tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34175243606557804452024-03-27T23:49:26.526-05:00A Touch Of Common SenseFlorida Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13997510536187166258noreply@blogger.comBlogger331125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3417524360655780445.post-86885173411190962252024-03-16T13:37:00.015-05:002024-03-18T12:13:59.856-05:00THE ASHLI BABBITT LAWSUIT<p> <span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="for fb.jpg" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0W17gGoXwjadNTkfsM-Ba0Urs42XcdwAbZBxM-yYEkJpEOYyKogXCgWsUS4q3ugrQKX6VYBQMMMW1Da9o51GMDNP53IQfe0qOQQvWGXTx1Hsnq5dQCijI5e1RT0KFGd0DtqDoxGT9oM8/w105-h140-p/for+fb.jpg" /></span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;"> BY BILL JUNEAU</span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b><span> </span><span> Although<span> the story seems to have been buried by the Democratic Party-controlled media, the Judicial Watch organization recently filed a $30 million lawsuit against the U.S. Government on behalf of the family of Ashli Babbitt, who was shot and killed by a Capitol police lieutenant on January 6, 2021.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> Judicial Watch is well-known as a conservative and bipartisan watchdog organization which insists on transparency, and integrity from government officials. The group frequently calls upon the courts to enforce constitutional laws and to right obvious wrongs.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Ashli was an unarmed Air Force veteran who was shot and killed by Police Lieutenant Michael Byrd inside the capitol during the disorder by supporters of former President Trump. The suit has been filed in Federal District Court in California with claims for Babbitt's wrongful death and for assault, battery and the negligent behavior of police. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The incident prompted the Biden Department of Justice and the FBI under Director Christopher Wray to do their best to mitigate all comment about the shooting. For eight months, authorities declined to even identify the shooter of the woman and said only that a capitol policeman </span><span style="font-size: large;">had simply done his duty in the face of the so called "insurrection," and </span><span style="font-size: large;">needed to be protected from undeserved scorn and ridicule for "just doing his job as he was trained to do."</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> In August following the shooting, Byrd appeared on the Lester Holt TV show and was interviewed. Acknowledging that he had shot Ms. Babbitt, he said that </span><span color="rgba(2, 20, 31, 0.85)" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">“I followed my training, and I spent countless years preparing for such a moment." At that moment, he stated, Babbitt “was posing a threat” to lawmakers in the House Chamber.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> The shooting had overtones which contradicted a liberal attitude that racist white policemen are bigoted and prone to kill black men for little or no reasons. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span> </span></span><span> </span></span><span style="font-size: large;">Lt. Byrd, 55, is black, and has been a capitol policeman for about 30 years. Ashli Babbitt was a 35-year-old white woman who had served her country honorably in the Air Force. The incident of a black cop shooting a white, unarmed woman is contrary to the Democrat and mainstreeting media stories of how racism against blacks runs rampant in American police departments. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> The belief that all white cops are looking for innocent black men to shoot was given national credence after </span><span>George Floyd, a hardened black ex-convict with a lengthy police rap sheet, died while being arrested by a white Minneapolis patrolman in the spring of 2020. </span><span> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> This Ashli Babbitt killing does not fit the left wing narrative, and consequently, it was, and still is, being hushed up and kept in a darkened closet where embarrassing faux pas</span><span> </span></span><span style="font-size: large;">committed by Democrats get stashed away and left to wither and die without public awareness and fallout. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> Approximately 1,000 </span><span>participants in the Capitol disorder have been arrested, tried and jailed for their participation and alleged violence on January 6, but none was every charged with carrying a weapon or being an insurrectionist. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> Byrd has a record of miscues and service violations as a policeman, but was never disciplined or fully investigated for the fatal shooting of Ashli Babbitt which was the only incident of gun violence in the melee of January 6. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> According to the lawsuit, Ashli and others had been directed by a woman police officer to walk toward the House side. Ashli arrived at a hallway outside the Speakers lobby where two individuals had dislodged glass panels in lobby doors. Lt. Byrd, commanding the police unit on hand, shot Ashli on sight as she </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span>raised herself up into the opening of the broken door.</span><span> the lawsuit charges. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> Byrd has said that he shot Ashli, the lawsuit contended, without ever seeing her hands or assessing her intentions or after even identifying her as a woman. She was "ambushed" and "had posed no threat to anyone," the suit has charged. Multiple persons who witnessed the shooting by Byrd, who was not in uniform and never identified himself as a policeman, screamed at Byrd---"you just murdered her," the lawsuit said. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> Witnesses have said that Ashli never even saw Byrd; and the lawsuit stated that the plain clothed officer never gave her any warnings or commands before shooting her dead with his Glock pistol. The medical examiner later determined that the manner of Ashli Babbitt's death was "homicide." </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> The suit further alleged that Byrd had a service record of being reckless with his Glock 22 pistol and that Congress and his superiors "knew or should have known that Byrd was prone to behave in a dangerous or otherwise incompetent manner." </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> In 2019, the airy-headed Byrd had left his loaded Glock on a bathroom counter in the Capitol Visitor Center complex (CVC). It was found during a routine security sweep later the same day by another officer. Reportedly, 15,000 to 20,000 people pass through the CVC center each day during the warm months. Reportedly Byrd apologized for his negligence, but was never disciplined.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> Byrd, who reportedly has been promoted to captain, had his police powers revoked for brief periods on more than one occasion prior to January 6 for failing to meet firearm qualifications, the suit charged. Byrd reportedly had a reputation among peers for not being a "good shot." </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> On another occasion, Lt. Byrd's car was stolen and Byrd fired multiple shots into the fleeing vehicle in a suburban area. Stray bullets struck the side of homes nearby, and a subsequent investigation found that his use of force was not justified. His firearm privileges reportedly were revoked for a period as a disciplinary measure. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> Ashli Babbitt was 35 years old and resided with her husband, Aaron, in San Diego, California. Together, they operated a successful pool business. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span> Ashli had </span></span><span style="font-family: ProximaNova;"> traveled alone to Washington, D.C. from the west coast because she “loved her country and wanted to show her support for President Trump,” the suit states. “She was there to exercise what she believed were her God-given, American liberties and freedoms."</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span> The wrongful death </span></span><span>lawsuit, with depositions and discovery, could well open up the behind-the-scenes maneuvering to shield the full and factual story of the Ashli Babbitt shooting. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> xxx</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><br /></span></span></p><p><br /></p>Florida Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13997510536187166258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3417524360655780445.post-64569694019937773792024-03-02T17:11:00.139-06:002024-03-10T22:14:15.557-05:00GOV. CHRISTIE'S "BACK FLIP"<p> </p><p><img alt="for fb.jpg" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0W17gGoXwjadNTkfsM-Ba0Urs42XcdwAbZBxM-yYEkJpEOYyKogXCgWsUS4q3ugrQKX6VYBQMMMW1Da9o51GMDNP53IQfe0qOQQvWGXTx1Hsnq5dQCijI5e1RT0KFGd0DtqDoxGT9oM8/w105-h140-p/for+fb.jpg" /></p><p> <span style="font-size: large;"><b> BY BILL JUNEAU </b></span></p><p> <span style="font-size: large;">Chris Christie, 61, is a former Republican governor from the hardwired Democratic state of New Jersey. He has the reputation as a GOP bull dog, but lately he has become more understanding of the Party of the Jackass with whom he shares strong opposition to the reelection of President Trump. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> In 2016, while still the governor of that deep blue state which abuts New York where hating Donald Trump is a career, he was one of some 18 candidates who scrambled without success to become the GOP candidate for President. He was again on debate stage as a candidate for the upcoming November, 2024, presidential election---- but only briefly--- as the popularity of the former Republican president overshadowed his weak candidacy in polls and in primary elections. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Following his unimpressive appearances in a good many 2016 primary debates, and having become somewhat of a goat because of films showing him hugging Democratic President Obama, Christie </span><span style="font-size: large;">dropped out of the race. He envisioned greener fields and announced with enthusiasm his support for Donald Trump who subsequently became the GOP nominee. Trump went on to win the election over Democrat Hillary Clinton, and was sworn into office in January of 2017. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> With many achievements benefiting Americans of all races and colors and in maintaining a secure border with new programs and 450 miles of a steel wall, Trump completed his four year term in 2020, but lost in his bid for a second term to Joe Biden. The Biden win was controversial and President Trump contended that the election was dishonest and had been "stolen" by lying Democrats and a media which covered up evidence of improper procedures and corrupt Biden conduct. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> In preparation for the 2024 election next November, Christie spent only a short time as an announced Republican candidate. Quickly, he saw the writings on the wall and withdrew from contention. But he did so with a "backflip" and an attack on President Trump whom he had supported without reservation four years earlier.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Announcing his withdrawal, he tore into the ex- President, accusing him of being a "lonely, self-consumed mirror hog" who poses a threat to the republic; and who was responsible for the January 6 "insurrection" and "that he should be impeached again." </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span><span> In </span><span>2016, Christie had proclaimed that he was solidly in Trump's corner and following the election, he headed the Trump Transition Team in finding and recommending competent men and women with a conservative, Christian attitude to serve in the new president's administration. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> In 2016 and 2017, Christie never held back in his praise of Donald Trump. Also, it was reported that he and his wife, Mary Pat had for 10 years or more been close friends with Trump and the Trump family. He will be an outstanding President, said Christi, who had governed New Jersey from 2010 to 2018, and prior to the governor's office, had served for eight years as a United States attorney for New Jersey, appointed by President Bush. So what made Christie change?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Christie, who nursed his visage as a GOP attack dog, wanted a spot in the Trump cabinet. Attorney General; Homeland Security Director; Chief of Staff, or even Secretary of State were acceptable offices in the Christie playbook for his future. In the end, however, Christie was never appointed to a cabinet position and his enmity for being ignored apparently grew and festered. Today, Christie is the harshest and loudest Republican critic of Donald Trump, his old friend. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> In one of his money making new gigs, Chris Christie has become a political talking head, and has joined hands with the liberals at the ABC News desk. Nowadays, Christie is apparently still licking his wounds and getting even by talking up the negative aspects of former President Trump. He is swapping, chatting and sharing criticisms with Trump haters in interviews and at the televised round table. "He must never be president again," asserts Christie, as he muckrakes the former president. At one talk session, he opined that Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia, a Democrat, would make for a good president. </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">In 2017, after President Trump sacked his FBI director, James Comey, for incompetence and for sneaky plans to make Trump look like a water carrier for Russian President Vladimir Putin, he picked Christopher Wray for the job, and the disingenuous Wray allowed the FBI to undermine President Trump. Wray had represented Christie in the so-called New Jersey "Bridgegate" scandal, and had kept him from culpable involvement and going to jail; and correspondingly, Christie became the key force to President Trump recommending Wray's appointment as FBI Director. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> "If Trump becomes the GOP nominee for President in next November's Presidential election, it would amount to a "death sentence" for the GOP, said Christie. His brother- commentator at ABC, George Stephanopoulos, certainly agreed. In fact, after withdrawing as a 2024 candidate, the rotund Christie gave his first post-candidacy interview to Stephanopoulos, one of the media's most dedicated, liberal Democrats, who had earned his silver spurs as a defender and mouthpiece for Bill and Hillary Clinton. </span><span> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> You might wonder how Trump feels about having appointed Christopher Wray as director of the FBI in 2017, replacing James Comey who he fired. It was Christie who told him of the political smarts and loyal, down-the middle-legal prowess of Wray; and Trump bought it all and appointed him to head the world's most respected police agency, and the Senate gave its approval. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> In office, Director Wray allowed his subordinates to attack Trump in a variety of ways. He allowed the concealment from the public of the Hunter Biden laptop computer which had been confiscated by FBI agents. Hunter's computer contained messages incriminating his father, former Vice President Joe Biden, now President Biden, for taking money from ill-gotten contracts with Red China and Ukraine. Hunter frequently referred in his emails to his father as the "big guy," and that money was being earmarked for him. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span><span style="font-size: large;">Wray has remained in good standing with the Biden administration, and is a malleable pawn for the lying Merrick Garland, Attorney General, but it is inconceivable that he would ever remain as the FBI director if Trump is reelected to a second term in the coming November. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Trump has been guarded in comments about his "old friend," Chris Christie, who continues to hang with liberals around ABC News, badmouthing President Trump at every opportunity. Trump has summed up his feelings for the pear-shaped Christie by describing him as "a bum."</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> xxx</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><ol style="background-color: white; color: #111111; display: flex; flex-direction: column; font-family: -apple-system, Roboto, SegoeUI, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Microsoft YaHei", "Meiryo UI", Meiryo, "Arial Unicode MS", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; gap: 4px; margin: 12px 0px 0px; padding-inline-start: 24px;"><li><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: x-large;"> </span></li></ol><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></p>Florida Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13997510536187166258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3417524360655780445.post-65429640184852589532024-02-21T17:51:00.041-06:002024-03-01T13:59:01.224-06:00THE BIDEN OF OUR TIMES<p> <img alt="for fb.jpg" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0W17gGoXwjadNTkfsM-Ba0Urs42XcdwAbZBxM-yYEkJpEOYyKogXCgWsUS4q3ugrQKX6VYBQMMMW1Da9o51GMDNP53IQfe0qOQQvWGXTx1Hsnq5dQCijI5e1RT0KFGd0DtqDoxGT9oM8/w105-h140-p/for+fb.jpg" /></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;"> BY BILL JUNEAU </span></b></p><p> <span style="font-size: large;">Th<span>e aged and broken mind of President Joe Biden has been laid bare for all Americans to see. But then, it is not the first time that Biden's brain waves, or lack thereof, have been displayed, and very likely it will not be the last.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkmnli2Q72JD03G0TUNXOT-aRKcxUkLR3SAf2znGb9ouZF4hGzI6xiOgakGbosRAO3vZ0d1hg3oblJVbtwoW1aJZsMmN0ggLaytHrd1VU7WGc3wFBmw59uK9o4aHb9QBNLPTz_n_rEkwQ/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="283" data-original-width="400" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkmnli2Q72JD03G0TUNXOT-aRKcxUkLR3SAf2znGb9ouZF4hGzI6xiOgakGbosRAO3vZ0d1hg3oblJVbtwoW1aJZsMmN0ggLaytHrd1VU7WGc3wFBmw59uK9o4aHb9QBNLPTz_n_rEkwQ/" width="320" /></a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">After five hours of interviews by Robert Hur, a special counsel who investigated President Biden's alleged criminal mishandling of classified documents by leaving them scattered about in his dirty, oily garage in Delaware, Hur concluded that Biden had indeed broken criminal laws and was a candidate for prosecution, notwithstanding any controversy over whether a sitting President can be indicted and tried for an offense.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> However, the investigating Hur found that the 81-year-old Biden, the nation's 46th President, was a pathetic, "elderly and forgetful" man who lacked the poise and brain power to defend himself in a formal trial. Consequently, he was given a pass from prosecution. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span><span> </span><span>No question but that it is </span><span>sad and depressing for trusting citizens to be informed by an unassailable source that their President, "Good Old Uncle Joe," is actually a moron. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> Those that have watched him stumbling and bumbling on television in interviews; and have seen him fall on steps and wander aimlessly on a stage looking for an exit, are wondering why it took so long for a publicized assessment of his acuity, and how this mindless shell, who used Covid as an excuse to hide in the basement of his Delaware home instead of campaigning, was ever elected to the office of United States President. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span><span> Millions of Americans believe that the 2020 election was "stolen" with the help of the FBI and its director Christopher Wray, who concealed evidence of Biden's bribe taking and corrupt practices; and by virtue of an unmonitored mail-in ballot program; and the counting of tens of thousands of ballots for Biden when the paper ballots were blank except for a single mark for a candidate; and that candidate was Joe Biden. </span><span> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Forty-five other men have served as President of the United States over the past 250 years, and now, for the first time, a card-carrying liar and a corrupt airhead was elected and given access to the Oval Office of the White House; and to the keys and buttons which could trigger nuclear aggression. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Joe Biden is 81 years old. For 36 years he was an elected U.S. Senator from Delaware and in 2008 he signed on as Barack Obama's Vice president. In 2021, he was sworn in as the nation's 46th President. His plan, he has said, is to run for a second term as President in November, 2024, against Republican Donald Trump, Biden's predecessor as President. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> No one knows what Biden's IQ is, although he has boasted that it is high. Former classmates of his at Syracuse Law school where he finished close to last in his class, reportedly have described him as the "dumbest S.O.B in the school." Some say that he has never taken a </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #202122;">standardized IQ test. President Trump has called Biden a "Whacko with a low IQ," and the notorious and disliked North Korean dictator,</span><span style="color: #202122;"> </span><span style="color: #202122;">Kim Jong Un, has called Biden a "low IQ idiot." </span><span style="color: #202122;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #202122;"> </span>Navy Admiral Ronny Jackson, now a Texas congressman, served as the White House doctor to Presidents Bush, Obama and Trump; and he was in a position to observe the goings and comings of Joe Biden in his conduct as a senator, and a vice president; and now as the nation's 46th President seeking reelection in 2024. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Said Rep. Jackson: "President Biden is totally incompetent and does not know what he is doing.....and is dangerous." Others, he has said, pull his strings from behind a curtain, a</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span>nd Biden uses crib notes and a teleprompter at press conferences. It has become obvious to many press conference observers that </span><span>Democratic party-controlled newsmen do the bidding of their party</span><span> and shield him from the tough questions.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> After joining congress, in 2020, Dr. Jackson authored a letter to Biden requesting that he take a </span><span>"cognitive" examination which would provide insight as to his acuity and ability to function as President. Biden has never answered the letter which was cosigned by more than a dozen congressmen. Newsmen have consistently declined to ask him about the letter. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> After President Trump was elected in 2016, reporters demanded that he take a cognitive test. He complied, and made a prefect score. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span><span>Victor Davis Hanson is a military historian and a retired professor, widely known and highly respected on all sides of the political spectrum, who has been writing political commentary for many years for major publications. In interviews, he has provided the following assessment of Biden's acuity: </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span> "J<span class="small_caps" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">oe Biden</span> is tragically suffering a mental eclipse and is sliding away at a geometric rate. Understandably, his handlers have kept him out of sight<span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> whenever possible. </span></span></span><span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">O</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">ften, Biden cannot finish a sentence. Names are vague eddies in his mind’s river of forgetfulness." </span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"> </span></span></p><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.8125rem; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> We can look back, said Hanson, at his plagiarism of a speech in 1987 which forced him to withdraw as a presidential candidate; and at the racism of Biden’s riffs about a “clean” and well-spoken Obama; and his unforgettable and foolish "Corn Pop" stories. Those are the trademarks of Joe Biden, who in past years was at least alert when compared with his "current catalepsy." </span></div><div style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Dr. Hanson noted that if Donald Trump can be at times ungrammatical, Biden is A-grammatical. "He simply streams together half-thoughts without syntax and then abandons the sentence entirely."</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">President Biden has been around Washington for about 55 years. His IQ has always been an issue, and he has been called the "Lamborghini of Gaffes," by the far left Washington Post. He will turn 82 next November, insisting that he has earned a second term. </span><span style="color: #202122;">Pollsters are saying that if the race of Trump v Biden was held today, Biden would be defeated by a heavy num</span></span><span style="color: #202122; font-size: large;">ber.</span><span style="color: #202122; font-size: x-large;"> </span></div></div><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.8125rem; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #202122; font-size: large;"> Some insiders believe that Biden will never be a candidate in 2024, because even Democrats recognize that he is mentally deficient. Some are predicting that he will be removed beforehand from the office of President via the 25th Amendment, and that Vice President Kamala Harris will take his place; and that she will name a vice president who will then be maneuvered into becoming the Democratic candidate for President, running against former President Trump. </span></div><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.8125rem; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #202122; font-size: large;"> A campaign for President by Kamala Harris, who has been largely invisible during a time when a strong vice president was sadly needed, is strongly resisted by Democrats who consider her unlikeable and unpopular. </span></div><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.8125rem; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #202122; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.8125rem; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #202122; font-size: large;"> xxx. </span></div><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.8125rem; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> </span></span><br /><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: x-large;"> </span></div><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></p><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.8125rem; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"><br /></span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> </span></span></div>Florida Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13997510536187166258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3417524360655780445.post-21948062020538044262024-02-03T18:08:00.046-06:002024-02-06T12:39:52.434-06:00DEFAMATION NONSENSE AND E. JEAN CARROLL<p> <span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="for fb.jpg" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0W17gGoXwjadNTkfsM-Ba0Urs42XcdwAbZBxM-yYEkJpEOYyKogXCgWsUS4q3ugrQKX6VYBQMMMW1Da9o51GMDNP53IQfe0qOQQvWGXTx1Hsnq5dQCijI5e1RT0KFGd0DtqDoxGT9oM8/w105-h140-p/for+fb.jpg" /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> <span><b> BY BILL JUNEAU</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Behind every anti-Trump story, there appears to be the political fingers of Democrats, with the customary clapping from the media. This extraordinarily, suspicious story line involves Ms. E. Jean Carroll, a journalist and author, who sued the former President for rape and for defamation of character and won judgments totaling $88.3 million dollars. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The ex-President says it is all part of the continuing witch hunt against him. Many lawyers are predicting that the nonsense of the case and the lame partisan rulings from the bench will never withstand the scrutiny of an honest appellate court. So what's it all about?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b> Ms.<b> </b><span>E. Jean Carroll's main forte in life was dispensing advice to love-torn women via her column, "Ask E. Jean" in the "Elle" magazine. She provided her wisdom to unhappy and struggling women for some 26 years before retiring in 2020. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Somewhere around late 1995 or early 1996, Carroll isn't sure, she tells of bumping into real estate mogul Donald Trump inside the fashionable </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif;">Bergdorf Goodman department store across the street from Trump Towers on Fifth avenue in Manhattan. She related her story in a written article and in her book, 'What do we need men for: A Modest Proposal" published in 2019; and later in testimony in a federal court in New York. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif;"> Carroll has said that they hit it off on a friendly note, and </span><span>chatted over Trump's desire to find a nice gift for a lady friend. E.Jean, is now 80, but then was in her 50s. She has noted that she was a couple of years older than the "handsome," wealthy, and well known real estate pro. He asked her "advice" for an appropriate gift, and she agreed to help. They talked of possible gifts, and E Jean admits to being a bit flirty as they made small talk and discussed the airy possibility of Trump's purchase of a "lace bodysuit." </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> With laughs about who will try on a bodysuit, they made their way to the lingerie department and into a dressing room where customers try on clothes. Carroll has said that they ribbed each other about who would actually try on the bodysuit. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">The next moment, Carroll said, Trump did an about face. Still wearing his business attire composed of a shirt, tie, and jacket, under an overcoat, she said, he opened the overcoat, unzipped his pants, pulled down her underclothing, and forced his fingers around her private area....and "thrusts his penis halfway or completely, I’m not certain — inside me." </span><span style="font-size: large;">The whole episode lasts no more than three minutes...."</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Miller Text", Georgia, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> She has written:</span><span style="font-family: "Miller Text", Georgia, serif;"> " </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">I am wearing a pair of sturdy black patent-leather four-inch Barneys high heels, which puts my height around six-one, and I try to stomp his foot. I try to push him off with my one free hand — for some reason, I keep holding my purse with the other — and I finally get a knee up high enough to push him out and off and I turn, open the door, and run out of the dressing room onto fifth avenue." The busy store was practically empty at the time, she recalled. </span></span></p><p><span><span><span style="font-size: large;"><span> S</span><span>he did not report the attack to police, and subsequently was told there were no cameras which could verify her story. Big stores in Manhattan generally have cameras all around but Carroll said she was told there were none there. Unlike President Clinton's situation in past years, Carroll had no "blue dress" which would confirm her story. She kept the attack secret for 22 years, but has said that she did share the story with two close friends. One told her to inform authorities of the attack, and the other advised her that making a police report would invite unnecessary problems. At her trial, her two friends testified and said, yes, they remember Carroll telling them of Trump's attack more than two decades ago. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span><span>Carroll's book actually revealed tales about a score of unsavory and unlikeable men she has known through the years. The President, she said, was not the only man who had gone after her sexually. In fact, E. Jean told of other men, who had sexually made a move on her. One. she identified as Leslie Moonves, former CEO of CBS Television. She announced in her writings that Moonves had accosted her "in an elevator," after she had interviewed him for a story and began kissing her and attempted to force his tongue into her mouth. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span> <span>Moonves vehemently denied the allegation and the story of his attack ran out of steam in short order. The allegation and denial prompted speculation of a </span></span></span><span>settlement by Moonves to make the story go away. </span></span></p><p><span><span><span style="font-size: large;"> When Donald Trump learned of the story and the allegations against him, he was the nation's 45th President. From the White House, he exploded with loud public denials, and said he had never met the "Elle" columnist and that the story was fiction and that "E. Jean" was pursuing a big pay day. She is a "liar" and a "whack job," said Trump. It is just more of the same old political witch hunt; along with efforts to sell her book. </span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span style="font-size: large;"> In the face of Trump's denunciations of Carroll who hid her "story" for almost a quarter of a century, Carroll reportedly consulted a well-known Trump-hating New York lawyer who recommended that she sue the President for the assault and for defamation for calling her a "liar and a whack job." It was a "smoking hot" story about the menacing Donald Trump and New York has the citizenry and judges and politicians eager to endorse that type of lawsuit. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span><span> The Donald Trump advance on an innocent woman, a former Miss Indiana university in the 1960s, was filed as a civil suit seeking monetary damages and it went to trial in Federal District court in spring of 2023. A New York jury heard Carroll's story of the attack, but the President declined to testify, and E. Jean was victorious. The jury assigned damages for defamation and sexual abuse at $5 million. </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif;"> Yes, Trump had abused E. Jean sexually in that tiny room, the jury found, and never even took off his heavy overcoat or suit coat. Trump's alleged humping and pumping, and E. Jean's muffled cries in the busy. fifth avenue store never drew notice, asserts Carroll. The New York jury was chosen in a city where Trump detractors dominate in overwhelming numbers. Citizens in the Big Apple will never forget how the anointed Hillary Clinton, known to Trump as "Crooked Hillary," went down in defeat in the 2016 presidential election. It was a "get Trump" yarn which New Yorkers loved, and a new chance to put Trump down and get even on behalf of Democrats. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif;"> There has been a good deal of criticism of the jury's finding of defamation in light of Trump's right to speak out and criticize the plaintiff with First Amendment protection. Many aspects of E. Jean's allegations are questionable and are part of the President's pending appeal to a higher court. </span></span></span><span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif;">Following the jury verdict in the first civil litigation, the 80-year-old Carroll was a guest at CNN and she told how the President had raped her and then defamed her. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif;">In response, Trump again tore into E.Jean calling her a "liar" and and a "whack job" out to sell her book. In response to the President's upbraiding Carroll again, anti-Trump legal experts persuaded her to file a second complaint for defamation seeking actual and punitive damages. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif;">Trump then countersued E. Jean for defamation against him noting that she had lied on CNN claiming that she had been raped when the jury declined to make that finding. She had maliciously defamed him and knew she was lying, Trump charged. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif;"> The second case was tried before a New York jury and was presided over by Judge Lewis A. Kaplan who was appointed to federal bench in 1994 by President Clinton after recommendation by Democratic New York Senator Patrick Moynihan. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif;"> The jury, relying upon challenged rulings of the judge concerning defamation law, awarded plaintiff Carroll $16 million for actual damages to her reputation and $65 million in punitive damages. With the earlier judgment against him, Trump became indebted to Carroll for a total of $88.3 million. Trump's countersuit for defamation was thrown out by Judge Kaplan who declared it to be a tactic for delay, according to news reports. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif;"> T</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif;">rump is appealing both jury decisions to higher courts and is confident that the judgments will be overruled. </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, Guardian Text Egyptian Web, Georgia, serif;"> Trump and his lawyers maintain that the President has a right of free speech in accord with the First Amendment. Words alone and name calling do not constitute defamation, and plaintiff Carroll never suffered any loss of income or humiliations as a result of calling her a "liar" looking for money. Her "actual" damages as a result of the so-called defamation, are nothing, according to attorneys for Trump.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"> The findings that Trump assaulted Carroll who he had never known, are not based upon provable evidence. The punitive award is grossly excessive and is a political judgment designed to weaken him and prevent him from running for another term of President in 2024. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif;"> </span><span face="-apple-system, Roboto, SegoeUI, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Microsoft YaHei", "Meiryo UI", Meiryo, "Arial Unicode MS", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #111111;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: xx-large;">xxx</span></p>Florida Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13997510536187166258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3417524360655780445.post-17888555140718949742024-01-09T11:11:00.015-06:002024-02-06T17:18:04.383-06:00THE GAY BALLOON THAT EXPLODED<p><br /></p><p></p><p><b><img alt="for fb.jpg" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0W17gGoXwjadNTkfsM-Ba0Urs42XcdwAbZBxM-yYEkJpEOYyKogXCgWsUS4q3ugrQKX6VYBQMMMW1Da9o51GMDNP53IQfe0qOQQvWGXTx1Hsnq5dQCijI5e1RT0KFGd0DtqDoxGT9oM8/w105-h140-p/for+fb.jpg" /></b></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b> BY BILL JUNEAU </b></span></p><p> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Claudine Gay, 53, <span style="font-family: inherit;">dived into the Harvard presidency last July 1, and received praise for her </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">intellectual<span> superiority, and for her dedication in advancing DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) in the halls of academia. </span><span>But she </span>sank<span> like a rock in water just six months later, after being exposed as a woke-minded proponent who believes that it is permissible for students on campus to call for the "</span><span>genocide" of </span>Jews; and as a plagiarist whose "scholarly" writings contained the unattributed rhetoric of others. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> She created a Harvard raging controversy on the following Dec. 6 when she delivered anti-Semitic comments before a committee of the U.S. House of Representatives. In response to a question, Gay indicated that schools should not restrict students participating in demonstrations on campus from calling for the killing of Jews. Her words drew a firestorm of complaints about her all-around leadership as president of the nation's most prestigious university. Most Americans, it appeared, do not share with Gay her woke-minded opinion that free reins should be given to universities, consistent with the First Amendment, to encourage the elimination of an entire race. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> Gay's outrageous comments caused critics to question her background and ability to serve as president of the nation's foremost university. Her remarks touched off an inspection of her writings and her PhD thesis which revealed some 20 to 50 instances in which Gay had apparently plagiarized the writings of others and, without attribution, had in some cases used word-for- word rhetoric as her own. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Her</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">anti-Semitic comments and her plagiarism caused a national drumbeat of criticism, which led to her resignation on Jan. 2, some four weeks after her congressional appearance, and about six months into her presidency.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> Yet in Dr. Gay's mind, it is neither her willingness to let her students advocate in favor of wiping out Jews, nor her cheating on her thesis and other scholarly writings, that caused the loss of her exalted job. No, in her letter of resignation, Dr. Gay blamed "racial animus," for her quitting. Several days later, she sent a letter to the NYT saying that she was a victim of a "well laid trap." </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"> In her letter of resignation, Gay </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span>said that she was stepping down from the presidency with a "heavy heart" and in the best</span></span></span><span><em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.4px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="font-size: large;"> interests of </span></em><em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.4px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="font-size: large;">Harvard..... </span></em></span></span><em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.4px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.16px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"It has been distressing, she wrote, "to have doubt cast on my commitments to confronting hate and to upholding scholarly rigor- two bedrock values that are fundamental to who I am; and frightening to be subjected to personal attacks and threats fueled by racial animus." </i></span></em></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.16px;"><i> </i></span></span> Her identity as an </span>African<span> American, the key factor which led to her appointment as Harvard's first black woman president, was not powerful enough to help her keep the job.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> Behind the curtain, it has been widely reported, former U.S. President Barack Obama, a Harvard alum, had importuned everyone he could find to help save the lofty position for this remarkable woman of color. But he was unsuccessful in turning around the massive criticism which flowed from her asinine and immoral comments, which she had delivered publicly. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> The Rev Al Sharpton, </span><span style="font-size: large;">a civil rights activist who seldom misses an opportunity to charge "racism," expressed outrage at Gay's resignation. In a statement, he said that her quitting as president is an "attack on every black woman in this country who has put a crack in the glass ceiling." Also, he accused some Gay critics of having a "racial animus and a repugnant racist vitriol" against her.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"> Liberal DEI enthusiasts were probably hoping to hear from President Biden who is a vocal supporter of identity politics and the woke philosophy. But the fumbling Biden has remained quiet. It was not surprising, though since Biden, himself, was a well</span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span style="font-size: large;">-documented plagiarist while attending Syracuse Law school, and then as a U.S. Senator from Delaware. Those shameful credentials, no doubt, got in the way of his going to bat for Gay. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span> Dr. Gay was the first black female president out of the 30 presidents who have held office at the 388 year-old Harvard. She will continue there as a </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124;">tenured professor of government and African American studies. </span> As President, she reportedly was to be paid $879,000 a year. As a professor, her annual salary will be $226,300.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face=""Google Sans", Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156;"> To many critics it was Gay's strong embracing of so-called DEI that was responsible for all the criticism and unpopularity. Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter, now "X," has posted that DEI is "just another </span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #4d5156;">term for '</span>racism' and-- shame on anyone using it. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">Bill Ackman, a billionaire Harvard donor and a hard line critic of Gay, is on the same page as Musk. He wrote on Twitter that he believed that DEI efforts were "racist and dangerous" with the racism in this case against whites. He also said that DEI was a "powerful movement" that has not only pervaded Harvard, but the educational system at large and needs to be opposed. </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">In response to Gay's assertion that she was a victim of a "well laid trap," Elise Stefanik, a New York congresswoman, said that Gay's exit from Harvard was not a "well laid trap," but rather was Gay's "own cataclysmic failure." It was Stefanik who had questioned Gay at the congressional hearing which had been scheduled as a means of exploring the reasons for anti Semitic rhetoric by students on American campuses.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span><i style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.16px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When Gay testified before Congress, she was one of three university presidents who appeared as witnesses. With Gay, was Dr. Liz Magill, president of the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Sally Kornbluth, President of MIT. Like Gay, Dr. Magill has resigned her presidency while Kornbluth appears to be holding tight to her job. </span></i><i style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.16px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></span></i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span> </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span><span> </span></span><span class="ILfuVd" face=""Google Sans", Roboto, arial, sans-serif" lang="en" style="background-color: white; color: #202124; line-height: 28px;"><span class="hgKElc" style="padding: 0px 8px 0px 0px;"><span jscontroller="BicQqd" jsname="XtloMb">Alan M. Garber, an economist and physician who is Harvard's provost and chief academic officer, will be serving as the interim President. </span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> xxx</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p>Florida Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13997510536187166258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3417524360655780445.post-68457933088940427662023-12-27T15:48:00.022-06:002023-12-29T16:48:34.780-06:00THE NASHVILLE ASSASSIN AND HER LITTLE BLACK BOOKS<p> <b style="font-size: x-large;"><img alt="for fb.jpg" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0W17gGoXwjadNTkfsM-Ba0Urs42XcdwAbZBxM-yYEkJpEOYyKogXCgWsUS4q3ugrQKX6VYBQMMMW1Da9o51GMDNP53IQfe0qOQQvWGXTx1Hsnq5dQCijI5e1RT0KFGd0DtqDoxGT9oM8/w105-h140-p/for+fb.jpg" /></b></p><p><b style="font-size: x-large;"> BY BILL JUNEAU</b></p><p><b style="font-size: x-large;"> </b><span><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">The big controversy in and around Nashville, Tenn., is the guarded "manifesto" of the transitioning Audrey Hale, who gunned down three small children and three adults in an explosion of hate for young Christian "crackers."</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span><span> Last March, the 28-year-old Hale who was in a mid-gender change from female to male, blasted her way through a glass door of the Christian Covenant Elementary school. Using a rifle and two handguns and firing off some 126 bullets, Hale shot and killed three nine-year-old children, a boy and two girls, and three adult supervisors, including</span></span><span> the head teacher, a substitute teacher, and the school custodian. Responding Nashville police officers shot and killed Hale as she held to her guns. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> Reportedly, Hale, who at one time was a pupil in the Christian school, had put together extensive plans for how she would take down occupants. Her </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">journals, diaries and plans have all been confiscated from her home and from inside her automobile. All of her papers are in the hands of police authorities in Nashville, who are declining to make them public, in deference to woke and progressive requests. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> The </span><span style="color: #393939;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Covenant campus, founded in 2001, is in an affluent part of Nashville known as Green Hills and is the educational home to some 200 pupils in preschool to sixth grade. Students have bible classes and attend chapel services daily.</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> T</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">he LGBTQ </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">organizations have raised their voices with objections to the release of Hale's writings, noting that life for a transgender person is very difficult and has been made even tougher because of the "virtual avalanche" of anti-trans legislation. Certainly, said the Trans Resistance Network (TRN) in a statement, Hale's confrontation of the anti-trans sentiment must be factored into the fatal shootings at the Christian school. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> The families of murdered victims are siding with holding back the manifesto from public scrutiny. Their belief, it is reported, is that release to the public would could cause more traumatic problems and perhaps encourage action by "copy cats." </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <span>Steven Crowder, a conservative talk show host, revealed on-line photo films of the documents in question, and supplied comments contained therein of Hale's personal observations and opinions. His disclosures are being termed an unauthorized "leak" and efforts are underway to find out how the conservative Crowder obtained the hands-off materials. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> The "leak" to Crowder has increased the commotion and controversy in and around Nashville. Although Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee favors release of the manifesto in accord with the people's right to know, Nashville Mayor </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7); color: #111111;">Freddie O'Connell opposes it, and has ordered an investigation in an all-out effort to find and apparently punish the "leaker." Nashville newsman Brent Leatherwood described the leaker as a "viper." </span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7); color: #111111;"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">In the Crowder on-line revelations, he showed films of a pile of Hale's journals, books and miscellaneous papers he had been made privy to, and revealed some words and written plans of Hale's to kill children. Crowder, who promotes his conservative show as "Louder with Crowder," stands by his </span><span style="font-size: large;">reporting</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> noting that </span>citizens<span style="font-family: inherit;"> have an absolute right to know about the thinking of a transitioning woman who wants to be a man, and is filled with hate for Christians and for the elementary school where she attended the 3d and 4th grades. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"> The leaked information to Crowder also told of Hale's desire to "kill all you little f.....rs and crackers with white privilege," and to have "a high death count." She wrote that she was a transgendered man, and her name was now "Aiden." </span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #121212; margin: 26px 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Open Sans";"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Another page pointed to by Crowder included an hour-by-hour calendar referred to by Hale as "Death Day." That disclosure included comments like "get dressed" and "eat breakfast;" and "prepare for attack" and "time 2 die." Hale added that "I'm a little nervous, but excited too. Been excited for the past 2 weeks,.....Can't believe I'm doing this, but I'm ready... I hope my victims aren't."</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #121212; margin: 26px 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Last </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">November seven Nashville policemen were placed on the </span>administrative<span style="font-family: inherit;"> duty roster and the transfer gave the </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">impression that one or more of the officers may have had their fingers in providing the sensitive </span>information<span style="font-family: inherit;"> to Crowder. A few weeks later, however, four of the seven were recalled to regular duty, but the other three are remaining on desk duty as the investigation ordered by Mayor O'Connell continues. None of the officers have been identified. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> Conservative TV anchors and Republican politicians are continuing to request that the full story of Hale's assault and murder of six persons be revealed in its entirety. Transparency in government demands that the "manifesto" be made public. If the process of transitioning filled Audrey Hale with hate and inspired (her or him) to shoot up a school, the public and "</span><span><span>trans" </span><span>aspirants should be so informed, said Laura Ingraham who anchors the Fox News show, "the Ingraham Angle."</span></span><span> .</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span> </span></span><span face="-apple-system, Roboto, SegoeUI, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Microsoft YaHei", "Meiryo UI", Meiryo, "Arial Unicode MS", sans-serif" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7); color: #111111;"> </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);"><span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit;">Vivek Ramaswamy, a GOP candidate for U.S. President, </span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit;"> has called for the release of the guarded manifesto. It will, said Ramaswamy, "expose Hale's evil ideology and her radical agenda." Ingraham said that Ramaswamy is among the few who dare to stand up to the "woke mob" and that qualifies him as a genuine Nashville hero. </span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;">Hale's parents have told newsmen that their daughter suffered from an "emotional disorder" and was being counseled by a doctor. Some believe that she may have become stressed over contemplated "bottom surgery."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: large;">Hale, unbeknownst to her parents, owned seven various type guns, all of which she purchased legally. He father said that it was their belief that Audrey had owned one gun some time ago, but had sold it. All of Hale's weapons have been seized by police and are being examined by ballistic experts. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> In the minutes before Hale entered the school and began firing, she had sent an Instagram to an old friend, Paige Patton, a Nashville radio host who uses the name "Averianna." </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> Said Hale: </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: TiemposText;">"I'm planning to die today. This is not a joke. You will probably hear about me on the news after I die.... </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: TiemposText;">This is my last goodbye--love you--see you again in another life." </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> T</span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">he shooting began 13 minutes later. </span><span> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> xxx</span></span></p><p class="default__StyledText-sc-1px4eze-0 jomBpb body-paragraph" style="--font: var(--font-rte-body); box-sizing: inherit; color: #393939; font-family: var(--font, var(--font-1)); font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p>Florida Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13997510536187166258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3417524360655780445.post-49170767804241878572023-12-20T14:39:00.315-06:002024-01-01T21:04:46.757-06:00SUPREME COURT TELLS CHAUVIN--NO APPEAL FOR YOU<p> <b style="font-size: x-large;"><img alt="for fb.jpg" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0W17gGoXwjadNTkfsM-Ba0Urs42XcdwAbZBxM-yYEkJpEOYyKogXCgWsUS4q3ugrQKX6VYBQMMMW1Da9o51GMDNP53IQfe0qOQQvWGXTx1Hsnq5dQCijI5e1RT0KFGd0DtqDoxGT9oM8/w105-h140-p/for+fb.jpg" /></b></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><b> BY BILL JUNEAU</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">Though buried in news reports and difficult to find, we nevertheless have learned that the United States Supreme Court has refused to consider the appeal from former Policeman Derek Chauvin, who argues that he did not kill or commit manslaughter on George Floyd. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Chauvin's attorneys and assorted legal scholars, and millions of fair minded Americans share the belief that Chauvin did not receive a fair trial and that the evidence and "proof beyond a reasonable doubt" of his guilt for murder and manslaughter is sorely lacking; and that it was more the product of far-left racial and political unrest. The jury decision of guilty on all counts was not a reasonable conclusion based on facts and testimony under oath during the officer's trial in April of 2021. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">With his attorneys who prepared a lengthy written brief, Chauvin had importuned the nine justices of the nation's highest court and the final arbiter of disputes, to examine his appeal with clean glasses, outside the noise of a twisted world calling him a cruel "racist" cop, and to reverse the jury findings and order up a new trial which would be administered fairly. As is often said by lawyers, and constitutional experts, a new trial would be the "right thing to do."</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Lasting five weeks in the spring of </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span>2021, in the prominent Twin City of Minneapolis, Minnesota, the trial was held in a courthouse converted into a war-like fortress rimmed with coiled wire. The 12-person jury was tainted and infected by one member who lied and concealed his anti-police sentiment during voir dire questioning </span><span>by the judge and attorneys. Also, there was significant evidence that the jurors feared for their safety unless the defendant cop was convicted. Judicial errors were countless. Jurors were unsequestered and requests for a mistrial and change of venue were repeatedly denied by Trial Judge Peter Cahill. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The high court has decline</span><span>d a review of the Chauvin conviction and of the "enhanced" sentence handed him by Judge Cahill, thereby allowing the decision of the jury and the lower level Minnesota Court of Appeals to stand. Was the U.S. Supreme Court too concerned that changing the Floyd decision or ordering a new trial for the police officer would ignite a bitter, new explosion of racial violence in Minneapolis and other major cities? Was it the smarter path by the erudite justices to just not get involved?</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Several months ago, SCOTUS reversed the 50-year-old Roe v. Wade decision, ruling that abortion was not a constitutional question and that abortion availability, therefore, was to be decided by individual states. The court showed independence, moral courage and respect for the rule of law in dealing with this emotional issue. Was the high court's extraordinary bravery in reversing the Roe decision only justice for the moment? </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span> Off</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span>icer Chauvin, an 18-year veteran policeman, was found guilty of second degree unintended murder and manslaughter by the tainted jury which deliberated for 10 hours. The recommended sentencing guidelines in Minnesota for the named offenses is 12.5 years in jail. Judge Cahill sentenced the defendant to 22.5 years in a penitentiary explaining that he was "enhancing" the punishment by tacking on a</span><span>nother decade of prison time because the defendant police officer had been </span><span> </span><span>unnecessarily "cruel," and that his conduct had been witnessed by young and impressionable children. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span><span>George Floyd, 46, an African American with a long rap sheet, died May 25, 2020 after Minneapolis Officer Chauvin arrested him, and was detaining him while awaiting a police transport vehicle. Police involvement came after a local merchant in Minneapolis telephoned police for help, accusing Floyd, of passing a counterfeit $20 bill as payment for cigarettes. </span></span></p><div><span style="font-size: large;"> Tragically and unpredictably, the muscular, six-foot, six-inch Floyd succumbed as Chauvin held him to the ground with a knee on his neck, a common police procedure used by officers in controlling uncooperative suspects. The technique is taught officers in the Minneapolis police academy; and Officer Chauvin used the </span><span style="font-size: large;">technique as he had been instructed to do. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"> At the trial, physicians argued as to the cause of death. Factually and without dispute, pathologists testified that Floyd's body was loaded with fentanyl and other drugs; and he was actually gulping pills and complaining that he was having trouble breathing when first seen by policemen. Also, there was testimony from doctors that his main arteries were almost completely blocked so that he was in effect a "dead man walking." One physician testified that Floyd had so much fentanyl in his system that his death would qualify as a drug overdose. Fentanyl drug deaths claim thousands of lives in America each year. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"> Chauvin's lawyers were also petitioning the high court to consider in its final appeal a determination from respected pathologist </span><span style="font-size: large;">William Schaetzel of Topeka, Kan., that Floyd died of a rare tumor in his body, a "paraganglioma." Dr. Schaetzel s recent investigation into the cause of Floyd's death directly challenges the conclusion that Floyd's demise was from asphyxia caused by the police officer's use of a "knee to his neck." </span><span style="font-size: xx-large;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"> Derek Chauvin, 47, had been a uniformed policeman in Minneapolis for nearly two decades. He was the recipient of four medals and commendations for valor and bravery. He had never been disciplined for using excessive force in making an arrest.</span><span style="font-size: xx-large;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"> The Chauvin trial began in an atmosphere of headlines, and riots and protest demonstrations on allegations that Chauvin was a racist cop, who typified policemen throughout the country. Despite the near anarchy in some locations, Judge Cahill declined to sequester jurors despite repeated motions that he do so. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"> The dishonest juror selected was an African American high school coach. He was approved after informing the court that he had no preconceived notions of the policeman's guilt; and that he would act solely on the basis of the evidence presented. Concealed was the fact that he had attended a rally in which he wore a hat saluting the BLM organization, and a Tee-shirt with the inscription , "Get your knee off of my neck." At the close of the trial, Judge Cahill declined to grant a mistrial on the basis of the juror's prevarication and his obvious pro Floyd bias. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"> <br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"> As the five week trial was moving forward, the city of Minneapolis announced that it was awarding $27 million to the family of George Floyd as settlement of a suit alleging police brutality. It appears likely, Chauvin lawyers argue, that the unsequestered jurors became informed of the award, and that it had an effect on them. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"> Maxine Waters of California, an African American Congresswoman, told a protest rally that if the policeman is not convicted, there will be retaliation and "we will get confrontational." Chauvin contended in his arguments that it was likely that the unsequestered jurors learned of her threats and were fearful for their personal safety. Waters' publicized threat prompted Trial Judge Cahill to predict that her comments might well be grounds for a mistrial in an appeal, though he himself declined to order a mistrial when asked to do so. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"> With the trial underway, </span><span style="font-size: large;">President Biden weighed in and asserted that evidence in the case was "overwhelming," and he "was praying that the jurors would reach the right decision." His message to jurors was clear, and after the guilty finding was returned, the President commented that its decision was a "step forward in the fight against systemic police racism.</span><span style="font-size: x-large;">"</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">Around the Thanksgiving holiday, Chauvin was </span><span style="font-size: large;">attacked and stabbed 22 times in his neck and back by an African American inmate bent on avenging the death of George Floyd. The attack occurred in a federal prison in Tucson, Ariz where Chauvin is serving his time. Chauvin was seriously wounded from the knifing, but according to reports, will recover, and jail authorities are promising that they will increase security on behalf of the former policeman. </span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">The decision by SCOTUS to trash the Chauvin appeal and look the other way, </span><span style="font-size: large;">without comment, has all the appearances of being a political decision rather than a legal one. The court should reconsider and examine the appeal in the interest of justice and in accord with the high court's stated and trusted mission to provide equal justice for every American. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"> xxx</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div>Florida Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13997510536187166258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3417524360655780445.post-42979299638126866922023-11-22T15:30:00.017-06:002023-11-23T09:04:13.888-06:00THE TWO FACES OF RUDY GIULIANI <p> </p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><img alt="for fb.jpg" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0W17gGoXwjadNTkfsM-Ba0Urs42XcdwAbZBxM-yYEkJpEOYyKogXCgWsUS4q3ugrQKX6VYBQMMMW1Da9o51GMDNP53IQfe0qOQQvWGXTx1Hsnq5dQCijI5e1RT0KFGd0DtqDoxGT9oM8/w105-h140-p/for+fb.jpg" /></b> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b> <span> BY BILL JUNEAU</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> In today's fast-moving world, there are two Rudy Giulianis: the crime busting hero and ex-mayor of New York city; and the despised and disparaged defender of former President Donald Trump.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> In the 1980s, 90s and into the 21st century, Giuliani was nationally and internationally celebrated as the "Toast of New York." His name was magic and huge crowds gathered wherever and whenever he spoke, and citizens reacted with emotion at the man who had made New York into the safest big city in the country; and whose presence promised that New York would emerge from the Muslim attack on the twin towers with greater strength than ever; and that the ugly terrorists who caused the deaths of 2,500 Americans would be brought to justice and pay the price. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> In 2001, the liberal "Time" Magazine named Giuliani as its "Person of the Year," saluting him as the 107th mayor of New York and the "greatest mayor" to have ever held that office. Magazine editors lauded Republican Giuliani as "America's mayor," and even referenced him as the "Mayor to the World."</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> He was made an honorary Knight of England by Queen Elizabeth II, and the Italian government presented him with an award for his fight against the mafia, which was being dominated by Italians. He was nominated for receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize, and millions clamored for him to run for U.S President in 2000 and again in 2008, but he declined to do so, and provided his support to George W. Bush in 2000 and Sen. John McCain in 2008. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Awards and commendations were frequent as he was congratulated with a special medal from the American Bar Association and with a commendation from </span><span style="font-size: large;">the Ronald Reagan Freedom association. The Gov. Thomas E. Dewey association was always pleased when he would speak at its luncheons. The George C. Marshall Foundation singled out Giuliani for an award, as did the Christopher Leadership organization. Films, books and articles were written with stories of his courage and resolve and how he put crooks, thieves and con artists behind bars. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">Some even compared Rudy Giuliani to brave Horatius of the poem "Horatius at the Bridge." In that classic poetic ballad, the story was told of how Horatius stood at the mouth of the bridge over the Tiber river and slew the criminal Etruscans who sought to invade the Roman empire. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span><span> </span><span>In and around 2015, the admired and respected Giuliani became an adviser to candidate for President, Donald Trump, and in 2018, he signed on as the president's "personal lawyer." That was around the time that the lies and fabricated reports began appearing, all designed with the assistance of the Democrat controlled media, to torpedo the nation's 45th President and to take down with him his fighting personal lawyer. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> It was Giuliani, now 79, who spearheaded the defense of President Trump who was being accused of "colluding" with Russian President Putin. After a long investigation ordered by Congress, at a cost of some $33 million, Trump was cleared of all seditious charges, and FBI leaders who commissioned the probe subsequently acknowledged publicly that the investigation was a "hoax" designed to bring Trump down--and his attorney with him. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Trump, with Giuliani at his side, came upon evidence that Vice President Joe Biden had taken bribes from Ukraine bosses, and also had provided a job as a board member of a gas company for his son, Hunter, a cocaine addict who had been kicked out of the navy because of his uncontrolled drug use.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> For sitting as a member of the board of Burisma Holdings, Inc., </span><span>Hunter was paid $83,000 per month, and there was evidence that he was periodically kicking back thousands of dollars to his dad, the Vice President under President Obama. The story of Biden family corruption was outlined by Hunter in emails found on his lost lap top computer. Hunter spoke of money for the "Big Guy" or "Pop," affectionate names which Hunter had for his dad who was arranging for him contracts with China, Russia and the Ukraine and for all of his financial needs. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"> In a telephone conversation, Trump asked the new Ukraine President<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Volodymyr Z</span></span><span>elenskyy to investigate the corrupt practices of Joe and Hunter Biden in Ukraine. To punish Trump for calling for an investigation into Biden family corruption, a partisan Congress impeached President Trump and castigated Giuliani as a collaborator. Subsequently, the Senate heard evidence and declared President Trump "not guilty" of all charges. The impeachment was another hoax created and designed to bring down the nation's 45th President. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> Following the election in 2020 in which Joe Biden won and narrowly captured electoral college votes from six battleground states, Giuliani saw evidence and asserted his belief as an attorney that the election had been "stolen" from the incumbent President seeking reelection to a second term. </span><span> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Voting laws were ignored; and non citizens were alleged to have cast votes which were counted in Biden's favor, said Giuliani. It is believed that hundreds of thousands of votes were counted for Biden even though the ballots contained only a single mark, and that was for Biden. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Recounts never included an actual examination of ballots which would have revealed more basis for the allegation that the election was "stolen.". Democrats accused Trump and his lawyer, Giuliani, of pushing a "big lie," and the tethered media became the mouth piece of lying democrats. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">President Trump has been indicted in four different jurisdictions on some 91 counts for alleged misdeeds. The ex-</span><span style="font-size: large;">President</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> is said to have retained in his home confidential documents, even though as President he had declassified them. </span>Also,<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Trump has been accused of giving hush money to a woman some 20 years ago, and of taking </span>steps<span style="font-family: inherit;"> to overturn the results of the 2020 election in the state of </span>Georgia<span style="font-family: inherit;">. In each case, Atty. Giuliani has been accused of </span>misstating<span style="font-family: inherit;"> facts in his defense of the President and of misconstruing evidence concerning the rigging of the election in that state. </span></span></p><p><span><span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> In April of 2021, federal lawyers and FBI agents raided the Manhattan home of Attorney Giuliani and seized computers, telephones and records, all of which were considered to be a violation of the Attorney-Client privilege. </span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> Most Giuliani supporters recognize that the midnight raid was intended to humiliate the former mayor rather then to serve any legal purpose. Subsequently, Giuliani was suspended from the practice of law in New York, on grounds that he made false statements while attempting to persuade courts to overturn the 2020 election which put the dim and corrupt Biden in the White House. </span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Referencing Joe Biden, Trump has described him in interviews as "</span><span>stone</span><span> corrupt" and a compulsive "liar" for all of his many years in government. Said Giuliani: "I know it; I have seen his corruption; I have papers demonstrating his corrupt practices, and I can prove it and will prove it when the </span><span>opportunity</span><span> presents itself."</span><span> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Trump and Giuliani have predicted that right will win over wrong, and that the corruption of President Biden will become apparent to honest and patriotic Americans. Currently, the House of Representatives is considering the impeachment of President Biden for accepting bribes, and millions of Americans are eager for that to happen. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.01em;">Giuliani has said the indictments against him and President Trump are “an affront to American Democracy” and have caused permanent, </span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.24px;">and</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.01em;"> irrevocable harm to our justice system." It is “just the next chapter in a book of lies with the purpose of framing President Donald Trump and preventing him from being a candidate for the office of President in the 2024 election. </span></span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 2em; margin: 0px auto 30px; max-width: 620px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span> Said Giuliani: "</span><span><span style="background-color: transparent; letter-spacing: 0.01em;">This is a completely unjustified and disgusting act of retribution, because I had the temerity to unveil the biggest scandal in American history."</span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 2em; margin: 0px auto 30px; max-width: 620px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span><span style="background-color: transparent; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"> XXX</span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 2em; margin: 0px auto 30px; max-width: 620px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.01em;"> </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>Florida Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13997510536187166258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3417524360655780445.post-87339954504836867242023-10-17T21:37:00.656-05:002023-10-26T09:23:38.574-05:00THE WALL THAT HAD TO BE<p>s<b><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="for fb.jpg" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0W17gGoXwjadNTkfsM-Ba0Urs42XcdwAbZBxM-yYEkJpEOYyKogXCgWsUS4q3ugrQKX6VYBQMMMW1Da9o51GMDNP53IQfe0qOQQvWGXTx1Hsnq5dQCijI5e1RT0KFGd0DtqDoxGT9oM8/w105-h140-p/for+fb.jpg" /></span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b><span><b> BY BILL JUNEAU</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b> Back in 2016 when there were 18 GOP candidates vying to become America's next President to succeed Barack Obama, one of them was the billionaire, mouthy, real estate mogul from New York, Donald J. Trump. His presence as a contender drew criticism and fire and the media wanted to know, "who did he think he was--- running for President.....he never held an office and he lacked the political skills which the high office demanded." </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> O</span><span style="font-size: large;">utlining his credentials for the Presidency, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Trump said: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;">I will build a great wall, and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me, and I'll build them very inexpensively. I will build a great, great wall on our southern border --and immigrants and visitors will be welcome---but they "must come in legally." </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span>The wall, he said, while responding to jeers from other Republican candidates during debates and from a host of Trump haters, would be tall and steel-strong and would keep out dangerous thugs and assorted miscreants coming to America by way of the border with Mexico with pockets filled with fentanyl and other illegal drugs. No one is vetted and as a result, young and old Americans are dying from overdoses. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> And, he added, that he would see to it that Mexico paid for the structure, since it was Mexico with its coyotes and cartels which were promoting the problem and the discord which has made the barrier essential and which has been causing chaos in the USA. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The wall became an all around controversial issue with millions applauding Trump for a good thing, and others claiming it was raw racism because of hate for Muslims and African Americans. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> Pope Francis injected himself into the fray and said that Trump "is not Christian" if he pledges to build a border wall between the USA and Mexico. A Trump spokesman reminded the pontiff that the Vatican is surrounded by massive walls, and America and its citizens are, like his eminence, entitled to be safe in their home from criminals. Nancy Pelosi said that the wall was "immoral," but conservative Christians and Catholics called her a hypocrite, noting her strong support for abortions at "any time" and for "any reason." </span><span> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> It was a surprise to the nation--and perhaps to the world---when Trump was elected the nation's 45th President in 2016, defeating Democrat Hillary Clinton who was to be the nation's first woman President. Trump called her "Crooked Hillary" and said her election would be a big mistake given her corrupt ways. He took office in January, 2017 and thereon put forth an "America First" agenda, and a Trump way of governing. And he never forgot his promise to build a "great and beautiful wall," and his search for the funds began immediately. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> President Trump was beset from many areas with allegations that he was in the pocket of Russian President Putin, but subsequently he was cleared and the charges were found to be untrue and based upon political lies fostered by Democratic opposition. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> But through it all he fought for con</span><span style="font-size: large;">struction of the wall and for the necessary funds to get the job done, and prior to his leaving office in January, 2021, some 458 miles of the needed structure were completed. Some of the wall was brand new and in other places the wall represented a redo and upgrade of ineffective border fences and barriers which had been constructed and installed in past years. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> Did Mexico pay for the wall? </span><span>Under Trump orders, new and heavy tariffs were paid to the USA by Mexico, and Trump has said that the additional revenues were deposited in the treasury; and the additi</span></span><span style="font-size: large;">onal money found its way to the wall through appropriations. Also, said Trump, through his insistence, Mexico assigned and paid a battery of national officers along the border to discourage illegal entries into the United States</span><span style="font-size: x-large;">.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> At the end of his four year term as President, the "Trump" wall </span><span style="font-size: large;"> with its </span><span style="font-size: large;">18 to 30-foot steel bollards anchored in concrete in many sections, was completed save a far south 20-mile section of border in the Rio Grande valley of Texas. </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> On January 20, of 2021 Trump turned the Presidency over to Joe Biden, and he presented him a country with a nearly finished wall and with immigration under control and with policies which encouraged immigrants to come to America in accord with existing law. Immigration was still a problem, but was controlled and it was anticipated that Congress would consider new immigration reform. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> On his first day in office as the nation's 46th President, Joe </span><span style="font-size: large;">Biden</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> declared that wall building was over and that "not one more foot of a wall" would be built under his administration. "Is a wall helpful in controlling lawless border crossings," he was asked. "No," said the slow moving </span>American<span style="font-family: inherit;"> president whose mental acuity has been challenged with demands from many members of Congress that he take a cognitive exam to determine if he has the wits to serve as President. Biden has ignored the requests. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">Biden announced that America was the land of the free and he messaged to the world that immigrants were welcome, because "that is who we are." "Com'on in" he shouted and the world heard him and they poured on in----by the millions. They waded across the Rio Grande and slipped in from behind bushes. They were ushered to the borders by Mexican cartels and coyotes charging money. Besides Mexico, they came from scores of different countries including Iran and other parts of the Middle East; Europe and Taliban-run Afghanistan; and from various other areas in Asia and Africa. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span>No one knows for sure<b> </b><span>just how many illegal aliens have poured into the United States over the past 34 months under the feckless leadership of Joe Biden. The number, depending upon who you listen to, seems to be somewhere between 2,000,000 and 6,000,000 illegal entries. The numbers are staggering, greater than at any time in U.S. history. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span><span> Some </span></span></span><span>have commented, that the new residents could fill up a bunch of new states. </span><span>They noted that in Delaware, President Biden's </span><span>home state, there are about 1,000,000 residents.</span><span> Wyoming has a population of 579,000 and Vermont has 645,000 residents. North and South Dakota, together, are home to about 1.6 million persons. Alaska has 732,673 residents. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span><span> In the past six months, it has been reported, hundreds of thousands have used the unfinished 20 miles of border in the Texas </span></span></span><span>Rio Grande valley to come into the United States. Virtually none have been interviewed or vetted, and apparently they have gone to destinations in large urban cities like New York and Chicago. </span><span> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span><span> One analyst has speculated that if the trend continues unchanged through 2024, a total of 12 million immigrants will have entered America illegally and the cost of their care and sheltering will approach $12 trillion dollars. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> In early October of 2023, President Biden finally reacted to the humanitarian crisis at the southern border and declared that he would direct that the final 20-mile segment of the Trump wall be finished in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas. It was a full U-turn on his declaration that "not another foot of Trump wall" would be built under his administration. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> His explanation was that he had no other choice since millions of dollars had been appropriated in 2019 for the wall and that his hands are tied. "</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"I tried to get them to re-</span>appropriate<span style="font-family: inherit;"> it and to redirect that money. They didn't. They wouldn't. And in the meantime, there's nothing under the law, that allows for use of the money for something other than that for which it was appropriated, and that was the wall." </span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: large;">So, says the whispering and embarrassed Biden----the "Trump wall" will be completed after all."</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: large;"> Then in his announcement a few days ago, according to news reports, Biden said that he has sent an urgent funding request to Congress for some $14 billions for use managing the US-Mexico border and for coping with the millions of illegal migrants. The border money would be a part of a new $106 billion dollar budget request for funds for Ukraine and Israel, and to Gaza for humanitarian aid. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">So perhaps Biden is learning that open borders and telling the world to "com'on in" was not such a a good political move --and that he is going to have to do something to hold back the surge of migrants into New York, Chicago and other major urban cities; or he can wave good by to blue state supporters. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> xxx </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p><br /></p>Florida Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13997510536187166258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3417524360655780445.post-43260984544878063082023-09-29T17:10:00.040-05:002023-10-19T11:44:58.298-05:00 "FETTERMAN RULES" ARE NOT TO BE <p> </p><p><b><img alt="for fb.jpg" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0W17gGoXwjadNTkfsM-Ba0Urs42XcdwAbZBxM-yYEkJpEOYyKogXCgWsUS4q3ugrQKX6VYBQMMMW1Da9o51GMDNP53IQfe0qOQQvWGXTx1Hsnq5dQCijI5e1RT0KFGd0DtqDoxGT9oM8/w105-h140-p/for+fb.jpg" /></b></p><p> <span style="font-size: large;"><b> BY BILL JUNEAU</b></span><b style="font-size: x-large;"> </b></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The towering senator from Pennsylvania, John Fetterman, is going to have to abandon his hooded sweatshirt, golf shorties and sneakers if he intends to participate in legislative rhetoric on the senate floor in the capitol building in Washington, D.C. But he says he will do it to "save democracy." </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The order for a formal dress code for the 100 members of the U.S. Senate, the upper house of Congress, was put into place a few days ago by Majority leader Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat. It wiped out Schumer's "Fetterman Dress Code" of 10 days earlier in which he okayed a "come as you are" code of attire, which was grounded on the desire to accommodate the troubled Fetterman and allow him to wear his hoodies and short pants to sessions on the floor and at committee hearings. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The Fetterman-sweet dress code was done to assist the recovering big guy, who at six-feet, eight inches tall is the giant of the Senate. He has been troubled with cognitive issues and speaking problems due to a stroke last year followed in 2023 with severe depression. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"> Schumer's rewriting of a dress code so as to allow Fetterman, who some say is a ringer for "Lurch" who became famous in TV's The Addams Family, to wear his hoodies and lounging clothes, and flip-flops if preferred, triggered complaints from other senators. To demonstrate his annoyance with the new "Fetterman Rules," Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky </span><span style="font-size: large;">showed up barefoot and wearing a red bathrobe for a session on the floor of the senate. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> Sen. Joe Manchin, Democrat of West Virginia who often challenges the laws set down by Majority leader Schumer and the Party of the Jackass, let it be known that he planned to introduce a resolution calling for a dress code of suit and tie for men and appropriate attire for the woman members of the senate which is regarded by many as the most elite and exclusive club in the USA. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> Faced with the dissent, Schumer rolled back his redo order and put forth a formal dress code in writing which will mandate suit and ties, sports coats and slacks for men, and appropriate business-like attire for the distaff members. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> Caught in the halls of the capitol still wearing a dark-hooded sweatshirt, Fetterman told a reporter, "don't you think that we have many more important issues to deal with than a dress code"? What is important is what is going on inside a person, not what he is wearing, the somewhat peeved Fetterman told a newsman. But yes, he said he would wear a suit so as "to save democracy--but there are conditions." </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span face="Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Another newsman reported that Fetterman said that Republicans must pass a government funding bill and support Ukraine in order for him to suit up. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> "If those jagoffs in the House (meaning Republicans) stop trying to shut our government down," he asserted, "and fully support Ukraine, then I will save democracy by wearing a suit on the Senate floor...."</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span><span><span style="font-size: large;">A </span></span><span style="font-size: large;">mayor for 16 years at Braddock, Pennsylvania, a community with 1,721 residents; and Lt. Governor of the state for three years, Fetterman was elected in 2022 as a Democratic senator and was sworn into office on Jan. 3, 2023. The election was close and controversial with arguments and comments concerning Fetterman's acuity, and his ability to speak sensibly or respond to questions asked him. Fetterman's style is similar in many respects to the stammering, gaffe-filled rhetoric of President Biden who campaigned hard for Fetterman's election. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Fetterman was elected last November with 51 per cent of the votes cast, defeating TV's medical doctor, Mehmet Oz, a Republican, who had gained popularity as a frequent guest and weight adviser to pudgy Oprah Winfrey on her TV show. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> Shortly after Fetterman won the Democratic primary for Pennsylvania senator in May of 2022, he suffered a debilitating stroke, but opted to remain as a candidate. His supporters and Democratic leaders downplayed the seriousness of the malady, and kept him out of the spotlight as much as possible. Fetterman's wife, Gisele, described the stroke as just a "a little hiccup," and predicted that he would regain his strength; and in November he won the general election. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span>So, as of now, Fetterman promises to be neat and suited and that he will vote the Democratic menu; and his rhetoric and legislative activity is said to be improving. The </span><span style="background-color: white;">chamber’s </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;">Sergeant</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;">at Arms</span><span style="background-color: white;"> office has installed a permanent live-captioning display at </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;">Fetterman’</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">s</span><span style="background-color: white;"> desk that can be raised or lowered, depending on whether the towering pol is standing or sitting. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The senator has said that he endorses abortion as a woman's right to choose right up to those seconds before the baby draws its first breath. Also, he supports a $15 per hour minimum wage. He advocates legalizing cannabis, abolishing capital punishment and making health care a right for all Americans. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> As a U.S. Senator, Fetterman is paid $174,000 annually, with perks. According to reports he has a net worth of $2 million. </span></span><span style="font-size: large;">He and his wife Gisele have three children and they have two dogs, Levi and Artie, and both have twitter (X) accounts with 25,000 followers. The Fettermans have lived in Braddock since 2006 in a remodeled Chevrolet dealership building. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-174" style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1; text-wrap: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fetterman#cite_note-174" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">]</a></sup><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> </span></span><span> </span><span> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> xxx</span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> .</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><br /></span></span></p><p class="speakable" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><div class="bCOlv" data-ved="2ahUKEwjJpaTW3b6BAxXMrokEHbu5BPQQ7NUEegQIGRAE" id="_XM0NZckHzN2m1A-785KgDw_36" jsname="NRdf4c" style="opacity: inherit; position: absolute; width: 652px;"><div class="IZE3Td" jsslot="" style="position: relative;"><div class="t0bRye r2fjmd" data-hveid="CBkQBQ" data-ved="2ahUKEwjJpaTW3b6BAxXMrokEHbu5BPQQu04oAHoECBkQBQ" jsname="oQYOj" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div id="XM0NZckHzN2m1A-785KgDw__20"><div class="wDYxhc" data-md="83" style="clear: none;"><div class="di3YZe" style="font-family: "Google Sans", Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.375; margin-bottom: 20px;"><div class="RqBzHd" style="padding: 0px 20px;"><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #4d5156;"><br /></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Florida Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13997510536187166258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3417524360655780445.post-18469843497462677232023-09-17T10:27:00.027-05:002023-09-18T12:18:51.330-05:00THE GEORGIA DEBACLE AND FANI WILLIS <p><br /></p><p><img alt="for fb.jpg" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0W17gGoXwjadNTkfsM-Ba0Urs42XcdwAbZBxM-yYEkJpEOYyKogXCgWsUS4q3ugrQKX6VYBQMMMW1Da9o51GMDNP53IQfe0qOQQvWGXTx1Hsnq5dQCijI5e1RT0KFGd0DtqDoxGT9oM8/w105-h140-p/for+fb.jpg" /> </p><p> <span style="font-size: large;"><b> BY BILL JUNEAU </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b> Fulton</b> County Georgia District Attorney Fani Taifa Willis is doing her part as a loyal Democrat to destroy former President Trump, and prevent him from running for President in 2024. But her political torpedo has gotten repositioned, and the 54-year-old Willis has herself become the target of an investigation for misconduct by the powerful Judiciary Committee of the United States House of Representatives. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhXC8OV3z_-6iZHJCADG5sThpuzHOsBpgoleZV-hjnek1-ee8uCPOn7afQaq6nB1isor6y1WFUvr_joQDP6C4E5UDCgL0GfumYsteBVkz6rw48qjQPl_GxH_15_iy3ymSrGIICHVkcy4Eu0JCecxoO9RlyiAr-xT2VOKUnVnJjtugFAotAID4voFvCHzDE" style="font-family: AP; font-size: 18px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="172" data-original-width="316" height="174" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhXC8OV3z_-6iZHJCADG5sThpuzHOsBpgoleZV-hjnek1-ee8uCPOn7afQaq6nB1isor6y1WFUvr_joQDP6C4E5UDCgL0GfumYsteBVkz6rw48qjQPl_GxH_15_iy3ymSrGIICHVkcy4Eu0JCecxoO9RlyiAr-xT2VOKUnVnJjtugFAotAID4voFvCHzDE" width="320" /></a></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span>On August 15, in an indictment of about 100 pages, the former President and 18 allies were accused of endeavoring to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia, a state in which incumbent Trump lost to Joe Biden by 11,779 votes. At Willis' direction, Trump's team efforts challenging the honesty of the balloting, were alleged to constitute a "criminal enterprise" punishable under the state's RICO statutes which were enacted to bring down racketeering and corrupt organizations.</span> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> <span>Subsequently, the ex-President, and his co-defendants were arrested and processed as criminals and their mug shots were distributed to the media and elsewhere as Willis demonstrated her strength and her value to Washington Democrats on the top political rung. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> Willis has made it her mission to bring down the popular Republican ex-President, and to make him squirm and scream "Uncle" under her growling attack. But it appears that Willis may be squirming too as she copes with congressional discovery demands for documents linked to her alleged misuse of federal funds given to the state and county. </span><span> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The ill-tempered Willis, who appears to want the approbation of the Department of Justice and the owly and disingenuous Attorney General, Merrick Garland, through whom all intended poison for Donald Trump flows, may have crossed lines and improperly made use of federal dollars in her take-down political scheme. The misuse of federal funds by Willis allows the United States House of Representatives to exercise oversight and to force Willis to reveal all details of her "investigation" and political collaborations. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Following her unconscionable actions against Trump and other defendants, Rep. Jim Jordan, chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the People's House, sent Willis a letter calling into question her political mission which allegedly made use of federal funds in an unauthorized manner. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span><span>The irony of her conduct is rich, observed one attorney. Is State's Attorney Willis herself engaged in a conspiracy with Attorney General Garland and Special Prosecutor Jack Smith, who President Trump describes as "deranged"; and New York's unethical District Attorney Alvin Bragg to take down Donald Trump by accusing him of crimes which he did not commit and to block him from seeking reelection to that office in 2024? </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> Currently, Trump is leading in all polls as the GOP preferred standard bearer in next year's presidential election. </span><span>Is Willis responding to directions from the "Party of the Jackass," as the Democratic Party is known historically, said Congressman Jordan. . </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> It may not be a RICO conspiracy into which Willis has waded, but it is, no less, a conspiracy. It makes use of political needs, and a common mandate to accuse Donald Trump of fabricated misdeeds, and to force him to stand trial in four different venues to answer assorted state and federal charges and effectively disable him from campaigning and running for the office of President in 2024. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> It is the Democratic mission, Jordan has said, to keep their party in power, and to reinstall the corrupt, manipulable and senile octogenarian, Joe Biden, again in the oval office where he will read scripts written for him and do and say as he is told. </span><span> . </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span><span>The Georgia case has landed on the docket o</span><span>f 34-year-old Judge Scott McAfee who was appointed as a Fulton county Superior court judge last February. According to his biography, he has a degree in music and earned a law degree in 2013 from the University of Georgia; and has served as Georgia State Inspector General and as a federal and state prosecutor. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> In his letter to District Attorney Willis, Rep. Jordan listed demands for documents in the hands of the Georgia prosecutor which must be turned over to the Congressional committee. The demands were:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span><span face="Mulish, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">1. All documents and communications referring or relating to the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office’s receipt and use of federal funds; </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> 2. All documents and communications between or among the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office and DOJ and its components, including but not limited to the Office of Special Counsel Jack Smith, referring or relating to your office’s investigation of President Donald Trump or any of the other eighteen individuals against whom charges were brought in the indictment; and; </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> 3. All documents and communications between the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office and any federal Executive Branch officials regarding your office’s investigation of President Donald Trump or any of the other eighteen individuals against whom charges were brought in the indictment discussed above. </span></span><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> No trial date has been set by Judge McAfee, but he has said that he is "very sceptical" of Willis' plan to try all 19 defendants together. To many legal observers, the idea of trying 19 defendants at one time, including a former President of the United States, may not be possible. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> Trump also is facing criminal charges in D.C court on grounds that he promoted mob action in the capitol on January 6, 2021. Also, in a Manhattan state court, he is accused of paying hush money to an adult film star; and in a Florida District court, Trump is accused criminally of retaining classified documents in his home, even though he had declassified them. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> The deck has been stacked against Former President Trump, but he asserts that the charges against him are fabricated and that they are a continuance of the democratic attack upon him which began as he campaigned for the Presidency in 2015. He predicted that the charges against him will be dismissed and that he will </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">be the GOP candidate in 2024, and will be re-elected as the nation's 47th President. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> xxx </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> </span></div>Florida Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13997510536187166258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3417524360655780445.post-57080859918685366292023-09-10T12:46:00.098-05:002023-09-14T21:54:18.595-05:00KARINE JEAN-PIERRE, THE BIDEN PRESS OFFICER<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><b><img alt="for fb.jpg" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0W17gGoXwjadNTkfsM-Ba0Urs42XcdwAbZBxM-yYEkJpEOYyKogXCgWsUS4q3ugrQKX6VYBQMMMW1Da9o51GMDNP53IQfe0qOQQvWGXTx1Hsnq5dQCijI5e1RT0KFGd0DtqDoxGT9oM8/w105-h140-p/for+fb.jpg" /></b> </p><p><b> <span style="font-size: large;"> BY BILL JUNEAU</span></b> </p><p> <span style="font-size: large;">She was the daughter of Haitian parents from Martinique. Her dad drove a taxi and her mother styled hair in a New York beauty salon. They wanted their daughter, Karine Jean- Pierre to be a doctor, but Jean-Pierre lacked the brain power to be a physician and correspondingly failed the medical entrance exam. So Jean-Pierre opted for journalism and public service.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> At college, she earned a bachelor's degree from New York Institute of Technology, and in 2003, a master's degree in public affairs from Columbia University. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> "KJ," as she is frequently called by newspersons, is diminutive in height, and </span><span>her hair</span><span> is whirly, curly and moppy and of various colors including red, yellow and black.</span><span> Always well coiffed, her sparkly, metallic eyelids shine in the overhead lights of the Brady Press office in the White House. At 49, she is the first African -American woman to serve as Press Secretary to a President. Also, she is a proud lesbian, and for 11 years and until very recently, had been in a relationship with former CNN reporter, Suzanne Malveaux, 56.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> As partners, "KJ" and Sue had adopted a daughter, Soleil. The story of their split was revealed in a recent article in Vogue magazine. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Jean-Pierre has embraced all tenets and pronouns set forth by the LGBTQ-plus community, and her beliefs are consistent with those of her boss, Joe Biden, the nation's 46th President. Biden has said that he regards the Woke and Pride-Lifestyle and the men and women involved as the "most courageous and brave persons" that he, at 80 years old, has ever met.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> First lady Dr. Jill has praised Jean-Pierre for her "grace, integrity and insight" as the "pioneering " first gay and non-white press secretary.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Biden told of his high regard for the pride lifestyle following a recent LGBTQ picnic-like party on the lush Green White House lawn. Bare chested trans-men and trans-women danced to music and the President and First Lady Jill watched and applauded the "courageous" participants. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222526; font-family: "The Sun";"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222526;">A</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222526;"><span>bout 15 months ago, KJ was appointed Biden's press secretary, and she replaced Jen Psaki</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222526; font-family: inherit;"><span> who had served in the position for some 16 months of the President's scheduled four year term in office. KJ had been a deputy to Psaki in the communications department, and prior to that, was an adviser to Vice Presidential Candidate Kamala Harris. Before the Biden-Harris days, J</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: inherit;">ean-Pierre was the senior advisor and national spokeswoman for the progressive advocacy group, Move On.org.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222526; font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> There is a significant difference in her style alongside Psaki's. Psaki was considered brighter, quicker on her feet, and more able to handle tough inquiries while defending and speaking with a positive spin about the clumsy and slow thinking 46th President of the United States.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> Jean-Pierre comes off to viewers of her press briefings as intellectually slow, much like her boss. Some reporters and other observers consider her to be obtuse. With the President as her role model, she distorts the truth whenever she feels the need. But like her predecessor in the $180,000 a year position, she is determined to protect the stumbling and gaffe-ridden President against any and all criticism.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> In response to some queries, Jean-Pierre seems to be reading prepared answers from her three-holed binder in much the same way as President Biden reaches for his crib notes to deliver appropriate answers. At press briefings, she has been accused of calling, all too often, on reporters known to praise Biden and to exclude aggressive newspersons who see the President as inept and corrupt. One newsman, Simon Ateba of Today News Africa, has formally accused the Press Secretary of discrimination and of trying to silence him. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> After it became known that Biden had confidential documents lying about his oily garage, on the floor and alongside his cherished 1967 convertible, Jeanne Pierre declined comments on reporters' questions about the how and why of the red-stamped, protected documents for more than 20 times, advising the press to take their questions to another source for the answers. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> When a cellophane packet of cocaine was found in the west wing of the White House, in a spot under the eyes of "everywhere" cameras, Jean-Pierre snapped at reporters who wanted to know if a Biden was responsible. The President's chief spokesperson said that the Bidens were gone from the White House on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday of the period when the "white gravel" was discovered....period. The secret service is conducting an investigation, she said, adding that she had nothing "else to share" on the matter....and the questions from reporters were "incredibly irresponsible.". </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> Questions of Biden familiarity with Cocaine are reasonable. Son Hunter is a confirmed cocaine addict who was thrown out the navy for his addiction, and daughter, Ashley Blazer Biden has spent time in a drug rehab facility trying to dump the habit. Even daughter-in-law, Hallie Biden, widow of Biden's son Beau, has been wrestling with the habit and has been to rehab quarters several times. Hallie's visits to rehab facilities have, according to emails written by her brother-in-law, Hunter, cost around $100,000 and were paid for all or in part by her father-in-law. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> Jean Pierre has drawn criticism with her comments on the transporting of migrants from the open southern border alongside Texas to New York, Chicago and the bay area of Massachusetts and other urban centers. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> <b>B</b></span><span style="font-size: large;">ussing and flying migrants around the country without coordination by the federal government, is "dangerous and unacceptable," said the press secretary. "We will continue to be very clear about that. It is dangerous and unacceptable because it is putting people's lives at risk. Also, you are putting a lot of pressure on these states and local areas."</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">What Americans should know, she added, is that the president has done the work to deal with what we're seeing at the border "since day one," she said. Their criticism amounts to "political stunts." </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> A Republican researcher who heard Jean-Pierre on television, quipped that "her irony is rich." It takes a "special kind of stupid to say something that absurd. Doesn't she know that 6 million illegal migrants jammed into a few states along the border puts pressure and stress on these states and communities?</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">News analyst </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Tucker Carlson who is never reluctant to provide his assessment of political figures, summed up his opinion of Karine Jean-Pierre prior to leaving his prime time anchor position at Fox News. She is </span><span style="font-size: large;">"the </span><span style="font-size: large;">dumbest, nastiest, most dishonest, and most ridiculous person Biden could possibly find for the very public position of White House press secretary." </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> xxx</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> </span></p>Florida Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13997510536187166258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3417524360655780445.post-48957896680794743062023-08-30T21:49:00.261-05:002023-09-01T11:50:30.381-05:00SUPREME COURT ASKED TO CONSIDER THE GEORGE FLOYD CASE.<p> <img alt="for fb.jpg" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0W17gGoXwjadNTkfsM-Ba0Urs42XcdwAbZBxM-yYEkJpEOYyKogXCgWsUS4q3ugrQKX6VYBQMMMW1Da9o51GMDNP53IQfe0qOQQvWGXTx1Hsnq5dQCijI5e1RT0KFGd0DtqDoxGT9oM8/w105-h140-p/for+fb.jpg" /> <span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span> <span style="font-size: large;"> </span><b style="font-size: x-large;"> BY BILL JUNEAU</b></p><p><b style="font-size: x-large;"> </b><span style="font-size: large;"><b>I</b><span><b> am </b><span>just one retired lawyer, and I get my information from home research and the reading of newspapers and magazines, and by listening to TV talking analysts. Others may not agree with me. But one thing that I am sure of is that Policeman Derek Chauvin, 47, did not receive a fair trial on the charges of murder and manslaughter of George Floyd, a hardened criminal, high on heroin and fentanyl. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span> </span></span><span>Floyd succumbed on May 25, 2020 while being detained as a suspect by police on a Minneapolis street. Officer Chauvin was convicted by a twin-city jury in April, 2021 of unintentional murder and manslaughter and sentenced by Judge Peter Cahill to 22.5 years in prison. The recommended prison time in Minnesota for the specific offenses is 12.5 years. However, Judge Cahill added 10 years onto the sentence because of the officer's alleged unnecessary "cruelty" in making the arrest.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> Chauvin used his knee on the suspect's throat to detain him and settle him down. It is a technique taught policemen in Minnesota and in police departments across the country, and Chauvin made use of it. The fact that Floyd was an African American had nothing to do with his method of detainment, nor was it an exercise in "cruelty." </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">Floyd's death created a firestorm of rage in black communities across America. That rage was exacerbated and transmitted by a media which thundered the calls for punishment for the white, racist cop and three rookies who assisted him in subduing Floyd and in exercising crowd control. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> The unintended death of George Floyd, whose lengthy police record was known to Minneapolis officers, and whose precise cause of death was never scientifically determined, triggered riots, arsons, deaths and billions of dollars in destruction of property in major cities across America. Demands for the punishing of the Minneapolis policemen were overwhelming. It was all about race and police denigration of blacks. Conviction for murder by the policeman was an absolute given and a foregone conclusion. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Alan M. Dershowitz, retired Harvard university professor of criminal law, and a </span>nationally<span style="font-family: inherit;"> recognized legal scholar, stated prior to </span>commencement<span style="font-family: inherit;"> of the trial, that there is "</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">no way" that Derek Chauvin could ever receive a fair trial in Minneapolis</span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;">. </span></p><p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhyGOHpNjlPda08GKwVOn2UlOWmMzv7FdhGwxMexMiU7_xEWDW1zatjzrxwgmrbGTbvrLMU0WlkPZVTYHcT-JyqBoeuBJG5rK8SO6ird6g_afVPt2mA9sQbrtpRnuZj9EYKZ9P0v0GZuhc9fhA_ZwMsRMAszGde142XHC0hVd0n8yXGqCS35oXavkmgmbs" style="font-size: x-large; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="160" data-original-width="240" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhyGOHpNjlPda08GKwVOn2UlOWmMzv7FdhGwxMexMiU7_xEWDW1zatjzrxwgmrbGTbvrLMU0WlkPZVTYHcT-JyqBoeuBJG5rK8SO6ird6g_afVPt2mA9sQbrtpRnuZj9EYKZ9P0v0GZuhc9fhA_ZwMsRMAszGde142XHC0hVd0n8yXGqCS35oXavkmgmbs" width="320" /></a></p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> George Floyd </span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> The Chauvin conviction and the enhanced sentencing for an unintentional and accidental crime was appealed, and in April of this year, was affirmed by the Minnesota Appellate court. In July, just last month, the Minnesota Supreme Court denied the appeal in a one-page order without comment, effectively exhausting the defendant's state remedies. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> Attorneys for the 19-year-veteran police officer, who is serving his enhanced prison sentence designed by the trial judge to assuage the BLW organization lest it continue its warlike activities, said that the case will be appealed to the United States Supreme Court and the necessary petition to the court for certiorari is being prepared for filing, according to available information. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> There is confidence in some areas that SCOTUS, the nation's highest court, whose courage to follow the law became evident when it overruled Roe v. Wade in June of 2022, will accept the Chauvin appeal and will ultimately make a final determination. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> Let the court, headed by Chief Justice John Roberts, examine the Floyd case with fresh, unstained glasses and it is my opinion that it will see that Chauvin was denied a fair trial and was made to suffer at the hands of a judge who erred in countless rulings and who declined several petitions for a change of venue where a "fair trial" could be provided in accord with the U.S. Constitution. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> The high court needs to consider the lawlessness which was sweeping Minneapolis and other urban centers as the trial went forward. As a jury was being finalized, the city of Minneapolis announced that it was awarding $27 million to the Floyd family in view of the death of George Floyd. The jury that had not been sequestered, very likely became aware of the award and may have considered the dire consequences if it failed to find Officer Chauvin guilty of murdering the black man. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> One juror selected, an African American high school coach, lied during a voir dire examination by asserting that he had no prejudice or opinion favoring Floyd; or negative assessments of policemen. He was promptly approved as one of the 12 jurors. Later, it became known that the juror had participated in a rally on behalf of George Floyd and had worn a tee shirt inscribed with the comment, "get your knee off of my neck." The jury was tainted from day one. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> The courthouse where the trial took place was converted into a fortress and was rimmed with coiled wire as the unsequestered jurors passed in and out during the six weeks of trial. Down the street were areas where buildings and shops were torn apart and had suffered damages in the hundreds of millions of dollars. The nearby intersection where Floyd died, was transformed into "George Floyd Square," and it contained pictures of Floyd and other momentos calling attention to the racial killing by police. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> Congresswoman Maxine Waters of Texas, an African American, announced that there would be trouble if the jury failed to deliver a verdict of murder. If the defendant is not found guilty of murder, she said, there will be retaliation, and "we will get confrontational." </span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> President Biden was always in the corner of the prosecutors and while not singling out defendant Chauvin for misconduct, commented publicly that p</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Poynter Serif RE", Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: large;">olice departments were "systemically racist," and that the nation's problem was caused by white supremacists. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> Judge Cahill declined to allow as a defense witness at trial the companion of Floyd whose testimony would have contradicted much of the testimony on which the prosecution had built its case for murder or manslaughter by a police officer prejudiced against blacks. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> On several occasions during the trial, defense lawyers petitioned Cahill to grant a change of venue and allow the trial to be held in a less stormy area; and which would help in guaranteeing that the defendant received a fair trial, pursuant to the U.S. Constitution. Cahill denied the petitions commenting that the anti-police sentiment would be the same in every other jurisdiction. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> The enhanced penalty of 22.5 years with the last 10 tacked on for "cruelty," was among rulings of Judge Cahill in his biased attempt to please the enraged black community which was tearing up the streets of cities across the country, with calls for the defunding of police departments. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> If it grants the Writ of Certiorari as anticipated, the Supreme Court with its nine justices will examine all aspects of the case and determine if the defendant was treated fairly. The court can affirm the conviction; or it can reverse findings, or it can order that a new trial be held in a different venue before a sequestered jury. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> Was Prof. Dershowitz wrong when he said that there was "no way" that Derek Chauvin could receive a fair trial in Minneapolis? </span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> xxx</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><b style="font-size: x-large;"> </b></p>Florida Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13997510536187166258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3417524360655780445.post-50169042719119602002023-08-12T14:12:00.043-05:002023-09-01T12:00:17.042-05:00TRUMP AND THE STACKED DECK<p> </p><p><b><img alt="for fb.jpg" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0W17gGoXwjadNTkfsM-Ba0Urs42XcdwAbZBxM-yYEkJpEOYyKogXCgWsUS4q3ugrQKX6VYBQMMMW1Da9o51GMDNP53IQfe0qOQQvWGXTx1Hsnq5dQCijI5e1RT0KFGd0DtqDoxGT9oM8/w105-h140-p/for+fb.jpg" /></b> </p><p><b> <span style="font-size: large;"> BY BILL JUNEAU</span></b> </p><p> <span style="font-size: large;"> Without a doubt, the terrain is rocky and rough for Donald Trump as he pursues the Presidency in 2024. Democratic cannons are aimed at him and the deck has been carefully and conspiratorially stacked against him. But the former President who has been accused of misdeeds in three pending legal cases, does not scare easily. He is running again for the office which he once held as President, and says he will win and will restore common sense, honesty, civility and patriotism to the United States. "Yes, we will Make America Great Again," he asserts. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> His latest legal encounter was in Washington, D.C. where a grand jury has returned indictments alleging that he was the catalyst and conspirator who promoted the mob action in the capitol on January 6, 2021. The political charges are rooted in his unsuccessful effort to demonstrate that the election which put dim Joe Biden in the White House was dishonest, and in fact, "stolen." If you are a Democrat and a liar and a progressive loon, D.C. is ground zero, and the place to go to take down Republican Donald Trump. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> GOP-hating Democrats dominate the District of Columbia, the nation's capital, like no other spot in the country. In the 2020 election, Joe Biden received 92.1 per cent of the total votes cast to Trump's 5.4 per cent. In numbers, it was about 317,000 votes for Biden and 18,000 for the incumbent President. Since D.C. became a special territory in 1961, able to cast three electoral votes, democratic candidates for president have always drawn majorities, but the Biden victory there in 2020 set records. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> So it was not difficult for the Party of the Jackass inside the District of Columbia to assemble a Grand Jury of 23 local residents to return indictments accusing the former President of criminally attempting to turn around the alleged results of the 2020 election. In a grand jury proceeding, the prosecutor presents only evidence of guilt and jurors will, with rare exceptions, acquiesce and return a true bill. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> A bitter Trump hater, Jack Smith was tabbed as special investigative counsel by the owly and disingenuous Attorney General, Merrick Garland. Smith, who Trump has labeled as "deranged," presented flimsy, one-sided and fabricated evidence that Trump and his attorneys committed criminal offenses when they argued without basis that the election was dishonest. The indictments were returned in shotgun fashion by the cooperating D.C. grand jury. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> While the Biden victory was manipulated in a variety of ways, the Trump team demanded to know how the clumsy and befuddled Biden who rarely campaigned for the Presidency, relying on scripts written for him and read by him via television from the basement of his Delaware home, could have earned several million more votes from the African American community than Barack Obama had ever received in his successful races in 2008 and 2012. Trump has contended that the ballots, many blank except for a single mark for Biden, had to have been faked to provide such a count, yet judges declined to recognize the obvious incongruity, and order an investigation. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span>On August 3, former President Trump pleaded not guilty to all charges against him concerning alleged criminal efforts to change election results. He appeared before the 35-year-old Magistrate Judge Moxila </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #5f6368;">Upadhyaya, who nastily referred to the ex President as "Mr. Trump," while warning him that any further criminal activities by him will trigger additional legal actions against him. Upadhyaya was appointed a magistrate judge in September of last year. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Magistrate Upadhyaya was born in Gujarat, </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span>India in 1988 and, according to her biography, which raises many questions, is a prodigy who graduated from law school when she was 15. The law degree followed undergraduate studies at the University of Missouri where she obtained bachelor degrees in journalism and in Latin arts. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span><span>She received her J.D., cum laude, from Washington College of Law at American University in 2003. making her about 10 when she began her studies there. Correspondingly, it appears that she was 6 or 7, barely out of kindergarten, when she began her undergraduate studies at the University of Missouri and subsequently earned two bachelor degrees. After law school, she was said to have clerked for judges and for a period was a partner at a law firm, doing pro bono work for which she won awards. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> A</span><span style="font-size: large;">fter Upadhyaya dealt with the arraignment of the defendant, all subsequent matters and motions, will be given to Jamaican-born District Judge Tanya Chutkan, for pretrial motions and the jury trial. An appointee of President Obama, Chutkan, a former public defender, has been outspoken about the harm caused by the capitol melee, and in other rulings and writings she has not concealed her negative assessment of former President Trump who has described Judge Chutkan as the democrats' "number one draft pick." </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Mark Levin, a respected lawyer who hosts "</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Google Sans", Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202124;">Life, Liberty & Levin" </span><span>on Fox News, has described Chutkan as </span><span style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif;">the most "radical, partisan activist judge in the entire federal judiciary. Gee, I wonder how she got chosen.” </span><span> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Trump, President from 2016 to 2020, made his first appearance before Judge Chutkan on August 11, and Chotkan raised her concerns that the ex-president must be limited in what he can say about the pending case and the charges against him even though he is a candidate for President in 2024, and is campaigning for the nomination of his party. Well, he cannot say what he wants to say in a political speech; "</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">that is just how it’s going to have to be.” said Chutkan. Trump lawyers are arguing that the judge is stepping upon freedom of speech rights provided all Americans, including those facing federal charges. </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Chutkan scheduled another hearing for November 4 at which the court will determine the extent of records which the Trump administration must release to the prosecutors. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> Trump is the defendant in two other lawsuits accusing him of felonious conduct. One deals with his possession of classified documents kept in his Florida home under the protection of secret service agents. The other, brought by a New York district attorney, accuses the ex president of a hush money scheme involving adult film star Stormy Daniels. Both are deemed political fabrication by Republicans and fair minded Americans who expect that the charges will be dismissed via motions, or after a trial.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> So for the ex-President, seeking his second term in the White House, the obstacles thrown into his path are vicious, but Trump says that they are surmountable. His followers will never desert him, and lawsuits aimed at him by an authoritarian group which has abandoned all objectivity, honesty and honor, and according to polls, seem to be making him stronger. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> Democrats and the top level in the politicized FBI and the Department of Justice should be worried if Donald Trump again becomes president. He does not take kindly to liars and corrupt officials; and he is not projected to be a forgiving person. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> xxx </span></p>Florida Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13997510536187166258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3417524360655780445.post-81024788073767783302023-07-30T13:18:00.037-05:002023-10-07T13:48:33.451-05:00Grandpa Biden's about face<p><br /></p><p><b><img alt="for fb.jpg" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0W17gGoXwjadNTkfsM-Ba0Urs42XcdwAbZBxM-yYEkJpEOYyKogXCgWsUS4q3ugrQKX6VYBQMMMW1Da9o51GMDNP53IQfe0qOQQvWGXTx1Hsnq5dQCijI5e1RT0KFGd0DtqDoxGT9oM8/w105-h140-p/for+fb.jpg" /> </b></p><p><b> <span style="font-size: large;"> BY BILL JUNEAU</span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b> After </b>President Biden had turned up his nose on his 7th grandchild, a girl fathered by his crack-addicted son, Hunter, he was raked over by friends and foes alike as a mean, selfish. and lying politician whose claim of being a devoted family man was "inauthentic" political garble.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> "Roll it back," his advisers told him, and so Biden did just that. He announced and sent out a statement to People magazine that he was the "grandfather of seven," and his family tree now included the four-year-old daughter of Hunter's and that the child's privacy needed to be protected. He had no apology for his earlier lie, and his egotistical stance was typical of the Biden posture displayed by him over the past 52 years as an elected official.</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">President Joe Biden's wild, drug-choked </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span>son had fathered a child with a strip tease artist, </span><span>Lunden Alexis Roberts, 32, </span><span>with whom he had become acquainted as she performed at the swinging </span><span>Mpire </span><span>Gentleman's Club in Washington, D.C., a spot where Hunter was well known to hang out and where he was known as a big spender. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Hunter's daughter with Lunden Roberts was born in November of 2018, and had been named Navy Joan Roberts. In 2017, Hunter and his wife Kathleen Buhle were divorced after some 24 years of being married, and it was around the time that Hunter was having a romantic interlude with his late brother's widow, Hallie Biden. Like Hunter and others in the Biden family, Hallie, too, was a heavy crack user and had done stints at a rehab facility. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> In 2019, following a six day courtship, Hunter married Melissa Cohen of South Africa, and in 2020, their son, Beau, named after his late brother Beau who had died in 2015 of a brain tumor, was born. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Following the birth of Navy Joan Roberts, Hunter denied that he was the father, and Navy's mother </span><span style="font-size: large;">filed a lawsuit charging him with paternity. After several years of litigation, Hunter submitted to blood and DNA testing, and a Circuit Judge in Arkansas ruled that Hunter was the father of Navy and was ordered to pay child support. The baby's mother sought to have Navy's last name changed to Biden, but she later withdrew</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">the request after Hunter agreed to place expensive art work and investments in Navy Joan's name. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Hunter's fight to escape the paternity of Navy Roberts was pretty much ignored by the media which always protects Democrats against negative publicity until the Arkansas court landed on the President's son for his behavior and efforts to ignore his new daughter and his strip-dancing paramour. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> When word from Arkansas circulated, reporters began asking President Biden's press secretary about the new grandchild and that led Biden to lie and announce that "I have six grandchildren." His aides and staffers were put on notice that any comment about a seventh grandchild could cost them their job.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> Perhaps it was the New York Times' liberal columnist Maureen Dowd who called out President Biden for his savage disregard of his seventh granddaughter born out of wedlock. Dowd noted that the President repeatedly has said that for him, the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">absolute most important thing is family---it is the heart of his political narrative--his stock in trade. "Callously scarring Navy's life just as it gets started, undercuts that." Dowd wrote. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> "</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">What the Navy Roberts story reveals, said Dowd, "is how dated and inauthentic the 80-year-old president’s view of family is." </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;"> On Friday, July 28, shortly after the comments by the NYT writer, Biden did his turn about, and acknowledged his new grandchild. Said Biden:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.4px;"><span face="cnn_sans_display, helveticaneue, Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif"> “</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Our son Hunter and Navy’s mother, Lunden, are working together to foster a relationship that is in the best interests of their daughter, preserving her privacy as much as possible going forward.</span></span></span></p><p class="paragraph inline-placeholder" data-analytics-observe="off" data-component-name="paragraph" data-editable="text" data-uri="cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/paragraph_6E6D316C-FC26-1F0F-0B3A-9E7B055BCB42@published" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: var(--theme-paragraph__line-height--from-small); margin: 0px 0px 16px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> “This is not a political issue, it’s a family matter.....</span><span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.4px;">Jill and I only want what is best for all of our grandchildren, including Navy." </span></span></p><p class="paragraph inline-placeholder" data-analytics-observe="off" data-component-name="paragraph" data-editable="text" data-uri="cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/paragraph_6E6D316C-FC26-1F0F-0B3A-9E7B055BCB42@published" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: var(--theme-paragraph__line-height--from-small); margin: 0px 0px 16px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.4px;"> xxx</span></span></p><p class="paragraph inline-placeholder" data-analytics-observe="off" data-component-name="paragraph" data-editable="text" data-uri="cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/paragraph_6E6D316C-FC26-1F0F-0B3A-9E7B055BCB42@published" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: var(--theme-paragraph__line-height--from-small); margin: 0px 0px 16px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.4px;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="paragraph inline-placeholder" data-analytics-observe="off" data-component-name="paragraph" data-editable="text" data-uri="cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/paragraph_6E6D316C-FC26-1F0F-0B3A-9E7B055BCB42@published" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: var(--theme-paragraph__line-height--from-small); margin: 0px 0px 16px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.4px;"> </span></span></p>Florida Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13997510536187166258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3417524360655780445.post-22362158041711698802023-07-27T11:23:00.024-05:002024-02-06T12:53:37.230-06:00So long, Sammi<p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="for fb.jpg" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0W17gGoXwjadNTkfsM-Ba0Urs42XcdwAbZBxM-yYEkJpEOYyKogXCgWsUS4q3ugrQKX6VYBQMMMW1Da9o51GMDNP53IQfe0qOQQvWGXTx1Hsnq5dQCijI5e1RT0KFGd0DtqDoxGT9oM8/w105-h140-p/for+fb.jpg" /></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;"> BY BILL JUNEAU</span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b>A few days ago, Chrissy and I said goodbye to our little dog, Sammismith, who was a key figure of our household for the past 15 years, and nine months. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> She is missed almost beyond description. She was well known to our family with children, and six grandchildren and friends and associates and visitors. Everyone knew and bid hello to the little Cairn terrier, wheaton in color, and eager to make acquaintances. The little right paw would go up quickly as she would greet, and respond to the command of "paw" or "shake hands."</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiNq3X3GLh9A6IRbaIF7MN5pAlPRs6KXkoJl-3xK-4d06arlQqw4Y4rVWp0yVAk4RahXm-q4nEriXgozsa2DqVtPJj8yB79x3LOd-zi3IrHET1twZ0wOkbd8eHjL-lFmrOAs6JQLsfuHxqN74ZWRi_RWevZQqUNlt-2_YlJTlYfEBNJ0lqxAino3zOIYkE" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="315" data-original-width="315" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiNq3X3GLh9A6IRbaIF7MN5pAlPRs6KXkoJl-3xK-4d06arlQqw4Y4rVWp0yVAk4RahXm-q4nEriXgozsa2DqVtPJj8yB79x3LOd-zi3IrHET1twZ0wOkbd8eHjL-lFmrOAs6JQLsfuHxqN74ZWRi_RWevZQqUNlt-2_YlJTlYfEBNJ0lqxAino3zOIYkE" width="240" /></a></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Sammi on left </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Sammi actually told us that she loved her house and her family, but that the time had come and she needed to go. Maybe the story of the famous "Rainbow Bridge" is a true one, and so we can hope that she has landed there and for all time will be partaking of the warm sunshine and the green grass and the pure cold water for her drinks. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> When Billy Graham was around he once was asked about the hereafter and if our dogs will be there too. Billy said that the Lord has promised an eternity with him and unparalleled happiness that will be forever. And so, opined Billy, if unfettered happiness requires the presence of a beloved pet. well then the Lord will see to it that the pet is there too. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Sammi came to our home as an eight-week old pup when we were living in Parkland, Florida. We named her "Sammismith" after a country and western singer, Sammi Smith, whose songs at the time were popular. Suffice it to say that Sammi quickly nosed her way into our hearts as she sniffed and hunted frogs and guarded her premises. She developed a big vocabulary, but at times she could be stubborn when a call from us got in the way of sniffing or chasing the small lizards known as geckos. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> When Sammi was 12, she had some dental problems and lost all teeth but her front canines, two in the upper jaw, and two in the lower. We worried, but Sammi quickly adapted to the situation, and soon she continued eating with her voracious appetite. Meals were a delight to her and she actually would bounce her front paws up and down as the food dish was on its way. Treats? she was always ready to have one, and knew how to beg and ask when the moment required it. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> We moved from Florida to Illinois in 2018 and Sammi handled it well. She certainly missed chasing the lizards and frogs of Florida, but otherwise was out there barking at the birds and squirrels, rabbits, possums and raccoons if they dared show their faces in or near our rear yard. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The past year was difficult for Sammi as she contended with a tumor on her abdomen which grew to an enormous size. It got in the way of her walking and we fitted her with a girdle type jacket which would hold the tumor up. But Sammi handled it well and continued to demand that she be allowed to chase her ball, and walks through our neighborhood were frequent. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> We knew that Sammi's days were numbered and that she would have to leave us, and we figured--and we were right--she let us know that it was time for her to leave, and she thanked us for everything and we hugged her and said goodby.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The following is a short poem which was sent to Chrissy and me after Sammi's departure. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> <b>I was just a pup when we met, and I loved you from the start. </b></span><span><b>You picked me up and took me home and placed me in your heart. </b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b> Good times we had together, we shared all life could throw. But years passed all too quickly, and my time has come to go.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b> I </b><span><b>know</b></span><b> how much you miss me, and I know your heart is sore. I see the tears that fall when I'm not waiting at the door. </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b> You always did the best for me; your love was plain to see. For even if it broke your heart, you set my spirit free. </b></span></p><p><span><b><span style="font-size: large;"> So please be brave without me, one day we'll meet once more; For when you're called to heaven, I'll be waiting at the door</span><span style="font-size: x-large;">. </span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b> xxx</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b> </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p> </p>Florida Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13997510536187166258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3417524360655780445.post-23851981189605817992023-07-21T21:09:01.133-05:002023-07-27T15:57:14.456-05:00JOE BIDEN, THE FAMILY MAN<p><b><br /></b></p><p><b><img alt="for fb.jpg" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0W17gGoXwjadNTkfsM-Ba0Urs42XcdwAbZBxM-yYEkJpEOYyKogXCgWsUS4q3ugrQKX6VYBQMMMW1Da9o51GMDNP53IQfe0qOQQvWGXTx1Hsnq5dQCijI5e1RT0KFGd0DtqDoxGT9oM8/w105-h140-p/for+fb.jpg" /> </b></p><p><b> <span style="font-size: large;"> BY BILL JUNEAU</span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b> As a </b>lifelong Republican and a conservative, and an octogenarian, I have always looked upon Joe Biden from Delaware as dim mentally, and lacking insight into drafting legislation which would make for a better America. But hey, he is a man of faith, who believes in family, and professes that he is a "devout Catholic" and that he attends mass regularly and always partakes of communion. That should count for something. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> He has boasted of his love and affection for his six grandchildren, born to his sons, Hunter, 53, and the late Beau who died in 2015 of a brain tumor. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> But President Biden has declined to recognize existence of a seventh grandchild avowing that the little girl, born in 2018 as a product of son Hunter's fling with a D.C stripper, will never be part of the Biden family tree. Dr. Jill, the President's wife, endorses the cruel and selfish declaration of her senile husband; and aides, staffers and associates have been informed by the President to be careful: "there are "six Biden grandchildren...period."</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">In recent weeks, this nasty, cruel side of the nation's 46th President emerged when the public learned that Biden's crack- addicted son, Hunter, 53, who reportedly is now spending much of his time in the White house with his wife, Melissa Cohen, had fathered Navy Joan Roberts, following a romance with </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Lunden Alexis Roberts, who danced and writhed around a pole on the stage of the Mpire </span><span>Gentleman's Club in Washington, D.C.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> In 2017, Hunter and his wife for 24 years, Kathleen Buhle, were divorced. Their three children are Naomi, 29; Finnegan, 22 and Maisy, also in her early 20s. In 2019, following a whirlwind six day courtship, Hunter married Melissa Cohen from South Africa, and their son, Beau, named after Hunter's brother, was born in March of 2020.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> The President's other two grandchildren are Natali, 18, and Robert, 17. They were the offspring of son, Beau, and his wife, Hallie. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> The authenticity of Joe Biden as a family man, and a man of faith are now being flushed away as his lies reveal his selfish and corrupt character. In fact, efforts are underway to impeach Biden whose activities and corrupt practices make the story of the Watergate president look like child's play.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> While telling of his devotion to the Catholic church, Biden has asserted from his "pulpit" in the White House that </span></span><span style="font-size: large;">he supports unrestricted abortions as the prerogative of a woman---even in those final moments before birth. If an expectant mother, on the way to the delivery room, decides that the baby must be eliminated, that is fine with President Biden. His position on abortion contradicts basic doctrines of the Roman Catholic church, and some priests have denounced Biden as a fraud who should be denied communion and thrown out of the church. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">In this day and age of "transgendering" and sex instruction and race talk for very young children, Biden is what you might call "super woke." Biden is strong on behalf of adjusting young children by surgically re-fixing their gender with or without the consent of parents. He speaks with high praise of the LGBTQ community, and has said that its members </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span>(always referred to by him with the proper pronouns) are among the most "brave and courageous persons I have ever met, and I have met a lot of people in my time." </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> President Biden's </span>conduct in favor of changing the sex of children who are barely old enough to be in school has prompted one member of Congress to accuse him of being a "pedophile," possessing a demented interest in sexualizing children. He spins his woke views with lies and characterizes critics of the LGBTQ community as "systemically racist." </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Bent over a microphone and speaking in his customary "horse whisper" and with crib notes in his hand, he regularly demonizes white- skinned Republicans of being " MEGA White Supremacists." Apparently to Joe Biden, the only white skinned politicians who are not racists are Democrats like him.</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">Last </span><span style="font-size: large;">May, following several years of paternity suit litigation, Hunter was found through DNA analysis to be the father of Navy Joan Roberts, now 4. An Arkansas judge ordered child support to be paid by Hunter to the baby's mother. Also, the judge ordered that paintings and artwork of Hunter's were to be set aside as property in Navy Joan's name. Ms. Roberts who has custody of Navy Joan, initially attempted to have Navy's last name changed to "Biden," but she subsequently withdrew that demand. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"> New York Times' liberal writer Maureen Dowd, wrote a column shaming President Biden for declining to acknowledge his seventh grandchild born out of wedlock. </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"> Dowd said that Joe Biden's mantra has always been that the absolute most important thing is family---it is the heart of his political narrative--his stock in trade. "Callously scarring Navy's life just as it gets started, undercuts that." Dowd wrote. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> Last Christmas, Biden saw to it that six stockings for grandchildren would be hung in the White House. "</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">What the Navy Roberts story reveals, said Dowd, "is how dated and inauthentic the 80-year-old president’s view of family is." </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> XXX</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p><br /></p>Florida Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13997510536187166258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3417524360655780445.post-37541215419455911222023-07-08T14:12:00.063-05:002023-07-14T19:40:02.040-05:00COCAINE IN THE BIDEN WHITE HOUSE<p> </p><p><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #5f6368; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;"><b style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><img alt="for fb.jpg" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0W17gGoXwjadNTkfsM-Ba0Urs42XcdwAbZBxM-yYEkJpEOYyKogXCgWsUS4q3ugrQKX6VYBQMMMW1Da9o51GMDNP53IQfe0qOQQvWGXTx1Hsnq5dQCijI5e1RT0KFGd0DtqDoxGT9oM8/w105-h140-p/for+fb.jpg" /></b></span></p><p><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #5f6368; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #5f6368; font-size: large;"><b> BY BILL JUNEAU</b></span></p><p><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #5f6368; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #5f6368; font-size: large; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #5f6368; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Yes, there was a small cellophane container of cocaine or white "gravel" found inside the White House several days ago.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #5f6368; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> The ten-cent baggie of white powder, also called, "yam-yam" is an old friend to users like Hunter Biden and his half-sister, Ashley Blazer Biden, who are familiar visitors to the White House. The illegal substance was happened upon by a security officer on July 2 inside the historic presidential home and headquarters in Washington, D.C. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #5f6368; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> Hunter and Ashley are family members well known to agents at the White House. The story of Hunter's corruption and drug use has been told in a laptop computer which he discarded and which is now in the hands of the FBI. Ashley, the 42-year old daughter of the President and Dr. Jill, accidentally left behind a diary in a drug rehab center and it found its way into media hands. It revealed her story of sexual dalliances as a young woman and her being sexually molested by an unidentified family member; and showering with her father, which she added was "not appropriate." </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #5f6368; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> For unexplained reasons, the precise location inside the mansion has never been pinpointed, but the finder was a secret service agent, one of a great many assigned to the White House, whose job it is to assure maximum security and decorum in the great American mansion. These agents guard every entrance without exception, as well as always strolling about and watching for questionable visitors and incidents. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #5f6368; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #5f6368; font-size: large;">When first spotted, it was reported, there was concern that the powder was deadly anthrax, but in short order it was confirmed that it was cocaine. In 2001, a small concentration of <br />Anthrax, the lethal bacteria that is also a plain white powder, was </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: TiemposText;"><span style="font-size: large;">detected on a mechanical device known as a "slitter," which is used to open mail destined for the White House. It was in a mail facility that processes letters to the White House. The facility was closed for further testing, and environmental tests turned up negative. In past years, mailed Anthrax has caused the deaths of several persons. </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #5f6368; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> Opinion makers </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #5f6368; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">have said that the cocaine could actually be sourced in the direction of five members of the Biden family. At the top of the list are, Hunter Biden, a confirmed addict, but now said to be clean; and his half-sister, Ashley Biden </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span>Krein, wife of a plastic surgeon. Both Bidens </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #5f6368; font-family: inherit;">have spent some time in rehab centers coping with the habit. Other Bidens, the President's brother, Frank and niece Caroline, and the late son Beau's widow, Hallie, also have had stints in rehab facilities, according to the Daily Mail and other media arms. In some cases, rehab had been ordered by a judge. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="graphik, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.01em;"> </span><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.01em;">The president's brother James</span><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.01em;">, </span></span><span face="graphik, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.01em;">who has been a partner of Hunter's in his rich, Biden-named enterprises, has apparently not been a user of cocaine, so far as has been reporte</span></span><span face="graphik, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.01em;">d. </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #5f6368; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> On television, just last night, Ned Ryun, American Majority CEO, guested on the Ingraham Angle show, and said that the little cellophane bag must have been,without doubt, Hunter's stashed treat. "Everyone in the White House knows who put it wherever it was found," said Ryun. "There are cameras everywhere in the building." Answers will forever remain with the Bidens, and the door will eventually close on the so-called "investigation." </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #5f6368; font-family: inherit;"> Hunter's cocaine addiction is well known, and his dad has said that he is "very proud of his son who kicked the habit." But Joe Biden's history as a "complete liar" is well documented so his word on the source of the baggie or on Hunter's reformation is anyone's guess. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #5f6368; font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #5f6368; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> The so-styled 10-cent baggie was found somewhere; maybe in a library or in the west wing or in the situation room, but it is now in the hands of the Secret Service, which according to Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has opened an investigation. But details, says the diminutive, curly, twirly, red Afro-haired Jean-Pierre, is not now for public consumption, and she said she definitely "cannot share more" with reporters at this time. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #5f6368; font-family: inherit;"> However, Jean-Pierre emphasized to questioning reporters that the cocaine was found on Sunday, July 2, and that the President and Dr. Jill were not on the premises. They were away from the White House on "on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and yes, even Monday," and that's for the record, she said. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #5f6368;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #5f6368; font-size: large;"> Many newsmen are saying "look no further than the 53-year-old Hunter" whose cocaine habit has been voracious. Back in 2013, he was kicked out of the navy because of the uncontrolled addiction. Photographs of him almost naked with an unkempt look and a crank pipe hanging from his mouth have gone viral and even the NYT and WAPO, arms of the Democratic party, acknowledge the woeful background of Hunter and the legitimacy of his discarded laptop computer in the hands of the FBI. </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #5f6368; font-size: large;"> A copy of the hard drive from the Laptop computer is possessed by Congress. It has revealed the story of Hunter's corruption and money laundering, and his get-rich contracts with China, Ukraine and Russia. The contracts have, according to congressional investigators, provided money to some ten members of the Biden family with big chunks of money earmarked for "Pop" or the "Big Guy" as Vice President Biden, now President Biden, was then addressed. </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #5f6368; font-size: large;"> Very likely, the end result of the crack "investigation" will be that someone possessing the baggie came into the White House through the west wing entrance and maybe it fell out of a pocket or a briefcase that had been overlooked by some errant security agent. No denizen of the White House was involved. </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #5f6368; font-size: large;"> With the Biden administration, promised truth and transparency are not a way of life. Lies and cover ups are the name of the game, and that menu will conclude any "investigation." </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #5f6368; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #5f6368; font-size: large;"> <b>XXX</b></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #5f6368; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #5f6368; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #5f6368; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #5f6368; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #5f6368; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #5f6368; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #5f6368; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #5f6368; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #5f6368; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p><div class="MjjYud"><span class="oUAcPd" face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" id="fld_1" style="background-color: white; color: #202124;"></span><div class="g Ww4FFb vt6azd tF2Cxc asEBEc" data-hveid="CCgQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwil8qvOuf3_AhX3MDQIHaKIDTEQFSgAegQIKBAA" jsaction="QyLbLe:OMITjf;ewaord:qsYrDe;xd28Mb:A6j43c" jscontroller="SC7lYd" lang="en" style="background-color: white; border-radius: 0px; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.58; margin: 0px 0px 30px; position: relative; width: 600px;"><div class="kvH3mc BToiNc UK95Uc" data-snc="ih6Jnb_WciP6d" style="-webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-box-pack: start; contain: layout paint; display: flex; flex-direction: column; justify-content: start; overflow: hidden; position: relative;"><div class="Z26q7c UK95Uc jGGQ5e" data-snf="x5WNvb" data-snhf="0" style="contain: layout paint; flex: 0 0 auto; overflow: hidden;"></div></div></div></div>Florida Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13997510536187166258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3417524360655780445.post-19445186202403267102023-07-03T17:22:00.153-05:002023-08-19T15:18:57.268-05:00ADAM SCHIFF CENSURED<p> <img alt="for fb.jpg" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0W17gGoXwjadNTkfsM-Ba0Urs42XcdwAbZBxM-yYEkJpEOYyKogXCgWsUS4q3ugrQKX6VYBQMMMW1Da9o51GMDNP53IQfe0qOQQvWGXTx1Hsnq5dQCijI5e1RT0KFGd0DtqDoxGT9oM8/w105-h140-p/for+fb.jpg" /> <span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> <b> BY BILL JUNEAU</b></span><b style="font-size: x-large;"> </b><span style="font-size: xxx-large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">Over the last two and one-half centuries, the United States House of Representatives has been sympathetic and inclined to look the other way as to errant members ----the cheaters, liars, schemers and pretenders. In those many years, the House has expelled five members and "censured" 24. As is apparent, out of the thousands who have served as congresspersons, only a tiny handful of elected representatives were so snakelike and detestable that they were black-marked and censured for disgraceful behavior.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> U.S History books will forever carry the names of these congressmen whose actions were so disturbing that it even motivated normally forgiving peers to shame them as lowlifes with an historic footnote alongside their names, attesting to "censure" and disapproval by fellow legislators. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Last month, on June 21, the lower house of Congress, The People's House, targeted a 25th congressman for "censure" and membership in this ugly club. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Cited for the distinction of being the latest scoundrel, was Adam Bennett Schiff, 62, a California representative and a member of Congress for 21 years. He was singled out for his malicious dishonesty over the past several years in his role as Chairman of the the powerful House Intelligence Committee, where he was hellbent on denigrating and bringing down President Trump. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The vote to reprimand Schiff was on a partisan basis with all Democrats voting "no" on the resolution to censure, and Republicans in the majority voting "yes." </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> With the 435 member house in session, S</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span>peaker Kevin McCarthy brought forward the glib, California congressman, a </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Harvard educated lawyer, and effectively, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif;">"perp walked" him onto the well of the chamber as he read the censure resolution out loud. Schiff retained his smile, it was reported, acting as though he appreciated the attention. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Schiff, who has picked up the nicknames, "Shifty" and "Pencil Neck" characterized the disapproval of him by his Republican peers as "nonsense," and asserted that he sees the censure as a "badge of honor."</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Over the years when Trump was in office, and even before he was sworn in, Schiff charged that he was "colluding" with the Russian President, in an effort to denigrate the U.S and make our great country bow to Russia's demands. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Schiff claimed over and over that he had seen hard and irrefutable evidence of Trump's seditious behavior, and that rhetoric pointed the way to his impeachment. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> After a two year investigation by former FBI chief Robert Mueller, at a cost of $32 million to taxpayers, it was determined that the charges were fabricated and that the president had not colluded or conspired with the Kremlin leader in any conceivable way. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Schiff declined to apologize and continued to spew his hateful bilge as Chairman of the Intelligence Committee. Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi praised Schiff for his non-stop decrying of President Trump as a pal of Vladimir Putin. For Pelosi, who had said she would like to see Trump in prison, Schiff was her pet gopher in the Democrat's attack on the Republican President. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;">The resolution seeking "Censure" of Schiff was introduced by Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, who l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;"><span>abeled Schiff a "liar" and a "crook" in talks on the floor of the House. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;"><span> She said that Schiff had launched an all out political campaign built on baseless distortions against a sitting U.S President. He engaged in "falsehoods, misrepresentations and abuses of sensitive information in asserting that there was a relationship between Trump and Russia." </span></span></p><p><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;"><span> President Trump said that Rep Luna deserves to be treated as a Congressional "Star" for holding "Shifty" Schiff responsible for his deceit and deception and for putting our country at risk. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;"><span> While Adam Schiff was at the top of the "censure" list, the conservative House may also be considering Speaker Pelosi for censure or reprimand. Pelosi was also a fierce liar and her hate for President Trump was front and center in her actions. It was Speaker Pelosi who tore up President Trump's State of the Union address in 2019, while smirking and posing before the cameras. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;"><span> Also on Speaker McCarthy's list for a reprimand may be Gerald "Fat Jerry" Nadler of New York who, with Schiff, arranged for a manipulative, lying "whistleblower" to help Democrats lay the groundwork for the first impeachment of President Trump. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;"><span> The Republican House of Representatives reportedly has much to do and is considering the impeachment of brain-damaged and senile President Biden and the incompetent Homeland Security Secretary,</span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">Alejandro Mayorkas. With Biden's endorsement, Mayorkas,</span><span style="font-size: large;"> has allowed some five million illegal immigrants to enter the United States over the southerner border; and then testified under oath before Congress that the border was "secure." </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> XXX</span></p><p><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;"><span> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: xx-large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-size: 20px;"> </span></p>Florida Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13997510536187166258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3417524360655780445.post-32738481131892208462023-06-30T13:06:00.102-05:002023-07-03T09:22:27.020-05:00TRUMP SUES FOR DEFAMATION<p><br /></p><p> <img alt="for fb.jpg" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0W17gGoXwjadNTkfsM-Ba0Urs42XcdwAbZBxM-yYEkJpEOYyKogXCgWsUS4q3ugrQKX6VYBQMMMW1Da9o51GMDNP53IQfe0qOQQvWGXTx1Hsnq5dQCijI5e1RT0KFGd0DtqDoxGT9oM8/w105-h140-p/for+fb.jpg" /> <span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> <b> BY BILL JUNEAU</b></span><b style="font-size: x-large;"> </b></p><p><b style="font-size: x-large;"> </b><span style="font-size: large;"><span>In a peculiar turn around, former President Trump is countersuing the woman who accused him of raping her in the changing room of a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif;">Bergdorf Goodman department store across the street from Trump Tower in Manhattan sometime in 1996; and of defaming her by calling her a "liar."</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"> </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"> Trump's case against his accuser seems valid, though seemingly unprecedented and certainly unusual. "The Donald" maintains that the charges against him by the former Elle magazine writer, E. Jean Carroll, was fiction --it never happened and her abiding interest is in a big payday, and, says the ex-president, she has the backing of the standing Trump-hating woke crowd, and the far, far left New York government, and the dishonest media. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, Guardian Text Egyptian Web, Georgia, serif;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif;">Following a jury trial last May, the 79-year-old Carroll, was awarded $5 million, with the jury finding for her claims of sexual battery and that she had been defamed by Trump. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif;">Carroll, was the author of an advice column, "Ask E. Jean" which ran for nearly 20 years in Elle magazine.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif;"> The accusations against the ex-President were first made as part of an article she wrote and had published in 2019. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156;"> </span><span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif;">According to Carroll, the two had a chance run-in at the store, where Trump was shopping for a gift for "a girl." She said he asked for her advice, and the two shopped together and then he pushed her into a dressing room and assaulted her.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif;"> </span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, Guardian Text Egyptian Web, Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"> The former United States President has been vocal and assertive to everyone who would listen that the encounter never happened and that Ms. Carroll had concocted the story. "We'll be appealing this decision," said Trump. "It's a disgrace...the trial was very unfair." </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, Guardian Text Egyptian Web, Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"> On the advice of his lawyers, Trump declined to participate in the jury trial in New York where Trump is anathema to the woke-minded residents who cheer every day for him to be slammed and denigrated and incarcerated. Trump is evil and must pay the price. Innocent or not, he must be punished, as is the sentiment of many New Yorkers and political opponents. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The New York jury </span><span style="font-size: large;">heard only from Carroll, and they believed parcels of her story of 27 years ago. In its verdict, they found that Trump's public denunciation of her constituted defamation, and the jury delivered a verdict in her favor. The panel in district court in Manhattan reported that she had been subject to "sexual abuse," but not "rape.""</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Following the trial, the feisty, Carroll guested on the CNN cable station, and repeated that she had been "raped" by the ex-President who is a candidate for reelection in 2024. Trump again called her a lying gold digger and a nut job or something like that, and Carroll promptly filed another defamation claim, and that claim is scheduled to be the subject of a trial next year.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Trump's lawsuit against Carroll was filed June 27 and is a counterclaim for defamation based on the fact that Carroll alleges </span><span style="font-size: large;">she was raped when in fact the jury found that rape "clearly was not committed' and that Carroll had made the false claim both before and after the trial. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="proximanova-regular-webfont" style="background-color: white; color: #042d4d; letter-spacing: 0.6px;">Carroll’s “repeated falsehoods and defamatory statements against Trump, who is running for president again, have done significant harm to his reputation, which, in turn, has yielded an inordinate amount of damages sustained as a result,” Trump’s lawyers said in the court filings.</span> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;">Trump is seeking a retraction as well as unspecified compensatory and punitive damages, in the lengthy battle between the former US president and the elderly advice giver for troubled ladies. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;"> Perhaps this is Trump's opportunity for his lawyers to cross examine Carroll with gusto as a new jury listens. Trump will certainly testify and he can be persuasive. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> xxx</span></p><p><br /></p>Florida Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13997510536187166258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3417524360655780445.post-90236351857392608672023-06-17T09:59:00.055-05:002023-07-09T17:04:10.795-05:00PRIDE DAY AT BIDEN'S WHITE HOUSE<p> <img alt="for fb.jpg" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0W17gGoXwjadNTkfsM-Ba0Urs42XcdwAbZBxM-yYEkJpEOYyKogXCgWsUS4q3ugrQKX6VYBQMMMW1Da9o51GMDNP53IQfe0qOQQvWGXTx1Hsnq5dQCijI5e1RT0KFGd0DtqDoxGT9oM8/w105-h140-p/for+fb.jpg" /> </p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> <span> <b> BY BILL JUNEAU</b> <span><b> </b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">It was declared a moment of "Pride" and celebration at the White House, and Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden, commended participants for their extraordinary courage and bravery. Adults and children danced about on the grounds of the historical Washington residence, some half-naked and others tattooed heavily and wearing rainbow-colored garb. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> For Joe and Dr. Jill, it was a celebration of Pride month and they delivered their respect and honor for the LGBTQ lifestyle and way of life. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> A "Pride" flag was attached to the White House and positioned prominently along side the American flag. Demonstrating participants who used to be men, now bared their new full breasts as they jiggled and rocked about to the beat of music. It was time to "show the nipple," and the President watched through his "aviator glasses." Other participants who had been women, and are now men, displayed their muscles and chest scars attesting to the removal of their breasts. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> For most Americans who witnessed films and read about the behavior on the manicured green lawn outside of the prestigious residence of the nation's President, it was a time of disgust and sadness at the circus. The gathering had the endorsement of the mentally impaired Biden and his flaky wife, Jill, who are treating the LGBTQ activists with a greater reverence and awe than they have ever bestowed upon the nation's policemen or veterans who have died in defense of the USA and its citizens. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> A goodly crowd came to the White House, but they were mostly woke-minded couples with their children and mindless activists whooping it up in celebration of the special salute to the LGBTQ community. Out in front of the celebrants was Rene Montoya, a "trans" woman, who displayed her large bare breasts for Joe and Jill. Ms. Montoya eagerly spoke with reporters and answered questions. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> With the newspersons and for the cameras aimed her way, Montoya held her hands over her bare breasts and said that she had "zero intention" of trying to be vulgar or profane in any way. In covering her nipples, she explained, she did so so that others would not jump to wrong conclusions. She said the cover up for the photographers was done "just to play it safe."</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> America's dim 46th President, now a candidate for a another term, seemed to be enjoying Montoya, watching through his aviator sunglasses. Biden is a man with a long record of fixating on young women. Even his daughter, Ashley, has acknowledged in a diary that her dad used to shower with her, noting that it really was not appropriate. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span><span>When the President, who has the appellation among millions as "Creepy Joe," announced his intention to run for President in 2019, about a dozen women came forward and told of unpleasant and annoying experiences with him. They detailed how he would sniff their hair and and nestle his head onto their shoulders. One woman, Tara Reade, an employee of his senatorial office in the 1990s, demonized him and accused him of grabbing her in a darkened hallway of the capitol and thrusting his hand under her skirt, acting like a lion in heat. In another case, it has been reported, a young girl of under 10, has accused him of "pinching her nipple."</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> In Biden's interview a few months ago with Dylan Mulvaney, the transgendered 26-year-old woman who screamed of her love of Bud-Light beer in Anheuser Busch sponsored commercials, he assured her of his admiration for the LBGTQ community. No legislature must block the advances of the "trans" community, said Biden, emphasizing that he strongly endorsed "gender identity bathrooms." Since the commercial with Dylan and in the past year, Anheuser Busch has said it lost billions of dollars as a result of using the transgendered Dylan Mulvaney as an "influencer" in commercials designed to popularize the beer with the younger generation. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Biden spoke to the crowd for about 20 minutes praising the transgendering community and the LGBTQ lifestyles.</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="MercurySSm-Book-Pro_Web, serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0a2458;"> "</span><span face="MercurySSm-Book-Pro_Web, serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0a2458;">I mean this; I swear to God," said Biden, "you’re some of the most — you’re some of the bravest and most inspiring people I’ve ever known--- and I’ve known a lot of good folks." Biden's remarks and the Pride celebration at the White House was held even though more than 500 anti-LGBTQ bills have been introduced this year in 41 states. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="MercurySSm-Book-Pro_Web, serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0a2458;"> A few days following the noisy and obscene celebration on the south lawn, Biden spokespersons apologized for the behavior of some participants. "</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: TiemposText; font-size: large;">It wasn't appropriate. It's disrespectful. And let's not -- it really does not reflect the event that we hosted to celebrate the LGBTQ families" said Biden Press Secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre. The conduct of some persons celebrating was not a "normal thing" and will not be repeated in the future, she emphasized. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span> </span><span style="font-family: TiemposText; font-size: large;">All in all, the celebration on the the lawn of the White House, calling the transgendering community courageous and brave in the face of criticism, was another abomination by a President who skates on the edge of dementia and senility and who is working to transform the United States into a country unrecognizable by the men and women who have made it great. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> xxx</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: TiemposText; font-size: 18px;">"</span></p>Florida Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13997510536187166258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3417524360655780445.post-7527086877738261082023-05-27T07:57:00.876-05:002023-10-07T13:55:03.038-05:00 DYLAN MULVANEY, INFLUENCER FOR BUD LIGHT <p> <img alt="for fb.jpg" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0W17gGoXwjadNTkfsM-Ba0Urs42XcdwAbZBxM-yYEkJpEOYyKogXCgWsUS4q3ugrQKX6VYBQMMMW1Da9o51GMDNP53IQfe0qOQQvWGXTx1Hsnq5dQCijI5e1RT0KFGd0DtqDoxGT9oM8/w105-h140-p/for+fb.jpg" /> <span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> <b> BY BILL JUNEAU</b></span><b style="font-size: x-large;"> </b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> Reading the news these days, you may well come across Dylan Mulvaney, the media's latest transgendering hero. After his star rose as an elder in the broadway musical, "The Book of Mormon," he told the world of his moving from boyhood to girlhood in Tik Tok videos which attracted millions of followers. Last year, Anheuser Busch retained Dylan as an "influencer" who would make drinking Bud Light, an even greater adventure. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> The company put the face of Dylan on the blue beer can and the bubbly, chirpy Dylan, wearing a "Breakfast at Tiffany" outfit, hailed the popular brand in commercials. </span></span><span face="Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.16px;"><span style="font-size: large;">This month, she said, " I celebrated my 365 days of womanhood and Bud Light sent me possibly the best gift ever — a can with my face on it" </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large; letter-spacing: -0.16px;">Another video featured Dylan in a sudsy bathtub, having a cool Bud Light. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.16px;"> Anheuser Busch and its public relations team were certain that the transitioning, carefully-coiffed lady</span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"> Dylan, would sweeten the pot for the beer company and that admirers of Dylan would rush to pop open Bud Light cans ---or so the company thought. </span></p><p><span face="Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: -0.01em;"><span> It didn't work that way and by last April, following a year of Dylan pushing Bud Light, records were in and stats showed that sales and consumption of the nation's best selling beer tanked and the company lost billions of dollars. Criticism was heavy and not flattering for the prancing, smirking and heavily made up Dylan, who is praised by LGBTQ activists who believe that men and woman can determine their sex despite the sexual package given them at birth. </span></span></p><p><span face="Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: -0.01em;"><span> Singer </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="letter-spacing: -0.01em;">Kid Rock became so outraged over the company's partnering with Dylan Mulvaney that he </span><span face="Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="letter-spacing: -0.01em;"><span style="font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif;">used Bud Light beer cans as targets on a rifle range; and after destroying several dozen cans with his firepower, he turned to the cameras and yelled, "f--- Bud Light and f..... Anheuser-Busch." </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.01em;"> </span><span face="Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="letter-spacing: -0.01em;"><span style="font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif;">Conservative </span></span><span style="font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif;"> </span><span face="Apercu, helvetica, sans-serif">Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, of Georgia, and U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, called out Mulvaney as a “fake woman,” and labeled her gender expression as an “absurdity.” Another critic described Dylan as "everything the right loves to hate about 'trans' people in one convenient, outspoken package."</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="Apercu, helvetica, sans-serif"> According to the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #101010; font-family: "Publico Text", serif;">Bump Williams Consulting firm, </span><span> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #101010; font-family: "Publico Text", serif;">Parent Anheuser-Busch sold $71.5 million worth of Bud Light in the week ending April 29, a 23% drop compared to a year ago. Budweiser sales totaled $31.5 million that same week, down roughly 11%, the firm said. Sales of other Anheuser-Busch brands — including Michelob Ultra, Busch Light and Natural Light —also took a hit Company shares were down amid nationwide boycotts while the S&P 500 rose 2.25% over the same period. </span><span style="font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif;"> </span><span><span style="font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif;">Dylan Mulvaney, 26, the </span><span><span style="font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif;">"transgendering influencer" who turned out to be sort of a Bud Light "She Devil," is the offspring of a </span></span><span>conservative Catholic family in California. She was born a baby boy and was given the Welsh name of Dylan by mother, Donna and father, James. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Talented, extroverted and always seeking attention, Dylan's star as an actor rose while appearing in the Broadway musical. Then, on Tik Tok, with her year long videos depicting her new year of being a girl, she reportedly attracted some 1.8 million followers on Instagram and another 10 million on Tik Tok--or so they say.. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span> Ever since he was four years-old, Dylan has said. he leaned toward girl things and activities. Growing older, he reached the conclusion that he was in the wrong body and had been given the wrong package. So he opted to change his gender and because of today's woke society, garnered huge followings and is still seen as an "influencer" on television singing and prancing about in skimpy clothing and bathing suits as a chirpy young woman pushing a product. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span> While </span></span><span>it is reported that</span><span> </span><span><span>her bottom equipment may remain the same, Dylan has told of extensive facial femininization surgery. In fact she goes into detail on changes to her face and head on a Tic Tok video. The surgery, she said, </span></span><span style="font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif;"><span> took "multiple hours and included; a hairline advancement; a brow bone shave; a rhinoplasty; a cheek enhancement; a lip lift; a jaw shave; a chin reduc</span></span><span style="font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif;">tion; </span><span style="font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif;"><span>and a tracheal shave." Even her "tiny nipples," she exclaims proudly, have been doubled in size.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> She had a sit-down interview with President Biden a big promoter of gender changing, abortion and the sexualizing of children. It is a topic with which the befuddled Biden hunches over and speaks of in his customary horse whisper. In response to a question from Dylan, President Biden said that he was definitely in favor of "gender identity bathrooms." Also, he said, that it would be "illegal and immoral" for the banning of gender affirming health care --and for interfering with the transgendering of a person</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif;"> The message to Anheuser Busch and to other corners of America seems loud and clear that the transgendering craze and the new girlhood for Dylan is not looked upon with favor by millions of Americans, including those who like drinking beer. As some have said, "changing genders is not in nature's playbook and certainly is not something to aspire to; and transitioning persons should not be treated as a priestly class that can do no wrong."</span><span style="font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: large;"> Very likely, Anheuser Busch is wishing that it could quietly sneak away and wash their hands of all associations with the "trans" new lady and her "influencing" on behalf of Bud Light. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif;"> Without addressing the Dylan Mulvaney </span><span style="font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif;">backlash and problems directly, Anheuser CEO Brendan Whitworth said that his 165- year-old company is in the business of bringing people together over a beer and not in creating issues which will divide them. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif;"> Anson Frericks, former president of Anheuser Busch, didn't mince words. He called on Whitworth to resign as CEO for having "botched" the Bud Light situation. "It's time for the shareholders and board of Anheuser to ask Whitworth to step down."</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif;"> " The beer company's decision to make trans activist Dylan Mulvaney the face of Bus Light has cost the company a staggering $20 billion..and counting," said Frericks. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: large;"> xxx</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: large;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Apercu, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif;">In response to the backlash, Anheuser CEO Brendan Whitworth said that his 165- year-old company is in the business of bringing people together over a beer and not in creating issues which will divide them. He issued the following statement:</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: large;"> "As the CEO of a company founded in America's heartland more that 165 years ago, I am responsible for ensuring every consumer feels proud of the beer we brew. </span><span face="Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: large;">We have thousands of partners, millions of fans and a proud history supporting our communities, military, first responders, sports fans and hard-working Americans everywhere.......</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span> "</span></span><span style="font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif;">We never intended to be part of a discussion that divides people. We are in the business of bringing people together over a beer."</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: large;"> xxx</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Apercu, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large; letter-spacing: -0.16px;">“</span></p>Florida Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13997510536187166258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3417524360655780445.post-9133035898243085352023-05-15T13:13:00.183-05:002023-06-18T09:19:29.175-05:00THE EXIT OF LORI LIGHTFOOT<p> <img alt="for fb.jpg" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0W17gGoXwjadNTkfsM-Ba0Urs42XcdwAbZBxM-yYEkJpEOYyKogXCgWsUS4q3ugrQKX6VYBQMMMW1Da9o51GMDNP53IQfe0qOQQvWGXTx1Hsnq5dQCijI5e1RT0KFGd0DtqDoxGT9oM8/w105-h140-p/for+fb.jpg" /> <span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> <b> BY BILL JUNEAU</b></span><b style="font-size: x-large;"> </b></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> May 15, 2023, was a very satisfying day for a great number of Chicagoans and former Chicagoans like this writer, who want only the best for the Windy City and Land of Lincoln. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> It was exit-day for Mayor Lori Lightfoot, the five-foot, one inch lady with sagging blue jeans and a droopy cowboy hat, who was in charge of Chicago, the nation's third largest city, for the past 48 months. And she indeed left a legacy. No elected woman ever had as dirty a mouth as Lightfoot exhibited, and no mayor </span><span>was ever so absorbed in tracking down racial politics in every corner of the city. She had no time for budgets or </span><span>deficits or stopping crime while alleged white supremacists were lurking anywhere in the Windy City.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>. </span><span> </span><span><span>Lightfoot, 60, had the distinction of being the city's first black, lesbian chief executive. She is family oriented and has a wife and an adopted daughter. Lightfoot was feisty and </span><span>wielded a fist at anyone who challenged her assertions. If you argued and resisted, she got angry and often accused the critic of being a racist. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> She scrambled about City Hall during her first 24 months in office with virtually no accomplishments to point to. She watched as crime spiraled upward with street shootings and killings breaking Chicago records. On the anniversary of her first two years as mayor in 2021, she was given a cake with two candles to mark the occasion. But she added more than a gracious "thank you" for the occasion. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> In the future, she announced, she would only grant one-on-one interviews to reporters who are "people of color." Chicago City Hall, she said, has way too many white journalists compared to the number of reporters "of color,"and that situation is intolerable and must change. Her comments drew national attention, but no one was heard endorsing her new program. One TV anchor from Fox News described her as a "lunatic racist" who should not hold a public office. Tulsi Gabbard, a former congresswoman and a Democrat who had run for President in 2020, called for her resignation, and importuned President Biden and Vice President Harris to join her in the demand. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Before President Trump left office in January of 2021, he contacted Lightfoot and offered to send armed troops to Chicago to help in the fight against street crime. Lightfoot refused and said she considered the President a "racist" and that she would have nothing to do with him. The Chicago Tribune upbraided Lightfoot for her attitude and advised her to be more "collaborative" with the President of the United States. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Lightfoot came aboard as Chicago's mayor in 2019 after a tough primary fight and a run-off election against County Board President Toni Preckwinkle which she won in a landslide. Lightfoot succeeded Rahm Emanuel who had been mayor for eight years, but declined to seek a third four-year term. Lightfoot took office as a popular new mayor, receiving broad support from the Teachers union and others in the city, Republicans as well as Democrats. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Most members of the Chicago city council applauded her election and predicted great things to come under the diminutive and feisty new mayor who had been a federal prosecutor and had served as the President of the Chicago Police Board. But four years later, hardly anyone in the council wanted her for a second term. One council member, a democrat, described her as a mayor who"played the race card" whenever there was a challenge to one of her loony proposals. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Democratic Ald. Sue Sadowski Garza was a strong Lightfoot supporter, but when time for her second term arrived, she did a </span><span>backflip on her support of the mayor, and didn't hold back. "She will never again get my support," she announced. </span><span>"In four years, the mayor has managed to piss off </span><span>everyone with whom she comes into contact....police, fire, teachers, aldermen, businesses, and manufacturing," said Garza. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Mayor Lightfoot failed to focus on gun crime even though participants were African Americans shooting their black brothers and sisters. Instead, she </span><span style="font-size: large;">became a critic of Chicago policemen trying to do their jobs. She saw "racism" anytime a white policeman acted against a black citizen even when officers saw their targets breaking the law. She instigated policies that set limits on when a police officer could pursue a suspect who had committed a crime or appeared to be preparing to commit a crime. Uniformed officers voted a "no confidence" in her and considered her foot pursuit policy as impossible and ridiculous. Rank and file Chicago officers voted a "no confidence" in Lightfoot and in the new police chief she had appointed. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> In in the aftermath of the George Floyd death, Lightfoot ordered the removal of statues of Christopher Columbus from two Chicago Parks on grounds that the Italian icon, Columbus, mistreated blacks. Later, efforts were made by park district lawyers, at the request of Italian lawyers, to have a statue in a Columbus day parade. Lightfoot objected and engaged in an argument with lawyers in which she said she would make the decisions and that she had the biggest "dick" around. She questioned one lawyer's credentials as an attorney, and he subsequently filed a lawsuit against her for defamation.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span><span> </span><span>At one point, Chicago police, acting upon a warrant signed by a Cook county judge, accidently barged into the home of a woman undressed and preparing for bed --in search of a drug dealer. Officers quickly apologized and the naked occupant was given a blanket by police and was without cover for merely seconds. </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Mark Flessner, </span><span> City lawyer, apologized on behalf of the police and the City of Chicago and prepared a check for $50,000 as damages for the woman's embarrassment.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> Lightfoot didn't think that was enough and upped the amount to $2.9 million. After all, the woman was </span><span> African American and the policemen were white. Corporation counsel argued that the multi million dollar settlement for damages was excessive and that the policemen had actually done nothing wrong since they acted pursuant to a warrant. Lightfoot then fired city attorney Flessner, and the city council subsequently approved the $2.9 million as reparations for the horror of being viewed momentarily by white men. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Lightfoot also directed her cries of "systemic racism" against the Chicago Department of Health. Statistics show, said Lightfoot, that life expectancy for blacks is some ten years less than that for whites and Latinos, and that a major reason was the abbreviated care given to Black citizens. Also, there is an overwhelming number of African American residents dying from Covid 19, apparently for want of a vaccination. The Chicago Commissioner of Health has promised to improve care to black residents and to defeat the existing health care crisis. </span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> With Lightfoot's exit from the mayor's office after four years, the gavel has been turned over to Brandon Johnson, 47, an African American who had at one time favored the defunding of police. However, later Johnson said that he wanted money that had been earmarked for police, to be redirected to police social programs which would work hand in hand with police officers in bringing down crime; and would enable policemen to resolve some situations and problems without violence and shootings. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Johnson, Chicago's 57th mayor, was elected last April in a run-off election against Paul Valas, a former CEO of the Chicago schools. Valas, who is white, had promised to restore law and order to the streets of Chicago and to support and return respect to Chicago policemen. Johnson accused Valas of being a "closet republican," who could not be trusted. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Chicagoans are rooting for and hoping for the best and a safer city under Mayor Johnson in its fight against spiraling gun violence and crime and hijackings. In Lightfoot's final weekend as the city's mayor, there were five persons killed and 29 others wounded by gunfire. The youngest victim was a 16 -year-old boy gunned down near "The Bean" in Millennium Park. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Chicagoans look forward to new safety and less violence under the new mayor who officially took office on May 16. Nevertheless, while hoping and praying for better days, citizens are bracing for the possibility that the new mayor has only more of the past to offer. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> xxx</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span><span> </span></span></p>Florida Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13997510536187166258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3417524360655780445.post-83641465207300382032023-05-06T17:48:00.419-05:002023-10-07T11:26:31.425-05:00SO THAT WAS TUCKER <p> <img alt="for fb.jpg" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0W17gGoXwjadNTkfsM-Ba0Urs42XcdwAbZBxM-yYEkJpEOYyKogXCgWsUS4q3ugrQKX6VYBQMMMW1Da9o51GMDNP53IQfe0qOQQvWGXTx1Hsnq5dQCijI5e1RT0KFGd0DtqDoxGT9oM8/w105-h140-p/for+fb.jpg" /> <span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> <b> BY BILL JUNEAU</b></span><b style="font-size: x-large;"> </b></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">M</span><span style="font-size: large;">ost everyone was surprised when Tucker Carlson got his pink slip which reportedly came directly from Rupert Murdoch, top owner of the Fox News cable station. No advance notice or rumor, and even Carlson did not know that the axe was on its way. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Lots of speculation as to why Tucker was eliminated. He was drawing in millions of viewers nightly. He annoyed Democrats and probably made the befuddled Joe Biden even more of a basket case as he heard the speeches and pronouncements drafted for him to read being cut up by the conservative Carlson who considered Biden mentally impaired and historically the dumbest of any American president. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> There are opinions that a Murdoch son who has always hung with Democrats pushed his dad to excise Tucker's powerful voice; young Murdoch always got applause and good will from the left wing. In any case, the sending of Carlson to the street was a gift to President Biden who has announced his desire for another four year term. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Tucker, 52, was in his seventh year as host of the nightly, prime time show, and he signed off on a Friday by saying---We will see you again on Monday. But on Monday morning, April 24, the news was announced that Tucker and Fox News had parted company; and Fox News bosses thanked their exiting star for his work and contributions. And then the door was closed and Tucker's fight against "lying, pomposity, smugness and groupthink" as he always described it, became his legacy. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span><span> </span></span><span style="font-size: large;">Tucker always had plenty of respectable sources as guests on his prime time show. Heavy back up for his belief that 80-year-old Biden is physically and mentally wanting, grew from the words of Texas Congressman Ronny Jackson, a former navy admiral who served as President Obama's trusted doctor before his election to Congress. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> As a White House physician, Adm. Jackson knew and saw Biden at work as Obama's Vice President--and he has provided Tucker with plenty of fuel. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Said Rep. Jackson: "President Biden does not know what he is doing. Others under him pull his strings...he is dangerous and should not be president." </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span><span>Tucker believed, as do millions of others, that Biden became President after an election manipulated by dishonest and </span><span>scheming Democrats who used a politicized FBI and a Department of Justice to get the job done. With the media on their side, and Facebook and Twitter doing their bidding, evidence of Biden's criminal conduct and behavior was kept under wraps and concealed from the eyes and ears of voting citizens. Facts about the infamous Hunter laptop are just now slowly coming to light.</span><span> </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Carlson, 52, began hosting his prime time hour on Fox News in 2016 after the station fired "Big Dog" Bill O'Reilly </span><span>for alleged sexual harassment of women. Carlson who had been a Fox employee since 2009 and was doing odd jobs and handling various gigs, discarded his bow tie and the show, "Tucker Carlson Tonight," was born, and in short order caught the eye of viewers. In a couple of years, Tucker became the number one cable news analyst with a powerful voice, and some four million viewers tuned in daily to his show, and to hear his political take on Washington and the nation's troubled times. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span><span>Democrats called Carlson a "liar" and a "racist" at every opportunity, and the far left NYT and WAPO weighed in often seeking to belittle his conservative talk and to persuade advertisers to abandon him. But that didn't work, and Tucker became a popular and powerful voice for conservatives, Christians and Republicans who resented the "cancel culture" and "woke" nonsense being promoted by LGBTQ activists and the dim -witted President. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Tucker had his favorite topics and among them were Ukraine and its war with Russia; the LGBTQ and its growing list of initials, and the gender-transitioning mysticism infecting society. Of course, he always had time to dwell on the blatant corruption of Joe Biden and his cocaine- addicted son, Hunter. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Tucker frequently asked "What</span><span style="font-size: large;"> exactly," is America's vital national interest in Ukraine? Why are billions of dollars in cash and in military weapons, ammunition, tanks. airplanes, food and clothing being delivered non-stop to Ukraine. When does it end, reporters have asked President Biden. While nervously shuffling his crib notes, the president told reporters "never"....it never ends. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> C</span><span><span>arlson has said that it was </span><span>morally wrong for Russia to attack Ukraine, but the first line of resistance to the Kremlin attack should come from European nations who are allied against Russia and its tyrannical president. America's </span><span><span>assistance to Ukraine in the past 14 months is reported to be about $100 billion, almost as much as the the United States invested in the eight year war in Vietnam. </span><span> Where is the accountability from President Zelenskyy? Carlson has said that he believes that America under Biden is dangerously close to bringing about a third world war in Eu</span></span><span>rope.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">As part of many of his shows, Carlson spelled out the Biden family corruption linked to the discarded laptop computer of President Biden's son, Hunter. Messages on the laptop have revealed Joe Biden, when vice president and Obama's point man to Ukraine, served as </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span>the "chairman" and "figurehead" to Hunter's overseas business dealings with Ukraine, China and Russia. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> Many thousands of dollars from those deals, according to Hunter's messages, were earmarked for the "Big Guy" as Hunter referred to his father. Biden has publicly lied and said that he never discussed with Hunter the Hunter contracts; and that the laptop computer is "Russian disinformation." Former Attorney General Barr has said that Joe Biden is a liar. </span> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> On several occasions </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span> Tucker offered as a guest on his show, Tony Bobulinski, a former naval officer and business associate of Hunter's, who told of meetings with Joe Biden when he was vice president. Despite the allegations, Bobulinski, has never been interviewed by the FBI, and has said that "Joe Biden is a </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span>"compromised president" and should resign</span><span>. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The corruption and cover up of Joe Biden's criminal conduct and that of his son, said Tucker, makes Watergate look like child's play.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> Under Joe Biden, America's borders are wide open. The world heard Biden yell, "Com'on in" and he meant every word.---and immigrants brought with them fentanyl and heroin for use, sale and distribution. Border security is the sole responsibility of the federal government, and Biden has thumbed his nose at the responsibility, and thousands of Americans have perished from the illegal fentanyl. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span><span>Since Biden became President in 2021, some five million illegal aliens have walked onto American shores. Most check in with patrol officers and then are sent on their way in buses and planes to a desired destination. Hundreds of thousands more simply bypass sign-in procedures and find their own modes of transportation. </span><span> </span><span>A year ago, Tucker Carlson was suspended from Twitter for so-called "misgendering" and "hateful speech." The suspension followed a Tucker segment in which he was critical of Dr. Richard Levine's transition to Dr. Rachel Levine after Richard and his spouse had two daughters. The change was in 2011. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> Dr. Levine, a pediatrician, was named in 2021 by President Biden as </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health. Subsequently the paper, USA Today, named him as "Woman of the Year," noting his outstanding work during Covid emergencies. A guest on Carlson's show, Seth Dillon, CEO of the satirical Babylon Bee organization. declared that the Bee had named Dr Levine as its "Man of the Year," and had posted relevant comments on Twitter.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span> "</span>Can an individual just decide to change sexes and become a woman, and direct that he be called by a female name" said Tucker." I think not, and do not intend to apologize to twitter for anything." Carlson says that "transgendering" is biologically impossible and is an abomination which defies the laws of nature. Subsequently, after Elon Musk took control of Twitter, his suspension was lifted. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span><span>Carlson is gone from Cable television, at least for now. But he may well in the future show up somewhere with a microphone in his hand, hated by woke democrats and other crazies, but loved and respected by millions who share his values and love for facts and truth. </span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">xxx </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><br /></span></span></p><p><br /></p>Florida Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13997510536187166258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3417524360655780445.post-42581140728434124512023-04-29T17:11:00.015-05:002023-04-30T14:59:39.966-05:00PETE ROSE SEEKS REDEMPTION <p> </p><p> <img alt="for fb.jpg" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0W17gGoXwjadNTkfsM-Ba0Urs42XcdwAbZBxM-yYEkJpEOYyKogXCgWsUS4q3ugrQKX6VYBQMMMW1Da9o51GMDNP53IQfe0qOQQvWGXTx1Hsnq5dQCijI5e1RT0KFGd0DtqDoxGT9oM8/w105-h140-p/for+fb.jpg" /> <span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> <b> BY BILL JUNEAU</b></span></p><p> <span style="font-size: large;"> It was just about 35 years ago that the baseball world got ripped with the news that Pete Rose, who was then a player-manager for the Cincinnati Reds, had been betting on major league baseball games in violation of an unbendable written rule. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti called him onto the carpet. He drilled the the cocky Rose about his betting with bookies on MLB games, even on games when the "Big Red Machine" (as the Reds were called by sportswriters) was playing. "Betting by me," said Rose, "never happened. All lies by competitors out to get me and bring the team down." </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> But the evidence against the rough-talking baseball icon who had become an American hero, was overwhelming and irrefutable. Regularly in the spotlight and often quoted by sportswriters, Rose had become the game's hit king. But Rose's celebrity and sensational diamond achievements were not changing the hard-nosed Giamatti's determination to make the lying Rose pay for his malicious disregard for the nobility and rules of the game. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Betting and breaking the game rules did not merit legal prosecution since no criminal laws were broken. But Commissioner Giamatti brought the hammer down in a way which was reminiscent of the punishment spooned out to the notorious "Black Sox" players who took a fall in the 1919 World Series. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Giamatti ordered that Rose be banned from baseball for the rest of his life. He had him "branded" like a piece of cattle as "permanently ineligible" for induction into the prestigious Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. Giamatti died in 1989 and his successors, Fay Vincent, Bud Selig and then Rob Manfred, refused formal and informal requests from Rose to back off or reduce the the Giamatti sanction which provided that he would never be a member of the sacred Hall. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Rose persisted in talks and in interviews in denying that he had ever bet on baseball games. However, in 2004, he authored an autobiography, and "came clean" acknowledging that he had bet on games due to his gambling addiction--and always bet on the Reds to win. He said that he regretted his misconduct and his lying, and hoped that some day he could be forgiven for his wrongdoings, indiscretions, foibles and mistakes, and be given a second chance. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> In 2015 and then again in November of 2022, Rose beseeched Commissioner Manfred in letters to show mercy and to forgive him for his rule breaking as his conduct was wrong, but not such as deserving of the horrendous punishment given him. Rose importuned the new commissioner Manfred, elected in 2015, to forgive his betting on games, and give him a second chance----and permit him to be a candidate for induction into the Hall of Fame. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> In 2015, Manfred issued a quick no to Rose's request for some mercy and understanding, noting that Rose </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span>lacks a "mature understanding of his wrongful conduct.... and has not yet accepted full responsibility for it." </span><span> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> No doubt but that Rose was wrong in breaking baseball rules and for his mendacity which made matters worse. But then what about his accomplishments as a ballplayer? Should not performance be the standard for admission to the Hall of Fame? After all, some players enshrined, like Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb and a bunch of others, are not worthy of canonization. It is the Hall of Fame and not the Hall of Saints. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> So how about Rose on the ballfield? He </span><span style="font-size: large;">batted from both sides of the plate, ran like a deer, played five different positions and finished his career with more hits (4,256) and more games played (3,215) than any other player in the history of the Grand Old Game. Until Rose, Ty Cobb had been the all-time Hit King. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> He won </span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">three batting titles, an MVP award, and was Rookie of the Year in his first year in the majors. </span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> Affectionately called "Charlie Hustle" by sports writers, he was named to 17 all- star teams and is the recipient of a number of gold glove awards. He had a 303 lifetime batting average. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span> He became an illustrious national figure with millions of fans of all ages. In Cincinnati during Rose's 24 years, he led the "Big Red Machine" to four national league pennants and victories in three world series. He has been enshrined in the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame and in </span></span><span>the mind and hearts of baseball fans the world over who have forgiven him and believe that he should be a member of the Hall of Fame </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> The Ohio state legislature has passed a bill calling for his induction into the Cooperstown Hall. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> In his letter to Manfred in November of last year, Rose poured his heart out importuning Manfred for mercy, forgiveness and a chance at his being inducted into the Hall of Fame. In response to reporters, Manfred said that he </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span> himself believed that the ban was for life---period. </span><span>Nevertheless, he seemed to leave the door open a crack for a possible change. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> The question of "eligibility," said </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202121; font-size: large;"> Manfred, when questioned a few weeks ago by Cincinnati newsmen, belongs in a "conversation" among members on the board of the Hall of Fame. Manfred, noting that he has a seat on that board, said "its just not appropriate for me to get in front of those talks." The positions of MLB leaders and of the board of the Hall of Fame are not necessarily the same, he said. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #202121; font-size: large;"> So the door for Rose is again closed ---at least for now. But there is always a possibility that the board of the Hall of Fame may withdraw its sword. Rose's extraordinary record on the baseball diamond cannot be denied. America has always been a kind and generous nation, and maybe its long arm of forgiveness will extend to the 82-year-old Pete Rose. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> xxx</span></p><p> </p>Florida Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13997510536187166258noreply@blogger.com0