were riots there.. EVERY NIGHT. This was a federal property being attacked. Had I been in charge, I’d have stationed federal troops INSIDE that building. Next night when the assault begins again, they’d deploy and deal harshly with whoever is attacking. Yes, ball, no blanks. The first “hee roes” that fall to the live fire defending federal property would be dutifully observed, and it would not be more than one or two more nights the pool of fools wanting to sacrifice “for the cause” would dwindle to nothing. Game over. I would also deploy Surveillance which would note when new pallets of bricks and frozen water bottles appeared, then source their provenance. Next, WHO PAID for that product to be delivered? Go after THAT one.ReplyView in discussion
This plan stinks like a communist checkpoint at every street corner. No thanks. I not only strongly opposed, I fought and refused to participate in the covid vax records as passports for everything. This is NO communist Cuba.
Wha IS badly needed, and the quicker the sooner, is for the feds to clean up Social Security rolls. How many cards are sill out there and active that are registered to folks over 125 years of age? HOW can this be?
Start with Obama’s card.. his SSN was issued in Connecticut, but ha ha, he never lived there. So HIS card must be a fraud. Get him.. the first of millions.1 ReplyView in discussion
tionicoNick Danger 21 days ago
Nobody “got those rooftop Koreans out there”. They saw the need, and stepped up to do what was obvious.1 ReplyView in discussion
Discussion on City Journal 24 comments
How New York’s Next Mayor Can Make the Subways Safer
tionicoCenterLeaning a month ago
Immigrants are those who went through h process and have come here legally. THEY are not the problem.
Illegal foreign invaders are the ones causing much of the problem. THEY are the ones needing to be loctaed then RElocated back to from where they came.
Now in NYC there IS a serious problem with “the homeless”, some of which also fall into the illegal foreign invader category. But NYC seem to “enjoy” having them around doing what they do, and what they doo-doo.
The “revolving door” in the “criminal justice system” is an YOOOOGE part of the problem. As was mentioned in the piece, the coppers can put the clamps on as many as they want, but when the court takes them back off and says “buh -bye, behave your self now, hear?” they will return to their vomit like the proverbial dog. And no amount of “policing” will change anything.ReplyView in discussion
Discussion on City Journal 38 comments
Blacks Don’t Need Political Saviors
tionicoBevelyn Park a month ago
DO NOT forget about the critical need to keep families intact. Welfare rules mandate separating families. No wonder some black women will bear six children by six different sperm donors. NONE of which will ever lift a finger to help raise or support their offspring. “The system” is functioning as intended. As long as this intent persists, not much will change, unless vor the worse.1 ReplyView in discussion
“,minor” correction
The Dems are NOT “pro immigration”. They ARE pro open borders.
Two different things.1 ReplyView in discussion
I will post two pairs of words, then step back
Thomas Sowell
Vietnamese Boatpeople
Both explode any excuse any black individual or group might pose.ReplyView in discussion
Discussion on City Journal 30 comments
On the Twenty-First-Century Waterfront
Yup Whackyfornia “voters” passed, without thinking much on the matters, two citizens initiatives. One was to bring an end to the Uber/Lyft self-employment game…. must now be employed by someone else and pay yer taxes and withholding. No one ever stopped to consider that would also mandate “owner-operators” hiring out their truck with them as driver to hail freight.
The other citizens initiative mandated that no highway trucks built before I think it was 2011 can operate in California.
Those two laws took about 80% of the truck tractors off the road which is the single factor that caused the shipping crisis back about a year and a half ago. No power units to move that freight. Dummies!!!!!!ReplyView in discussion
I lived in Vancouver BC during the late 1970’s. Containerisation was just coming in. I often drove past the Port of Vancouver and entertained myself observing.
The longshoremen bemoaned their loss of work (so perceived) because when goods arrived from offshore in containers the cans would get dropped onto flatbed trailers and drayed directly to the final consignee and staged at their warehouse dock. . It then fell to the destination to destuff the cans. The can on trailer would be left there for whatever time was needed to unload and stock into their warehouse.
The unions came up with a “brill yunt” makework plan. WE will destuff each can, reload it into a dry van, and let that trailer be drayed to the consignee.
Then along came Sony, the rapidly growing electronics firm out of Japan. Their record of loss incurred in handling their own containers once at their huge warehouse in Burnaby was so low they decided to self-insure. With the unprecedented “brill yunts” of the ILU dock monkeys their loss/damage rate skyrocketed. They went from highly profitable to going rapidly into the hole. They pleaded with the deaf ears of the union bosses. Nope. That’s how we do it now. Pound sand.
then Sony donned their thinking caps and came up with brilliance in spades. The cost to have a can on a chassis drayed from the Port of Seattle direct to their docks in Burnaby was marginally more than what they had been paying before the union “got cute/greedy”. So all their Canada bound goods were then shipped to Seattle. Port costs were lower than Vancouver, by using the Port of Entry to the east instead of the one at B;aine, the time for the dray was further reduced. They were getting their goods still sealed in the can in Japan delivered to their warehouse in Burnaby for very little more than they used to pay going through Port of Vancouver. THEN they did not have to pay the lazy slow shuffling thieving louts to destuff the cans and restuff the goods into highway dry vans. Nor did they have to pay for the round rip dray from Port of Vancouver to their Burnaby facility.
SO the greedy union louts at Port of Vancouver not only did not get THAT work, it did not take long before OTHER consignees read their own tea leaves and made a bunch more truck drivers happy doing the Vancouver-Seatle turn twice a day. It did not take long before the manglement at Port of Vancouver “saw the light” and went back to the earlier “correct” method.
I got a good hearty laugh at the expense of the greedy unions (pardon my redundancy) at Vancouver.ReplyView in discussion
Discussion on City Journal 189 comments
Trump Takes His Biggest Step Yet Toward Restoring Meritocracy
tionicoGuest 2 months ago
I would strongly suggest a long term stint in South Africa. Say, twenty years. Give it lots of time so you can “learn the ropes” well.1 ReplyView in discussion
U have been around more than wice that long, and have never had any issue with that.
I selected a good trade, became a maser at it, and have never had any sense of “threat” by anyone else on the basis of any factor other than the knowledge.skill required to ply that trade. Actually, I”ve learned more than one trade.ReplyView in discussion
tionicoCultural Anthropologist 2 months ago
Ask Thomas Sowell what HE thinks about this “situation”.ReplyView in discussion
Discussion on City Journal 38 comments
Time for a Shift in the “Gender-Affirming Care” Debate
tionicoSamuel Fistel 2 months ago
go back and read the biology again, this time carefully.
The determination of sex happens long before any “fetal development” begins. It happens when that one egg is penetrated by that one sperm. All sperm have only one of two possible types of chromosome. Each sperm has either one X or one Y. The sex of the new life being formed is determined 100% by which one that particular sperm has. If X, female child develops, and will have an XX chromosomal configuration. If Y, then a male child develops, and have XY configuration. EVERY CELL in that child’s body will have exactly the same XX or XY configuration. There cannot possibly be any “spectrum” when there are only two options. Can flipping a coin produce any outcome other than heads or tails? Let me know when you can produce this result consistently. Or even as a once in a million fluke..
The root of this faux “problem” is in the education system. We learned in fourth grade biology the above facts, And we ALL knew which students were male, and which female. NOT ONE of us had any question on that matter. Even in kindergarten.
If our “wonderful” schools actually taught biology instead of fantasy this would not even be an issue today.ReplyView in discussion
tionicoBarry Obummer, Kenyan By Birth 2 months ago
and sometimes the appropriate type of therapy involves vertical grey bars set approximately twelve inches apart.ReplyView in discussion
Discussion on City Journal 86 comments
The Right Is Winning the Battle Over Higher Education
tionicoflowerplough 2 months ago
So? Then let them reap the reward of their folly.ReplyView in discussion
tionicoflowerplough 2 months ago
that last line: that is precisely what Trump is on about. If you are going to continue as you have, you won’t a wooden nickel’s worth of support from We the People.
then let the market do its work. It always does.ReplyView in discussion
You must mean hands up don’t shoot, and I can’t breathe, and the innocent choirboy and his little kerfuffle with that white hispanic chap. right?ReplyView in discussion
its only taken one generation to get here.. I was in university in the 1960’s and while there were hints and whispers of sort of madness it was very far from endemic. It took a few more years of Johnson’s personal war halfway round the planet to take enough of the underpinnings out and enable the freefall we’ve seen since.
I keep catching myself chuckling over the way the one guy everyone feared would make serious progress in setting things right again and thus went all in to prevent his ever coming into a position where he COULD actually DO something about some of it.
They overplayed their hand and made themselves into the south end of a northbound donkey. The very one they loathe and fear has now got the reins in HIS hands. And he has studied careful what makes donkeys tick… and ticked off.ReplyView in discussion
tionicodogfFather 2 months ago
I would too. Don’t forget, he has been in the “university business” a couple of years now, a real ringside seat. He was carefully selected to clean out the mess left behind by the DEI dogs at the school he now runs. He knows too well the condition of the “kennel” which he was asked to clean out and render functional again. He’s pretty well done that in the couple years or so his hand has been on the helm.
He’s also left behind a sterling track record of digging in deeply to assess a given issue when he was still at Discovery Institute a few years further back. His landmark work exposing the whole “homeless industrial complex” and its inner workings is sterling. He was well and thoroughly pilloried and hated by the supporters of that bit of shenannigans. I believe his work will be a guiding light as both of these corrupt industries undergo a through purge of their present practices. Can’t happen soon enough.ReplyView in discussion
Discussion on City Journal 55 comments
In Colorado, “Misgendering” Your Kid Could Lose You Custody
To start, I’d question the neutrality/accuracy of PSU’s biased work. Second, I happen to spend a LOT of time in the area.. and after some years I STILL refuse to go into parts of Portland proper, mos especially on a bicycle, and I have gone everywhere in that whole huge corner of the state on my road bike.. thousands of miles total. . I know of several families who had places there and moved out.. into the suburbs or to Montana.ReplyView in discussion
You’ve not been paying attention to reality in either place.ReplyView in discussion
Interesting that the courts do not uphold the parent who is supporting the REAL reality of sex consistent with chromosomes Instead of “following the science” they follow an empty chimera. And the kids are the ones who bear the consequences in the end.ReplyView in discussion
Discussion on City Journal 46 comments
What RFK Jr. Gets Wrong About Chronic Disease
I will side with Kennedy on this “debate”. I am pushing hard up against the 80 mark. I have taken care how and what I eat these past 40 years, and have stayed physically active all my life This winter I processed about six cords of firewood, splitting it all with an 8 pound maul, Then hauled it all up the hill and insisde to keep the house warm. Haven’t been to the doc for more than 5 years until last month. ALL my bloodwork was well within normal range. .The only health issues I have are in direct result of a near-fatal workplace injury 35 years ago. I still have to work to eat and stay dry. I still wear the same size clothes I wore in high school.
I see what most families have in their shopping carts and see the clear evidence of their poor health causes in the junk food they have in their cart.
All the stuff Kennedy claims are causative of the health issues increasing in the US are the things I have been avoiding in my eating habits for well over 40 years now. I dont eat that stuff, and I don’t have those health problems. I know plenty of others who pattern their food after Kennedys recommendations and are string and healthy.. I also know far more who eat the typical stuff.. and have significant health issues starting in their teens.1 ReplyView in discussion
tionicoWorkingrich 3 months ago
did you see what Medicare DID NOT PAY by shorting the doc that did your eyes? Medicare almos always pays far less than the normal charge for any service. When you get your medicare bill examine it.. and see what the REAL billing was from the provider. Then see what Medicare paid. Typically a small fraction of the real bill, the amount everyone else pays.ReplyView in discussion
Discussion on City Journal 12 comments
The Supreme Court Is Right About “Ghost Guns”
Interesting case out of Chicago few years back.Crime scene, dead people, shell casings and recovered projectiles, but no gun. Examination of the recovered bits yielded no trace data. Some time later, new crime scene. Lather rinse repeat. Except that this time the gun used was proven to be the same one used in the last shootemup. Over the next two plus years, recovered evidence at crime scenes revealed the same gun was used time after time after time. But NO usable trace data. The crimes moved around in the city. several incidents close together, then nothing for a few months, then i would turn up in different neighbourhood.
Then a gun was left behind at a crime scene.. and it proved to be the very one involved in more than two hundred shootings over a few years. It had a serial number on it, which they ran. Turns out that gun had been stolen in a gun store breakin years before and had never been sold at retail.
Serial numbers ONLY work if a given firearm is sold at retail thus linking that number with a given purchaser. There are millions of firearms that have been lawfully transferred yet with no record of transfer that ties the chunk of metal to the one who used it in a crime. Thus that particular gun IS in fact a ghost gun’ because it cannot be traced to the current owner.
What ever happened to the Bruen decision, anyway? Do ANY of these braindead wonks actually believe that firearms during the era of our war for independence from Britain had serial numbers on them? So WHERE is their precedent for mandating them now, and prohibiting sale or transfer without it> I can attest, having deeply studied that period of history, that almost NO firearms of any type were made with numbers stamped or etched upon them. Thus this court breaks its own rules. And further, it was VERY common for normal people to build their own weapons. In fact, very few were made on anything resembling a production line. They were all handmade one at a time. No mumbers were held to be necessary.
Somebody needs to come up to Roberts and ask him “Psssst.. have YOU forgotten Bruen? WHERE is the precedent in history establishing the practice of fixing serial numbers upon firearms?”1 ReplyView in discussion
Discussion on City Journal 71 comments
Trump Must Act to Halt the Tesla Terror Campaign
What have you been taking? Please do tell Must figure out how to can it and sell it.ReplyView in discussion
planned and organised violence againts anything is domestic terrorism. BLM was, the Portland courthouse was, LA freeway blockades was…. and the Tesla car campaign is now.2 ReplyView in discussion
tionicoJerry Abecrombie 3 months ago
have YOU ever watched fedgov ‘workers” actually WORK? I have…. if they were being paid what they were worth, they’d all be standing in a soupline somewhere because no one would pay them enough to live on. The true scandal is that this has been going on in this country’s sorry xcuse of a “government” for generations. Time it was ended.
There is an old country song about “he Wreck of the Tennessee Gravy Train”, about a government boondoggle that was exposed for its fraud and he at cats riding high on that hog lamenting the fact they now have to WORK to EAT. THIS is exactly what is going on now, except that Musk and Trump have blown he air brakes on the gravy train and it is screeching to a rapid halt. About time.1 ReplyView in discussion
tionicoSaipanDrunkenSailor 3 months ago
not the root cause, but without their actions the cause founders.
Thus arresting and incarcerating them will end the problem. No actors, no action. No action no cause.
Yes, get the clowns behind it all, conspiracy, insurrection, whatever fits, but jail them too.
Start seriously questioning those rounded up for the DOING, get them to spill the beans on who is behind it. With a few hundred activists inactivated behind bars with conspiracy charges hanging, a few just might squeal and reveal the ones behind it all. I can guess who one is… name sorta sounts like a REAL overworked and in pain donkey.2 ReplyView in discussion
Discussion on City Journal 52 comments
Trump’s Tariffs Will Have the Last Word—at the Bar
No, when I punched my ticket I very much had 6th january in view. And I punched it for the guy who DID NOT incite that false flag event despite the outgoing losers having so claimed.ReplyView in discussion
tionicoElKitePics 3 months ago
Yeah. I;m waiting for some company to play spoof and switch the numbers, marking stuff “prop 56 free”.
that whole thing is stupid anyway. Whatever happened to the Interstate Commerce Clause, which prohibits any barriers to trade amongst the several states? MANDATING that stupid “notice” on anything that could, should, might, might not, find its way into that ‘sacred” state is contra that law. If I make my special widget in New Mexico and want to ship some into California, they cannot stop me because of the ICC in the US constitution. WHEN will they get their claws clipped?ReplyView in discussion
tionicoCynthia Curran 3 months ago
Trump cannot “force” any company to move anywhere. Not in his bailiwick. He is no king, and YOU should know that.ReplyView in discussion
tionicoCynthia Curran 3 months ago
Maybe the driving factor was to escape Michigan. Then the next step was “where to?ReplyView in discussion
Discussion on City Journal 62 comments
Burn a Tesla, Break Democracy
and YOU are certainly smelling and sounding like that guy… that sucker.ReplyView in discussion
Discussion on City Journal 74 comments
Exporting the Columbia Prototype
How much of Hitler, Stalin, Marx, Mussolini, etc have you actually STUDIED? I have.. extensively. I’ve also read and studied Solzhenitzen. He not only read/studied those guys but LIVED under the fruit of their satanic thinking.
Trump’s thinking is far more closely aligned with Solzhenitzen’s than any of the others mentioned above. I am forced to believe that living under Trump’s ideas will be far more pleasant than under the teaching/ideas of the others mentioned above.1 1ReplyView in discussion
I’d be fine with the universities funding students to their institutions out of their own money. Without providing a solid and USEful education they;ll never be paid back, which would come very close to being justice served.2 ReplyView in discussion
re: your first law:
that conduct goes back as far as recorded history. Read some of the early biblical accounts of men doing precisely what they have been commanded NOT to do, and somehow justifying it in their own eyes. The one place a man is always correct.. until he learns he is not. Some were harshly dealt with along these lines. Some of them learned, others dug in. Nebuchadnezzar comes to mind as one who did get “corrected”. Judas Iscariot comes to mind as one who did NOT get corrected, but rather utterly destroyed. The Jewish high priest and the Roman governor in place became besties the day they colluded to sentence Jesus to death. they thought they had carried it off for some decades…. but things did not go well for them, either . . God sent two Roman armies to Jerusalem, which armies worked well together and utterly trashed the place and everything round about it for miles.. it all lay waste for at least a couple centuries.ReplyView in discussion
tionicoHelloLarry 3 months ago
this ain’t a fairy tale.ReplyView in discussion
Discussion on City Journal 88 comments
Greenpeace Verdict Is a Wake-Up Call for Progressive NGOs
Also look up Christopher Rufos most excellent work, in this publication, relating to the bogus Homeless Industrial Complex’. He spent half a year up and down the Worst Coast examining the situation. Pulls no punches, in typical Rufo style.1 ReplyView in discussion
tionicoFoosball100 3 months ago
Yup. hey wanna be chained to some heavy iron, let them. Now they’ve gone and done it, let them stew in it for a week or so. You grew it, you chew it.
Same with the brilliant ones gluing themselves to the road. Maybe remove jus enough to let traffic pass in one lane, post a notice with name, address, phone number, employer, media handles….. make them (in)famous. After a few days, if they holler just right, scrape them free (no too gently, now….) and jail them. charge with public disturbance, etc, ry ad sentence them. time glued is not part of time sentenced.ReplyView in discussion
Don’t forget to include names, addresses, phone numbers. email, social media ID’s, and employers They wanna be “faymiss”, lets make them unforgettable. .1 ReplyView in discussion
I am very pleased that this verdict come out the way it did. Greenpes have been rogue so long it is past time they get their ugly wings clipped. They illegally adhere to the bogus principle of “by any means necessary”. On WHAT basis do they claim the right to interfere with lawful conduct and operations of a legitimate contractor doing their hired work?
Greenpeas go back a long way with their outrageous and illegal activities. I remember well, back in the late 1970’s, when they decided to protest some nuclear testing in the South Pacific. Bikini Attol, if memory serves aright. They dry chartered a large (100 plus foot) fishing vessel from a fishing company in Vancouver BC. Renamed her the Rainbow Warrior. Some here may remember her. Sailed into the testing area and made a nuisance of their sorry selves. They forced some delays and interruptions by violating the no sail zones around the test area. Our Coast Guard and Navy did not press as hard as they could/should have because of her Canadian flag. When the testing was completed, do you think the GreenPeace clowns refueled her and made the long, boring passage back to north of forty nine? Nah, of COURSE not.
The GreenPeace “righteously” abandoned her, lying to her hook, in some remote corner of he island group, and hooked rides back to BC however they could. The owners learned through other means the whereabouts of their ship. They had not kept the insurance current, nor done any of the agreed upon maintenance. A pair o the owners group flew down to survey their own vessel. She was in such neglect the cost of making her seaworthy for the return to Vancouver was more than he vessel was worth (cost of obtaining parts, fuel, and stores lying where she was was stunning), this not even approaching the cost of survey, reinsuring, refueling, and hiring crew to return her home was well above the restored value of their ship back in Coal Harbour. They endured the total loss of their vessel.
I have had no space for GreenPiss on any level since that incident.ReplyView in discussion
Discussion on City Journal 78 comments
Stop Valorizing Campus Protesters
Nice Shot!!
His book “Basic Economics” should be required reading (and tested upon) for every high school kid to graduate.1 ReplyView in discussion
One significant factor in the NewYork car jackings is that city and state laws, illegal all of them, make it near impossible for the common man to go about armed as is commonly found in nearly every other state. I guarantee that if the next three carjacking attempts result in a dead would-be thief, that practice will end tomorrow.
There is a VERY good reason Donald J Trump no longer lives in that stinking hellhole of a city. I wont go there, ever.1 ReplyView in discussion
Nor are the residents or owners of these vandalised buildings allowed to defend their lives or property. One could justly believe that the vandals are merely an arm of the government.
Of course, just as they did with”The Colonies” of North America, the rulers have totally disarmed their subjects. I say subjects because free men will defend their lives, persons, property, against those who would destroy them.
I remember a few years back when the rioters and vandals of “a certain religious group” were being met with adverse pressure. They took up kitchen knives to defend themselves against the Bobs. So kitchen knives were ordered off the shelves of the stores. OK that’s fine said the rioters. They began mail ordering cricket bats into their areas by the hundreds. The ONE THING he Bobs never did was to cordon off an area and drive the rioters into their rap, then arrest, try, convict, and sentence the lot of them.
“That would not be proper” they said. So I suppose their rioting, mayhem, murders, torchings, were “proper”?
Same thing here. When those invaders took over a large college facility sometime back, police SHOULD have cordoned and blocked all escape routes, tightened their loop round them, and one by one cu and stuff them into waiting police vans, then off to the court docks for arraignment, confinement, trial, conviction, sentencing. They should still be locked up now.ReplyView in discussion
Discussion on City Journal 64 comments
The Supreme Court Should Step in to Curb Activist Judges
Does not the Congress enact laws concerning immigration and naturalisation? And are there not laws, enacted by that Congress, establishing criminal penalties and/or deportation for those who enter our soveriegn territory in violation of those laws? Not to mention too loudly the illegality of the well known actions and activities of these Tren de Aragua foreign invaders…..
They are here in clear violation of duly enacted US Law. Most have engaged in egregious criminal behaviour. ANYONE who has entered our sovereign territory contra those laws IS immediately subject to arrest and deportation. Trump, by arranging this clearly established treatment is merely doing what he swore to do when he took office.
Or would you prefer he do what Dopey Joey the Cabbage did, by not only inviting them IN, but supporting and feeding and housing them by the millions?1 ReplyView in discussion
Siwwy Wabbit…. dontchya know the EXECUTIVE has sole and full authority in all manners relegated to the EXECUTIVE branch?That includes issues like war, invasions, immigration/national security, etc.
further, since the lower courts sit ‘while on good behaviour”, and this is solely left to the discretion of.. the EXECUTIVE, Trump does indeed hold the ultimate Trump card here.ReplyView in discussion
But judges in inferior courts sit “while upon good behaviour”. And this determination lies solely with…. the Cief Executive.
It seems the Trump Man holds the only trump card.1 ReplyView in discussion
Yup.Duly done to give them the left boot of fellowship.ReplyView in discussion
No, their presence here illegally puts them in the position of being illegal foreign invaders. Put another way, combatants illegally invading our nation. Or to put it yet another way, foreign invaders bent upon our destruction. Combatives.ReplyView in discussion
Judges in courts inferior to the Supreme Court hold their positions “while on good behaviour”, which status is solely to be determined by.. the Chief Executive of the United States.1 ReplyView in discussion
tionicoFrito Baggins 3 months ago
and if they don’t like that bucket of apples, sit them down and READ the pertinent sections of the US Constitution to them. Next step would be to calmly remind them of the oath they swore to uphold and defend that document.2 ReplyView in discussion
tionicoChris Ford1 3 months ago
But those judges have NO authority over the executive branch when that branch is dealing with issues specifically assigned to it. Dealing directly with criminal activity is in that category. The Executive Branch have the responsibility to establish and preserve national security, and in particular the issue of emigration and residence. These Tren de Aragua beasts are in clear violation of our laws, starting with posing a clear and immediate threat by way of an invasion that threatens our national security. I have not been keeping score, but I KNOW absolutely there have been at least four high profile incidents where some foreign invader here illegally has killed an innocent American Citizen, here, with no justifiable cause. This constitutes an act of war…. and thus rises up directly in front of our President to deal with it.
Perhaps next time Trump gets a pestering phone call to turn around a lane loaded with such illegal foreig invaders, he should order the plane to head for an airport near where the whiney “judge” is based, send a military escort to take the Wide Mouth Judge and whisk him to the airport to board the plane and sit amongst the “passengers” aboard. Upon landing, leave him to deplane right alongside the deportees. Let him “experience” in an “up close and personal” way just what sort of creatures they are.
Then bring him back home and defrock the clown and replace him with a man who carries a functioning brain within his cranium. AND at least a bucket full of common sense well blended with integrity.
Once the third such judge gets this “cure for what ails him” the issue will be permanently resolved.1 ReplyView in discussion
The solution is SO simple. READ the US Constitution. ALL executive power is vested in.. the PRESIDENT. he Supreme Court is the ONLY court established by the Constitution. All others are subject to the executive. Not only that, the lower courts have jurisdiction/authority limited to the area over which that court is appointed. A coiurt in California has ZERO authority over what goes on on the east coast.
this recent renegade ration of local district courts assuming authority over the President, military, states on the other side of he country needs to be pruned right off the map. NO judge in Connecticut or Maryland can say boo to anyone in New Mexico or New York.
That clown in a black nightie who “ordered” Trump to recall that plane headed to El Salvador needs to get his black nightie stripped from off his crooked back, and replaced by an orange jump suit, custom fitted to his sorry self3 ReplyView in discussion
Discussion on City Journal 217 comments
We’ll Never Have an Energy Transition
according to the laws of entropy, if the earth WERE 60 million years old enough heat would have radiated out into space we’d have a frozen wasteland and not a lush green warm planet. The heat generating mechanisms at the earth’s core would have also wound down, making this place even colder. This factor is one of the proofs for a young earth.ReplyView in discussion
tionicoFather_Lode 3 months ago
Show your source for the CO2 levels. Also the year range during which those are observed. Your numbers are way off from what I’ve seen in reliable sources. CO2 levels a few thousand years ago were several multiples of what we see now, and the earth was green and lush and yes, warmer.
Also, please catch up to current events. The “migration” from third to first world is no driven by temperatures, but by economics.
Try again?ReplyView in discussion
I grew up in California during the 1950’s and 60’s. The price of a gallon of gas never changed more than two cents the gallon for more than twenty years. It did in Mexico, where the government owned the fuel production system. They would ease the price up to the equivalent of fifteen cents the gallon at which point ALL the trucks and busses would simply get parked , whereupon nothing and nobody moved until the price dropped back to twelve cents, at which point normal would return. Until they tried it again.ReplyView in discussion
tionicoRenewableguy 3 months ago
the “moody” pricing of fossil fuels is nit a natural phenomenon. It is the result of manipulation and other non-associated factors. Wars and terrorism and broken economic situations unrelated to the fuel itself cause these fluctuations. As do certain “unfortunate” events such as wrecks, storms destroying offshore facilities.ReplyView in discussion
every five or ten years….. or for some, more often than that.ReplyView in discussion
i have personally observed the water-lines on the pylons that hold up the Tacoma Narrows Bridge now for seventy years. No change over that time. I have observed the water lines on the shores of the Hood’s Canal for at least fifty years. No change there, either. I have sailed on and observed water levels all over the Puget’s Sound for at least fifty years. No change there, either. Turd Island, where Budd, Eld, Totten, and Hammersly inlets all come together, has not changed how far it sticks its head up above the surface through the tidal cycles.
Besides, if some of the “famous” (infamous?) people who push the whole global warming/rising sea levels madness really believed in the farce they push, they’d not have built their megamillion dollar mansions and castles in places such as Martha’s Vineyard (looking at YOOO, Oh Bummer) and Maine’s coastal islands, and certainly not Maui. Because they’d KNOW those places will be amongst the first to flood, and soon. Their actions belie their blather.ReplyView in discussion
You ASSUME the blather about carbon dioxide “warming” the earth is accurate and correct. It is neither. Tests have conclusively proven that CO2 cannot hold any heat, let alone produce any.
If you were to study the correlation between carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere and that which is dissolved in the oceans you would learn that CO2 is NOT leading the equation. Temperature changes first, THEN CO2 levels change in response to the temp changes. There are many times more carbon dioxide dissolved in sea water worldwide than there ever will be in the atmosphere. CO2 easily dissolves in water, the colder the water the more it absorbs and stores. Don’t believe me? Go out and buy two large bottles of some type if carbonated beverage. Get one of really cold, below freezing, then open it and see how quickly and with how much force the bubbles come. Do the same with the warm one. The warm one will spew out quickly. WHY? The heat prevents the liquid dissolving as much in the water BECAUSE it is warm. The cold one holds more of the gas in solution. so it does not rush out, madly foaming and gushing. .
Simple kid science puts the lie to the whole carbon dioxide scam.ReplyView in discussion
tionicoE. S. Martn 3 months ago
Please explain how/why, in scientifically accurate terms, HOW this is a problem. More carbon dioxide in the air means more food. And that gs CANNOT raise temperatures. It has historically been near double what it is today, and at those periods of time the earth was far more lush and productive that it is today. WHY? More CO2 means more plants which means more food. Commercial enclosed greenhouse grow operations artificially INCREASE carbon dioxide inside the buildings.. WHY? To make the plants grow faster and bigger. Go ask the owners/managers of such grow operations.2 2ReplyView in discussion
tionicoInvisible Ray 3 months ago
Maybe that “fear” is all within his cranium. It was handy to carry about when he wanted to get some attention.5 ReplyView in discussion
tionicoTed Christopher 3 months ago
Maybe if we put carbon dioxide back where it belongs (normal, beneficial, maybe even half again today’s levels) we can leave behind all the games playing and phoney manipulation and fear mongering.
Carbon dioxide makes plants grow.. that means fuel, food, heat, and other such handy things.
Time to put the lies back to bed.10 1ReplyView in discussion
Discussion on City Journal 281 comments
The Downfall of Ibram X. Kendi
Considering the “education” made available to most blacks here in the US, that outcome is no surprise. ReplyView in discussion
you WERE pranked, along with that child.
Did you find a different school for that child?1 ReplyView in discussion
If they persist in their folly, sentence them to a year of reading the work of a certain elderly Supreme Court Justice. Then explain to me how these things could be written by a man of his background and history,5 ReplyView in discussion
I’d like to round up a couple hundred of these louts and force them to sit down and read everything Thomas Sowell has written. Then come back and talk to me about race in America, “disadvantaged” people, discrimination against the (fill in the blank) people. I’d have them start with his pieces addressed to his own race during and following the two “”elections” of the “president” from Kenya. I would carefully remind them his words are directed to those of his own race.16 1 ReplyView in discussion
Discussion on City Journal 70 comments
How Trump Can Make Universities Great Again
for how many years have you followed Mr.Rufo and/or Heather MacDonald? I find both of them to be excellent sources of analisis and information. I’ve never read anyone get near as close over the target as Chris has on the whole Homeless Industrial Complex. Just for one example.1 ReplyView in discussion
Not true. Let “those people” come, and each to them the same way you each to the ‘normal” people. When/if they start pushing their “non-normal” position, remind them that they are there to LEARN, you are there to TEACH. The course material will not change to suit those “outside the box”.
The problem you imagine is….. totally within YOUR imagination.ReplyView in discussion
delete the word “diverse”.
Now come back again to your complaint.
Maybe it IS the “diversity” that needs to go…………..ReplyView in discussion
And this is a problem? I say is a GREAT opportunity to burst the current bubble of what passes for “reality” these days.
Teach as if hey were all normal acculturated decent God-fearing folk. The ones that rebel and refuse to learn will either quit or get flunked out. Then the rest will REALLY start learning.ReplyView in discussion
Deeply. And persistently.ReplyView in discussion
tionicoitellu3times 5 months ago
Learn a trade skill that is marketable.that will feed you and family. I’ve known several young men to apprentice themselves to a tradesman, learn the trade well, and are then able to earn a very healthy living continuing with that company, , hiring on with a different one, or hanging out their own shingle.
As to the cultural, artistic, historical, knowledge base..READ. Our governments pay out of our hard earned tax dollars o stock libraries with all manner of information at no cos to the citizen. This is far preferable to the typical how many hours per day spent on “screen time” with our silly devices. (yes, I know, I am using one of those right now…… )1 ReplyView in discussion
Discussion on City Journal 148 comments
America’s Air-Traffic Control System: An International Disgrace
should be laid squarely at the feet of Congress.
If this is true (and I am not suggesting it is/is not) then it would seem the best solution would be to get Congress and the rest of government out of the ATC realm.ReplyView in discussion
I’d bet a bit chunk of change that a certain Mr. Musk could put HIS mind to solving this set of problems but he seems to now be preoccupied with a new large set of problems to be resolved. The guy who managed to beat Uncle Sam in space travel tech so badly government have begged HIM to go rescue two Yank spacemen stranded “way up there”. He and his team HAVE to have done some work on managing equipment moving rapidly on a 3D chessboard…….ReplyView in discussion
My little brother decide he was gonna be an airline pilot, at 14. Dad paid for his ground school course, and made it clear that was the end of his feeding the dream. OK. Took the course soon after his 15th birthday. Passed with high marks. All the money he could earn or scrape up paid for air and instructor time, he’d joined the local flight club. Soloed the day after his 16th birthday. He got a job at a computer company, they later got a plane, he became their commercial pilot. Had all the certs by then. At I think it was 22 or so he decided to go big. Had nearly 4000 hours on his commercial logbook. That was in addition to his general book. Got hired with a large regional line, eventually got in with a major carrier and was flying international
This instructor with ONLY a thousand hours would be a newbie…….
Had opportunity shortly after Hurricane Mitch to head to Nicaragua to help with some relief work. A chance came up to join a team on a supply flight way up north, on te Rio Coco. Hard decision……. On the return leg the crew offered me the jump seat on the bridge deck, aft and slightly above the two crew. Incredible view. Our ceiling was 10K feet. What a view!! Mid day, could see to the horizon. Left seat was a trainee working on his weather and cross country tickets. Anywhere out there I could see were scattered monstrous thunderheads reaching to 60K feet and above. We had to thread between them, diverting, then returning to our designated flight path. Watching the trainee taking it all in stride, deviating one way, passing the danger, reacquiring the rhumb line determined, he never faltered, had to re-correct, no altitude change whatever, plotting our ground course made good, etc. I could see all the instruments, he never varied altitude more than a dozen or so feet, always came right back to the rhumb line course after deviating to avoid the thunderheads. He was also monitoring fuel use as we were at maximum range even with the huge tank in the hold. We arrived at the Sandino airport with about half an hour’s worth of fuel remaining
That trainee flew like a polished seasoned pro. His instructor hardly said a word addressing anything about the flight itself..I’d been handed a headset so we could all three talk.
My experience on this flight was radically “other” compared to what we’ve seen in the press about the trainee and instructor on this Blackhawk flight.
But then. MItch was some 25 years ago, so I can only believe that in the time between my ride and this tragic one might be a strong indicator of a radical decline in quality and standards in our military. Same outfit, radically different performance level.3 1ReplyView in discussion
Discussion on City Journal 83 comments
It’s Time to End DEI in Immigration
tionicoInternet Commenter 5 months ago
Yes, he does seem old… well seasoned with the wisdom of experience and good education. Qualities sadly lacking in present day America.3 ReplyView in discussion
If you mean investing in what our gummit skewlz presently fob off upon us under the category “education”, then most emphatically NO. No more money dumped into that cesspit.1 ReplyView in discussion
A few decades go I tried to emigrate to Australia. Not enough money to bring along.
So I tried EnnZed…. I REALLY didn’t have enough money to bring along. So I looked into Canada. Had to personally show up at the Canadian Consulate in Sanfrancisco for an interview, AfTER providing my history, trades/skills , equipment, I would rely upon to feed myself, They clearly informed me that in the event I tried to fall back on the Canadian Government for any assistance from public money their ONLY response would be to buy me a one way airplane ticket to the last US residence I had, they’d show up a my home and escort me to the airport and onto the plane. BuhBye and thanks for trying.
That was back in the days of Trudeau Pére. I stayed up there 5 years, did just fine, but decided to come back here. During the madness under the tyranny o Trudeau ils, I was REALLY glad I was no longer there. I likely would have been driving another of those big rigs in the convoy, would have suffered he financial ruin he imposed on those patriots, lost my rig and probably home as well.
There is nothing wrong with examining prospective new immigrants to assure they will be CONTRIBUTING members of our society and culture. That is one of the assigned asks for our government.
During my grade and high school years in So California I knew many “imports”: English, Irish, German, Italian, Polish, Czechoslovakian, Mexican, Colombian, Some of their parents spoke little to no English, grandparents most often none. None of that mattered, hey were my friends, their families doing what families are supposed to be doing…. participating in their local communities, contributing to the local economy, etc. THAT was all positive. What we see going on today under the name of “immigration” is a travesty and a burden. Needs to end. Soon.4 ReplyView in discussion
Discussion on City Journal 124 comments
No, Billionaires Are Not “Hoarding” Wealth
tionicoBlueJay6319 5 months ago
you have NO CLUE who this individual really is.. only a few words he has typed, much of which you take out of context, and that because with respect to this man you HAVE no context. 1ReplyView in discussion
tionicoBlueJay6319 5 months ago
And I would suggest that you allow HIM to righteously judge VanDiego per HIS rules, not yours, or your version of His. 1ReplyView in discussion
h there ARE some VERY wealthy people in both of those places… largely due to their abuse of the “teeming masses yearning to be free”. I have seen the results of that firsthand in Haiti.ReplyView in discussion
tionicoPhil Kershner 5 months ago
the context was to become wealthy on the backs of the governed. As has become a nasty habit for most large governments, top of mind position holding our own US gummit.
As a current reference point, consider some of the information that has come out concerning salaries and wealth of a goodly number of the reigning class in the areas of the LA fires, of late.ReplyView in discussion
I will hold Jesus above Calvin any day of the year.ReplyView in discussion
A significant part of Gates’ Game is control and manipulation. He also seems to have a penchant for promoting some strange pharmaceutical experiments on the hordes in that region.1 ReplyView in discussion
tionicoCraig Rolwood 5 months ago
Perhaps I am just wierd.. but for some strange reason the name Billy the Gates popped up inside my cranium…….. money causing harm when directed to dubious social engineering projects…..1 ReplyView in discussion
Discussion on City Journal 239 comments
What the Left Did to Me and My Family
Mr. Rufo, having been quite familiar with Seattle over a few decades, and having followed your work over some years, I am not surprised in the least to read o your experiences at the hands of the locals. Sad that this “wonderful city” has such a nasty side. You responded in precisely the best way, too. Taking action, firmly, calmly, and resolutely, and demanding they respect your privacy and security. The best part is that you refused to cower and hide.
More than once, as I read your work on Seattle’s corruption on the Homeless Industrial Complex, exposed the soft underbelly and graft of the behind he scenes of the homeless scam, I wondered how you managed to escape the “payback” for playing Toto and pulling back the screen to expose the levers and ropes and wires so few others were willing to see.
I have known a few who were your contemporaries at the Institute. They all spoke highly of you and your work.2 ReplyView in discussion
name of alledged victim, please?
Yeah, thought so.ReplyView in discussion
Discussion on City Journal 55 comments
Why Americans Are Still Unhappy with the Economy
not to mention too loudly the difference between timeclock punchers (“Ah wuz heer ta day”) and WORKERS.
The vast majority of employees these days think their main concern should be to merely show up and move their hands. The employer who can find a few employees who will eagerly take on the responsibility to learn HOW best to build the business, SERVE customers/clients, and come alongside the owner as a partner in making the business prosper is a rarity these days.
Walk into your neighbourhood WalMart or Home Cheapo and try to get needed help to locate a product or solution to your problem, and see how that works out.
I needed help selecting a set of small brass plumbing fittings to build a solution to a specific gas piping/control system. Went to a farm and hardware supply store, found that section, started opening drawers hunting or needed items. A young man, maybe late 20’s, came and asked if he could help. I showed him the fitting at the beginning of my project, he instantly put the next piece in my hand.. and the next.. In ten minutes we had the entire system built. He knew where every part was, visually identified the size, etc. I have spent well above an hour a Home Depot and still could not find everything I needed to build a much simpler set. I paid about ten bucks more for that pile of brass than Home Depot would have charged.. but I was in and back out the door in fifteen minutes and had EVERYTHING in hand, saving about $75 worth of my billable time. Where will I go next time? That young man will likely retire out of that store in another forty years, well paid. That business has been here more than an hundred years already. Well known and respected in the large metro area where it started “out in the farm fields” in a barn that still stands.
Then there was my recent horror show with ComCast/Xfinity, four trips to their store, another six hours multiple calls on tech support, four days without service for phone, internet, cell service. And they have more than doubled their charges over the past few years. The ONLY reason I am still using them is they own the cables out here, no other option.ReplyView in discussion
but WHAT if that anecdotal scenario us accurate?
I know business owners who are VERY frustrated at how difficult it is find good workers. He’s got one 17 year old homeschool kid he’s hired, and this kid is now a supervisor after only working there six months. He outperforms the average government school graduate in his mid twenties with years in the workforce.ReplyView in discussion
tionicoInvisible Ray 5 months ago
government employment: consider the recent revelation that the LAf ire department now has THREE females now “handling” the job that ONE chief used to handle, each one being paid around twice what the one useful chief was paid a few years ago.
With respect to medical fields: recent federal mandates have tripled the busywork component of “medical records” / One friend of mine is an MD in private practice. Some years ago he was forced to relocate to a larger faciliy to accomodate a new employee.. who did nothing but federal and insurance paperwork newly mandated. The ONLY thing this employee did accomplished nothing in way of beneficial work product Some years on he had to hire a SECOND busywork paper shuffler, again solely to comply with even MORE such paperwork mandates. And all this mandated madness resulted in longer waits, reduced patient load capacity, and lower quality care. He could hardly wait till he could retire and be shut o this madness. About three fourths of his cost of labour to run the clinic was useless busywork. Look right there for the single largest contributing factor for increased medical costs nationwide.1 ReplyView in discussion
Unless one counts the fact that a law abiding American worker is NOT holding the job the pretender holds…. THIS is criminal, and brings a specific harm to the one NOT employed.ReplyView in discussion
When will someone investigate the SSN used by that former “president” often referred to as “the kinyun”? It was issued in the State of ‘Vermont, if memory serves aright, in any case a state wherein referenced individual never resided.ReplyView in discussion
Discussion on City Journal 78 comments
Trump Inaugural Blasts Biden, Lays Out Plan of Action
If the tariffs reduce the amount of (shoddy) goods flung upon us by China and increases the production of such goods here at home, then more money will be earned HERE and the profits of such production can then be leveraged to “raise the tide” of commerce here.
I’d recommend you educate yourself on such matters by reading Thomas Sowell’s most excellent work Basic Economics. 1ReplyView in discussion
Please cite even ONE conservative judge/jury that convicted even one “J6” defendant. Now tell me about the hundreds that were charged and remain in prison (until today) for the “crime” of being revealed by their illegally accessed cell phone tracking data to have been within a quarter mile of the Capitol that day, even i they never were ON or NEAR Capitol grounds….ReplyView in discussion
Discussion on City Journal 42 comments
Blocking U.S. Steel-Nippon Steel Deal Would Hurt the U.S.
tionicoRETIRED UNION MAN 5 months ago
Reading your comments, I can find NO basis for them in any of the discussion.
Racism? feminism? women, people “of colour?
Seems you’ve got a burr under your saddle blanket, one YOU put there. Get some help finding and removing it.ReplyView in discussion
Discussion on City Journal 265 comments
Can Trump Make America Safe Again?
and, just because they are California and can do this, many of those third felonies get charged as misdemeanours. Because they DON”T have bias… er sumpin like….1 ReplyView in discussion
Didjya READ the bit about the traffic cams in Berserkeley? How they ONLY caught the number plates, no pic of the driver…..??? AND further that the percentage of tix given out were about 70% to BLACK drivers, which was only learned when the culprits showed up in court?
This scenario holds ZERO bias. So the nutjobs who RUN Berserkeley decided to manufacture bias by removing the cams, because 3/4 of their culprits were the wrong skin colour, and OH NO we can NOT be having THAT.
Don’t ry and tell ME here is no bias out there. most of it comes from the “protected” classes and works to get them off. Just for grins and giggles, I’d really like to know the “race” o those who made that decision to remove the cams. I’ve got a fat spiff on the table says I’m right about the skin colour of those responsible for that decision.
Yes I DO have quite a number o biases. About a wide variety of areas of interest. food is one of them. Some things I just will NOT eat. See how many of those YOU can guess…….4 ReplyView in discussion
Discussion on City Journal 99 comments
California’s Policies Laid the Groundwork for Wildfire Danger
Didjya even READ the above piece? Seems you missed the bit about the “person” in charge of the water management function of government had taken a YOOOOOGE (117 MILLION gallon capacity) reservoir offline and left it empty for months… apparently (from other reading I”ve done) because of a five foot tear in its cover. This behaviour does NOT fit into the category of “done a good job”.
Heck, give me $500 and I’d drop by the local Home Cheapo and get about a dozen rolls of two inch black Gorilla Tape, crawl, roll, or slide out there (WITH a belay, of course) and close the stupid hole. Then pick up da fone and order a new section for the cover. Who knows, might not even need to pay for it it might be under warranty.
This sort of scenario was typical of the guys on that old TeeVee Show, “the Three Stooges” (1950’s,60’s). Anything went wrong, (it ALWAYS did….) Many was pointing at Moe who was pointing at Jack who was pointing at Manny.. it was all “HIS” fault, never mine. Little did we guess way back when that these guys would be the models for the running of government a generation on. Its funny, but I don’t think the Gabbling Nuisance is old enough to have been raised on that trio. But he’s certainly “got it down”.ReplyView in discussion
tionicoSaipanDrunkenSailor 6 months ago
E G underneath the Santa Monica freeway ?
The syndrome of continuing to repeat what has always in the past led directly and proximally to trouble is most often referred to as “insanity”. It is readily apparent that another term or the syndrome is “politician”.ReplyView in discussion
Discussion on City Journal 24 comments
New York’s Climate Change Law Will Come With Consequences
Take them to court and force them to PROVE beyond a reasonable doubt that the burning of f’ossil fuels” does in fact incontrovertibly produce increased temperatures.
They don’t….1 1ReplyView in discussion
rising sea levels in New York.
You mean, the rising sea levels that are driving O
bama to sell his joint on Martha’s Vineyard? Yeah, didn’t think so. 1ReplyView in discussion
Discussion on City Journal 27 comments
The Case for Gig Worker Benefits
Take another gander at your flat tax for corporations.
Some businesses work high volume low margin, others low volume high margin. Some businesses can have $50Mn a year pass through their hands, yet not keep as much as another business grossing $100K.
Another firm might might have all its income from reselling goods, the next might have tonnes of labour and almost no hard goods.
So what ya gonna DO bout that?
Costco’s margin runs somewhere around two percent. My business (mechanical repair) runs closer to 40%/
Back to the drawing board, boys….ReplyView in discussion
Discussion on City Journal 69 comments
How Congress Can Ensure DOGE Isn’t Another Failed Promise
An YOOOOOOGE part o he budget o the Infernal Robbing You Service goes to support the drones and dweeebs that run” the place, particularly the ones with great imaginations who go after citizens on the silliest and most questionable things. I remember back when my Sister got audited on her fed taxes. She was a youngish single Mom, daycare expenses, driving a beater car, living in a small cheap house she rented, could not qualify for foodstamps even with a child, was attending the local JUnior COllege to try and increase her value to her employers, and was barely scraping by. SHe never could figure out what triggered her audit. It cost her more money to hire an accountant and tax expert to prepare her records. Not only that, they came back almost every year for I think it was eight more years….. after seven of finding nothing and being unable to hold their grubby paws out for more blood from the alreasy squeezed dry turnip that she was.ReplyView in discussion
I’d say the vast majority o those who would lose their “Jobs” never should have been hired in the first place. Most of such hires are perks or paybacks or good ol’ boy rewards. Many if not most do NOT contribute anything of value to anyone eother than the recipient of the “free” public money.
I’ve no question whatever that when Musk went a hunting for the blubber in his Twitter organisation his priority was to identify the blubber and take his flensing knife and cut it offReplyView in discussion
tionicoSaipanDrunkenSailor 6 months ago
Not to mention the actor of those who are tasked with “oversight” do so largely out of corruption and/or personal gain, and sometimes just a simple lust for power and control. (Piglioh see comes rapidly to mind…. along with her sometime ruining buddy Hillary Killary)ReplyView in discussion
Discussion on City Journal 78 comments
Amnesty International’s “Genocide” Smear Against Israel
tionicoflowerplough 6 months ago
0bidenBama Democrats and their media lapdogs call illegal aliens “migrants” or even “newcomers,”
True, but your forgot something.. they also call them “immigrants”.
An immigrant is someone who has followed the established procedures and done the paperwork and have lawfully moved to a new country and taken up lawful permanent residence.ReplyView in discussion
Discussion on City Journal 241 comments
New York’s Government Is the Real Villain in the Daniel Penny Trial
Absoluetely. READ CJ’s own Chris Rupho (sorry my Eph key has gone out) on this subject in particular with the “homeless” situation along the entire West Coast. He nails it.3 ReplyView in discussion
This will not end in NYC or elsewhere until EVERY Soros backed/directed prosecutor is dethroned. It cannot happen quickly enough. And the backer himsel also needs to be dealt with. His power is clearly NOT constitutional, nor moral.5 ReplyView in discussion
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Re-Creating the “Asylum Farm”
These acilities could be the best solution to the “homeless” issue. Round them up when they reuse to stop sleeping and peeing wherever, start an account or each one sorting out the legal and illegally present ones (sending the invaders back home) Most will need to irs detox rom all the drugs they’ve been ingesting. Once cleaned up enough o be unsional begin employing them at various tasks around the acility. Keep track o their wages earned, and set those against their costs to keep. Once a person is unctional and willing, py them o Imost will owe their treatment costs… and let them try again in society as unctional olk.ReplyView in discussion
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Building Freedom Cities
There is another mechanism which has airly recently come onto the scne to drastically icraese costs in building/developing. I have seen this at work in my state or theorty ive years I’ve lived here.
Someon invents or develops some new “better” *read innovative) way o doing something. It gets adopted by a small percentage o builders, others see it is being used and hop on, then some state wonk decides “this is cool, we MUST mandate it” So now ALL new contstruction MUST use this item or method, no exceptions. So now we ALL MUST use double glazed windows, the buildings are all but hermetically sealed, but then they realised that wasn’t healty, the stale air was not a good idea, so next sep was to design, patent, then mandate air exchange systems that use more electricity and are costly.
Another is the “ground ault” electrical panels now mandated, nearly doubling the cost o the electrical installation. I installed and wired a panel back in the ’70’s prior to Ground phault being invented. Ive owned several houses also prior to this innovation. I have never once had, or even known o, any “incident” o concern regarding this system.
Next it got mandated or any situation where water might be nearby.. bathrooms, laundry rooms, kitchens,
Now ALL circuits must be on ground phault breakers. The new panels and breakers are not interchangeable. Used to be the ground interruptor breakers would it into the same panel but now the entire breaker box must be replaced, and all the breakers are the ground interruptor types. A retro installation now cannot be done, must be “upgraded”.
A sumilar game is bring played wuth every subsystem neded to build or remodel a home or commercial building.
Same with onsite sewage disposal. Used to be nearly any dirt would perc at a high enough rate to accomodate a gravity system, which anyone who knows which way water will run in any given piece o pipe. (hint: it will always run downhill….) Now nearly all systems are mandated to be complex, super expensive pumps, timed burst dispersal, above ground sand mounds (that are ar to small and spwil saturate within just a couple or three years), and instead o
a simple easy to install and maintain gravity system a homeowner can install or a couple thousand bucks you have to hire an “engineer” (a sixty dollar word or a “good Guesser”) who then will “design” and draw up a complicated system only a “pro” is smart enough to install (You can plumb your own kitchen, bath, laundry, etc, but are too stupid/incompetent to plumb your own poo water system) so instead o a $2000 system you can build yoursel you are now aced with a pro-designed/installed system that will set you back around $75K. And in wetter climates (lilke here) wil need to be rebuilt in 3 to 5 years because it did not have enough capacity (remember “The Pro” designed it)
I have had no training or instruction and have designed and built at least 4 gravity systems that I then installed, and all but one are still working properly with more than 20 years use, and the 4th one has only been in use 4 years but is working wellReplyView in discussion
Let’s start HERE:US Gov must NOT be involved. It would only add complexity, cost, time delays, and restrictions (that’s what gummit DO)
Next up, how’s about USGov return ALL US controlled lands to THE STATES within which those lands are situate. Read your Constitution and ind he list o lands national government may own/possess. 99.5% o ed holdings are UNCONSTITUTIONAL and should be divested. Hand them over to the states in which they sit. Any project with the government at the controls will involve higher costs, phavourites/winners-losers determined by connexions and not by what is best or most suitable. And everything the national government touch always somehow madjickally ends up being a money-sink and boondoggle.
Private enterprise always seems to be more cautious about what the money is spent upon, as they have a vested interest in its success, here government only need to show up or work (or not) to get their paycheques.
This piece is pie in the sky phantasy.
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