Monday, December 30, 2024

Where are the safest small cities in America?

More than 50,000,000 Americans don't live in big cities.

In 2024, MoneyGeek analyzed the crime statistics and cost of crimes in cities with 30,000-100,000 residents.

Up first on its list, as the safest small city in the country, is Columbus, which is about 40 miles south of Indianapolis. According to the MoneyGeek, the town has the smallest crime cost per capita

Tuesday, December 24, 2024

Donald Trump's 1980 Interview

Pat Boone - "Where Did America Go?" (Official Music Video)

Pat Boone hasn't been popular for at least 50 years.  Maybe 60 years.  But at age 90 he has released a new single. 

I forgot how religious he is.  Over the last few decades, he has done some religious work and supported many conservative political candidates.

I thought that I liked the message, but I'm not quite sure what the message is.  Take us back to what?


'Going into the home stretch in the Kentucky gubernatorial election, the Republicans appear to have brought out one last card: Paranoia against gays.

The state GOP is now sending a robo-call throughout the state featuring none other than Pat Boone, warning that as a Christian he is concerned that Democratic nominee Steve Beshear, who has been way ahead in the polls, will work for "every homosexual cause."

"Now do you want a governor who'd like Kentucky to be another San Francisco?" Boone asks. "Please re-elect Ernie Fletcher."'

And at a campaign stop last night, the Lexington Herald-Leader reports, the Republican nominee for Lt. Governor made a direct attack upon the Democratic ticket: "Do you want a couple of San Francisco treats or do you want a governor?"


Saturday, December 21, 2024

Everything the Government Gets Wrong About CO2 and Global Warming

ARRESTED For Letting Your Child Play?

Tim Pool is a HERO for what he just did

What They Didn’t Want You to Know About Derek Chauvin's Case



According to Wikipedia and other sources, George Floyd's heart stopped en route to the hospital.  Most sources say Floyd had a pulse detected by a paramedic before being loaded into the ambulance, although another source disputes that.  

Floyd was pronounced dead in the Emergency Room.  It is not true that he was alive in the hospital, although that might be a matter of definition.  Paramedics tried to resuscitate Floyd for at least 30 minutes.  One source says an hour.

So the video contains false information, making it a conspiracy theory. He states that the prosecutor and medical examiner lied and falsified records.

However, he may still have valid points.  The trial is suspect and took place in a politically charged environment.  I think that the cause of death is not clear.  George Floyd had cardiovascular disease, a heart tumor, an active case of COVID-19, a lifetime of drug abuse, and a dangerous level of drugs in his system.  

There is no evidence that Derek Chauvin intended to harm George Floyd.   This makes the murder conviction unjust.  At most Derek Chauvin is guilty of involuntary (or negligent) homicide.  He was negligent, but these guys have difficult jobs.  Chauvin was a police officer trying to do his job, however improperly.

Convicting the other police officers who were doing crowd control also seems unjust.  At least one of these guys was a trainee who would likely be inexperienced and took direction from his superiors.

https://san.com/cc/judge-rules-chauvins-defense-may-examine-george-floyds-autopsy/

https://www.tigerdroppings.com/rant/o-t-lounge/george-floyd-was-alive-when-he-arrived-at-the-hospital/116735751/

https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/14/us/derek-chauvin-trial-george-floyd-day-13/index.html

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/lung-expert-testifies-george-floyd-died-because-his-breathing-was-restricted

https://www.npr.org/sections/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd/2021/04/08/985347984/chauvin-trial-medical-expert-says-george-floyd-died-from-a-lack-of-oxygen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oqEp63duIc


"Two autopsies, and one autopsy review, found Floyd's death to be a homicide.[26][27]

On March 12, 2021, Minneapolis agreed to pay US$27 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit brought by Floyd's family. On April 20, Chauvin was convicted of unintentional second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter,[4][28] and on June 25 he was sentenced to 22+1⁄2 years in prison.[29]

All four officers faced federal civil rights charges.[30] In December 2021, Chauvin pleaded guilty to federal charges of violating Floyd's civil rights by using unreasonable force and ignoring his serious medical distress.[31][32] The other three officers were also later convicted of violating Floyd's civil rights.[33] Lane pleaded guilty in May 2022 to a state charge of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter[34] and was sentenced on September 21, 2022, to three years in prison to be served concurrently with his federal sentence of 2+1⁄2 years.[35] Kueng pleaded guilty on October 24, 2022, to the state charges of aiding and abetting manslaughter and was sentenced to 3+1⁄2 years in prison, to be served concurrently with his federal sentence.[36][37] Thao waived his right to a jury trial on the state charge in lieu of a review of the evidence and a determination by a judge.[38] He was found guilty of aiding and abetting manslaughter in a written verdict delivered on May 2, 2023, and he was sentenced to 4+3⁄4 years in prison.[7][13]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_George_Floyd

I don't see any of this being overturned, although I would like to see Chauvin get some leniency.

Friday, December 20, 2024

Outrage at Columbia U: Prof. Who Called Oct 7 Attacks 'Awesome' Will Tea...

https://youtu.be/zXG5zyJOaUU?si=TBb8hufnMcTgwwSY

Floyd autopsy altered by political pressure


 Sweasy, for one, knew how he did not die. As she revealed in her deposition, Sweasy spoke with Hennepin County Medical Examiner Dr. Andrew Baker the day after Floyd's death.


"I called Dr. Baker early that morning to tell him about the case and to ask him if he would perform the autopsy on Mr. Floyd," said Sweasy under oath. "He called me later in the day on that Tuesday and he told me that there were no medical findings that showed any injury to the vital structures of Mr. Floyd's neck. There were no medical indications of asphyxia or strangulation," Sweasy added.

By day two, Baker knew the risks involved in telling the truth. Sweasy continued, "He said to me, 'Amy, what happens when the actual evidence doesn't match up with the public narrative that everyone's already decided on?' And then he said, 'This is the kind of case that ends careers.'" Although Sweasy knows very well why Baker altered his diagnosis, Carlson may not.  This story bears retelling in the light of Sweasy's unwitting confirmation.

As I reported on these pages in August 2021, an exhibit surfaced in the case of Chauvin colleague Tou Thao that should have resulted in a new trial for Chauvin and the release of Thao and the other two arrested officers, Thomas Lane and Alexander Kueng.

The exhibit, a memorandum, was that powerful.  It memorialized a November 2020 conference between Dr. Roger Mitchell, former Washington D.C. chief medical examiner, and several prosecutors. Sweasy was not among the prosecutors present. Nor was Freeman. All but one were from the attorney general's office.

This should not surprise. Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, whose affiliation with the Nation of Islam cost him a shot at becoming DNC Chair, kept a heavy hand on the case. "The AG taking over the Chauvin cases was difficult," said Senior Assistant County Attorney Judith Cole in her deposition in the Sweasy suit, "particularly when we had a governor who kind of threw us under the bus."

The memorandum detailed Mitchell's effort to coerce Baker into including neck compression in his diagnosis of Floyd's death. As noted above, Baker conducted an autopsy on Floyd on May 26, 2020, the day after Floyd's death. Baker reported that same day to the Hennepin County prosecutors, "The autopsy revealed no physical evidence suggesting that Mr. Floyd died of asphyxiation. Mr. Floyd did not exhibit signs of petechiae, damage to his airways or thyroid, brain bleeding, bone injuries, or internal bruising."

Three days later — Friday, May 29 — the state filed its initial complaint against Derek Chauvin. According to the complaint, "The full report of the [medical examiner] is pending but the [medical examiner] has made the following preliminary findings. The autopsy revealed no physical findings that support a diagnosis of traumatic asphyxia or strangulation." Without a diagnosis of asphyxia, however, the state could not accuse Chauvin and the police officers of committing or abetting "Murder-2nd Degree." This is where Mitchell came into play.

A well-connected black political activist, Mitchell boasted of his involvement in Baker's diagnosis to the attorneys present. Their summary of that interaction reads in part:

When the preliminary result came out via the criminal complaint, Mitchell found the statement was bizarre. Mitchell was reading and said this is not right. So Mitchell called Baker and said first of all Baker should fire his public information officer. Then Mitchell asked what happened, because Mitchell didn't think it sounded like Baker's words. Baker said that he didn't think the neck compression played a part and that he didn't find petechiae. Mitchell said but you know you can not have petechiae and still have asphyxia and can still have neck compression.

Mitchell first called Baker on Friday, May 29. He "thought about it more that weekend" and on Monday he called Baker telling him he was about to send an op-ed to the Washington Post critical of Baker's findings. "In this conversation," the memorandum continued, "Mitchell said, you don't want to be the medical examiner who tells everyone they didn't see what they saw. You don't want to be the smartest person in the room and be wrong."

By that Monday cities across America had gone up in flames, none more ferociously than Minneapolis. The ever thoughtful Mitchell showed Baker a way out of the jam. According to the memorandum, "[Mitchell] said there was a way to articulate the cause and manner of death that ensures you are telling the truth about what you are observing on the body and via all of the investigation. Mitchell said neck compression has to be in the diagnosis."

Late on that same Monday, Baker's office sent out a press release that began, "Cause of death: Cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint, and neck compression." (Italics added). With a stroke of the pen and the complicity of the prosecutors, Baker turned four innocent cops into murderers and justified the self-destructive social revolution that followed.


"There was extreme premium pressure, yes. The city was burning down," Sweasy's former colleague Patrick Lofton said in his deposition. He and Sweasy withdrew from the cases against Lane, Kueng, and Thao on June 3, 2020, just a week after Floyd's death. They did not believe the three officers should be criminally charged. "I can tell you that everyone that I associate with to any degree, professionally or personally, agreed with our decision," Lofton testified. He described the pressure on the prosecutors as "insane."

Lofton wrote his letter of withdrawal, he said, "because I have to sleep at night." He and Sweasy might have slept better had they gone public with what they knew, namely that Chauvin and his colleagues were being tried for a crime they did not commit.

How did Floyd die? I asked my consultant on this case, John Dale Dunn, a veteran emergency physician and lawyer with expertise in matters of cause of death. Dunn is in a position to know. He wrote a chapter on forensic evidence for the American College of Legal Medicine. "Derrick Chauvin didn't kill Mr. Floyd," he told me. "His bad heart did." (READ More: The Semantic Burden of Speaking While White)

Dunn believes that Baker did an "assiduous and thorough autopsy." His findings, he argues, "did exonerate the police officers — there was no evidence of asphyxiation or strangulation, not any evidence of damage or compromise of the airway of breathing of Mr. Floyd from the prone restraint." In fact, Dunn made a video recreating the final minutes of Floyd's life. His conclusion, "The prone position restraint is not harmful or lethal."

There was, of course, evidence of methamphetamine and opiates in Floyd's system but not enough to kill. Floyd was a user. He had acclimated to fentanyl. There was compelling evidence, however, "that Mr. Floyd had three-vessel coronary artery disease of the heart" as well as an "enlarged heart from high blood pressure." The methamphetamine use increased the risk of Floyd having a sudden heartbeat regularity problem. "Mr. Floyd was upset and anxious," concludes Dunn. By resisting arrest, he set himself up for "sudden death from cardiac arrest, a sudden heart stoppage."

Chauvin Did Not Murder George Floyd - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics


Musk, Trump Team Up To KILL Pork Bill

Hours before government shutdown deadline, House Republicans regroup to craft new plan

Monday, December 16, 2024

Best of: Blizzards

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmOAQSofDnM

Most of the temperature records start in 1880 when reportedly we had better measurements.

The 1880s had some terrible and dangerous winters.

I saw another video claiming that we could get more snow this winter.

The Truth About The Mystery Drones

I don't want to read too much into this.  I'm sure that the truth will come out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUdf924TtLE

This Winter Will be Very Different

FBI informants present on January 6??


There is a tendency on social media and among pundits and politicians to spin news to make it seem like much more than it really is.

Because the FBI had informants among the January 6th rioters doesn't mean that the FBI was encouraging or causing the January 6th riot, as the conspiracy theorists claim.

Likewise, the left spun this riot into an insurrection because they could use this to claim that Donald Trump would be ineligible to run for president.  However, nobody was charged with insurrection, which is a felony.  You can't really have an insurrection without arms.  Some guards at the Captial Building waved people in, offering no resistance.  Although the counting was delayed, order was restored and the counting resumed.

I understand the government punishing people who broke the law, but they have gone extreme with this, and there are many people imprisoned who probably should not be, including some seniors.  This was the same year that Black Lives Matter riots did billions of dollars of damage, including some government buildings.

I am angry with the left who says that Donald Trump started or is responsible for an insurrection.  Donald Trump very clearly told people to protest peacefully.  Furthermore, there was evidence of trouble ahead of time, so Trump offered Pelosi National Guard protection which would have prevented all this, but she turned it down.

Sunday, December 15, 2024

Jordan Peterson: The Rationalists and Empiricists Have Lost

Jordan Peterson is a great intellectual public speaker who is often inciteful.  However, he views truth in terms of psychological perception.  He has no sense of absolute truth but views truth as subjective.  I think that this is a form of Relativism.  Followed to its logical extreme, a person could believe or rationalize anything.

In this regard, Jordan Peterson is not rational.  It may be that most people view truth according to their subjective experiences, but regardless of what we perceive or want truth to be, truth doesn't care about our feelings.  Ideas are either true or they are not.

Wednesday, December 11, 2024

You Are Not Evil



@john2001plus
0 seconds ago
Hank,

The data shows the temperature has taken 140 years to go up 1 degree Celsius.  
This is relative to a dangerous and deadly cold period in the 1880's.  
This slow rate of change shows that there is no climate emergency.  
The current rate of change is at most 0.2 degrees per decade.

We will be running out of most fossil fuels by the year 2100.  
Coal will be the last fossil fuel to go.  
At the current level of usage, we only have 40 years of oil reserves remaining.

CO2 is a valuable resource.  
It keeps the earth from freezing and it is plant food.  
There is a greening of the earth because of it.

The CO2 level over the last 40 million years has been in a nose dive.  
This is because calcifying marine organisms sequester CO2 (indirectly).  
The CO2 level got so low during the last period of mass glaciation that it
reached 180 parts per million.  
This is just barely above the 150 parts per million where all the terrestrial
plants die.

A funny thing happens to the climate roughly every 100,000 years.  
The data shows that the temperature will quickly shoot up 8 to 15 degrees,
level off for 10,000 years, and then go back down almost as quickly.  
Then we get 85 to 90 thousand years of mass glaciation where New York is covered
by ice.

We should already be in the cool-down cycle of the interglacial.  
The only thing that has prevented the planet from cooling is those pesky humans
who added 150 parts per million CO2 into the atmosphere.  
The infrared absorption range of CO2 is much narrower than other gasses like
water vapor, and it has already reached 90% of its absorption capacity.

Climate alarmism is dependent on as-of-yet unproven positive feedback models.  
There are many feedbacks, some of which are negative.  
There is much controversy over clouds, where common sense would indicate
negative feedback to temperature, but the IPCC says the opposite.

True science looks at data and then comes to a conclusion.  
The IPCC does the opposite.  They start with a conclusion and then support
that with evidence.  The IPCC refused to hire anyone who did not already
believe in catastrophic man-made warming.  This shows their bias.  The IPCC
actively suppressed skeptical papers and tried to get skeptical scientists
fired.  The head of U.N., António Guterres, was a Socialist Party politician
in Portugal, and he routinely makes outrageous statements about the climate
that are completely inaccurate.

Socialism is not palatable to the American people, so the socialists have been
pushing false crises to divide and conquer and to give us more government
control in incremental steps.  I'm sorry that you have been duped by this mass
hysteria.

Best wishes,

John Coffey

We're done with this crap...

Monday, December 9, 2024

SYRIA FALLS

Election 2028

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On Sun, Dec 8, 2024 at 11:42 PM Albert  wrote:
The democratic "bench" is empty while the republicans' is full. Where will the Democratic Party find a presidential candidate who can defeat the republicans in 2028? I just can't find anyone for them at the moment.

I assume that no matter what happens there will be people who hate Trump's policies and there will be a backlash.  People are more likely to vote because they are unhappy about something.  A person can win the presidency by appealing to those voters.

Thursday, November 21, 2024

What Is Mpox? And How Dangerous Is It?

https://youtube.com/shorts/tDStIeOWc40?si=P4XaVpO7NDL_92vn

We Are Still at War

'The key to understanding the revolutionary nature of the election may be a video by a little-known academic by the name of Brian Lozenski. In this video, Lozenski says, multiple times within the span of 80 seconds, that the goal of critical race theory (CRT) is to "overthrow" America

Who is Brian Lozenski? He is a national leader in the CRT movement, the foremost authority on CRT in Minnesota and, most significantly, Tim Walz's most important education advisor. Lozenski is not on the fringes of Walz's administration but at its very center. Lozenski was the de facto leader of Walz's so-called "ethnic studies" curriculum ("ethnic studies" is, in effect, a new name for CRT), which is at the heart of Walz's education program. 

Walz has been working diligently for years to embed ethnic studies in the curricula of all grades...

Under the new ethnic studies standards, Kersten reports, first-graders must "identify examples of ethnicity, equality, liberation and systems of power" and "use those examples to construct meanings for those terms." Fourth-graders must "examine how discrimination and the oppression of various racial and ethnic groups have produced resistance movements." High school students are taught to view themselves as members of "racialized hierarchies" based on "dominant European beauty standards." However "jargony," it is clear enough that these standards are intended to lead students to disdain America and join in the overthrow of their country. 

If Lozenski is a revolutionary, and he incontestably is, then so is Walz. Walz was a very weak candidate. Moreover, he was to the Left of Harris — exactly what Harris, who was trying to tack to the center, did not need. But, odd as it may sound, Walz was chosen as Harris's running mate, not because he was the most likely to help her win — he clearly wasn't — but because he was the most ideologically compatible with her and the machine that ran her. It actually is not so odd if we keep in mind that the destructive Left, like all revolutionaries, is more concerned with maintaining ideological purity than winning. Likewise, Harris, who was far from the strongest Democrat, was also chosen because her views were most compatible with the revolutionary views of the machine that selected her. 

What do we make of the fact that Harris chose as her running mate a man who wants to overthrow America? Could it be that she didn't know whom she was choosing? No, it couldn't be. She, and/or the machine that ran her, knows perfectly well Walz wants to overthrow America.'

Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Democrats Are Up To No Good?

The New Nuclear Age is Coming


The Biden administration issued regulations that effectively banned coal as a power source. He made a campaign promise to shut down coal plants and reportedly he has shut down hundreds.

This is all good if you want to live in a dictatorship. Were the regulations passed by Congress? How about the free market deciding which energy to use?

Most fossil fuels will run out by the year 2100. Coal will be the last fossil fuel to run out, and it is very likely that we will need it.

Why Civilians carry Weapons in the streets #israel

Bill Maher UNLEASHES On Democrats FOR DISASTROUS Election Performance

Sunday, November 17, 2024

Eight year old Facebook post

The theory of left or right brain dominance is considered a myth, but even if it is a myth, it illustrates that people have different ways of thinking, where some people are more logical thinkers, good with math and science, and others are more artistic, subjective, and emotional.

I once took a personality test that claimed that I had 70% left brain dominance. This was in no way a surprise. I am into science, history, math and chess.

I see many assertions on here and elsewhere that seem to me to not have a sound logical basis. This is especially true of political posts in the last few weeks. I find myself reacting to things that seem totally outrageous, but reacting to these things is mostly a waste of my time. It can be entertaining, but it doesn't lead anywhere because I am never going to convince people who are already firm in their beliefs.

I have come to believe that a great many people and I will never agree on great many things because our brains are wired differently. This doesn't necessarily make one person right and the other wrong, but it does mean that we see the world very differently.

I think that politics is driven by fear. Each side has completely different things that they are afraid of. Fear is an extremely powerful motivator, therefore it takes away people's ability to be objective. Politics is mostly a reaction to things that people are against, because if people were perfectly happy, they wouldn't need politics.

Best wishes,

John Coffey

LAWYER: Stand Your Ground When “Karens” Attack

Friday, November 15, 2024

Ezra Klein / Mike Tyson

College and politics

From Larry:

In 1960, John F. Kennedy lost the white college-educated vote by two to one and rode to the White House on the backs of the working class. In 2020, Joe Biden lost the white working-class vote by two to one and rode to the White House on the backs of the college-educated.

China is building an army to defeat America

https://youtube.com/shorts/6Z1t5_PMDYw?si=HMmcno2rnutvcyF9

Monday, November 4, 2024

MY CLOSING STATEMENT: Why I Voted TRUMP

My Experience at Trump/Harris Rallies as a Foreigner

What Trump's Garbage Truck Stunt Reveals About His Personality

The Brink Of Collapse: "Liberals & The Government Has Become A Cancer To Society"

Why Republicans are Optimistic about Pennsylvania

The Gov Agency That Manages America's Worst Land

JD Vance Speaks on Kamala's Border Policies and the Migrant Crisis

Swing state voters ERUPT for Trump: Democrats are 'ruining this country'

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics: Explained

Sunday, November 3, 2024

Friday, November 1, 2024

OCTOBER SURPRISE! Media Launch UGLIEST Anti-Trump Smears Yet

Trump ROCKS Madison Square Garden, Kamala PANICS!


Some shows are better than others.

I Scanned A Democrat & Republican’s Brains

Dear Young People, Don't Vote: A Knock the Vote PSA

Too funny not to share.

How Harris or Trump could win 270 electoral votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrTmLlit6GE

It is hard to construct an outcome where Nevada with its mere 6 electoral college votes matters.  It takes a weird scenario where Trump loses North Carolina but wins Pennsylvania and Nevada.

Fwd: Highest spending, deficit and debt

Did Donald Trump say that he wanted to use the military against his political opponents?

Did Donald Trump say that he wanted to imprison dissenters?

"I will appoint a real special prosecutor to go after the most corrupt president in the history of America, Joe Biden, and go after the Biden crime family," Trump said in June at his Bedminster, New Jersey, residence, just hours after being arraigned at a federal courthouse in Miami on charges related to his handling of classified documents after he left the White House.

Trump also discussed his 2016 opponent, Democrat Hillary Clinton, and how he did not imprison her. "Lock her up" was a frequent chant at Trump's campaign rallies — often fueled by Trump himself — during that election cycle.

But Trump credited himself for not going after Clinton, compared to what is now being done to him.

"Some people said I should have done it, but, you know, could have, would have been very easy to do it, but I thought it would be a terrible precedent for our country," Trump said. "And now, whoever it may be, you're going to have to view it very much differently. This is a bad, bad road that they're leading us down to as a country."

In a statement, Biden campaign spokesperson James Singer said that Trump's comments are "just the latest proof that he will do anything to regain power, preserve his own freedom and seek revenge on anyone who opposes him."


Democrat's Closing Pitch

We Asked 100 Michiganders Who They're Voting For

Thursday, October 31, 2024

Time Is Now for Cigarette Tax Increase - Indiana Chamber of Commerce

https://www.indianachamber.com/time-is-now-for-cigarette-tax-increase/#:~:text=The%20Indiana%20Chamber%20believes%20the,programming%20are%20expected%20to%20pass.

I keep hearing a proposal to raise cigarette taxes by $2 per pack on the radio.  I think this proposed tax will impact people with lower incomes the most so I am opposed to it.  

The proposal claims to protect people's health.  People should be free to make choices as long as this is not a major burden on the rest of society.

If you tax something too much then it could create a black market for the product.

Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Something on my mind… (Dick Van Dyke)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLdaqYeg3Ts

'Van Dyke endorsed Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries. In July 2016, while campaigning for Sanders, Van Dyke said of Donald Trump, "I haven't been this scared since the Cuban Missile Crisis.'

Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Activists as Judges

Bad Ideas Ruin Good People

Possible end of the American experiment

I do not think it likely that the election can be stolen, but the premise of the article is to ask what happens if it is?

'On November 5, the American experiment in republican government may well come to an end.  Over the past two decades we have been living through a slow-motion Communist revolution.  Acts of political warfare have become commonplace. The most devastating has been the corruption of our election system.

Having vilified President Trump more than any man in American history, the American Communists and their allies in the Democratic Party (and the Communist world abroad) may well be able to steal the 2024 election. One thing needs to be made clear: if this happens, they will have created an ungovernable country.

I have two kinds of colleagues: those who believe it is going to be a wave election and therefore a blowout for President Trump, and those who believe the election can be stolen given the massive cyber-vulnerability of our electronic voting system, and the refusal of blue state governors and secretaries of state to build a transparent, same-day voting system. At this stage of the game, I believe it will be a blowout win for President Trump. But I realize that it may well be stolen for reasons I describe in my American Mind essay, "The Diminishing Likelihood of a Fair Election."

The RealClearPolitics average of polls has Donald Trump either up or tied in the seven swing states. There are very few if any undecided voters at this point. In these polls, President Trump has historically, as the pollsters say, "underperformed." This means that a two-point lead by President Trump is likely a four- or five-point lead. Perhaps more telling are the right track/wrong track polls that ask Americans whether or not the country is headed in the right direction. As of October 23, only 27% of the American people believe the country is on the right track.

This is historically low.  Never has an incumbent vice president won an election for president with these numbers. That 27% is obviously the Democratic base: hard-core progressives, Communists, abortionists, and transgenderists. Only they could believe the country is on the right track. Simple math would suggest that even much of the traditional Democratic base believes the country is not going in ways that are conducive to the happiness and welfare of the American people.

Yes, but we are told that Donald Trump is a racist, sexist beast virtually indistinguishable from Adolf Hitler. How can this man win?

Here let me make two points. First: this caricature, however effective it may have been in 2016 and 2020, has lost its effectiveness in 2024.  The first Trump Administration was not an exercise in the exploitation of blacks, Hispanics, and other minorities. It ushered in economic good times for these groups, who enjoyed greater prosperity and freedom than at any other time in the history of the United States. Their lived experience demonstrated to them that President Trump saw them not as a problem, but rather as an integral part of American society and economic life. Charges of racism, ridiculous on their face, have grown meaningless to everyday Americans.

Then there is the matter of Kamala Harris.

Harris was an obscure vice president, previously unpopular even among the Democratic base. Her public performances are nothing short of bizarre, ranging from frenetic to what can only be described as addled, probably by drugs or alcohol.

She is not, in short, running a credible campaign. Even within left-wing popular culture, she comes off as little more than a joke. Is there anyone who believes that, if President Biden had dropped out of the race last year and there had been a competitive primary season, Kamala Harris would today be the nominee of the Democratic Party? She would have likely done little better than she did in 2020. The country is quite alive to this fact.

So the question "What if Kamala wins?" must be answered in light of the fact that she ought not to win by any conventional understanding of polls and public opinion.

That having been said, will Harris win? There are a substantial number of serious people who believe the 2024 election can indeed be stolen. Very little has changed in the seven swing states that decided the 2020 election. If anything remains obvious, it is that there are substantial numbers of Deep State operatives within the Biden Administration who know that if President Trump is elected, they will most certainly face investigation—and for those who have committed crimes, prosecution.

The accusation that a second Trump administration would more broadly investigate journalists, and purveyors of popular broadcast media, is of course absurd. To the contrary, President Trump would enjoy their collective misery as they watched him Make America Great Again.

But there are people within the Intelligence Community and the Department of Justice who crossed all manner of lines in their treatment of President Trump and his allies such as Steve Bannon (yet to be released from jail). Likewise, the Secret Service's failures to protect President Trump this summer constitute an astonishing stain upon this republic.

So there are large numbers of powerful people within our government who have a vested interest in seeing President Trump lose. For all of FBI Director Christopher Wray's warnings of Russian and Chinese influence operations in the election, one doubts that a finger will be lifted to stop either country, or their surrogates within the drug cartels and dark money groups, from working to alter the results of the election.

Clearly our American oligarchs on Wall Street, Hollywood, and Silicon Valley have decided that Kamala Harris is not their cup of tea—witness the fact that the Los Angeles Times did not endorse Kamala Harris. But they may not have a say if nation-state actors or dark money groups genuinely want President Trump defeated. Our system is not designed to stop determined adversaries of a free and fair election.

So, if Kamala Harris does win, it will, as of today, be because of a stolen election. Under these circumstances, America will become an ungovernable country. Large groups of Americans will believe their vote no longer counts. We have the experience this summer of Venezuela, where it was clear the opposition party won—so said the Biden Administration—only to have the Maduro regime keep hold of power by affirming the fraudulent results and gutting it out publicly against domestic and world opinion. One imagines the Harris campaign learned a lesson from that.'

https://americanmind.org/salvo/what-if-harris-gets-away-with-it/

Friday, October 18, 2024

The Hershey's Kisses Rate of Inflation

In 1968 or 1969, my sister and I went to one of those old-fashioned corner markets in Madison, Indiana, and bought Hershey's Kisses at the price of two per penny. These weren't in a package but sold in pairs.

Today, the packages of Hershey's Kisses at Walmart vary slightly in price depending on the size, but they average about $8 per pound. So the average price of a Hershey's Kiss is 8 cents each. (Each Hershey's Kiss weighs 4.5 grams or roughly 1/100th of a pound.)

This makes the Hershey's Kiss rate of inflation over 55 years 1600%. During the same period, the official rate of inflation, which I always find suspect, is 850%. Either the official rate is wrong, or Hershey's Kisses rose faster than inflation.

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The Secret Code on my Ballot Saved Me

55% increase total violent crime over 3 years

While the FBI claims that serious violent crime has fallen by 5.8% since Biden took office, the NCVS numbers show that total violent crime has risen by 55.4%. Rapes are up by 42%, robbery by 63%, and aggravated assault by 55% during Biden's term. Since the NCVS started, the largest previous increase over three years was 27% in 2006, so the increase under Biden was slightly more than twice as large.

The increases shown by the NCVS during the Biden-Harris administration are by far the largest percentage increases over any three years, slightly more than doubling the previous record.

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2024/10/16/stealth_edit_fbi_quietly_revises_violent_crime_stats_1065396.html

The Cobra Effect: Why Good Intentions Don’t Solve Problems

Friday, October 11, 2024

The Presidential Motorcade: How Does it Work?

MILTON UPDATE: Tornado outbreak in Florida as hurricane approaches

Why Does Iran Hate Israel? | Explained

2024 Wisconsin: Trump vs. Harris | The Tide has turned? Maybe

https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/wisconsin/trump-vs-harris



Conservative media has been predicting this for a while now.

It goes without saying that the polls might not be accurate.

My early voting experience yesterday was interesting.  It was all older people, probably because they don't have to work, and about 90% men.   I think that this supports my theory that Trump voters are more motivated.  They feel betrayed by the system for multiple reasons, so they are motivated to try to turn things around.

People in Indiana know that Trump is going to win the state no matter what.  Yet, people felt compelled to turn out in large numbers on the first day of early voting.  They want their voices heard even if it isn't going to matter.

Bill Maher vs. the Woke Mob on Israel | PragerU

Sunday, October 6, 2024

Robert Smalls, an American Civil War hero

top 10 powerful countries in the world by military strength

Victor Davis Hanson: Trump will beat radical Kamala Harris

Endocrine Disruptors - Common Chemicals That Severely Alter Your Hormones - Dr. Shanna Swan


It is important to be skeptical of claims.  This person could be correct, but her claims are not without controversy.  She doesn't offer evidence.  I'm not saying she has to in a YouTube video, but she needs to point us toward the evidence.

My concern is that you can have a causal link between two things but that is not proof of causality.  I'm concerned about "single-factor analysis" where only one factor is considered.  

I would like to see more research.  

Plastic is getting a bad reputation, and some of it seems justified.  We are exposed to chemicals from plastic.


"Fears over falling human sperm count may be overblown — Harvard Gazette

Richardson and her colleagues found that earlier research claimed causal links between declining sperm counts and declining fertility, as well as between exposures to certain environmental chemicals and lower sperm counts. The GenderSci Lab researchers found that neither of these assumptions are supported by scientific or geographic evidence."

The Harris-Walz Approach

Tuesday, October 1, 2024

Bobby Kennedy Jr. and Food Safety

Trump brought RFK Jr. on board to help win the election, but I see Robert Kennedy Jr as a bit of a red hearing.  He claimed that he and Trump would improve the American diet and make America healthy in just four years.   He talked about banning seed oils and High Fructose Corn Syrup, the latter of which is chemically identical to sugar. 

If you don't want government coercion for your own good, I would not support Robert Kennedy.  He also tends to promote conspiracy theories:  https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2023/10/10/rfk-jr-launches-independent-2024-run-here-are-all-the-conspiracies-he-promotes-from-vaccines-to-mass-shootings/

Trump had to promise RFK Jr. something to get him on board.  We don't know what that is, but maybe Kennedy will be the head of the FDA.  I think that is what he wants.

As far as 1000 substances banned in Europe in American foods, I want to see research done. The trouble with the European Union standards is that they are a bit like California which takes regulations too far.  (For example, the California standard on heavy metal contamination is 500 times stricter than what the Federal Government regards as safe.  This became an issue about Dark Chocolate when Consumer Reports claimed that many brands were unsafe because they didn't meet California regulations.  I eat dark chocolate every day for its reported health benefits.  I'm not worried.)

Trump did say something about doing research.   That would be good.  I don't want bad substances in my food either, but I also don't want unnecessary government coercion.

Has America Completely Lost Its Mind? - Ben Shapiro





Monday, September 30, 2024

2024 RCP Electoral College Map | RealClearPolling

https://www.realclearpolling.com/maps/president/2024/toss-up/electoral-college

Trump is showing stronger results in Arizona.  He still trails in Nevada, Wisconsin, and Michigan. He has a microscopic edge in both Pennsylvania and North Carolina, and he needs both to win.  Either state could be a toss-up and if he loses one of them then he would need to flip another Rust Belt state like Wisconsin to win.

I've been assuming that Trump would win Arizona, Georgia, and North Carolina while losing Nevada, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan.  If true, then Pennsylvania will decide the election.  

With only 6 electoral college votes, Nevada won't actually matter under the current scenario.  It is mathematically insignificant.

Although it would hurt the Republicans at least in the short term, I want to disband the Electoral College and go to a popular vote for President.  The problem is that your vote really doesn't count if your state always votes one way.  The other problem is that just a few battleground states decide the election.