Handicapping "Russia-Gate"

Back in the late eighties, the idea occurred to me to try my hand at picking NFL games versus the spread.  I wrote some software, which utilized statistics in the hopes of being able to successfully pick the winners.  This really did not work the way that I wanted, but there was this one guy who seemed impressed with it.  There was a thought towards publishing it, but I decided not to.  It wasn't good enough, I thought.

Silly me.  Since when being honest was a good way to make money!  I could have marketed it as better than what it really was and never give a sucker an even break.  Maybe I could have made a fortune off that scam.

I have come to see the world as a mostly immoral or amoral place.  People are moral creatures, but mostly their morality is self-centered.  "What's fair" is usually relegated to the subjective mode, and becomes more like "what's in it for me".

Let me now segue into this current event, aka Russia-gate.  Supposedly, there is a scandal.  Supposedly, everyone gives a hoot about clean and honest government.  Supposedly, we want to bring justice to the crime, since there must have been one somewhere.  "Where there's smoke, there's fire" has already been uttered with respect to the immunity request sought by Flynn.  But a skeptical mind might look at it differently.   But this has nothing to do with the truth, or does it?

If it is politics, you can bet that truth isn't being sought.

There have been many times in which I mentioned the parable of the wolf v the lamb, and who wins that argument.  So, to handicap this thing, you have to know where the real power lies.  Does it lie with the media, which is the loudest and the noisiest, or elsewhere?

Noise does not equal power.  But it may be mistaken as such.  Hence, all the noise that the Dems are making about Trump and Russia may not be the deciding factor.  Or it might.  Just depends on how it is being perceived.

The late Herb Cohen said something about power.  By the way, Herb Cohen wrote the book You Can Negotiate Anything.  What Cohen said about power is that you have as much of it as you think you have.  Even if you have it, and don't believe you have it, then you don't have it.  On the other hand, if you don't have it, but believe you do, then you have it.  Completely subjective, I would say.  It has nothing to do with the objective reality of the situation.

The Democrats do not have a leg to stand on, if facts and truth mattered any.  Everything they are doing is pure bluff.  If Obama had anything on Trump, he would have used it.  So, he has nothing.  All the Dems can do is pretend that they have a story, which should be obvious that they don't.

The GOP has all the power wrapped up in their hands.  But if they get bluffed out of a winning hand, it is only because they let themselves be intimidated by the left wing noise machine.  They will have been like Cohen said: one who had power and believed as if he didn't, so he didn't.  The Dems will have the power because they believe they do even though they don't.

It really comes down to what the GOP is made of.  If they are made of chalk, they will fall apart.  If they have any backbone, they will be able to dispose of the Dems with the greatest of ease.

Unfortunately, I am not the amazing Kreskin, with the ESP to determine what is in the minds of these guys,  Their track record doesn't look promising though.

If I was a betting man, I couldn't handicap this one.  But I would like to favor the GOP because they have the better hand, in my estimation.

TeeVee show

Something I haven't seen before.  It is about this dude who goes around the country looking for great places to eat.

It is not necessarily high class restaurants.  It is for anybody, I suppose.   No need to dress up.

There are so many dishes that I cannot recall any of them.  Plus I forget really fast these days.

The show is on the food network. The show is called Diners, Drive ins and Dives.

Very unique dishes.  Stuff I haven't seen nor heard of.

The host actually goes the kitchen and watches them cook up these dishes.  Goes by way too fast to try any of these ideas yourself.  At any rate, I won't.

Not only that, he jumps all over the place.  Is this info really useful for anything? 

Critical sucker ain't I?

Okay, like Spock would say: "fascinating".

Can you sell ice to an Eskimo?

These people believe they can.  If you believe everything you read on the internet and see on the news, you could be made to believe anything.

Or you can take a deep breath and relax.  Not that you shouldn't care, or give up the fight.  To the contrary, you can fight even harder.

These people point at polls, but who conducts the polls, and who asks the questions?  If the main point of the poll is to influence people, then you can tell what is being done is being done toward that purpose--- to influence you.  So, you see a poll, then you might get discouraged and give up.  That would be a mistake.

All the polls said that Trump would lose.  That didn't happen.

But I wouldn't want to discount polls completely.  However, polls aren't everything they're cracked up to be.

You hear a lot about truth these days.  Who is telling it, and how do you know?  A lot of people don't seem to even ask that question.

The media didn't tell the truth about Obama, and still isn't.  Obama did indeed surveil this president.  His administration did indeed try to undermine and subvert it before it took office.  To believe otherwise would be to swallow this fraud being perpetrated today.  Nothing happened in that administration without Obama's approval.  There is a long litany of misdeeds that went undisclosed and unreported.  Now we are to believe these people?  Count me out.

If these liars pull this one off, you will never hear the truth again.  For they may be all about truth now, but if they stay in power, you can bet that truth will not be on their list of priorities. 

And that is the truth about these people.  You can put that one in the bank.

Have these people never heard of Gramsci?

Or, the Long March through the institutions?  In reading Instapundit, I get the sense that these people that post there don't get the idea that there is an attempt to deliberately undermine constitutional governance in America.

So, when they say the liberals are worried that people aren't interested in the truth, they are missing an important point.  The point is that left isn't interested in the truth.  There is no liberal version of the truth.  The left is at war with the culture and have been all along.  When at war, truth is the first casualty.

This business about Trump isn't about truth.  There's no truth being hidden, except probably that the previous administration is attempting a coup.  This explains all the spying and attempting to undermine the new administration.  The media isn't interested in this for a reason.

The left occupies the high ground of the culture.  They control the media, who in turn, controls the narratives that the people hear and see.  In addition, the media controls the educational establishment as well.  "Skulls full of mush" remain so.  That is the idea.  This is pure Gramscianism in action.

Too bad the anti-dote cannot be applied when those who could apply it are under the same spell.

"Ye shall know the truth and it shall set you free."  It is in the Gospel of John.  Read it and understand.

If the left were interested in the truth, they would be vitally interested in what Obama did.  But they aren't.


Update:  It is working, too.  Thanks to the relentless negative reporting, Trump is losing ground in the polls.  Even IBD is showing negative trends.  Is all lost, then?

I don't know, but I do know that Perez went too far.  If Trump is screwing up, it is in a failure to adequately defend himself against what is trying to bring him down.  But that may prove to be impossible.

Plain and simple sedition

DNC chair claims Trump not elected.

Let's see if we can parse this.  Either we have the rule of law or not.  If so, there are fifty states and the District of Columbia.  Each certifies its election results and submits them to Congress.  The electoral votes are counted, according to law, and the result is finally certified.  This procedure yielded Donald Trump, who was sworn in as the nation's president.  All legal and upfront well established for over two hundred years.

The Democrats want to overturn the election, evidently.  There is no precedent for this in American history.  Even when the Southern states seceded, they did not dispute that Lincoln won.

But the South did secede and Lincoln had the authority to restore the union by force, which he did.

You'd think these guys would know better than to continue down the path they are going.  If they continue, there will be civil discord on a magnitude not seen in many years.  Perhaps not seen since the sixties.  There may well be bloodshed.  It may take that to restore order.

You don't know which way it will all go, but I would bet that people would not support what Perez and the rest of the Dems are trying to pull off.

Either they are bluffing, or they are not.  I say call their bluff, and let the chips fall where they may.

Either we have the rule of law, or the rule of the mob.  You will have to choose.

Update:

People might be comforted by the RNC chair response, but I consider it to be weak.  Time to read them the riot act.

Trump and the Desire to Be Loved - by Robert Ringer

Trump and the Desire to Be Loved - by Robert Ringer: I still don’t know whether Donald Trump’s presidency is going to crash and burn or if he’s going to go down as one of the greatest presidents in history. With a mouth like his, coupled with a remarkable lack of self-control and an incomparable talent for making people angry, anything is possible. If I were …



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Limbaugh has said pretty much the same thing.



I say that Trump is trying to do what is right.  Unfortunately, that may not be possible under the present state of affairs.  Something has to change.

E equals m c squared is what?!?

You've got to get a load of this.  This billy sitch compares the famous equation to some sort of male sexual insecurity.

You gotta be shi**ing me.

The complete video is below:


The author of this video was trying to help the cause of thorium reactors, but the title looks like it is the opposite.  What he is doing is presenting the opposition arguments against thorium.  If all they got is arguments like this numbskull woman, then they have no argument at all.  Actually, all the arguments presented here are basically dishonest.