Month: May 2023

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The fall out over the Durham report is interesting.

I’m not sure how much is hyperbole when it comes to all of the potential consequences.

I do believe that the people involved should be arrested, and tried for the alleged crimes. The crimes on the other hand are where things start to get sticky.

I think it’s a situation where you can easily “know” that crimes have been committed. But the law tends to be pretty specific. I think enumeration of the crimes committed, and by whom, is a major sticking point.

The whistleblowers testimony looks worth spending the time to listen to. The snippets I’ve heard are shocking and frightening.

Honestly, the FBI / CIA / NSA / DOJ / IRS all appear to have been compromised and weaponized against the enemies of the “Powers That Be.”

This is not justice, this is the American equivalent of the KGB or Stasi.

The exchange between Rep. Linda Sanchez and whistleblower Marcus Allen was embarrassing.

I heard this and thought to myself It might have been amusing if she tried to badger me like that.

Her “I’m asking a simple ‘yes or no’ “tactic was overused.

But her asking this agent his opinion about a tweet from an account that was not his, is plain weird.

I think Nancy Pelosi allowed the preconditions for the Jan 6 th civil unrest by refusing to accept additional national guard. Would that statement be worthy of congressional investigation?

I’m astounded at the way the Democrats are reacting to the Whistleblowers. The democrats should be absolutely terrified and working to get to the bottom of the allegations and then take them off the table with laws and cleaning up the affected organizations.

It’s actually in their best interests. Because when the worm turns, and it will, the Republicans will absolutely use these weapons against the Democrats.

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That was surprisingly easy and nice.

It turns out that I don’t have to pony up a complete payment for the car.

That’s a mercy! The young lady asked first if I was wanting to refinance it, and I smiled back at her, “With these insane rates?”

She thought about it for a minute then looked at the current rate. “OH!” She said, “Let’s see if there are any other options.”

I patiently waited. After several phone calls, she said, “Here’s what we’re gonna do. We’re gong to merge your account into the joint account and then that account will be yours alone. The car loan will then remain there and your automatic payments will continue as normal.”

WOW! Talk about super nice! I’ve gotta say that this particular credit union has been fantastic for the 30 – odd years that we dealt with them. After the fire, when literally everything including our IDs had been burned. It was this credit union that handed us debit cards, and gave us access to our cash because they had photos of us, scans of our signatures, and the smarts to identify us without our drivers license. The same cannot be said of two major banks we were dealing with!

It was amazing.

And once again, they’ve come through making the life of one of their customers easier instead of insanely over complicated.

This is a relief. Now I’ll move forward with putting new tires on the car and have the service done. (Why bother to do any of that if there was any question about me keeping the car?)

Then there’s this. I was out and about with my new iPad and was having a problem getting data on the cellular link. I tried a bunch of things, nothing helped.

“OH NO, I have to call Apple.” Surprisingly I got someone who knew her stuff, she was in Canada and was very pleasant to talk with. We walked through everything and on the Apple side everything should have been working.

She was very sorry but had to direct me to my carrier. It was okay.

Elapsed time on the phone 10 minutes including hold time… Nice!

On the the cellular carrier. Again, got right through to a lovely lady in Idaho. We stepped through normal stuff and then she called someone with a bit more experience. A gentlemen came on the line and said, “I’m going to reset some things on our end, would you please reset your network settings on your iPad? “

I said, “Sure,” and set about that process.

Boom everything started working properly. Elapsed time including hold time about 10 minutes.

So 20 minutes grand total and the iPad is working exactly as it’s supposed to.

Today the power will be off for about 6 hours. Oh goody!

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Today is gonna be hard

It’s taken me a while to get the harp consignment lined up. I thought it was never going to come together but now that it’s here, I’m uncertain.

I know that I need to get the harps into the right hands so that they can go to new homes. The harps should be played, loved, used, and bring joy to others.

That being said, they were a big part of his life they were also part of my life to a lesser extent.

The harps defined him. To be without them, feels like letting go of him.

I know this is the right thing to do, but it’s going to be hard.

Wish me luck.

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Mayorkas reminds me of Baghdad Bob

Aside for this guy’s general scumminess, he really is like Baghdad Bob.

Mayorkas

Remember that guy? There were American tanks rolling in the background as he was telling people in Baghdad, “The American Pigs are nowhere near the city!”

Yeah, uh huh.

There are some things that really piss me off. Number one is someone taking me for a fool and lying to me about it. I guess they call that “Gaslighting” these days.

We all know that there are a lot more illegal immigrants coming into the country than lying Joe or this Mayorkas asshole are telling us about.

We know that this is a crisis that would have destroyed Trump and yet we’re supposed to believe that Trump’s border policies were ineffective.

Our government is not to be trusted. In fact I don’t think they should be given any money until they have a functional budget that includes paying down the national debt.

Allowing millions of people to come into the country with few skills, no ability to speak English, and no work permits is not only foolish, it is cruel. 

These people have the potential to  become an underclass, the poor, of the poor class and if they do they’ll become a burden that the country is ill equipped to afford. 

This means that the country will probably struggle to pay for them, won’t send them home, and will ignore the increased homelessness and civil unrest or disobedience.

These people came here effectively at the invitation of Joe Biden with dreams of a better life. How do you think they’ll react when they can’t find work, to repay their debt to the smugglers and realize that their dreams have all become nightmares?

Do you think they’re gonna start taking shit that isn’t theirs? And even if the older people do maintain a sense of honor and desire to obey the law, (except the immigration law they broke, what of their children?

Since many of them have court dates years in the future, what is going to happen when they start reproducing? Every single baby these people have is an anchor baby and how will our court system handle that?

This isn’t just a temporary problem on the border right now. This is a problem. That will have ramifications many years into the future.

That after all is the point isn’t it? How better to maintain power than to import a compliant voting block of people who are already predisposed to communism and socialism? Yes these people will claim they were escaping communism in their homeland but we’re not fully communist, socialist authoritarian yet.

By the time our leaders make it to the authoritarian stage, it will seem normal and not too different from what their immigrants are already used to.

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So this is interesting. I was half tempted to do this as a reaction video…

I decided that I didn’t want to do the video thing about this but I’m thinking about starting up a video blog. Perhaps more on that later.

However, to the point, The Durham Report is out. All I can say is Damn! 

John Durham

You’ve got to be kidding me! What about those people who were imprisoned, bankrupted, or otherwise had their lives utterly destroyed by the DOJ/FBI perusing a totally fake investigation? Do they get their lives back? Do they get the time they spent in prison back? Do they get reparations? 

What about the fundamental loss of faith in our justice system, or our political system, on the part of the people? Why would anyone believe in the government or DOJ ever again? 

This is serious shit!

We have a clear comparison of justice as applied to Democrats versus Republicans (Specifically Republicans associated with Trump). Hilary Clinton, had some skeletons in her closet running up to the 2016 election but her issues were ignored while the FBI opened an investigation based on rumor into Trump. To do so they appeared to falsify information so that the FISA court would allow wire taps and surveillance on the Trump campaign.

For me this begs the question: Can we remotely trust that the J6 prisoners are getting a fair hearing? Can we believe that anything the Biden administration has passed or rescinded was done legally? If the DOJ is compromised what assurances do we have that the law is being followed.

This confirmation of what we already knew is sickening. 

It’s completely insane that all of the things that Durham reports were allowed to happen and that there will be no accountability about it. I personally think that a lot of this is damn close to treason.