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I think that the protesters in Minneapolis should burn the damn city down. Its been 50 years since 1968 and lots of promises were made. Remember. Its the ballot or the bullet.
The government failed us.
Time to change the government.
Thursday, May 28, 2020
Purge of Trump Collaborators
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I am starting to read articles about how to treat the civil servants who cooperated with Trump and his criminal agenda when/if Biden comes to power. One article in particular pleaded for a smarmy forgiveness of those who betrayed their country and committed crimes, as clearly anyone who cooperated with Trump did. They must be investigated and a certain number of the worst offenders prosecuted. The rest of them should just be demoted or fired. Cooperating with Trump is like cooperating with Hitler, and war criminals should not be allowed in our government.
I am starting to read articles about how to treat the civil servants who cooperated with Trump and his criminal agenda when/if Biden comes to power. One article in particular pleaded for a smarmy forgiveness of those who betrayed their country and committed crimes, as clearly anyone who cooperated with Trump did. They must be investigated and a certain number of the worst offenders prosecuted. The rest of them should just be demoted or fired. Cooperating with Trump is like cooperating with Hitler, and war criminals should not be allowed in our government.
The New Interface to Blogger: Why?
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The new interface seems to add nothing new. It just hides some functions and changes things around. There is no point to it. I plan to use the legacy blogger interface as long as they will let me.
The new interface seems to add nothing new. It just hides some functions and changes things around. There is no point to it. I plan to use the legacy blogger interface as long as they will let me.
Sunday, May 24, 2020
Raising My Estimate of the Deaths from COVID-19
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I am raising my highly scientific estimate of American deaths from the coronavirus up from 200K to 288K. The world class logic (dry sarcasm, sorry) that I use for this estimate is as follows.
The WaPo death count for Americans as of this morning is 96,000. But we know the number is low because not all deaths from COVID-19 are officially marked as such for a number of different reasons, some benign, some less so. The estimates for an adjustment factor range from 1.25 to 2.0 although I have seen higher. Lets take a relatively conservative 1.5. That means that we are currently at 144,000 deaths. It seems likely to me, even optimistic, that we can expect an equal number of deaths going forward as we try to manage this thing although of course the future is uncertain. On the one hand we are getting better at testing, and know a lot more about how to treat the disease (although still not doing so great there, we are certainly getting better). On the other hand, it is likely that social distancing really did help (with regional variation) but different areas are opening up now and it would be a miracle if this did not cause local hot spots. A couple of good church meetings and political rallies can infect hundreds of people who will then spread the virus at the very least to their immediate family. The rallies in Michigan of the guys with guns and calling for people to resist the Mark of the Beast came from all over the country, I read, and we know some of them were infected. A vaccine in the next 12 months would be amazing, and I think has a low probability of happening, although it is certainly possible if we get lucky.
So it seems fair to me that if we had some N deaths getting to this point, and since we are nowhere near done, and at best we are at some sort of peak, then it is likely that we would have at least that many taking the curve down assuming that the curve is symmetric, which it may not be. Thus 2 * 144,000 = 288,000. At least.
I have been pretty good at predicting this so far, through my flakey back of the envelope estimates but hopefully I am wrong this time and it will just go away as the Great Leader who Knows All Things predicted.
I am raising my highly scientific estimate of American deaths from the coronavirus up from 200K to 288K. The world class logic (dry sarcasm, sorry) that I use for this estimate is as follows.
The WaPo death count for Americans as of this morning is 96,000. But we know the number is low because not all deaths from COVID-19 are officially marked as such for a number of different reasons, some benign, some less so. The estimates for an adjustment factor range from 1.25 to 2.0 although I have seen higher. Lets take a relatively conservative 1.5. That means that we are currently at 144,000 deaths. It seems likely to me, even optimistic, that we can expect an equal number of deaths going forward as we try to manage this thing although of course the future is uncertain. On the one hand we are getting better at testing, and know a lot more about how to treat the disease (although still not doing so great there, we are certainly getting better). On the other hand, it is likely that social distancing really did help (with regional variation) but different areas are opening up now and it would be a miracle if this did not cause local hot spots. A couple of good church meetings and political rallies can infect hundreds of people who will then spread the virus at the very least to their immediate family. The rallies in Michigan of the guys with guns and calling for people to resist the Mark of the Beast came from all over the country, I read, and we know some of them were infected. A vaccine in the next 12 months would be amazing, and I think has a low probability of happening, although it is certainly possible if we get lucky.
So it seems fair to me that if we had some N deaths getting to this point, and since we are nowhere near done, and at best we are at some sort of peak, then it is likely that we would have at least that many taking the curve down assuming that the curve is symmetric, which it may not be. Thus 2 * 144,000 = 288,000. At least.
I have been pretty good at predicting this so far, through my flakey back of the envelope estimates but hopefully I am wrong this time and it will just go away as the Great Leader who Knows All Things predicted.
Corrupt Supreme Court and Separation of Power
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My friend, the Harvard trained attorney, tried to convince me that the Supreme Court denied the Democratic subpoena for the Mueller report because of "separation of powers". He didnt convince me of that, but he did convince me that the system was corrupt.
I said: "If, as you say, the subpoena is denied because of separation of powers, then the Democrats were stupid to expect anything from an independent investigation. The president could just order his corrupt attorney general to suppress whatever was discovered. So either the Supreme Court is suppressing the evidence (it is) or the Democrats and the American people were stupid to trust the process (they were) but in any case the legitimacy of the American system is diminished. "
There are many problems here but the one that amazes me the most is not the actions of the corrupt right wing nuts in Washington. I think I understand them just fine. What I find most unbelievable is the large number of people who are willing to accept any amount of corruption and treason as long as they dont have to face the fact that their system failed.
But it did fail. It obviously failed many times. Wake up.
My friend, the Harvard trained attorney, tried to convince me that the Supreme Court denied the Democratic subpoena for the Mueller report because of "separation of powers". He didnt convince me of that, but he did convince me that the system was corrupt.
I said: "If, as you say, the subpoena is denied because of separation of powers, then the Democrats were stupid to expect anything from an independent investigation. The president could just order his corrupt attorney general to suppress whatever was discovered. So either the Supreme Court is suppressing the evidence (it is) or the Democrats and the American people were stupid to trust the process (they were) but in any case the legitimacy of the American system is diminished. "
There are many problems here but the one that amazes me the most is not the actions of the corrupt right wing nuts in Washington. I think I understand them just fine. What I find most unbelievable is the large number of people who are willing to accept any amount of corruption and treason as long as they dont have to face the fact that their system failed.
But it did fail. It obviously failed many times. Wake up.
Tuesday, May 19, 2020
How Do You Spell Stoodge?
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What fun it is to see the destruction of the American Republic in real time! A maniac injecting himself with fantasy drugs while Americans die right and left and the inspector generals are fired and Republicans with blood on their hands violate their oath of office in a way that would make a Roman senator turn away in shame. The tax returns are still not released, I guess the right wing supreme court is waiting as long as it can to protect their stoodge in the white house. I went to UCLA and we know all about running out the clock. Golly, they sure moved quickly enough when they blocked Al Gore's presidency and installed their boy! And of course I know, somehow I just know, that McConnell's right wing racist judges will enforce the law and not allow voter suppression, of course, of course. The oath! They will do their sworn duty like all true Republicans, like Rep Nunes and AG Barr if you know what I mean, wink wink. Hey too bad about Mueller, I guess he wasnt compromised enough and constrained by regulations for the True Americans in the White House. Let those Russians go, after all, we all know who guaranteed those loans at Deutsche Bank, now dont we? You DO know who guarnteed those loans this administration is being SO transparent about, right? They have old Trump-y, the quinine king, right where they want him. And lets not worry about arguing that "impeachment" is actually a process that will protect Americans! Never in the history of the American Republic, so-called, has there been a clearer case for removing a miscreant from the White House than the case that the Democrats prepared. It makes me wonder what this world is coming to. Surely, surely, surely someone must worry that all those decades about lying to the third world about how great our system is might affect our credibility. Oh yes, and now the Republicans are saying we must cut even the stupidly inadequate social services this country has because deficit! Oh yes, the deficit-y.
It amazes me that the Republicans would commit treason to keep power but they have. The system failed. It has failed every day of the last 3.5 years and a good case can be made that it failed in November 2000 and this is just the 800 lb chickens coming home to roost.
Implement the voting rights act. Put Merrick Garland on the Supreme Court. Tell McConnell, Nunes, Barr, Kavanaugh, Trump and Pence to go home and stay there until we decide what to do with them and for them not to travel without notifying the FBI.
What fun it is to see the destruction of the American Republic in real time! A maniac injecting himself with fantasy drugs while Americans die right and left and the inspector generals are fired and Republicans with blood on their hands violate their oath of office in a way that would make a Roman senator turn away in shame. The tax returns are still not released, I guess the right wing supreme court is waiting as long as it can to protect their stoodge in the white house. I went to UCLA and we know all about running out the clock. Golly, they sure moved quickly enough when they blocked Al Gore's presidency and installed their boy! And of course I know, somehow I just know, that McConnell's right wing racist judges will enforce the law and not allow voter suppression, of course, of course. The oath! They will do their sworn duty like all true Republicans, like Rep Nunes and AG Barr if you know what I mean, wink wink. Hey too bad about Mueller, I guess he wasnt compromised enough and constrained by regulations for the True Americans in the White House. Let those Russians go, after all, we all know who guaranteed those loans at Deutsche Bank, now dont we? You DO know who guarnteed those loans this administration is being SO transparent about, right? They have old Trump-y, the quinine king, right where they want him. And lets not worry about arguing that "impeachment" is actually a process that will protect Americans! Never in the history of the American Republic, so-called, has there been a clearer case for removing a miscreant from the White House than the case that the Democrats prepared. It makes me wonder what this world is coming to. Surely, surely, surely someone must worry that all those decades about lying to the third world about how great our system is might affect our credibility. Oh yes, and now the Republicans are saying we must cut even the stupidly inadequate social services this country has because deficit! Oh yes, the deficit-y.
It amazes me that the Republicans would commit treason to keep power but they have. The system failed. It has failed every day of the last 3.5 years and a good case can be made that it failed in November 2000 and this is just the 800 lb chickens coming home to roost.
Implement the voting rights act. Put Merrick Garland on the Supreme Court. Tell McConnell, Nunes, Barr, Kavanaugh, Trump and Pence to go home and stay there until we decide what to do with them and for them not to travel without notifying the FBI.
Friday, May 15, 2020
Picture of my Patron
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This is a picture of my patron, who is on Facebook, but must remain nameless. It has been nearly two years since she picked me up out of the gutter and placed me here at the Monastery in Santa Barbara to study the Esoteric Knowledge.
No one knows where this is going, not really.
This is a picture of my patron, who is on Facebook, but must remain nameless. It has been nearly two years since she picked me up out of the gutter and placed me here at the Monastery in Santa Barbara to study the Esoteric Knowledge.
No one knows where this is going, not really.
An Experiment
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So to my friends who think that everything is just peachy keen and there is nothing to worry about, I have the following suggested experiment. Go to one of these "stay open" protests, one with idiots with assault rifles and nooses, and stand in front and loudly say that you hate Donald Trump, that you think that he should be in jail, and that you are a Jew.
See what happens.
So to my friends who think that everything is just peachy keen and there is nothing to worry about, I have the following suggested experiment. Go to one of these "stay open" protests, one with idiots with assault rifles and nooses, and stand in front and loudly say that you hate Donald Trump, that you think that he should be in jail, and that you are a Jew.
See what happens.
Thursday, May 14, 2020
This is All You Have to Do to Fix Things
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1. Trump in jail, 2. Barr, McConnell, Nunes, Pruitt, etc in jail. 3. Remove the Electoral College, 4. Remove the right wing judges put in power by McConnell/Trump, 5. Make it impossible for the Supreme Court to throw an election like in 2000, 6. Remove Trump's executive orders, 7. Put the traitors in jail. 8. Reverse Citizens United. 9. Enforce the Voting Rights Act. 10. Put the Wall Street criminals from 2008 in jail.
1. Trump in jail, 2. Barr, McConnell, Nunes, Pruitt, etc in jail. 3. Remove the Electoral College, 4. Remove the right wing judges put in power by McConnell/Trump, 5. Make it impossible for the Supreme Court to throw an election like in 2000, 6. Remove Trump's executive orders, 7. Put the traitors in jail. 8. Reverse Citizens United. 9. Enforce the Voting Rights Act. 10. Put the Wall Street criminals from 2008 in jail.
Wednesday, May 13, 2020
Prepare to Go to the Mattresses
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Surely it is just prudence to build a fortress. Secret passages to the subway and the park. Back ways out. Overlapping fields of fire. Antitank and surface to air missiles. Internal passages. Traps for the unwary. Better to be safe than sorry. Offsite weapon caches. Maybe a backup in the country. Dormitories with kitchens, food to last 6 months or a year. Communications facilities. Backups of everything. Water, power, etc. It doesnt have to be that expensive if you dont wait to the last minute. Secrecy is important, only you should know where everything is.
History tells us that this is a good idea.
I have read a lot and it is always useful to have a place like this.
Surely it is just prudence to build a fortress. Secret passages to the subway and the park. Back ways out. Overlapping fields of fire. Antitank and surface to air missiles. Internal passages. Traps for the unwary. Better to be safe than sorry. Offsite weapon caches. Maybe a backup in the country. Dormitories with kitchens, food to last 6 months or a year. Communications facilities. Backups of everything. Water, power, etc. It doesnt have to be that expensive if you dont wait to the last minute. Secrecy is important, only you should know where everything is.
History tells us that this is a good idea.
I have read a lot and it is always useful to have a place like this.
Friday, May 1, 2020
What The World Needs Now
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What we need now is something to drag us down from the precipice and into the gutter where we belong. Another plague, a real economic collapse, a global war or two, and a new aggressive religion ought to do it.
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