Yes It Was Stolen.

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Watermarks: Another Venue For Exposing The Fraud.

 Ask any avid stamp collector about watermarked paper and this is what they will tell you: firstly watermarks have nothing to do with what is eventually printed on the paper. They are created by making a physical impression of a specific design while the paper is still wet. These impressions can be vary from the large and obvious, to smaller ones that can be seen by holding the paper up to the light to those requiring special wetting agents to see definitively.

If someone is saying that some appear different because of the machine they were printed with, they are lying or ignorant. My bet is they are lying. I would also bet that under examination these ballots will show that the alleged watermarks are actually printed on the paper.

Sidney Powell: Saviour of the Republic?

I have not the slightest doubt that Sidney Powell, not to mention her tacit alliance with L. Linn Wood, scares the bejezus out of these leftists. And I'm also sure that the higher up on the chain of corruption and treason the more sleepless nights she is creating.

The louder and more insistent the Demonrats and their RINO scum satraps become in insisting that Trump concede "for the good of the nation" the more certain I am that she and her intrepid team have found more than even they had imagined. The more personal and vitriolic the attacks against her become the more absolutely convinced I am that the conspirators will have no answers to the evidence she will present except to deny that it even exists.

The Biden steal was a last desperate attempt to stem the tide of American populism and national pride that remain an obstacle to all kinds of collectivists. It was the culmination of long laid plans. The communists have already completed their long march through the universities and the entertainment industry. (Objective journalists simply no longer exist. If one looks at any of them honestly all you find are varrying degrees of truth and lies.) 

They had fully expected this plan to come to fruition with Hillary in 2016.  By the end of her first term the size of the middle class would be driven below 45% and the population so demoralized and dependent on government handouts that by the beginning of her second she could just turn the keys over to the ChiComs and nobody would notice.

But then a force fully emerged. A man who said things they had lauded him for in the past. Just so long as he didn't really act on what he said and kept writing donation checks to their campaigns. But now the time for friendly chats with Oprah were over. The time of firing people for fun and profit on TV was over. Time to put action to words had come and the much put upon and fed up indignant Americans was determined to be right there with him!

And with them they were in 2016 and they are with him in even greater numbers today! The foolishness, incompetence and emptiness of 8 years of Obama was there for all to see no matter how much the media tried to hide it. Trump became Obama's stark legacy of refutation. With Trump's victory so to came the time to put every conceivable corrupt idea into play. Not just into play but put on steroids and meth.

Like with most all criminal operations, they were over confident. They screwed up and got caught. They know 5hey did it, we know they did it and they know we know they did it. And again I'm pretty sure they aren't particularly confident that Sidney Powell doesn't have the goods on them. They know that not a single person she named as corrupt in the Federal DA's office ever sued her for slander, libel or defamation for her book "License to Lie." Why? Because truth is always an irrefutable defense.

The crashendo is building and it going to break upon and out of the Supreme Court. Which side gets washed away and which side will remain as the waters reced only time will tell, but it won't be long.

Somebody should start a dead pool on who the first Arkanside victim will be. Once the first one drops the rest are trapped. Caught between the rock of merciless Arkanside and the hard place of an FBI that nobody in their right mind trusts.

Alinsky Rules For Thee But Not For Me? Think Again...

 Time perhaps to adopt that Alinsky rule about making the enemy follow his own rules. If they say we can’t gather in groups larger than than “allowed” and both dare and demand they arrest be arrested when the cops show up. Flood the intake facilities and courts. When they try to fall back to issuing citations, rip them up in their faces and demand they arrest you for littering! Have large, loud parties and then report yourselves. Rinse repeat.

Then watch as the crime and murder rates rise and the left tries to blame Trump supporters. The answer of course us to say: Now wait, you leftist have been calling for defunding the police. You want this not just to grab those financial resources but PRINCIPALLY to reduce or eliminate police presence in minority communities. Well we’ve done half your job for you! We’d think you would get grateful. Now we want to see you demand the police stop spending time and resources on suppressing your political enemies and put them back in the business going after real and violent criminals. Have fun! We will be watching with great interest!”

The Transformation Of The Postal Service Into An Instrument Of Cultural Marxism.

There should be little surprise that the Postal Service has become embroiled in the corruption of this year's election. Like so many of our institutions it has become subverted and perverted by cultural Marxism.

There once was a time, not that long ago, when stamp collecting was not only a popular hobby, but the publication of stamps was an important way of memorializing important people, places and events to the American people. This was vitally important in showing Americans that they had more in common and uniting than any differences coming from where they lived or how differently they spelled their last names. This knitting together of Americans would play a crucial role in the Second World War.

FDR recognized this and as an avid collector himself, he personally selected the designs of many of the stamps issued during his tenure in the White House. Most noted of these was the National Parks issues of 1934 and 1935. 

Although the hobby has shrunk over the years these are still considered some of the most collectable. In fact the quality of the engraving work that went into stamps of the era far exceeds anything generally found today. In fact most stamps today are photogravure or lithography which makes for colorful stamps but lack true fine detail.

But back to my main point about the conveyance of cultural Marxism by demonstrating a case in point. 2020 may become the year we will all want to forget but it still will be the 400th anniversary of the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth harbor. One hundred years ago the Post Office issued a three stamp series memorializing the 300th anniversary. At that time the event was considered an iconic part of the American story the stamps were and remain today the only stamps ever issued that bare no identification as US Postage! 

But back then it was still taught in school that The Mayflower Compact was the very first written expression of free men laying out their intent to government themselves in a democratic manner in the new world. They recognized that they were still the king's subjects but that where they had landed was well outside any areas that could be considered part of the Virginia Charter so it fell to them to create a legal system for governance.

Fast forward 50 years to the 350th anniversary issue of 1970. Although just a single stamp issue it still portrayed the event in a positive lite. The sun can be seen rising in the east behind the Mayflower as the Pilgrims come ashore to new beginnings and new dangers in their there new world.

Now let's look at this years issue. Rather than conveying a positive picture it's dark and foreboding. The sun is seen slipping below the horizon in the west as if the ship's arrival portends some terrible ending. It's seems a send sad message to about a great chapter in lAmerican history. 

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It's easy to forget why most settlers came to the new world. They were escaping not just religious persecution but the oppression of the cities of Europe were open sewers. The horrors of the Black Death still haunted many if not most. (And we think the Sino-Lung-Rot is bad.) The population explosion that occurred afterwards made both the conditions of crowding and filth in the cities and poverty in the countryside worse. 

Little wonder then that so many including my intrepid ancestors would choose to risk almost certain death to escape. Indeed fewer than half of them survived that first winter that was already upon them as they arrived.

But these are all things that are not taught, certainly not in any meaningful way, and they are certainly not anything the Marxists want you to consider. To listen to them you would think that the settlers all came here with a blood lust and determined to kill every native in sight. I find it beyond disgusting that such lies are taught in our schools and that the sacrifices made by so many to risk their lives to live in freedom and to leave that to there progeny is not. 

Cheating Around The Edges. Part 2

I can't speak for anywhere but in the 12th Congressional District portion of Mecklenburg County but imagine my lack of surprise when BOTH the electronic ballot and the paper provisional ballot lacked any provision to cast a write in ballot except in the Presidential race and the local Soil & Water Commissioner race. Having already found that my precinct had been moved from the 9th to the 12th CD where the Democrat was running unopposed I had already determined that I was going to cast a write-in for Congress before I arrived.

So your humble correspondent lacked no hesitation to ask the poll working staff, many of whom I know personally and others knew me as I have been voting there for over 30 years, what was going on. They freely admitted that it didn't seem right to them either and that I was not the only one to have expressed dismay if not objection to the Congressional District change.

They didn't hesitate to call the county board of elections who quickly sent someone from the office to investigate. To no one's surprise the lady who showed up had no answer either other than to instruct the precinct staff to allow me to fill out a provisional ballot which as previously noted also lacked any provision for write-ins.

As it now sits I have a receipt for my ballot and a tracking number but I have to wait 10 days before I can call to check on it's status. By way of prediction I would bet that my having nearly written in my choice in what little space was available in the 12th CD box will be classified as an extraneous mark and used to throw it out.

Stay tuned.

Push Is Coming To Shove Very Quickly.

 What the left doesn't realize is that this nation's conservatives are just as if not more determined to preserve this republic as they are determined to destroy it. It is they who have taken up the weapons of hate and division not the conservatives. So far they have confused our passivity in the face of their escalating violence with weakness and or lack of resolve. That is rapidly changing.

Americans for most of our history have sought nothing but to live in peace, to pursue our own happiness, free from the impositions of other people and nations. We built a government whose sole purpose was to protect us from the impositions from others, internally, i.e. criminals and extetnally from foreign powers that would seek to control our actions or take territory from us. All other government actions beyond those that supported the protections of INDIVIDUAL rights and securing the borders was and should be regarded with suspicion.

Well now, as the corrupt leftist politicians who have long acustomed themselves to abusing our election process with their games and cheating, they are being confronted by the righteous indignation of inspired and angry conservatives who are saying, " enough is enough, this ends now!" This leaves the left in a state of irrational confusion. Their attitude seems to be that this is how we have conducted ourselves (illegally) before so we're not going to change no mater who challenges us or shows up with a court order directing us to open the process as proscribed in the law. After screaming at us for 4 years that "No one is above the law," they now expose their hypocracy by openly refusing to comply with the law.

As far as I am concerned the best case scenario would be for the Republicans to go to the SCOTUS asking for relief in PA but also questioning the legality of the vote in all these game playing states that have abrogated the Constitution stating that the process has become so contaminated as to make an honest count all but impossible and requesting that their results be set aside and excluded from the electoral count. These states have so allowed corruption into their systems that their failure to address and correct them over decades has abrogated their responsibilities as states and they should be excluded from this election. My druthers would be that they be returned to territorial status untill their governments, constitutions and systems are reformed so as to forever guarantee the electoral rights of their citizens. I.e. they must return to "republican" forms of government as the Constitution requires they maintain. These leftist a holes had best realize that the 14th Amendment and the Insurrection Act are still on the books and win, lose or draw, Donald Trump is still the President and has every authority to use them in order "Protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

Cheating Around The Edges Of The 9th Congressional District.

The Demonrats aren't just going to cheat in the Presidential race but are targeting local Congresdional districts for cheating as well.

After having a conversation with my neighbor about her voting experience and doing my own explorations my fears have been realized. Somebody either at the board of elections or more likely a corrupt Demonrat judge is messing with the boundary between the 12th and the 9th to help the Demonrats in the 9th.

Ever since the ballot harvesting fiasco in 2018 and the subsequent special election had only a 5000 vote margin, the Demonrats have had a target on the 9th district.

By way of background over 40 years ago the 9th district was comprised of Mecklenburg county and areas from the surrounding counties. As the state grew and new districts were added we got blessed with the 12th district. This district was the textbook definition of gerrymandering, not because of any corruption in the state legislature but because some corrupt federal judge ruled that majority black districts must be created. It was one of the most criticized districts in the entire nation. 

Since then and over the years through redistricting, more court rulings, and demographic changes the 9th is now comprised of the counties to the southeast of Mecklenburg and the southeastern and not coincidentally wealthy and traditionally Republican part of the county.

After my conversation with my neighbor I put my address into the county elections board's web site and it came back saying I was in the 12th district. Yet when I went to the official federal website for district maps and zoomed in on my location it showed me in the 9th! Now when I asked when the line had been moved I was told it was two years ago. At this point I told the young lady who was just a 20 something clerk at best, that "I'm sorry but that's a lie. I'm not accusing you, but that is a lie. I voted in both the special election in the 9th last year and the regular election in 2018." Rather than blowing up at such blatant fraud and manipulation. I simply thanked her and left as I was not in the mood to go to jail.

Attempts to reach both phone numbers for Congressman Bishop official office and campaign office produced vapid recordings and the board of elections didn't answer. Being determined to find out something I drove down the the board of elections myself, donned my stupid mask and went in side and asked to see the "official" map. After some hesitency and asking to put my address into their computer I refused and again ask to see the official map. They then took me to a large map of the county and it indeed showed the boundary had been shifted about three blocks moving several thousand mostly Republican voters from the 9th into the 12th.

It should be noted that the 12th is now as it was intended so majority Demonrat that Republicans don't even bother to put up a candidate. So the addition 9f Republican voters to the 12th has absolutely zero chance of having any effect on the results there but it can and will effect the results 8in the Republican controlled 9th.

There are certainly areas of the 9th to the north of me that not simply close to the border as defined but are actually surrounded on three sides and are only a few blocks wide. But wait this is the heart of Myers Park where the multi-million dollar mansions are lined of cheek to jowl and they are almost all occupied by wealthy bankers and industrialists (what few are left in Charlotte). You know the very scumbags that like open borders and low worker wages. So us peons in Barkley Down who are mearly well to do because we worked hard all our lives get screwed and the super-rich get to keep their power, voice and influence.

Joe Biden, the New Green Deal and the Destruction of the Paper Industry.

I have posted on this subject before but its time to elaborate. 

 Few people understand how energy intensive the paper industry is. I was in the busjness of suppling equipment to paper plants for most of my career and I can honestly say i have never been to a paper mill that operated on the public power grid. Paper production requires three things beyond wood pulp, lots of electrical power, lots of high pressure steam and lots of highly corrosive chemicals. 

After choping the wood into small pieces and adding whatever other matetials the customer requires, depending on what the end product is, it all goes into what is called a digester along with the first batch of chemicals, lots of chemicals. This produces the slurry which is pressed, dried and has the chemical residue extracted. (Just recently a mill in Jay Maine whose sole product was toilet paper had their digester blow up in a massive explosion. This besides idiot hording was the cause of the recent shortages and price spike, particularly in the Northeast.) 

 This chemical residue is considered one of the most toxic and corrosive by-products that come out of any industry. It's so toxic that it can't simply be disposed of. So what is done is that it is reprocessed into first "red liquor" and then into "black liquor." This product is then burned as a fuel in specially designed "recovery" boilers to extract as much of the energy back out of the chemicals for use in making needed steam and electricity. Every paper plant in America has at least two COAL fired plants and at least one recovery boiler. I have been to some plants that had as many as five coal plants and three recovery boilers. 

These recovery boilers are considered one of the most dangerous places in the world to work. No one is even allowed to go up onto the tower until they have been through an extensive orentation class. If for any reason there is an external steam leak or anything else that may cause the boiler's internal pressure to go positive and the alarms go off there is only one rule in effect. Put on a rebreather mask and get the hell off the tower as fast as you can. You don't ask questions because any hesitation can mean a painful death from poisonous gasses. 

Now back during the Obama administration they imposed a hew tax on the paper industry specifically targeting this combination of energy recovery and toxic waste disposal. Taxes were imposed upon them based on how much fuel they generated. Imagine if you were taxed every time you properly disposed of your waste insted of dumping it at the side of the road. 

The fact that these taxes are simply added to the pricees they charge the customers (thus becoming a tax on the consumr, i.e. your butt!) is completely lost or ignored by the politicians who create them. They just give temselves another raise to offset the consequences to them and screwing the taxpayer yet again. This among other things is why you find it so expensive to wipe your butt! 

Now Biden and the New Green Deal is promising to "do away with fossil fuels" all together. The reality is there is no other way to produce the every day paper products we use. Be it toilet paper or the brown paper bags they insist you bring your groceries home in. 

So get ready folks. If these stinking communists get their way you will be shitting into a ditch in your back yard and cleaning your ass with your left uand and a bowl of water, just like the rest of yhe third world that they are determined to turn our great republic into. 3

Trump Steps Up

The President's latest orders to cut off all federal funding to the use of "critical race theory" in government agencies as well as cutting off federal funding to schools using the fraudulent "1619 Project" on their curriculums is bound to set leftist brains into apoplectic meltdowns.

This move, along with the DOJ openly admitting it is compiling charges against the leaders and organizers of Antifa and BLM, would seem to indicate that the administration is taking a broad front approach to surpressing what is and open communist insurrection. That the administration is going to tie the insurrectionists directly to the Biden/Harris campaign is a forgone conclusion and Harris is actually facilitating this almost every time she opens her mouth. Even openly stating that the violence "will continue, it must continue."

More to come I'm sure.......

Come November 4th.

Come dawn Nov. 4th, win or lose Trump needs to smash the communists including their facilitators on college campuses. It's time we recognise and act on the basis that fascism and communism are evil twins. Given power they BOTH rapidly become machines of mass human slaughter. That is an undeniable fact. That fact and that fact alone is all that is needed to render any and all rhetorical differences between them as irrelevant. Dead is dead. When you see these mad, hate filled, spoiled children screaming in the faces of innocent people can you really doubt that they are but half a step from public lynchings? Given that we are already seeing both planned and random assassinations, why would you doubt that Madame LaFarge but lurks in all of these mobs? They are already using moc guillotines. How long until someone hauls out a real one?

Why I Have Come To Loath Professional Athletes,

Organized sports, from professional to the local American Legion leagues is an integral part of supporting and participating in our local communities. Our anamosities were directed at the teams of other cities as friendly rivalries. Nobody cared cared what race or color or where they came from. They very last thing we cared about, wanted to know or even gave a passing thought to was what their politics were. Neither did we care or think about what the politics of our fellow fans was. They were fellow supporters of our guys, playing for our team against those hated rivals from across the town or across the country. That's all that mattered. It a freaking game, and we loved it as such because we played them as kids or we simply loved to watch the competition. A good play was a good play because it was a good play not because it was made by a black guy or a white guy or a brown or yellow guy. We had no problem with meritocracy in sports. We went to the ballpark, arena or stadium because we wanted to see our guys play and win. They were as the should be, neutral ground for everything except beating the other team.

But now all that of has ruined. Destroyed beyond repair by bunch of selfish assholes who think they have the right to not just shove their politics in everybody's face but also demand that everyone, fellow players and fans alike agree with them or risk being called a racist and or being cancelled in social media. Some people have even been fired from their jobs because they dare speak their minds in disagreement even over the smallest of points. They have destroyed our affection for "our" guys, but our affection for the games themselves. The fans are staying away in droves not just from the venues where they are played but also from the TV broadcasts of them. If they think the owners will continue to pay their outrageous salaries in the face of declining ticket sales and shrinking ad revenue they might want to think again, but they won't. So they will get the layoff notices like millions of other Americans, except they will blame it on a racism that doesn't exist.

The "black lives matter" movement has become like a religious cult. A cult possessed of an all seeing eye that is in endless search for things to be offended by and people to condemn and destroy. If you have lived a life or even had an ancestor that fails to meet their definition of what is politically proper you are subject to condemnation. Even for things you have no control over. Worse yet, like in the worst of religious cults, for the "transgressor" there is and can never be any forgiveness or absolution no matter what. The question is, will the rest of us have the courage and gumption to fight back. It is the left that has declared us their enemy and that we and anything we hold dear must be destroyed simply because they say so.

But then that is what this is about. It's not about the right to protest or express an opinion. It's about destroying yet another aspect of life that is and sould be a model for and an expression of what's good and what has been accomplished in and by the great American melting pot. It's about giving voice and power to those who would be an American Pol Pot if given the chance.

Open your eyes people. The "Fourth Turning" is upon us. America's 80 year cycle of crisis has come again. We have successfully overcome them before, albeit only after paying a terrible price. What the cost will be this time is yet to be determined. These forces of destruction are determined that this struggle will be fought whether we want it or not. The question is, will the rest of us muster the courage to not just fight back but destroy them and the vile collectivist oppression they stand for?

Is The Black Vote Going To Crush Biden?

In 2016 Trump garnered a larger percentage of the black vote than either of the Bush clan Presidents and this was a significant element in Trump's victory of the Hildabeast. It wasn't just that HRC was such an awful candidate who was arrogant in her assumption of victory and a monolithic black vote.

Trump's appeal to blacks of "What have you got to lose?" clearly stuck a cord with many blacks who saw not just 8 years of Obama doing little to nothing to improve their lot, but 30 years of black Democrats enriching themselves while spreading little but crumbs in the communities they claimed to represent.

Is 2020 going to be different? You bet it is! In 2016 there wàs black support for Trump but it was not especially vocal or out front about it for fear of ridicule by the black establishment. In 2020 there are a great many more blacks who have come out of the closet so to speak. And for everyone that is now openly supporting Trump there will be even more who will simply make their feelings known only in the voting booth.

The unspoken fact is that even a 3% to 5% shift on the black vote will doom the Demonrats. We know it, the Demonrats know it and the world is going to know it come Nov.

The other factor that the Demonrats are going to have to dig out from under is that they took the house in 2018 on the basis of a lie. They and the news media had pounded the Russia collision drum from the moment he took office. Subsequent events have show it to have been not just a lie but also a corrupt conspiracy that used the machines of government to attack political opponents. I have little doubt that there is a good percentage of those who voted on that basis who don't like being lied to, specially by politicians, and will vote this year on the basis of their anger at being lied to.

It's not going to be a Reganesque landslide for Trump but it will be, I think, a significant loss for the Demonrats. Otherwise we may as well begin carving the tombstone for the American experiment, because the left is determined to destroy it once and for all.

Who Died And Made The Mayor Of DC President?

I'm seeing that the Demonrat mayor of Washington DC is ordering that all National Guard troops be evicted for Hotels in the District. Just where does it say she has any such authority? It's not in the Constitution and certainly not in the DC city charter. The Constitution prohibits quartering of troops in PRIVATE homes without due compensation. It says nothing about quartering them in public accommodations, compensated or otherwise. The bitch had best read Title 10 Section 253 of the US Code. Her eviction order could certainly be interpreted as inability or  refusal to protect the citizens and property of  Washington DC and refusing to enforce and or hindering the enforcement Federal law. Beyond that the entire city government in DC exists only at the forbearance of Congress and its entire existence and authority can be reverted to Congress by the stroke of a pen.

No one in their right mind would think that the current civil unrest situation is not far worse that that that occurred in Chicago in 1968 or during the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles. In both cases the unrest was localized and yet federal troops were brought in and there was no such push back from local authorities as we are currently seeing in both DC and NYC.

Both of these mayor's and more than a few others and well as state governors are acting like petty lords not wanting their fifedoms overseen or even criticized by higher constitutional authority. They are not "co equal branches of govetnment"and the supremecy clause is still the supercedes them, whatever their objections.

This of course has nothing to do with preserving local authority and it sure as hell has nothing to do with protecting the citizenry or their property. This has everything to do with trying to weaken the President going into the 2020 elections and is motivated solely by the left's white hot rage and hatred of Trump.

Their hypocrisy is both naked and contemptable.

A tale of two Bibles.

This Violence Has Nothing To Do With One Death in Minnesota. Rev. 1.

This rapidly spreading violence has nothing to do with one tragic death in Minneapolis. That tragedy was just the catalyst, the excuse. The radicals of BLM and ANTIFA  are hard core communists and don't give a damn about George Floyd or "social justice". They care about sewing chaos and destruction, anything to weaken or damage the American system of government and human freedom of self-determination.

With the economy reeling and human dispare spreading from a manufactured, deliberate or otherwise, over reaction to the Sino-Lung-Rot they have grabbed onto this tragedy to spread violence as far and as wide as possible to try to trigger a further over reaction to bring them under control which would then have the  Democrats and the Media screaming "Trump is a Fascist!" 24-7 right up until the election or to push the country into such a deep depression that we will have little means left to resist further Chinese subversion and economic aggression.

Only a fool would think the large Chinese presence in our universities is just to steal our secrets. Our homegrown communist college professors aren't the only ones responsible for filling generations of American student's heads with anti-American crap.

The other factor that should not be ignored is the rapid unraveling of the Spygate scandal that threatens to not just expose criminal conduct in the Obama White House, which it is increasingly appearing that Biden was involved with, but more importantly threatens the structures and actions of an entrenched intelligence community and FBI bureaucracy that has long put itself and it's judgements above the law, the people and republic. To think that people like Obama, Brennan, Clapper, Comey and the rest are above creating dangerous and deadly distractions in order to try and save their asses from prosecution and criminal conviction is naive and simple ignores the arrogance of power.

This is not about bringing down Trump in 2020. The naive may think this is just a destroy Trump at any cost game and once he is out of office things can go back to their "normal" self-indulgent foolishness. This is about bring down America. If you don't believe that then you haven't been listening to what the communists have been saying since the end of WWII.

Barr Says No Charges For Obama Or Biden??

Well screw that Billy Boy. Obama and Biden are both guilty as sin and you know it. Your statement seems both presumptuous and premature.

I can only ask , no not ask, demand, "What did they know and when did they know it?" If they knew what their underlings and agents were doing and those actions were criminal, why did they tolerate it and not stop it  and immediately fire them, if not refer them for prosecution? Are we supposed to believe that both Obama and Biden were oblivious to what was going on around them?

I understand that any attempt to prosecute either of them will be seen as political by many, regardless of what ever evidence is presented. But should they be really be exempt from investigation and prosecution simply because of their status as former office holders? If they have guilt to bear then let the evidence be examined and presented to the public. Then and only then let the President decide to pardon them as Ford did Nixon to prevent an even deeper crisis. But he did so only after Nixon's guilt was clear for ALL to see. So let it be with Obama and Biden.

Indeed there are just as many who would see it as political to not investigate and preclude charges, particularly if there is strong evidence that they attempted to disrupt that longest of American political traditions, the peaceful transition of power between administrations, no matter how bitter the political disagreements. In fact John Adams was so disturbed and angry after the tumultuous election of 1800 that he refused to attend Jefferson's inauguration and simply packed his bags and started on the road back to Massachusetts.

This tradition has been a sacred trust 9f the American system and something free governments around the world have long aspired to emulate. It's violation should be regarded as among the highest orders of treason against the republic.

So then I can understand if not grudgingly agree to pardons but only after their actions have been examined by the Dept. of Justice AND the public. If they are indeed guilty of crimes let them be stripped of all pensions and protections and let them live out their lives in shame, ignominity and obscurity.

The Greatest Danger Of The Obama Plot.

As much as we would all like to see it and as guilty as Obama may be for either instigating or approving this treason against the Republic he will never be arrested. One of the reasons Barr and Durham are taking as long as they have up to this point is that they know they must construct an absolutely air tight case against him. One that leaves him absolutely no wiggle room to make any deflections to his underlings or to claim he knew noting of their plots Against Trump and the incoming administration. When they have that case constructed someone will go to Obama and present him with it and give him the option to "escape" into exile and obscurity.

The danger being that if the DOJ does place him under arrest, per walks him and presents even irrefutable evidence for all the world to see, the communist left will use it as an excuse to quite literally burn American cities to the ground and create so much havoc and destruction that it will both ignite a civil war at home and give the Chinese Communists an all but free hand to take Taiwan, ignite a new war in Korea and do god only knows what else in the western Pacific.

Do not ever underestimate the evil that burns within these people and their desire to destroy not just the United States but human freedom itself. Both sides know the left holds this card and it would be a great mistake to think they are not willing to play it.

FOR THE LEFT ORWELL'S 1984 IS NOT A WARNING BUT RATHER AN INSTRUCTION MANUAL! "What is the future Winston? Imagine a boot stomping on a human face, FOREVER."

Leftist Hate and Bad Brain Chemistry

I have been contending for a while now that when an individual becomes singularly focused  on hatred for an extended period of time that it creates a change in brain chemistry that can in extreme cases cause defineable and diagnosable insanity.

It has long been established that many defined mental disorders are the result of chemical changes and imbalances in the brain and that they can be treated with drugs (chemicals) that effect and or restore those imbalances.

Why then should it be some stretch of the imagination that obsessive and compulsive hatred, as we are seeing focused on Trump and anyone who even dares express support for him or his policies, would created these same sort of imbalances that lead to virtually identical irrational and delusional behaviors and expressions?

Why then should there be an exception to a diagnosis of irrational delusions and or obsessive compulsive behavior because they are out growth of the person's politics?

After all we don't have any problem saying that the Hitlerites or the Stalinists or Maoists or Keymer Rouge were insane. Other than the extremes of what they actually did with power, how are their expressions that different from what we heard from Howard Stern or Jennifer Rubin? Why then shouldn't we be deathly afraid if people who make such statements are just as insane and would give their hatreds murderous manifestation given the opportunity?

Bill Gates, America's Would Be Director Of Everything.

Bill Gates has gone on record demanding that President Trump shut down the nation for an entire year. This is of course utter insanity but it is easy for him to say from behind the walls of his billion dollar estate with electrified fences and hundreds of security cameras monitored by armed guards possessing an arsenal that would make any prepper green with envy. He no doubt has stockpiles of food and supplies to sustain his family and staff for well over a year. I'm sure he also has Doctors and nurses on staff and a well stocked private hospital on site. Add in huge diesel generators and the fuel supplies to operate them, along with private wells and water filtration systems. Short of falling down and breaking his damn neck he has nothing to worry about.  Meanwhile 10 million Americans are now unemployed, many of whom were already living paycheck to paycheck.

Just don't be surprised as this virus runs it's course if another bio-hazard suddenly appears as an excuse to keep us locked away, afraid and dependent on government. I'm sure Gates and people like him have dreams of Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451" and would burn every copy of George Orwell's "1984" and "Animal Farm" and especially Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World". They dream of a world where all information and communication is filtered through controlled media and platforms like Google, Yahoo and Facebook and only available on "smart" TVs and software and hardware systems they own and through which they can control and limit what you see and monitor what you say and whom you communicate with.

They really do see themselves as the "masters of the universe" and that they and only they are wise enough and capable enough of making the decisions on how society should operate and who should operate it. They see themselves as Huxley's Alphas and those that work for them, building and running their control platforms as their society's Betas. The rest of us, those who can't be replaced with robots (that they and only they can be allowed to build and supply), will be the Gammas and confined to the basements of society. The virtual slaves, worthy of little more than the dirty jobs, stoop labor and domestic servants catering to their petty, capricious whims and demands. If you are not among those they need as slaves as ND whose jobs have been replaced with robots and AI, you will just be cut off and allowed to die off in obscurity like you never existed.

If I could tell Gates and his kind anything it would be to tell them to go crawl into your million dollar panic rooms with your safes full of cash, bullion, guns and food and please never come out. Either that or take out one of your pistols and blow your fracking brains out. We don't need or want your vision of the future and we don't need or want you.

The Chinese Virus And What It Means

I have hesitated to write anything about the Chinese flu epidemic up until now because, well everybody is writing about the Chinese flu epidemic. Frankly I'm still all but certain that whatever your humble correspondent writes here will become lost in all the surface noise, because thats what 99% of what is out there is, surface noise. So I'm going to be blunt about it. The reader can either take it at face value and consider it or get all offended by it. I don't really care. So here goes

GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR ASS AMERICA!  This might be an epic struggle with a pandemic disease on the surface but beneath its immediate danger is an economic and ideological conflict the outcome of which will shape the remainder of this century and beyond.

Chinese government controlled companies have produced and sold to Americans:
1. Poisoned toothpaste.
2. Poisoned dogfood.
3. Poisonous dry wall.
4. Children's toys covered with lead paint.
5. Children's clothing that leached dangerous chemicals.

These were not simply accidents or quality control failures. They were tests to see what they could get away with and to see how we would react to such hidious crimes. We failed the test in that we have done nothing but wag a finger with one hand while signing off on more business dealings the other.

But all Twitter, FaceBook, the news media and global corporations are worried about are their ad revenues and profits from China so they not only won't block Chinese propaganda, they openly propagate it. It's as if the entire world has forgotten the terrible lessons of the 20th century. In hindsight we condemn those people and families and regimes that profited from dealing with Hitler's Germany, Mussolini's Italy and Tojo's Japan yet today we say virtually nothing about those profiting hand over fist by dealing with an equally venal Communist China.

 THE WORLD AS A WHOLE NEEDS TO DISENGAGE FROM CHINA COMPLETELY!  There is nothing they produce that we can't either make ourselves or obtain from other suppliers. There is no reason in the world we can't build clothing  and small appliance etc. factories in Central and South America. This would not only help to disengage from China, limiting their economic and political reavh but would also help stem the flood of illegal immigrants who primary motivation is the lack of economic opportunity in their own countries.

The Chinese lie cheat and steal at every turn. And they get away with it because we don't punish them even when they get caught because some global corporation profiting in the billions, shoves millions of dollars into the pockets of politicians of both parties to block any initiatives to punish China.   

They enslave their own people in huge labor camps to produce the cheap goods we buy, most of which aren't worth the boxes they come in or they wear out or break down in six months and we don't care because they're cheap. So we just throw it away and buy another one because we no longer have either the skill much less the desire to fix anything. 

They imprison religious minorities in concentration camps including Muslims and Christians and virtually all of the Tibetan nation. They harvest human organs from prisoners against their will to sell them into the global black market. Again we turn a blind eye because well we're gluttons and drunks or we certainly have a relative or two that are and we or they just might need a new kidney or liver some day. All that's missing is the "Arbiet Macht Frei" sign over the gates.

This is of course only a partial list of China's economic crimes and crimes against humanity, but we  are supposed to trust them to make such critical goods as our medicines and medical devices, our machine tools and equipment?  We have left ourselves vulnerable to coercion and blackmail by the most racist, corrupt, inhuman,fascist nation of the 21st century. A brutal regime that openly states their determination to become the most dominant economic and military power on Earth. Have not heard and seen this before?

If nothing else comes out of this epidemiological disaster it should open our eyes to the folly of globalism that has been promoted by both parties and shoved down our throats by every President since Bush the elder. It should also be revealing to the politically naive why all of them  so viciously opposed Trump and his America first agenda and still do so to this day.

We can either disengage and confront this 21st century fascist monstrosity or fall into the trap of fear, appeasement and the inevitability of a 21st century war, the survivability would be in serious doubt. At the risk of repeating myself, GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR ASS AMERICA!

Well that's my 2¢ worth on the Chinese virus crisis. Please feel free to agree, disagree, praise or condemn in the comments. But at least have an open enough mind to turn off the TV for awhile and think!

Gateway Part Two.

In response to having been banned by Gateway Pundit I sent the following missive to their service address.

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"I have been a frequent commentor on Gateway for several years and have frequently garnered positive reations to my posts as FVS.

"My comment on the recent story concerning the blatently racist UVA student who was calling, for all intents and purposes, a return to segregation, was intended as both irony and sarcasm. Yet whoever you have monitoring comments on this story took it literally and chose to not simply remove the post or temporarily suspended my posting privileges but instead issued an outright ban on my IP address and remove all of the hundreds of comments I have made over the years.

"I find such a reaction to be antithetical to what I and so many others have come to believe your site stands for. It is what one might expect from Twitter or Facebook.

"Your consideration and review of this matter would be greatly appreciated and simply because I feel I have made meaningful contributions in the past but have have developed relationships with several of my fellow contributors over the years."
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Rather than address any of the points I raised their response was a terse one liner. "The ban was for racism." It only proved my point regarding their over reaction and lack of perceptive capabilities.

Not being one to accept such a terse and arrogant dismissal I sent off the following reply.
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"Horse feathers. Your inability to perceive tongue in cheek sarcasm is apparently limited. If my comment was intended as racist why then did I end it with suggesting that a trip to West Africa might give her a greater appreciation for what living in a majority white country has provided? Have you ever been to Africa? I have.

Or perhaps it's that banning people with perspectives different than your staff's gives you some sense if power. It seems you are more concerned about what you perceive as my racism than you are about the real racism of the left that goes largely unchallenged.

I am of that generation that grew up with and were part of the desegregation movement. We lived with and freely associated blacks and accepted them as equals. We believed in Dr. King's message of judgement based on character rather than color.  Our thanks for this has been that today our children and grandchildren are taught in school that they are inherently evil and racist simply based on the color of their skin.

If you are offended by the disillusionment and sarcasm of my generation at the destruction of those things we were brought up to believe in and act in accordance with just wait to you see what happens when the full reaction of a generation taught to be self loathing sets in.

I harbor no illusions that you will reconsider your decision but I would suggest you broaden your perspectives on history and consider the repercussions of the destruction of the nobility of what others were taught and sincerely believed in rather than simply dismissing what you don't understand as racism while the world around us sinks into yet another fascist nightmare."
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These morons might think that this is over. It's not. There are larger issues here than their petty arrogance. Stay tuned.

Gateway Pundit goes full PC on Race

A great many conservatives Gateway Pundit has been both a reliable source of news without the filter of leftist bill crap and a place where commentary was freewheeling and largely unrestricted. Irony, sarcasm and all measures of snark were openly accepted and debate where disagreement occured was accepted and expected.

Some how that has now changed, at least when it comes to the subject of criticizing black racism with the same aformentioned irony and sarcasm.

My regular readers will also know me by my Disqus handle of FVS. I commented on Gateway's leading story of the day concerning  a black UVA student making a blatantly racist statement that there were "to many white people" at the opening of the newly built campus "Cultural Diversity Center".
I responded, implying that if she is so much in favor of segregation, that perhaps we should just return to full blown segregation with colored only drinking fountains and perhaps the 3/5ths rule as well.  I closed the comment, proving it was sarcasm directed at the irony of her idiotic remark, by suggest she take an extended trip to her ancestral homelands of West Africa and she might come home with a greater appreciation of what living in a majority white country has provided for her.

This comment was met with immediate reaction from Gateway's nameless moderator who took such offence that the comment was not simply removed not was I put in some kind of "time out" like I was a petulant child, but I was permanently banned from commenting on the platform.

I can only conclude that Gateway is hiring ex twitter employees as moderators or they are so afraid of the racecard Nazis that no such absurd sarcasm is to be tolerated.. Or perhaps they have hired former Obama AG William Holder as their race issue moderator. Holder was after all the guy who made his first speech at the DOJ saying that "We are a nation of cowards" on the subject of race. It would certainly appear that that mindset had taken root at Disqus.

Explain How This Is OK You Leftist Scumbags

Tell us again why we don't need a wall on the Mexican border...

Jan 31 (Reuters) - A man accused of killing two police officers while acting as the leader of an al Qaeda group in the Iraqi city of Fallujah was arrested in Phoenix, Arizona, federal officials said on Friday.

Ali Yousif Ahmed Al-Nouri, 42, is wanted in Iraq on charges of premeditated murder of the Iraqi police officers in 2006, according to a statement by the U.S. Attorney's Office District of Arizona.

An Iraqi judge issued a warrant for Al-Nouri's arrest and the government there issued an extradition request to the U.S. Justice Department, the statement said.

The Justice Department sought an arrest warrant for Al-Nouri and he was taken into custody on Thursday in Phoenix.

He appeared before a federal magistrate judge in Phoenix on Friday in connection with proceedings to extradite him to Iraq, the statement said.

According to the Iraqi government, al-Nouri was the leader of an al Qaeda group in Fallujah which planned operations targeting Iraqi police.

The statement noted the details in the Iraqi complaint were allegations that had yet to been proven in court.

Al-Nouri's extradition would have to be certified by the U.S. court and the U.S. Secretary of State would then decide whether to surrender him to Iraq, the statement said.

It was not immediately possible to contact Al-Nouri for comment or determine whether he had hired a lawyer.

The statement did not provide information on when Al-Nouri entered the United States or how long he had lived in Phoenix. (Reporting by Andrew Hay in New Mexico; Editing by Lincoln Feast.)

China: Second Degree Effects

In my previous post I mentioned how the coronovirus has the potential to seriously impair the Chinese economy and destabilize the government with possible serious repercussions for the party leadership.

This has been all but confirmed by Chinese attacks on the US as "cruel" for taking steps to  protect itself from further contagion by prohibiting entry to foreigners with recent Chinese travel in their passport records and cutting off of air travel on US carriers.

I have seen no mention so far about shutting out ocean traffic of vessels coming from or through Chinese ports but I expect that will be coming soon both here and elsewhere. As it stands the US, while vulnerable to further contagion it is not the most vulnerable nation.

Once that happens we can expect to see the Chinese stock market to crash rapidly with repercussions for other markets that have become overly dependent on interaction with the Chinese economy including our own. In fact we are already seeing this effect beginning in full anticipation of a highly probable health quarantine of China.

All this of course raises the possibility of even more second degree effects and necessary reactions to them. Firstly, severe contraction of access to foreign markets and cash will trigger waves of loan defaults and unemployment and with it social unrest, as I mentioned previously. This they will try to stem with rapid money creation leading to inflation if not hyperinflation.

Then thr question will become what will the People's Liberation Army do? Will they simply be used in the internal quarantine and  suppression of internal unrest, will they be used in a manufactured foreign crisis as both a distraction and to attempt to create a false patriotic national unity or does the government think they have the logistical capabilities to do both? Or is there the possibility of a straight up military coup and dictatorship?

As to the impact on and reaction to a Chinese quarantine on Western economies I think that is going to depend on how capable of and how quickly they can gear up their own production capabilities to manufacture critical goods presently coming out of China and or create and expand sources from other nations as well as how quickly a vaccine and new antiviral treatments can be developed.

On the US domestic political front we have already seen some of the Democrats insanely trying to blame this crisis on Trump. It is true that the general population has a strong tendency to strictly vote their pocket books and how they perceive the direction of the economy. The impact of Trump Derangement Syndrome on this is going to be hard to measure, at least at first.

In this regard a lot is going to depend on whether or not Trump's team can quickly produce an emergency response plan that addresses both public health concerns and economic contraction that can garner public support.  The other factor will be how willing the Democrats can be to put aside their blind hatred long enough to secure the nation from a real existential threat.

Sadly if recent history is any indicator they won't be able to and will try to exploit the crisis for political gain no matter how much suffering and death it causes.

In any case the next few weeks and months are going to be very interesting if not dangerous.

Outbreak! It's More Than Just Germs.

This flu virus outbreak ctisis in China is far from over and it's not going to be just a public health crisis, although that's going to be a major element. Watch Africa. Chinese penetration into Africa is massive. If the virus has been transmitted there and if the R0 transmission rate goes above three, given  the appaling lack of health care, urban centers in sub sahara Africa could well be devastated.

Recall also what Mark Twain said about history rhyming. In the 1960's China was in the midst of launching an invasion of India when a massive crop failure forced them to retreat for fear of food riots and an insurection that could have toppled the government. Now in the midst of a geopolitical expansion they are faced with both a contracting economic picture and a potential pandemic disease outbreak that could lead to civil unrest that could again threaten to destabilize or topple the government. This is the last thing the polit-bureau needs piled on top of their concerns about the unrest in Hong Kong spreading to the mainland.

This shit has all the potential to get really ugly really fast. Just where things progress from here only time will tell.  Look for neighboring countries to follow North Korea's example in closing their borders and halting air traffic to and from China.

Portlandia Goes Nuts Taxing Jobs And Success

Just as in Seattle when they mandated a $15 min. wage and businesses moved outside the city limits. The same will happen in Portlandia. Who will this hurt? All the low income families that work at Walmart etc. who now will face either having to find new jobs or longer more expensive commutes. The other unintended consequences will of course be retail shoppers facing longer drives to these store will simply turn to Amazon (another of those mega corporations they seem to love to hate) and other home delivery services further accelerating the destruction of brick and mortar stores and consequently depriving the city of jobs, sales tax, real estate tax and business license revenue. The added impact of this will be the deterioration of local neighborhoods that patronize these smaller business that also provide local entry level jobs.
This is quite predictably what happens when idiot leftists legislate on the basis of emotion rather than reason and basic math.