Thoughts on covid

This subject has been on my mind lately. I'll just write a few words on it, and then post it, and whatever is, is whatever is.

No matter how this thing shakes out, with respect to me, the larger picture, or what have you, I have been basing it on what I think is right. This may not be the best thing. But if it isn't, and it turns out that it could have been better, then I feel okay with what I've done to this point.

Let's put it another way. Let's say I get whatever this is, and it puts me in the hospital, and I'm fighting for my life, I will have no regrets. If my decisions were wrong, that's okay by me. I consider whatever my choices were, it was because of what was in front of me. If it turns out to be wrong, then who's fault is that? I have no control over what other people do. If my choices turn out wrong, then it was because of how things were handled were not right either.

I decided what I did because the sources that most everybody else seem to trust did not seem trustworthy to me. If they had acted in a way that earned my trust, I might have listened to them. But they don't act right, so I don't believe them. If it turns out that I'm wrong, I consider that to be their fault, not mine. This may not jibe with what I wrote earlier today, but screw it. Everybody has to do what they think is right.

You don't earn somebody's trust by being an a-hole to people who don't agree with you. These people are total a-holes as far as I am concerned. Yet, they seem to revel in it. This does not gain trust nor respect. I don't see how it possibly could.

It's a war

With respect to the Covid thing, there are a number of ways to look at it. The way I look at it is that it isn't about public health, it is about politics. War is another form of politics, so to take this another step along that line of thinking, covid is just another way of waging war. Those who are using covid, are using covid as a war tactic. The objective is a political objective, just like any other war. If there is a public health benefit in there somewhere, it is merely incidental.

As Sun Tzu once said, warfare requires deception. Whenever there is deception, there is bound to be an aggression either in progress, or on its way. The way to peace is through truth telling. The way to war is deception and aggression. Those who are exploiting covid are on the later path, not the former. Deception causes mistrust, truth enables trust. If there is no trust, how can there be peace amongst us? Those who use this for political gain are not waging peace, but waging war. In all wars, there are going to be dead bodies. Truth is the first casualty in war, as the saying goes. If the lies start, the body counts become inevitable.

There will be a lot of finger-pointing. Truth telling doesn't point fingers away, but towards the self. If you want peace, you figure out what you are doing wrong first before you start pointing fingers in another direction. If you are honest, you would admit what you did that made the situation go downhill. If violence be our lot, the ones who will start it will be the ones who are blaming it on the other guy. Anybody who does that is suspect of being the true culprit of this trouble making.

I'd like to point fingers myself, and I have. But I'd rather not add to the noise any more than I have to. Unfortunately, the noise is going to be there. It may be unavoidable.

If science is about seeking truth, then that is where the effort should be. It should not be a magic weapon to wield against those that disagree with you. Science isn't a magic word. It is a definite process. If you want the truth, you will follow that process. Otherwise, even though you may use the word, you only use the word as a weapon of war to subdue the enemy. The use of that word --- science, must be sincere. Otherwise, it is just a war tactic.

I have long stated that one of the problems of these days is the lack of respect for the truth. That's what we have here with this covid situation. Like all wars, there will be a winner and there will be a loser. The thing I am hoping for is that the right side wins. Those who push this for personal gain are suspect. This really is a war, but the objective should be the truth of the matter. If the truth wins, we all win. The bad guys lose, the good guys win. But who is that?

If the real enemy is the virus, and not each other, you must first start with the truth. There is a way to get to the truth with regards to this virus. There are those who say that there has never been any isolation of this virus. That would have been a good start, if it was actually done. But if there really was no isolation of that virus, we are still in the woods. We won't come out of the woods without some basic facts getting established, and the way that it gets established cannot be questioned. A good start would be to isolate that virus, assuming that it actually exists.

There are standards to be followed. There is a process that can be followed that will yield results that can be trusted. Why not follow those? What I am seeing and hearing is that this process is not being followed, and that is why I don't trust these people. I will take this as evidence that there are those who wish to use this situation as an opportunity to gain advantage. This is also very suspicious and leads to even greater mistrust. The cycle won't be broken until such time that the truth is respected and adhered to at all times.

I am not satisfied that this is happening, and that is why I think this is a war being waged by one group against another.

What's in a name? A turd by any other name still stinks.

Paul Craig Roberts: They killed people for vaccine profits.

Comment:

There are those who might say: This isn't communism, it is capitalism. You can have endless arguments about what capitalism is, and what communism is. When I call them communists, it is because of their tactics. Their tactics are aggressive lying, propaganda, and coercion.

Then you might say that it is fascism. It may well fit the dictionary definition of fascism, but according to the communists, fascism is the last stage of a failing capitalism. It's what communists say themselves. Should we embrace communism then? What? Are you insane?

As the previous post with Jordan Peterson shows, there are plenty of those in academic circles who admired Soviet communism. But not many actually moved there and tried to live in such a society. Not many go to Venezuela or Cuba today in order to live. But they sure would love to import that rotten system to our country.

The amount of deceit today is mind-boggling. If it were Trump in office now, they'd be impeaching him for THIS. Instead, it is Biden, and he's is going to try to mandate it for the entire country. Watch and see.

The hyper-politicization of all issues invariably redound to the benefit of communists. That's why it is happening that way. If it really were about public health, and not politics, the covid situation would be under control. That's part of what Roberts is saying. These people are distorting truth to push a political agenda---the public health be damned.

Call it by whatever name you wish, but the commies did it in the Soviet Union until Reagan defeated them. Time to do it again.

Jordan Peterson

Another warning

Jordan Peterson:"Not widespread knowledge"

Peterson is talking about Solzenitsyn and his book "Gulag Archipelago". I bought the book way back when. Maybe I read a little of it, but I remembered it to be rather long. Peterson says it's long, so my memory of it is confirmed. Perhaps his style turned me off, or I was just too lazy to read it.

Peterson also says that the information in the book isn't widely known. Given how pinko our academia has become, it wouldn't be surprising to me that this isn't a deliberate act to keep people in the dark. If people knew, they'd be more alert. You cannot blame people for not knowing what is being withheld from them. The Pravda media, as I call them, isn't about the truth, but the opposite.

So much of our media is like the former Soviet Union that I read about in the book called KGB. That's a book I discussed recently. The Gulag Archipelago goes into greater detail from someone who experienced it first hand. Too bad our commie information complex won't warn people about it. But if you wish your enemy ill, you won't give them any warning. Just saying...

Sounds of Silence

Deeper the silence...

"The deeper the silence, the worse what's to come." That from Sarah Hoyt on Instapundit (see link above).

Is that an argument for silence, for a hellish din? Could it mean that if you don't want the worse to happen, wouldn't it be better to make one hellacious racket? It is hard to say from this context what is being implied or advocated from one Ms. Hoyt.

Curtis Sliwa is running for mayor of New York. He is known for being the organizer of the Guardian Angels. I read one of his books once upon a time. His theory for dealing with an attack is to MAKE NOISE. Lots of noise. Bad guys don't like noise. It alerts the community that something that shouldn't be happening is happening or about to happen. Bad guys don't want noise.

That's why you get all the censorship. Now is the time to do something. Now is the time to say something. It may be the only chance you get. Now is the time. Being quiet about things may invite the worst. That's one way to interpret what Ms. Hoyt is saying.

My own gut instinct and experience suggest that it may be the one sure way to stave off an impending attack.

There are a few in the GOP fighting back

The rest are sell outs

MTG:"Pelosi used Capitol Police as political pawns.

Comment:

As I wrote on January 6th, this was an inside job. It was a false flag. How do I know that without any explicit proof? CUI BONO. To paraphrase the late Rush Limbaugh, "for those of you in Rio Linda", this means WHO BENEFITS. Who the hell has been trying to benefit from this from Day One? The commies, that's who. It's no big jump to see how this could have been a set up from the get go.

If anyone protests to them being calling commies, then you are part of the problem. Either you are a pinko yourself, or you are a hopeless DUPE. Hard to say if the Wicked Witch and her pals are pinkos or dupes. EITHER WAY, THE RESULTS ARE THE SAME. That's why they should be called commies.

So, MTG is right. But she's just too damned nice about it.

Anti vax info to fight the commies

 

Here are some links to stories about the so-called Covid "vaccine". The evidence is compelling that the "vaccine" is ineffective and potentially dangerous. In my opinion, the only reason to get it is to make a few people very, very rich; and to give the commies a political advantage.

The links are on Free Republic. I have yet to read them, but without reading them, I strongly believe that what I wrote above is 100% truth.

There is no sane reason to get this injection. I will NOT be getting it in any case. If things get bad enough here, you may see scenes like the one on video, in which a gang of thugs in police uniforms forced an individual to get the shot.

"vaccine" doesn't prevent xmission of covid Rochelle Wallensky: Appointed by Ill Duce, Director of CDC, an NGO, doesn't require Senate approval. For those in Rio Linda, this is what you call a political appointment to an organization that is not in the government. Nobody elected them, but they act like they can order people what to do.

"vaccines" no silver bullet Australian Senator. Australia is in lockdown. You can bet that the USA is on that path.

Hundreds of staffers at two San Francisco hospitals test positive for Covid despite being fully vaccinated. This speaks for itself.

Renowned cardiologist says covid "vaccines" ineffective. A REAL doctor, not a fake doctor like Fauci.

Israeli study: Natural immunity works better than covid "vaccine" A real vaccine would use a dead virus, and that dead virus would produce a natural response. The miscalled "vaccine" is no vaccine in the traditional sense. It relies upon an unproven method that may be dangerous, and it is an experiment.

Question

 How are these covid mandates "consent of the governed"?

We are not a free people.  I guess some folks are okay with that.

Also, stop calling it the free world.

Canadian Province of Alberta drops COVID restrictions

Wanna know why? tee-hee

They lost a case in court because they couldn't prove COVID even exists!

RUFKM?! What do you mean that they cannot prove it exists? Didn't the sainted Fauci say it does? Didn't the infallible CDC say it does? Well, there was this report that the CDC said it never isolated it in the first place.

They couldn't find proof of its existence, so they had to dismiss. Ka-Ching!!!! ( That's for all the money going into the hands of crooks who have bled us all white over this fake "pandemic". ) Could we get some reparations for this????

Joe Scarborough

This guy may be nothing more than an opportunist. I was wondering about him, so I did a little research on him.

This guy was a former Congressman from the panhandle region of Florida. The same district as Gaetz. Evidently the district is fairly conservative. But what happened to the guy?

There are those who swear up and down that they are conservative, but line up with the commies. Without these, the commies slim majority would be even slimmer. The only reason that the commies can do anything at all these days is that guys like this are splitting the party and making it weaker.

No question that Scarborough has flipped. He changed his affiliation from Republican to Independent. Supposedly he did this in response to Trump. But that excuse doesn't convince me at all. Even commies themselves don't believe that Trump colluded with the Russians. There was no "there" there, remember? He compares Trump with Putin, but it was Biden who violated the Constitution this past week. He doesn't come off as highly principled as he may be pretending to be. I don't know what he does today because I don't watch his show, but I do know he made a big switch.

Scarborough was with Newt Gingrich's Contract with America group. He may even have voted to impeach Slick Willie. How does someone make a 180 like he's doing? There are those who might say that they haven't made a 180 and still are conservative. Maybe they are like George Will and Peggy Noonan. But you don't aid and comfort commies and still claim that you are conservative. That just isn't plausible.

What is more plausible is that the guy just goes where the opportunity seems best for him. He decided to leave the GOP when Trump became president because he may be nothing more than an opportunist. Perhaps he doesn't see a future in the GOP, so that's why he left the party.

But guys like him who can do a 180 could not have been sincere in the first place. One doesn't make that big of a change if the sincerity is there. What caused him to flip? Money maybe?

Countries can survive their enemies on the outside, but the ones on the inside are the greatest threat. I don't believe this guy's pose. If there was anyone at all who should be appalled at the way the country is going, it is the true conservatives. Not the fakes.

Work on Starship continues

There wasn't a blog post on this very recently, so consider this a bit of a change of pace.

The news on the political scene is pretty dicey, but there are some good things. Maybe some should be said about that too. One really good thing that is just below the radar of being top of line is the work SpaceX is doing.

This is a significant development. That's provided that nothing happens to spoil it all. You know that is always a possibility. But even if something messes it up for Elon Musk, he has already achieved something note-worthy. He has proven that the first stage can be made to be resusable. This advance lowers the cost of getting to orbit. Other entities will be doing similar things, and there is no reason to believe that a fully resuable spacecraft can be made, if not now, then in the near future.

The Space Shuttle was only partly reusable. But it did show that you can get to space with a fully reusable orbiter. The work that Musk is doing has already demonstrated the other half. What he is doing now with Starship is making a fully integrated and reusable system that will revolutionize access to space. The launch tower may well be a missing link that will make it a fast turnaround system. It is an amazing sight.

Work at the Boca Chica facility is proceeding at a breakneck pace. Perhaps it would be wise to proceed with a bit more caution, but Musk is hellbent to leather to get his vision accomplished. For the good of us all, I sure hope he succeeds. We need some good news.

Where is the GOP

Bongino

This is pretty tough. It may be hard for somebody conservative or Republican to read this. But as I listen to Bongino, I wonder why the hell is it that he doesn't focus his ire on the GOP?

It may well be that the commies are responsible for all of this covid hysteria, but where are the Republicans in pushing back against this? I realize that DeSantis is doing it. Maybe a bit more from Gov. Abbot. Sen. Paul is doing some good stuff. But, by and large, the GOP is very, very passive about this gathering tyranny. As a party, they don't stand as one against the fear-mongering coming from the commies.

Are we going to let the commies lock us down like they are doing in Australia?

Listening to Bongino makes me mad. Somebody could get a stroke listening to this crap. But where are our representatives? Why aren't they pushing back against this? I'd rather hear what THEY are doing to fight back against this.

The lockdowns seem to discriminate only against the white folks, in case you haven't noticed. The Southern border is wide open, but nobody is concerned about that, as Bongino notes. But nobody from Europe can come here by golly. No whiteys allowed.

This is infernal. But worst of all, those who we turn to for representation are failing us miserably. That's where we should be looking for redress. You aren't going to get it from the commies.

Logan's Run

If you are an oldtimer, you may remember this movie. It may be on cable or dish these days, but since I don't have these services, I can't say.

The thing that I'd like to mention here is that we may be living in a time in which people can be killed legally. The state already encourages abortion. People in New York made Cuomo into a hero for putting sick people in with old folks. This certainly didn't do the older folks any good, but it was for our "own good", or so they say. I don't trust these people. Know what I mean, Vern?

The same kind of ideas that the movie showcases is the same kinds of ideas that radical greenie weenies like. This could easily turn into a Logan's Run scenario. People will be killed off for the good of the rest. Maybe it won't go as far as Soylent Green, but who knows?

Soylent Green fed dead human flesh to people and called it food. Nobody knew they were eating other people. The authorities didn't want people to know what was going on. Seems a lot like a totalitarian regime trick. Maybe they'd have done it in the Soviet Union if it were still around. Don't laugh. They raided graveyards for flesh during the War. Sounds pretty sickening, but desperate people may do desperate things.

The kinds of things being done today in the name of public good could result in such scenarios happening in modern times. Don't be too sure that it couldn't.

There's evidence that the covid jab is something that may not be what it is hyped up into being. If it turns out to be a killer, it will be like Soylent Green or Logan's Run. Something that will kill you, but be billed as something for your own good. It doesn't foster trust to have censorship that will hide what it is really doing, and misrepresenting it as a public health necessity. Lies are a necessity for war-making. Are they waging war on the public?

A cold-blooded murderer isn't going to tip off what his true intentions are. You may want to defend yourself and stop him. Think about it.

Commies

The Babylon Bee is doing parody videos. This one is based upon John Lennon's so-called "peace anthem" called Imagine.

Everything about it is just exactly what you get with communism. Anybody who thinks that they offer a paradise try living in Cuba for a year. Or Venezuela for that matter.

The commies are teaching the kids to be commies. That's what CRT is. As if CRT wasn't enough, there's plenty more anti-American indoctrination for your kids and for the military. If they cannot get you to comply peacefully, there's always that option.. Joe Biden brags about his F-15's and nukes. If you think that is just Joe Biden, Swillwell said the same when he was trying to get the nod from the commies to run for President.

Why use the word commie? Because the way they are acting is just like the commies act. They can use whatever descriptors they wish, but never mind their words. Just watch what the DO.

Dr. Kelli Ward

It is posted on Conservative Treehouse, whose site is linked on the left sidebar, for those who may be interested in watching the video on that site.

I watched most of it, but it doesn't seem tough enough. Maybe there was something more to the point than I saw, like what to do about the certification of the electors for last November. If the Arizona Legislature doesn't respond to lawlessness, they will have ceded their authority to oversee the selection of electors, which is the power given to them by the US Constitution.

The Maricopa County officials, who are obstructing this audit, are assuming an authority that they do not have. It is not they who have the authority to audit themselves, as Kelli Ward mentions. Only the State Legislature can do that. There will be more court appearances, but in the meantime, Arizona does provide for some penalities for non-compliance with a lawful subpoena. Penalties don't seem all that tough, but it may be painful enough to get somebody's attention over there. Perhaps some jail time may be in order, but nobody has the nerve to do that, it seems.

If Nancy Pelosi and her crew can jail some protesters in DC, then why can't the Arizona authorities do the same? After all, this obstruction of the business of the legislature isn't lawful, and it may be considered seditious.

Does Maricopa County want to secede from the Union? Do they believe that the laws of the Union do not apply to them? Do they want to set up their own Confederacy?

Abraham Lincoln once paraphrased the Gospels when he said that a House Divided Cannot Stand. It will become all free or all slave, he said. Well, it does appear that history is repeating. There are those who don't want to follow the laws of the Union. That makes them rebels. This was an official act. It wasn't an act of a private citizen. Think long and hard about that one.

How to go forward

Over at American Mind, there's a piece about the Long March through the institutions. The commies only have two left, and those are in trouble. Those two are the military and the police.

How do they do it? How does the left continue to succeed with their long march?

I didn't link to the article. Somebody on Free Republic opined that the same thing has been discussed since the beginning, which goes back more than 2 decades now. The discussion might well have begun long before that.

Somehow the GOP splits and the Democrats do not. Dems win with divide-and-conquer while they remain united. I think that's the way in a nutshell. Look at Congress. They have the barest of majorities, but the GOP cannot stop them because of Liz Cheney types. There will always be Liz Cheney types because the GOP doesn't screen them out. Somebody who crosses the line in the Democrat party doesn't last too long afterwards.

The GOP doesn't act like a party, and there is a faction that assures that it won't. Until that faction is marginalized permanently, there won't be any chance that the GOP can act as an opposition party. At best, it can only slow down the communist juggernaut.

Liz Cheney and Lisa Murkowski should be in big trouble. So how do they manage to remain in office? Somehow the rules are made so that the votes get split up into many factions, and these two deadbeats will get the most votes. It's a scam. If there is to be any change, these two need to go. The only way is to unite against them and vote them out. No splitting the opposition. If the GOP can't or won't do this, it is only because they don't want to. That leaves the rank and file.

Will the rank and file unite? It isn't looking too good at the moment.

Samizdata on the sidebar

Samizdata came to mind today. When it did, I did a search on it and it is still there. Thank Goodness.

The rampant commercialism is choking off the best in the Western World. Heck, it is choking off the best in the human race. Some may think of that as being a "socialist" attitude.

The trouble with people is when they don't know what they are talking about. I got into an online argument with a dude once, who subsequently called me a "Stalinist". Un-freaking-believeable that anybody as anti-communist as me could be confused with somebody like that. People might've thought me a fascist too. People might call me a lot of things, but it says more about themselves than it does about me.

Anyway, I forgot about this site that has a history going back to before I knew anything about blogs. That would be close to twenty years. Many blogs have gone away. I kinda wish that the old days were still here. Blogs were an alternative to the rampant commercialism in the media. As a play against blogs, Social Media came into existence. We now see what that has given us. Right back where we were before is what they gave us. Only it is far, far worse.

Just for the record, I have nothing against somebody making a buck. What I have something against is the use of money for something other than an honest living. Once it gets to the point to where it can destroy good things that are trying to come into existence, then it is at an evil point. To that end, some type of resistance is called for.

As the pic shows, the name came from an underground publication network in the former Soviet Union. We may need something like that in the good 'ol USA. It is getting that bad.

Can you say "jabberwocky jockys"?

Look up the definition of "jabberwocky". It is a real word. Add "jocky" to it, and you get the Covid creeps who want jab a needle into everyone.

They come up with the dumbest "reasons" known to man. Btw, can you say it three times real fast?

These jockey might have the itch. But don't scratch it. It might get infected.

Whatever you do, don't let 'em talk you into the jab. It might be hazardous to your health.

Peggy Noonan

Peggy Noonan, the speech-writer, has once again stepped into it as far as I'm concerned.

It seems like many that I once considered to be on "our" side really aren't. These include the likes of George Will, the Bushes, and this woman too. The list gets longer and longer.

Never-Trumpers like to compare Trump followers with the cult-like Jim Jones' followers that drank the Kool-Aid. I don't know if the comparison was made with Noonan's latest piece, and I haven't read it. But I gave up on Noonan awhile back. She was advocating the January 6th panel. That panel is ridiculous on its face.

With the respect to the Jim Jones comparsion, those people had no choice in drinking the Kool-Aid. It wasn't a free choice, and evidently, the "vaccine" isn't going to be either, if these people get their way.

The person that Stelter brought in to discuss Jim Jones' cult was one of those who got shot trying to find out something about it. Do they really believe that Trump is going to shoot people trying to flee his cult-like following? Australia is hunting down people and forcing to take an injection of this unproven "vaccine". Who's following authoritarian impulses here?

The reason I started following Trump was that I kept hearing things said like this, and these things were coming from those who I once trusted. I looked into their accusations, and I didn't see what they claimed to see. If I am wrong, then I can tell you this-- I don't drink anybody's Kool-Aid. I have never been the kind who would. Therefore, I think the charge is absolutely false, like so many other coming from the Never-Trumpers.

If giving your life for something you believe in is "drinking the Kool-Aid", then what do these people think of Christ? But Jesus Christ didn't point a gun at anybody in order to get them to follow him. This isn't necessary unless you are of the kind that Jim Jones is. A true Shepherd doesn't kill off his sheep, but commies do.

The charge that Trump followers are following a cult of personality doesn't square up with the facts that I have observed. But it does square up to the kinds of things that the Soviet Union would do in order to keep their people in a type of prison setting. At best, Never-Trumpers are enabling a communist takeover by being dupes. At worst, they are with them body and soul.

A prison setting can get very abusive. Those in charge of a prison can become sadistic. Often they DO become sadistic even if they don't start out that way. For Never-Trumpers, who is the one who sides with those who want to shut down everything and FORCE people into wearing masks? Did Trump do that? If not, then who DID?

Noonan article: Why we can't move on.

After a pause I located Noonan's piece. I didn't see a date. She is naive, or a gigantic liar.

End game for failed communism---Jim Jones like suicide pact

 

Huge crack in media narrative

Sarah Hoyt asked in a short essay on Instapundit (linked above) the following: "I wonder... if the left is trying to kill their own populations as their last chance at control."

Well, if that's the case, it wouldn't be the first time. First Cambodia, then Jim Jones, and now THIS.

Cambodian genocide ( Wikipedia )

Industrial sized Gaslighting

 

Man, this stuff keeps rolling in. I may have to do a blog-a-thon to keep up with it. Via Instapundit, I found another one of these stories that begs a response. There is one, but this one has got to mention a few things that people may not have considered.

Trump compared to Jim Jones of 'drinking-the-Kool-Aid" infamy.

I've mentioned before that I once commented in the lefty blog known as Mahablog. But I won't link to it here because the leftism is becoming very dangerous, and I just won't even go there anymore. But that's not the point. The point is that the author accused ME of "drinking the Kool-Aid". I link this up to this Brian Stelter gambit, and think it might be one of the leftist plays in their bag of trick plays. It's gaslighting. It's calling you crazy for opposing them. The Soviet Union did stuff like that. They gave people injections for their "insanity". These injections scrambled their brains. Soviet disidents were given non-invasive lobotomies. It was like a state-sponsored "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest".

As for following a cult, let's look at Kamala Harris, shall we? Did you know that her sponsor was Willie Brown, who was connected to the real Jim Jones cult? Did you KNOW THAT? Careful about throwing stones there, Stelter. Your side lives in a glass house.

One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest Ending ( lobotomy )



The Soviet Union was likened to living in a cage. Just saying something like that would get you in trouble. Informers were everywhere in the Soviet Union. Even the slightest criticism of the regime would get you in the Gulag, or a "lobotomy". Do we really want that in America?

Solidarity movement in Poland and our connections to it

Solidarity movement in Poland ( wikipedia link )

The article was actually a bit harder to find than what it should have been. That's rather curious because it was a really big deal at the time. It might have been 40 years ago, but that is within my lifetime, and I sure the heck remember it. It was all over the news, and now it takes extra effort to find it in a Google search. Why is that?

The Solidarity movement was given American support. Would it have succeeded otherwise? Guess who was President at that time? Actually, when Solidarity first began, it was while Jimmy Carter was still in the White House, but he was on the way out. The first non-Italian Pope was from Poland--no mere coincidence. Solidarity is given credit for ending Communism in Poland, and might well have been the linch-pin towards the end of Communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union itself. All of it was due to the commitment towards freedom in the West.

The Carter Administration said a Soviet military invasion was imminent. If not, there was strong indications of it. However, the Soviets did not invade that time. Martial law was imposed and an effort to ban the union was attempted, but this also failed. Within a decade, the Berlin Wall fell.

The parallels today are unmistakable. Even in the few remaining Communist held territories, like Cuba, there is a resistance to the kind of totalitarianism that is rising in the once "free-world". The parallels are with respect to the kind of coerciveness that was a hallmark of Soviet-style communism. Also with the respect to the monolithic nature of intolerance to any kind of dissent whatsoever. This is eerily like the coerciveness that the left loves so much with regards to Covid restrictions and mandates. Finally, there's the prevalance of conflict and instability. If nothing else, our society is under siege from the constant unreasonable demands of the left, and its implied threats of violence and unrest if unmet.

The freedoms which we once took for granted are under increasing shrill attack. The idea of freedom is also being attacked, by none other than Don Lemon of CNN. He sneered at the word, as if it were some out-of-date notion of a time-gone-by. If those who have seized power, as the Arizona county that refused a lawful subpoena backed up by the judiciary in that state, and succeeded at least for a time, then our days as a Free Republic are numbered.

If it does succeed, the Solidarity movement in Poland will be memory-holed, and so will our history, just as the statues have been toppled. We will step-by-step be subjugated in the same kind of oppressive dicatorship that marked the old Soviet Union and Red China to this very day.

Step-by-step usurpations need to be stopped, and rolled back. A fraudulent election cannot stand, as it is just one more step towards oppression. If oppression becomes the rule, then it is over forever. There won't be any America to help out the "Poles" this time. There won't be any America for Cubans to flee to. Nobody in their right mind comes to a communist oppressed country. They go the other way. But what if there is no other way?

Overwhelming evidence that so called vaccines don't work

Highly vaccinated Iceland and Gilbraltar get Covid anyway, and could be super-spreaders too.

It's in the news on many sites, so it isn't a "conspiracy theory". The "vaccine" doesn't work. If it did, there would be no need for masks that don't work either.

It's not about public health, which is what I have been saying almost all along. This insanity just goes on and on.

Update:

A look at the data doesn't show any reason for alarm.

But the countries mentioned do get it even though everybody got the injections.

Update:

Here is something you may not have heard elsewhere.

So-called cases are higher even though testing rate is lower. More evidence that the so-called vaccine doesn't work.

Why downplay the side-effects and hype the efficacy all the while whipping up a panic?

There was a clip on that link to a video about the vaccines. It was one in which the CNN guy named Don Lemon said that it was like the situation in which service could be denied in the same way that it is denied for not wearing shoes or a shirt. That is obviously WRONG.

The video may explain that, but it is always worth repeating, so I will do so in this post. The reason it needs repeating is that it may not sink in the first time. My own case is an example. I didn't snap to something right away, and I should have. Even though it may well have been mentioned, I didn't snap to it even then. I didn't snap to it even though I am opposed to this vaccine. That's why it BEARS REPEATING.

Why is Don Lemon wrong? There is no comparison between getting a shot that has KNOWN side effects and the simple requirements of wearing basic attire. Wearing basic attire does not cause you to get sick or even DIE. There is nothing involving a right to a objection on the basis of conscience or on the basis of SELF-PRESERVATION.

Don Lemon is trying to equate something that is entirely non-comparable, and on deeper reflection, is ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE.

It is very important that people do not let this go. That would be true even if you are for the so-called vaccine and believe that it works and it is safe. You cannot deny that ALL VACCINES can have side-effects, and that people should be allowed the choice to refuse on that basis.

Did I miss something?

It seems rather quiet around here. I'm not getting the usual amount of emails. It is as if something is slowing down or stopping.

There seem to be fewer posts on blogs I read. Something going on here?

There may be something about to pop. At least, my spidey sense seems to be off the charts at the moment. Maybe it is nothing, but maybe not. These days, you cannot tell.

Plenary yes-or-no

Merriam-Webster online defintion of "plenary"

The Constitution says that the various State Legislatures may direct the selection of electors. This has been described as a "plenary" power. What is this power? According the source above, it has two meanings 1) complete in every respect 2) fully attended or constituted by all entitled to be present.

Nowhere in the Constitution did I see anything about the executive branch of any state being empowered to deny any inquiry with respect to how the State Legislatures carry out this power. If the Legislatures have plenary power, then under what authority do these states refuse to cooperate with the Legislatures' requests for information? In Arizona, they are even defying the Legislature's subpoenas. It is not only the Legislature there, but also the Court being defied.

If the manner of the selection of the electors in a particular state do not satisfy that states' legislature, then how can it be said to have that power? Yet, if it doesn't have plenary power, then where in the Constitution does it say that it has to share power with any other branch in the government of that state? Not even the Courts have a say in it, it is directed by the legislatures of the States. The courts and executive are only granted their roles in elections; if they rebel, it is an usurpation of authority.

In other words, this is an ursurpation of power from the state legislatures to rebellious executive departments in the various states. It happened in Arizona, and now in Pennsylvania. Those departments have no legal leg to stand on. In fact, the state legislatures don't even have to go to the courts. If their power is to mean anything, then those who are defying it could be arrested and jailed.

This can only continue as long as the State Legislatures allow it to continue. It may be possible to frustrate their designs, but the State Legislatures can just override the State's bureaucracies, and award their electors to whomever they please.

This is actually a big crisis just ahead. If the Arizona and Pennsylvania legislatures decide to just swallow it all, and do nothing, it will be tantamount to a coup.

Show me where this conclusion is wrong, and show me where these recalcitrant bureaucracies have any authority to defy the Legislatures in those states.

If the state legislatures decided to decertify the elections, then what? Well, maybe nothing now, but if the legislatures aren't satisfied with the results, then they can decertify all such elections henceforth. If there is a controversy over that, it isn't according to any power that I can see delegated in the US Constitution. The State Legislatures have the power to decide. What powers the state electoral bureaucracies have came from the State Legislatures. They are like subordiates who overstep their authority. It is like a corporal assuming the role of a general.

If the Legislatures allow this, it is because they have ceded their authority. Or it has been taken away. Under what authority would that occur? None! The Legislatures cannot give it away, and nobody can take it away---at least not legally. Otherwise, it is not plenary power.

off-grid post 8-1-21

There isn't really enough to write here to make a post, because nothing much is happening.

Nothing much that is successful, that is. After the first batch of successfully germinating tomato seeds from a tomato, the next batch was a utter zilch-out. No doubt that I did something wrong, so it's off to the next attempt.

The difference was in using potting mix as opposed to using my custom-made soil. Therefore, guess what I'll be using this time? A second problem is that I experimented with a soil-watering technique that moved water okay, but not for germinating the seeds. The problem was with positioning it higher rather than lower. I used paper towels to wick the water to the egg carton where the seeds were. I also used the paper towels to wick the water to the plant that was growing. That one was lower. It got all the water, I suspect. The seeds may have been too dry.

This next attempt will incorporate a self-wicking concept going up, but also going down. One way or another, the water will get there. Also, I made a container that has enriched soil, in addition to mere potting mix, and added some epsom salt for ph balance. Once this thing gets germinated, it should get off to a good start. In addition, I will add miracle grow.

Today is August 1, so the time is moving right along. I've got a little more time left to get something started. Maybe by the end of the growing season, I will have some real success.

That's all for now.