There is something about international travel that has radical Leftist politicians let down their hair and let the freak fascist flag fly
One of the goals of Californians who traveled to Paris for climate talks this week was to showcase green-energy businesses that are succeeding in the state.
But on Monday it was the “coercive power” of government for which Gov. Jerry Brown was seeking credit.
Regulations, he said at an event with billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer at an art museum in the city, “work hand in glove” with innovation, forcing companies to adapt to cleaner technologies. Brown held out the introduction of the catalytic converter and the proliferation of renewable energy as examples of industry responding to regulation.
“You do have to have, at the end of the day, a regulation, a law,” he said. “Progress comes from well-designed regulatory objectives that business then follows.”
e.g. You didn’t build that.
Later, at the site where world leaders are meeting to negotiate a climate pact outside of Paris, Brown urged a small crowd to “never underestimate the coercive power of the central state in the service of good.”
“You can be sure California is going to keep innovating, keep regulating,” the Democratic governor said. “And, shall I say, keep taxing.”
h/t Powerline Blog
It not only can happen here, it already has.
Jerry Brown is Buzz Windrip.
Feature. Not bug.
[…] While, in general, I have no desire to see Governor Moonbeam naked, his face I don’t mind [tip of the fedora to Darleen Click]: […]
I guess it’s nice that they are so open about their fascism.
I’m glad I don’t have any desire to move back there.
I second Cranky’s comment. Say what you will, at least Brown is honest.
Texas thanks you, Governor.
In California we are so environmentally concerned that we recycled our governor.
Is it just me or has everyone lost their everlovin minds over Trump’s “no Muslims” thing?
I’m talking about people on Twitter whom I thought were (reasonably) immune to the urge to engage in virtue-signaling who are climbing all over themselves to distance themselves from The Very Idea that restricting anyone from anywhere based on their religion is SO BEYOND THE DAMNED PALE THAT WE CAN’T EVEN.
Because it’s “not who we are.”
That’s the tell: when they start borrowing Obama’s prissy Righteousness Indicator Phrases instead of acknowledging that in some of the Islamic hot-spots of the world, religion might be a pretty good indicator as to who we might not want to let in
I was treated last night to:
“But they’re vetted for 18–24 months!” (How much of that is administrative delay? All but 2–3 hours?)
“They’ve already been vetted by some UN thing before they get to our Dept. of Homeland Security.” (I’ve worked for DoD: I wouldn’t trust them to lock up the office at night.)
“Ok, we’re done here.” (Response to “How’d that vetting go with Ms. ‘I leave my baby with mom before mowing down the very people who threw her a baby shower”?)
“That was different; she was from Pakistan and came in on a fiancee visa. These are refugees. They’ve never engaged in mass shootings.” (WTF? It matters how they got here?)
“So what do you propose: that we slam the borders shut until we can guarantee ‘safety’?” (Yes, those are the only two options on the table: all Muslims or no Muslims.)
“No, we can’t rely on Christian pastors to identify who’s Christian and who’s not, because they So Damned Christian that they’ll finger everyone, because they will lie to save ALL SOULS from ISIS.” (Because getting refugee status for the U.S. is SCHINDLER’S LIST REDUX: either you’re a refugee to our country or you DIE A BLOODY FIERY DEATH.)
We’re in the opening stages of WWIII. It is not unreasonable to say that “party members” from the war zones should resettle in a country that’s not the current target of jihad.
ALSO
You can argue that bringing Muslims here is bad because our toxic Grievance Victimocracy mixes with their culture like acid with base: BOOM!
Well, Di…it’s as the British soldiers sang so long ago…
If buttercups buzz’d after the bee
If boats were on land, churches on sea
If ponies rode men and if grass ate the cows
And cats should be chased into holes by the mouse
If the mamas sold their babies
To the Gypsies for half a crown
If summer were spring
And the other way ’round
Then all the world would be upside down
Ahyup.
There’s really only one thing you need to know about the followers of Mo. They believe it is OK to lie in the service at Allan.
The father God-head of Christianity IS truth. A lie cannot abide with Him.
Now, who do you trust?
Jerry’s porch light burned out 40 years ago.
>vDavidAFrench Here’s a term you need to know — the “Overton Window.” Developed by the late Joseph Overton, a former vice president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, the “window” refers to the range of acceptable political discourse on any given topic. As the Mackinac Center explains, “the ‘window’ of politically acceptable options is primarily defined not by what politicians prefer, but rather by what they believe they can support and still win re-election.” The key to shifting policy lies not so much in changing politicians but in changing the terms of the debate. In other words, “The window shifts to include different policy options not when ideas change among politicians, but when ideas change in the society that elects them.” The Left — dominating the media, the academy, and pop culture — is unmatched at moving the Overton Window. Consider gay marriage, a subject once so far outside the mainstream that less than 20 years ago, Republicans and Democrats united to pass the Defense of Marriage Act to define marriage under federal law as the union of one man and one woman. Now? That view is such an anathema that it’s difficult to get — or retain — a job in entire sectors of the economy if you openly hold to the traditionalist position on marriage.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/428200/donald-trump-overton-window-american-political-debateVII
LET US now imagine that one day something in our greengrocer snaps and he stops putting up the slogans merely to ingratiate himself. He stops voting in elections he knows are a farce. He begins to say what he really thinks at political meetings. And he even finds the strength in himself to express solidarity with those whom his conscience commands him to support. In this revolt the greengrocer steps out of living within the lie. He rejects the ritual and breaks the rules of the game. He discovers once more his suppressed identity and dignity. He gives his freedom a concrete significance. His revolt is an attempt to live within the truth.
The bill is not long in coming. He will be relieved of his post as manager of the shop and transferred to the warehouse. His pay will be reduced. His hopes for a holiday in Bulgaria will evaporate. His children’s access to higher education will be threatened. His superiors will harass him and his fellow workers will wonder about him. Most of those who apply these sanctions, however, will not do so from any authentic inner conviction but simply under pressure from conditions, the same conditions that once pressured the greengrocer to display the official slogans. They will persecute the greengrocer either because it is expected of them, or to demonstrate their loyalty, or simply as part of the general panorama, to which belongs an awareness that this is how situations of this sort are dealt with, that this, in fact, is how things are always done, particularly if one is not to become suspect oneself. The executors, therefore, behave essentially like everyone else, to a greater or lesser degree: as components of the post-totalitarian system, as agents of its automatism, as petty instruments of the social auto-totality.<
http://vaclavhavel.cz/showtrans.php?cat=eseje&val=2_aj_eseje.html&typ=HTML
Oh, and in case anyone was wondering, Jesus is word, or the expression of God the Father, the Holy Spirit is the hand, or the actions of God. This is the trinity of Love.
Allan is the opposite of Love. He is possessive, demanding, and violent. His followers claim he is greater than truth, and accept that death is the punishment for rejecting the lie.
If the Muslims are fleeing from the fruits of their own religion in fear of their lives, maybe we should think on it a bit whether we want to import a population of that religion to our hemisphere.
Just say’in…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoA_zY6tqQw
california uber alles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIqESwzCGg4
also
I recommend not looking at Twitter. Over the past 3 weeks I’ve been wandering the Commonwealth Wasteland for more or less every waking hour, which has left no time for Twitter or political blogs.
It’s been wonderful.
That said, I find Trump’s position needlessly moderate. No immigration from the Middle East, period, ever. (But a single aspect of my “no immigration period” policy.) But I’ll take what I can get. It’s more than I’d expect from any of the other idiots, with the possible exception of Cruz.
deep state song:
Sex Pistols – Holidays In The Sun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=227m9lw5CcI&index=2&list=RDna7A3-UCCYE
tear down the wall or sumthing
Burn Down the Mission
Social Disease
OT: Christmas Time (Is Here Again)
If the Muslims are fleeing from the fruits of their own religion in fear of their lives,
Primarily, people flee war zones because they can’t get the basics anymore: water & electricity are intermittent if not totally gone, gasoline is scarce, and food supplies may or may not arrive.
This is true regardless of who’s fighting or who’s being targeted. So to say that the refugees are people that are fleeing ISIS in particular is dumb. People flee war zones because war zones are uninhabitable, not because the refugees are ideologically opposed to the combatants.
Furthermore, Syria has three sides: Assad, the rebels, and ISIS. That you’ve fled Syria and landed in Turkey or another UN refugee camp says jack-all about whether you sympathize with the Caliphate or Assad or the U.S.
Mollie Hemmingway is exactly right: When It Comes To Donald Trump, I Hate Everybody.
I recommend not looking at Twitter.
I go there for the express purpose of picking a fight. Sometimes it’s good to yell at people who can’t fire you.
The trouble is, Muslims fleeing the fruits of Islam are like people with ebola fleeing all the death.
Jeez, there sure are a heap of breathless headlines touting “Obama broke the law” out there today. Silly headline writers. Don’t they know that the Fuhrer’s word is law, fercryinoutloud? They’ve had eight years to figure this out — what’s takin’ ’em so long?
Now now, McGehee. Islam is a religion of peace.
And if you don’t believe it, some muslim will cut your head off in order to prove it.
More Than 100 Million Guns Sold Since Election of President Obama
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/12/11/100-million-guns-sold-since-election-president-obama/