Monthly Archives: January 2018

Prosecuting Real Criminals?

18 Thursday Jan 2018

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It’s a thing almost unheard of today or, at least, it’s largely forgotten. The same government that spies on you and railroads prosecutions in cases that shouldn’t exist also assists some foreigners with breaking some laws. Justice, it is not. Rather, as John Whitehead explains, it resembles a police state, a place by and for the government and its owners.

But now a crazy idea is floating around; it apparently might even become actionable. The DOJ (yeah, that DOJ) is seriously considering charging “sanctuary” politicians with felonies.

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen confirmed Tuesday that her department has asked federal prosecutors to see if they can lodge criminal charges against sanctuary cities that refuse to cooperate with federal deportation efforts.

“The Department of Justice is reviewing what avenues may be available,” Ms. Nielsen told the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Her confirmation came after California’s new sanctuary law went into effect Jan. 1, severely restricting cooperation the state or any of its localities could offer.

Though not mentioned in the above-linked article, the legal avenue is 18 USC 1324, which I’ve been talking about (at least thrice) for the past two years.

Once again:

Any person who …


knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that an alien has come to, entered, or remains in the United States in violation of law, conceals, harbors, or shields from detection, or attempts to conceal, harbor, or shield from detection, such alien in any place, including any building or any means of transportation …

[Or who] aids or abets the commission of any of the preceding acts,
shall be punished…

in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(ii), (iii), (iv), or (v)(II), be fined under title 18, imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both…

In some cases it’s up to 20 years in the clink. At least one California pol, San Fran Mayor Libby Schaaf, says she’s ready to go to jail so as to fully support the polyglot. That’s good; I think we’re ready for that too.

This possible development does little to reverse the decades of legal decline, but it is a refreshing potential start.

The heavens falling may well encompass a few elected rodents falling too.

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Illegal alien sanctuary only. They don’t care about you, your money, your guns, your freedom, etc. 

Trillion Dollar SJW Doubles Down

17 Wednesday Jan 2018

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Get with the social justice, or else, says Larry “John Stewart Mill” Fink:

“Society is demanding that companies, both public and private, serve a social purpose,” Fink wrote. “To prosper over time, every company must not only deliver financial performance, but also show how it makes a positive contribution to society. Companies must benefit all of their stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, customers, and the communities in which they operate.”

Fink said BlackRock would ramp up its investor-stewardship initiative, started in 2011 to favor engaging with companies and their management over proxy voting. The stewardship team will double in size over the next three years under the new leadership of Barbara Novick, a vice chairman who helped found BlackRock, Fink said.

Literally doubling.

He posed some questions; so I, as CEO of perrinlovett.me (one of them there private companies), answer with:

What role do we play in the community?

My blog (mine, not BlackRock’s) is a town crier for the West and for cigar awareness.

How are we managing our impact on the environment?

In general, I’m not. However, as a digital service, I try to harm no trees. And I have that offer to adopt or foster the first polar bear I meet as it flees the global warming climate change new ice age…

Are we working to create a diverse workforce?

No. Just trying to save some corner of civilization from it.

Are we adapting to technological change?

Actually thinking of reverting to a manual typewriter. Might need the polar bear’s input first. Can they talk?

Are we providing the retraining and opportunities that our employees and our business will need to adjust to an increasingly automated world?

I see your man-hating, child-maiming robots and AI. Bring ’em.

Are we using behavioral finance and other tools to prepare workers for retirement, so that they invest in a way that that will help them achieve their goals?

What, in the Name of God, is “behavioral finance?” Sounds like command and control communism to me. The bear will hate it.

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I doubt these guys can even read, let alone type.

Mind your own business, Bub.

Numerical Lay of America

15 Monday Jan 2018

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One of those days, friends, one of those days. After some six months of success in self-medicating a minor mechanical problem, I wisely decided to check the old covert bug out vehicle into automotive convalescence. Prayers if you will, donations should you have them (only $500 will feed a starving Jeep…).

Anyway, I was all set to shoot a Hawaiian preppers video for FP. Tomorrow! And more collected and so forth – will post here.

I leave you with fond thoughts of the US Debt Clock.

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I consult these numbers from time to time. They sing a song, tell a story, for those willing to listen. Give them a try tonight.

Dobry vecer, priatelia.

Paul Craig Roberts on the Assange “Case”

14 Sunday Jan 2018

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Please read THIS, should you care and in between divisional games, of course. Excellent review of the non-case.

In the US and probably throughout Europe, politicians and feminists, with the exception of Katrin Axelsson and Lisa Longstaff, used the presstitute media to paint Assange as a rapist and as a spy. The feminists cared nothing about any truth; they just wanted a man to demonize. Truth was the last thing on politicians’ minds. They just wanted to divert attention from Washington’s crimes and betrayals of allies by portraying Assange as a threat and traitor to America. They were unconcerned that Assange could not be a traitor to America as he is not an American citizen. In actual fact, there is no basis in law for any US claim against Assange. Yet because of Washington and its servile British puppet state, Assange remains interred in the Embassy of Ecuador in London. Clearly, honor and respect for law reside in Ecuador, not in the US, UK, or Sweden.

But facts, along with law and civil liberty, have ceased to mean anything in the Western world. The corrupt US Attorney General Jeff Sessions said that the arrest of Assange is a “priority.” The British police, mere lackeys of Washington, said that they would still arrest Assange, despite the case being dropped, if he left the embassy.

For the British, serving Washington is a higher calling than the honor of their country.

The interesting fact is not that Assange has committed no crime (anywhere) but is held nonetheless hostage by real criminals; the crazy thing here is how little the people know or care. And, sadly, none of this is surprising.

Happy Sunday!

Bolt Out of the Blue

13 Saturday Jan 2018

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This progresses faster than expected. GM begins canning the controls, not next decade, but next year.

Next year, General Motors Co. will no longer need an engineer in the front seat babysitting the robot brain that controls its self-driving Chevrolet Bolt. The steering wheel and pedals will be gone, giving total control to the machine.

When GM starts testing its autonomous electric sedan in San Francisco ride-sharing fleets, it’ll likely be the first production-ready car on the roads without the tools to let a human assume control. The announcement Friday is the first sign from a major carmaker that engineers have enough confidence in self-driving cars to let them truly go it alone.

“What’s really special about this is if you look back 20 years from now, it’s the first car without a steering wheel and pedals,” said Kyle Vogt, chief executive officer of Cruise Automation, the San Francisco-based unit developing the software for GM’s self-driving cars.

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I’ll take Level 0. Bloomberg.

From observing the way American’s absentmindedly enter freeways, one would already suspect the cars lack pedals and steering wheels. For many the robot driver will be a probable improvement.

Y’all have fun with that…

Lies, Immigration, and a Crazed Reality

12 Friday Jan 2018

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Trump set off a firestorm, yesterday, with comments, or a question (which he kind of disavows now) about where our immigrants come from. I thought the question articulate, if a bit vulgar, and if he asked it.

Anyway, the answer to this “why” is the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965, one of the most evil legislative items ever foisted upon the people. Vox Day on the origins and effects:

Ted Kennedy illustrates why third-generation immigrants should not ever be permitted to govern or even vote in his deceitful argument for the 1965 immigration act.

First, our cities will not be flooded with a million immigrants annually. Under the proposed bill, the present level of immigration remains substantially the same…

Secondly, the ethnic mix of this country will not be upset… Contrary to the charges in some quarters, [the bill] will not inundate America with immigrants from any one country or area, or the most populated and deprived nations of Africa and Asia…

In the final analysis, the ethnic pattern of immigration under the proposed measure is not expected to change as sharply as the critics seem to think… The bill will not flood our cities with immigrants. It will not upset the ethnic mix of our society. It will not relax the standards of admission. It will not cause American workers to lose their jobs.

They have to go back. They ALL have to go back. It is no longer up for debate. The post-1965 mass immigration policy was entirely based on lies and misrepresentations, and 50 years on it is clear that global migration has destroyed America, the largest invasion in human history has severely weakened the United States, and if a significant portion of the post-1965 immigrants and their descendants are not repatriated in the next decade, they will cause the complete collapse of the Union, violent ethnic conflict, and a civil war of unprecedented magnitude. At this point, the Yugoslav option may be the best possible outcome; the Czechoslovak option appears to be already beyond reach.

Listen to the warning of an American Indian. The dirt is not magic and it will not remain yours once you permit foreigners to settle on it. And rest assured that your descendants, if you have any that survive, will curse your incredible stupidity and short-sightedness, which is of epic historical magnitude.

The media, the UN, and other vehement anti-Westerners have taken the novel (never heard before!) approach of calling Trump a “racist” and a “Nazi.” Hmmm.

Now, other truths aside, here’s an examination of what passes for the white, European natives of modern America:

BLOODY VIOLENT Inside the bloody world of hardcore wrestling…

Yeah, read that again and ponder how much worse it could actually get. It can (and will) get worse, but Lordy…. ‘Murica…

Eric Peters on What Passes for Law Enforcement These Days

12 Friday Jan 2018

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Sans, evidence or an actual crime, of course. The Drug Whisperers:

These are armed government workers such as Cobb County, Georgia’s TT Carroll – who have received similar “training” and been anointed Certified Drug Recognition Experts, ready to go to war on drugs – even if there aren’t any around.

Carroll and other “trained experts” have arrested numerous motorists on the basis of the mere assertion that they are On Dope.

Nothing more.

Certainly not on the basis of empirical evidence that they actually are On Dope, such as a blood or urine test. That’s too much of an inconvenience – and probably too factual, as well.

Instead, the DRE’s “trained” opinion that the person he has waylaid – often on the pretext of a minor traffic offense, such as driving slightly on the shoulder or touching a yellow line, probably with the DRE cop car riding their bumper – is a Doper. The victims are arrested, caged and charged – and must then prove themselves innocent of the charges.

Those who argue for “law and order” and say the police never arrest innocents – they do. And, this isn’t even remotely law and order, it’s no law and disorder. All for “your” government.

Don’t talk!

Ode to Deadlifting

11 Thursday Jan 2018

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Okay, Christmas is over and business is business. I’m back in the gym this week (though I suffered no holiday-associated poundage increase). It’s going great.

I suspect that a few of you may also be working out, trotting around, resolved and such to get back into shape. Good. Here’s a secret:

For building muscle, burning fat, raising the pulse, etc., there really is no better exercise than my old nemesis friend, the deadlift.

I restart my program tomorrow, the third “restart” in the past 18 months. Restarts are okay; it means moving forward.

Here’s a good article by David Robson, Bodybuilding.com, on the mighty lift:

Deadlifts: The King Of Mass-Builders?

Probably. Read it.

A lovely demonstration:

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Nice … form. Bodybuilding.com.

For me, the DL only causes mild aggravation to the following: temples, jaw, neck, shoulders, upper back, forearms, wrists, lower back, hips, behind, thighs, knees, shins, calves, ankles, feet, toes, ego, and attitude… Then again, it only boosts those areas in exceeding measure too.

So, have at it. Leave the treadmill for the treadmillers and pay a visit to Ironland.

The Ode:

Deadlift, deadlift,

Aching knees and back,

Once, twice, three times a…

Hell, just go to the gym already.

702 to Mordor

11 Thursday Jan 2018

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About a year ago Donald Trump raised a small ruckus when he asserted (as always, by Tweet…) that the previous administration had surveilled him at Trump Tower. The pooh-pooh heads pooh-poohed the idea. Andrew Napolitano was temporarily canned over the issue from Legs News. Then, it turned out to be true.

I and others pointed out, at the time, that Trump was far from the only American suffering from a good, old-fashioned trampling of his Fourth Amendment rights. Now, as then, few care. (There are 16 of us, at the least.)

But, now, there is a slim chance that Congress could act to remove one of the illicit tools of domestic surveillance – Section 702 of the Fisa Amendments Act. It’s set to expire. God, please let it.

A yearslong debate over National Security Agency surveillance and protections for Americans’ privacy rights will reach a climactic moment on Thursday as the House of Representatives takes up legislation to extend a program of warrantless spying on internet and phone networks that traces back to the Sept. 11 attacks.

There is little doubt that Congress will extend an expiring statute, known as Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act, that permits the government to collect without a warrant from American firms, like Google and AT&T, the emails and other communications of foreigners abroad — even when they are talking to Americans.

But it is far from clear whether Congress will impose significant new safeguards for Americans’ privacy. A bipartisan coalition of civil-liberties-minded lawmakers are trying to impose such changes, while the Trump administration, the intelligence community and House Republican leadership oppose them.

I predict that, regardless of what Congress does or does not do today, that warrantless spying and other illegalities will continually be visited upon the people. We’ve reached that point and there’s really no going back.

Still, as Cliven Bundy will tell you, a little legal victory is a nice thing. Let’s have one!

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And that’s okay, too; no money and closed offices makes it harder to spy on us. Fox/YouTube.