Monday - January 15, 2024

Once Again, The One And Only Post

January 15, 2024

Hello old blog, I’m back again. Life plods along. Still having the knee issues. Go for an MRI next week, and back to the hand orthopedist as well.

Made another batch of red & green chili which has 6 kinds of chilis in it; I want to find some chipotle meco, which is the smokier version of a dried and smoked mature red jalapeño. And I should find some better smokier bacon for the next batch. Love the smoky flavor. This batch had more reconstituted chilis in it, a dozen each of anchos and guajillos, turned into a paste in the old Magic Bullet mini blender. Gives you a seriously rich flavor, and the chili is so dark red it’s pretty much brown. Heat level is enough for me, spicy without being a spoonful of fire. A pot full makes at least a dozen bowls, so we eat on it for several days.

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Float copper? Unless you’re from northern Michigan you’ve never heard of this, but it’s about the purest naturally occurring copper on earth. And it looks really cool too.

Same topic: Saving the big one.

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Gee whiz, guess those primitive natives and those crazy crystal sniffing moonbeam naturopaths knew a thing or two after all. Willow bark tea, sort of a liquid aspirin, has significant antiviral properties.

In Finland, researchers have recently discovered that willow bark extract, a plant known for yielding various medicinal compounds including the basis for contemporary aspirin, exhibits a wide-ranging antiviral effect in laboratory cell studies.

The extract worked both on enveloped coronaviruses, which cause colds as well as COVID-19, and non-enveloped enteroviruses, which cause infections such as flu and meningitis. There are no clinically approved drugs that work against enteroviruses directly, so this extract could be a future game-changer.

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Gain of Function Bioweapons progress in China: psycho military scientists modify pangolin COVID brain virus to make it infect people. 100% lethal on 4 out of 4 “humanized” mice.

Do they have lampposts and rope in China? Or pikes?

So far (or at least as far as we know...) it’s only been tested on “humanized mice” which have been scientifically altered to have human genes so they can be tortured without having the ability to file lawsuits. And the new virus has killed every last one of those little humanized cheese nibblers, presumably when their brains turn into an inflamed slurry and ooze out through their perfectly circular ears. Which is likely what would happen to 100% of infected humans if the virus escaped, so isn’t it good that Chinese virus labs are so very, very secure except for their open windows, screen doors, and tendency to sell dead animal specimens to wet markets for soup stock?

There’s pretty much no reason that researchers would want to create such a thing unless it could A) be used as an apocalyptic bioweapon, B) make a lot of money for companies coincidentally selling pangolin brain virus vaccines, or C) beat AI to the punch of killing us all, giving humans quite literally the last laugh.

Which is why we should immediately be taking common sense safety measures including, but not limited to, calling together the world’s leading gain-of-function researchers and, after careful deliberation, displaying their heads on pikes.

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January 7, 2024

A new thing in our area. We didn’t know about it, but we heard lots of people talking about it up in Warren County. A good time was had by all. Maybe we’ll get there next year.

HACKETTSTOWN, NJ (Warren County) – Thousands of people decided to ring in the new year in Hackettstown, where a huge crowd enjoyed the first New Year’s Eve Celebration with an M&M’S lentil drop.

The New Year’s Eve celebration included beats from DJ SC3 Entertainment, free giveaways from Atlantic Health System/Hackettstown Medical Center, Centenary University, WRNJ Radio, and Mars Wrigley, TSA Cheerleaders performed from 9:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., the Centenary Cyclones mascot, an M&M’S character, and activities from participating businesses.

The red M&M’S® lentil is 40″ in diameter and had more than 1,000 LED lights.



Mars Wrigley has been producing iconic M&M’S in Hackettstown since 1958, making it the perfect community partner to help ring in the new year for the town.

“Millions of M&M’S are produced right here in Hackettstown every day,” said Courtney McHugh, Vice President Marketing, M&M’S, Mars Wrigley. “We’re proud to inspire moments of everyday happiness for the Hackettstown community and are thrilled M&M’S can help ring in 2024.”

“It’s very exciting to be able to have our residents and visitors come together to witness the largest M&M ever falling from the sky to ring in the new year,” said Mayor Jerry DiMaio.

Hackettstown is about 10 miles NNE of us, and about 10 miles NE of the bowling alley. It’s the “big city” in our podunk red corner of blue NJ. M&M Mars is a major employer around here, running a massive factory and having corporate operations there. So we know plenty of people who work there. They used to give out sample boxes to the employees, or sell them for cost. I hope they still do. The candy in that colorful box is fresh off the line from that day’s production, unlike the product you buy in your store which may have been warehoused for a couple of years. The fresh chocolate is really very good, much smoother and richer than the age matured stuff.

So a huge crowd went to the event, everyone got their picture taken with Red, there was music and bands and fun all around. Beats freezing to death in NYC after a 2 hour drive, $50 for parking, and getting mugged and thrown up on.



PS: Why is it called a lentil? Because an M&M is actually formed by two molded hemispheres of chocolate, each about a drop’s worth. The two halves are put together, and the uncoated result looks like a lentil bean. So it’s a lentil.


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Bowling Blogging!!
I’m trying to do my leagues again. I went Wednesday night, and threw ok, well over average in the first two games and just a couple under in the third game. We won all 3, so that moves us up a bit in the standings.

I bowled Friday night too, and I finally brought the soft pretzels I’ve been promising people for a while now. We played the team that our former teammate is on, so we were worked up ... and slaughtered them, even though we had to give them 104 pins handicap.
We won all 3 games, each one by more pins than the handicap. Which means our scratch was always more than 210 pins better than theirs. Sweet. I threw great: 212, 198, 211 for a 621 series, which is my best night so far this season in either league. Wore my shorts and my robo-braces and rolled carefully. Lane conditions were a bit slow with no intense back-end action, but they were pretty consistent as well. So it wasn’t the typical “I need a new line and a new ball every 5 frames” we’ve become accustomed to. Thank goodness.
My thumb timing needs some work. I’m coming late out of the ball and not getting enough finger on the ball, so my axis tilt is back to being almost horizontal. I had it perfectly vertical before my joints went on vacation to Hellena Handbasket.

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January 4, 2024

I bowled Tuesday afternoon, just to see if I could. Wore my braces and shorts. Did pretty well. Pain was manageable and not that bad. Went to league Wednesday night, bowled well over average in G1 and G2 and just 7 under in G3. We won all 7.

Had my last visit with the podiatrist today. Ankle looking good, keep doing the foot brace as needed.

Went to the hand orthopedist yesterday, got Xrays ... you have pretty severe arthritis in your thumbs. Yeah, I know. Got the cortical steroid injections, which helped immediately. They probably won’t last long. Go back in 3 weeks.

I’m bowling Friday night too. Making a double batch of pretzels for everyone, because I’ve been promising them a long time and just haven’t been up to making them. It’s a 2 or 3 day recipe, but they come out awesome every time. After 7 years I’m just about out of lye powder, so I ordered a new one. To my amazement, the price hadn’t gone up a cent since the last jug I bought. Wow.

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January 1, 2024

15 Years Late And Chickenshit Anyway

[ Yes, I’ve gone down this road before. And it’s a straight and narrow highway. It just hit me as odd that a conservative leaning website would make this point about a Republican. That’s honest, I’ll grant you that. ]

The American Greatness site put up an essay today saying how Nikki Haley absolutely could not be President or Vice President, as she does not meet the qualifications as written in our Constitution. And they are utterly correct.

Article II, Section 1, stipulates that “No person except a natural born citizen or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President.”

Back in the Age of Reason, The Enlightenment, in 1758 actually, a book based on Natural Law was written by Emmerich de Vattel. It was title The Law Of Nations. Within 2 years it had been translated into English from the original French. Like the writings of John Locke two or three generations earlier, Vattel’s writings had tremendous impact on the political world, and lit a fire in the minds of our Founding Fathers.

Vattel defined citizenship. He modified the existing English concept of Natural Born Subject and thus defined the term Natural Born Citizen. Our Constitution requires the President to be one. Later on the 12th Amendment added that qualification to the Vice President. No other federal office holder or officer has to be an NBC. Problem is, our Constitution assumed that people would understand the concept. Ok, there are 2 to 4 other little problems with that document, but this is the one under discussion.

Under Emmerich de Vattel’s Law of Nations, Citizenship is determined by the father, the mother and the nation. Section 212 of Law Of Nations, defines Natural Born Citizen:

“The Citizens are the members of the civil society; bound to this society by certain duties, and subject to its authority, they participate equally in its advantages.  The natives, or natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are Citizens”.

A primary concern among Emmerich de Vattel, and the Framers of the United States Constitution, was that the President be completely free of foreign influences.  Emmerich de Vattel wrote:

“The Constitution and the laws of a State are rarely attacked from the front.  It is against gradual attacks that a nation must stand guard”.

For Emmerich de Vattel, it was of paramount importance that the President be a person whose primary allegiance is to the Sovereign nation.  The independence of the nation, and the President, from foreign influence, according to Emmerich de Vattel’s formulation, was key to its proper performance.  Emmerich de Vattel maintained that “each sovereign State claims, and actually possesses an absolute independence on all the others”.  He continues, “Nations are free and independent of each other, in the same manner as men are naturally free and independent”.  Emmerich de Vattel argued as it is important that each Sovereign maintain its independence, “No foreign power has a right to interfere in the internal affairs of other States” (with rare exceptions).

So to be a Natural Born Citizen, you have to be born here (or in other territories or areas owned or controlled by the USA, our embassies, military bases, and probably military ships and airplanes in transit across the oceans), AND your parents have to be citizens AT THE TIME OF YOUR BIRTH.

Ok, over to the essay -

The question of presidential eligibility under the Constitution has been a hot button one, especially in recent years with the controversial campaigns of John McCain, Barack Obama, Ted Cruz, and most recently, Kamala Harris. The controversy arises from the text of the Constitution itself. Article II, Section 1, stipulates that “No person except a natural born citizen or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President.” The core issue centers on the meaning of the phrase “natural born citizen.” The Constitution explicitly lays out three requirements to run for president: (i) be at least 35 years old; (ii) have been a resident of the United States for at least 14 years; and (iii) be a natural-born citizen of the United States.

The question of natural born citizenship is crystal clear, though it often gets confused with the more controversial debate surrounding birthright citizenship. From the outset, it should be stressed that the two are entirely different constitutional issues. The question of natural-born citizenship as an eligibility requirement for president is well settled, whereas the issue of birthright citizenship is still up in the air.

There is a reason the Founding Fathers attached the requirement of being a “natural born citizen” to the President (and, with the passage of the Twelfth Amendment, the Vice President) only and no other federal offices. The idea was to elevate the threshold for the highest elected political office of the land; notably, that language is absent in Article I, which stipulates that lawmakers running for the House or Senate need only be “citizens” to qualify. The early debates surrounding the passage of the Constitution add support for the view that the Framers wanted to exclude “the admission of foreigners into the administration of our national government,” as John Jay wrote to George Washington in July of 1787.

A central concern for the architects of the nascent American republic was that only the most qualified statesmen be eligible for the country’s highest office. In his Commentaries, Joseph Story elaborated that “it is indispensable… that the president should be a natural born citizen of the United States… [T]he general propriety of the exclusion of foreigners, in common cases, will scarcely be doubted by any sound statesman.” Joseph Story, who enjoyed over a thirty-year reign as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, famously elaborated the principles of the republicanism of Alexander Hamilton and John Marshall well into the mid-nineteenth century. His Commentaries specifically distinguished between natural born and naturalized citizens, the latter of whom were ineligible to run for president, despite qualifying for the privileges of citizenship. This view is supported by the best legal commentary of the day

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In Nikki Haley’s case, it is well documented that neither one of her parents were citizens, natural born or naturalized, at the time of her birth in 1972. It has been previously reported that a South Carolina-based newspaper included a quote from the Office of Nikki Haley, stating that “her parents were not U.S. citizens at the time of her birth in 1972 and did not become citizens until 1978 and 2003.” Thus, although the parents may have been lawful residents at the time of her birth on South Carolina soil, which may or may not confer her with the privileges of citizenship, it is important to note that she does not qualify for the Constitution’s higher requirement of natural-born citizenship.

And of course, since she does not meet the qualifications to become President, she is ineligible to be Vice President as well. And that’s what the Constitution says.

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John Eastman has also raised the issue of natural born citizenship in the related context of Kamala Harris’ eligibility to serve as Vice President. In a 2020 Newsweek article, Eastman argued that Harris would only qualify as a constitutionally eligible natural-born citizen if her parents were “lawful permanent residents at the time of her birth.” However, in the case of Harris, if her parents were “merely temporary visitors,” then she patently did not qualify as a natural-born citizen pursuant to Article II, Section 1. The logic of Eastman’s argument is straightforward, and I would maintain does not even need to implicate the Fourteenth Amendment or the outstanding question of birthright citizenship, which might otherwise detract from the fundamental soundness of the constitutional issue.

Kamala Harris was born October 20, 1964. It’s hard to find out when either of her parents became citizens, but they weren’t when she was born. Game over. Period. She is NOT a natural born citizen no matter how much blarney the media spews, and boy did they, in utter lockstep. Which is all you need to know to see that they were pulling the wool over the eyes of the sheep once again.

Funny thing is, Barack Obama is never mentioned in this essay.
You remember him, the guy who was born both in Kenya and Hawaii, the one with the dodgy “certificate of live birth”? The one whose mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, b 11/29/42, gave birth to Barack Hussein Obama II on 8/4/61, when she was 18 years old, and below the threshold of legal adulthood at that time. (which may have disabled her ability to pass on citizenship to her child, especially if not born in the USA). Her husband Barack Hussein Obama Sr, married her on 2/2/61 after she became pregnant and left school. It is entirely possible that she became pregnant at 17, which would have made Barry Sr guilty of statutory rape. He had a wife back in Kenya who he left pregnant. I don’t know if bigamy was legal in Kenya at the time; it certainly wasn’t legal in the USA. As a Kenyan national, the senior Obama also held British citizenship. He was not, and never was, an American citizen. Thus bathhouse Barry was also not a natural born citizen, and was completely ineligible to be President. Twice. And you’re a racist for even reading these words.

But let’s harp on Nikki Haley, instead of demanding the ouster of Kamala Harris and opening the big Obama can of worms. Because dark people are above the law these days.  What a crock.

Oh, and just for “fun”, we have had 2 Presidents who were actually ineligible to hold the office, as they were not NBCs. Chester Arthur in 1881 and Barack Obama. As far as I know there has been only 1 Vice President who failed the test ... although Vice Presidents from way back when are usually less than footnotes to history.

Oddly enough, as the Information Age entered it’s full stride, we have had a large number of potential nominees who never passed the NBC test. Not to mention the 8 failed attempts (lead by the D party) to snip out the Natural Born requirement, in the years leading up to 1008..


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Forty five years ago I had a dog that looked a lot like this one. Katie was the best dog ever. True love for both of us from the moment we met. She’s been gone over 30 years. I still miss her.

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December 31, 2023

I am so glad 2023 is over. What an awful year for me.

Knees still not up to even trying to bowl. Will try again to try again on Tuesday. I hope.

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The comments area was nearly full so I erased them. Sorry. But I read the newest ones first. Start the new year with a fresh comment! And thank you all for sharing your thoughts and opinions. I do appreciate it.

It took almost 3 years to fill up the comment buffer. Maybe if I have better things to post about, I’ll get more comments?

here’s one ... South America is going Evangelical.  https://latinarabia.com/christianity/revival-in-latin-america/

and a bunch more that are all related ... our border crisis is largely caused by Venezuela’s commie tyrant Daniel Ortega. Yeah, he’s still the boss down there, still in power since the Reagan era.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/12/anybody_notice_how_nasty_nicaraguas_ortega_regime_has_gotten_since_the_migrant_remittances_started_flowing.html
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/12/blood_boiler_daniel_ortegas_role_in_organizing_the_us_migrant_crisis_is_bigger_than_thought.html
https://www.voanews.com/a/african-asian-migrants-seek-nicaragua-shortcut-to-us-/7418273.html

Ok, this young fella and his old knees are heading upstairs. If I want to watch the balls drop, I’ll take off my pants. Ewww.

See? I did get something done today. Granted, it was supposed to be done Friday afternoon, but whatever.

I had to up the lye concentration 50% as the 7 year old bottle is almost empty, and I swear the crystals lose potency after a while. And this was a long long while! So I ordered another one, and to my surprise, the price had not increased at all since I bought the previous bottle! Amazing.

The taste was just a little strong, but definitely what pretzels should taste like.

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December 27, 2023



My Christmas post seems to have gone missing. Oh well. Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas. We did the Italian Christmas Eve party at the cousin’s, as always. Definitely felt the passing of the years, as one generation fades away, another generation hits middle age, and all the little kids are now young adults. So the food wasn’t as good or as fancy this time, several faces weren’t there due to medical issues, but there were a good number of really nice looking young women all done up fancy for the holiday. That was nice.

We made it home just before midnight, then went over to her dad’s Christmas afternoon for lunch. I baked pretzels at their place, and everyone was a bit frightened that the things are dipped in drain cleaner before baking. Ok, it’s lye. Sodium hydroxide. And it’s perfectly safe when cooked, as the sodium either evaporates or bonds with any nearby salt ions, and the hydroxide part, OH^- just forms water. Hey, better living through chemistry, which none of these people know much about. Oh well.

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I turned on the TV news this morning, to take a look at the world. I managed to watch almost 5 whole seconds before getting annoyed. They’re going on and on about all those deranged radical right wing crazy people sending in death threats and calling for civil war over the gross overreach of the Colorado State Supreme Court, which has decided President Trump is guilty of fomenting revolution or some such garbage. Not a word that the court’s action is one of the most egregious and horrendous instances of judicial activism in our nation’s history, and in several ways. Oh no, it’s Trump, so EVIL, so no rules apply.

So I walked away from the TV and checked the weather on my cell phone. Chilly and rainy. Oh joy.

[ sorry, snipping off old posts as needed ]

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December 20, 2023

Adjustable chili recipe

Any good recipe starts with “cook up a mess of bacon”! This one is adjustable because you can make it hotter in 3 ways, and you can make “Christmas chili” by using both dried red and fresh green peppers. I made a batch that way and it was outstanding. The chili is thick and dark red with a rich flavor you will never get in any of those wimpy recipes that call for just 1/4tsp store bought chili powder. Chili is pepper stew, so the more peppers the better.

Yeah, it has beans. Given the price of meat, and that you get about 8-10 servings for $12-15, beans are a nice way to fill out a recipe. You could add a 3rd can of beans for about a buck, which would give you several more servings.

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cook 6 strips of bacon in a pan, set aside, save the grease

de-stem and seed the dried chilis, boil half a medium pot of water, add the guajillos and chipotles, boil 10, remove from heat, add anchos, and soak all them 30 minutes. Use a plate to weigh them down and keep submerged.
drain, chop them up some, then mash into paste in blender. Discard the soaking water which will taste awful.

drain and thoroughly rinse the beans. If you use dried beans, you’re a better cook than I am, so you know what to do already. But you want 2 cans worth, around 22oz of moist drained beans, however you get there.

combine dry spices:
2tbl cumin powder. If grinding your own, start with 1tbl
2tbl chili powder. Grocery store stuff is mild, Pensy etc sells it hotter
1tbl Italian seasoning
1tbl oregano. Mexican oregano is better if you can find it.
1tbl sugar, optional
1tbl ground epazote if using gassy beans, optional

1lb 85% burger
1/2lb cubed beef or 1/2lb diced chorizo or Italian sausage, or a thawed Jimmy Dean mild sausage log. Any extra meat is optional. Know your chorizo: some kinds are very salty. Avoid them.

1 can red beans. I prefer pinto beans, which have no gas and break down much better than kidney beans
1 can black beans. If you hate black beans, use another can of red ones other than pintos instead

dry peppers:
8-10 ancho peppers
6 guajillo peppers
3 smoked chipotle peppers, optional

optional fresh peppers, seeded and diced:
2 pablanos
1 jalapeno
1 Serrano or an Italian hot pepper
1 small can of Goya green chilis, drained. Optional
1 or 2 habaneros if you want serious heat levels. Wear gloves when de-seeding and chopping!

2 14oz cans of Rotel tomatoes. Available in mild, Hatch, Habanero levels of heat
1 1/2 to 2 cups beef broth
1-2tbl Worcestershire sauce

2 medium yellow onions, chopped
3 cloves garlic, chopped

2 bay leaves, optional

Get out your big pot or your Dutch oven. Transfer some or all of the bacon grease to this pot. Saute the onions a couple minutes to soften. If using any, put the sausage in now too.
Flatten the ground beef into a giant thin burger. Press the dry spices into one side. Push the onions aside and lightly brown the meat, plain side down. This is where you put the optional cubed steak in.
As it browns, flip it spice side down for a couple minutes, then chop it into bits and add the garlic. Cook it until most of the pink goes away. Don’t drain the fat.

Add the chili paste and the rinsed and drained beans. Mix. When hot add the fresh peppers if using any. Then add the beef broth and the Rotel and the bay leaves.
Low simmer covered for about 2 hours, stir every 15 minutes, scraping the bottom. After 45 minutes check the flavor, adding more of whatever as needed, but only add more oregano when almost done.
If you want more heat, add your hot sauce now. If it looks soupy after 2 hours, simmer another 30 minutes with lid off while stirring frequently.

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December 16, 2023

Still here, still in serious knee and ankle pain. Still living on painkillers, still spending half the day in bed. Still no knee braces, but soon! Not bowling either. Miss it very much.

And the whole world is an inside out, upside down, wrong is right mess, and delusional and moronic are king and queen. So my interest in all that is nearly zero. I will laugh when their entire BS jerk off fantasy comes crashing down, no one will give them jobs, and they’ll starve. Buh bye.

They replaced the fire hydrant, filled the hole in, put the garden rock back several feet forward of where it used to be, and then covered everything over with several inches of mulch. So at least the soil is protected. Will we rebuild? Who knows.

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December 12, 2023

Goodbye My Garden



  



After sitting in the corner of the ground by our parking lot for 45 years, never being used or hardly ever even tested, the fire hydrant got a lot of use this year. First they attached a 500’ hose to it and used it to water all the new grass behind our unit, after extensive landscaping and stone wall work was done. The areas got watered for hours and hours every day for weeks. Then the power wash guys came by in the fall and hooked up their hoses for their washer machines. And when all was said and done, what a surprise, the hydrant no longer shut off properly. So it needs replacing; I think the actual valve is down at the bottom of the stand pipe the hyrdrant is attached to, and that pipe goes at least 4, maybe 8 feet down into the ground. And of course nobody knows exactly where the main water line is, or what condition it’s in. So dig the whole thing up, and then dig more in any direction if necessary.

We’ve had a really nice garden in there for 9 years now. I’m pretty sure the area was supposed to be another parking space; it was nothing but gravel, rip rap, and a clayey subsoild all the way down. So when I put the garden in, I had to dig all that out. Pretty much by myself, more than a foot down. Sledgehammer and a 4’ crowbar and an insane amount of sifting out the rocks and then carting them 50 yards to dump down the hillside into the woods. Then we purchased a full pallet of top quality topsoil. Literally a ton of dirt. And then a whole bunch of bulbs and annuals and mulch. It took a few generations of plants to see what would thrive, but eventually we figured it out. A few years ago we redesigned the layout, and found a nice boulder to work as a center point. More work, more digging, more fertilizer, more mulch, bulbs and plants. The past 2 years it’s really done well, and after the mild winter this year was spectacular. We had mounding like I’ve never seen, and everything bloomed beautifully and long. In the early Spring it’s a daffodil delight, with a few hyacinths around the edges. The astilbe really took off this year, the two azeleas survived, and the giant ornamental grass plant in the back became enormous.

We got about 4 days notice that the work was going to be done. Between our bad knees and backs, Vic and I got out there in the cold rain Sunday and dug up what we could and put them in soil filled buckets. The rain got to be too much, so we didn’t get to rescue the 100 daffys, or the irises, or the daylilies, or the crocuses. And now they’re gone. Ok, they’re in the soil somewhere, but who knows where that soil is? And it’s very unlikely that the workers will put the soil back the way it was.

At this point we’re all of two minds: either try it all again, or just say to heck with it. We have a bunch of new neighbors, most of them young and fit. Get involved kids, I’ll lend you the shovels.

Shit piss and damnation. But fire safety comes first.

That’s a hole! I guess it was a 6 foot stand pipe

The water line comes in from the side, so at least the front half of the garden is safe. So far.

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December 11, 2023

I got to the orthopedist the other day. They’re going to fit me with some kind of decompression braces with lateral pads a few days before Christmas. The pads will push my knee joints in from the side, hopefully aligning the bones properly. I have bone to bone contact on the inner side of the joint, and pushing it straight should be possible. And that should let me have something close to a normal life, until I can get at least one of the knees replaced. Yes, I have to have knee replacement surgery. Sucks. But everyone tells me it’s down to a science at this point; they even use some kind of a robotic assistant for perfect placement. That same everyone also says the recovery is much faster than it used to be, which is fine by me. 12 weeks is nearly 3 months, and that seems to be just about forever. And then I’ll have to have the other knee done.

Meanwhile I’ll keep wearing the $10 brace on at least one leg, as it does help.

This sucks. But I’m really tired of being a weather station, knowing what the forecast is by what hurts, where, and how badly. On a dry warmer day I can climb stairs normally, albeit a bit slowly. On a cold wet day it’s all I can do to stand up. Or lie down, as my back goes out too. I hate this.

So my life has been pretty dull. And achy. But we did find the pretzel recipe, and all that heavy duty flour I stored in the garage in airtight food-safe storage buckets is just fine. So I can bake if I want to.

And now I’ll go read the comments.

PS - I’m still doing most of the cooking. I made “Christmas” chili the other day. Christmas because it was red and green. I only had a few anchos left that I could find, and the grocery store doesn’t carry them any more. So I got some pablanos, which are the fresh green version of the same pepper. Pinto beans, black beans, a couple cans of Rotel (fire roasted), onions, garlic, beef broth, burger, and a leftover pork chop diced up. And BACON. Half a dozen strips sizzled up in the dutch oven, then set aside, crumbled, and added back in later. The usual dry spice mexi-mirepoix, throw it all in and let it simmer. It came out pretty darn good.

It was pretty much this recipe but with added actual chiles, and pinto beans instead of red kidney beans. Pintos break down into mush, so when you don’t see them any longer it means the chili is ready. Made a nice pan of cornbread. Good eats.

A chili loving friend couldn’t find any anchos in her town either. So I found a place online to buy them bulk for 1/4 the price that the big name spice houses charge, and ordered a 5lb box we’ll split. And a pound of guajillos, which have a bit more heat than anchos.

Given the number of south of the border types living in this area now, it’s pretty amazing that the stores aren’t “celebrating diversity” more than they are. Heck, I’m amazed that Flemington doesn’t have a Goya store, or at least an entire aisle, instead of just a section of one aisle. Not much English spoken in that town any more.

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December 5, 2023

I think this is the longest I’ve ever gone without making a post. Not that I haven’t thought about it every day, or noticed major and minor news items I could have written about. I’ve been in a very bad way the past couple weeks. My knees are falling apart. Once again, the gel shots didn’t do much of anything. I have spent days in bed, numbed out on NSAIDs and alcohol. I have an appointment Friday with an orthopedist. I picked up some $10 knee braces at the grocery store. It helps my left knee a lot, not much for my right.

I am pulling out of bowling league. Both of them. I can’t begin to write about how much this hurts to do, as this is my one entertainment activity and most of my social circle. But what choice do I have? I’ve tried to bowl through the pains, but it does’nt work. My paper average is down 25 pins, and my actual bowling is down close to 80 pins a game. At best I can manage a 158 game, which was an embarrassing score for me even 4 months ago.

I haven’t been able to do much around the house at all. Even standing in front of the sink trying to rinse off some dishes and get them into the dishwasher is painful and exhausting.

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November 18, 2023

Happy Thanksgiving!!

   

No get together for our families this year, oh well. So we’re staying home. Got a huge chicken for free from the grocery store to cook; it’s nice today so maybe smoke it a bit on the grill and roast it out there. Got my sausage stuffing to make. Made the cranberry sauce. Have an apple pie to cook, and another loaf of bread to bake. Plus taters and gravy, or maybe just gravy. And fresh asparagus, and sauteed mushrooms. And plenty of wine, cider, an soda. We won’t be going hungry.

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“Not an act of terrorism” says (LSOS) NY Gov Hochul
Flying Car Explodes At Niagara Bridge Border Crossing Booth

All four international border crossings between the United States and Canada in Western New York were closed for approximately five hours Wednesday due to a vehicle explosion at the Rainbow Bridge that killed two passengers.

Sources told News 4 and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul later confirmed that the incident is not believed to be an act of terrorism, countering what some national outlets reported earlier Wednesday.

Yeah, just local folks on their way to a concert, running late. Because everyone packs their car with explosives and drives across the border at 120mph, right? What a Lying Sack Of Shit (LSOS). Police on the scene at the time said it was a car bomb, and thus terrorism. And who is to say that some jihadi couple doesn’t live in the Buffalo area? Misdirection and misinformation. Typical.

You can watch the car take off here. It approaches the checkpoint in the rain at well over 100mph, hits a curb and goes flying for 100 yards, still 15 feet in the air when it goes through the checkpoint booths. The actual explosion is not on this video, but it’s a guarantee it’s on some CCTV that was pointing past the booths. Witnesses say the fireball was 40 feet high. Cars don’t usually explode on impact like on TV. They smash, they crumple, and then they might catch on fire. But they don’t actually explode.



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The Rainbow Bridge is a steel deck arch bridge, the causeway running above the steel arch truss supported by verticals. The abutments on both ends are concrete open spandrel arches, with lateral wings where the lanes converge after the checkpoint booths. The bridge was built in 1941, is 202 feet above the Niagara River. The whole thing is 1450 feet long, and the steel center section is a bit over 900 feet long. So the explosion actually happened on the approach to the bridge, on pavement on solid ground. The USA is on the east end of the bridge, Canada on the west end.

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November 18, 2023



Well, I survived another week. The 3rd round of gel shots in my knees took 2 days to take effect, so most of the week was a lot of pain and extreme difficulty walking. Hobbling would be a better term. I’m trying that Voltarin stuff, an arthritis pain relieving gel made from Diclofenac. It’s a bother to apply it 4 times a day, it might take a week to even start working, and there can be side effects. But I have to do something. So far the relief has been minimal at best. I had to take a week off from PT, as I simply could not walk and could hardly work the clutch to drive my car.

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I was able to bowl reasonably well by Friday night, rolling a 542 series. We lost 2-5, but I threw over 200 in G3, 12 under in G2, and a 181 in G1. Considering how poorly I did in my Wednesday league (under 400 series), and was in so much pain that I’ve set things up to go out on disability if necessary, this was a vast improvement.

Knee, ankle, and thumb pain were not too bad by the time I got home. I count that as a big positive. For nearly the whole night my thumb didn’t fail on me, so I was able to get some good releases. I still have to figure out how to adapt my handi-approach to make the 10 pin spares; I only made about 1/4 of them. OTOH, I could get a cheap dead plastic ball for that, as my Motiv Venom Blue Pearl and even my DV8 are too much ball for the current lane layouts. I need something utterly dead that will not hook at all, in a weight I can throw with ease. Somehow I get off balance making a diagonal approach for the right corner shots, and almost always either throw too far right, into the gutter, or the ball hooks up and flares left, missing the pins.

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So, new House Speaker Mike Johnson is releasing nearly all the J6 tapes, over 40,000 hours worth. With blurred faces to hide the identities of Feebs and other agents provocateurs in the crowd. At this point he, along with the rest of the GOP leadership, has still not done a damn thing to get justice for the J6 political prisoners. So one small step forward, two steps back. You do realize that this is one of the bigger circle jerks in history, right? Not one single leftist will believe any new analysis, most center to center right people won’t pay any attention at all, and the few right-wingers who paid attention this whole time already knew what a false flag it was, even before that day. So, a total waste ... unless MAJOR changes are made. They won’t be. More virtue signalling, nothing more.

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Looks like there’s still another slice in the oven. PizzaGate. Remember how false you were told it was?? And how there was no connection at all to Epstein Island? Yeah, right.

John Podesta’s pal, leftwing emagazine Recount’s editor Slade Sohmer, arrested on multiple charges of kiddie porn.

Charges of actual child molestation may be coming soon.

Court documents referenced in The Berkshire Eagle report allege Sohmer’s phone contained highly disturbing video clips depicting boys as young as three being sexually assaulted by adults. Authorities initially became aware of the alleged activities through a tipoff from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, which informed the Massachusetts State Police Cyber Crime Unit about a suspicious video circulated on Snapchat in late September of last year.

Upon investigation, the video was linked back to an IP address believed to originate from Sohmer’s home internet account, and on October 18th, Berkshire police confiscated electronic devices from the premises. Authorities allege that one of these devices, Sohmer’s phone, was used to send out 53 videos containing child pornography. There are also claims that Sohmer was filmed directing a minor to perform sexual acts, prompting Assistant District Attorney Marianne Shelvey to suggest further charges may be pending due to the child’s identification.

How about that, another lefty pervert. Who’da thunk it could happen?

https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2023/11/18/pizzagate-come-back-12/
https://www.tigerdroppings.com/rant/politics/john-podestas-friend-who-debunked-pizzagate-arrested-for-raping-toddlers/110889530/

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November 11, 2023

Today is Veteran’s Day. It is the day to remember those who served, and to show appreciation for that service. Thank you for answering your country’s call, and doing the job that was needed.

It’s a bit irksome that our unionized government took Friday off, because with this day falling on a Saturday this year they won’t get a Monday holiday. I don’t think they should get any time at all off for it, unless they are actual veterans, or can prove they will be attending pro-veteran ceremonies or events.

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It is also my birthday. I am 63 today. Crivens. And lately I feel those years every day. I got the second round of knee gel shots Wednesday, and this time they took 2 days to become beneficial. I guess the gel takes a little while to spread around, and the more you have the slower it spreads. Thursday was a very bad knee day for me; I could barely walk. I was still in too much pain to do physical therapy on my foot on Friday morning, but by late afternoon I was feeling pretty good. I’m getting there, although I’m not sure where there is exactly. Sure would be nice to go up and down stairs normally, instead of doing the old guy half step thing.

On the advice of my podiatrist and the PT guy, I got a set of SuperFeet Orange orthotics. They are awesome. Expensive, considering it’s just a little slab of plastic and rubber. The relief to my ankle tendons was immediate. I’m still wearing the foot brace, using ice as necessary, and taking several doses of ibuprofen every day. And going to chiropractic a couple times a week. I’m going to set up appointments with an orthopedist and a rheumatologist to see what can be done about my joint conditions.  I want to look into an inflammation lowering diet; I’m already taking most of the normal vitamins and supplements that are supposed to help arthritis. At best, they do a little.


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Bowling blogging!

Yes, even with all the creaky cracking popping aching joints, I’m still bowling. Or trying to. My average is down at least 20 points in both leagues. I did pretty well last night, throwing a 190-something in game 1 and a 223 in game 3 for a 561 series. I messed up in game 2 with a 154, which was more of me trying to adapt to rapidly changing lane conditions and having a little trouble with my release. It’s hard getting your thumb out at the exact right time when it hurts (more arthritis) and won’t cooperate. Still, we won all 7 points, which was nice for a change.

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[ looks out the window, checks online to see how the world is. Yup, still run by greedy fools, still a mess of crap. Goes for more coffee and contemplates doing something exciting, like a load of laundry ]

Know the enemy: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/11/understanding_the_hamas_death_cult_and_the_concept_of_a_just_and_necessary_war.html

November 5, 2023

THIS SUCKS

It’s been a rough couple weeks for me. Ankle pain and my Achilles tendon has been awful. Got the first round of this iteration of knee shots (hylauronic acid) Wednesday, which made my busted up arthritic knees feel better for a whole 4 days. Found a chiropractor on the other side of the lake from me, got in for first appointment, felt pretty good for about 2 days. Bowled really well the first 2 games Friday night, then my thumb started hurting like mad. So game 3 was way low. By Sunday my back again feels like I’ve been hit with a baseball bat. Great. Just friggin great.

I’m falling apart. This sucks.

But at least I put the computer back together. It had to be moved so we could unearth the TV set, and then a bunch of crap in boxes had to be gone through so we could find the remotes. Which is me admitting that the “ok, contractor is done, let’s put the house back together” is going nowhere fast. She’s too lazy, and I’m in too much pain. At least the cat fleas seem to be in remission for now. So far. And I installed the new smoke alarm and trimmed the new A/C giant air filter to fit. Bought the wrong one, and then it sat around for weeks (contractor again) long past the Return By date. It took some careful trimming of the plastic side panels with a fine hand saw and a sharp utility knife. But it’s in, and should last 2 -3 years. The thing is huge.

And now the thrill of my evening, trying to stand up long enough in front of the sink to rinse off the dishes and get them in the dishwasher. I think I should take some pain pills, and maybe have a martini first. I have a slew of appointments next week, mostly medical. Somewhere in there I should get a haircut too.

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October 24, 2023

Can’t wait for this to bubble up to The View so Whoopi can tell everyone it wasn’t “behead" behead.

Yeah, they just all accidentally fell off.

Worst Tweet of All Time



https://notthebee.com/article/we-have-a-new-worst-tweet-of-all-time-ladies-and-gents



Eric Levitz, NYC resident and writer for New York Magazine. He is trying to paint shades of nuance between “the terrorists killed babies but they just so happened to lose their heads during various methods of murder” and “the terrorists purposely beheaded the babies.”

This after DECADES of jihadi beheading videos from all over the world. And let’s not mention their Koran, a book suitable for both toilet paper AND kindling, specifically tells them to sever heads. And burn people to death.

[ Koran, Surah 8, The Spoils of War ]

[8.12] When your Lord revealed to the angels: I am with you, therefore make firm those who believe. I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them.

[8.14] This-- taste it, and (know) that for the unbelievers is the chastisement of fire.

“Maybe they burned the kids alive and the charred skulls just rolled off their bodies! We really need to consider the etymology of the verbs we use!”

Maybe this apologetic word slicing pussy should just ask what Hamas’ pronouns are. If he asked me I’d say “Was/Were/Oh merciful Allah the fire, it burns! The pain!!” and then eagerly push the Picard Button (to make it so!)

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October 23, 2023



Airport Horror Story, GOAT G.O.A.T. !!

U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agriculture Specialists at the Chicago O’Hare International Airport were faced with an unlikely situation after they discovered 15 pounds of raw goat viscera in the baggage of two passengers.

The incident happened on last Tuesday Oct. 10th.

The agency, in a news release, said that two passengers, who were arriving from the Democratic Republic of Congo, were referred to agriculture secondary for inspection.

“CBPAS inspected their baggage and found one pound of unknown meat, 2 pounds of garden eggs, and 15 pounds of raw goat viscera including the trachea, heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, and entire digestive system,” said the news release.

A photo provided by the agency shows the internal organs of the goat as an officer holds up the body parts.

“An eviscerated goat is certainly outside of the normal items they [CBPAS] stop,” said the new release about the items.

It takes about 24 hours to fly from Congo to Chicago. Bet that goat was getting a bit ripe.

PS - How on earth did a Bag o’ Goat get on the plane in the first place???

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Of Course They Were There. Duh.

New details emerging in death of Obama’s chef who “drowned” in the shallow pond of their swank Martha’s Vineyard home.

New information from a FOIA request now places Barack Obama on the scene sometime after his personal chef, Tafari Campbell, went missing and was later found drowned.

The new information was first reported by Jesse Watters Friday evening.

“We have new information tonight in the drowning death of Obama’s chef Tafari Campbell,” Watters revealed. “The Massachusetts State Police responded to our FOIA request and released their report with some redactions.”

“According to the report, Obama was on the scene shortly after Campbell went missing,” Watters said. “The report also states an unnamed female staffer jumped into the water when Tafari fell off his board, but it was already too late. He disappeared.”


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“We also now know that Secret Service has surveillance footage of Campbell from Obama’s compound moments before he entered the water,” Watters added. “So we’re going to see if we can get that.”

[ you big dummy, I can absolutely guarantee that the SS has footage of the entire pond and thus the entire incident, even if it happened in the dead of night (AFAIK it didn’t)]

The records also detail the existence of a Secret Service video of Campbell and his paddleboarding companion entering the water, and the Secret Service emergency response in the immediate aftermath of the drowning. The State Police records show they concluded ‘no foul play’ in Campbell’s ‘accidental’ death.”

Paddleboarding COMPANION? Say what???!? First I’ve heard of this. And it took a FOIA and several months to get even this much information. They must be using a whole army of brooms to sweep this under the bed.

Ok, it isn’t new news. It just a highly important detail that the MSM has seriously ignored since the initial report came out. So “the staffer who jumped in the water” was also his boarding companion? Probably.

Bad me, but my guess is pretty obvious. Barry and Michael are gays. Big Mike is a tranny. Bathhouse Barry got busy with cutie boy Tafari. Yeah, he was married, but was he a bi-boi too? Hmmm. Big Mike found out, slapped the crap out his bitch Barry (remember his bruises) and then ... Hillaried the situation.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12446371/Silence-drowning-Obama-chef-Tafari-Campbell-sparks-conspiracy-theories-including-relationship-26-year-old-unidentified-woman-witnessed-death.html

Just so you know, Edgarton Great Pond is a tidal slough, about 8 feet deep. And Campbell knew how to swim. And nobody, NOBODY in our safety conscious, risk averse culture goes out on the water on anything small without a flotation vest. It just ain’t done. So even if you’re passed out drunk, you don’t fall off the board, sink, and drown. 100 feet from their house BTW.

A paddleboard is like an oversize surfboard, around 10’-12’ long and nearly 3’ wide. It’s fairly stable.

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Well Blow Me Down, It just don’t work


Oh the greenie folks they have a dream
Of carbon neutral power
But solar sucks
And tidal’s lame
They call the wind pariah

How many times have we heard that wind power, coupled with the sun’s energy, is going to save us from our fossil-fuel burning ways? Maybe one day it will. But at no time soon will it happen. And by soon, we mean in most of our lifetimes.

How can we say this? Look around at what’s happening with wind energy:

“California’s Central Coast residents work to stop — or at least slow down — offshore wind.” California believes that by 2045 it can operate its electrical grid without contributions from fossil fuels and nuclear energy. To get there, one-fourth of the power must be generated by offshore wind. This CalMatters report, which summarizes the resistance to offshore wind projects, should set off alarms not just in Sacramento but in other blue state capitals as well as Washington, D.C. (unless Democratic Rep. Jamaal Bowman gets there first).

“​​Orsted Threatens To Abandon U.S. Offshore Wind Projects.” Here we learn that “the world’s largest offshore wind farm developer is preparing to walk away from U.S. projects unless the Biden administration guarantees more support.” In other words, offshore wind is so uneconomical that unless the taxpayers “pitch in,” it’s not worth the trouble for private companies to stay in the game. Furthermore, “Europe’s ‘green tech’ future has been threatened due to waning investment flows.”

“Electricity from wind isn’t cheap and it never will be.” In this London Telegraph column, science writer Matt Ridley writes that “The latest auction of rights to build offshore wind farms failed to attract any bids, despite offering higher subsidized prices. That alone indicates that wind is not cheap or getting cheaper.”

In related news, over-the-horizon leftist tyrant New York governor Kathy Hochul has just cancelled NY’s offshore wind plans, blaming Republicans and pretending that reduced property values is the reason.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul vetoed the “Planned Offshore Wind Transmission act” on Friday, which would have helped keep offshore wind projects in the State of New York.

The partisan legislation was passed by the Assembly on Day 2 of a June Special Session at the Capitol, and was the source of contentious debate. The bill would’ve paved the way for the “Empire Wind Two” project off Long Island near Jones Beach, and would’ve brought nearly 500 jobs in manufacturing to the Port of Albany.

The passage brought upon rave reviews from federal lawmakers as well, who visited the Port of Albany in July. Equinor Renewables Americas was in charge of that project, releasing this statement:

“The veto of ‘The Planned Offshore Wind Transmission Act’ undermines New York’s commitment to the energy transition and the role offshore wind must play in achieving the state’s renewable energy mandates,” Molly Morris, President, Equinor Renewables Americas, says. “This decision sends another troubling signal to renewable energy developers following last week’s action by the New York State Public Service Commission.”

The legislation drew resistance from Republicans, citing environmental and health concerns along with potential neighborhood and property value impacts.

Meanwhile, in The People’s Republic of New Jersey ...

Opponents of what would be New Jersey’s first offshore wind energy farm are celebrating the announcement that the project will be delayed until 2026, but vowed to keep up their fight until it fails altogether.

After suffering a series of legal and regulatory setbacks in the past year, the opponents are encouraged that they are finally gaining the upper hand in their efforts to block the Danish energy giant Orsted from building the wind farm 15 miles off the coast from Atlantic City to Stone Harbor.

“I think this is a sign that the tide is turning. While this is a positive step, this is not the time to pop the champagne corks,” said Bob Barr, a former Ocean City councilman who now serves on the Cape May County Board of Commissioners, the elected body overseeing county government.

Ocean City and Cape May County officials have been among the most outspoken critics of Orsted’s plan to build 98 towering wind turbines as part of the controversial Ocean Wind 1 project, which some opponents believe will cause irreparable harm to the shore’s economy and environment.

“It is a terrible project, the worst I’ve ever seen. This project has no redeeming qualities at all,” Barr said.

No redeeming qualities? Well they are getting rid of all those pesky whales. But let’s blame Climate Change instead. ( PS whales have been around 50 million years, so they’ve managed to adapt to every previous climate change. And they have sonar, so they can tell how deep the water is).

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GET ME OUT OF HERE ...

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   Wednesday - August 19, 2020

Gee, Oops

A total non-surprise. We saw this coming back in early March. The richer you were the earlier, faster, and further you ran. Problem is, it’s worse than anyone thought at the time.

NYC Ship Sinking, Rats Long Gone

New York City is home to 118 billionaires, more than any other American city. New York City is also home to nearly one million millionaires, more than any other city in the world. Among those millionaires some 8,865 are classified as “high net worth,” with more than $30 million each.

They pay the taxes. The top one percent of NYC taxpayers pay nearly 50 percent of all personal income taxes collected in New York. Personal income tax in the New York area accounts for 59 percent of all revenues. Property taxes add in more than a billion dollars a year in revenue, about half of that generated by office space.

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The budget for a city as complex as New York is a mess of federal, state, and local funding sources. It can be sliced and diced many ways, but the one that matters is the starkest: the people and companies who pay for New York’s poor are leaving even as the city is already facing a $7.4 billion tax revenue hit from the initial effects of the coronavirus. The money is there; New York’s wealthiest individuals have increased their net worth by $44.9 billion during the pandemic. It’s just not here.

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While overall only five percent of residents left as of May, in the city’s very wealthiest blocks residential population decreased by 40 percent or more. The higher-earning a neighborhood is, the more likely it is to have emptied out. Even the amount of trash collected in wealthy neighborhoods has dropped, a tell-tale sign no one is home. A real estate agent told me she estimates about a third of the apartments even in my mid-range 300 unit building are empty.

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Fewer than one-tenth of Manhattan office workers came back to the workplace a month after New York gave businesses the green light to return to the buildings they ran from in March. Having had several months to notice what not paying Manhattan office rents might do for their bottom line, large companies are leaving.

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The ‘Rona Song

Leave it Country music to be perfectly topical and metaphorical at the same time

I miss my mom, I miss my dad
I miss the road, I miss my band
Giving hugs and shaking hands
It’s a mystery I suppose
Just how long this thing goes
But there’ll be crowds and there’ll be shows
And there will be light after dark
Someday when we aren’t six feet apart

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Follow Me !

One of the benefits of our universally computer driven modern world is package tracking. Mated with theoretically optimized routes and warehousing, we now can get our deliveries much faster than in decades past. For the impatient, most of the deliver services allow you track your boxes or letters step by step as they wend their way in your direction. [ OTOH, this also allows you to watch the Post Office send your stuff all over the country willy-nilly, leave it at distribution centers for days or weeks at a time, and sometimes take days to move something just 7 miles from one center to the next, and then take a full week to deliver it a whole 42 miles away. Sorry, my pet peeve, after recently pulling my hair out when a letter took more than a month to get delivered. Just wait until the whole country tries to vote by mail this November. Guaranteed disaster. ]

Now UPS has brought out “Follow Me”, a real time, self-updating, GPS driven mapping application, that let’s you see the big brown truck driving all over with your package in it. Not sure if this is going to help or hurt, because most people won’t realize that there are 300 other boxes in that truck, and yours is almost guaranteed to be last in line. It was already a bit frustrating just following the data, watching my box go from Florida to Edison NJ in hardly over a day, but then on to Allentown PA, right past my home, and then have to go on to another truck to come back to NJ days later and to get delivered ... later today?  Maybe. “Out for delivery” for 3 days? Oy vey.

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eye candy, high plains edition

I thought I posted this the other day, but it seems to have evaporated. Whatevs.

Anyway, this is actress Kelsey Asbille Chow. She had a small but regular role in the One Tree Hill drama a few years back, and was in the 2017 film Wind River. Currently she has a supporting role on Paramount’s cowboy drama / Kevin Costner vehicle Yellowstone.

We watch Yellowstone, it’s great, and it’s interesting to see her character developing from a whiny liberal into someone more normal. That’s going to be long journey. She is super attractive though. 

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   Monday - August 17, 2020

Flowers For Algernon?

Funny, I kind of thought it was the President’s job to keep people aware of new possibilities and to give them even temporary hope. But the Left may be right on this one. Like the blind squirrel ...

Most Americans have been praying for a cure to the Chinese Communist Party virus. Such a prospect turns out to be horrifying, however, if you are a Deep State bureaucrat, someone invested in open-ended and lucrative research into unpromising medicines or vaccines and/or a political opponent of President Trump.

Hence the vehemently hostile response of a leftist publication called Axios to information about Oleandrin, a natural supplement that has proven in clinical experiments and limited human trials in Texas to crush the CCP virus. Rather than celebrate this development and call for an urgent effort to validate such findings with widespread, life-saving trials, Axios touted the uninformed criticisms of naysayers determined to snuff further work on this apparent breakthrough.

To the alarm of some government health officials, President Trump has expressed enthusiasm for the Food and Drug Administration to permit an extract from the oleander plant to be marketed as a dietary supplement or, alternatively, approved as a drug to cure COVID-19, despite lack of proof that it works.

Driving the news: The experimental botanical extract, oleandrin, was promoted to Trump during an Oval Office meeting in July. It’s embraced by Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson and MyPillow founder and CEO Mike Lindell, a big Trump backer, who recently took a financial stake in the company that develops the product.

OMG, if Mike Lindell is behind it, you know it’s deathly anathema.

Oleandrin is an extract from the oleander plant. Researchers have suggested that it could be useful to treat cancer because of the way it affects cells, and that it could enhance the effects of other cancer therapies.

Professor Sharon Lewin, the director of the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity at the University of Melbourne, is an international authority on antiviral drugs and has a laboratory working on COVID-19.
Asked about oleandrin’s potential efficacy as a COVID-19 treatment, Lewin told Axios, “Oleandrin looks to have antiviral activity at high doses in a test tube model. You’d certainly want to see more work done on this before even contemplating a human trial.”

A July 2020 study from the University of Texas at Galveston shows, in a laboratory setting, that oleandrin can inhibit the coronavirus in monkey kidney cells. This study has not been peer reviewed and one of the authors of the study, Robert Newman, is chairman of Phoenix Biotechnology’s scientific advisory board — the company developing the oleandrin product.

The bottom line: Scientists around the world are in a race for cures, treatments and vaccines for COVID-19. Government regulators are investigating hundreds of products. When a biotech executive like Whitney can take his case directly to the president, it casts doubt over the scientific rigor of the drug development process.

From the research study:

Using Vero cells, we found that prophylactic oleandrin administration at concentrations down to 0.05 μg/ml exhibited potent antiviral activity against SARS-CoV-2, with an 800 fold reduction in virus production, and a 0.1 μg/ml dose resulted in a greater than 3,000-fold reduction in infectious virus production. The EC50values were 11.98ng/ml when virus output was measured at 24 hours post-infection, and 7.07ng/ml measured at 48 hours post-infection. Therapeutic (post-infection) treatment up to 24 hours after infection of Vero cells also reduced viral titers, with the 0.1 μg/ml dose causing greater than 100-foldreductions as measured at 48 hours, and the 0.05 μg/ml dose resulting in a 3578-fold reduction.The potent prophylactic and therapeutic antiviral activities demonstrated here strongly support the further development of oleandrin to reduce the severity of COVID-19 and potentially also to reduce spread by persons diagnosed early after infection.

In years past the FDA has been dinged for major slow walking and foot dragging when it comes to testing and approving new medicines. Many drugs are available to the rest of the world that are not yet available to us. With this pandemic that slowness has become an issue, but I don’t think the best idea is to throw caution to the wind and let anything fly. That way leads to snake oil. There has to be some level of significant proper, fair, testing.

OTOH, the Axios article does mention how this could easily be marketed as an herbal supplement, which could NOT focus on any curative ability. To which there’s an easy work around; “We’re NOT ALLOWED to mention that this cures Covid, and thus cannot recommend a dose of 2 pills a day for 2 weeks. This product is for dietary supplemental use only, and we bear no responsibility for it’s use in any other manner.” kind of advertising.

OTTH, shouldn’t President Trump know by now when to keep his fat mouth shut?

Consumption of even one Nerium oleander leaf can be fatal. Onset of toxicity occurs several hours following consumption. Symptoms include vomiting, abdominal pain, cyanosis, hypotension, hypothermia, vertigo, respiratory paralysis and death.

However, a carefully controlled tea made from the flowers could be an effective cancer and AIDS treatment. But more trials are needed!!

A hot water extract of the plant, known as Anvirzel™, has been developed as a potential treatment for cancer, AIDS, and congestive heart failure. It consists of a mixture of oleandrin and the glycone oleandrigenin. Experiments suggest that a combination of Anvirzel and cisplatin may be more effective than cisplatin monotherapy . In an earlier study, Anvirzel appeared safe in humans when injected intramuscularly, although adverse effects such as injection site pain, fatigue, and other GI symptoms were reported.

Anvirzel™ is not an approved cancer treatment in the United States. Until more data regarding its efficacy and toxicity are available, this product should not be used outside of clinical trials.

Anvirzel may be a modern version of a medicinal extract of oleander that goes back to the dawn of history.

Historical records prove that Oleander plant has healing powers; thus it was highly regarded by the Mesopotamians in the 15th century B.C. During the age of the Babylonians up to the Romans it was used as a relieved for hangovers. To the Arabs it has better worth since the plant was used for cancer medication in the 8th century A.D.

OTOH, the Romans also used it to commit suicide.

I looked up the entry at Wiki ... and I think I’ll pass on this one. There may be too much risk in a cure made from just a little bit of deadly poison.

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The Death Of NYC?

This is what happens when you elect a communist as mayor. One who encourages rioting and lawlessness. Riots after weeks of extended lockdown. Retail is dying. Populations are fleeing. Violence is everywhere, at unprecedented levels. It’s anarchy and depression.

De Blasio’s New York has finally hit an all-time low: the once bustling city is now on the verge of looking like a demilitarized zone. Between the pandemic and the riots in the city, iconic 5th Avenue now looks more like a dystopian nightmare in a recently shot video posted to Twitter.

The video follows a car driving down a deserted 5th Avenue, with almost all of the area’s high end stores boarded up and shut down. There are few people seen on what is usually a busy street.

“Look at everything. Everything’s boarded up. Even the hotel. Boarded up,” the video’s narrator, who is obviously fed up with how the city looks, says.

He continues: “This is all Manhattan, boarded up. Have you ever seen Manhattan look like this? The media will not report this.”

“Everything boarded up. They don’t want to show this to you people because they’re afraid. Saks 5th Avenue - boarded up from end to end. They put up barbed wire. Everywhere you see boards, windows are gone. Look at New York City - what happened,” he says.

The video runs over 2 minutes and shows dozens of boarded up businesses.

No, it’s not a war zone — it’s Manhattan.

Video shows once-bustling Big Apple streets nearly deserted and dotted with boarded-up, spray-painted and bashed-in buildings after days of looting.

The footage taken Tuesday and Wednesday in Midtown and Soho shows the windows of popular stores shattered while others — such as Burberry, Sephora and Sunglasses Hut — are covered in plywood to protect against looters.

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Only a handful of masked pedestrians and police officers are seen walking on eerily empty sidewalks. Some plywood panels put up by shops were tagged with graffiti reading, “Justice for George Floyd” — the black man who died after a white Minneapolis police officer pinned him to the ground for nearly nine minutes.

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, many Big Apple retailers have been closed for months prior to protests over Floyd’s death.

These riots happened at the end of May ...

Sidewalks across the SoHo neighborhood, Union Square and Fifth Avenue were covered in broken glass. Multiple police cars had been burnt to nothing but ashes. Stores, including a Duane Reade, Urban Outfitters and Swatch, were looted. Banks were ravaged. An Equinox gym had been broken in to. Graffiti covered retailers’ logos up and down some of the glitziest shopping districts, which normally would be hosting a hotbed of tourist activity this time of year.

The New York Police Department has since said it arrested almost 350 people Saturday evening, following protests across parts of Harlem, Brooklyn and Staten Island. NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea said in a press conference held Sunday that more than 30 officers suffered minor injuries due to clashes with demonstrators.

It’s now the middle of August. More than 11 weeks later. And these businesses are still closed, still boarded up. Whatever stock that wasn’t looted has been sold online.

Do you really think these storefronts are coming back? Even if the beneficent dictator of NYC allows them to open, with 25% customer capacity and ridiculously paranoid levels of isolation and plexiglass protection inside the stores? Somehow, I kind of doubt it.

Greatest city in the world, killed by policy in half a year. This was not an accident.

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Very Funny Officer

So I got another ticket yesterday. Me and my red car manage to get pulled over a couple times a year. Yes, I’m an inveterate speeder, but I do it properly. I don’t tailgate, I don’t cut people off, I use my turn signals, I almost pass anyone on the right, and of course my car is in perfect working order and my papers are current. And I don’t go flying around corners on two wheels, or anything close to reckless driving. I’m just an impatient driver, like everyone else in the state.

In NJ, everyone speeds. Everyone. Nearly everywhere. The only place we make up for it is in those 25mph zones near schools, parks, and downtown. People generally do about 17 in those.

NJ has a scheme in place on the highways. They “let” you drive 65mph, but fines are doubled. Should there be a traffic cone by the side of the road, or a permanent sign saying that bit of highway is also a construction zone, fines are doubled again. So getting a speeding ticket on the highway can be a darn costly experience.

Generally, highway traffic moves at 75mph in good conditions, even in the slow lane, but on the weekends it flies. 85 is typical, 95 is not unheard of, with cars maybe two lengths apart traveling in packs.

And NJ keeps points for 5 years, with a big long list of how many points for whichever of the 65 or so moving violations they have. Get more than 6 in a 3 year period, and get an extra fine to pay. There are a fair number of 0 point offenses, but they are not on the list. Good luck trying to find them, although we all know that the seatbelt one and the red light camera one are no-pointers.

How many points are on your license? Like many other states, you have to pay the DMV to find this out. Gosh, wouldn’t you think that this would be part of their regular job? Available online for free, given that this is a microscopic database inquiry? Heck no.

But there’s a game involved. There are a good number of offenses that don’t have points. Just a fine. So most cops short circuit the plea bargaining process, and give you a break and just write you up for some 0 point offense. It puts donut money in their coffers, nobody wastes time going to court, an you just go online and pay the fine with your credit card.

So I got pulled over for doing 85 in a 65 zone on a demarcated highway. I wasn’t racing, or playing artful dodger, or zooming down the road alone. I was just cruising along with traffic. The Statey did his job in about 2 minutes and I was back on my way.

He wrote me up for the 0 point offense of Delaying Traffic.

Haha, very funny.

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   Saturday - August 15, 2020

Rhubarb !!!

She came home from work with an armload of rhubarb that a coworker had brought in from their garden.

I haven’t had rhubarb in ... probably 45 years. Pretty sure my parents used to grow it in the vegetable garden, but that’s loooong ago in the past.

So we’re making strawberry rhubarb pie, and, since we have so much of the stuff, we’re making a strawberry rhubarb crumble as well. Both are a great excuse to get hold of some good vanilla ice cream.

Rhubarb has an unusual taste, but it’s one that I’ve always loved. Can’t wait to get to baking things up and trying them out. Might even have enough to send her to work Monday with another crumble.




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Oh goody, and I guess I’d better go look outside. Amazon says my copy of Law of Nations and John Locke’s Two Treaties of Government were delivered today. Along with my new Solo 2L hand sprayer, as the old one died after a decade of use.

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Fauci Gets One Right

Fauci: Voting In Person OK If Social Distancing Done

Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser for the White House coronavirus task force, said this week that there is “no reason” Americans are not able to vote in person for the 2020 presidential election in November.

Fauci emphasized that voting in person would not need to be avoided as long as voters followed CDC guidelines and maintained social distancing.

“I think if carefully done, according to the guidelines, there’s no reason that I can see why that not be the case,” Fauci told ABC News. “If you go and wear a mask, if you observe the physical distancing, and don’t have a crowded situation, there’s no reason why shouldn’t be able to do that.”

Fauci noted, however, that those who are at high-risk if exposed to coronavirus or have a compromised immune system should stay indoors and use mail-in voting.

OK, 99% right. I think most absentee ballots should be dropped off well ahead of time at the polling centers, logged in, and signed for ... once proper ID and voter registration is checked. The USPS is highly leftist, so I would not trust them too much. 

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   Friday - August 14, 2020

toldja so

As reliable as the coming dawn, the willfully stupid and the left biased media and “the experts” have once again yelled real loud to subvert the proper understanding of the law. And that noise will do the job.

I said it yesterday: This application of the Constitution will be ignored and denied by the media and everyone else. Because “birthers”. People are so terrified of being called a name that they are willing to ignore the law, the history of the law, and the true meaning and intent of the law. That’s beyond sad. It’s beyond cowardly. It’s apathetic, pathetic, and bathetic.

And here it is.

Trump slammed for not rejecting conspiracy theory Kamala Harris is ineligible for vice presidency
Biden campaign calls Trump comments ‘abhorrent’

That’s right; it’s a conspiracy theory. And he’s abhorrent. Because he referred to a statement made by somebody about the natural born issue, and then said he didn’t know if that was correct or not. So slam him for even implying that this could be a problem.

And then the lies come out by the bucketful. And the overwhelming noise of indignation and implicit raycis drown out the truth, once again. We are totally fucking doomed.

President Trump would not reject a conspiracy theory Thursday that Kamala Harris is ineligible to serve as vice president because her parents were born outside the United States.

Asked about the unfounded and widely refuted claims during a press briefing at the White House, Trump responded, “I heard it today that she doesn’t meet the requirements” before adding, “I have no idea if that’s right.”

Harris is a United States citizen born in California in 1964, making her eligible to serve as president or vice president under the Constitution. [ Fox you are wrong ]

However, a professor of law at Chapman University, John C. Eastman, wrote a piece for Newsweek this week after she was named to the Democratic ticket questioning whether Harris is a “natural born citizen” because her mother was born in India and her father was born in Jamaica.

[ Editor’s note: Some readers reacted strongly to this essay, seeing it as an attempt to ignite a racist conspiracy theory. ]
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The fact that Senator Kamala Harris has just been named the vice presidential running mate for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has some questioning her eligibility for the position. The 12th Amendment provides that “no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.” And Article II of the Constitution specifies that “[n]o person except a natural born citizen...shall be eligible to the office of President.” Her father was (and is) a Jamaican national, her mother was from India, and neither was a naturalized U.S. citizen at the time of Harris’ birth in 1964. That, according to these commentators, makes her not a “natural born citizen"—and therefore ineligible for the office of the president and, hence, ineligible for the office of the vice president.

Newsweek also ran a counter essay by noted lawyer Eugene Volokh. IMO, as its typical for greasy lawyers, and all lawyers are greasy because the law is merely a tool to them, and not something held sacrosanct, Volokh makes his counter from the wrong direction. He’s throwing shade and puffing smoke, and emphasizing aspects that have no real bearing. Argument by non sequitur. 

Some people have argued that Kamala Harris is ineligible to be vice president of the United States. The Constitution requires presidents and vice presidents to be “natural-born citizens”; Harris was born in the U.S., but her parents (who had come to the U.S. to study) weren’t U.S. citizens at the time. Does “natural-born citizen” include Harris, and others like her?

It does. “Natural-born citizen” was a familiar legal phrase to the Framers—an adaptation of the English term “natural-born subject.” Sir William Blackstone, an English treatise writer who (in Justice Scalia’s words) was “the Framers’ accepted authority on English law and the English Constitution,” explained:

Natural-born subjects are such as are born within the dominions of the crown of England, that is, within the ligeance, or as it is generally called, the allegiance of the king. ...The children of aliens, born here in England, are, generally speaking, natural-born subjects, and entitled to all the privileges of such.

It’s possible that “natural-born citizen” has since been broadened to include children of U.S. citizens born overseas (a 1790 Act of Congress specified that, “The children of citizens of the United States, that may be born beyond sea, or out of the limits of the United States, shall be considered as natural-born citizens").

He is wrong. It is not an adaptation of natural born subject, even though natural born citizen shares two of the three words with the other concept. Oh, and that 1790 Act was overturned in 1795, which he fails to mention. Even the best lawyer is a weasel dick. They argue for or against a topic. Searching for and declaring the actual truth has nothing to do with it.

What is a natural born citizen? It is someone born in this country whose parents are already citizens of this country. Period. Full stop. And that’s all there is to it.

I am a natural born citizen because I was born in this country and both my parents were born here as well, and their parents were citizens when they were born which thus made them natural born citizens. All my grandparents were born here too, although one of them might not have qualified as natural born because her parents came here from Germany, and I have no idea who things worked in the 1890s and I don’t know if they were naturalized citizens by the time granny popped out. But that was generations ago, so it isn’t germane.

It seems we go through this every presidential election cycle. I think what is needed is a SCOTUS decision. And that will never happen, because an honest decision, true to original intent would also torpedo the anchor baby concept that’s been around for 4 decades now. And probably squash the legality of dual citizenship too. And we do not have brave, honest, true Americans on the Supreme Court who are willing or able to make bold, proper decisions. Without the slightest doubt in my mind, this should be a 5 minute, 9-0 decision, made for clarification purposes alone - not delayed forever until some case with standing worms it’s way upwards.

I’m going to add this to my list of life truths:

•  Sulfur is properly spelled sulphur.


•   Eohippus is the Dawn Horse. No other taxonomy name is correct. There is no relation to the rock hyrax, so putting the original horse in the order Hyracotherium was a mistake.

•  The big long dinosaur was a brontosaurus

•  A shark is not a fish, dammit, it is an elasmobranch. Real fish have scales, gill pumps, and a swim bladder. Creating a new intermediate order called “bony fishes” to include both is cheating, especially if you don’t also include dolphins who, by that redefinition should also be fish. Fish who are mammals. No, this is wrong.

•  Ok, I now grudgingly nearly accept that Pluto is not an actual planet, “merely” a dwarf planet or planetoid, because somebody either moved the definition goalposts or because science has advanced enough to go there and find out how big the thing actually is. Pluto 1473 miles across, 2/3 the size of our moon. Mercury still counts as a planet. Mercury is 1516 miles across, a whopping big 43 miles larger. Oh puh-lease. So my grudgingly is very grudgingly. OTOH, given that Pluto has 5 moons, one moon called Chiron which is half the size of Pluto, perhaps it should be called a double planet or a multi-planet.


•  A natural born citizen is someone who is born within the desmenses of a country and both of whose parents are already citizens of that country.

I got so worked up about this yesterday I went out an bought a copy of Law of Nations, and while I was at the digital bookstore I got a copy of the writings of John Locke.

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   Thursday - August 13, 2020

Of course she isn’t, but you’re uninformed and intellectually lazy so she’ll get away with it

Here we should be going again with the natural born citizen thing. And just like Obama, Kamala Harris does not qualify as such.  Not that most anyone else can understand the concept, or knows that it is very important to care about this and why. So should be going won’t even get off the ground. This will not even be brought up in passing, much less discussed, debated, and ruled on. It. Does. Not. Exist. Because ... raycis!!!

“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”

14th Amendment, Section 1, 1868

It is abundantly clear that “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” means exclusively subject to the jurisdiction thereof, which means not in any way beholden to the whims or powers of a foreign government. This was clearly understood by all until fairly recently.

Yes, she was born in the USA. Neither of her parents were citizens at the time. This makes her an anchor baby. According the the 14th Amendment, anchor babies are not citizens. This isn’t a “strict” reading of the amendment, it is a plain reading thereof. Original intent is easy to find in the Congressional Record of the day. The only “reason” that they are considered such these days is due to a single footnote in the 5-4 1982 SCOTUS decision Plyer v. Doe, added to the majority opinion by Justice Brennan:

“no plausible distinction with respect to Fourteenth Amendment ‘jurisdiction’ can be drawn between resident aliens whose entry into the United States was lawful, and resident aliens whose entry was unlawful.”

This weakening of the meaning of jurisdiction within the 14th - that it sees the term as meaning subject to the laws of this nation, and not solely subject to those laws (ie not being also subject to the laws of some other country, as is the legal situation of illegal immigrants) - was a part of the Plyer case, which dealt with Texas’s claim that school funding should not be granted to illegal immigrant children. And of course, Brennan’s footnote comment overlooks that such illegals have no right to be here at all.

Right.

Harris’ parents were a citizen of India and a citizen of Jamaica. While she herself was born in California, and shortly thereafter went to Canada, where she spent nearly all her formative years, she qualifies as a citizen by the anchor baby misconception. Being a citizen does not make you a natural born citizen.

The entire concept of natural born citizen comes from a French book called The Laws of Nations, which was written in 1758 and is the only book or exterior document referenced in the US Constitution. It was used extensively by the Framers, far more than the code of English Common Law, which they strongly felt did not apply to the USA, although they borrowed large parts of it ... as our own law.  Anyway, in The Laws of Nations it says:

“Les naturels, ou indigenes, sont ceux qui sont nes dans le pays, de parens citoyens”

A direct translation is “The natural, or indigenous, are those who are born in the country, of parents who are citizens”.

While there was an 1797 update to the english version of the book, which clarified that line to read “The natives, or natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens.”

This is a rather strict definition. To be a natural born citizen, you need to be born here and both your parents need to be citizens when you are born. Not just born here, and not with just one parent a citizen, regardless of where you were born.

Later extensions to the concept allowed “here” to include territories of the country (eg Guam and Puerto Rico), areas controlled by the country (eg military bases), land considered part of the country that was in other countries (eg consulates and embassies), and things controlled by the government of the country (eg military aircraft and ships that happen to be outside the confines of the country at the moment of birth). This is how John McCain, born at a military base in another country, was deemed a valid candidate.

[ “naturels” is the masculine form of the word, “naturelles” is the feminine form. French is so sexist, but both words mean the same thing. ]

Merely being born to two citizen parents is insufficient. Merely being born within our country is insufficient. This is a precise and sharply focused concept, and about the only time it every applies is when someone is considering running for President or Vice President, although it should probably apply to any elected representative who could possibly be in the chain of succession.

This application of the Constitution will be ignored and denied by the media and everyone else. Because “birthers”. People are so terrified of being called a name that they are willing to ignore the law, the history of the law, and the true meaning and intent of the law. That’s beyond sad. It’s beyond cowardly. It’s apathetic, pathetic, and bathetic.




Read more if you want, in great detail with clear explanations of case law over the years, plus how we’ve now been lead astray, when and by whom:

http://www.conservativehq.com/article/30722-kamala-harris-anchor-baby-not-%E2%80%98natural-born-citizen%E2%80%99-united-states

https://www.dagnyintel.com/post/kamala-harris-is-not-eligible-to-be-president-the-natural-born-citizen-requirement

https://naturalborncitizen.wordpress.com/2008/12/06/urgent-historical-breakthrough-proof-chester-arthur-concealed-he-was-a-british-subject-at-birth/

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   Wednesday - August 12, 2020

Walter White Moved To Holland?

Dutch police have uncovered what they described as the biggest cocaine laboratory ever discovered in the Netherlands, leading to the arrest of 17 suspects from Colombia, Turkey and the Netherlands.

The drug lab was hidden at a former horse riding school in Nijeveen, some 75 miles from Amsterdam, police said in a statement Tuesday.

Police raided the riding school on Friday, discovering tens of thousands of liters of chemicals and 220 pounds of crack cocaine. Sleeping quarters and recreation areas were also found at the site.
The facility was equipped to produce up to 440 pounds of cocaine a day, officials said.

The facility was equipped to produce up to 440 pounds of cocaine a day, officials said. (Politie Landelijke Eenheid)

“This is the largest cocaine laboratory ever found in the Netherlands,” police chief Andre van Rijn said in the statement.

Van Rijn said the lab was equipped to produce 330-440 pounds (150-200 kilograms) of cocaine a day, with a street value of $5.3-9.4 million (4.5-8 million euros).

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TLH? Typical Leftist Hypocrites

This sounds like it could be one of those urban legends.

How Dare You!!

An anonymous poster on Reddit’s “Am I the A--h---” subreddit said he started a meat-eating club at his job in response to a coworker’s vegan-only club.

He claimed that one of his colleagues started a vegan dinner club exclusively for their coworkers following a vegan, vegetarian or pescatarian diet. Other coworkers “will not be able to join the club,” the poster said the group’s “statement of purpose” read.

In response, the poster claimed that he and some other meat-eating coworkers started a burger and steak club to go out and try new restaurants each week. They only allowed meat-eaters to join. However, members of the vegan club filed a complaint with the company’s human resources department.

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