The Rod Martin Report – September 2, 2017

But a key part of that faith is that George W. Bush-induced “superstorms” (such as “Superstorm Sandy”, which wasn’t even a hurricane when it made landfall) are wreaking havoc at an ever-increasing rate because Republicans just don’t care.

Never mind that it’s been 12 long years since a major hurricane has made landfall in the United States, 13 since my own home was destroyed by one. That’s the longest U.S. hurricane drought since 1869. Global Warming, er, Climate Change is causing superstorms! And if you don’t say so, you are worse than Hitler!

“Harvey is what climate change looks like,” Eric Holthaus, meteorologist and climate activist declared Tuesday. Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project, which claims without regard for reality that every year since Katrina has been hotter than the last, opined that “climate change makes hurricanes more devastating,” while 350.org announced that Harvey is “an unnatural disaster”, “the product of both a hotter planet and this administration’s climate denial, racism and callousness.”

Wow. Who knew the President had such superhuman powers? Apparently Mother Earth is losing to a guy they were just calling a clown.

And of course, they’re grossly wrong. Judith Curry, esteemed Georgia Tech climatologist points out that Harvey doesn’t even make the top ten of U.S. hurricanes, in the very brief period known as recorded history. Says Curry: “Anyone blaming Harvey on global warming doesn’t have a leg to stand on.”

Indeed not.

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It’s not shocking that hurricanes would be racist: everything is now racist. Or something-ist. Because demonizing opponents makes it a lot easier to get your way.

Spike Lee, Jesse Jackson and others famously proclaimed Katrina a racist plot by Republicans to commit genocide against blacks. Charlottesville was the tip of a gigantic white nationalist spear, all conveniently “encouraged” by Donald Trump, despite the fact that actual neo-Nazis in the country are credibly estimated to number well under 4,000 (or 0.00001231 percent of the population, a truly vital electoral base if there ever were one). And on it goes.

Nor is there any honest disagreement on this, with the key word being “honest”. For two weeks, leaders in both parties demanded Donald Trump’s impeachment for being honest enough to point out that both white supremacists and Antifa thugs were responsible for the violence in Charlottesville. Few were as aggressive on this point as Clinton bagman and Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe (despite the fact that DHS and local authorities warned him days earlier that both sides were planning a clash). Yet this week, when McAuliffe said almost exactly what Trump had said…crickets.

And there I thought those were the worst words that you could say.

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McAuliffe – and even Nancy Pelosi – felt the need to (belatedly) condemn leftist violence because nearly all the political violence in America is leftwing, primarily brought to you by Antifa, the “anti-fascist” American brown shirts. Ringleaders like McAuliffe and Pelosi, who benefit immensely from that violence, need distance from it.

But it is exactly what they were seeking when – after screeching throughout October that anyone who questioned the outcome of the election was “threatening democracy” – they then labeled the surprise winner illegitimate and a Nazi, and called all decent people to “resist”.

If someone asks you to stop Hitler, what are you going to do, right?

To define Trump as Hitler, he has to be a racist, which of course he is not, but which fits the longstanding Democrat narrative for all Republicans whatsoever. He also has to be violent, which also makes sense because the American political party which has spawned murderous racist terror wings at home – the Ku Klux Klan, the Weather Underground, the Black Panthers – and supported them abroad – the Provisional IRA – has always been the Republican Party. Right?

These guys in Berkeley this week: all Republicans. Right?

https://youtu.be/XUilmTIpRyM

Yeah. Right.

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Antifa wears all-black with masks, much as the Klan (the Democrat Party’s earlier terror wing) once did in reverse. So — duh — it’s hard to know who they are.

Until they get arrested anyway. Or until they out themselves.

It turns out that many prominent Antifa leaders are public school teachers, union trolls who hold your children’s minds captive by day and then lead riots…whenever the NEA lets them.

More of your tax dollars at work.

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In response to the Antifa violence at Berkeley this week, Berkeley’s mayor urged UC Berkeley – famous for its “Free Speech Movement – to cancel “Free Speech Week”.

Why? Because non-leftists might have a chance to speak.

Who are the fascists here again?

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It actually doesn’t matter who the fascists are, if only one side gets to decide.

That one side is personified in a very specific group. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has for many years now maintained a ” hate map” and a ” hate list” identifying what they “objectively” determine to be all of America’s “hate groups”.

Some of those groups actually are pretty terrible. The problem is, the list lumps them together with lots of legitimate groups the SPLC dislikes. The Family Research Council is on the list. So is the American Family Association. So is Dr. James Dobson. I kid you not.

Indeed, dozens of other conservative and Christian organizations (but no leftist ones, not even Antifa) are listed as “hate groups”, from Frank Gaffney’s Center for Security Policy to legal defense funds like Liberty Counsel and Alliance Defending Freedom. Whether they oppose Sharia or terrorism or just believe in Christian orthodoxy, they are “hate groups” to the SPLC purely because they are opposed to the leftist agenda.

The problem? SPLC has hundreds of millions of dollars (much of it suspiciously stashed in offshore accounts), thanks to firms like Apple and Google. And now, Google is letting the SPLC decide who may or may not be found online.

The new “hate-free” algorithm in development is a literal Orwellian memory hole. Remember Steve Scalise? Of course you do: he’s the House Majority Whip – one of the most prominent politicians on the planet – and he was nearly assassinated a few weeks ago by a Bernie Sanders-supporting leftwing terrorist. He’s going to get a few million hits on Google, right?

Not if this new algorithm rolls out. From PJ Media:

The Japanese surrendered unconditionally shortly thereafter. They did so formally on September 2, 1945, 72 years ago today, on the deck of the USS Missouri, anchored in Tokyo Bay.

Jack Wheeler does a characteristically masterful job of describing the how, but especially the why, of this in his 2010 piece “Runway Able”, a must-read. The atomic bombings easily saved something between eleven and twelve million lives, at significantly less damage and death toll than the conventional bombings of Hamburg or Tokyo. This is utterly lost on the SJWs, but must be remembered by grown-ups.

Unfortunately, the Snowflake Brigade won one in anti-American L.A. this week, when the Los Angeles City Council officially renamed Columbus Day “Indigenous Peoples Day”.

There’s nothing wrong, of course, with celebrating everyone’s cultural heritage: this is America, and we do a lot of that.

What is wrong is two-fold: the left’s continued Cultural Revolution, not at all unlike ISIS’s destruction of Palmyra or the Taliban’s blowing up the Buddhas of Bamiyan; and the diminution of one of the greatest men of all time, Christopher Columbus, Admiral of the Ocean Sea.

Space does not permit doing justice to Columbus’ achievements. But suffice it to say, you wouldn’t be here had he not lived. And neither would many of the complaining “indigenous peoples”.

Why? Because if they were unfortunate enough to live under the supposedly magnificent Aztec “civilization”, they would probably be human sacrifices. If they lived in the Caribbean Basin, they would likely be enslaved or murdered if men, caged and raped if women, their offspring eaten by the captors.

Across the hemisphere, this is the sort of idyllic culture Western contact ended.

Even if we take the leftists accusations seriously, they are senseless. Did the Spanish practice slavery? Yes: so did the natives. Did the Spanish murder their enemies? Yes: and many of the natives killed their own people as well. Did the Spanish raid and conquer? The natives did little else.

Thus the question becomes whether one group did anything more praiseworthy than the other. And of course one did: one ended most of the other’s barbarity. And one expanded the bounds of human civilization forever.

Columbus had little to do with the former, but everything to do with the latter: it was his vision and his personal courage that ended the Middle Ages and created the modern world. Any “indigenous people” who enjoys human rights, modern medicine, a regular food supply and indoor plumbing should thank him daily.

The Los Angeles City Council has no interest in any of that,because in standard freeloader fashion, they benefit from Columbus’s legacy without cost to themselves. So in disgust at their endlessly calling good evil and evil good, Christopher Columbus is our RMR Hero of the Millennium.

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Finally, on Monday, and all this Labor Day weekend, America celebrates the working people who have always made America great.

It is worth noting that America does not celebrate – as more than 80 other countries and every Socialist and Communist Party on Earth do – May Day, the May 1st “International Workers’ Day”. It was President Grover Cleveland, all the way back in 1887, who put paid to that idea. Cleveland, and Congress, did not want Labor Day to become a federally-sanctioned endorsement of the proletarian revolution and the destruction of America. And so America celebrates its workers in September.

Socialism sees workers as cogs in a machine, and the state (or the party) as their vanguard and savior. America has always taken a very different view. Though there is honor in honest work, no matter for whom you work, America has always encouraged individual independence. Jefferson dreamed of an “empire of liberty” and a “nation of freeholders”: entrepreneurs – small business owners – in an era when the primary small business available – and almost exclusively available in America – was a farm.

Lincoln doubled down on this vision, first through the Pacific Railroad Acts enabling the infrastructure to knit together the continent, and second through the Homestead Act, which gave 160 acres to anyone from anywhere who would actually settle and work that land for seven years (no absentee landlords allowed). The rallying cry of the new Republican Party was “ Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men”, and its intent was simple: a nation of entrepreneurs who each owned a stake in the system, as the destruction not merely of slavery but of the de facto aristocracy slavery entails.

Labor Day is not May Day. Labor Day celebrates not just the workingman but the right to work as you please, for whom you please, where and when you please. It was Jefferson’s and Lincoln’s visions that populated the entire continent, with people who manifestly did not want to work for whomever they were then working. Their adventurous and herculean spirit created the greatest nation of Earth, and continues to outpace all comers, even in an age when many are beguiled by the shackles of the left.

So enjoy your weekend, America. You’ve earned it. And on Tuesday, go pursue your calling with all your skill and might.

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