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Tuesday, February 02, 2021
Officer Brian Sicknick
7 Americans died of gun violence today.
2 were children. In one case an argument between neighbors over snow shoveling turned into a murder-suicide with a 15 year old autistic son losing both his parents and now lives with his grandparents.
The other four was a family. According to reports the police were upset at the grizzly scene of two dead children.
Weapons of war are known to be used in the argument between neighbors.
This country needs to get it’s priorities straight.
Sincerest sympathies to all those ..
... that experienced a loss today when two FBI agents were killed defending children. There is a sincere sense of loss I feel, especially after the violence at the nation’s Capital.
They may have saved the lives of many, many children because of their heroic actions today. This is still another reason why combat weapons must be controlled within the USA. This is a country that cares more about the commerce of weapons than the police and law enforcement agents that carry out the rule of law. Everyone that was ever a pro-gun vote is responsible for what happened today.
The monster the agents stopped today is the kind of monster Marjorie Taylor Greene tolerates when she states the violence leveled at children is myth. Well, it is not myth, it was is gun violence and the USA has shameful laws that allow weapons of war on its streets.
Monday, February 01, 2021
Remove the memorial.
The memorial for Ashli Babbitt on Capital grounds must be removed now. It should never have been allowed in the first place.
Ms. Babbitt is a traitor to the USA Constitution. There is no place on federal lands for memorials to traitors.
The officer of the federal government that shot Ms. Babbitt was a highly skilled individual incapable of anything other than self-defense and the defense of every elected official meeting to validate the election of the next President of the United States of America.
Enough of the ranting and raving about a stolen election. Go put a memorial in Maralago, FOX News and Hannity’s home, because they are the real killers of Ms. Babbitt.
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The Sixth Dose
I think what the committee is saying it that a single dose as stated by the manufacturer is more than actually needed for immunity. I hope this information is released to the public.
Russia states THEIR demonstrations are about the USA.
WRONG.
The Russian people have wanted legitimate elections for no less than a decade. Alexia Navalny was poisoned because he wanted to lead the people of the country he loved. That has nothing to do with the USA, but, is novichok, Russian novichok, the choice of an old KGB agent.
The protests are about the dictatorship of Vladimir Putin, now in the Russian presidency facilitated by the same corrupt elections the people hate. People, even Russian people, can only be disappointed in their elections so long before civil unrest becomes a reality.
Unfortunately, the same propaganda campaigns in Russia, were leveled at the American people in 2016 and placed a president in the USA chosen and approved by Putin. We ended it and perhaps the people of Russia will be successful, too.
Pipelines
There needs to be a bill passed into law requiring all existing pipelines to be repaired and/or replaced before new pipelines are built. It will preserve jobs.
President Biden’s state department need to take up the issue of pipelines with other countries as well. Pipelines disrupt land and can destroy farmland and rivers when they ultimately leak.
The entire issue of new pipelines is ridiculous. 2030 is around the house corner and the use of alternative energies and electrical grids are the answer. Pipelines are obsolete. There is no need to build more.
New pipelines are a part of expanding the access to fossil fuels. Easy access to oil ended in 2005. The same year multiple category 5 hurricanes hit the USA, including Katrina. Ever since 2005, fracking has been widely used destroying land and caused seismic activity where it never existed before. There are areas of the USA that are uninhabitable because of fracking. The government was told about this disastrous technology long before it was widely instituted.
Fracking is an extreme measure. New pipelines mean new fracking and drilling that is about profits and not needed or affordable energy. Alternative energies are more affordable today that oil and gas. The problem is flipping that oil/gas paradigm and expanding the use of alternative energies, securing the electrical grid and ending pipelines.
The Biden Rescue Plan
Republicans are being given access to the White House in the spirit of bipartisanship. I am sure Democratic leadership will have access once the Republicans explain a plan without support for the states.
The Republicans caused a fall in taxes to the States with their tax bill. What do they expect from the states? I think the Republicans need to answer that question if they are opposing aid.
Stating the states need to raise taxes is a political statement. If the Republicans can target the states with a federal law, then the Republicans need to take ownership of the states’ struggle now. The states do not have the capacity to raise taxes that the federal government does, such as a Wall Street tax on transactions. So, what is the Republican answer for the states? They need to answer that because their constituents may end up paying higher taxes because they won’t act now.
Sunday, January 31, 2021
Great things are happening in Washington, DC
I don’t want to sound like a cheerleader, but, President Biden is making everyday exciting. Between him, Senate Majority Leader Schumer and Speaker Pelosi there is much that will happen to benefit the people, hence, the country.
I strongly believe the threat of SARS-CoV-2 will be over by this time next year. I still am concerned about the children’s well being. My estimation was that as soon as the adults were immune then the children are safe. Now, I am hearing that immune people can spread the virus. For me that is counter-intuitive. Once people are immune they have no virus to spread. I am hoping this idea of immunity spreading the virus is just an old wives tale.
I am hopeful more than ever that the climate crisis is on its way to being resolved. The problem strangely enough is still the persistence of the oil and gas industry. When will they get the message that the age of oil is over. Evidently, there are still oil leases being sold out of the Interior Department. I thought all that was on hold so proper assessments can be made. When does the corruption stop?
That brings me to the stratosphere. Yes, Earth’s stratosphere. I am still reading. This is the picture that is starting to come together. There are two studies that address a change in the stratosphere both in water vapor and temperature and get this after a decrease in water vapor in 2001, the increase started in 2002 and is continuing. 2002 is the year when the vortexes appeared in the North Atlantic and North Pacific. In other words the tropospheric vortices interface with the stratosphere just enough through the Tropopause to lend water vapor to its gaseous contain. That is my estimation and not the words of either study.
The problem as I am concerned is that it had been nearly two decades of vortex dominance of the troposphere. The unhinged polar vortex has existed year after year now for six years. There is a consistent mixing of the two Earth atmospheres and one study suggests the Mesosphere as well. It is appearing to me to be a dire scenario that gives the impression of homogeneity becoming a threat to life on Earth.
As soon as I find the evidence that I think exists I will put it here. I need to read through IPCC conclusions before I go much further with this, but, I believe it is time to admit the petroleum industry is adverse to life on Earth.
Thank you for your interest.
Until later.
Any meeting with Biden...
...requires full social distancing and plastic barriers as well as masks. I remind that 69 Representatives and Senators have contracted COVID-19. All in all 123 Representatives and Senators have self-quarantined for one reason or another.
A big room with high ceilings could accommodate a better meeting. A virtual meeting would be best. A virtual meeting could accommodate Democratic leadership as well.
Saturday, January 30, 2021
False Face
On December 21, 2020, Marjorie Taylor Greene attended a meeting with Donald John Trump. In the video outside the White House, she makes reference to the January 6th insurrection. That is the earliest record to date. Can't find it on YouTube but that doesn't mean anything. I think I heard the reference yesterday evening on an Al Velchi program when he stood in for the host on "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell."
Everything on January 6th was premeditated, even the gallows. Greene made a reference to it on December 21, 2020.
The 45 Republicans in the USA that cannot bring themselves to vote for conviction of Trump have a false face. They cannot obey their oath of office while courting extremist voters.
“...that I take this OBLIGATION freely, without ANY mental reservation or purposes of evasion;...
There is just no way that a US Senator can live up to their oath of office and not convict. I think the Republicans evade their responsibility every time they accept fringe demands as their own.
In reflection on January 6, 2021 was there treason? Yes.
The Supreme Court in two instances clearly stated there needs to be physical acts of war or giving aid and comfort to the enemy for treason to exist. On January 6, 2021 there was domestic terrorism which is an act of war. That day there was property damage, which was considerable, there were national security breaches in stolen material both computer and paper. If anyone has Pelosi’s laptop by now it is probably Trump.
Beyond the property damage there was death and injury. One death was that of a Capital Police Officer leaving behind a wife and children. There were also injuries. Some injuries are of seriously maiming with disability. I believe that injuries were levied on 140 people. There was also ambulance at the scene to rescue people to a nearby hospital.
There was reason in this act of domestic terrorism.
Was there sedition?
Yes, most assuredly there was sedition when Trump spent considerable time in a speech that day and in previous days to attempt to organize any such persons to a purpose to destroy by force or violence democratic processes to elect the next President of the USA. Having no legal process to place himself as president, after innumerable legal challenged, Donald John Trump attempted to overthrow the government by disregarding the USA Constitution Rule of Law
[USCO2] 18 USC Ch. 115 Treason, sedition and subversive activities
18 US Code 2483 Rebellion or insurrection
18 US Code 2485 Advocating overthrow of government
These laws and Supreme Court precedent separate an actual act of treason and/or sedition from symbolic forms of free speech such as flag burning.
What occurred on January 6, 2021 and the days and weeks leading up to it cannot in any way legitimately be interpreted as symbolic free speech.
The Midwest Storm
To validate the concern about the snow storm headed to the Midwest, expect it to be severe. Yesterday and the day before I saw flicks of birds flying east. I wouldn’t expect that.
Ranchers with cows or horses in pastures need to be ready to bring feed to them.
The fringe are really dangerous.
A vote for Matt Geatz, the snow bird candidate of Florida is a vote for treason.
Marjorie Taylor Greene won a default election. The Democrat running against her was divorced by his wife forcing him to move in with his parents so his children could stay in their home. The move to his parents home placed him outside his district. Even living outside the district the Democrat still received 40 percent of the vote.
The GOP knows Greene will not be re-elected, but, the GOP wants her fringe supporters from around the country.
Migrant children expulsion
Just because a federal appeals court allows unaccompanied migrant minors to be removed from the USA after crossing the border without immigration papers doesn’t mean that is USA policy.
The children at the border can be tested for COVID-19 and its variants while being taught the dangers of the viruses, the usefulness in protecting life by wearing masks, distancing and clean hands.
I am sure President Biden will once again institute asylum laws with proper precautions of testing and physical wellness for children. It will be a way to say to the world the USA still sets the example for compassion and humanity.
I look forward to being proud of my country again.
Biden’s administration is attempting to find the parents that were separated at the border from their children. This time the children are unaccompanied so the decisions are easy. For THOSE Americans that want to keep them out because they would be a burden to the country, I remind them there will be 500,000 Americans dead by February. There is plenty of room for the children.
Friday, January 29, 2021
Capital Hill Bomber
The week of the defense attorney.
First, the Snyder defense attorneys said the documents that implicate Rick Snyder in breaking the law are tainted. They want the case dropped. So far, it hasn't been.
The Snyder defense team is attempting every legal maneuver to see if anything works, including insults to the grand jury.
January 28, 2021
By Ron Fonger
The Flint water crisis (click here) case may soon be headed in a new direction.
Defense attorneys said the judge doesn’t belong on the case because of where he lives. Some legal insiders believe it’s a tactic to get the case moved out of Genesee County to an area where a jury would be less connected to the thousands of children impacted by the public health crisis....
January 27,2021
By Hank Winchester and Dane Kelly
Geneses County, Michigan – Defense of the attorneys (click here) in the ongoing Flint water crisis case are pushing for the judge to be removed.
The Flint water crisis case may soon be headed in a new direction.
Defense attorneys said the judge doesn’t belong on the case because of where he lives. Some legal insiders believe it’s a tactic to get the case moved out of Genesee County to an area where a jury would be less connected to the thousands of children impacted by the public health crisis.
Former Director of the City of Flint Department of Public Works Howard Croft’s attorney argued that since Genesee District Court Judge William H. Crawford lives in Flint, he could potentially be involved in a class-action lawsuit against Croft....
January 16, 2021
By Randy Wimbley
Flint resident Leeanne Walters (click here) was measured in her response to the criminal charges filed against former Michigan Governor Rick Snyder and eight other officials for the Flint water crisis.
"I don't know how to feel about it at this point and it's just charges at this point," said Leeanne Walters. "And they've already been dropped once, so we have to see what the convictions are. That's going to be the real test of time here.”...
Joe Biden’s Transition Team for the Pentagon was denied access to the Pentagon staff and records by Trump because he was worried there would be a slip up in regard to the insurrection. The change in Major General Walker’s authority is proof of it. The insurrection was an inside job and Trump lead the way. The Biden Team was given access at the last minute because the insurrection failed. There was no alternative. Zero
Russians are up against the leader of the communist world.
The continuing demonstrations in Russia is very heartening to the free world.
I need to write far more so let me find a perch and I will be right back. I believe all those arrested are magnificent heroes to the Russian people and great inspiration.
This is the first time I have heard of a repeated demonstration by such large numbers of Russians. The first demonstration was tens of thousands and was very, very impressive.
In the past demonstrations were of interest but they were easily squelched and not repeated, but, this time it is different.
Let me tell you about Putin and his disappointments to the West.
Vladimir Putin is the leader of the communist world so the plight of the Russian people reach beyond Russia’s borders. Putin maintains “his posture” at the expense of the Russian people. The people of Russia carry a profound burden as an example of communist oppression. Currently, not so much.
Putin maintains that global posture so no one else in the communist helm has to. Automatically, global citizens under communist regime LEARN what will happen to them if they demonstrate and rebel against oppression for the desire of free expression.
Even China with all its human rights abuses appears attractive as an investment for Plutocrats because of the SHADE Putin supples to communist countries. Plutocrats like to think they will have a billion Chinese consumers to exploit. It has been nearly a half century since 1972 when Nixon went to China. Are there a billion Chinese consumers? Of course not.
Oppression and Wall Street is a very powerful tool. Oppression by Putin, who is a very wealthy man no different than Viktor Yushchenko when he ran to asylum in Russia, knows where his strength lies in the world and that is served many purposes. He will not relent.
If the Russian people sincerely want to have free and fair elections without threat of retribution these demonstrations, no different than the strength of the USA movement of “Black Lives Matter,” must continue to completion. Of that I am certain. The people of Russia need to assess their future and commit to force changes in the society, hence, their government.
The West will do what it can and is why it is so important Germany stand with the Russian people and not another leaky oil/gas pipeline with Russia. The sanctions must work.
Vladimir Putin has made himself so important that he freely breaks promises and laws to stay in power. He has established a separate hospital for himself and the elite of Russian society. He has his own network of oppression and survival.
The police that do his bidding must see the truth about Putin and freely decide to back their friends and neighbors to end Putin’s oppression. The Russian courts must see all of this for what it is, desire of Russians to be treated with dignity, have their votes count and live with a country they provide for themselves through benevolence.