Once upon a time, juries voted on legal cases “democratically”; the majority vote won. Petit jurors were also allowed to ask questions.
But since the 1960s, justice has changed, and not for the better. Petit jurors are no longer allowed to ask questions and juries, whether they be grand (where you may still ask questions) or petit, the jury must return a unanimous verdict.
Most people don’t realize that, never having sat on a jury. We who have been “lucky” enough know exactly how tough it can be, especially if there are one or two “activist” jurors on the panel.
When a member of one of these juries asked these two stalwarts what they thought they were doing, one of the females responded that the democratic method was “unfair.”
“A man’s life is hanging in the balance and all you can think about is going home!”
“Wait, a minute,” said I. “This is an assault case, not murder. There’s no reason for a unanimous vote.”
“But it’s the law,” the girl sneered.
“Yeah, isn’t that too bad. You can’t just vote the way you want and go home, letting someone else take responsibility for justice,” a man in another jury replied.
“Justice?”
This wasn’t justice, at all. It was Collectivism (Communism), pure and simple. If a juror can’t vote his or her conscience then not only hasn’t justice been served but individual freedom has been put behind bars.
The first case was way back in 1982 – forty years ago.
The jury in the Trump case couldn’t come to a “unanimous” verdict. We suspect that’s why the jury kept going back and forth. It had a verdict. It didn’t have verdict. It reached a verdict. Oh, wait. No, it hadn’t.
Pressure can easily be placed on dissenting jurors, keeping them literally locked up until their compliance was brought to bear. Marxists are willing to hold out forever on their hill. Those who simply want justice soon weary and cave in. The dissenters are as captive as the defendant who is on trial.
The case against Trump is extraordinarily weak. Not to mention that the statute of limitations had already run out. The first reports indicated that the grand jury by no means agreed upon a verdict. That’s amazing for a jury in New York County (Manhattan), where virtually everyone is a Democrat.
For Democrats to dissent on such a politically-motivated case is extraordinary. In the end though, good, old-fashioned peer pressure, the psychological pressure of being closeted in a (probably, although not necessarily) hostile, windowless room, and the suspension of one’s working life, supported the manipulation by the activist jurors (most likely young and college-educated) resulted in a compulsory, unanimous vote to indict Trump.
So, Bragg got away with it, thanks to a good deal of corruption throughout the justice system. He and the Democrats owe their victory to Democrats in state legislatures back in the Sixties who thrust this Communist jury system on the American public.
That’s why a New York prosecutor could “indict a ham sandwich”.
The Democrats will evidently succeed in dragging Trump through yet another miscarriage of justice. Arraignment, arrest, pre-trial and finally a trial, which will probably take place just before the General Election next year.
I had to pay a contempt-of-court fine for protesting the way the system worked. In those days, I could afford it. I told the judge I would be happy to pay the fine because I did hold the system in contempt.
The Democrats are waiting for Trump’s supporters to “riot” as they “rioted” on J6.
According to an article in the February 2023 issue of Newsmax magazine, citing the U.S. Department of Justice, approximately 900 defendants have been “arrested in nearly all 50 states.”
Of these, 821 have been charged with entering or remaining in a restricted federal building or grounds, 283 with assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers or employees, and over 290 with obstructing, influencing, or impeding an official proceeding or attempting to do so.
Additionally, approximately 50 defendants have been charged with conspiracy, including “seditious conspiracy.”
To date, no defendant has won his jury trial in heavily Democrat Washington, D.C.
Thirty-three individuals have been found guilty after a contested trial while another eight have been convicted based on agreed-upon facts.
The longest sentence given to date is a 10-year prison term for a Marine veteran and former New York City police officer named Thomas Webster.
According to the Department of Justice, approximately 335 federal defendants have had their cases adjudicated and received sentences for criminal activity.
Of these, 185 have been sentenced to periods of incarceration, while approximately 85 have been sentenced to home detention, including approximately 14 who also were sentenced to a period of incarceration.
One elderly grandmother was arrested for “parading on Capitol grounds.”
My Army veteran friend is a proponent of high-intelligence voters volunteering for grand jury. Grand juries can ask questions and investigate cases on their own. This is all true and good.
But even they can’t undo the state laws that have allowed juries to be formed into collective political juries. Once those laws were passed, we truly became a Third World, Stalinist nation where political operatives could put their opponents – and their supporters – into jailing, violating their basic Constitutional rights with glee.
What do you get when you add a trashy prostitute, a corrupt District Attorney, and flimsy evidence on a misdemeanor charge other defendants received a fine for? A Third World zombie trial.
All this week, the Democrats and their Media Cheerleaders have been threatening to frog-march a manacled President Donald Trump into Federal court in Manhattan and charge him with…well, some misdemeanor. They’re a little fuzzy on the charges.
What he’s been charged with is filing a misleading entry on his tax form involving a hush-money payment to a trashy prostitute named Stormy Daniels back in October 2016.
Only, he didn’t make the payment to her. He made a legal reimbursement to his then-attorney Michael Cohen, who was charged and sent to prison. The statute of limitations on this misdemeanor charge to Trump has already passed. Some experts even say that the payment was ordered by the court itself, so there was nothing illegal about it.
The Manhattan District Attorney Michael Bragg is on George Soros’ payroll. Bragg’s assistant, Pomerantz, bragged (if you’ll pardon the expression) that he looked forward to prosecuting Trump and seeing him sent to prison.
Now, it’s Thursday, March 23, 2023, and the Manhattan grand jury has postponed the case (probably indefinitely) while they work on another case.
Meanwhile, the Congressional investigation against Hunter Biden and family, which has verified as fact many of the charges against the Biden family (among which, that the Biden’s accepted payments from a Chinese energy company), has vanished from all the headlines as we all wait on tenterhooks to see what’s going to happen to our favorite living President.
John Solomon’s Just the News.com, has boiled the story down for high-information voters to share with their lower-information counterparts:
When Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg began pursuing a hush money case against Donald Trump, even the staff prosecutor most ardent to seek criminal charges admitted it was a “very peculiar” and weak link to play, or as he called it a “zombie” case.
If Bragg decides to ask a grand jury to indict the 45th president, he’ll be facing some heavy burdens in a court of law. The statute of limitations for the two key alleged offenses have expired, and one of them was supposed to be a misdemeanor.
The DA will also have a tough time selling his cast of characters to the jury. One is a porn star named Stormy Daniels, whose lawyer Michael Avenatti later went to federal prison after previously highlighting the $130,000 payment to her from the Trump organization lawyer Michael Cohen — who himself has admitted to lying and also went to prison.
The biggest untested challenge for prosecutors, however, may be an alleged falsehood that was never prosecuted but is still central to a key sequence of events inside this drama.
In answers his lawyer gave to Congress, Cohen told the world he never sought a pardon from Trump back in 2018, when investigations of his dealings with Daniels began. A large amount of evidence says otherwise, including 320 pages of documents from New York lawyer Robert Costello, who told the grand jury about it on Monday.
In the aforementioned memos, Costello recounted in great detail how Cohen — in 2018 — raised the issue of a pardon from Trump and wanted to speak to presidential lawyer Rudy Giuliani about it. Costello said he ultimately shut down the idea as “premature” because Cohen had yet to be charged with a crime. Cohen also admitted to Costello that he had no useful information about Trump with which to cut a deal.
“The USAAs at the SDNY asked me, ‘Do you think that Cohen thought he had a pardon in his back pocket?'” a memo summarizing Costello’s testimony to Congress in 2019 stated. “I told them no, absolutely not.”
Costello said Cohen was seriously considering suicide due to the fact that he had no legal fallback and was desperate to avoid prison.
“But Cohen wanted to see,'” Costello recalled, “whether ‘a pardon was on the table.’ He asked me to ask ‘your friend’ — Cohen for some reason always referred to Giuliani as ‘your friend’ — whether ‘a pardon was on the table.’ But I didn’t want to do this. It was premature, he hadn’t even been charged, and told Cohen it was premature.”
A letter, written by one of Cohen’s lawyers claiming he never sought a pardon, was sent to then-House Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) in 2019, stating, “Mr. Cohen rejected the opportunity to ask for and receive a pardon even though he knew he was going to prison with hardships to his family.”
The letter goes on to contradict this claim, by admitting Cohen sought to discuss a potential pardon through “his then attorney.”
Costello also laid out in detail how Cohen took steps to keep the hush money payment to Daniels a secret, even from his own wife.
“And I said, ‘Did you get that money from Donald Trump?’ ‘No.’ ‘Did you get it from any Trump Organization?’ ‘No.’
“I said, ‘Did you take that money out of your own savings or checking?’ ‘No.’
“I said, ‘Well, how’d you get the money?’ He said, ‘I took out a HELOC loan.’ ‘Why would you take out a HELOC loan to cover something like this?’ He said ‘because I wanted to keep it secret. If I took money from my account, my wife would know about it. I didn’t want my wife to know about it. I didn’t want Melania Trump to know about it.’ He said, ‘That’s why I did it that way.'”
“Now, if you’re gonna do it that way, that means you’re keeping it from Donald Trump and Melania Trump,”Costello added, summarizing the story he offered to grand jurors and Manhattan prosecutors.
In 2018, Cohen pled guilty to lying before Congress about what he knew regarding an aborted Trump Tower project in Russia. He told the judge he lied about the timing of the negotiations, along with other details, to supposedly align with Trump’s “political message,” Politico reported.
The former Trump adviser was caught in yet another lie when he said he had met with Trump only three times to discuss the Trump Tower project, when he had in fact met with the 45th president more than three times.
Cohen had already pled guilty at this point to a string of federal charges involving his businesses, Trump campaign work, and bank fraud.
In 2019, Congress referred Cohen to the Department of Justice (DOJ) for potential charges after Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and former Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) sent a letter to Trump Attorney General William Barr alleging that Cohen perjured himself by “knowingly making false statements before the Committee” during Congressional impeachment hearings.
“While testifying under oath, Mr. Cohen made what appear to be numerous willfully and intentionally false statements of material fact contradicted by the record established by the Justice Department in United States v. Cohen,” the letter read. “Mr. Cohen’s testimony before the Committee at times was in direct contradiction to assertions contained in pleadings authored by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY). There are other instances in which Mr. Cohen’s statements to the Committee were immediately contradicted by witnesses with firsthand knowledge of the subject matter.”
The congressmen called Cohen’s statements “a spectacular and brazen attempt to [knowingly] and willfully testify falsely and fictitiously to numerous material facts,” with the intent of improving his standing on the “national stage.”
“Mr. Cohen’s prior conviction for lying to Congress merits a heightened suspicion that he has yet again testified falsely before Congress,” the letter added.
One of the biggest falsehoods told by Cohen was that he never signed an attorney client privilege waiver. This waiver allowed Costello to share with the media memos, emails and information from his time advising Cohen.
In interviews with MSNBC, Cohen acknowledged having contact with Costello but suggested the former federal prosecutor was “making up stories” to the grand jury and carrying out “a typical Trump play.”
In those interviews, Cohen claimed he did not believe he had waived his attorney-client privilege from his conversations with Costello. “I don’t recall waiving anything,” he said. “But, again this is, I don’t know what he’s talking about.”
One of the documents Costello provided to Just the News, however, shows Cohen signed a declaration in 2019 for federal prosecutors waiving any claim of privilege from his interactions with Costello.
“Although I do not believe that any of my communications with Costello or other lawyers at DHC are subject to attorney-client privilege, I hereby waive whatever attorney-client or other privilege that might be argued have attached to such communications,” the February 2019 declaration from Cohen stated.
Jordan referenced Cohen’s dishonesty again during an interview with the “Just the News, No Noise” TV show on Wednesday, saying that lawmakers believed Cohen lied several times to the House Oversight Committee.
“A few years ago in front of the Oversight Committee — the first actual big hearing that Democrats had that Congress — was Michael Cohen coming in, and he lied six times under oath,” the
Ohio Republican claimed. “Even one of them I remember, just off the top of my head, is that he said he didn’t really want a job in the Trump White House. Well, he sure did. He tried to do everything he could to get a job. So, yeah, this is their star witness.”
“This is crazy,” Jordan concluded. “And I think the country sees it for what it is.”
Cohen’s credibility was questioned anew Wednesday night when Trump shared on social media a confidential 2018 letter from one of Cohen’s lawyers to the Federal Election Commission stating that Cohen never sought Trump’s approval for the Stormy Daniels payments.
“In a private transaction in 2016, before the U.S. presidential election, Mr. Cohen used his own personal funds to facilitate a payment of $130,000 to Ms. Stephanie Clifford [Stormy Daniels],” the letter reads. “Neither the Trump Organization nor the Trump campaign was a party to the transaction with Ms. Clifford, and neither reimbursed Mr. Cohen for the payment directly or indirectly.”
Cohen has alleged Trump approved the payments and reimbursed him.
In the time it has taken to relate this case, Manhattan DA Alvin released a statement about an hour ago, claiming that his office never intended to indict Donald Trump and that all the hoopla was created by Trump himself by alleging (falsely, according to Bragg) that he was going to be arrested and put in hand-cuffs.
If Bragg never intended to prosecute Trump, why impanel a grand jury in the first place? The impending arrest must have been pretty serious for New York City to put 30,000 cops on notice in case of a riot if Trump was arrested. Why waste a grand jury’s time that way? His office had been talking about an upcoming Trump trial for months.
Bragg admitted himself that it wasn’t much of a case. We know the Democrats wanted those mugshots of Trump, photographs of him being handcuffed, facing a judge. They were quite gleeful in the Media about it.
The case hasn’t officially been dropped – as far as we know. It could be resurrected in time for the October Surprise in 2024. Or whenever “October Surprises” occur now that the Democrats have created an “Election Season.”
We hope the weak-kneed GOP hasn’t dropped its investigation of Hunter Biden (a true criminal) in exchange for Bragg dropping the charges against Trump in New York. These headlines have only infuriated Americans (especially Conservatives) and solidified Trump’s position.
Gov. Ron DeSantis made the error of playing school-yard games with Trump, playing tit-for-tat with the Donald, calling Trump names and casting aspersions on his character. With the world on the brink of possible nuclear, banks going under, inflation skyrocketing so that the poor and the elderly can scarcely afford to buy groceries, and a probably recession looming (companies are already laying people off; if small and medium businesses can’t secure loans, they’ll go under and more people will be out of work), this isn’t the time for name-calling.
We knew all about the charges against Trump’s (and Melania’s) morals back in 2016. With our country on the brink after eight years of Obama “redistributing the wealth, people just didn’t care. Maybe they should have. But when you can’t afford to pay your rent or mortgage and you’re about to lose your home, charges that one of the candidates might have been a playboy in “the past just isn’t very important. There was no proof, in any case, and the charges against Joe Biden, which the press suppressed in 2020, were much worse.
The press never told Americans about JFK’s later legendary liaisons. FDR had a mistress. Eisenhower had one. LBJ reportedly had other women. The Media tried to claim that Bush 41 had a woman. But they were never able to produce evidence. Bill Clinton – well, he’s another legend. Remember Monica Lewinsky?
Rumors are flying about the Internet now like a meteor shower, in an attempt to smear Trump. ‘They’ll be back!’ Democrats are saying about the Manhattan grand jury. This AG Bragg is the same guy who promised not to prosecute criminals and drug dealers. He’s the main reason New York City is such a disaster area. According to Glenn, Bragg boasted over 200 times that he would prosecute Trump.
New Yorkers weren’t fleeing the City just because of Covid. As Glenn Beck pointed out today, stores in New York City, and especially pharmacies, have all their wares locked away in plastic enclosures (thieves would simply smash glass cases).
Will Trump be prosecuted? It seems that we’ll have to stay tuned. We would have thought the Democrats would drag it out until next Spring, after the last of the primaries, to ensure that Trump would win the primary because their polls tell them Trump can’t beat Trump.
Trump did beat Biden in 2020. It’s just that no court was willing to examine the evidence. Instead, judges dismissed the case out of hand. Trump himself was accused of trying to “steal” the election on January 6, 2021. The Media – including Fox News – convinced their low-information voters that it was all wishful thinking on Trump’s part.
But slowly, the truth has been leaking out about the 2020 election – and Joe Biden’s corrupt practices as Vice President and White House resident. Biden has destroyed our energy sector, made owning gasoline-powered automobiles as of 2035, and deliberately created skyrocketing, economy-busting inflation through the powers of the Federal Reserve.
The Media never tells the low-information voters the truth about Biden; about how this Third-Grade reject’s ancestors owned slaves or how his current family, including crack-smoking Hunter, have received payments from the Chinese Communist Party.
Biden blamed Trump for the failure of the Silicon Valley Bank. However, the Federal Reserve raised the interest rates on the bonds in question. According to our banker in January of this year, the Fed had let it be known that they were going to lower the interest rates on the bonds. Instead, they raised the rates, causing a panic among bond buyers who’d bought the bonds at a lower rate.
What does that have to do with Trump? Oh, Trump “misrepresented legal fees.” So did Hillary Clinton. She was let off with a fine.
We have become a Third World country if political minions in the courts can prosecute political opponents on spurious, politically-motivated charges. Obama played that dirty trick when he was running for the Illinois. He used his influence to expose the files on his opponent’s divorce case.
Trump is right when he said we should protest these kinds of activities. He said “protest,” as in “dissent” or “disagree;” nail our objections to the door, as Martin Luther did, not riot, pillage and burn, as the Democrats have done for decades.
That’s what they hope we’ll do. That seems to be what happened on J6, although not really. Most of the protesters at the Capitol were peaceful. Only a handful who had infiltrated the main body broke windows and brawled with the peace. The rest, as the videos have proven, were more like vacationers taking a tour of the Capitol building. Those people were arrested for “parading” on the Capitol grounds.
Unfortunately, the event gave the Democrats the grounds they needed to criminalize any further “protests” that might prove critical of them. They’re waiting eagerly for Trump supporters to show up in lower Manhattan at the steps of the Federal Courthouse.
Maybe the Grand Jury postponed the case because no one showed up to be arrested. There are plenty of counter-protestors – anti-Trumpers – available in Manhattan. Columbia University is nearby. So is New York University. Hunter College is a short subway ride away. They have a propensity for violence and would have been happy to provoke a riot.
Trouble is, if the pot smoke doesn’t choke you, the smell (and sight) of feces and urine will.
Social Security, the National Debt Limit and Daylight Savings Time
The federal government has moved from gradually raising the retirement age for Social Security benefits from 65 to considering raising it to 70 immediately. What would the Social Security Act’s co-author, U.S. Senator Robert F. Wagner, think about that?
According to his biographer, J. Joseph Hutthmacher in the 1971 biography, Senator Robert F. Wagner and the Rise of Urban Liberalism, Wagner never defined himself as a “Socialist” although many of his programs bore the title “Social.” He bristled at those who branded him a “Communist” of which he declared himself a foe, as well as a foe of Nazism (which is National Socialism). In the above photo, Wagner is just to FDR’s right.
Wagner was concerned about the immigrants close-packed into the slums of New York City. When he came to the United States in 1886 with his family, the youngest child of Reinhardt Wagner and his wife, Katherina Magdelena Pedersen, the family discovered that Reinhardt had “aged out” of his skill as a wool and dye manufacturer. Yet Germany was under the thumb of “The Second Reich,” of Bismarck, his constant wars and his socialism, which many Germans came to America fleeing.
However,
…there was little use for Reinhard[t] Wagner’s handicraft trade in the rapidly mechanizing industry of late-Nineteenth-Century America. His age was another factor that counted against him. And so, in a “land of plenty,” the father of the Wagner immigrants found himself working as [a] janitor in a succession of tenement houses in Yorkville [aka Yorktown] the “Little Germany” of polyglot New York City. His income hovered around $5.00 a week, plus use of the basement apartment as home for his family.
Ten years later, his parents would return to Germany to retire. After Reinhardt died around, Katherina remarried and returned to New York City where her children were living, as well as some of her sisters.
So when Former Vice President Biden urges raising the retirement age to 70, you have to wonder what the ghost of the venerable senator from New York would say. Biden and his minions argue that people are living better and longer than they were even in 1953, when Wagner died (he suffered from health problems all his life). He knew he was sick and voluntarily resigned from the Senate when his doctors warned him that his heart problems and senility would soon take their toll. He died at about the age of 76,
Sadly, for America, Resident Joe Biden will never voluntarily resign, no matter how many times he trips going up the steps of Air Force One.
Reinhardt’s inability to find work in bustling, over-crowded New York City inspired his son to pursue a social security act.
Old age pensions had long been part of Wagner’s scheme of industrial reform, for if failure to create unemployment reserves constituted an “ethical eyesore” [by industry], then failure to provide for “the worker who has worn himself out in harness” was , even worse. “While unemployment may some day vanish,” he reminded his colleagues, “we can prevent the onslaught of old age.” Of course, such insurance would also fulfill the economically stabilizing function of sustaining purchasing power among a large and growing element of the population, Wagner pointed out. And he suggested still another economic purpose that retirement compensation might serve, in connection with unemployment relief. “Quite aside from the present depression,” Wagner forecast with considerable prescience, “we face a technological situation when from four to six million people of youth and able bodies will be unemployed during so-called ‘normal times.’” What better way to create places for the newcomers in the labor force, Wagner asked, than by making possible “the withdrawal from the force of those who are older and less efficient, and who deserve and want a few years of rest.”
Wagner may not have thought of himself as a Communist or a Socialist, but rather a “Liberal,” but Karl Marx couldn’t have said it better.
Oh, wait a minute. Marx did say it.
Whenever you speak of “insurance,” you must have many more contributors than recipients, with an eye towards actuarial probabilities – the analysis of probabilities of risk and risk management including calculation of premiums and dividends. Social security was like a national annuity: the government took into consideration how long the average person lived, starting in 1936.
People didn’t often live much past 65 in 1936, so the government used the age of 65 as their standard. As healthcare and medicine improved, people began living longer. In 1936, the average life expectancy for men was 56.6 and women, 60.6. Two years later, in 1938, life expectancy had risen to 61.9 and 65.3.
By 1958, the life expectancy rate had risen to 66.6 and 72.9. That is the current generation turning 65 this year, 2023. Only, they must wait a year longer in order to earn their Social Security benefits. Medicare still stands at 65.
We may be living longer thanks to modern medicine but life is not that much better. Or rather, our health isn’t that much better.
According to the CDC (we know – not a very reliable source, but bear with us) the average man in 1960 weighed 166 pounds. By 2002, that weight had ballooned to 191 pounds.
Weight increases were greater among older men: Those between 40 and 49 were nearly 27 pounds heavier on average at the end of the study period. Men 50 to 59 got 28 pounds heavier, and 60 to 74 were almost 33 pounds heavier on average in 2002 compared with 1960.
With women, the older crowd fared better, or at least less worse. Women aged 40-49 were about 25 pounds heavier on average in 2002 compared with 1960. And women aged 60-74 were about 17 pounds heavier on average in 2002 compared with 1960.
That was 20 years ago. Today, the average woman weighs 170 pounds. The average man weighs 197 pounds.
No wonder the cost of Medicare is so astronomical. The average American isn’t “healthier” than their 1960 counterpart; there are just more medicines available to keep them going longer, treat their maladies and raise the actuarial statistics. What employer is going to pay those medical bills?
We have it on good authority, as distant relations, that Wagner or FDR intended Social Security as a total retirement fund; it was only meant to help the elderly get by. Wagner’s real passion was a National Housing Act, which would provide government housing for the indigent and the elderly. Even FDR was uncertain about passing such an act.
However, LBJ wasn’t, and welfare housing came to pass via grants to the states.
We face the same “technological situation” today that Wagner spoke about during his tenure. Workers are being “buggy-whipped” by not just automation but automated computers creating other computers. The latest innovations intend to even do our thinking for us. The latest iteration from Microsoft has some computer trying to edit this article.
As C3PO said in Star Wars, “Oh, switch off!”
Meanwhile, Congress has also been busy raising the debt ceiling, so Biden can continue to spend us into oblivion. The federal government raises the debt, then it raises the interest rates, then prints more money, which creates more cash but also raises prices.
The Weimar Republic, anyone? When German housewives went shopping with wheelbarrows of cash just after they cashed their husbands’ paychecks before the prices could be increased again?
The Silicon Valley Bank was just bailed out and now Credit Suisse is on the brink of insolvency. The Dow Jones is down by about 280 today (it had sunk further earlier, but came recovered). If the economy really does tank, we current oldsters can kiss our retirement savings good-bye, just as our grandfather did back in 1929.
Grandpa (Wagner’s 1st Cousin once removed) had saved a considerable amount of money and he still had many productive years ahead. Grandpa may have been a cheapskate but he did look ahead to the future. Only a bunch of stockbrokers bought stock on margin. Their stocks tanked, they couldn’t repay their enormous loans, and then the banks tanked and the savings of relatively young people like Grandpa and older people vanished on Oct. 30, 1929.
By 1934 (or perhaps earlier), Grandpa took a job as a merchant seaman. Grandma went to work as a millworker (she’d been a maid earlier in her life, before marrying).
Are we, the late Baby Boomers, going to follow in Grandpa’s footsteps as well as Reinhardt Wagner’s? There are plenty of Boomers who are proud to go to work. Mom worked until she was 75 – as a bus driver, no less. There are a lot of Baby Boomers competing for those senior jobs at places like Walmart and Target, or the local supermarket. They can do it once they’re 65 because they’re still eligible for Medicare at 65 and can get those aging hips and knees replaced.
But what about those who’ve just had it with the daily grind of working? Modern medicine is no great predicter of how long you’ll really live. My late friend worked until he was 81- and died about three months after he retired. I knew many people who died within days of retiring at two specific companies at which I worked. The first company finally banned retirement parties altogether after too many retirees died shortly after the last of the balloons had been popped.
We shouldn’t have to be ashamed of saying we don’t want to work until we die. That’s what our father did. If those who want to work until they drop want to, more power to them – and more Social Security money. But don’t punish those who think there’s more to life than work or can’t find it because their skill-sets are exhausted.
Finally, there’s the matter of Daylight Savings Time. There are efforts afoot to make Daylight Savings Time permanent. It’s a terrible idea. The day isn’t any longer during Daylight Savings Time; only the clock changes and it’s not necessarily for the better.
Yes, the sun seems to shine longer when you come home from work. You can spend more time outside. At mid-summer, you can stay out until 8:30 in the evening in these parts. That would 7:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. The trouble is, you still have to get up for work in the morning, even if your kids don’t.
Daylight Savings Time causes trouble for very young children and their mothers. The very youngest should be in bed by 7:30 p.m. or 8, at the latest. Going to sleep when the sun is still bright in the sky is very hard on them. Children need a lot more sleep than adults do. Adults are also short-changing themselves, though. Because the sun goes down so much later, it takes longer for them to wind down and go to sleep and then get up the next day.
Rush hour starts very early in the Metro New York area. I can hear the local interstate from where I live and by 5 a.m., traffic is already roaring away. Some commuters start out that early in order to avoid the increasing congestion as you get closer to the city. Some truck drivers start out earlier for the same reason.
I used to be a night-owl and paid the price in lost sleep, efficiency and poor memory. Now, just for full disclosure, I hated being a secretary, at least when I was younger. I didn’t enjoy getting up in the morning and certainly didn’t care about rising with the sun. I put it off as long as possible, as most people do.
But now, since I’m closing in on retirement, I’ve suddenly discovered all the hours I’ve been missing by not getting up with the Sun. My older brother and my friends think I’m crazy. However, I really like it. I’ll be 64 next month. If I could retire a year from that date, I’d be happy as a skylark. I have all sorts of writing projects in view, one of which could actually prove profitable.
I can’t, though. I must try to convince reluctant employers to hire me as a clerk when I haven’t worked since July. I can’t do retail because I have a bad hip. I don’t dare follow in my mother’s footsteps as a bus driver because I have an astigmatism which no pair of eyeglasses will be able to correct. I have enough savings to get me at least a little closer to retirement, or Medicare at any rate.
But thanks to some actuarial in Social Security – which went insolvent a couple of decades ago and is on artificial respiration because the government has filled Social Security’s coffers with funny money – and Joe Biden, I’ll be hard pressed to survive financially until 66 and 10 months.
All because the government convinced us to rely on what is basically a Ponzi scheme. Wagner, perhaps never envisioned an America where women would stop having children and go to work instead, creating a dearth of American workers to keep the Social Security ball rolling.
What money there was, crooked politicians spent on illegal aliens and other people who hadn’t earned such a benefit. The money we earned and were required to allocate to Social Security was spent almost before we earned it. Today’s workers’ SSI earnings have not only been spent but are going towards an increasing debt as the populous Baby Boomers retire, without having produced enough children to carry the burden.
Meanwhile, what savings we have were partially blown away in 2008 and what’s left is being ravaged by Biden’s inflation.
It used to be that you had to earn money to spend money. Now, you have to spend money to print money to earn money in order to pay taxes to print more money. Not to fear, though; Covid and its vaccine wiped out millions of pensioners in 2021 and 2022.
That’s one way of lowering the debt: eliminate the people.
Trump’s CPAC speech lays out a blueprint to bring America back from the brink
President Trump has always been a big picture kind of guy, a visionary who sees things in grand terms: beautiful, awesome, magnificent. Although he sometimes rambled in his 2023 CPAC speech on Saturday afternoon, he hit all the right notes – at least for his base.
His best note was probably repeating his record that while he was president, the United States was involved in no foreign wars. As a businessman, he recognizes the economic waste of war. He reminded the audience that he insisted that NATO members “pay their fair share” or he would withdraw economic aid from that country.
He vowed that on Day One he would end the nasty business in Afghanistan. “In one day,” his critics scoffed. They forget he’s a negotiator, not a diplomat. The President also stated that he was appalled by the Pentagon’s insistence that it was “cheaper” to leave all our military equipment, our arms, our munitions, our vehicles, over in Europe rather than bring it back home.
So were we Americans. Sounds like a bit of porkulus was going on. Leave our equipment in Europe and whoever is making our equipment – China makes our military uniforms (!) – would make a boodle of money making more equipment and munitions.
The President also claimed the mantle of experience, which is quite true. What he didn’t say, of course, was that politically he was not bound by any future elections and could wreak havoc on the administrative state that is bankrupting our country.
He said that he didn’t go into specifics because he didn’t want to bore the audience with details. On this occasion, a general speech was the right tone. He was firing off the opening volley of his campaign for President of the United States in 2024. No one would expect details at this early date.
But sooner or later, he will have to be specific about his many achievements.
Think of his wall on the Southern Border. This was to be a wall – what? – 2,000 miles long. Resident Biden of course put a halt to the building and apparently even had it torn down in places. This speaks to the limits on the Executive Office and executive orders. They can be torn down by a political opponent. There must also be will in the state and federal legislatures, and in the federal justices appointed by the President.
We see the Big Picture of the border wall. We’re satisfied that it exists and that it has been successful in doing its job. We wouldn’t think to ask what’s holding it together, even if it wasn’t a matter of national security not to disclose that information.
Most of us don’t know the difference between an anchor bolt and a bolt of lightning. As long as whatever it is keeps the wall together, we’re satisfied. As a real estate magnate, Trump held a meeting in New York City in the late Seventies or early Eighties. This was a big meeting, which Big Brother attended. Trump did not behave like a boastful maniac, according to my brother. He didn’t monopolize the meeting. It wasn’t all about him. He brought all those people in to report on the progress of one of his buildings. He listened to them so he’d know what was going on and if what they were doing was on time and satisfactory.
Did they discuss nuts and bolts? Probably not. But then again, if the cost of those things were a factor, or safety was an issue, he might just have asked them. If you ever watch “Air Disasters” or any other “disaster” show, often it’s the smallest item – a bolt that had cut through into the fuel tank on TWA Flight or the absence of bolts on the flap of a plane’s tail wing – that causes disaster.
Those nuts and bolts can strengthen or weaken a wall, depending on the type and how well they hold things together. During President Trump’s term in office, he did great things – and he did small things that might have passed the notice of the Media (they certainly wouldn’t have been looking). That plane with the missing bolts on its tail flap had been in the hangar for maintenance. The bolts were replaced on the left side, but not on the right. The supervising mechanic dismissed the crew for the night, claiming he would take care of it. He removed the old bolts. But never replaced them. On the plane’s manifest was a passenger who was due to testify against a drug cartel. According to “Air Disaster,” that passenger never made the flight. Threats had been made against the plane. Yet the NTSB never held that smug mechanic accountable and instead attacked the airline.
A fraudulent “president” was elected in 2020 who dismissed those building the wall, declaring he would take care of it. He took out the bolts and never replaced them. Now we’re heading towards the ground.
This is why details, while they might seem “boring” are incredibly important. At some point, President Trump must point every solid bolt he put into the American economy and inspect with a magnifying glass every act of malfeasance and sabotage committed by Former Vice President Biden.
Trump has the better, more secure bolts. He shouldn’t be afraid of boasting of them in detail to the American public. We do wish people would stop obsessing about his Tweets. Obama started that campaign about Trump’s “Mean Tweets.” They’re really not that big of a deal. In part, he’s used Twitter to defend himself against all the false charges the Democrats have hurled at him over the years.
Compared to Trump’s sturdy record as president, the tweets are nothing more than spaghetti thrown at a wall to see if it will stick. Unfortunately, it has stuck in voters’ minds, which is unfortunate. The tweets are nothing compared to the attack they will turn on him in regards to Covid, another matter in which they will make an innocent man seem guilty. He didn’t create the virus, he didn’t issue any lockdown mandates, and as far as he knew (the information coming from some decidedly unreliable sources) the vaccines were safe and would enable people to get back to work and school.
Both he and the other front-runner Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis have agreed that they want to compete for the primary position and that is the way our system is supposed to work. We hope Trump will be substantive in his arguments and not rely on name-calling or innuendo about questionable reports on DeSantis’ record (such as being funded by George Soros). If DeSantis did accept funding from Soros, we should know about it. But that’s one of those charges for which Trump needs to use an anchor bolt, not a picture-hanger.
That is the way Trump needs to build his entire campaign – with anchor bolts. The kind that open up inside a concrete wall and fix themselves in place. Trump needs to recite the unemployment numbers during his presidency. He needs to list the GDP during the time. He cannot say enough about his China policy. He should talk about his Supreme Court nominations and the court victories that ensued due to his placements.
Trump also spoke about the future. “Freedom Cities,” he called them, ten cities where people could own their own homes. Critics immediately took him up on this unexplained item. We think this was in answer to the current “sustainable development” crisis that’s going on. Affordable Housing, which is quite unaffordable. Here in my town, a one-bedroom apartment in one of our high-density housing units goes for $1,700 a month and is expected to go higher.
The whole “sustainable development” movement, with its foundation in the Mount Laurel decision (yet another gift from New Jersey), is a scam. Only 25 percent of the units in any development go to the poor. The rest are luxury apartments rented out to people fleeing New York City’s rising crime rate. Every time they bring in more high-income, the farther a town gets from meeting its Mount Laurel requirement.
Think of the ancient Greek legend of Sisyphus and the Rock. Sisyphus gets the rock to the top of the hill only to have it roll back down on him, forcing him to push it up the hill again.
Trump can do it again. But not by himself. We all have to be engaged in demolishing the Administrative State (begun in Grover Cleveland’s time). We have to vote in every election from school board to state legislatures. The Democrats want to weaken the power of the state legislatures. Pres. Woodrow Wilson went a long way in achieving that goal, by taking away the state legislature’s power to send Senators to Congress and giving it over to the popular vote.
Naturally, in a Blue State like New Jersey, it would seem like a waste of time. Whether by popular or legislative vote, the Democrats would still get in. Not if we had proper representation, they wouldn’t. But that’s just another one of the leaks in our boat that needs to be fixed and could be, with enough will power.
How Trump will achieve his goals is yet to be seen. It’s still early on in the race, and he certainly shouldn’t reveal all his cards at this point, no matter how many questions his critics and rivals might have. We know he can do the job.
If Trump has any real problem, it’s his age. After three years of that old fossil Biden stumbling about the country, younger voters and even older voters aren’t sure they want another old man, no matter how vigorous, running the country. Trump was right to use his experience as a selling point.
One poll suggests that Trump could win the Primary, but not the General Election against Biden, but that DeSantis could. That’s probably where Obama’s “Mean Tweets” campaign comes into play. Younger voters are susceptible to such tactics. So are older voters. My mother was one of those people. She was anti-Trump until I explained to her that Trump represented many of the values she did. Mom was an economics person. She’d always spoken against foreign wars; that they depleted the U.S. economy and that we never got our money’s worth for the blood spilt.
I told her that was what Trump believed. Being elderly, she only saw the negative, media-cultivated image of him, even though she’d witnessed the man with her own eyes board her bus and address her older passengers, welcoming them to the opening of his newest casino, in the Atlantic City Marina area.
“Did he seem like a crazy man to you, Mom?” I asked her.
“No.”
“How many of the other casino owners came down from their office towers to greet your passengers?”
“None,” she admitted. “It was very nice of him.”
She made out the Absentee Ballot (she was by then housebound), voting for Trump, and suffered me to deliver it.
Certainly, there are other good candidates in the field. But none of them can do what Trump can do, the way he can do it. If he wasn’t a solid president, the Left wouldn’t be trying so hard to attack him. Something about him frightens, in spite of their mockery. They never expected him to win in 2016. The Democrats had their fireworks ready for the Hillary victory party.
Instead, Trump won. She had the Steele Dossier ready for the press. The dossier was a fraud. The Democrats spent four years and more trying to bring Trump down. Their determination is remarkable, while their methods are criminal. They even resorted to a weaponized virus, killing millions of people, in order to keep him from making America Great Again.
Trump’s determination is greater than theirs. He has a passion and a love for constitutional America which they obviously lack. His love for America and its people is genuine and sincere, as we saw when he visited East Palestine, Ohio. Biden has yet to make the trip.
The Democrats have done their best to make the college-educated voters cringe at Trump’s name and his “Mean Tweets” which were nothing more than Trump defending himself. They expressed shock that he could write “beautiful” speeches. That’s a funny sort of back-handed confession and admiration. His speeches were so “beautiful” that they couldn’t believe he wrote them.
He has plenty of speechwriters. But like anyone you would write a speech for, the speech has to be in the speaker’s voice. They have to have input into the writing of the speech in order for the speech to be successful. The speaker often chooses many of the words as well as the theme.
Why should anyone be surprised that Trump could give “beautiful” speeches? Such speeches would be perfectly in sync with his character. Although he can be gruff, blunt, and even pugnacious sometimes, he also has an innate love of beauty. “Beauty” is the man’s favorite word. All his homes and buildings are beautifully constructed and decorated. His personal jet plane is beautiful. His wife, Melania, is stunningly beautiful. His daughter, Ivanka (by his first wife, the late Ivana) is beautiful (and tall). His grandchildren are beautiful.
Add to that his outstanding love for America and freedom, and the result will be “beautiful” speeches. There are two kinds of speeches (for a president): general and policy speeches. We hope he remembers later on in the campaign to throw in some nuts and bolts to fasten his record solidly to posterity, for his critics will be on the lookout for any unsubstantiated claims. So will the college-educated voters, especially the men. Facts and truth will never be boring or go out of style.
It would do well for the college-educated voters to remember (if they ever knew it) that President Trump graduated from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Yet he’s as comfortable at a construction site as he is in a board room. In short, he knows his nuts and bolts as well as he knows his dollars and cents.
He was just the kind of president we needed in 2016 and would have had the country back on track in 2020 if the election hadn’t been stolen, as investigative reporters are beginning to reluctantly discover.
Biden is the guy who removed the bolts from our plane’s tail fin. Trump is the guy who can best restore them before our plane smashes into the ground.
There doesn’t seem to be much left of our cities worth bombing
Tsar Bomba, (Russian: “King of Bombs”), the byname of RDS-220, also called Big Ivan, was a Soviet thermonuclear bomb that was detonated in a test over Novaya Zemlya island in the Arctic Ocean on October 30, 1961. The largest nuclear weapon ever set off, it produced the most powerful human-made explosion ever recorded.
The bomb was built in 1961 by a group of Soviet physicists that notably included Andrey Sakharov. At the time the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States had grown increasingly tense. Meant to be a show of Soviet strength, the three-stage bomb was unparalleled in power. It had a 100-megaton capacity, though the resulting fall-out from such a blast was considered too dangerous for a test situation. Thus, it was modified to yield 50 megatons, which was estimated to be about 3,800 times the strength of the U.S. bomb dropped on Hiroshima during World War II.
In addition, the fusion process of the Soviet device was altered, dramatically lessening the fallout. The resulting weapon weighed 27 tons, with a length of some 26 feet and a diameter of about 7 feet. Although officially known as RDS-220, it acquired numerous nicknames, most notably Tsar Bomba in the West.
A Tu-95V bomber was modified to carry the weapon, which was equipped with a special parachute that would slow the bomb’s fall, allowing the plane to fly a safe distance from the blast. The aircraft, piloted by Andrey Durnovtsev, took off from Kola Peninsula. It was joined by an observer plane. At approximately 11:32 AM Moscow time, Tsar Bomba was dropped over the Mityushikha Bay test site on the deserted island of Novaya Zemlya. It exploded about 2.5 miles above the ground, producing a mushroom cloud more than 37 miles high; the flash of the detonation was seen some 620 miles away. The resulting damage was equally massive. Severny, an uninhabited village 34 miles from Ground Zero, was leveled, and buildings more than 100 miles away were reportedly damaged. In addition, it was estimated that heat from the blast would have caused third-degree burns up to 62 miles distant.
Although a success, Tsar Bomba was never considered for operational use. Given its weight, the device could not be deployed by a ballistic. Instead, the bomb had to be transported by conventional aircraft, which could easily be intercepted before reaching its target. Thus, Tsar Bomba was viewed as a propaganda weapon. Following the 1961 blast, Sakharov became increasingly involved in efforts to limit nuclear tests to underground. Such a ban was signed by the United States, Britain, and the U.S.S.R. in 1963, and numerous other countries later joined the treaty.
Two years after testing Tsar Bomba, the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. engaged in a nuclear stand-off. The U.S. government told Americans that the Russians were building a nuclear missile base in Cuba, about 90 miles south of Miami, Fla. A nuclear bomb could reach New York City or Washington, D.C. in a matter of minutes. It was doubtful that the government would even bother to inform residents of the Metro New York area that a thermonuclear bomb was on its way. What they certainly didn’t tell citizens, until much later, was that the U.S.S.R. was protesting missile bases located on the Soviet border in Turkey.
President Kennedy made a great show of defiance sending the U.S. Navy out to meet the approaching Soviet ships, while making backroom deals with Nikita Krushchev to remove the U.S. missiles from Turkey.
Unlike Glenn Beck, who was only born the next year, we remember those 13 days in October 1963. We remember how frightened and doleful out parents were. Imagining that Russia was about to unleash this Tsar Bomba, there was nowhere for people like us, living in Northern New Jersey, just outside of New York City, to run and escape. Mom thought of friends who had a cabin in the Catskills. But in those days, it was a long ride just to reach the New York Thruway. There wouldn’t be enough time.
Schoolchildren were taught to duck and cover. I wasn’t in school yet but my older brother was. By the time I got to school, our teachers realized that crawling under our desks was not going to protect us.
People in this area were very, very frightened, especially parents with young children.
The Russians had a great deal of trouble launching their Tsar Bomba. The plane had to be fortified just to carry this monstrously heavy bomb and the engineers weren’t certain the pilot could get far enough away in time, hence the parachute to slow the bomb’s descent.
That was one bomb. Today, Russia has nearly 6,000 bombs. Over the years, peace activists have complained about the United States’ balance-of-power game. How many bombs did we need, anyway. How many bombs did Russia or China need?
Russia isn’t like some little old lady hoarding Tupperware tubs. Every single bomb has a specific target somewhere in the United States. When you look at the U.S. map and compare it to any current U.S. map, you discover that the bombs are aimed at Air Force bases, nuclear power plants, manufacturing cities, oil refineries and other critical infrastructure.
FEMA published a nuke map of New Jersey in 1990. One of the many “ground zeros” lies between Paterson, in the north, to West Orange (or thereabouts) in the south. Those cities are at the outer range of the fireball. “Ground Zero” is Passaic, N.J., deemed by Business Insider to be the “Fourth Most Miserable City” in the United States.
The world’s only real-life experience with a real bomb were the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs. These were “atom” bombs not “thermonuclear” bombs. Only one percent of the Hiroshima bomb’s material actually exploded. While the damage was devastating, the Japanese weren’t really impressed enough to surrender. Surrender came after Nagasaki.
We think in terms of one bomb exploding over New York City. But as we’ve indicated, that is almost certainly not going to be the case. In addition to the Passaic bomb, there are bombs with the names of Jersey City, Bayonne, Elizabeth, and Linden on them. In short, all the cities along the Hudson waterfront, right down to the oil refineries in Linden.
Strangely, Newark is not a “ground zero” target. But then, Newark is such a blighted city that the Russians figured it wasn’t worth building a thermonuclear bomb to obliterate. Other targets, unfortunately for New Jersey’s Morris County seem to include Morristown and, of course, Picatinny Arsenal. The is built between two “mountain ranges” (here in New Jersey, we consider them “mountains”) which might blunt the impact. The Russians may also decide to use a tactical nuke for this site. There’s not much point in wasting all that nuclear material on such a sparsely populated area.
A bomb dropped on Passaic would take out a section of the crucial New Jersey Turnpike. Assuming there was anyone left to deliver supplies to in New York or further North, trucks would not get past East Brunswick. If the map is correct, all the river crossings are targeted, as well as the nuclear power plants in Oyster Creek and Salem, and military installations in South Jersey.
The Russians are nothing if not thorough. Only some hardy souls in the Pine Barrens and far Northwest New Jersey (Sussex County) would be spared. How ironic that these are the enclaves of Conservatives. The Russians would effectively wipe out every Marxist in and around New York City.
They say war never makes sense. This certainly doesn’t. The drug dealers would survive, even if their customers don’t, ensconced as they are in far Northwestern New Jersey. No fools, they. The Democrats have been slowly and slyly moving illegal aliens into these northern areas. In the event of an EMP – EMPs are a by-product of a nuclear bomb – the drug dealers would be the go-to guys for painkillers and other sorts of drugs, which their minions would no doubt rob from the local pharmacies.
Millennial idiots living in Northwest New Jersey need not worry; the world might go to hell, but they could still get high.
If the Russians do attack, in whatever year they’re planning to do so, it would probably be in the Spring in order to wipe out the crops for that year, and for the next couple of years. Whoever was left would die of radiation poisoning or starvation.
Glenn Beck is promoting preparation for this calamity. So does New York City. Are they kidding? Seriously? The Russians will probably choose a morning rush hour, as the 9/11 terrorists did. New Jersey drivers would be in direct line with the flash and the rising sun Being blinded and being bad drivers already – the worst of all scenarios, blinded aggressive drivers – their car trains would immediately derail before they were even hit by the blast.
Probably, the Russians would wait for the later rush hour, so as many victims as possible would already be in their offices. On 9/11, the terrorists miscalculated. They didn’t kill as many “Jews” as they wanted and believed there was some Jewish “conspiracy” afoot to avoid the attack.
Um – no. They just didn’t understand Wall Street hours. The Financial District begins its day at 9:30 a.m. to prepare for the opening of the stock market. However, being between London and Hong Kong, Wall Street balances its day more towards the afternoon. Even though the NYSE shuts down at 4 p.m., Hong Kong is just getting started. The Chinese haven’t even had their early morning breakfast of tea and dog at that hour (4 a.m.).
That’s why the buildings weren’t as full of “Jews” as the terrorists had hoped.
The Russians will be perfectly happy – or rather, the Iranians, whom the Russians will undoubtedly be invited to push the Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Long Island buttons – to blow them up on their trains and subways. Subways are not actually good for Soviet purposes. That far underground, the passengers might just survive.
So, the Russians might choose a ground-burst for Manhattan…
We can’t understand New York City’s FEMA advice for New Yorkers. “Duck and cover and then get inside.” They don’t seem to understand that we’re not talking about the mile-wide Hiroshima bomb. This bomb – or rather, these bombs – are going to be much more powerful. Manhattan is 13 miles long. Everything from the George Washington Bridge in the North to the Statue of Liberty in New York Bay is a target. The Russians have a bomb for every purpose.
We wonder why they’re even discussing it. For New York City and its immediate vicinity there’s no escape. The suburbanites on the outskirts are lazy, spoiled, and have absolutely no survival skills. They won’t even mow their own lawns and you think they’re going to turn into farmers and hunters overnight? They have no sense of animal husbandry and would soon hunt the wild game into extinction. There isn’t a cow within 30 miles of Paterson, N.J.
New Jersey should know better than this. That’s what happened to the beaver in the Colonial period. Between the Indians and the Dutch settlers, the beaver were soon hunted into extinction. And to think, the Climate Changers want to ban cattle and cows and have us eat crickets. The farmers in Sussex County have cows and other livestock. But they’re not going to allow hordes of urban zombies destroy the only source of food. They have guns and know how to use them.
In the event of such an emergency, whoever is left is going to pay the price for the lack of foresight on the part of farmers, the corruption of local zoning boards, and the greed of developers in paving over local farms.
Then, as Glenn Beck noted, there is the lack of medical facilities to treat the injured in such an event. In addition to the burn victims, there will people whose prescriptions will soon run out and fall sick. The hospitals could barely handle Covid. What are they going to do in the event of a nuclear attack? There are urgent care facilities in every town, but our experience of them is that you go there if you have a bad cold.
FEMA’s advice is for people to keep their skin and eyes covered in the event of a nuclear event. That is, if the Russians are kind enough to alert us of their intentions and a warning can make its way through the federal government bureaucracy in time. Glenn Beck was told that the President was given a comic book version of instructions about what to do in the event the country is attacked. Former Vice President Biden failed the third grade, so it might take a little longer for him to figure out what to do.
Kamala Harris would giggle her way through the press briefing; Shirley Temple Black will tell us it’s no big deal and not to worry about it.
One movie about nuclear armageddon was made in 1959 and two movies were made after the 13 Days in October: “On the Beach,” (1959), directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Gregory Peck as a submarine captain searching for a safe port, along with Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire and Anthony Perkins; “Dr. Strangelove, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb” (1964), directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Peter Sellers and George C. Scott, was a dark comedy about an insane U.S. general who launches nuclear war against the U.S.S.R.; and “Fail-Safe,” (1964), directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau and Larry Hagman, about an accidental bombing of Moscow.
“On the Beach” is probably the saddest of the movies, as a radiation cloud makes its way around the globe, with the last stop in eastern Australia. “Dr. Strangelove” was a weird movie in light of the 1963 crisis. “Fail-Safe” is seen from the point-of-view of the American Strategic Air Command (SAC), the President (Henry Fonda) and his translator) Larry Hagman. Completely unrecognizable in their roles are Sorrell Booke (of “Dukes of Hazzard” fame) as Congressman Raskob and comedian Dom Deluise (as the backup technician).
Walter Matthau plays the Henry Kissinger role (as Dr. Groetschele), the strategy consultant, who says the U.S. should take the opportunity of finishing “what should have been done in 1949.” As events evolve, it turns out the Soviets had been interfering with the communications with the bomber that would have turned it around before reaching Soviet airspace. Ironically, something similar happened in the 1980s when the U.S. was conducting war games and the Soviets interpreted the movements as an actual attack.
However, President Reagan was able to contact the Soviets and he did not have to wipe out either Moscow or New York.
Between China and its dominion over Taiwan and Russia and its invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. is faced with two possible proxy wars. Both countries have vowed to launch a nuclear war on Western Europe and the United States if America interferes with their military actions.
America is ill-equipped to battle with even one of these superpowers, much less two. We are completely out-manned by the Chinese, and thanks to Obama, we’re ill-equipped to fight a traditional war, either by land or sea. In addition, Americans are so demoralized socially, culturally, and nationally that they have little will for such wars. We’re also so bankrupt financially that the debt bomb alone could destroy us at any time.
For my part, I’m so disgusted with my generation and with the Metro New York City area in particular, that I don’t really care much what happens to them. It’s a sorry thing to have to say. God certainly wouldn’t like it, or Jesus.
Russia wants to bomb that truly miserable city of Passaic? Make it “Ground Zero” for one of their bombs? They’d just be putting that city out of its misery. Crossing the border from neighboring Clifton into Passaic, you notice the difference immediately. It’s a great ka-thump! from a fairly-well paved road with neat homes in a city struggling to maintain its decency to a pot-holed, trash-strewn dump.
Clifton knows its neighbor well. They had to build a 10-foot wrought iron fence around the city’s war memorial to protect it from vandals. Friends who’d lived all their lives in Clifton literally headed for the hills once their children were grown. Still, God rains on the good and the evil; Clifton will share Passaic’s fate, should the worst happen.
What we can’t fathom is why the Democrats and Biden would call nuclear war down upon their own constituents’ heads. Is this their idea of “depopulation”? We certainly won’t be sorry to see Passaic’s and Paterson’s drug factories bombed out of existence. What they’re thinking is hard to imagine. We do know that Henry Kissinger has retired to Beijing and that the Big Tech Heads also have homes in Shanghai.
How many warheads will it take to bomb feckless America into submission? One bomb? Two? Six thousand? Even if they have sufficient warning, what will our younger generation do – toke up and enjoy the end of our world? Who will Russia be nuking? Purple-haired transgenders parading around Babylon? Cocaine-addled Wall Street stockbrokers? Caffeinated meth-head bumper-riders on Routes 3, 4, or 80? Abusive managers tongue-lashing their hapless subordinates?
The early reports that the Wuhan Flu started at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market was always a fishy story
Two years ago, upon hearing of a new flu epidemic which originated in Wuhan China, I immediately went to the map. I love maps. I have six or seven atlases at home. Ever since I was a kid, I’ve been a geography buff.
The news was sketchy. Where China is concerned, the news is always iffy. The epidemic had started in Wuhan, China. Upon declaring that the city would be locked down, half of its citizens fled by whatever means they could – airplane, train, car. According to the officials, the epicenter was the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, a wet market where Chinese people bought their lunches and dinners live.
Yuck.
I doubted that story, so I went on a geographic search of Wuhan. There was Mao Tse Tung’s childhood home. There was the seafood market. And right nearby was the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Bingo.
The Wuhan Institute was a state-of-the-art military facility with a grade 4, for very advanced research on bioweapons. The Communist Party did nothing to stop its citizens for boarding planes and cruise ships and taking their bioweapon around the world.
First stop? Milan, Italy. Why Milan? No particular reason to target that northern Italian city. However, it is the Shoe Capitol of the world. In order to make high-end shoes, you need leather and where do you get leather from? Cattle. Cows. And who deals in cow leather? The Chinese. They import cattle from Australia and apparently then sell the leather in the shoe market, which is Milan. Immediately, hundreds of thousands of Italians, living in high-density housing, fell ill and died. Their government locked them in.
The Chinese tried to blame the exodus on the Chinese New Year celebrations. Later, they would lock their citizens into their own apartments. We think rumor got ahead of even the Chinese Communists. They simply couldn’t react swiftly enough to control such a large population. Five or six million residents fled Wuhan.
Further rumors claimed that the virus had something to do with bats. However, bats don’t have lungs so how could they have transmitted this virus to people? My younger brother is a long-time cave explorer with plenty of experience with bats. Here in North America, he said the bats were dying from something called “Blue Nose Disease.” The sick bats hung outside the cave, in the sunlight, which is unusual for bats. He said the healthy bats drove them out.
He also said that bat dung tended to pose a danger to unwary or novice explorer who didn’t wear a mask – an N95 mask – while exploring. Those who breathed in the dust came down with pneumonia – particulate pneumonia. My late friend developed particulate pneumonia after driving his lawnmower over a pile of mulched grass and leaves. My doctor said that this virus could easily hide inside (or be inserted into) a parasite, which could be found in animal dung.
Still, it could not be transferred to human beings. That was the story upon which the World Health Organization relied. That was true, as far as it went. What we didn’t know about was
The gain-of-function Covid research, funded through the Eco-Health Alliance (which had funding from Hunter Biden’s financial firm) and the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, headed by none other than Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Documents obtained by The Intercept contain new evidence that the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the nearby Wuhan University Center for Animal Experiment, along with their collaborator, the U.S.-based nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance, have engaged in what the U.S. government defines as “gain-of-function research of concern,” intentionally making viruses more pathogenic or transmissible in order to study them, despite stipulations from a U.S. funding agency that the money not be used for that purpose.
What that meant, in plain English, was that Eco-Health Alliance, with laboratories around the world, but especially in Asia, were implanting mice with organs from human embryos to create humanized mice in order to experiment human-like to human transmission of this disease.
For two years, those who knew the truth were silenced. Chinese doctors who had been aware of this Sars virus since the Fall of 2021 (and possibly earlier) vanished. Social media shut down anyone who attempted to warn the world about the Wuhan Flu and the dangers of a future vaccination.
We’re finally getting to the truth about the Wuhan Flu, although our government is still trying to discourage such discussion. The news came from an article in the National Review from the most unlikely of sources: the U.S. Department of Energy. Author Jim Geraghty cites a story from the Morning Jolt about the activities at the Lawrence Livermore National Labs, across the bay from San Francisco in California. The report also made the Wall Street Journal.
The Livermore Lab is the premier nuclear testing facility in the United States.
“Why would the U.S. Department of Energy be weighing in on an investigation into the origins of Covid-19?” Geraghty writes. “The short answer is because the Energy Department has a special division that, as part of its mission to track and mitigate the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, specializes in the study of biological weapons such as viruses.”
Gee, we thought that was the job of Plum Island, just off the east coast of Long Island, New York.
In 1965, lab director Dr. John Foster Jr. established a formal relationship with the intelligence community and formed “Z Division” to analyze and understand the Soviet threat and develop innovative technologies for intelligence agencies.
Foster wrote, “The program also provides innovative analysis to anticipate new and developing terrorist threats involving the use of chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive weapons and investigate opportunities to counter them. Z Program also works to understand the state of foreign weapons of mass destruction programs; informs U.S. counterproliferation decisions, policies, and efforts; and develops supporting technology solutions to dissuade or prevent states from acquiring WMD-related technologies, materials, and expertise.”
“Nuclear weapons are expensive, research- and infrastructure-intensive, and hard to hide,” Geraghty continues. “Chemical weapons are the cheapest, but least likely to be deadly as clouds disperse, winds can shift, etc. Biological weapons require extremely careful handling, but are extremely hard to defend against, and the information about how to develop them is widely available. The minds at Livermore Labs have spent a great deal of time thinking about how to mitigate the consequences of a deliberate release of a deadly virus.
“In the early 2000s, Livermore built a new state-of-the-art, 64,000-square-foot building for its International Security Research Facility, which, while not confirmed, is where Z Division likely operates.”
So, it turns out the “Tin Foil Hat” types were right and the government was lying to us. Who knew, right? Right now, Slow Joe and his bureau-rats are trying to divest themselves of their own tin-foil hats. However, the hats have been super-glued to their heads.
The Media will eventually come to their rescue and lay the blame at President Donald Trump’s feet. We hope he’s paying attention. He’s busy Tweeting against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and unintentionally sabotaging his own campaign. Those tactics worked well against Hilary Clinton. Against a much younger opponent this time, such name-calling and threats are going to appear both juvenile and senile. It was Barack Obama who started the campaign about Trump’s “Mean Tweets.” Trump’s younger Republican base don’t know that and take it seriously. They’re easily spooked sheeple. Trump needs to be more careful. He is focusing on Biden, thank goodness.
But he needs to ignore his Republican challengers. DeSantis can’t do what a second-term Trump can do – deconstruct the Administrative State. Still, Trump shouldn’t take his younger voters for granted, who are concerned about voting for what they perceive as another “old dinosaur.”
Those are their words, not mine, especially when he issues derogatory Tweets. This isn’t 2016 or even 2020. Obama has convinced the Sheeple that Trump’s Tweets caused the 2020 loss, not election fraud. Now they’re spooked and Trump needs to be more circumspect about what he tweets.
If he feels the need to tweet, he should tweet about his excellent record, his ability to get the job done, his love of America and Americans and ignore any perceived threats from other GOP candidates. Biden is such a huge failure that Trump doesn’t need to look for any other targets.
We’re so close to the brink, that it’s really a job only Trump can do. We need him to focus on that – saving America – and not on any internal grudge matches. He’s got to concentrate on the Democrat’s game-plan after he wins the primary – from which he should emerge victorious, if he doesn’t self-immolate first– pinning the Covid virus and his response to it on him.
The timing of this release of information – with the primaries now less than a year away – is further proof that this is what the Democrats have in mind. Eventually, they’re going to get around to the vaccines. Although Trump never mandated that the states lock down or that every citizen receive the vaccine, it’s not going to matter when the Media reveals the real number of vaccine deaths, especially among younger people. His administration initiated “Operation Warp Speed.” Good intentions are not going to matter to a vicious, partisan Media machine.
Big Pharma conveniently covered their assets when distributing this vaccine.
Let us hope that someone trustworthy on Trump’s team has his back – and his ear.
2024 may prove to be a transformative year for the United States of America. Whether it will be an Obama-style Marxist transformation or a Trump “Take Back America” transformation depends on the next 17 months.
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