ChrisW

22 December, 2020

Yes there were times, I'm sure you know, when I bit off more than I could spew

Prosecutors Decline to Charge Black Lives Matter Militant Who Ran Over Proud Boy in Washington
December 22, 2020

Joe Biden’s Niece Avoids Jail Time For DUI After Striking Deal with District Attorney
December 21, 2020

Cornell Student Government Fails To Disarm Police, So They Expel Opposition Members And Vote Again
December 22, 2020

Hypocrite Joe Biden Gets Vaccinated After Suggesting for Months It Might Not Be Safe
December 22, 2020

□ [“Dr. Birx to Retire After Transition; Blames Media Dragging Family After Outed for Out of State Holiday Get Together"]

Why didn't she just say that people whose daughters hadn't left the house in ten months would be allowed to go to Thanksgiving Dinner? Why didn't she just say that people whose parents had been isolated for ten months would get to go to Thanksgiving Dinner? Why didn't she just say that people who hadn't seen their son in over a year would get to go to Thanksgiving Dinner? That would have solved everything other than the problem of following rules she made up for everyone else to obey. Elites don't have to do that.

□ [“Congress releases 5,593-page COVID-19 stimulus bill hours before holding votes"]

Every US citizen would get a $600 check. Yes, there's mass transit and money given to other nations and the Kennedy Center - blanking on the name, the art museum that asked for money months ago when everybody else was shutting down - punishment for online streaming against copyright ownership, releasing felons after five years of their first imprisonment, ten years for later ones. It's all about a virus, doncha know?

Even AOC was complaining about it, having to vote with no chance to read it. I will assume she voted for it jus' because but who knows?

Having a master plan that would prove the election theft would be a nice Christmas present but given how long it's already been, there's nothing to expect there. I'm even starting to think Whitney Houston isn't coming back since she stopped taking drugs.

This is an article I haven't gotten to yet so I'm basically pasting as a note-to-self:

□ [“History Repeats Itself: Democrats Are Using Tactics of the Marxists of 1917 in Russia to Steal 2020 Election"]

And now the end is near
And so I drink Rococo Coffee
Because I don't have beer, I guess I'm really just a softy
I've lived a life that's full
But now my life is oh-so empty
So now, with all of this
I blame it on Two-thousand twenty

21 December, 2020

I guess tonight is another day where I ain't got nothin' to say. Hey, that rhymes...

20 December, 2020

Living it up at the Monopoly Hotel

□ [“Chinese Spy Rep. Swalwell Was Sleeping With Is Pictured with Chinese Agent Who Spied on Sen. Feinstein for 20 Years"]

I haven't been paying close attention to this but I thought it was pretty obvious what China was doing, they've been close to Democrat leaders for decades. I assume they've been close to as many Republican leaders as possible too, but that info hasn't come out.

□ [“'Existential Crisis' – Biden Says We Need to Address Climate Change with a ‘Unified National Response’ Just Like We did with Covid-19"]

Confine people to their homes and let the elites use their private planes? I don't think we've been unified at all, it's only Democrats running things that has done any of this and they had to bring it in from China. Coincidence?

□ [“Struggling New York City Restaurant Owners Ban Andrew Cuomo from Establishments"]

I have been pondering if this has all been set-up to have the left show itself which it's totally done for months now. I'm starting to wonder if "capitalism" is the wrong word, even as a subset of "individuality." It's probably based on the concept of "capital," i.e. "money" as it was known in the 16/1700s, but I'm probably too ignorant about that to really get much further.

But we see here that business owners can make their own decisions as well as work together. I assume there will be places Cuomo can continue eating, if nothing else he has men with guns to impose his demand for chop suey.

Capitalism is individuals making their own decisions. That's the opposite of what leftists want, they want to be in charge of everybody else and, magically, their decisions are all for "the good" because of it.

□ [“A California Plan to Chase Away the Rich, Then Keep Stalking Them"]

A "wealth tax" that lasts for a decade on anyone who's spent 60 days in the state. You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.

□ [“Public Schools Are Losing Their Captive Audience of Children"]

They're all about taking people permanently, no individual can dissent and have been doing it for decades. But by an amazing coincidence, the people demanding economic equality and teaching children the same thing never ever under any circumstances refuse to get a paycheck, even if they aren't actually doing any work and even if other people who aren't working don't get paid. Equality doesn't go that far for such individuals, they get paid. Sure, it might drive their students away but that's what the men with guns are for.

□ [“Congress Got Paid Their Full Salary of $130K for 9 Months While they Argued About Giving Every American $600 After They Killed Their Businesses"]

SOMETHING’S BREWING! Dan Scavino Posts Series of Tweets After Raucous Oval Office Meeting – Trump Is Ready to Take Action
December 19, 2020

‘The Stand’ being attacked for casting a NON-DEAF actor in a deaf role is proof ‘acting’ is a concept the PC world can’t grasp
December 20, 2020

19 December, 2020

Do illegal immigrants have to wear masks when they enter the US?

Maybe I'm amazed at the way he's still there

□ [“Paul McCartney - "Find My Way"]

So Paul has a new album out, his fourth new album since Axl Rose released Chinese Democracy. Of course that's a bit exaggerated, Paul has also released an album of classical music in 2011, live albums in 2009 and 2019, a greatest hits album in 2016, boxed sets of over a dozen of his previous albums, three promotional albums that I don't quite get why they aren't just called "live albums" but whatever, three singles that with other bands that aren't on his albums, nine performances on soundtracks or similar productions, ten other appearances on other people's live or studio albums, collections of videos...

Oh, and one day after Chinese Democracy was released, Paul released the third album by the Fireman, a two-man group he was in with producer Youth who had spent a year or two working on Chinese Democracy himself. Paul also has a wife, an ex-wife and Linda, the wife he's known for who's been dead almost as long as they were married. He has five kids and at least eight grandkids that can easily be found on Wikipedia. There's running the biggest privately-owned music publisher in the world which is composed of 25 smaller publishers while working with movies and his daughter runs the picture department, there's maintaining his part of whatever the Beatles franchise is these days, there's his hobbies like painting...

And he self-recorded an album over the last several months. Wikipedia says that one track has another guitarist and drummer and another track was written in 1992 but never got used.

The guy was legendary before G'n'R ever formed. Matt Sorum was born in 1960, Axl and Izzy in early 1962, Dizzy in 1963, Duff in 1964, Slash and Steven Adler in 1965, two of the three current members in 1966 and the third in 1990. Axl and Slash were legendary before she was born and at least Slash has been productive but even he would probably admit he's nothing compared to Paul.

Paul even made a music video for this song which is more than G'n'R ever did for Chinese Democracy despite promising to do so. The music video is quite clever, just filming Paul on various instruments in a nice arrangement of images. Nothing special but a lot of work done to promote the songs and it looks very good.

The song itself goes the same. Paul's singing has gone down quite a bit from how we knew it but he still knows how to sell it. It's a lot of fun and packed full of different parts that move smoothly from one to the next. There's noticeable verses and choruses moving back and forth from, then there's a noticeable change for the bridge and Paul builds on himself to climax the song.

I was a little disappointed to hear it just stop with the guitar/bass ending. I'm getting annoyed by songs that do that, then I checked and the video had only lasted for 2:50 and I was amazed, that was a ton of SONG going on and it was that quick? Is that even legal these days? Then the drums start up again, the bass rolls and Paul-as-a-band just jams for the next minute. Wow! The jam just ends quickly too but at this point, I don't mind in the slightest.

This is how music should be, ideas and variety that require playing instruments together. It takes talent it takes ability. Paul could just grow old and die - well, he's doing that anyway - but he's building on gotten him this far and it works out pretty well. He definitely found his way.

18 December, 2020

A few more notes: I think I'll try an E-sharp that racists have always kept silent.

□ [“House Democrat Colleagues Kneecap AOC in Secret Vote for Committee Seat"]

From what I can tell, she's been outright trying to take charge of House Democrats and is doing a very bad job. She still has the media but that accomplishes nothing except publicity. They can still vote in secret and that's what they did.

This won't be the end, they need to take Pelosi down and obviously AOC thinks she can do anything she wants. Obviously Nancy's not going to give up any time soon. She doesn't care how weak her side gets or how much people want her gone, all that matters is that she's in charge. I have to wonder if pushing up AOC part of the plan. But then, I still have to wonder if there's any plan.

□ [“Comrade De Blasio: 'I’d Like to Say Very Bluntly: Our Mission is to Redistribute Wealth'"]

Is it safe to assume he'll keep his millions though? Probably, he could have given them up years ago if he really believed this. Apparently he's only "officially" worth a few million dollars which, although it's far more than most people ever see in their lifetimes, makes him think he's entitled to it. And that's assuming he doesn't keep more under a fake name or two.

This is what we're up against. Leftists have spent decades getting to live in mansions and imposing their will on everyone else using men with guns. I still wonder if this has been arranged since post-9/11, knowing that they'd side with terrorists if that's what took to destroy western civilization.

Grand County, Colorado: 40% of COVID Deaths Were Actually Victims of Gunshot Wounds
December 18, 2020

You can tell it's a good movie when you remember having seen it. Not all of them have that going for them.

I'm trying to work out how the Avengers movie won me over. I'd read very few comics with them or even with the characters and I'd been pretty burned out on superhero movies by that point.

Trying to look it up. There was one issue of Avengers in my youth, it's #235, cover-dated September 1983. At some point I'd read the first issue in [blanking on Marvel's book-sized collection of reprints even though I read it many many times] and they did appear in things I read like Secret Wars or crossover with "Inferno" or the [not really a] crossover in the annuals for a couple years, "Evolutionary War" and something that involved Atlantis. It was just a get-together of characters whom I had very little interest in.

There were a very few issues of the characters, Thor #324, cover-dated October 1982, Captain America #271, July 1982, Hulk #279, January 1983. They'd obviously appeared in Contest of Champions around that time which is probably how I knew who they were. I liked the comics back then but I have an excuse, I was a little kid. It didn't take too much longer before I realized they were really horrible.

Then there were the superhero movies. I liked Superman of course, because duh. I won a free ticket to an advance viewing of the first Batman movie and saw it several more times in theaters and many more on video or HBO. I saw the sequel on opening night, the next sequel after a week or so and the final sequel at some point. I had been watching what I could of other movies, horrible Hulk tv-movies, some of the cartoons and things like that.

In the 90s and 2000s, I started out trying to see new movies based on comics - including one of Scarlett Johansson's first movies, Ghost World - but it wasn't working. The first Daredevil sucked, the first Hulk sucked, I didn't even bother to see the second. At some point I had an episode of the Nick Fury/Shield tv-movie on and didn't turn it off, that's about as much as I was interested in that.

I had noticed when Marvel finally started making popular movies. They purchased Malibu to get access to their up-to-date printing system and in the process, acquired characters like Men in Black, and suddenly had something Hollywood executives weren't already tired of turning down. They had a hit movie which led to Blade, then X-Men, then Spider-Man and a few others that were bombs. DC had failed to redo Superman but did have another Batman trilogy (which I did like although I've never seen the third movie to this day.) Around that point I was in the Army.

My understanding is that the first Iron Man movie was succeed-or-die. If it hadn't worked, that probably would have been it for Marvel. They were still in major financial problems that had built up for decades and hadn't been able to do much with the characters they'd based everything on. The superheroes had to save them or else.

My commander at the time told me Iron Man was an awesome movie, he'd said he used to read comics and I have no reason to think he was lying about either, but yeah, sure sir, whatever. Then the other movies started coming out. How the hell can anybody do Thor? There was that second Hulk movie but I was already burned out on it and had no interest in seeing Captain America. After Avengers, I realized it was actually quite clever. The movie was a monster hit and people other-than-me would want to see more. I wouldn't be surprised if the non-Iron Man movies made far more money after Avengers was released than they had before. I definitely think that was planned, as long as the first movies broke even, Marvel could keep going and build Avengers.

Obviously it worked. I may not be a movie fan but I will definitely give them credit for finally figuring out how to put characters and continuity that comics fanboys take for granted into many big-budget movies. I don't even see these movies and I can tell it's there. I do have a very-minor desire to see some of them just to see how it works. Not to mention that, at least as members of the team go, I'm more interested in them than I'd ever been before.

The Hulk is the Hulk, no matter how old you are, there's always some part of a little boy inside you who likes the giant green monster smashing stuff. Peter David had done a very intelligent run which, beyond an X-Men crossover here or there, I only read years after David had quit, but I did like it. Black Widow had been in several issues of Daredevil I had read, written by Denny O'Neil in-between Frank Miller's two legendary runs. I definitely give O'Neil credit for finding different things to do with her. Sometimes she was a helpless victim Daredevil had to rescue, sometimes he was not physically capable of doing stuff so she handled the heavy lifting for him, sometimes she was on her own mission and the two just ran into each other. They might turn out to be sharing the same enemy or just handle each bad guy together. Off the top of my had, I can't recall any other comics she appeared in that I'd read, at least not in any major role, but my understanding is that Natasha was always a vague character whose origins or purpose were changed for the purpose of whatever comic was done by whoever the creators that month. Other than being Russian, there wasn't much consistency.

I have never understood why they used Natasha instead of the One True Wasp, Janet Van Dyne. At least not using the Scarlet Witch makes sense, there were probably issues over whether she was sold as a mutant to the X-Men franchise. One reason Marvel used these characters is because they'd sold the rights to their big names to other studios.

[Wait, there was one of Jim Lee's first issues of X-Men where she and Captain America appeared. I assume Chris Claremont was consciously trying to include the rest of the Marvel Universe at that point which he hadn't done for quite a while and also trying to keep control of Wolverine despite having quit his solo series @ a year earlier.]

Iron Man had been in two hit movies that I had no interest in and just hadn't been an interesting character before that. I preferred Rhodey who wasn't much better but at least it was something. Thor didn't even have that much, I've never been interest in Nordic mythology and my understanding is that this Thor was very different from the myths. The "real" Thor isn't an intelligent hero but at least he's the heir to the throne. Hawkeye was never interesting either but I have always credited this movie for handling him in a clever way. Since we've never heard of these characters anyway, they need to cut down on time spent on each so they just make him a brainwashed servant of the villain. He gets to show off how awesome he is while causing the heroes major problems and then will join them after he's saved. Neat trick.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, Captain America has just never worked. His best appearance was the cover of his first issue in 1940, punching Hitler. Chris Evans' performance in these movies comes in second and I have always liked how Kurt Busiek and George Perez handled him in JLA/Avengers which was less about the two teams and more about the two universes. Cap could stand on a level with Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman in a way that none of his teammates had a chance of doing, make of that what you will. It was also a clever plot point that he and Superman really didn't like each other.

So that was all in the back of my mind when this movie came out. I'd been having my own problems - completely burned out after running a Special Forces arms room by myself for a year - and needed a break. The movie was out, let's find out if it's worth anything and I wasn't optimistic.

Obviously I was wrong, it built very well. I'm not crediting the plot or acting so much as the movie as a whole that finally managed to use the genre well after all these decades. There's the set-up with SHIELD, the Cosmic Cube [We don't say "tesseract" in these-here parts!] and Loki, the latter having formed the Avengers in their first adventure. The opening credits and then we're seeing Natasha handle some Russian criminals by being tied and beating. Then she gets a call and has to cut this short. There's no sense of realism in her beating up the group but who cares? Colson will take care of Stark - people who've seen the previous movies know why it's better to not send her - she has to handle the big guy.

Cut to India, Bruce Banner is tricked into a house where Natasha is waiting for him. They don't get along well but it's also clever that the movie is about thirds of the way through before we ever see the Hulk. Great build-up, it's smart to give Banner the attention and totally worth it when it finally happens. Nick Fury has to defend these actions to mysterious governing officials, then he goes to get Cap in. Cap has no idea what to do with his life and there's a reference to Stark's father and Hydra's weapon which is how the Cosmic Cube arrived. Finally we see Stark and Pepper deal with Phil.

Phil brings Cap to the SHIELD aircraft carrier, explaining "people might just need a little old-fashioned." A bit with Loki, surrounded by henchmen and mentally contacting one of Thanos' minions. Back on the aircraft carrier, Phil introduces Cap to Natasha and Banner and we learn it's the Helicarrier. That was one of the first signs I had that this was working. The Helicarrier is just awesome. Their little group is looking for the Cosmic Cube, as is Loki with Barton. Phil's still sucking up to Cap and they've found Loki, time to move in.

Loki shows off that he's actually a good villain, something I don't think I'd ever seen before. Cap and Natasha take him down, then Stark arrives, shocking Cap with the loud AC-DC music. They're taking Loki back, Stark and Cap are already not getting along, then Thor arrives for his [adopted] brother. The three main members are now together in physical confrontation. Ok, it's definitely feeling like a Marvel movie.

One thing I did like about Thor in these movies is that he always seemed to be living on a completely separate level from the rest, essentially going on his own storyline through the epic. He's just there to get his brother and return the Cosmic Cube. Now they have Loki but can't figure out what he's up to. There's conversation that deepens the plot, the "big guy" gets mentioned as Banner is someone who definitely needs help and even Stark opens up to him, Cap is suspicous of what Fury's up to. Natasha uses her skill to find out what Loki's up to.

That scene is well done, showing Loki as an even better villain while hinting at the discoveries Cap and Stark are individually making. It's all about the Cosmic Cube and the Hulk. They all get together and argue. SHIELD is building weapons and blame it on Thor. They all start bickering on each other, making good points or throwing in bitchy one-liners. Cap and Stark are ready to get into a fight, then Hawkeye leads the attack.

I was definitely enjoying it at this point, the whole buildup of everybody arguing worked on story and character. Then Natasha and Banner are dropped away and Banner can only do one thing. This was where I had to wonder if this was really going to work. There's a moment or two of dark movement between the two of them. The reason the first Hulk movie bombed so badly was because they gave almost no attention to big green. Hulk is chasing her in the dark, there's little direct camera sight of him, he's chasing her and chasing her, then smacking her into a wall, a much-higher version of what was going in her first scene.

One thing that made the movie work was the different levels the characters were operating. Phil and Agent Hill could have handled an action movie themselves but they weren't on Nick Fury's level, or if they were it was only because he was really old. And Fury wasn't on the same level as Natasha and Barton who were at least capable of working with the others. Natasha is able to take down Barton - how realistic - which is the only win the heroes get in this scene. Thor fights the Hulk which is glorious but far too short. The Hulk gets punched off the Helicarrier, Phil is dead for real, he's never coming back, the villains escape with everything.

Then it all starts building together for the conclusion. Stark is realizing that there are others who matter. Cap comes in to see how he's doing and they figure out what's going on. Harry Dean Stanton makes a cameo, I am wondering what he's been up to in his life and not in a positive way. Why bring him in? Anyway, Stark takes off, Cap gets Natasha and Barton and they're moving in.

Stark even gives a little speech to Loki about the team that'll take him down and doesn't even mention himself. He's grown up slightly. Loki tosses him out of the building, the Avengers arrive, Thor confronts his brother, even Banner shows up. This is where I knew what I thought. It's not the greatest movie I've ever seen - maybe I'll figure out what is someday - but it's one of the most enjoyable. The team is together, it was totally worth the wait. Then Loki orders to "send the rest."

The rest is a fight scene, very entertaining, sometimes humorous. The Avengers win, they're better off than they were at the beginning and there's a hint of future movies which have all come to pass. Still never a sense of why they use that name though, what are they trying to "avenge"?

So that was the movie. There are many like it but this one cost a lot of money.

And Hulk... do whatever you're into, I won't judge.

Just a couple notes for the moment:

First of all, the book is accepted, I've paid for printing, just waiting on delivery. Four finished books in 2020. Yay me! They probably won't be delivered before January but as long as I get them, I'll be fine with that. I had to celebrate by watching my Avengers again, the most important scene which truly won me over in the first movie, the team is finally together and Cap gives orders.

□ [“Trump to Meet with Acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller in the Oval Office at 3:30 PM"]

Ok, are we ready to wipe the floor? The LTC knows how to handle things and has plenty of front-line experience. I still remember what happened to Moqtada al-Sadr and I'm trying to remember the LTC's specific comment about it at the battalion get-together at the end of the deployment. The headline is probably eastern time zone so the meeting's happening in a few minutes.

□ [“Pentagon Halts Biden Transition Defense Briefings — Biden Team Caught Off Guard"]

I've been wondering about this. Bad enough we've let the fraud go on for so long, for over a month it's been taken as a given that Biden's staff will be moving in. Unless we've got a set-up on those things, it's a loss no matter what. The media's certainly in on it, I assume that's why 2020 has been such a mentally-miserable year for everybody.

Jeremy Bulloch, Boba Fett, age 75
December 17, 2020

17 December, 2020

I'm getting nothing for Christmas. So it's like the rest of the year then.

□ [“Rhode Island’s Dem Governor Caught Maskless at Wine Bar After Telling People to Stay Home"]

Shouldn't at least some of them stress that they fought against this every step of the way, they wanted to totally obey the rules they were imposing on everybody else but they lost the battle against whoever wanted them to hang out without masks? Failing that, they could at least tweet that they're getting ready to break their own rules and certainly can't claim any rights that others don't have so people were now free to go out without masks like she was getting ready to do, have fun.

□ [“Supreme Court Is Purposefully Delaying and Slow Walking Sidney Powell Emergency Petitions – State Responses Not Due Till January 14"]

Yet another reason not to trust the courts. I suspect they all get pushed to the left over their career, probably just living in DC does that. And whoever's been running this coup would be using everything possible to force them to go along.

Who is running it? No way to guess. Even the names that most obviously come to mind - Obama, George Soros - could very easily be the front man for the ones actually making decisions. Other names are possible and would have the same issue, no way to know who they're actually dealing with. It's not hard to comprehend the person in charge wanting to stay private and avoid publicity taking away his work hours.

It's definitely time to see some actual resistance. You'd think people not wearing masks and businesses opening up is the most obvious thing. I wear the mask just to avoid causing problems for workers who are required to impose this nonsense, but I do very little involving that so I almost never wear one anyway. If other people around aren't wearing one, I take mine off. But I'm not remotely involved enough with enough other people for it to be relevant. Other people however...

Maybe they're actively doing it now and I just haven't noticed yet. Anyway, Democrats in charge aren't going to let people disobey so that'll push to conflict sooner or later, so why not just get on with it?

French Court Convicts 14 Accomplices to 2015 Charlie Hebdo, Jewish Supermarket Attacks - It's taken over five years to convict them?
December 17, 2020

Data Scientists Break Down Voter Fraud in Arizona and It’s Shocking – 790,000 Laundered Votes Injected Into the System
December 17, 2020

We'll see how Amazon handles the new book. Today they rejected the cover because by whatever standard they use, it wasn't readable enough. That's something I dislike but can live with. It's obviously readable but I can understand the complaint. So I redid the lettering and it looks better. We'll see if this goes through. They didn't mention any issue with the text that they reject and I didn't even look at it much less make any changes, will that stay as it is?

I haven't really kept up on any issue with Amazon or its far superior Createspace predecessor, but given all the difficulty of getting the last book approved, I'm tracking it this time. Even worse, I just discovered a few comics pages that were totally printable and would totally have been in the last book if I'd found them earlier. Dammit.

16 December, 2020

Rococo Coffee is the answer to every question. What would you like to avoid for the rest of time until the universe ends?

Well, if nothing else can be said about 2020 (and it can't) I've finished my latest book. I still have to go through the hassles with Amazon so I have no idea when it'll get printed, but it's done, the third time in the last four years that I've finished four books in on year. I know I've made promises like this before, but now I really really really promise that I won't get another book done for a while. For a number of reasons, I need a time out before publishing another book. Not to mention dealing with Amazon for this one.

□ [“Joe Biden Asked About His Son Hunter… AGAIN During Press Conference"]

This is absolutely a deliberate plot. The media is obeying whoever their real masters are to ask questions they could have asked months ago. They're trying to get him out right away now that (as far as we know) they've gotten Trump out finally. Are they doing this for Harris or some other reason? In this case, Hunter asked the Chinese company he worked for in 2017 for $10 million and give it to him "quickly."

□ [“Marvel's Star-Lord is apparently now a polyamorous bisexual"]

I've been wondering about this, I'm not sure Chris Claremont created Star-Lord but I'm pretty sure this was the first major work of his pre-X-Men career, possibly even the first time he worked with John Byrne. They also created Kitty Pryde who has gone her own way and I'd swear when I was looking her up recently, she'd also become a Star-Lord, just as her actress in a couple movies is now claiming to be male.

[Looks it up]

Wow, my memory worked. Steve Englehart and Steve Gant were the creators in Marvel Preview #4 (dated January 1976) but Claremont, Byrne and Terry Austin soon followed. He is now engaged to Kitty and she's replaced him as "Star-Lord." That may all be over by now, all I can do is glance at Wikipedia. But it seems better than actually reading the comics, yikes!

Chicago Schools Hiring People to Supervise Kids in Class While Teachers Work Remotely
December 15, 2020

MI Judge Grants Attorney Matt DePerno Permission To RELEASE Results Of Forensic Examination On 16 Dominion Voting Machines In Antrim Co.
December 14, 2020

Joe Biden Snaps Back at Reporter Shouting Questions About Hunter Biden – Then Shuffles Away
December 14, 2020

BREAKING: US Treasury Reportedly Breached by Hackers Backed by a Foreign Government
December 13, 2020

Shots Fired at Manhattan Cathedral During Christmas Concert — Ends in Officer Involved Shooting
December 13, 2020

I may have already posted that one but since I can't check right now, I'll just make sure it's posted. That's one of the reasons I've started including dates on these headlines so that I can keep track of when they happened.

□ [“IT’S HAPPENING: President Trump Issues Warning – Swing States that Found MASSIVE VOTER FRAUD, which is all of them, CANNOT LEGALLY CERTIFY these votes"]

This also came from the 13th. Today it's started coming out about something that may actually provide hope, the specifics of how the elections are handled. If true, I still think it's mindbogglingly insane to hold out for this, but it's also one of those things that make suspect there's an actual plan.

Even if the Electoral College vote is over, it's not fully done yet, the two houses of Congress have to certify the results. It's usually simple, but if a senator+congressman opposes any part of it, it has to be handled first. Members of the House did this four years ago, constantly interrupting then-Veep Biden who basically told them to shut up unless they had a Senator with them which they didn't. That obviously is not going to be the case here.

It's should be noted that seven states, the ones that caused all these problems, have selected "alternate electors." No idea what that specifically means although I've seen the claim that now Biden and Trump both have enough people to get 270 votes. This has happened before in 1887. I know that was a very unusual election but other than getting the South involved for the first time since the Civil War, I don't know any details. My understanding is that it also involves each state having one vote in this, not the population-based numbers that are usually used, and in this sense, Republicans have a solid majority because they run 90-something% of the country, Democrats keep themselves in big cities.

From this point it gets very unclear, just in case it's all made total sense for the last six weeks. There are specific requirements for the House and Senate and I don't pretend to understand them. The current Veep is also involved. The Senate can pick a new Veep and the House can pick a new President. Of course the Senate would pick the current Veep and the House would say this is total nonsense, they'd already stolen the election fair and square. I don't get how a decision could be reached and there's no way everybody's going to go along with it but I do suspect this was what was always being aimed at. Why they didn't pick a more sensible method, no idea, but it does stand by the Constitution, definitely a plus.

□ [“NFL Ratings Drop Leaves Networks Scrambling to Make Advertisers Whole"]

This is interesting, Thanksgiving had about half the viewers from last year. It's another example of the left taking over everything they can and removing all the interest people had in it and have no way to force people to pay attention. Sports have always been about enjoying the highest level of skill and ability, now it's just showing off all the new records being set by women with penises because *somebody* thinks that's more important. Oh, and skin color's crucial too.

I think that's enough writing for the time being. I could use a break. I have a new comic to read. I can't wait to see what Star-Lord does next.

15 December, 2020

I actually had enough headlines available to fill up the next book. Ok, I'm not saying they're funny or any good, but still...

Focusing on the book, would really like to get it done, so again I'm not sure what I'll have to say.

Boko Haram Claims Responsibility for the ‘Kidnapping of Hundreds of Schoolboys’ in Nigeria
December 15, 2020

NFL Ratings Drop Leaves Networks Scrambling to Make Advertisers Whole
December 12, 2020

Joe Biden Holds Parking Lot Rally for Ossoff and Warnock at Empty Wearhouse — Photos
December 15, 2020

MSNBC’s Dr. Gupta: Just Because You Get Vaccinated Doesn’t Mean You Should be Traveling or That You’re Liberated From Masks
December 15, 2020

Oregon’s New Secretary Of State Caught Hosting Birthday Gathering In Defiance Of Governor’s Covid Orders
December 15, 2020

San Francisco to rename Abraham Lincoln High School because 'black lives didn't matter to him'
December 15, 2020

Marvel's Star-Lord is apparently now a polyamorous bisexual
December 15, 2020

This isn't even all the headlines I have available but I might want to look into some of them. It's theoretically possible that I might write something about them in the future. I know, that makes no sense, but it's still 2020 so we're stuck with it.

14 December, 2020

I wrote this hours ago and forgot to push "Publish." That's the worst thing that's ever happened in history. Sorry.

Not sure I'll have much to say today. I'm almost done with the book. I just need to go through one more draft and, honestly, it's more about making sure the format is right and noting all the subjects for the index. I started out doing those right away on my books but it quickly became pointless given all the changes made in later drafts. I rarely start on them now until I've got the proof copy in my hands.

Today is the day, the Electoral College should have met and voted. I've barely looked at any websites or news headlines but it's not clear if that happened. Are electors making two sets of votes, at least those from the problem-states, which will go the Senate and the President (i.e. Vice-President Pence) will decide? That makes no sense.

Six Swing States (PA, GA, MI, WI, AZ and NV) and New Mexico Pick Slate of Electoral Delegates for President Trump and Joe Biden

At this point, I definitely wouldn't limit it to these states. Furthermore, this is just too ridiculous to see as an option. There's no way to see this as anything other than a desperate prayer which is not what his supporters want to see, or anybody who thinks elections should be fair.

Maybe I'll say more later. Or tomorrow. Or never, is never good for you?

13 December, 2020

You can't keep a promise without drinking Rococo Coffee. You can't break one either without drinking Rococo Coffee. You can't even breath oxygen without Rococo Coffee. Get the hint?

Working on the book all day, not sure how much I have to say about anything going on. Don't even know what's going on. I'm doing a book about what's going on, duh.

Four Stabbed in D.C. Proud Boys vs. Anti-Trump Melee; One Shot in Washington State
December 13, 2020

Shots Fired at Manhattan Cathedral During Christmas Concert — Ends in Officer Involved Shooting
December 13, 2020

Biden in Leaked Audio Says GOP Misused ‘Defund the Police’ to Defeat Democrats in November
December 11, 2020

The Hunter Biden case is starting to appear on leftist news sites. I doubt Kamala Harris is telling China what to do, quite the opposite. They've known for a long time how to get rid of minor puppets which she and Biden are and have always been.

I guess I don't have anything to say right now. I guess I'll just have to get back to the book. I still have my promise that under no circumstances will it be finished by December 31 but I will admit that at this point, I'm trying to break the promise.

12 December, 2020

Imagine there's no "Imagine," it's easy if you try...

I'm listening to John Lennon's "Primal Scream" album, officially called Plastic Ono Band. It's very limited but that was basically the point. It was the first time he had to create a full album without Paul's help and the whole point was to get away from the incredibly-complicated "Beatles" style. Ringo plays drums, Klaus Voorman plays bass, Phil Spector and Billy Preston play piano on one song each, everything else is John.

I was skeptical what I'd think of it, having not listened in many years. I started off doubtful, some of his singing on the opening track "Mother" isn't as good as he should be and the song itself didn't didn't seem as full as it should have been, three verses, then screaming.

That's about as bad as it got, at least so far. I've just started "Remember" which sounds as full as it's possible to be given the simple piano, drums and bass. It might sound better with a full band but that's not required. "Isolation" sounded great with the same limitations, almost epic. It's not a bad thing to limit the possible creative outlets, especially given what he'd been doing for the last several years.

One thing he was able to bring with him was the variety. Despite the simplicity, every song sounds different from the previous one. "Mother" is screaming, followed by "Hold On" which is much softer but not remotely a ballad. "Working Class People" is about the only song going outward like a bloke at a bar ranting after several pints and it's just Lennon on a guitar. "Love" is a ballad ["a ballad is love"?] with Spector on piano. "Remember" was a straight rock song opening Side B that ended with humorous fireworks, "remember the fifth of November." "Well Well Well" just sounds weird, the vocals and guitar have the same melody line for line, the band is closer to noise for its own sake, as is John's yelling at the end. It's the longest song on the album and probably its worst song but it's not remotely bad.

Music and albums are mostly successful in ways closer to emotion than intellect and that includes how they're designed. All these different sounds, one after the other, create a different effect than anything else would have. Essentially they're different moods and the thought goes into how they work next to each other. John and Paul spent around two days putting "The White Album" in order, that would be just listening to song after song over and over in different order. 'Song A works better if it comes after Song B but then how do we follow Song C?' That is on full effect here and it's fabulous.

"God" is obviously a finale and sounds like it, Side B's equivalent of "Working Class People," building up to the line "I don't believe in Beatles." It could have had a dozen musicians and a full orchestra and the effect would be the same, this one only adds Billy Preston. That's very effective. Then there's the nursery-line epilogue, and that's the end.

Well that was fun. I've never been enough of a Beatles fan to hear many of their solo albums but this was always my favorite of the ones I have heard and I'm glad to have taken the chance to listen to it again. It's about as mature as one can get and still be rock'n'roll. John's mostly following his own self-absorption but that's a legitimate method of creation and even there he's still smart enough to include other aspects, both "Working Class People" and "God" which climaxes with "Yoko and me." Probably wasn't worth the last twelve years of his life, but at least in that line, even I have to smile at the very sweet line which he sings perfectly.

Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of this album's release. Next February 7, John will have been dead for as long as he was alive.

Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right. What would Batman do?

□ [“Army-Navy Crowd ERUPTS into Chants of “USA! USA!” as President Trump Steps on Football Field at Game"]

Ok, there's people definitely on his side. He knows that and, although I assume he attended previous Army-Navy games, I think it's safe to assume he was at this one for a deliberate reason. I just wonder if we'll ever learn the reason. Also if LTC Miller was with him although obviously we won't be hearing anything about what he's working on.

Congress will also be involve in the conflict, Republicans in the House have been demanding the voter fraud be investigated and now Bill Pascrell [D-NJ] demands that those 126 members not be seated in the House. He cites democracy and the Constitution which is rare for a Democrat these days.

Still working on the next book. I still insist that it won't be finished by the end of the year but I am working on breaking that promise. If it gets to where I'm just down to having the problems with Amazon that they've added this year, I'll consider it done.

Anyway, one thing I've noticed is that I definitely singled out "individuality" as the target of leftism in history. As always, I have to cite that "leftism" isn't an accurate term, I only use it out of convenience because everyone else does. "Center" and "edge" would be more accurate than "right" and "left" but still iffy. Can't individual right-wingers go to the "edge"? How else would the "center" be able to expand?

One problem is that even the "left" is made up of individuals. No matter how much they insist otherwise, they are all individual human beings. That alone makes it difficult to identify them because we can't perceive enough of our wife or husband, much less dozens of people we barely interact with, much less thousands, millions, billions of individuals.

Then there's the way leftists can immerse themselves in non-leftist organizations without being perceived. Someone on the right has no reason to join a leftist organization, there's nothing to gain except pussy or maybe men with guns who impose the leftist leader's will on everyone else.

While editing today, I noticed having written a comment about racism being leftist. Sure, it removes individuality as the primary reason of existence. And it does link with the history of Democrats, from segregated areas to "blacks only" areas, the KKK training and Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden who said they're only black if they vote for him, LBJ knowing how to keep blacks where they are for 200 years which is still going...

I don't really have a conclusion, as much as anything this was a 'note to self' for something to work on later. "Race" is by definition not about individuality but "racist" individuals are possible. [Of course the left now says everything is racist, making it completely pointless.]

China Furthers Its Hong Kong Takeover – Now Politicians Who Spoke Out About China Are Targeted and Arrested
December 12, 2020

11 December, 2020

Still three weeks left to go in 2020, what else could happen?

□ [“Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are Time Magazine’s 2020 Person of the Year"]

You think that's a good idea? They represent all the violence and destruction that's gone on since January? They represent all the dictators of cities and states ignoring their own rules like, well, Democrats have been doing?

Most states are now on one side or another with the upcoming Supreme Court battle. 24 support the Texas lawsuit, 17 support the voter fraudsters. This comes up from the state attorney generals - I think some legislators are making statements as well - so when will it come down to individual people?

The evidence is all on one side - 174,000 fake votes have been found in one Michigan county! - but will the court go for it? Apparently not, I just found they've rejected it. I haven't trusted the courts on this and obviously I was right. What now?

□ [“Harrison Ford to reprise Indiana Jones role for fifth and final movie"]

What the hell is this for? He's 78 years old now, that's not how to do Indiana Jones, 12 years younger than Sean Connery who played his father. The only way it could remotely work if it's basically a cartoon, all special effects, no real people involved.

I've never understood why Ford claimed to like Indy so much. Sure, he's a fun adventure character but so is Han Solo and Ford absolutely didn't like him. Neither of them have much personality beyond being the Hero (or in Han's case, the smuggler) and they both get into similar scenarios. The only thing I can think of is that Ford's just not interested in that kind of space fantasy, he'd prefer movies that are more basic.

Even that's speculation, I assume he grew up seeing things like Buck Rogers. Perhaps filming Star Wars was really not fun for him or being the star in Indiana Jones made it different or the reaction fans had to each role. But he's only been Indy once in the last 30 years, now he wants to do it again? He needed large paychecks to play Han more than once ever and has done that twice in the last decade.

Gov. Cuomo Closes Indoor Dining in New York City Indefinitely Due to ‘Rising Covid-19 Cases’
December 11, 2020

US Supreme Court Throws Out Texas Lawsuit Against Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin
December 11, 2020

Joe Biden Already Planning Executive Orders On Gun Control
December 10, 2020

10 December, 2020

You're the Tops

Editing the book, I found some comment I'd made on Mussolini. Trying to work out what I was getting at, I'm trying to look it up and found a few quotes I want to keep in mind.

“There are only two fatherlands in the world: that of the exploited and that of the exploiters.”
- La Lotta di Classe (1910), while a socialist, paraphrasing French socialist Gustave Hervé

This one strikes me as very leftist, belief that human existence can be so limited.

“All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.”
- Speech to Chamber of Deputies (December 9, 1928)

This obviously follows in the same path, there can be nothing else except this simplistic statement, the person making the statement says so and will send men with guns to punish anyone who disagrees.

“Fascism conceives of the State as an absolute, in comparison with which all individuals or groups are relative, only to be conceived in their relation to the State.”
-"The Doctrine of Fascism" (1932)

Still more, obviously individuality is what God created and they oppose it. I also suspect that this is really where the distinction really comes from, recognizing that a state has to keep existing. I assume they expect to be the one in charge, "national socialism" and it does make a fundamental disagreement with other leftists, unless they can get something out of it.

“I don't like the look of him.”
-To his aide after Mussolini's first encounter with Hitler (1934)

Leftists don't like other leftists. IIRC, Hitler was originally a Mussolini fanboy but obviously Germany was in a different situation from Italy and they had to go their own ways, except when it came to staying in control. It's also worth noting that in many ways, women don't like other women. Jus' saying...

“I am making superhuman efforts to educate this people. When they have learnt to obey, they will believe what I tell them.”
- As quoted in The Tyrants : 2500 Years of Absolute Power (2006)

I'll have to look that up to see if it's a real quote. It's totally believable but did it really happen?

Be careful what you wish for, you might not get it and then you'll be whinny and depressed and annoying everybody, gawd!

□ [“Portland Autonomous Zone Established Despite Mayor’s Vow; Police Chief Begs For Peace As Weapons Stockpiled And Assaults Already Taking Place"]

They're doing it again and of course they have the only authority that matters. I guess they're trying to attract people who agree with them, possibly inspire the same thing to happen elsewhere, but otherwise I really don't see the point of any of this.

□ [“Press Shooed Away and Wranglers Step in Front of Cameras After Jill Biden Asked About Federal Investigation Into Hunter Biden’s Dealings with China"]

Obviously they were protecting Biden by pretending that absolutely nothing on and anyone to the contrary was evil homophobic racist but I'm not totally convinced that they're trying to drop Biden now so Harris can be POTUS. They could have made it all happen behind closed doors and continued attacking anyone who thought China owned Hunter Biden and his father.

Then there's the way there's suddenly an attack on old leftists.

□ [“Report: Dem Senator Dianne Feinstein 'Seriously Struggling' – Cognitive Decline ‘Evident For Several Years’"]

Why not go after Pelosi? She has to know she'd be in line for this sort of attack and keeps losing Democrat control of the House, why keep her around? She's several years older than Ronald Reagan was when she entered the House and complained at how old he was then. There's a reason I have to wonder if the Ruth Ginsberg death was a turning point somewhere even if we'll never know how.

Anyway, I do think the left is making a turn here, given how they no longer pretend democracy is relevant. The voter fraud and kicking out the "elected" candidate in place of someone who quit running before any primary votes is one part - they were obviously going to do that, I'm just not convinced that bringing up Hunter Biden was the way they were going to go about it - all the Democrat mayors and governors who blatantly ignore the virus rules they put in place is another. And they would undoubtedly want to remove old weak members and replace them with more compliant youths.

If this stuff doesn't end soon, 2021 is just going to make everyone far more insane. We're tired of this.

Like that means anything, I've been predicting an upcoming Civil War 2.0 for sixteen years but it's not like I actually wanted it to happen.

President Trump Announces Another Peace Deal in the Middle East – Israel and Morocco Agree to Full Diplomatic Relations
December 10, 2020

09 December, 2020

One toke of Rococo Coffee over the line

Is something going on for Christmas? It seems like there's a slight uptick in ornaments already. Maybe people just put them up because they had nothing else to do but as always, I wonder... It's not like I have anything else to do.

□ [“Bernie Sanders Admits Democrats Blocked COVID Relief For Americans"]

They don't even try to pretend they're doing this for anything other than power. I'm trying to figure out when this change was made. I've suspected for a while that Democrats have thrown parties at various funerals, so maybe it would be McCain's funeral that it happened.

□ [“17 States Join Texas in Supreme Court Lawsuit Against Michigan, Georgia, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania Over Fraudulent Election"]

Ok, now we're getting to Civil War 2.0. Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, North Dakota, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and West Virginia. The North Dakota-to-Texas line sticks out, a total division of east-west.

Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin have to respond by 3:00 PM Thursday (tomorrow.) It's not clear what they have to respond to or how, possibly it's just reporting to the court that they will defend themselves or something along those lines. This is probably what Trump was referring to about something happening in the 'next few days.'

Is this why there was a Supreme Court change right before the election? I remember comments after the 2018 elections that keeping the Senate was the important part and obviously they'd be required for the new Supreme Court members. I don't trust them and I'm not happy that we went this far (and will obviously go farther) but thinking about this suggests how high-up decisions get made.

Cuomo's Lockdown Threat Loophole Spares 'Saturday Night Live'
December 8, 2020

08 December, 2020

It was forty years ago today! Sergeant Pepper got his revenge.

Chuck Yeager, the first man to break the sound barrier, age 97
December 7, 2020

I've been thinking about Lennon lately although I'm not sure what to say. I didn't even realize until around noon that it was the 40th anniversary.

2060 Verified Dead Absentee Voters in Wayne County Michigan, how many more are there?
December 7, 2020

I am wondering if all these proofs of vote-fraud are building up to something. Redoing the election would be the most obvious choice but is that remotely doable? What other option is there? My worry is that the Supreme Court will simply ignore all the cases they're offered.

□ [“Schumer pressures Biden to bypass Congress to cancel $50,000 in student debt per borrower"]
□ [“Nancy Pelosi Creates Tiny 101-Day Working Schedule for Next Congress"]

Once again they show that they have no interest in the republic. They aren't going to do any work, they'll just get a paycheck.

□ [“Wayne's World Reunited Apart - PARTY TIME!"]

Another Youtube video series. I started watching this looking forward to it and I've seen they've done similar shows with Ferris Bueller, Ghostbusters and Back to the Future, but I'm not sure I want to see those now. This had the main cast, the director, several producers and still more people all for a video that's barely half an hour long.

Wayne and Garth could have handled that, maybe bringing in cameos here and there. Tia Carerre was a nice addition - and the show ended with her singing a verse or so of "Ballroom Blitz" which made me smile - but that's just too many people. Alice Cooper didn't need to be there, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry didn't need to open the show, Brian May and Roger Taylor didn't really add anything but their presence. Queen's been my favorite band ever since the movie came out and this didn't help anything.

There wasn't much in the way of serious discussion, just a few brief descriptions of how the movie was set up and a few scenes mentioned. They spent more time reciting a couple of scenes or lines than anything else and there was some brief "trivia game" with two or three irrelevant questions. Tia and Rob Lowe were the best additions and brought the most content, Lowe describing the change to comedy and hosting SNL, Tia pointing out that she had to turn down a job on Baywatch to be in the movie, stuff like that.

It's a nice novelty but I don't see much benefit beyond showing that these people still exist. I'm not saying I won't see any of the others - Back to the Future is still tempting - but they didn't even bother to get Chris Farley, what's up with that?

□ [“It's Time to go BACK TO THE FUTURE! | Reunited Apart with Josh Gad"]

This one was more enjoyable because they had fewer people involved so they could get into more detail. Nothing special was said but it was fun. An amusing opening, Christopher Lloyd who thinks it's an interview and refuses to talk about Back to the Future so the guy asks about Taxi, what was that like, did Reverend Jim believe in time-travel? This one ended with people (no idea who they are) playing "Power of Love" which I haven't heard in ages but I'm not complaining.

Obviously Crispin Glover was there, I assume no one wanted him involved. No idea why they didn't invite Biff. They did include both actresses playing Jennifer, the joke was that Claudia Wells only showed up after everyone else was gone, "I always wanted to meet Elizabeth Shue."

This was much better. I'll probably watch the Ghostbusters video because it's Ghostbusters, duh, but how can they pull that off? Egon is dead, Rick Moranis almost-certainly completely retired and Bill Murray is, well, Bill Murray.

□ [“GHOSTBUSTERS Reunited Apart"]

Also better than the first one. They only brought in extra people at the end. They weren't needed either but ok, Jennifer Runyan. Again there was more detail than the Wayne's World video. Bill Murray was, well, Bill Murray but not in a bad way.

It probably varies but to an extent, some of the actors have been more in character which is nice. Annie Potts is always fun and they got her to open up the video as Janine answering the call. I'm not really interested in seeing the people repeat their dialogue - although there are exceptions - and they don't much detail about their characters or situations. Sigourney Weaver at least said something about the work and apparently it was her idea to turn into a dog. I had heard before that it was a deliberate acting challenge for her, she'd just been in Alien which was not remotely like dealing with Saturday Night Live creators.

I'm still ambivalent on the songs being used but well, Ray Parker Jr. singing and guitar for the theme song is totally worth watching. The only disappointment was they didn't have everybody else telling us who we gonna call.

I suppose I'll watch Ferris Bueller although they definitely won't have the writer/director in this one as John Hughes is also quite dead. If I'm not wasting time on movies, it's still some sort of videos but that's how it goes.

There's also a tribute to John Hughes . Most of the actors are not remotely recognizable and Chevy Chase is not remotely in shape, he could barely recite the dialogue and I don't remotely want to know what happened to Judd Nelson.

The Ferris Bueller reunion was all right. Ben Stein looks about as out-of-shape as Chevy Chase although with their ages, it makes sense. They didn't end with a song but did have Kristy Swanson repeat her line of dialogue. "Thank you, Simone." "No problem whatsoever."

I guess it is nice to hear the dialogue repeated. It's not a big deal, they don't have to act or expand the characters, just recite what helped them get this far, but it's overall a fun idea.

07 December, 2020

So this is Pearl Harbor Day and what have you done?

We're almost out of time. The Electoral College is meeting in a week. Obviously the conflicts will continue afterwards no matter what, but we're out of time. There's no reason it should have gone this far.

□ [“President Trump: 'The Case Has Been Made – You’ll See a Lot of Big Things Happening Over the Next Couple of Days'"]

We've heard that before. Given his media experience and the service of people like LTC Miller, I can't understand why this wasn't handled behind the scenes with most of us completely ignorant of it. I can imagine quite a bit of monitoring going on and probably can't imagine how many there actually was, Biden could have surrendered well before Election Day.

I have the privilege of having played a small role in that sort of area, I can still believe there's an overall plan/mission going on but do not see any reason for this. 2020 is not a year anybody's going to look back on with pleasure.

The left's plans are underway as well. They're all working together one way or another. They've gone from denying all voter fraud to saying there was no widespread evidence to saying it didn't actually change the results to saying it's too late to change things now.

□ [“The Covid-19 Crisis Has Wiped Out Nearly Half Of Black Small Businesses"]

Individual businesses are what they oppose and especially any blacks who dare to try getting out. Just give them a limited amount of welfare and they'll never leave. All businesses had to be started by individuals who have to make their own decisions and take the profit and the risk. The people who do nothing but try to totally be in charge are the ones who oppose it.

Expert Identifies 200,000 Votes Hi-Jacked from Trump to Biden in Georgia at the Precinct Level
December 7, 2020

Protest Erupts In Front Of Radical MI Sec of State Jocelyn Benson’s Home After Lawmakers Discover All MI County Clerks Were Ordered to Delete All Election Related Data From Computers
December 6, 2020

Oregon Teacher Has Complete Meltdown at Anti-Lockdown Protesters, Tells Them to ‘Kill Yourself’
December 6, 2020

06 December, 2020

Just another manic Sunday, I wish it were Monday, that's my fun day. Or at least it's not Sunday, ewwwwww!

Dueling Pro-Trump Versus Antifa Rallies in Olympia Result in Gunfire
December 6, 2020

Michigan and Pennsylvania Secretaries of State Gave Far Left Rock the Vote Activists Access to Sensitive Data on All Voters
December 5, 2020

□ [“Trump Pulls Troops From Somalia, Gnashing of Leftist Teeth Follows"]

The "anti-war" movement is all nonsense, they're just going along with leftists and opposing anyone else. Never mind all the months on Syria and Libya, two of my three Iraq deployments were under Obama and a third one elsewhere in the Middle East and there wasn't a protester to be found. They aren't opposed to war, they're opposed to anyone who disagrees and are more than willing to send men with guns out to get them.

□ [“LA Restaurant Owner Rips Garcetti Hypocrisy: Why Shut Me Down While Allowing A Hollywood Canteen In My Parking Lot?"]

They really have no idea what they're doing, do they? It's always about choosing the people who suck up to them and limiting or eliminating those who don't. They have no idea how to run a business, they have no way to measure any method of success, all they can do is repeat the same slogans anyone else on their side recites and assume that's progress.

How do they get to that? It's one thing to indoctrinate the youth but many of them do realize at some point that there's more to life outside leftism and set examples everyone else can see no matter what the indoctrinators demand. How is it that so many people can't? I don't even think it's conscious for the most part, they just don't think that way.

05 December, 2020

Don't ask what's wrong with you unless you really want to know the answer.

□ [“Multiple Brawls Break Out Between Trump Supporters and Antifa in Olympia, Militant Leftist Puts Out Desperate Call for Backup on Twitter"]

This is getting started. Leftists should have said that no one should follow their example when pretending the supposed-new POTUS wasn't actually elected. Now they have to openly point out that it's ok when they do something but not ok when other people do it.

I would definitely believe the right will win physical combat while it's still mob against mob. They'll also win when guns start being used, the question is when and how that's going to happen.

Riots In Paris As Furious Masked Mob Set Cars On Fire And Throw Molotov Cocktails During Anti-Violence Rally
December 5, 2020

Australians Banned From Australian Island Bought by Chinese Developer
December 4, 2020

Still focusing on Claremont's X-Men (without actually trying to re-read it) and finally found actual release dates which weren't what the comics listed. Drew Barrymore was born three days before Giant-Sized X-Men #1 came out, the only remaining important person from her Hollywood family. Industrial Light and Magic was formed right after Claremont's first issue came out, there was a bit of delay in the release of #99 which I assume was just a little bubble as Jim Shooter had just taken over as Editor-in-Chief, then Star Wars started being filmed after #99 came out. It was in theaters just before #107 came out Phoenix had appeared.

I'm still unsure what to think about the Barrymore family - as far as I know, E.T. is the only movie I've ever seen any of them in - but the rest of that can't be a coincidence. What else went on around that time?

The Beatles' road manager Mal Evans pointed an air-rifle at police so they shot him. Rebel Without a Cause/gay idol actor Sal Mineo was shot by a mugger, the Eagles released the first platinum album in history, their greatest hits. Marvel and DC were messing with their prices which finally put Marvel in charge of the comics industry. Freddie Prince Jr. was born, a bigger star than his father ever was but his father seems to have been messed up in Hollywood stuff. That's ignoring things going on in the rest of the world (like the Olympics) and I've probably already formatted a bunch of stuff in my "history project" so I can't find it right now. And that's only February.

Harold Wilson suddenly quit as British Prime Minister and a few days later, Princess Margaret announced she was getting divorced. The Socialist Party won in France and Philistines finally got around to uniting against Israel. David Bowie's The Man Who Fell To Earth was released and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest swept the Oscars. [Odd, Bowie was supposed to do the soundtrack for his movie but contractual limitations got in the way. That's not so odd, his manager was problematic to say the least. So instead they got John Phillips, another one of those lunatics whose bad influence probably hasn't yet been measured enough.] The Bad News Bears movie came out, featuring Michael Jackson's girlfriend [!] Tatum O'Neil. This would become a TV show staring another Michael Jackson buddy, Corey Feldman. Patty Hearst was on trial.

Howard Hughes would die just as April started. That's a lot of stuff going on and I haven't even reached Jean Grey becoming Phoenix, much less her first appearance.

Oh, and I was born around this time. I'm sure anybody could look up what was going on in the world when they were born and see a lot of odd coincidences, but, well, that's part of what my "history project" is about. I'm still stuck in the 1500s and I'm wasting time on this, what's wrong with me?

04 December, 2020

It's cold and lonely in the deep dark night, I'd rather just stay in bed and read a book.

One Batch of 23,000 Ballots All For Biden Identified in Georgia That Were Fraudulent – More than Enough for Trump Win
December 4, 2020

I'm not paying much attention to all the reports of vote fraud but obviously they're all there and there's more coming out. So what do we do about it? I don't have any answers. It does sound like some state governments are starting to resist their Electoral votes although no idea if they're powerful enough to go through with that.

□ [“Biden to CNN: If Kamala and I Disagree on Principle – 'I’ll Develop Some Disease and Say I Have to Step Down'"]

And of course she's right there so she knows it. The only question is if she actually wants to be openly in charge - my guess is 'probably', just to set the record - or would rather have someone else take all the blame for her decisions. He also describes how he broke his foot by jumping out of a shower to chase a dog and pull its tail, none of which sounds like a man who should be in charge of a dog, much less the greatest nation ever. Is he going to get naked and chase Chinese to stop them from owning slaves? One assumes Nancy Pelosi will call on the 25th Amendment sooner rather than later.

□ [“Pelosi Admits She Sent Millions Into Poverty by Holding Up Covid Relief For Political Reasons – Says She is Now Willing to do Smaller Covid Deal with Biden"]

She's got her mansions, that's all that matters. The peasants will have to just suffer until she gets around to doing anything.

While looking up any other news to see if I had anything to say, I just discovered that my former battalion commander is now the acting Secretary of Defense. He still owes me a carton of smokes for all the times he bummed one. If he called me up tonight and asked me to start working for him, I'd be there Monday morning. He'd have to call early though, it'd be a long drive.

As much as anything, that's a way to describe the problems I've been having, with no where to go and no idea what to do. I have been hearing signs that people are starting to work out some form of opposition. It's not clear what or who but obviously that would start sooner or later. I was never Special Forces [duh] but I did a damn good job working for them over ten years as a red-hatter and I'd give almost anything to do it again as a civilian. At least I have that possibility, others have different ones but I truly believe they are going to start working together. LTC Miller [I can call him that] is one of the guys who knows how it's going to work.

I'm not saying it gives me any hope, but it's nice to see someone I used to know get somewhere important instead of hanging out with bums like 2nd BN.

03 December, 2020

Is this the real life? Is it just fantasy? Is it what's behind Door #3?

□ [“Democratic socialist AOC gets destroyed on Twitter for selling $58 'Tax The Rich' shirts"]

How will poor people get one? That price doesn't include shipping-and-handling charges. She's not even trying to show any actual interest in poor people. She knows where her fanbase is.

Trump gave a speech yesterday. I didn't pay much attention, I'm still of the 'wait a while before responding to it' mentality. But I did read the speech and it's a good summary of the fraud that's been found so far. The problem is that it doesn't go anywhere. There's no way any Democrat leader is going to quit now that they've gotten this far. There's talk of Trump starting martial law which I think is a horrible idea and even if it wasn't, that's just how Democrats have been running states and cities for months now, and they don't even need to follow their own rules.

ANOTHER ONE: Dem Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards caught socializing at a country club without a mask in mid-November
December 2, 2020

Crazed Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti Says Cancel Christmas: “It’s Time to Cancel Everything”
December 3, 2020

I've been thinking about the movie industry for months and one thing I've noticed is that the industry comes as close to faking an art form because of the sheer number of people involved in putting together even the most basic ones.

Actors and directors get all the attention but they aren't remotely a large part of the work. The sets require designers and construction, management and cleaning. Electricity, lights are needed, then there's costumes, sounding, cameras, make-up and that's just the stuff I can think of, there's probably a lot more. The crew needs meals, many people have assistants, then there's the unions, the producers... Notice I haven't even got into advertising or editing/printing the finished film reels. The director doesn't do it himself.

No other artform requires anywhere near that many people or the same amount of money to create. An opera, theater or orchestra does require a lot, but nowhere near that many. The Rolling Stones need a lot of people to tour from stadium to stadium but that has more to do with playing stadiums and transport. They still play theaters when they feel like it and I'd bet they bring more permanent staff with them than are needed for the performance.

I know there are exceptions to my examples but even there that's unusual. No other bands are as big as the Stones. Many movies have been made on very low budgets but still out of our range. Plan 9 From Outer Space cost $60,000 in 1959 money, more than I've ever made in any year of my life. I bet if I check the math, it'll be several years worth of my best paygrade ever. The Blair Witch Project cost at least $200,000 in 1999 money, not counting advertising.

It may not be art, but making a movie does require awareness of large amounts of money that most people never have anything to deal with. And I have to think that the nature of making the movies on this scale means diminishing individualism by its very nature. Except the actors. And the director and maybe the screenwriters, they're all important but everyone else can be replaced.

Music can require a large band but that's not required for anything beyond live performance. Rock has usually just had four or five members of the band, Genesis and Rush have had even fewer. Singers may not even play an instrument. They can all play multiple instruments in the recording studio.

Then there's other art forms. Books and paintings can be done by more than one person but they usually aren't. Painters may have assistants, book companies usually come with editors and cover-designers, but they aren't required for the process. Comics can be done by a minimum of people even in the harshest company conditions. The penciller can ink and/or letter, the writer may draw, the artist may come up with the story and have someone else fill in the words, a black-and-white comic doesn't need a colorist.

So I wonder if that's a reason that leftism has been part of movies for their whole existence. You could say it came from elsewhere, it was the early 20th century and leftism was trying to get into everything anyway, but it may explain those who focus so heavily on movies, thought isn't required and the only individuals who matter are the star actors on screen.

And we see them pushing this mentality on everyone whenever possible. I'm just making the theory up and I'm sure it's not entirely correct but there does seem to be something to it.

02 December, 2020

Not sure what I have other than headlines today

□ [“REWRITING HISTORY: New York Times Columnist Paul Krugman Claims Democrats Never Called Trump Illegitimate"]

He said it himself, is he not a Democrat? Hillary said it, Jimmy Carter said it, are they not Democrats? And they aren't the only ones who said it. Is that what it means to be in Year 0 where nothing actually happened before?

That's how you know you're an elite, you can make up nonsense that completely contradicts other nonsense you made up and everyone has to treat you seriously.

Democrat Austin Mayor Urged People to ‘Stay Home’ as He Vacationed in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico with Family Members and Guests
December 2, 2020

San Jose Mayor ‘Apologizes’ After Getting Caught Gathering with His Family For Thanksgiving in Defiance of California Covid Order
December 1, 2020

NYC Bar Owner Arrested in Sting Operation For Defying Covid Order
December 2, 2020

New York State is seriously running stings and fining bars for not serving enough food
December 2, 2020

Nashville Police Criminally Charge Three Women For Hosting Football House Party in Violation of Covid Order
December 2, 2020

01 December, 2020

Try to see it my way, we can't work it out.

□ [“Parent company of Dominion Voting Systems Received $400 million from Swiss Investment Bank in October 2020 — 75% owned by the Chinese Government"]
□ [“WE GOT IT! — Col. Waldron Confirms US Has a Copy of the Election Night Data ‘Traffic and Packets’ Sent Overseas to Frankfurt!"]

Ok, we've definitely got something but this is just ridiculous for how long it's taking.

□ [“Missouri Lawmaker Discovers Dominion Failed to Pay Missouri Taxes and Is Not Allowed to Operate in the State — But They Are Still Running Elections Here"]

If true, it wouldn't be surprising if this went on in other states and cities. You'd think the left would oppose that but it would require them to have a consistent standard that applies to everyone. They want to punish Trump for following the tax laws of NYC and NY, why would they apply the same standard to everyone else? Otherwise they'd have to be wondering why those Democrat-run cities and states are so incompetent and what other rich people are getting away with not paying taxes. Or, in this case, a foreign business handling elections.

How could this not have been watched as soon as it started? Of course some people are still assuming the reveal is ready. I'm tempted to ask if we can expect it in the 2020s or if the 2030s are more likely.

NYC Mayor de Blasio Allows In-Person Elementary School Starting on December 7 - Just before Christmas break or will they be banning Christmas?
November 30, 2020

LA County Supervisor Caught Dining at Restaurant Just Hours After Voting to Ban Outdoor Dining Over Covid-19 Concerns
December 1, 2020

Iran Changes Story, Claims Nuclear Weapons Chief Killed by Israeli-Made ‘Remote-Controlled Device' - Not an ambush by several gunmen and truck with explosives
December 1, 2020