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Tuesday, April 21, 2020

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“He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.” - Charles Peguy (1873 - 1914)

*The Battle of San Jacinto (Batalla de San Jacinto), was fought on April 21, 1836, in present-day Harris County, Texas. It was the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution, and paved the way for the Republic of Texas to become an independent country. Led by General Sam Houston, the Texian Army engaged and defeated General Antonio López de Santa Anna's Mexican army in a fight that lasted just 18 minutes. 

Rallying cries from events of the war, "Remember the Alamo!" and "Remember Goliad!" became etched into Texan history and legend.

*Great Britian's Queen Elizabeth II was born April 21, 1926. In 2015 she surpassed Victoria to become the longest-reigning monarch in British history.

*On April 21, 1989, Chinese students began a months-long protest at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China. Ignoring government warnings of violent suppression of any mass demonstration, students from more than 40 universities began a march to Tiananmen on April 27. In early June that year, Chinese troops had forcibly cleared Tiananmen Square and Beijing’s streets, killing hundreds of demonstrators and arresting thousands of protesters and other suspected dissidents.


The international community was outraged at the incident, and economic sanctions imposed by the United States and other countries sent China’s economy into decline. However, by late 1990, international trade had resumed, thanks in part to China’s release of several hundred imprisoned dissidents.

On to today's news:

Judicial Watch subpoenas Google in fight over Hillary Clinton’s emails
"“A federal court, tired of the State and Justice Departments’ gamesmanship, authorized Judicial Watch’s subpoena to Google to follow a lead on the Clinton emails,” Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, said in a statement. “DOJ and State are AWOL and covering up for Hillary Clinton, so it is again up to Judicial Watch to do the basic investigative heavy lifting to get at the truth.”

The Google subpoena, announced Wednesday, demands the Big Tech company produce all Clinton emails from a Google account believed to contain Clinton’s emails. Platte River Networks’ IT specialist Paul Combetta reportedly used a Google account to transfer Clinton’s emails from a laptop to a Platte River server, then used BleachBit to remove any traces of the emails from the laptop. The subpoena seeks all Clinton emails from her time at State, between January 21, 2009 and February 1, 2013. Google must turn over the emails by May 13."
You or I would be in prison by now. Donate to Judicial Watch here.

“Dustbin of History”: Supreme Court Rules State Juries Must Be Unanimous In Major Constitutional Ruling
"It is a historic “incorporation” ruling that the Sixth Amendment would apply in the same way to the states as it does the federal government.  Most rights are incorporated, but the Supreme Court has long allowed this protection to be decided state-by-state.

The court’s 6-3 ruling overturned its 1972 decision in Apodaca v. Oregon. Notably, the opinion was written by Justice Neil Gorsuch who continues to follow his conscience in breaking from the right of the Court — as I expect he would when I testified in favor of his confirmation. Gorsuch declared that “Louisiana’s and Oregon’s laws are fully—and rightly—relegated to the dustbin of history.”

Forty-eight states already require unanimous verdicts in criminal cases.  Only Louisiana and Oregon allowed for 10-2 verdicts."
Overturned its 1972 decision? Weird. Apparently, 'The Law of the Land!' is fungible.

Antisocial distancing
"Nobody looks at you as if you’re part of a community in that shopping area. The same is out on the street if you’re cycling around or whatever. Overnight we have gone from a community of people that got along pretty well with one another and wished others well to individuals whom regard all others with deep and overriding suspicion that you are a diseased unperson who must be shunned above all things."
Personally, I've always been a misanthropic hermit, so I hadn't noticed.

Save $767, watch your world collapse
"11 months ago, National Review said, "Trump’s insistence to the contrary notwithstanding, most of the cost of tariffs is paid by American consumers (through higher prices), not by the countries being sanctioned. For instance, it is estimated that the president’s latest round of tariffs on China will cost the American family an average of at least $767."

$767 a year.

For a little over $2 a day, you could walk outside. Stores would be stocked with toilet paper. Murderers would be in prison. Diehl's would still be closed but only because it is a Monday. It would have been open on Sunday."
I still maintain that tit-for-tat tariff spat between Trump and Xi is what 'accidently' released that Wuhan Corona Virus against the world. But that's just crazy talk!

That $20,000 refrigerator stuffed with gourment ice cream is located on the Pelosi's $10 million, 16 acre estate in the tony Napa Valley of Cali. surrounded by a gated wall and armed guards. Let that sink in...

Nobody will argue your virus math; They will argue your virus assumptions.
"But governments are sitting on top of increasingly restive populations.  The populations have very good reason to be restive - the world economy has taken probably a $10T (that's Trillion) hit.  That hit has been very unevenly distributed.  In economic terms this is a very regressive tax targeting the poor and working classes.  Ask Louis XVI or Czar Nicholas II how that turned out."
Illinois Wants You to Bail Them Out
"Decades of mismanagement to be swept under the rug, with a handout. Illinois Asks for $10B(+) for Pensions — Most Disgusting COVID-19 Bailout Yet?."
Maybe. It's at least tied with this:


Whitmer authorizes lethal force to maintain state lockdown
Achtung, Snopes. It's the People's Cube.

Trump To Sign Executive Order Temporarily Suspending Immigration Due To Coronavirus
"“A total of 83%, or 5 in 6 people, say they favor a moratorium on immigration through the southwest border amid the pandemic, a new Harvard/Harris poll found,” The Washington Examiner reported. “That figure includes 75% of Mexican Americans and 93% of Republican voters.”
It is the right side of history.

Border wall construction ‘cam’ live this week, ‘164-miles of promises kept’
"It will be on a loop showing the last 30 days of construction from various sections of the wall. The administration has built some 164 new miles of border wall, most in areas where the old wall was ineffective. It plans to add another 300 miles this year. CBP this week said in a fact sheet that it expects to spend $15 billion on 731 total miles."
This is also the right side of history.

Cuomo is a known liar and propagandist. From the start I said he's lying about being infected. It was and is fake news until publicly proved 'not fake.'




From late March, and curious: Masks are now required. Will business drop off? Yes, I'm a scientist.


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