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Questions in Dire Need of Answers

21 Sunday Jul 2019

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About Epstein and his possible employer(s). Who???

Besides sexual frolics, Epstein and Maxwell were up to many odd things. The FBI found diamonds, cash and a fake passport when raiding his mansion and documents showing his net worth at $559,120,954.00. The IRS tax people will be eager to review the sources of this income.

It seems likely that political influence was brought to bear on then US attorney Alexander Acosta (he just resigned under fire last week) to make a sweetheart deal with Epstein, who had been charged by Florida with child molestation. Epstein got off with a token, 13-month jail sentence that allowed him to work from his office much of the day.

Were Trump or Clinton involved? How much did they ‘party’ with Epstein and revel in his fleshmart? There was talk of some sort of ‘intelligence’ angle to the affaire Epstein that spared him a harsh sentence.

A respected former CIA official, Phil Giraldi has come right out and accused Epstein of being an Israeli agent of influence. Epstein was let off with a slap on the wrist on his first child abuse charge, says Giraldi, because of his powerful Israel connections. To Giraldi and this writer, the Epstein ‘massage’ operation was a classic intelligence operation designed to blackmail men of influence into doing Israel’s bidding. Clinton had reportedly already fallen into this trap years earlier while still president.

Now watch this stinking pile of corruption be hurriedly covered up. Talk about draining the swamp.

I’m sure your Churchian pastor addressed this in today’s sermon.

The Face of Evil Tipped Really Well

21 Sunday Jul 2019

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Thus, nobody did a damned thing about the obvious crimes.

Another employee at the airstrip, who requested anonymity because he is not allowed to speak about travelers in his official capacity, says Epstein would land at St. Thomas twice a month on average. “There’d be girls that look like they could be in high school,” the employee recalls. “They looked very young. They were always wearing college sweatshirts. It seemed like camouflage, that’s the best way to put it.” Epstein would be dressed in a tracksuit, but the girls carried shopping bags from designer labels: Gucci, Dior.

The employee adds that he and his co-workers would joke around about what they were seeing. “Every time he landed or took off, it was always brought up. We’d always be joking, ‘How many kids are on board this time?’” But the employee also says he felt “pure disgust,” calling it “absolutely insane” that a convicted sex offender was able to move around so openly in the era of MeToo.

“I could see him with my own eyes,” the employee says. “I compared it to seeing a serial killer in broad daylight. I called it the face of evil.”

Epstein apparently made no attempt to hide his travels with young girls. The airstrip in St. Thomas sits in plain sight of a central highway, and a nearby parking lot at the University of the Virgin Islands provides a complete view of the tarmac and almost every aircraft on the ground. When he’s “home” on Little St. James, Epstein’s plane is always parked right in front of the control tower.

“The fact that young girls were getting out of his helicopter and getting into his plane, it was like he was flaunting it,” the employee says. “But it was said that he always tipped really well, so everyone overlooked it.”

I’m thinking a control tower would have offered a nice, clear shot…

Greek to Taki

20 Saturday Jul 2019

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Good old Taki compares his Athens, the then to the now.

ATHENS—Standing right below the Acropolis, where pure democracy began because public officials were elected by lot, I try to imagine if random political selection today would be a good thing. The answer is a resounding yes. Both Socrates and Aristotle questioned fundamental norms and values, and if they lived today they would certainly question the acceptance by us of career politicians who have never had any other profession. (Corbyn, Biden, I could go on.) Socrates was skeptical about many things, especially the arts, because he believed they led us away from the truth. Yet so-called “artists” today influence public opinion as never before. Even numbskull rappers have a say and can alter public opinion, hence election by lot should be a must.

Old Socrates was obsessed with the truth, and politics is all about the propagation of falsehoods. Aristotle believed that many people are slaves by nature, and the proof lies in the blind obedience of those hatchet-faced people who scream abuse on TV to leftist dogma. (Aristotle would not get invited to chic parties were he around today; he opposed homosexuality, believed women to be biologically inferior, and despised rule by the many.) The ancient Greeks may have invented everything useful, but they did not invent socialism, the system that makes theft legal. They were too smart to fall for its Siren-like attraction because they knew it would eventually kill all initiative. Yet politicians nowadays demand more socialism, even after the examples of the Soviet Union, Cuba, and Venezuela. Go figure, as they never said in old Athens.

Who, really, knows better than a frightened and angry mob of illiterates? Damned near anyone, just ask the guys at the bowling league (if you can find them).

The Grand Announcement: A NOVEL

19 Friday Jul 2019

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Okay. As a few of you know, over the past year I have somewhat successfully invaded the realm of fiction. And, I love it. If all goes as I expect, my writing will soon be completely realigned towards that (what I consider) better manner of prose and poetry.

Now, this isn’t one of my usual book announcements – wherein I tout a book and then maybe deliver it five years later (or not). But, this week I did mostly finish the first, rough, and in need of heavy editorial attention draft of my first novel. It’s about a retired spy who becomes a substitute teacher in the public schools. From the (almost certain to) change back cover:

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It’s going to be good, and it sets up both an astounding character and an interesting “universe.” Look for it when you see it. No guarantees on a time-frame; the printed manuscript is 400 pages. Much to do. More to come. And, yes. This is the protagonist of a few of my more popular shorts.

PS: Look for more teased short stories here and at TPC.

PPS: I have spruced up the site just a little. More to come/change.

Bow Tie Codecracker, RIP

19 Friday Jul 2019

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I miss a lot of deaths. It’s a big world, sorry. John Paul Stevens died this week.

Former Supreme Court Associate Justice John Paul Stevens, one of the longest-serving justices on the bench, died Tuesday evening at the age of 99, the court announced in a statement.

The cause of death was “complications following a stroke he suffered on July 15,” the court said.

Stevens served on the Supreme Court for nearly 35 years, and became its leading liberal — although Stevens himself rejected that characterization.

The man defied convention, yes. And, he would have defied (and eliminated) the Second Amendment. But, as some maybe three or four of you know, he had one of the best methods for statutory interpretation ever devised. It might have been better if he had followed it. Anyway, I know, being once the law student who wrote the research paper on the (boring) subject. That floats around somewhere. Let me sense a mass demand for its republication, and I’ll hop right on it.

I made fun of the man to a degree but he was an intellectual titan. He was a patriot and a true American. Getting harder to find those now – of any persuasion. He’s in a better place though he will be missed here.

Whither Voltaire?

18 Thursday Jul 2019

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Certainly not the modern Post-American university. PCR explains:

When I was a student liberal professors found Voltaire to be an exemplar of the correct attitude toward free speech. Voltaire quotes were used everywhere in the halls of learning:

“Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.”

“I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend your right to say it.”

“Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.”

“Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.”

“It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.”

Today Voltaire is never heard from. Dogma has shoved aside tolerance and taken control of American universities in which Political Correctness, an ideology or religion in which emotional-based beliefs of certain “preferred” groups with aristocratic or Vatican privileges, such as black activists, abortionists, and sexual deviants, cannot be “offended” by facts or by someone’s contrary opinion.

For any SJWs unfortunate enough to have found this page, Voltaire was America’s fourth president, a racist and slave owner. You know what to do.

If Neocons are Up in Arms…

15 Monday Jul 2019

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Then you know the truth is being told. (((Ariana Cohen))) takes Trump to task for defending America. She, Bill Crystal, Benny Shapiro, and the rest are more anti-Posterity than the liberal left has ever been.

President Trump whacked the beehive Sunday, setting off an unnecessary controversy that understandably got Democrats upset.

In a poorly worded tweet storm directed at freshman Democrat congresswomen who trash talk him and America regularly, the president went off: “So interesting to see ‘Progressive’ Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run. Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how….it is done. These places need your help badly, you can’t leave fast enough. I’m sure that Nancy Pelosi would be very happy to quickly work out free travel arrangements!”

First off, there are a few problems with his tweet, starting with the fact that three of the four congresswomen he’s referring to were born in the United States — so they’re not going anywhere.

The only problem is with the non-Westerners who invade, subvert, destroy, and refuse to recognize reality and refuse to go away. It’s time for all of them to go home. Now.

Kiwis None to Stupid, Don’t Fall for Gun Grab

15 Monday Jul 2019

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The Christchurch false flag gun grab isn’t going as planned. A while back I presented some numbers about total firearms in NZ and the number expected to be confiscated by the tyrannically-leaning PM. Those latter numbered guns, I’m going to – without checking – estimate as either ” a lot” or around 100,000, give or take. In summation, it ain’t working out so well for Mrs. PM Grabber.

If you want to know how to beat gun control, look no further than New Zealand. Noncompliance with the new mandatory gun buyback law is kneecapping the government’s ability to enforce the law they wrote.

As of last week, only 700 weapons have been turned over to New Zealand’s government under new gun control laws written in haste in the wake of a mass shooting at Christchurch mosques. There are an estimated 1.5 million guns—with an unknown number subject to the new prohibition on semiautomatic firearms—in the country overall.

SHTFPlan mentioned the fact that Kiwis were disobeying the law, and things have still now changed. Gun owners in New Zealand have all but officially nullified the law by ignoring it.

And once again, it bears pointing out that responding to a horrendous crime by inflicting knee-jerk, authoritarian restrictions on innocent people proves to be an ineffective means of convincing people to obey the state.

Good on the Kiwis! Keep the guns. Confiscate the government.

What Goes Around, Euro Style

15 Monday Jul 2019

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Galileo is down, God help the EU. The spy “navigation” system is offline, has been, and questions abound. A cyber attack?

Galileo, the EU’s global navigation satellite system, has been down for four days, since July 11, following a mysterious outage. All Galileo satellites are still non-operational, at the time of writing.

According to a service status page, 24 of the 26 Galileo satellites are listed as “not usable,” while the other two are listing a status of “testing,” which also means they’re not ready for real-world usage.

The European GNSS Agency (GSA), the organization in charge of Galileo, has not published any information in regards to the root of the outage, which began four days ago, on Thursday, July 11.

On that day, the GSA published an advisory on its website alerting companies and government agencies employing the Galileo system that satellite signals have degraded and they “may not be available nor meet the minimum performance levels.”

The agency warned that the Galileo system “should be employed at users’ own risk.”

That admonishment sounds par for the standard operating course. Most haven’t heard of this system before, nor do they care now. I first learned of it nearly 20 years ago, at a Federalist Society luncheon in DC. A friend from Germany, a then-JD candidate already possessed of a Ph.D. is computer science something, wouldn’t stop talking about it. We all have our issues. He warned me bluntly that the EU was setting up something far beyond GPS and that they were intent on maintaining secrecy. He said, and I believed him, that his attempts to access information about the then-fledgling project, resulted in his computer being “zapped” repeatedly. They did it to him. Someone has done it to them. And, the world turns…

A Friendly Reminder From the Gun Control Cabal

13 Saturday Jul 2019

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You don’t need a military-grade assault weapon nor any “high” capacity magazines. Pay no attention to this story:

A homeowner with an AR-15 killed two of four intrusion suspects Wednesday night, one of whom was wearing a “Jason” mask.

The Ocala Star Banner reports that four suspects allegedly targeted the home. Two of the suspects, 22-year-old Nigel Doyle and 21-year-old Keith Jackson Jr, were killed when the homeowner opened fire. Guns were found near the bodies of both men.

Two other suspects, 19-year-old Robert John Hamilton and 22-year-old Seth Adam Rodriguez, were apprehended by responding deputies. Rodriguez was “arrested on charges of murder and home invasion robbery with a firearm. Hamilton faces home invasion robbery with a firearm.”

The vibrancy of the new Amerika. Ah. Thirty-caliber and he might have gone four for four…

Considering that we have mobs, domestic and foreign, roving now and numbering in the hundreds, maybe it’s time to upgrade to belt-fed weapons or flamethrowers.