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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.
Sunday, May 24, 2020
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.
Thursday, April 30, 2020
Will the USA Drag Down the Western Alliance?
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The USA has proven beyond doubt that it is an unreliable ally, capable at any time of devolving into a racist and self-destruction quasi nationalism, a nationalism as conceived by the most literal and ignorant of people. And as its economy craters due to the hard work of the bipartisan globalist morons, most Americans will find themselves on the short end of the stick. Impoverished and unemployed or working at stupid menial jobs while the elite jetsets around the world. I doubt that Americans will enjoy living in this world they so diligently created. As their self-impoverishment becomes more apparent, I think they will be shocked. And that they will lash out, I predict, with some truly insane late-imperial militarism.
And yes, any country that is affiliated or allied with us will no doubt be drawn into stupid military adventures, expensive as well as ill-conceived, demonstrating the most crass and shallow understanding of the situation even as it uses some clever but expensive new munition.
Historians will write for centuries about the stupiity of the USA and perhaps also of the west, of their (or at least the USA's) self destructive behavior but they wont have any answers. It is not much more complicated than it appears. People are not pretending to be shallow. They are shallow. The USA self-destructed out of greed and dumbness.
But we may not have to worry about the judgment of history as everyone may be dead due to global climate change. Go methyl hydrate! Go polar ice caps! Yay!
The USA has proven beyond doubt that it is an unreliable ally, capable at any time of devolving into a racist and self-destruction quasi nationalism, a nationalism as conceived by the most literal and ignorant of people. And as its economy craters due to the hard work of the bipartisan globalist morons, most Americans will find themselves on the short end of the stick. Impoverished and unemployed or working at stupid menial jobs while the elite jetsets around the world. I doubt that Americans will enjoy living in this world they so diligently created. As their self-impoverishment becomes more apparent, I think they will be shocked. And that they will lash out, I predict, with some truly insane late-imperial militarism.
And yes, any country that is affiliated or allied with us will no doubt be drawn into stupid military adventures, expensive as well as ill-conceived, demonstrating the most crass and shallow understanding of the situation even as it uses some clever but expensive new munition.
Historians will write for centuries about the stupiity of the USA and perhaps also of the west, of their (or at least the USA's) self destructive behavior but they wont have any answers. It is not much more complicated than it appears. People are not pretending to be shallow. They are shallow. The USA self-destructed out of greed and dumbness.
But we may not have to worry about the judgment of history as everyone may be dead due to global climate change. Go methyl hydrate! Go polar ice caps! Yay!
Thursday, April 23, 2020
Pride and the Endless Pit!
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It is pride, false pride, that lead the righteous to their inevitable doom, destined by the Gods to rot for all eternity for their failure of character. No amount of experience can prevent those who are predestined for eternal torment will prevent them from making that fateful mistake on that fateful day. And so it is with me, two days before a self-generated intermediate deadline, I say "Now is a good time to use a modern HTML / CSS layout technology, I had read about how CSS Grid works and it looked straightforward. And with that single decision, all forward progress halts, and his soul is thrown into the endless pit! If anyone out there happens to have used this technology and can answer some simple questions, please let me know.
It is pride, false pride, that lead the righteous to their inevitable doom, destined by the Gods to rot for all eternity for their failure of character. No amount of experience can prevent those who are predestined for eternal torment will prevent them from making that fateful mistake on that fateful day. And so it is with me, two days before a self-generated intermediate deadline, I say "Now is a good time to use a modern HTML / CSS layout technology, I had read about how CSS Grid works and it looked straightforward. And with that single decision, all forward progress halts, and his soul is thrown into the endless pit! If anyone out there happens to have used this technology and can answer some simple questions, please let me know.
[ So I nearly have this fixed. It turns out that there are too many ways to do everything and anything in CSS and I pity those who must implement this in a browser. So, I am taking the time to learn CSS more or less from first principles. I have the problem about half solved and I am sure I can get where I want to go. ]
Wednesday, April 22, 2020
Authentic Southern Vegetarian Sweet Potato Pie
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This recipe is completely authentic except that it isnt.
1. We use the Trader Joe's frozen to-be-baked crust and a glass pyrex pie baking dish. 2. Bake about 2.5 - 3 lbs of sweet potatoes at about 450 F for over an hour or until the sweet potatoes are squeezable. Use a baking dish. Insert a knife or fork into each sweet potato so it doesnt explode. 3. In a dish combine the (cooled) sweet potatoes with 1 cup sugar, vanilla, some corn starch, the peel of one orange, the juice of 1.5 - 2 oranges, salt, nutmeg and cinnamon. Mix well. Add cornstarch until you get the consistancy you are willing to live with for the rest of your life. Is it sweet enough? Too sweet? 4. Cook bottom of pie crust in oven for 10-12 minues at about 400 F. 5. Let pie crust cool a little bit and then add filling. 6. Make the executive decision about whether you want a crust top to your pie and add it if so. 7. Bake for about 30 minutes but do not let the crust burn. 8. Be careful not to burn the sh*t out of yourself.
This recipe is completely authentic except that it isnt.
1. We use the Trader Joe's frozen to-be-baked crust and a glass pyrex pie baking dish. 2. Bake about 2.5 - 3 lbs of sweet potatoes at about 450 F for over an hour or until the sweet potatoes are squeezable. Use a baking dish. Insert a knife or fork into each sweet potato so it doesnt explode. 3. In a dish combine the (cooled) sweet potatoes with 1 cup sugar, vanilla, some corn starch, the peel of one orange, the juice of 1.5 - 2 oranges, salt, nutmeg and cinnamon. Mix well. Add cornstarch until you get the consistancy you are willing to live with for the rest of your life. Is it sweet enough? Too sweet? 4. Cook bottom of pie crust in oven for 10-12 minues at about 400 F. 5. Let pie crust cool a little bit and then add filling. 6. Make the executive decision about whether you want a crust top to your pie and add it if so. 7. Bake for about 30 minutes but do not let the crust burn. 8. Be careful not to burn the sh*t out of yourself.
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