Harvard Man Calls Arabs "Anti-Semitic"

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Sunday October 15, 2023 · 10:07 AM PDT

2023/10/15 · 10:07

According to CNN:

CRESTON, Iowa — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Saturday that the US should not accept refugees from Gaza, as tens of thousands flee their homes following an evacuation warning from Israel ahead of a possible ground assault.

“I don’t know what (President Joe) Biden’s gonna do, but we cannot accept people from Gaza into this country as refugees. I am not going to do that,” DeSantis, who is vying for the GOP presidential nomination, said at a campaign stop in Creston, Iowa.

“If you look at how they behave, not all of them are Hamas, but they are all antisemitic. None of them believe in Israel’s right to exist,” he continued.s

So apparently, Harvard does not teach that the word Semites generally includes all people of Arab ancestry as well as Jews. You literally cannot make up this level of stupidity.

New York Times Identifies Co-Conspirator # 6

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Wednesday August 02, 2023 · 1:37 PM PDT

2023/08/02 · 13:37

While the identities of co-conspirators #1-5 have been fairly easy to deduce, the name of co-conspirator # 6 has been a little more elusive. However, new reporting from the NY Times has identified Trump attorney and crony Boris Epshteyn as the most likely candidate. Because it is behind a paywall, the relative narrative is provided here:

Co-conspirator 6 was more of a mystery. Identified by the indictment as “a political consultant who helped implement a plan to submit fraudulent slates of presidential electors to obstruct the certification proceeding,” the person could have been a number of figures in Mr. Trump’s orbit.

But a close look at the indictment and a review of messages among people working with Mr. Trump’s team provides a strong clue. An email from December 2020 from Boris Epshteyn, a strategic adviser to the Trump campaign in 2020, to Mr. Giuliani matches a description in the indictment of an interaction between Co-conspirator 6 and Mr. Giuliani, whose lawyer has confirmed that he is Co-conspirator 1.

The email, sent on Dec. 7, 2020, and reviewed by The New York Times, was from Mr.Epshteyn to Mr. Giuliani and Mr. Giuliani’s son, Andrew, and had the subject line, “Attorneys for Electors Memo.” It says, “Dear Mayor, as discussed, below are the attorneys I would recommend for the memo on choosing electors,” and it goes on to identify lawyers in seven states.

Paragraph57 of the indictment says that Co-conspirator 1, Mr. Giuliani, “spoke with Co-conspirator 6 regarding attorneys who could assist in the fraudulent elector effort in the targeted states” and received an email from Co-conspirator 6“identifying attorneys in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.”

Those are the seven states in the email that Mr. Epshteyn sent to Mr. Giuliani and that was reviewed by The Times. The existence of the email from Mr. Epshteyn does not eliminate the possibility that someone else sent Mr. Giuliani a similar note.

Todd Blanche, a lawyer for Mr. Epshteyn, declined to comment, as did Peter Carr, a spokesman for the special counsel Jack Smith. Mr. Blanche also represents Mr.Trump in the two federal indictments against him.

What Else is Buried At Bedminster?

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Monday June 12, 2023 · 3:50 PM PDT

2023/06/12 · 15:50

I am not, by nature, a conspiracy theorist. However, some recent events have caused me to wonder whether Alice is the only one who has fallen down the rabbit hole.

I, like most of you, have read every detail of the DOJ Trump Indictment. It would appear, that during the months of May and June of 2022, Trump and his assistants were busy moving boxes of documents all over the place at Mar a Lago. But they were also busy loading boxes of materials into an SUV and a small plane to be delivered to the Trump National Golf Course at Bedminster, New Jersey. It even appears that one of the Trumps involved was a female. Trump accomplice Walt Nauda addressed her as “ma’am” in response to the orders to load the cargo. Not sure which Trump woman would have been involved, but since Ivanka has taken her leave and Tiffany is off with her new husband, that would seem to leave Melania, who was possibly carting off classified documents to be used as Christmas decorations at Bedminster.

In any event, it struck me as rather strange, since the Trumps were busy relocating their treasure trove of spy stuff to Bedminster, that there have not been any reports of FBI raids at that facility. Surely there must be something they missed at Mar a Logo.

Then it got me to thinking that something else peculiar occurred around that same time. On July 14, 2022 about a month or so after all the document odyssey to Bedminster, Ivana Trump suddenly died after falling down a flight of stairs at her home in New York. Her death was ruled as “accidental” by the New York medical examiner, with no particular details other than the cause of death being listed as “blunt trauma to the torso.” At the time, this struck me as a bit strange, although clearly not beyond the realm of possibility. As an old (82) retired physician, I am well aware that many elderly people do, in fact, die as the result of accidental falls, although death usually occurs as the sequelae to fractures and the like and does not usually occur in such immediate fashion. Plus, there was no reporting that she was otherwise ill or debilitated, and was well known in her youth as an Olympic class athlete. On the other hand, the post-mortem was conducted by a reputable and highly credentialed forensic pathologist, so I have to acknowledge that. Plus, Putin and his cronies are the ones throwing people out of windows. Who could ever imagine TFG doing something like that?

But what happened next was really head scratching. She was interred in a simple plot at the Bedminster National Golf Course, not a cemetery or even a fancy mausoleum as might be expected for the rich and famous. Now, of course, it’s just possible that Trump saw a tax avoidance opportunity to convert his golf course into a tax-sheltered cemetery. Or perhaps, being the mushy sentimentalist that he is, he just wants to keep all those near and dear to him close by for all eternity. At the time of her interment, many theories were raised suggesting ulterior motives for her burial at Bedminster, and were generally dismissed as deranged Leftists going over the deep end.

But that was before we knew that boxes of documents were specifically being shipped to Bedminster at the same time. What better place to stash them than in the coffin of your dearly departed ex-wife? Certainly, no FBI agent or other operative of the deep state would be ghoulish enough to go around being a grave robber.

So now I am left to ponder: What else is buried at Bedminster?

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The Soros/Bragg Relationship: A Little Perspective

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Thursday March 30, 2023 · 5:28 PM PDT

2023/03/30 · 17:28

Now that TFG has been indicted by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, we are going to be inundated by hysterical ranting depicting Bragg as a puppet of Jewish (gasp!) Holocaust survivor and billionaire George Soros. What started a a not-so-subtle anti-Semitic dog whistle will be elevated to a full 5-star alarm. With that in mind, I decided to take a closer look at the Soros/Bragg relationship:

George Soros donated $1 Million to the PAC, Color of Change. Color of Change has an annual revenue of $20 Million. Thus, Soros accounted for about 5% of Color of Change’s budget. Those funds are completely fungible. That is to say that the donor has no control over the ultimate disbursement of those funds,

Color of Change donated $500,000 to Bragg’s campaign. The campaign budget totaled about $5 Million which means The Color of Change contribution represented about 10% of his entire campaign funding. (Actually, the money was not really donated to Bragg’s campaign, but to other operations such as Get Out the Vote, etc).

But, even assuming that Color of Change did contribute 10% of Bragg’s campaign and that Soros’ share of that 10% was about 5%, that means that Soros; donation to the Bragg campaign amounted to 0.5% of the total Bragg campaign funds.

To repeat, Soros’ contribution to the Bragg campaign was 5% of 10%, or 0.5% of the entire campaign funding. Plus, as far as anyone can determine, Soros has never even met Bragg,

And somehow that makes Bragg a Soros puppet.

Hawaii Is Out of Oxygen

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Wednesday September 15, 2021 · 1:00 PM PDT

2021/09/15 · 13:00

I am an 80 year old retired physician living on the Big Island of Hawaii. Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic we have prided ourselves on our ability to self-discipline, follow masking guidelines and socially distance, which has been reflected in the lowest prevalence and mortality rates in the country. However, with the emergence of the Delta variant, we have seen rates skyrocket to the point that our epidemiologic curves are approximating those of Florida and other Southern red states. Our hospitals are full and there are essentially no ICU beds available on the island. The vaccination rate is stagnating at around 60% and 98% of the hospitalized Covid patients are unvaccinated.

Yesterday, my neighbor, a 75 year old retiree, developed symptoms of renal stones and we took him to a local urologist. After evaluating him, the urologist determined that surgery would be necessary to remove the stone. However, we were informed that, due to the Covid situation, there is no oxygen available for non-emergent surgeries anywhere on the islands. Thus, as my neighbor’s condition is not life threatening, and even though he is in considerable pain, the surgery has been put off for 2 weeks until additional oxygen can be shipped in.

This is a reminder, that even in the bluest of blue states, the anti-vaxxers are continuing to create a health crisis for us all.

Went To A Garden Party

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Sunday October 04, 2020 · 11:44 AM PDT

2020/10/04 · 11:44

Went to a garden party, and I’ll tell you all the truth

It was to outlaw Roe, disenfranchise Joe, celebrate the death of Ruth

But this little bash was different, there was an uninvited guest

It was small and mean, Covid 19, a really nasty pest.

But it’s all right now, they’ve learned their lesson well

If to wear a mask is too much to ask, then you all can burn in Hell.

When I got to the garden party, the same old gang was there

Politicians, grifters, hangers-on, an occasional billionaire

There was Tom and Mike from the Senate, and the guy from Notre Dame

There was Kelly Ann and the Bridgegate man, I don’t even know his name.

But it’s all right now, they’ve learned their lesson well

If to wear a mask is too much to ask, you all can burn in Hell.

Governor Lardass joined the party, barely squeezing through the door

Then Slovenian squeals, the click of six inch heels, it’s America’s own First Whore

Someone opened up the White House gate, a cheer went through the mob

And out stepped Don, The king of con, a drooling fat orange blob

But it’s all right now, they’ve learned their lesson well

If to wear a mask is too much to ask, then you all can burn in Hell.

Now the big shindig is over, the guests have all gone home

Then they’ll realize, the take home prize: the covid 19 syndrome

So if you go to a garden party, I wish you all the best

If you’re going to go, you’ve got to know, that you’ll have to get a test

But it’s all right now, they’ve learned their lesson well

If to wear a mask is too much to ask, then you all can burn in Hell.

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Confirmed: The US Recession Began Before The Covid-19 Pandemic

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Wednesday September 30, 2020 · 4:34 PM PDT

2020/09/30 · 16:34

The National Bureau of Economic Research has released a report today that confirms that the current recession began in February, 2020, well in advance of the onset of the covid-19 pandemic in this country.

According to the report:

The committee has determined that a peak in monthly economic activity occurred in the U.S. economy in February 2020. The peak marks the end of the expansion that began in June 2009 and the beginning of a recession. The expansion lasted 128 months, the longest in the history of U.S. business cycles dating back to 1854. The previous record was held by the business expansion that lasted for 120 months from March 1991 to March 2001.

The committee also determined that a peak in quarterly economic activity occurred in 2019Q4. Note that the monthly peak (February 2020) occurred in a different quarter (2020Q1) than the quarterly peak. The committee determined these peak dates in accord with its long-standing policy of identifying the months and quarters of peak activity separately, without requiring that the monthly peak lie in the same quarter as the quarterly peak. Further comments on the difference between the quarterly and monthly dates are provided below.

A recession is a significant decline in economic activity spread across the economy, normally visible in production, employment, and other indicators. A recession begins when the economy reaches a peak of economic activity and ends when the economy reaches its trough. Between trough and peak, the economy is in an expansion.

So, in truth, Trump had already thrown a time bomb into the economy with his 2017 tax cut for billionaires and the economy was heading south long before the virus arrived on our shores. This whole notion that Trump’s “booming economy” was the victim of the pandemic is, in the words of our next President, “malarkey.”

You.Can.Not.Make.This.Up

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Saturday September 26, 2020 · 4:19 PM PDT

2020/09/26 · 16:19

This is the latest bit of wisdom from Mike Pompeo, passing judgment on the Iranian government:

Is there a projectionist in the theater?

Person; Woman; Man; Camera;TV - Why This Is A Tell

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Thursday July 23, 2020 · 3:10 PM PDT

2020/07/23 · 15:10

Donald Trump’s proclamation regarding the results of taking the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) is a huge tell as to how this test was performed and why the results are not to be trusted.

First, and foremost, the test should be given by a physician or technician who has been appropriately trained in the various nuances involve in the administration of the test.. The fact that the test was allegedly administered by Dr. Ronny Jackson, an emergency room doctor and a known Trump sycophant with demonstrated political aspirations (VA Administrator, Tea Party Congressional candidate) casts serious doubt on the integrity of the testing process. This is the same physician who declared Trump to be in perfect health and capable of living to age 200. He also stated that Trump was 6’3” - a fact that has been disproven with multiple examples, including side-by-side photos with the 6’2” Barack Obama. This little bit of hocus pocus, allowed Dr. Ronny to conclude that Trump’s BMI was 29.9, thus allowing him to avoid the stigma attached to the diagnosis of obesity.

Now, as to the substance of the test itself, for the majority of examinees, the most challenging part of the examination is the delayed memory function. This involves repeating a string of five UNRELATED (will discuss in more detail below) nouns, twice in succession and then being asked to repeat them again after an interval of approximately 5 minutes. The most commonly used words are: Red, Face, Daisy, Velvet, Church, but there may be others at the discretion of the examiner.

There are several ways an examiner can structure the testing to allow the examinee an unfair advantage, thus invalidating the results of the testing.

The most subtle way to compromise the process is to tell the examinee, at the time the words are initially given, that he will be asked to recall those words at some later time. This allows the examinee the opportunity to place additional emphasis on remembering those words and utilize whatever cognitive skills he or she has, to store those words for later recall. A simple example of this is to silently keep repeating those words, even while completing other aspects of the testing. It may also give the examinee that opportunity to develop some word associations (e.g. red velvet) to enhance recall.

Another method to circumvent the integrity of the test is to simply give the examinee the words beforehand. In other words - cheat. This would, of course, give the examinee the opportunity to practice the words repetitively and develop memory by rote and to even construct a meaningful mnemonic (There was a red, velvet, daisy on the face of the church) This form of cheating was initially what I suspected Trump, Jackson, and their henchmen had engaged in to fudge the results.

Trump’s latest utterances in the interview with Fox TV toady, Dr. Marc Siegel suggest an even more diabolical and clever methodology. As I had mentioned earlier, the words should be relatively unrelated and relatively neutral to the examinee. However, in the case of Trump, we learn that the words were Person, Woman, Man, Camera, TV. If “bigly” and “greatest” were nouns they probably would have figured out a way to include those as well. It’s as if they were doing the MoCA on Al Capone and gave him the words: Valentine, Day, Massacre, Machine, Gun. In the case of Trump, they probably created a word cloud, selected 5 of the more commonly appearing words and then narrowed it down to those that are most relatable to him and have a high degree of association (e.g. Person;Man;Woman :: TV;Camera). Then, to seal the deal, they gave him the words a week beforehand to take home and study. The rapid-fire sequence with which he rattled them off to Dr. Siegel suggests he had placed them in automatic memory.

One final word about the significance of this test. The Montreal Cognitive Assessment is not a measure of mental acuity, IQ, or intellect. It is a test for early evidence of dementia. It is, frankly, unclear why this test would be performed on a person who is not otherwise displaying evidence of mental deterioration.

When a 74 year old man has a negative PSA (prostate-specific antigen) test, it does not mean he is particularly studly or some kind of sex machine. It simply means he’s an old guy who does not have cancer of the prostate.

Damnation Memoriae: Learning from Monuments

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Sunday June 28, 2020 · 11:03 AM PDT

2020/06/28 · 11:03

download_(5).jpg — Toppled Confederate Statue

During the recent clashes over Civil War statues, the defenders of the Old South and other associated racists such as the KKK. Nazis, etc have insisted that these statues are necessary for historical education. OK, Fair enough. Physical imagery – statues, sculptor, paintings - have long been used to portray historical events and persons of historical significance. In the case of statues, the intent is generally to exalt the individual. Past political and military leaders are typically portrayed as bigger than life, often perched gallantly atop a steed, and almost always carrying some kind of weapon. Words are unnecessary. The plain message is “this person was strong... this person was good... this person was a hero.”

However, adulation and hagiography do not necessarily need to be the case. The concept of Damnatio Memoriae, or oblivion, as a punishment dates back centuries. The peoples of Ephesos after Herostratus set fire to the Temple of Artemis, one of the Seven Wonders of antiquity. This generally involved either the complete destruction of a statue or building or, in some cases, modifying the original item or erecting a monument that clearly demonstrated contempt.

A classic example was the emperor Lucius Aelius Sejanus. He suffered damnatio memoriae following a failed conspiracy to overthrow emperor Tiberius in A.D. 31. His statues were destroyed and his name obliterated from all public records. This coin from Augusta Bilbilis, originally struck to mark the consulship of Sejanus, has the words L. Aelio Seiano obliterated.

*Damnatio Memoriae* can also take the form of caricature statuary. This is offered without comment:

In any event, if the purpose of a statue is to teach history without words, the commemorative icon should quite simply answer the question, “who or what was this person?” Whether the person was a military hero, a great statesman, a celebrated thinker, a gifted artist or writer should be readily apparent to the observer. It should quite simply fill in the blank: “This person was a _______.”

With that in mind, I submit the following commemoration of all political and military leaders of the Confederated States of America:

Azar: "Get Your Snake Oil Vaccine Here"

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Sunday May 17, 2020 · 9:12 PM PDT

2020/05/17 · 21:12

Not content with hawking hydroxychloroquine and Lysol as cures for the corona virus, the administration has apparently decided to branch out into snake oil vaccines.

Alex Azar is the Secretary of Health & Human Services. He was formerly the president of Eli Lilly, so he presumably knows a thing or two about drugs and vaccines. Today he was interviewed on Face the Nation by Margaret Brennan and had this to say about developing a vaccine against covid-19:

“We’re going to scale up commercial manufacturing and produce hundreds of millions of doses at risk. They may not pan out, they may not prove to be safe and effective but we’ll have it so we can begin administration right away.”

In other words, “we’ll have something.” Whether it works or not, or may kill you, is another his concern. Hell, it could be just injectable sugar water, or maybe Lysol, or tincture of hydroxychloroquine, or perhaps Jim Bakker’s Miracle Silver Solution. It doesn’t really matter, as long as they’ve got another scam to foist on the American people.

Did Trump Violate The Alien Registration Act?

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Friday April 17, 2020 · 6:39 PM PDT

2020/04/17 · 18:39

Trump has patently been a serial criminal before and during his stint as POTUS. However, he may have sunk to a new low (if that’s even possible) when he tweeted this

LIBERATE VIRGINIA, and save your great 2nd Amendment. It is under siege!

LIBERATE MICHIGAN!

LIBERATE MINNESOTA!

The right wing has long had an affinity for the Alien Registration Act and other similar legislation designed to prosecute Socialists, immigrants and other “undesirables.”

Be careful what you wish for.

The Alien Registration Act, popularly known as the Smith Act, is a United States federal statute that was enacted on June 28, 1940. It set criminal penalties for advocating the overthrow of any government in the United States, by force or violence and required all non-citizen adult residents to register with the federal government.

The Smith Act set federal criminal penalties that included fines or imprisonment for as long as twenty years and denied all employment by the federal government for five years following a conviction for anyone who:

...with intent to cause the overthrow or destruction of any such government, prints, publishes, edits, issues, circulates, sells, distributes, or publicly displays any written or printed matter advocating, advising, or teaching the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying any government in the United States by force or violence, or attempts to do so; or...organizes or helps or attempts to organize any society, group, or assembly of persons who teach, advocate, or encourage the overthrow or destruction of any such government by force or violence; or becomes or is a member of, or affiliates with, any such society, group, or assembly of persons, knowing the purposes thereof…

For the purposes of this section, the term ''government in the United States'' means the Government of the United States, the government of any State, Territory, or possession of the United States, the government of the District of Columbia, or the government of any political subdivision of any of them.

Liberate, in this sense and according to Merriam-Webster, means to free (a country, city, or people) from enemy occupation.(e.g. "twelve months earlier Paris had been liberated")

In other words, Trump is actively advocating for the overthrow of the rightful government of three separate States. By referencing the Second Amendment, he clearly implies a call to arms to accomplish that purpose, and a state of war is further suggested by the declaration that the State of Virginia is under siege.

So Trump may have run afoul of the very law that Joe McCarthy and his ilk used to prosecute suspected Communists in the 1950’s. The irony, it burns.

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