Politics is in this time line because it is tearing up U.S. culture.  While a person is watching politics unfold day-by-day, without knowing how it is going to turn out, things look scary.  Anarchy in the U.S. is hurting so many people.  If one looks back from 2026, what is going on in 2021 may not seem like such a big deal, and Internet searches in 2026 may not turn up the cost of anarchy.  So these records are JE's attempt to capture some of the feeling of the day.  Conservative talk radio:  Democrat-Republican politics from fifteen years ago was different, they could agree on a lot.  But today, the political parties in the U.S. Congress seem to have no common ground.  JE sees congressional leaders (at least some Democrats) regularly lying and expecting people to believe the lies.

2021 Jan  CNN Opinion  The Capitol appeared to be weakly "guarded" by Capitol Police 

2021 Jan 20  John wonders if the Portland riots will stop upon Joe Biden becoming president today.  No.  https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/protests/protests-planned-in-portland-on-inauguration-day/283-50a33cdc-a636-4d5e-acdc-5d33a7cb4635  8 [Antifa] arrested after windows smashed at Democratic Party of Oregon building in Northeast Portland [the windows were bulletproof, the mob had a hard time breaking in], While making arrests, officers recovered batons, irritant spray, Molotov cocktails, knives and a crowbar, police said. [in daylight, police followed along ..."This is the Portland Police Bureau! No permit has been issued for area roadways. Move to the sidewalk. Failure to comply with this order may subject you to citation, arrest or the use of crowd-control agents and/or impact weapons."]      https://welovetrump.com/2021/01/20/antifa-riots-on-day-of-biden-inauguration-watch-antifa-com-redirect-to-whitehouse-gov/   While Biden, Democrats, and their mainstream media allies spent the whole year enabling ANTIFA, it looks like the Frankenstein is out of control.    [wealthy leftists in the U.S. provide bail to many who are arrested]      Banner marched down a Portland street:  We don't want Biden--we want revenge for police murders, imperialist wars, and fascist massacres.  We are ungovernable.          See on this sub-page  photos  following July 7 2021

2021 Jan 27  A caller to Clay and Buck Show on Jan 2 2025     A week after Pres. Biden's inauguration, Democrats are so intent on DEI, diversity, equity, and inclusion, that many U.S. military units stand down for mandatory indoctrination.  Many military leave the services in protest.  Corporations follow suit, and this is the norm in the U.S. until Pres. Trump's second term starts in 2025.  Disney stock peaks in 2021 and declines thereafter as Disney executives push DEI in movies.

2021  A Portland, Oregon resident left Portland.  The neat areas "have lost nearly every cool aspect, like basic sanitation in the park blocks, graffiti, endless drug use, broken windows [on cars?], boarded up buildings, tents, and an overwhelming number of people" homeless.  "Creepy people who in their drug fueled rage are flipping trashcans and screaming."  Portland declining in population.  High taxes but inadequate action to solve problems.  Gunfire in neighborhoods during nights.

2021 Jan-Feb New Oxford Review  p. 29  Fr. John Perricone  Being spiritual without being religious, which Hollywood stars engage in, is a "vain voyage into the self."  The Roman Catholic Church has suffered from modernism (see this time line, 1899 apostolic letter) for 123 years.  The signs of modernism:

• no doctrine

• Freud and Rogers

• self-aggrandizement posing as spiritual progress

• contempt for the Catholic tradition of striving for perfection [Protestants warn that any person who approaches perfection is deceived]

• molding the saints into feminists or other leaders of progressivism

History of modernism among Catholics:

• gnostics

• Manichees in 300s

• Joaquim of Fiore and the Spritual Franciscans in 1200s

• Cloud of Unknowing and Meister Eckhard in 1300s

• Alumbrados in Spain in 1500s

• Jansenist Petite Eglise and Quietists in 1600s in France

2021 Feb 27  Canceled Science: What Some Atheists Don’t Want You to See by Eric Hedin     Physics professor at Ball State University when the letter from a militant atheist arrived and all hell broke loose.  Freedom from Religion Foundation targeted Hedin, hsi Boundaries of Science course exposed students to an evidence-based case for design and purpose.         Attack by Prof. Jerry Coyne, an academic predator it seems.

2021 March 12    https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tyler-o-neil/2021/03/12/detra..........-open-up-tr.........-identity-was-a-way-to-cope-with-my-trauma-and-body-hatred-n1432065    Detr Open Up About How Tg 'Medicine' Left Them Scarred for Life    BY TYLER O'NEIL MAR 12, 2021

"I had made a massive mistake and wanted to de ."   Tra....... regret is a term.    "Growing number of people who went through medical t who deeply regret it, who were harmed by it."     If they talk publicly, "they will be told they’re hateful.”  "The medical community pushes medical t as a one-size-fits-all approach...but not everyone who suffers from gd needs medical tra........ She suggested there should be a broad array of different treatment options."      At the clinic, "my g non-conformity was used against me as some sort of ‘gotcha.'”  “I was sold lie after lie by the t      community."  "The medical community’s rush to embrace t as the only solution to gd is a harrowing scandal."         Also see Aug 21 2016 and Jan 2 2020

2021 March 21   From Imprimis, Hillsdale College       "Critical Race Theory:  What it is and How to Fight it" by Christopher Rufo     The new U.S. institutional orthodoxy [military and companies require white people to sit through training].  The results of Marxist revolutions in U.S.S.R., China, Cambodia, Cuba [, Vietnam] ... body count of almost 100 million.  Gulags, show trials, executions, mass starvations.  The lack of class consciousness in America means there will be no worker revolution here.  [Italy and Greece, another story]  Marxists here substituted race for class.  Where "neo-Marxism" gets no traction, "equity" and "inclusion" do.  Cheryl Harris and Ibram X. Kendi propose radical ways to become anti-capitalistic and non-racist.       By 2022, state governors and legislatures are making prohibitions against CRT training in public schools.  

2021  thelayoff.com  I was there [at IBM Austin] after a very long 30+ year career.  [By 2021, JE had been out of IBM for 31 years.]  I...found out there is a ton of higher paying jobs [at other companies, and I moved to another company.  Now,] peace and happiness.  Do not feel that you have to be loyal.  The best IBM ever had [in Austin]...work at AMD now.  What is left at IBM Austin are those afraid to jump.  

2021 Ap 20  book, Smokescreen, what the marijuana industry doesn't want you to know

The marijuana industry seeks to bring down legal control and bring Amsterdam-class, high-potency, recreational marijuana to Americans.  This is opening marijuana use to teens (known to suffer permanent developmental disorder from marijuana).

     https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/healing-addiction/202203/marijuana-and-amotivational-syndrome

     bmcpsychiatry  "Starting to use cannabinoids from the beginning of adulthood and its long-term use is related to hippocampal atrophy...risk factor for dementia."  "Case of early-onset FTD at age 34" following marijuana use for two years.  Urination on the street, obsessive bathing,  amnesia, all kinds of things into the mouth, lack of pain perception.   Dopamine deficit.  "Chronic cannabinoid exposure during adolescence may increase risk of frontotemporal demenita."  

     verywell mind  some studies (2018)   amotivational syndrome 16% to 21% of chronic marijuana users

     verwell mind 2023 May 15 "Is Marijuana Addictive?"    NIDA  30% of marijuana users develop marijuana use disorder

2021  In Biden's first year of being president, he curtails U.S. oil production, partly to satisfy environmentalists (greenhouse gas carbon dioxide).  Cancels Keystone XL pipeline, few new leases on federal land, new EPA regs, cut back fracking.  Contributes to 7.5% inflation.  His predecessor, Trump, had built up production from 9 million barrels/day to 13, good for U.S. economy.  

     Starting 2021, stickers are available to stick on gasoline pumps, smiling Biden pointing, text:  "I did that."  See Wikipedia, I Did That!      See 2022 July 3 in this time line for more oil persecution.

2021 March 21  https://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=4617   "Van Mackelberg believes that LGBT people cannot live their "true lives" until pastors who preach the Bible are silenced."  "Being gay is normal. I was born like this."  " Uncover any sermon critical of the LGBT movement followed by a move to deny churches charitable status."

2021  news.yahoo.com  1 in 5 Gen Z adults is LGBTQ, Gallup poll            JE:  is this mostly LGBT "allies," those sympathetic?

2021  Diabetes can interfere with Ramadan, the Islamic fast month.  This is more so since Ramadan, based on the lunar cycle rather than the 365.25-day year, is hotter and the (recovery) nights are shorter in the next 10 years.  The Ramadan practice is to eat and drink nothing, not even water, during daylight.  Islamic countries are experiencing poor diet, weight gain, and diabetes just like the West.  The farther toward the north or south pole a Muslim lives, the more extreme the latitude effect is on length of day.  Muslim refugees in Scandinavia can have a tough time during Ramadan.

2021 May  https://www.nsta.org/what-social-justice-teaching-science-classroom     NSTA        Virtual training, Designing for Rightful Presence in K–12 Science Teaching and Learning...the lives of all youth are made visible and integral to science, especially those made historically invisible in STEM through systemic racism and heteropatriarchy...justice-centered expansive learning outcomes such as critical agency, identity work, and social transformation (as grounded within expanding disciplinary expertise)...critically engages the goals of equity and justice...historically underrepresented, minoritized youth across learning contexts and over time. She investigates how systemic injustice is made manifest in local practices and the related impact of such oppressive local practices on youths’ science and engineering learning experiences. 

     JE's comment:  NSTA routinely trashes Intelligent Design and parents who give credence to spiritual thinking (anything beyond materialism).  This virtual training is evidence that NSTA wants teachers to buy into hand wringing.  There probably are school districts that force all their science teachers to take this training.

2021 May  New Oxford Review May p. 31  Pieter Vree writing   Jeffrey Lena, California attorney who defends the Vatican, is probably the compiler of "Report on the Holy See's Institutional Knowlege and Decision-Making Related to Former Cardinal Theodore Edgar McCarrick," the infamous "Uncle Ted."  Vree charges that the report doesn't advocate for (mostly male) victims but instead protects Vatican assets against class-action lawsuits.

2021 June  New Oxford Review p. 6  Liberal Presbyterians Kwon and Tompson write Reparations:  A Christian Call to Repentance and Repair.  Catholic Casey Chalk and a writer to the editor:  The Church should run fast from this red-herring issue.  This is bribe money from feel-good political expediency, a never-ending shakedown by race pimps in media, academia, and government.  Christians are not communally responsible for individual past sins.  We are not dabblers in past-life Hinduism.

2021   https://peterboghossian.com/my-resignation-letter   ...resign as assistant professor of philosophy at Portland State University.  I’ve seen the best of what our students can achieve: 

• questioning beliefs while respecting believers; 

• staying even-tempered in challenging circumstances; and even 

• changing their minds. 

The university [PSU] has made this kind of intellectual exploration impossible. It has transformed a bastion of free inquiry into a Social Justice factory whose only inputs were race, gender, and victimhood and whose only outputs were grievance and division.  Students are trained to mimic the moral certainty of ideologues.   Students are now afraid to speak openly.  With Title IX investigations there is no due process, so I didn’t have access to the particular accusations.  This institution is no place for people who intend to think freely and explore ideas. 

     Reddit, about life at Portland State University:   Students don't want to get stabbed by a hobo after class? That's cultural enrichment!

     Reddit:   in my intro to operating systems class, guy sat down and just started rambling to the professor. Guy was clearly mentally ill.

     Reddit:  homeless people camping in the bathrooms at Cramer Hall and the Engineering Building.

2021 July 5  From e-mail from Girls Who Code, Reshma kicked off her conversation with Yara Shahidi (actress and activist) with one of our favorite questions — where did you find the strength to do brave things, to lead? Obviously, Yara is an amazing leader and the same age as so many of our GWC alumni. What she said really resonated with us — that she is in a constant state of learning, and that helps with bravery and leading. Yara said, “I’m willing to speak whatever my truth is and know that my truth can change and alter.”   JE:  Does Yara think there is any problem when another person she is talking with has a conflicting personal truth?  This is an amazing admission.

2021  Pres. Biden's Congressional Democrats push through the American Rescue Plan.  Part of it is $1 trillion.  reuters.com:  "It was not legacy-defining.  What the president wanted to do was be the next FDR, the next LBJ."  Michael Strain at American Enterprise Institute says "at worst it was reckless" for the addition to national debt.  "Silly gimmicks like student debt forgiveness."

2021 July 12    Jon Hill on Quora    Progressives diminish discipleship, or erase it.  Sin doesn't exist, sin is hurting other people.  "Love the sinner, accept the sin."  Accept, or ignore, or redefine.  

     https://discipleship.org/blog/5-signs-your-church-might-be-heading-toward-progressive-christianity/     lowered view of Bible, feelings over facts, feelings over objective truth (Jesus wouldn't send good people to Hell), terms get redefined, a rise of social justice, doctrines revised.

2021 July 16   https://www.lawcommentary.com/articles/shoplifting-in-california-causing-stores-to-close-early-or-shut-down-completely     Catherine Kimble     Los Angeles, Sacramento, and San Francisco have the highest rates of shoplifting in the country. Stores closing early, in San Francisco, Target stores are open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.  "We can’t have our security guards going after this – they are not law enforcement."  2014:  Proposition 47, stealing $950 a misdemeanor. Rarely enforced.  Black market dealers take stolen goods out of state.  "They will bring in calculators and get all the way up to the $950 limit," Michelin told Fox News...fill up their backpack, dump it outside, and go right back in and do it all over again."     https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/12/08/california-safeway-fortifies-store-to-address-shoplifting-surge/  A Safeway in the Castro, San Francisco, installed customer-directing panels...quick-closing doors at the entrance...funneling customers at checkout     fierce public debate     high-profile smash-and-grab robberies      toiletries, candles, and alcohol in locked containers. 

2021 July 21  quora what-do-ohter-Christians-think-of-progressive...    James Skinner of London     Progressive Christians are sincere but misguided, ignorance of Bible, no fear of God, one foot in the world and other foot in Christianity,  buying into immoral agenda of the world, no repugnance at sin, no fear of judgement, "Word of God more as a lifestyle philosophy rather than an authority, cafeteria choice of belief, Jesus as a pal.

2021 July 23  https://medium.com/illumination/the-4-emotional-requirements-a-woman-needs-from-her-man-4d9f1f65565e

     Qualifications on men being monogamous:  "if you're monogamous" twice in the web page;  men being free to have more than one woman is so widespread that this article limits the application of its guidance to just monogamous men, and this is now a widespread qualification.  Monogamy doesn't even mean married, it just means one partner at a time.  So the wider implication is that general men are going to have all sorts of relationships with multiple women in their pasts, and women who seek emotional fulfillment from men shouldn't expect too much faithfullness in the backgrounds of general men.  This is a big turnaround from conventional morals before the 1960s Sexual Revolution.

2021 August 30    The U.S. pullout from Afghanistan brings to mind the People's Republic of China, which seeks influence in Afghanistan.  Some say that China wants to encircle India by a new Great Wall, a "great wall of steel."  (Xi Jinping)   Taliban in Pakistan are more powerful now that Taliban in Afghanistan have won out.  Islamists perhaps want to have the power of Pakistan's nuclear weapons to threaten India.

2021 Aug 2   Laurel Hubbard, trans "woman," stirs controversy by competing against women in Olympics weight lifting but does not win.  Hubbard has short hair and looks like a heavy man.  (Who knows if Hubbard is physically a man, probably so, but "identifies" as female.)  From erlc.com, "Our hubris and propensity for exceeding the boundaries of our own authority is...displayed with regard to gender...witnessing the downstream consequences of our culture's rejection of objective truth...decades of emphasis on self-supremacy and self-actualization."     May 8 2021 BabylonBee.com  NYC    Columbus Day Reinstated After Experts Learn Indigenous Peoples He Conquered Only Believed in Two Genders

2021 August  Thousands of "unaccompanied" children from Central and South America, and Haiti, are among the more than one million coming across the U.S.-Mexico border.  Pres. Trump had squelched the caravans to some extent but Pres. Biden is seen by "migrants" as opening the door.  Children are being flown at night from the border to Long Island and New Jersey, and other places.  Republican candidates Astorino and Sculti hear from residents about 737s flying in at night, every other night.  They find that children are led from airplanes to buses, bypassing the airport terminals.   "The public is not allowed to understand."  

2021 Aug 22  https://www.foxnews.com/world/tony-blair-biden-afghanistan-abandonment-tragic-dangerous-unnecessary   Blair slammed the decision to withdraw as political and not strategic       decision to withdraw from Afghanistan in this way was driven not by grand strategy but by politics   "obedience to an imbecilic political slogan about ending ‘the forever wars.’"     boosted the global threat of "radical Islam."    "visibly atrophying U.S. power."

2021 Sept 20  https://www.wilsoncountynews.com/articles/bad-optics-wheres-kamala-harris-nowhere-near-the-mess-in-del-rio/  “We now have [illegal river crossers to the tune of] one third of the population of Del Rio in a confined space, under the International Bridge,” said Mayor Bruno Lozano, a Democrat who expressed frustration with a lack of effective response from Washington.  They aren’t using the portapotties.  Team Biden’s “whole of government” strategy seems clear enough – keep the bad optics out of sight, and out of mind.   Bob Dane is the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR)’s Executive Director. 

2021 September  U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan is controversial.  Republican Rep. Waltz:  "Stop calling [our American citizens still in Afghanistan] 'stuck' or 'stranded,' call them what they are, which is Taliban hostages."  Taliban is financed by "criminal activities, including drug trafficking and opium poppy production, kidnapping for ransom, mineral exploitation..."  WH Press Sec. Psaki:  "We have enormous leverage over the Taliban."

2021 Sept 27  https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/varney-media-biden-wall-street   "Varney: Media realizing loving Biden isn't easy  Media, bankers, financial community worried"    "STUART VARNEY: They are getting worried about the Biden, Harris team...an old man, suffering from some manifest deficits!"  That was in the NY Times...worried that he won't finish his term and the Democrats will be stuck with a President Harris...cost nothing, "zero" as he put it, the media barely covered it because it was just such a stretch!"  "He is cognitively challenged. And that his policies lead to ruin, and more importantly a big election loss [JE:  and that sure enough happened].  They're beginning to turn on him.        Three and a half more years."

2021 Oct 16    Sir David Amess, Member of Parliament, is knifed to death by a 25-year-old Muslim terrorist 17 (or 27?) times, in front of two women assistants.  Ali Harbi Ali is a son of a refugee Somali government official living in London, on a "celeb" street of townhouses.  A teacher spotted his extremist views at least five years ago...his behavior was not considered to be extreme enough to alert MI5.  Ali dropped the knife when he was finished and sat down to await police.  Police described him as being dead behind the eyes.  He may have been radicalized by al-Shabaab.

2021 Oct 21  https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/oct/21/biden-burying-businesses-under-red-tape-more-rules/    President Biden accelerated the regulatory state... shudders down the spines of CEOs... jam through any regulation you want...rule-making frenzy.

2021 Nov 7  godlyparent.com   Four things culture is trying to normalize for our children

• Nud _ _ _  (in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Minions), 

• Cursing, 

• Drag Queen/Same Sex Couple/Trans doll parading as inclusion but confusing our children, 

• Division/Cancel Culture/White Guilt.

     2014 Celebrate Life  Rita Diller  Is Planned Parenthood in Your School?

2021  https://www.ibcsr.org/index.php/institute-research-portals/spectrums-project/336-liberal-buddhism-stretching-the-boundaries

Christianity and Buddhism share a lot about conservative vs. liberal.

Conservatives:  maintaining stable communities over time, authority and tradition, absolute truth claims.  Totalizing, longstanding worldview.

Liberals:  shifting, fluid boundaries, individuals ought to decide how to do things on their own, different cultures have differing beliefs about right and wrong.

Secular Buddhists take what they find useful, reject claims about literal reincarnation, dismiss divine beings.

Liberal religion answers questions by raising other questions.

2021 Dec 3     https://evolutionnews.org/2021/12/caltech-finds-amazing-role-for-noncoding-dna/     Scientists at Caltech may have sounded the final death knell for the “junk DNA” myth. If only Dan Graur had known this years ago, it might have saved a lot of wasted rhetoric. 

2021 Dec 6 Yahoo News   FBI saws into Epstein safe in Manhattan in 2019, find hard drives and diamonds and passport with a different name.  Elsewhere in the 19,000 sq ft mansion are CDs with photos.  Maxwell trafficked women for Epstein to use, in his multiple homes.  Whether the CDs and hard drives contain incriminating evidence against powerful U.S. politicians is unknown to the public.  It is known that Epstein's airplane had a bed in the back, and he ferried politicians in that airplane.

2021 Dec 10  Long-time 11P.M. show host Brian Williams ends his run at MSNBC, one of the most liberal of media.  He said some things that made him sound conservative to me, then I realized he is talking about conservatives!  "The darkness on the edge of town [he means Trump followers] has spread to the main roadways and neighborhoods...men and women who swore an oath to our Constitution...have decided to join the mob and become something they are not...They've decided to burn it all down with us inside. That should scare you to no end."  Williams complains about the right-wing mob?  Who burned down zones and did looting and other violence in Minneapolis, Boston, Atlanta, Chicago Miracle Mile,  Houston, L.A., Portland?  What part did BLM and Antifa play?  Williams stoked the liberal lies.         See on this sub-page  photos  following July 7 2021

2022 Jan 3  National Review  California is broken, but it is not doomed

(San Francisco, under current type of Board of Supervisors, may be doomed.)

California has three of the four most expensive housing areas and the highest poverty rate.  Unemployment is high.  Economy dominated by fewer, larger companies and an elite sector of the workforce, but a large service class dependent "on wealth redistribution."  The big companies favor the progressive politicians.  The former, robust California economy was oil, aerospace, trade, manufacturing, agriculture, tech.  From 1992, other states have better job creation:  Texas, Arizona, Florida, Washington, Nevada, Colorado.

    Talk-show hosts criticize California leaders for being Communists.  (Review:  Communists make communes.  People are compelled to live as tenants in communal housing and work in communes.  The personal property that people owned before the Communist takeover, and private-company facilities,  become State property.  (Sometimes called "nationalizing."  People's Ball Bearing Factory Number 3.)  Manufacturing and farms become State property to be used as the State ministry directs.  The government constitution is changed.  The courts become instruments of policy for the ruling elite.  Secret police take away malcontents in the night.  Efficiency of production usually drops.  Entrepreneurs are allowed if they have a friend in the ministry of production.)

2022 Jan 23  NY Post editorial board   As Axios reported, [Chief of Staff] “Klain’s private comments are yet another indication the White House has a core set of priorities it plans to fight for” … even if the president doesn’t know about it fully yet.  "One House member: “To have a chief of staff that apparently has decided that he’s going to be Bernie Sanders..."    See also in this time line 2025 March 6

2022 Feb 3  Rod Dreher  https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/pope-francis-catholicism-all-sinners-are-saints-lgbt/   Cardinal Hollerich [top Catholic cardinal in Europe] was asked about changes in the church and he replied, “we cannot give the answers of the past to the questions of tomorrow.” “The change in civilization we are witnessing today is the greatest change since the invention of the wheel,” said the cardinal. “The Church has always moved with the times and has always adapted. But one always had much more time to do that. Today we must be faster. Otherwise, we lose contact and can no more be understood.”  The top Catholic cardinal in Europe openly denies magisterial Catholic teaching... new exegesis of Sacred Scripture which claims variously that Scripture has nothing to say on the subject of h       , or that it somehow tacitly approves of it, or that all of its moral injunctions are so culture-bound that they are no longer applicable to contemporary life.     Cardinal Hollerich knows that you can’t really finesse the matter.      Pope Francis: "let’s think about those who have denied the faith, who are apostates, who are the persecutors of the Church, who have denied their baptism: Are these also at home?” Yes, these too. The blasphemers, all of them. We are brothers. This is the Communion of Saints."      A blog follows;  schism in Roman Catholicism.  Pope Francis utters his opinion on every matter under the sun.   An embittered Argentinian.  Dancing along the banks of the Rubicon.  More likely that Protestants will save the West than Catholics turn around.  It's only the converts who actually study and embrace Catholic teaching these days.  

2022 Feb 10     By Peter Rex WSJ    HBO’s “Silicon Valley” won praise...the main characters accidentally “outs” a colleague...shocked to learn that he goes to church. Another character later admits that Christianity “freaks people out in the Valley.”     I’ve experienced a combination of hesitation and hostility toward my Catholic faith. Eastern Orthodox, Mormon and Protestant colleagues at my company have had similar experiences.  For all its talk of diversity, the tech industry has little room for devout believers. This discomfort with faith cuts off much of tech from the moral foundation it needs.

2022 Feb 16   https://www.aol.com/lifestyle/biden-dept-energy-hire-nonbinary-145352132.html    Sam Brinton announced the administration had hired them as deputy assistant secretary of spent fuel and waste disposition in the office of nuclear energy for the Department of Energy...uses the pronouns they and them [not he], and may be the first openly gender-fluid person in federal government leadership — as they noted on LinkedIn upon accepting the role.          If one looks around Internet, one finds that "they" does pup handling, search for trans pup handler insertable tail.         Terry Schilling, president of the American Principles Project, has comments.

2022 Feb 15   Roman Catholics have a problem with tradition and sacraments.  https://www.12news.com/article/life/faith/baptism-invalid-phoenix-priest-resigns-bishop-incorrect-sacrament/75-8df30e02-4ebe-45be-92b5-7400474607c2     For decades, the priest said "We baptize you,"  He should have been saying, "I baptize you."  Someone then speculated that invalid baptism could mean invalid marriage, a deceased relative wasn't baptized, priests may have to re-do their personal baptism and confirm all steps in their training and membership in Catholic organizations, a layperson shouldn't receive communion.

2022 Feb 18   https://www.towleroad.com/2022/02/amazon-suspends-black-lives-matter-from-charity-platform-after-group-fails-to-disclose-where-60-million-in-donations-has-gone/#:~:text=Amazon%20has%20suspended%20Black%20Lives%20Matter%20from%20their,of%20dollars%20donated%20to%20their%20cause%20had%20gone.

Patrisse Cullors, the BLM co-founder who resigned in May, said last week regarding the missing millions. “This is money that came from white guilt, white corporation guilt, and they just poured money in.”     Legal threats from both California and Washington in connection to the millions and millions of dollars the organization received in donations in 2020.    501(c)(3)     Must disclose who is currently in charge of their finances      Address given is not an actual address.

     Amazon suspends BLM Global Network from its charity platform for failing to disclose where $60M donations have gone...one of two remaining directors scrubbed BLM from his social media...fail to file IRS 990, could be fined by IRS...California DoJ warned leaders they would be personally liable for delinquency.  Daily Mail:  Cullors says we didn't no out and solicit, it just poured in.   Cullors resigned May 2021 as her $3.2M properties were being examined.

2022 Feb 24  Russia army invades Ukraine, the largest war in Europe since WWII, 77 years ago, or since the U.S.S.R. invasion of Hungary in 1956, 66 years ago.  Wikipedia has an article within days.  The writer, JE, born just five years into the Cold War, has lived through most of this time period.     It is useful to step back and see a wider picture.  https://newsrnd.com/news/2022-03-06-the-gloomy-prophecy-of-the-man-who-saw-it-all--what-will-be-putin-s-next-target----walla!-brenze.B1sVo0ZWq.html  Moldova is next.      Sweden and Finland haven't dared to enter NATO because of their proximity to the Russian bear.   "Moscow would be forced to take retaliatory measures if they join the alliance."                https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/finland-sweden-brush-off-moscows-warning-joining-nato-83126927         https://nationhq.org/2022/02/25/is-putins-next-target-the-baltic-states/      The Russian invasion of Ukraine has sent a wave of unease across Eastern Europe, especially in Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia. The three Baltic States joined NATO in 2004, but that might not matter to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has out-guessed and outmaneuvered U.S. President Joe Biden and the rest of NATO since the crisis began.      https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russian-spies-operation-ghost-stories-fbi-declassified/                https://www.vox.com/2020/5/6/21248553/coronavirus-russia-doctors-windows-death    https://morningexpress.in/an-alleged-kremlin-spy-dies-in-berlin-after-falling-from-the-russian-embassy-building/    Russians pushed out of windows, fall to death.  This is also done by spies in the West.      This is easier for Russian spies to carry out than poisoning with polonium.  http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/News/PoloniumPoison.html

       Propaganda is revisited upon the Russian people.  The state press is lying about Ukraine.  Russian journalists are subject to prosecution and prison if they disagree with the official line.  Russia's propaganda machine is operating at full throttle. Using artificial intelligence, Russia is creating fake accounts of Ukrainians who supposedly agree with the invasion of their country on Facebook, Instagram, Telegram, and Twitter.  Cyberattacks are getting more sophisticated and will target businesses and ordinary citizens like you and me.  https://www.foxnews.com/tech/spot-fake-russian-social-media-accounts-posts           https://www.komando.com/security-privacy/russia-ukraine-digital-protection/828072/ 5 things to do to protect your digital devices.                 See in this time line 1933, Holodomor in Ukraine, 3 million Ukrainians died from starvation, typhus, and typhoid fever.  Almost all Ukrainians who survived the horror caused by Stalin's hate have died by now, 89 years later.  Wikipedia:  Stalin's regime proceeded to eliminate the intelligentsia of Ukraine, to forcibly deport [trainsload to the gulags in the frozen north] Ukrainian Kulaks who opposed its collectivization policies, and to orchestrate a deliberate mass starvation by hunger of Ukrainians, wherever they were found throughout the Soviet Empire.

2022 Feb 25    https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/02/25/putin-russia-ukraine-invasion-endgame-experts-00011652            A long web page.  Snatches---

Putin's endgame is revanchist (root word revenge), recovering lost territory, lost when the U.S.S.R. collapsed on Dec 25, 1991.  (All Soviet republics had bailed out by this time, leaving only Kazakhstan, the place where Russia does manned space launches.  Gorbachev resigns.)    Kolesnikov:  Putin has suppressed civil society.  Even the elites are afraid of him.  Shevtsova:  subjugate Ukraine, rebuild in Europe the old sphere of influence.  Will the West resist the tightening of the noose?  NATO in Ukraine is not the point;  his own people must see his personalistic autocracy and yield to it.  With the People's Republic of China, challenge Western liberal hegemony.  A new global order, might is right.  Down with state sovereignty, individual rights and freedoms, human rights.  Kadri Liik:  Ukraine invasion has shocked the Russian elites.  Putin's success will require dependency on China.  Putin is risking stability of Russia and Russian status in the global power system.       Full text of Putin:  https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/full-text-putin-s-declaration-of-war-on-ukraine            He declares Finland, and perhaps Sweden, as his domain, also NATO members the Baltic states and Poland.  Western democracy is an anomaly.  Molly KcKew:  bluff the West into avoidance of escalation, then move fast.  Talbott:  Putin's iron rule, no competitors in Russia, a genius, scorning the U.S. president. [Biden, or all U.S. presidents?  Remember that Obama revealed his goofed-up thinking in 2012 when a mic recorded him telling then-Russian-president Medvedev, "after my election I have more flexibility."  Rep. Brad Wenstrup:  "Maybe now we understand what President Obama meant...that flexibility was to deny lethal aid to the Ukraine, allowing Russia to march right in and kill Ukrainians."]

2022 Feb  Commander Graham Scarbro, U.S. Navy, writes in Naval History about the similarity of the Battle of the Strait of Tsushima (Russia vs. Japan) as the U.S. wants to protect Taiwan from the Peoples' Republic of China.  China threatens U.S. ships out to Guam and Singapore with its ballistic missiles.  The U.S. has few allies willing to participate in war.

2022 Feb  25    https://evolutionnews.org/2022/02/how-much-can-evolution-really-accomplish/     How Much Can Evolution Really Accomplish?   Eric H. Anderson     In 2020, Michael Behe published A Mousetrap for Darwin, a collection of his essays and responses to critics. https://evolutionnews.org/2022/02/real-world-data-and-the-lesson-of-chloroquine-resistance/

     The real take-home lesson is that evolution, on its best day, is an embarrassingly anemic process...Behe is quite right to argue that if we need something like 10^20 cells to confer a relatively simple trait like resistance of Plasmodium to chloroquine, then the evolutionary story is in dire straits. To his credit, Moran correctly acknowledges that developing chloroquine resistance “is an event that is close to the edge of evolution.”

     journals.biologists...  voltage-gated ion channel is extremely ancient.  Phylogenomics...different approaches can lead to strikingly different results.

2022 Mar 7   Putin's rule in Russia has roots in his personal principles.  https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/159080    “Patriotism, collectivism, solidarity, derzhavnost’— the belief that Russia is destined always to be a great power (derzhava) exerting its influence abroad—”and statism, the belief that 'the individual and society are, and must be, subordinate to the state and its interests.' ”  “Russian history, the Russian language, and religion—are also themes that Putin repeatedly embraced in the 2000s."     “Today, many nations are revising their moral values and ethical norms,” destroying “traditional values,” accepting “without question the equality of good and evil.”  “The individual and society are, and must be, subordinate to the state and its interests.”    

Putin's thinking is largely the thinking of Aleksandr Dugin, see Wikipedia.  Snatches from Wikipedia:  Dugin is a relativist who claims that concepts of liberalism, freedom and democracy are alien to Russian culture, and that the exact sciences of chemistry and physics are demonic Western influences...called for the creation of an illiberal totalitarian Eurasian empire stretching from Dublin to Vladivostok, with the annexation of Ukraine and Finland to support his idea of a Russian truth.     Requires a port on the Indian Ocean.  Consistently glorifying both Tsarist and Stalinist Russia, Elementy.     Russian Orthodox tradition may be merged with Neopaganism and may host "Neopaganism's nationalist force, which anchors it in the Russian soil, and separates it from the two other Christian confessions."  Russian strategic alliance with Iran.    In the Kremlin, Dugin represents the "war party," a division within the leadership over Ukraine.     "America wishes to wage the war against Russia not by its own hands but by the hands of the Ukrainians."     The whole Internet should be banned.     Unite around the president of Russia in the last battle between good and evil, following the example of Iran and North Korea.               Bigthink.com  Dugin thinks Western liberalism is at a dead end, a "nihilistic post-modern stage," trying to liberate itself from rational thought.  Dugin's multipolar world would give an alternative to the world government of the globalist elites, such as Hillary Clinton.  Dugin is happy about Pres. Trump standing up against the elites.  Dugin's The Foundation of Geopolitics:  destabilize the U.S., disinformation, split the U.S. from France and Germany.  Race turmoil to destabilize the U.S.  Separatism and ethnic conflict.  Extremism.  Isolationism.  

     Dugin's daughter murdered in a car bombing, her father was the target.

Putin has warned "unparalleled" hypersonic missiles are ready for action.     https://ask.barewp.com/www.the-sun.com/news/4750372/russia-blood-medical-putin-ukrainian-weapons-warning#!=www.the-sun.com-#       General Sir Richard Sherriff: "This is the most dangerous moment in Europe probably at least since 1962 and the Cuban missile crisis."  He added Putin's war "... could turn into a catastrophic war on a scale not seen in Europe since 1945".             Former (U.S.S.R.) tactics were support for Baader-Meinhof in Germany, Red Brigades in Italy, and Palestinian terror in Europe, bombing and hijacking airplanes.             https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/09/23/why-is-russia-so-unproductive-a67397      Russia is one of the least productive moderately rich countries.     Cocktail of “state capitalism,” corruption, low investment, poor equipment and unfavorable demographics to explain Russia’s malaise.  The Russian state accounts for almost half of employment and one-third of GDP, and that specific government policies, such as non-competitive procurement and the refusal to consolidate state-owned companies into leaner organisations, are especially wasteful.    2008 crisis was a turning point...companies which were not efficient and should have disappeared were saved...decline in efficiency … [while] the environment is still the same as before: high corruption and low transparency.”    Only 8% of Russian companies were involved in innovation, compared to 41% in China, 51% in Turkey and 64% in India.             https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-usa-russia-spies-idUKKBN1H40S8    wormed and hacked their way into American companies, schools, and even the government     Ten or more FBI and local law enforcement officers to keep tabs on one trained spy for a 24-hour period - covering back entrances to buildings and multiple elevators, and being alert for changes in clothes, cars and even hairpieces.  One Russian tactic is sending a large number of people, including just one or two intelligence officers, streaming out of a diplomatic mission at once, making it harder for the FBI to decide whom to follow.         Identifying targets for recruitment in [Microsoft's] coding operations.      https://www.ksmu.org/2022-02-23/examining-the-strategic-alignment-between-china-and-russia   Constant fear of being overthrown by a democratic revolution is something that really binds [Russia and China]...That's the deepest fundament there is for this relationship...alliance of two authoritarian regimes that stand back-to-back.  China is a strong proponent of territory because it's long said the island of Taiwan is part of its country...China is in a bind...Russia's threats useful because they distract the U.S.

2022 Mar 7   Bloomberg.com    Morgan Stanley says Russia is set for Venezuela-Style Default      by Maria Vizcaino   trouble making foreign debt payments, threat of Russian recession         Putin spends much time juggling the fortunes of his oligarchs:  After Putin came to power in 2000, he facilitated the second wave of oligarchs via state contracts. Private suppliers in many sectors such as infrastructure, defense and health care would overcharge the government at prices many times the market rate, offering kickbacks to the state officials involved. Thus, Putin enriched a new legion of oligarchs who owed their enormous fortunes to him. https://theconversation.com/meet-russias-oligarchs-a-group-of-men-who-wont-be-toppling-putin-anytime-soon-178474         See also mid-1990s in this time line.           

2022 Mar 10   Actor Jussie Smollett sentenced for hoax in Chicago.  The judge, at the end of the trial, is critical of Smollett.  Narcissist.  All your life.  Hypocrite.  "You wanted to make yourself more famous, and for a while it worked...a national pity party for yourself."  

2021 https://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/roddreher/2010/01/george-noory-a-religious-talk-radio-host.html  By Rod Dreher

Why is [Coast to Coast AM]...such a huge success? From the article:  “It has definitely tapped into something in the American psyche,” Corbeth said of Coast to Coast. “I think people are looking for answers...a world which is very, very troubled, and getting scarier by the day.”

    In a 1958 essay, Carl Jung tried to come to terms with what he called the “dark problem” of UFO sightings.   In the occult generally and in UFOs in particular, Carl Jung [who had unconventional, spiritual views] saw a strong connection to the decline of the Christian worldview [, and he wrote that the shrinking of Christianity feeds energy into other paranormal beliefs]. The concept of Christ as a savior, he wrote, "reflects a profound psychic need which does not simply disappear when the expression of it ceases to be valid. [Jung discounts Bible-believing Christians at a time when Episcopalians are drifting away from sin as a human trait, and Jesus' forgiveness.  Wikipedia:  At the 1958 general convention, a coalition of liberal church members [turned toward the civil rights movement in the U.S., distracting Episcopalians from the issues of sin and Jesus' forgiveness], "unilateral action on matters of doctrine without catholic unity."]  What happens to the energy that once kept the idea alive and dominant over the psyche?...Conflicts of unprecedented proportions have split the consciousness of our age. [Read this time line, up and down from 1958, and see the different world views.  Materialism and atheism, which rival Christianity, are potent even as early as the 1920s and 1958.]  When such tremendous opposites split asunder, we may expect with certainty that the need for a savior will make itself felt"...our secular materialist paradigm denies [that the paranormal or Jesus' miracles or Jesus' resurrection] could possibly exist, and when somebody like [nominally Roman Catholic] George Noory comes along and says [to multiple nighttime interview guests, before an audience of millions], “You know, you might not be crazy,” they glom onto him.

2022 Mar 14  Coast to Coast AM has a worthwhile program.  Professor Dr. David Delgado Shorter will discuss his work on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, as well as the subjects of his popular UCLA course "Aliens, Psychics, and Ghosts."  He is an anthropologist from New Mexico.  His dad, deceased in the last two years, was a government employee and contractor in New Mexico who did highly classified studies of materials, including materials supposedly from Socorro and Roswell crash sites.  The son is out on the liberal end but is able to talk sense about things.  Some of the beings he mentions in the radio interview can be interpreted to be demons.  Other living things are, he implies, autistic dwarfs who were recruited to pilot risky military experimental planes or rockets--some of them died in crashes or mid-air disintegrations.  His dad did work at White Sands Missile Range.  The son interviewed an elderly Mexican nurse who was on duty when some sort of beings, injured but breathing, were brought in from a crash site.  The beings were banged up.  There was a fluid coming from their bodies, but the fluid was not red.  Military personnel showed up, stuffed the living beings into body bags, and roughly tossed them into a truck.  This traumatized the nurse, and she wept as she prayed the rosary.  She cries when she recalls this terrible event.

Dr. Shorter says that Roswell and other happenings are "dangling car keys" that get the attention of fringe people and the public, but distract from the significant events like Socorro.  

2022 Mar 15  https://evolutionnews.org/2022/03/paper-provides-more-evidence-that-mutations-arent-random/    Casey Luskin    papers in Nature and Genome Research:  mutations in the Arabidopsis genome are not occurring randomly. “The random occurrence of mutations with respect to their consequences is an axiom upon which much of biology and evolutionary theory rests.” This basic principle of evolutionary biology is overturned.  “Groundbreaking study uncovers first evidence of long-term directionality in the origination of human mutation, fundamentally challenging Neo-Darwinism.”   HbS mutation   mutation-specific response to a specific environmental pressure     "The problem of complexity. Can the sequential accumulation of small random changes, each beneficial on its own, lead within the timespan available to the evolution of such astonishingly complex and impressive adaptations as we see around us in nature?"  "The viable possibility of intelligent design."

2022 Mar 18   The Federalist warns Americans, "what is possible in Ukraine, what is not possible, and the risks of escalation."  "The U.S. is mindlessly marching toward escalation."  Two outcomes:  Ukraine negotiate for what it can beg for, or the West at war with Russia.  JE:  seems like a paucity of options.  Do these people know of the 1933 Holodomor, Stalin removing harvest to Russia and making 4 million starve?            Anne Applebaum The Atlantic  "Cancer of corruption...in the wreckage of the Soviet Union"...Ukrainians aspire to freedom, rule of law, integration in Europe.  In 2005, 2014, and 2019, street movements toppled kleptocrats.  Putin sees Ukraine as an ideological threat, a threat to his "nostalgic, imperial political project...Russians might ask, 'why not us?' "     The Guardian  Applebaum   "Putin knew that everyone knew he was lying...no price for telling easily exposable untruths is an effective way to display power."  

2022 March  A 2000-word memo by a highly placed Catholic, later said to be Australian Cardinal Pell (an ally of conservative Pope Benedict), calls Pope Francis a catastrophe.  It says a particular northern-Europe cardinal is explicitly heretical but Pope Francis lets him be that way.  Traditionalist Catholics are under "active persecution."  College of Cardinals is "weakened by eccentric nominations."  The next pope needs to restore doctrinal clarity in faith and morals.  (The next pope following Pope Francis is chosen in May 2025.)

2022  Wikipedia     "Twitter is producing the most self-involved people in history by treating everything one does or thinks as newsworthy."  Tristan Harris:  Social networks [and cable news] are about affirmation, not information.  Hochschild:  "Trump, along with Fox News...release from fetters of political correctness...a sense of familial bonding...O'Reilly is a reliable dad, Megyn Kelly a smart sister.  

2022 Ap  New Oxford Review p. 22  Nature's order and intelligibility have come to be taken for granted, not reckoned to be beliefs.  An example is behaviorism (this time line, Skinner at 1940s) and evolutionary psychology.  These two bring human nature within a mechanistic framework, nature being a giant machine that is deterministic and explainable.  Skinner tried to abolish "mind" and "thought" from the vocabulary of psychology because he wanted behavior to be learned responses to stimuli.  Reductionism is at work in this.  However, scientists want to be exempt from behaviorism;  they say that scientific thought stands outside the machinery of evolution, free and not determined.  St. Anselm:  "Unless I first believe, I shall not understand."

2022 April  New Oxford Review p. 34  A review of Jewish Ben Shapiro's The Right Side of History:  How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great.  I note in this reviewer's comments "particularly noxious have been Lutheranism and Islam," "arch-heretic Martin Luther," "the Locke-cribbed drivel of the Declaration of Independence," "disaster of the Reformation", "liberal-Protestant America is fundamentally incompatible with the true Catholic vision of man and the cosmos," "Kant's laughably fake metaphysics," "Shapiro, a Jewish man, desperately trying to apologize for the wreck of Christendom that Protestant and Enlightenment rebels brought about."   These Catholic ideas prevailed until Vatican Council II in 1962, see this time line.

2022 Ap   New York City mayor Adams and other progressives arrange a tax-funded billboard campaign in Florida to persuade New Yorkers who are now living the good life in Florida, with no income tax, to return to NYC.  Why?  To escape the hostile climate in a Florida that dares to protect kindergartners through third graders from indoctrination in the public schools about the good points of being trans.  Adams:  "We are proud to talk about how you can live...and not be harassed, not be abused...we want you in New York."  Biden-administration officials join Adams in Florida to denounce the conservative bullying. 

2022 Ap 7  https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/disney-corporate-president-next-generation-queerer  Audrey Conklin and Andrew Mark Miller

Disney corporate President Karey Burke told company staff that Generation Z is "30-40% queerer" than previous generations, according to video of a company video call.  "So Disney better get with it."  "When I was at Freeform, it was very much in the brand ethos to be the tip of the spear when it comes to inclusion," Burke explained.  "We were targeting younger and more open-minded …," Burke added...would like to see at least 50% of Disney’s characters in the future identify as LGBT or as a racial minority.

     Disney pushing the progressive agenda come after some [California] Disney employees walked off the job last week protesting a perceived lack of company opposition to a [new] Florida [Parental Rights in Education law] that prohibits teachers from providing instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through third-grade classrooms. 

     https://www.vox.com/23036009/disney-culture-war-desantis-florida-dont-say-gay    By Alex Abad-Santos Apr 22, 2022     Disney World is the state’s biggest employer...special status allowed it to do things like create infrastructure and construct buildings without asking its local government. DeSantis’s terminated that special status.      Prof. Maurice Schweitzer...boycott examples like Starbucks/marriage equality, Nike/BLM, and Patagonia/lawsuit against the Trump administration.   CEO Chapek went back and forth with the messaging that the company stood with its LGBTQ employees.  Disney has long had conservative appeal...a history of donating to conservative politicians...recently positioned itself as a diverse and inclusive workplace.  Disney doesn’t officially recognize “Gay Day” celebrations at its parks.  Its fans, its employees, and its detractors all want a company that has made a fortune being everything to everyone to start establishing its boundaries, which it very clearly does not want to do.  The movies, the resorts, their brand — it’s this broad appeal,” Schweitzer said. “But that’s hard to keep up."  Nov 25:  Chapek is out and Iger is back in.

2022 Ap 13  Dailymail.co.uk      Two inmates in all-women New Jersey jail [Edna Mahan Correctional Facility] are pregnant...transgender prisoners:  ACLU won battle to house 27 trans inmates there, of 800 total.     

2022 Ap 28  Amazon to Undergo Racial Audit, Led by Former AG Lynch    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-18/amazon-to-undergo-racial-audit-led-by-former-ag-loretta-lynch         Review will focus on Amazon’s hourly employees in the U.S.   

Amazon.com Inc. said it agreed to undergo an independent racial equity audit, joining companies including Citigroup Inc. and Tyson Foods Inc. in performing such reviews.  

The audit -- an analysis of companies to see whether their businesses cause and perpetuate discrimination -- will be led by former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch...any disparate racial impacts on Amazon’s U.S. hourly employees.   New York State Common Retirement Fund and its Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, which had pressed Amazon to conduct a racial audit...Amazon is advising shareholders to vote against the resolution because the company is now doing an audit. A company spokesman referred to the proxy statement filed last week.   Amazon joins other companies, including JPMorgan Chase & Co., that have agreed to perform racial audits after initially pushing back against doing them.   Apple Inc. shareholders backed a call last month for the tech giant to undergo a civil-rights audit -- the first time such a resolution passed. Airbnb Inc. was the first company to do a racial audit back in 2016. Starbucks Corp. and Facebook Inc., now called Meta Platforms Inc., followed later. -------https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2021/10/30/racial-equity-audits-a-new-esg-initiative/

2022 May 1    continued from 1946  a "seminal essay" in this time line      Phrases from Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four take on added significance.  After world's richest man Elon Musk buys enough Twitter shares to take Twitter private, and after he says he will change Twitter policies about harassment, abuse and posts that wish physical harm to persons, and prohibition on misinformation related to COVID-19, Musk says he is a "free speech absolutist," “I strongly supported Obama for President, but today’s Democratic Party has been hijacked by extremists.”  The loony Left's Sen. Elizabeth Warren:  Musk's acquisition is "dangerous for our democracy."  Europe:  may interfere with legislation about moderating social media content.        A key word is moderating, which is code for censoring.  Lots of talk-show time is given to how the Left moderated out Pres. Trump's supporters, skewing the 2020 election to let Pres. Biden be elected.  Department of Homeland Security announced on April 27, 2022 a new Disinformation Governance Board to protect national security by combating foreign misinformation and disinformation, but this looks like a way for the U.S. government to tell Americans what to think.   Florida governor DeSantis and former Democratic representative for Hawaii Tulsi Gabbard likened the board to the Ministry of Truth, a fictional governmental department in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.

2022 May  The Las Vegas Wash carries treated wastewater to Lake Mead.  It is sampled for chemicals.  During the NFL draft in April, there are antidepressants and high-blood-pressure meds.  During the May Electric Daisy Carnival, there is ecstacy, in fact 300 times as much during the carnival than before the carnival, 2.1 ppb. 

2022 May 1    A useful program for Coast to Coast AM with George Noory, one of the 5% that are useful.  Joseph Marino, former Benedictine monk, writes books about the Shroud of Turin and is on the side of the shroud being authentic.  Marino is an orthodox believer in Jesus and says that Jesus had the qualities that the Bible says he does.  He calls the shroud a message for the age, the age of skepticism.  JE is not a Coast Insider and doesn't have access to the online show, so I can't give a transcript here, just a recollection.

    Three times in 90 minutes, the word 'fear' is mentioned.  World view is mentioned.  Noory, a Catholic, directly asks Marino, a Catholic, who Jesus is.  Marino responds like a believing Protestant would.  Noory doesn't dispute that.  The jangling disconnect to 40% of CtoC programs is that those 40% let mediums and astrologers, heretics, trash orthodox Christian beliefs.  And Noory nudges these heretics along without complaining about even their most ridiculous claims.       Coast to Coast AM Aug 7 2022 with Noory:  guest Sandra Champlain, Shades of the Afterlife, says that when a person dies, there is a life review.  There is no fear and no judgment.  The dead person is in the company of pets and friends.   Noory lets these people flout the New Testament.     There are Internet complaints along this line;  Art Bell used to challenge outrageous claims of guests, but not his successor, Noory.

    If fear is brought up in the show, where is Noory's fear of the consequences of propagating and encouraging heresy to millions in the radio audience?  The fear aspect in this program is this:  if the shroud is true, that is evidence (not proof) of a supernatural origin of the shroud at the time of Jesus' resurrection.  (The image on the shroud is not paint, dye, stain, or mold, it is not chemicals added to linen fibers.  It might be a result of energy applied to linen.)  If Jesus was resurrected, and he is Son of God, and he laid out requirements about what God requires of people (faith, not proof;  follow the narrow, upward path to eternal life, not the well-travelled highway that slopes down to destruction), what should people do about God's requirements?  They should read the Bible and do what it says.  (Jesus' forgiveness is a gift that comes from faith, without cost.)  They should read about the hope, assurance, generosity, and love that God wants us to have, and read about the eternal punishment that is promised to those who reject Jesus' forgiveness.  Those who reject Jesus should fear the consequence of their rejection.  Noory should fear the New Testament warning of punishment for those who cause people to stumble regarding belief about Jesus:  Matt 18:7  Woe to the man through whom the stumbling block comes.

    Callers include atheists and skeptics, including the often-calling Walter.  Marino responds mildly.  Unbelievers [in the West, where there is freedom of thought] have the freedom to believe or disbelieve.  But there are qualities of the shroud that have no explanation other than a supernatural process, and we should take the shroud to be God's message to some of us to read the Bible and take the Bible seriously.  JE's encouragement is at "1977 The writer, John E" in this time line.        

Shroud previously at 2007 in this time line.

2022 May  The continuing Russian war on Ukraine makes people wonder if the People's Republic will invade Taiwan, since communist China has always held that Taiwan is a Chinese province, just as Hong Kong has become.  (Young people:  Hong Kong was a British colony with a lot of freedom and a long-term lease, and the lease expired on July 1, 1997.  PRC has imposed increasing control on Hong Kong so that it now has few freedoms beyond any other Chinese communist province.)   If PRC invades Taiwan, the giant TSMC, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, might not supply the world with processors.  (See reshoring, bringing manufacturing back to the U.S. despite higher production cost party because of government regulations.)  Know that the U.S. portion of world semiconductor manufacturing fell from 37% in 1990 to 12% in 2021.  For a year, U.S. and European car production has been thwarted by insufficient supply of lower-tech, small, cheap, automotive chips.  What would happen if the flow of fast, sophisticated TSMC chips stopped because of an invasion by PRC?  It would be an economic disaster.  The threat of PRC invasion pushed John E. to have his Windows 11 computer built by Altex in early 2022, to ensure that he has Windows 11 without worrying about PRC.  

    But the Internet provides advice that PRC will not invade Taiwan soon, there are longer-term ways for PRC to capture Taiwan without invasion.  Meanwhile, "reshoring" is a political movement in the U.S. to increase U.S. manufacturing, to reduce U.S. dependency on foreign manufacturing.  But government regulations make U.S. manufacturing more expensive, and capitalism pushes companies to use the lowest-cost components.  

2022  pcmag.com  Microsoft Windows 11, comment from Ben Myers   Data recovery from a non-booting Windows 11 computer is impossible;  BitLocker, TPM, and Secure Boot combine to thwart data recovery.  Enterprise users keep all data in the cloud and can withstand a failing computer.

2022 May 10  https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/05/10/the-biden-harris-inflation-plan-lowering-costs-and-lowering-the-deficit/

This official White House web site on inflation, the highest inflation in forty years, is ... how should we say it ... how about lies?  Whitehouse.gov is throwing up statements that are not true, and they expect the public to listen, nod, and not complain.  They know they are lying, they expect to get away with it, and they deny they are lying.  This is the typical liberal way to operate.        Democrats say wrong things:  a blog in Fox News, by samiamgreeneggsandham:  "If a Democrat is accusing you of something, it is only because they themselves are guilty of it."

Here are the lies.         This is John E responding in my own words, not copy-paste from some conservative web site.         "United States is in a stronger economic position than any other major advanced economy in the world."  No, it isn't.  The U.S. debt and the amount of the budget to pay interest on the debt are awful and destabilizing.  "President’s top economic priority is tackling inflation and reducing costs for American families."  That is a sentence that claims to be the President's economic priority, but the policy that is more important to Democrats is allowing into the U.S. as many illegal immigrants as possible, allow them to vote as soon as possible, overwhelm the Republican vote, and create a permanent liberal rule that pushes the U.S. into socialism, a socialism that is beyond anything that Europe endures, because what people say is socialism in Europe is not socialism.  "Top economic priority is tackling inflation" is smoke and mirrors.        "Lowering costs that families face" is liberals imposing control, like price controls, similar to rent control in NYC.  thehill.com:  Virtually all economists ... agree that rent control reduces the housing supply and inevitably leads to shortage-induced price increases.        "Large corporations and the wealthiest Americans to pay their fair share."  This is the mantra, but when you do the math, this oppressive taxing, when spread across liberal budgets, does not pay for their intended spending.  And the taxing drives manufacturing to other countries.       Republican minimum-tax plan for "$1,500 less in families’ pockets each year."  News to me.  This is how Republicans would lose elections.      "Giving [Medicare] the power to negotiate prescription drug prices" is giving government more power, which generally opposes the market establishing workable prices.       "Federal Reserve is the institution that plays a primary role in fighting inflation." The Fed manipulates the interest rate, but government deficits and government shutdown of pipeline projects and such cause greater inflation.    "Putin’s price hike at the pump" is Pres. Biden's excuse.       "Companies pay fees on idled wells":  the blame is on government permits that are not forthcoming.         "Clean energy and vehicle tax credits" is using taxes to subsidize the expensive alternative energy sources, which are battery power, wind farms, and solar electric which all have a long payback period, if they ever really pay back at all.  Any EV owner who has to replace the battery pack for $5000 to $20000 may buy an internal-combustion-engine vehicle the next time.       "Strongest ever fuel economy standards" is government mandates to make vehicles lighter weight, which means exotic materials that are expensive.  Make two-car families make do with one car.  Make one-car households into no-car.         "We should lower their costs" by increasing their costs--right, sure.       "Federal resources to create more competition in meat-processing" is going to work better than market competition, capitalism?        "Federal financing for the construction of new housing" translates to "tax these people to subsidize those people."           "Deficit is now on track to fall by another $1.5 trillion this year" is a lie, this really means the projected deficit will be $1.5 trillion lower than some previous plan's increase.  It is not a decrease.

2022 May 17  By Haris Alic - The Washington Times Tesla CEO Elon Musk is sharply criticizing President Biden’s stewardship of the economy and warning that if prices skyrocket any higher, the U.S. could end up like Venezuela.  Mr. Musk told the All-In podcast that the Biden administration had not accomplished much in its 18 months in power, except to pass big spending bills that contributed to inflation.  “The obvious reason for inflation is that the government printed a zillion amount of more money than it had, obviously,” he said. “If the federal government writes checks, they never bounce … if there are more dollars created, than the increase in the goods and services across the economy, then you have inflation.”   Biden sees white supremacist ideology infesting media, politics.  Mr. Musk argued that the “government can’t just issue checks,” as Congress did during the coronavirus pandemic, without eventually leading to inflation and other dire economic problems.   “If the government could just issue massive amounts of money and deficits didn’t matter, then why don’t we just make the deficit 100 times bigger,” he said. “Various countries have tried this experiment multiple times. Have you seen Venezuela?”   MSN:  "The Trump administration, leaving Trump aside, there were a lot of people in the administration who were effective at getting things done."

2022 May 23    Monkeypox     In Travis County (Austin), mainly men ages 20-45.  G   and bi   men, says Dr. Stefanowicz.  "Know the facts before deciding to be intimate."   "Is not a disease of the g    community."       CNBC May 23:  many of the people affected globally are g      and bi        .          [Have your cake and eat it, too.]

     July 27  Search for https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/27/monkeypox-who... and you find:  99% of cases are among men, and at least 95% of those patients are men who have...should consider limiting their partners to lower their risk of infection and reduce the spread.                 CNN:  US CDC said Friday July 15 that there have been eight cases of monkeypox diagnosed among individuals who were female at birth.  JE:  laugh at this bit of political correctness, so many people in the U.S. are afraid of saying "woman."

On finance.yahoo.com, David Harvey, of National Coalition of STD Directors:  "The debate is somewhat of a distraction."  Difficult to tease apart close-contact spread from sexual spread.  Fortune:  U.S. STD "out of control."  JE comment:  when progressives insist that personal conduct should have no limits, this is what you get.  Conservatives insist that there should be some discipline in people's lives.    June 23 2022 AP:  meningitis in Florida among MSM, 7 deaths at a time when annual Pride can boost that number.  NBCnews.com:  mid-spring gatherings of g__ men in Spain and Belgium.  U.S. Pride organizers in a "bind," educate but don't cause "social stigma."  Gonsalves:  "not who you are.  It's about what you are doing."  JE:  this is "teasing apart."  Science.org:  Whittles:  "It is a morally neutral thing."  JE:  really?    spectator.org:  epidemiology, like journalism, is a field heavily dominated by homophile leftists.  2018 survey, 72.4% are liberal or left leaning, 4.4% conservative or right leaning.

2022 May 31  ussanews.com  Biden is 'furious at aides repeatedly walking back his gaffes and undermining his credibility.'  Walking back off-the-cuff comments.    Politico May 31 2022 "At least 21 Black staffers have left the White House...little support...tense environment.

2022 June 1  news.yahoo.com/kirk-cameron-gets-schooled-wild-084641563.html     Cameron on Todd and Buck Show June 12 2023        TV star  Cameron slammed pronouns, “grooming,” the 1619 Project, “racial confusion.”  “Public school systems have become so bad it’s sad to say that they’re doing more for grooming for sexual chaos and the progressive left than any real educating about the things that most of us want to teach our kids,” Cameron declared.

2022 June 1   https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/white-house-walking-back-biden-statements-because-he-s-totally-incompetent-rnc-spokesperson-says/ar-AAXXFfJ?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=21aa26a722734e9e9d58e53fa7474b7b   RNC National Spokesperson Paris Dennard ripped President Biden as "incompetent" during a Wednesday appearance on "Fox & Friends First," telling host Todd Piro that the White House continues to walk back his "problematic statements" because his words could cause "danger" to the American people.  PARIS DENNARD: I think the American people are just surprised at how bad the Biden-Harris White House is at every aspect of governing when it comes to policy or when it comes to actually PR or when it looks at how the Biden White House deals with the president who has these series of gaffes. The White House knows that the things that he says are wrong, shows incompetence and, in many instances, could put the American people in danger, especially when he says that Russia could have a minor incursion with Ukraine. These are problematic statements that the White House has to fix because the president is just bad at his job. He's totally incompetent.

2022 June 4    Four dead in popular Philadelphia entertainment district, downtown.  11:31 PM, but the video shows so much light that the district must be brightly illuminated to deter violence.  Multiple hundreds in the streets.  Despite at least 70 police in three blocks, a fight turned into a gunfight.  Police observed several people shooting.  Protesters subsequently claimed there weren't enough police, which is typical, protesters complain about anything and everything without checking facts.  Mayor Kenney:  "It's a balance:  what do you do to keep people safe but at the same time what do you do to not infringe their rights?"

2022 June 6  Progressive San Francisco D.A. Chesa Boudin is recalled.  His office reduced prosecutions, and S.F. crime is way up.  (No prosecution of prostitution, public urination, public camping, shoplifting of less than $500, street-corner drug dealing.  CNBC:  Had been "elected on a Black Lives Matter platform."  Defund police.)  He protests that the liberal policies have not been given enough time to kick in.     His mother and dad were both imprisoned for their work in the Weather Underground bombings in 1970-1975.  The mom was one of two women survivors of the March 6 1970 Greenwich Village row-home explosion of a powerful bomb being built in Manhattan.  (Not all the dynamite at the site blew up, 57 sticks were recovered.)  They were only slightly injured and escaped by subway train.  With both parents in prison, he was raised by radical Bill Ayers.

    2016  Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence    Symbionese Liberation Army. FALN. Black Liberation Army. Bombings by domestic underground groups were a daily occurrence. The FBI combatted these groups dedicated to the overthrow of the government.  Native-born radicals, most of them “nice middle-class kids,” smuggled bombs into skyscrapers, the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol, a Boston courthouse, and a Wall Street restaurant packed with lunchtime diners.      Family Circle:  The Boudins and the Aristocracy of the Left.

2022 June 7  Treasury Secretary Yellen:  "Could have used a better word than" transitory to describe inflation when it started soaring, the highest in 40 years.  "I very much hope that it will be coming down."  The Treasury Secretary has been bypassed several times by the Biden Administration for consultation in economic matters, in favor of White House political appointees.

2022 June 4   https://www.marcotosatti.com/2022/06/04/vigano-deep-state-and-deep-church-biden-and-bergoglio-frontmen-of-an-eversionary-dome/

Marco Tosatti interviewing Archbishop Vigano, a conservative, with attorney Reiner Füllmich.  (See Vigano earlier in this Time Line.)

    I could not keep silent in the face of the attempts to cover up those shameful facts by the so-called lavender mafia, which enjoys the support and protection of [Pope Francis] Bergoglio...I am considered inconvenient both by the exponents of the deep church and the Bergoglian cabal...the recent Russian-Ukrainian crisis significantly finds the 

• globalist elite, 

• NATO, 

• the American deep state, 

• the European Union, 

• the World Economic Forum, 

• the entire media machine, and 

• the Vatican 

all aligned on the same side. Putin’s intervention in Ukraine is considered a threat to the New World Order that must be neutralized even at the cost of a global conflict...corrupt clergy and Prelates which Bergoglio has deliberately and obstinately sought to cover up...my Appeal for the Church and the World, launched two years ago in May 2020 by which I denounced the threat represented by the silent coup carried out by means of the health emergency [Covid-19]...moral drift that originated with the Second Vatican Council created the necessary premises for the doctrinal and moral corruption of the clergy and the simultaneous delegitimization of the authority of the Shepherds. Let us not forget that the revolutionary processes have always relied on the vices and weaknesses of its representatives, both to destroy the State and to weaken the Church...Ukrainian crisis was deliberately provoked by the deep state in order to force the world to carry out the Great Reset reforms, in particular the so-called “technological transition” and the “green shift.” It is the second stage of the globalist technocrat coup, after the pandemic farce...Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation [is a vehicle for the Great Reset]...one purpose of the war in Ukraine was to allow for the cover-up of the scandal of Hunter Biden... Bill Gates is the largest landowner in the United States just when there is a shortage of grain and agricultural products...Klaus Schwab, George Soros, Bill Gates.

     Biden and Bergoglio are the front men of the ideology that unites them: a mixture of 

• Maoist collectivism, 

• Masonic liberalism, and 

• conciliar ecumenism, with nods to the 

• politically correct issues of gender and the LGBTQ agenda...

the gates of hell shall not prevail over the Church...effort lasting more than two hundred years, the enemy infiltrates 

• schools, 

• courts, 

• institutions, 

• seminaries, 

• companies and 

• trade unions, and gradually conquers the 

• highest levels of leadership...

Second Vatican Council..was...thinking that it could preserve the faith intact [while telling the faithful that doctrine is] too difficult...to embrace it in its totality; and in the moral sphere, to preserve Morality as an abstract model, letting Catholics choose according to convenience which principles to follow and which to disregard. For the conciliar church the doctrine of the divinity of Our Lord remains [only] theoretically valid.

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/archbishop-vigano-clarifies-points-arising-from-new-interview/  June 14 2019  Vigano:  actions to control "Uncle Ted" McCarrick are to prevent a trial that would expose the coverup.  The actions are administrative and are without appeal, so no follow-on corruption will be exposed.  Self-protecting networks that the Vatican protects.  Cardinal Bertone impeded progress.  My letter to Cardinal Parolin:  no response.  I trusted that Pope Francis would do things as any Pope would have done.  But he was covering up.  

2022 June  (AP) — Kathleen Buhle, the ex-wife of President Joe Biden's son Hunter...five years after her divorce, as she opens up about her marriage in a new memoir.  Her ex-husband's drug addiction, including an affair with her widowed sister-in-law.  Hunter spiral into addiction, even as he denied it.  https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-s-ex-daughter-in-law-opens-up-about-marriage-to-hunter/ar-AAXXMtH?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=21aa26a722734e9e9d58e53fa7474b7b

2022 June 25  San Antonio attorney Nico LaHood, on his Saturday WOAI radio program, says the media is not talking about what he considers to be important when one tries to explain young male mass shooters in schools and other places in the U.S.  (Ulvalde Ross Elementary, New York State Black grocery shoppers, etc.)   1) How much is non-gun violence by young men going up?  2) Increase of drug use for young people and children, for depression and anxiety, largely because of COVID-19 pandemic (schools not meeting, masks forced, vaccinations forced, parks closed).       https://pharmaceutical-journal.com/article/news/number-of-young-children-prescribed-antidepressants-has-risen-by-41-since-2015  Britain:  Prescribing of antidepressants in children aged 5–12 years has increased by more than 40% between 2015 and 2021.  “The increased numbers of children on antidepressants, and in particular young children, are of massive concern,” she said.  “The difficulties with withdrawing from these drugs."  Families are drawn into a culture where people believe that depression is caused by a ‘chemical imbalance’ in the brain, which is not true,” she added.  “Many young people, and parents, demand to be prescribed antidepressants.”  “crucial” that younger children get fast access to talking therapies, and that antidepressants are not used as a substitute.         Nico LaHood lost to Soros-backed Joe Gonzalez in the last San Antonio DA election.

dailysignal.com Aug 16 2022   Soros' "bought-and-paid-for prosecutors encourage lawlessness, harm law-abiding residents (especially minorities), drive businesses out of cities, and demoralize police by treating them as the criminals."  Not prosecuting categories of crime, granting $0 bail, releasing repeat felons from prison, no prosecution of violent juveniles in adult court, ignore shoplifting.  Joe Galmadi:  "the Christmas parade massacre [a man driving a SUV along a parade route in Waukesha, mowing down pedestrians in the parade, 6 dead, 62 injured]--that monster was out a $1000 bond...idiot who burned down the Fox Christmas tree [arson]...he was out of jail...murder up 88% in Austin...highest murders ever recorded...politicians pontificate behind the microphone."  Philadelphia Police Commissioner Outlaw:  "tired of arresting the same suspects over and over."  (North Philly, three SWAT officers shot while serving arrest warrant.)  

2022 June  Heritage Foundation  "America has spent 60 years exhausting the alternatives to fatherhood."   There is a federal agency, Office of Family Assistance with a branch or contractor, National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse and a web site, fatherhood.gov.  A public service announcement:  "importance of dads being involved in their children's lives."  An EPPC web site:  "Progressives shy away from talking about family life for fear of sounding moralistic."  "Progressives...criticize rhetoric on absent fathers for valorizing two-parent family structures."   In this time line, see 1965 news.investors.com, 1977 Dare to Discipline (if homes are going to survive), 1980 page 115, 2016 Oct 9, 2017 The Federalist.    

The Federal program, Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), 1935 to 1997, made a "clear disincentive for marriage and also a clear incentive for divorce."  JE has read that AFDC gave benefits to mothers but not when a father was part of the household.

2022 July 7 https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2022/07/07/dems-feel-the-agony-of-defeat--and-its-awesome-n2609814

    The current Democrat narrative...following the pummeling given to their stupid hopes and commie dreams.  [Democrats] believe in the pinko ratchet theory where America can only move left, but never again right...Their currency...is power...they don’t want to govern; they want to consolidate power, and you’re not going to talk them out of it by offering bourgeois stuff like facts and law. My new book We’ll Be Back: The Fall and Rise of America puts it this way:

    “This elite ideology that rejected objective truth in favor of the unprincipled pursuit of power meant that even though its adherents had taken society’s helm, no one was bothering to look where they were steering the ship...Without reason and debate, then the real currency is power and after the last few weeks maybe he ought to have learned that reason and debate is not there to protect the strong – us – but the weak...He is warning that we political conservatives are seeking to fill the Supreme Court “with political conservatives.” What should we fill it with? Liberals? ...The Democrats are losing in every governmental arena – executive, legislative and judicial – and they are not going to be limited in their hysterical, girlish pouting by bourgeois concepts like coherence. They want their power back, and they can’t have it. Let them cry.

Review of some problems for Democrats:  

• years of claiming Russia rigged the Trump election in 2016, 

• Pres. Biden gaffes, 

• voter doubt that Covid-19-era cash giveaways to everyone was actually helpful, 

• Democrat deficit spending leading to the highest inflation since 1981, 

• highest gasoline price ever, 

• supply chain, 

• the Hunter Biden laptop, 

• conservative/liberal ratio in SCOTUS of 6/3, 

• loss of Roe v. Wade, 

• SCOTUS expanding gun rights involving concealed carry, 

• SCOTUS striking down Maine’s exclusion of religious schools from a public school voucher program, 

• Pres. Biden pushing Green New Deal, 

• Democrat threat of unleashing multi-trillion-dollar package of social-welfare programs, 

• Democrat promises to increase taxes and confiscate guns, 

• sustained loss of Democrat Senators Manchin and Sinema on crucial votes in the narrowly divided Senate, 

• Monmouth University poll found that a record 88% believe the country is headed in the wrong direction, the worst on record, 

• Mr. McAuliffe (Dem Virginia governor candidate) “horrible misstatement” didn’t think “parents should be telling schools what they should teach,"

• years of silly handwringing about 52 genders, cis and trans, personal pronouns and genderqueer, how a man can be pregnant, the U.S. military knuckling under to promote trans and pay for trans operations, Silicon Valley promoting trans

July 5  White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre refused to discuss a 2018 voicemail from President Biden that was recovered from a laptop...further undermining Biden’s claim that he never discussed foreign business deals with his son.  “Why is there a voicemail of the president talking to his son about his overseas business dealings if the president has said he’s never spoken to his son about his overseas business dealings?” Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy asked...“I am not going to talk about alleged materials from the laptop,” Jean-Pierre maintained. “Peter, I refer you to his son’s representatives.”  Philip Wegmann about how the White House could refuse to even address questions about the first son’s dealings, since the president routinely says that he will “level” with the public.  “So I hear your question, but what I can tell you from here, standing at this podium is that I cannot comment on any materials from the laptop and I would refer you to the representatives of Hunter Biden,” Jean-Pierre added.

About the photos above, look at this time line's sub-page "Intolerance in Academia," within the time line 1900-1990 sub-page.  "Truth is replaced by opinion, to 'unleash the hate and unsheathe the knives.'  In the absence of truth, all that remains is power."  Also see references to Portland on this sub-page, 2021 Jan 20 and 2021 Dec 10.

2022 July 2  https://rwilson.substack.com/p/how-big-foundation-money-is-subverting      How Big Foundation Money Is Subverting Traditional Christianity

Progressives seek to modernize...Christianity to the liberal democratic order of the west. We saw this in Protestant churches immediately after the Reformation with some of the more radical reformers fleeing Europe to settle in America. Once here, they were preaching social gospel and egalitarianism by the mid-1800s...in the Roman Catholic church...with Vatican II. In both Protestant and Catholic churches, traditionalists have been drowned out by modernists...female ministers, L___ clergy, and even gay marriage and abortion in some cases. Pope Francis embodies all the modern liberalization...banning of traditional Latin Mass to leading interfaith prayers at pagan temples and advocating for socialist policies, Francis has all but completed the liberalization of the Roman Catholic Church.             Traditionalists argue that church attendance has already dropped off in the last couple of decades precisely because most churches have embraced progressive values.             Riccardi-Swartz sees Orthodoxy, particularly Russian Orthodoxy in the U.S., as one of these “problematic” institutions. She spent a year infiltrating an Appalachian parish of ROCOR (Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia) converts under false pretenses to write her book Between Heaven and Russia: Religious Conversion and Political Apostasy in Appalachia.        Funding from the Henry Luce Foundation. The Luce Foundation is a multi-billion-dollar NGO which says its purpose is to carry on the work of it’s founder, Henry Luce, the creator of Time Magazine.              “The gospel of democracy” as outlined in a February 1941 editorial in his own magazine, Life. In this editorial essay entitled “The American Century,” Luce called for a new kind of evangelism. If you go back and read this influential editorial now, it reads as a globalist manifesto.       Columbia University was awarded one of these generous grants to create the Center for Democracy, Toleration, and Religion (CDTR) which seeks to wedge feminist...and other progressive ideologies into acceptance in traditionist religions such as Orthodox Christianity, Traditional Catholicism, and Islam.        Sarah Riccardi-Swartz...on her website:  “Within conservative forms of Christianity, such as Eastern Orthodoxy, women’s roles have historically been monitored and minimized...silencing the voices of women...How will conservative Christianity be transformed by women who are leading the way to create a new status quo in the Orthodox Church, one that focuses on inclusivity and intersectionality?...Orthodox feminist activists are pushing back against the hegemony of patriarchal Christianity, seeking not to upend tradition but to transform it, even through socio-religious transgression.”  This is classic gaslighting. People who represent wealthy, influential organizations like the Luce Foundation love to tell us we [traditionalists] are imagining a plot to infiltrate the church with far-left ideology while also telling us right to our face on their own websites that they are doing exactly that. 

2022 July 3    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/jeff-bezos-calls-out-joe-biden-s-latest-inflation-claim-straight-misdirection-or-a-deep-misunderstanding/ar-AAZ8m8L?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=4c6a64e2c3a54d97915dcd706a1d2ae5

Jeff Bezos calls out Joe Biden's latest inflation claim: 'Straight misdirection or a deep misunderstanding.'   Lawrence Richard

     After President Joe Biden called on companies running gas stations to lower the price of gas, Jeff Bezos accused the U.S. president of misleading the public or said he lacked a "basic" understanding of the forces that actually drive prices.  "Ouch. Inflation is far too important a problem for the White House to keep making statements like this," Bezos said in a tweet Saturday evening. 

In the initial tweet, Biden made a direct appeal to gas stations and encouraged them to simply charge less for gasoline.  "My message to the companies running gas stations and setting prices at the pump is simple: this is a time of war and global peril. Bring down the price you are charging at the pump to reflect the cost you’re paying for the product," Biden said Saturday morning.   Bezos said the tweet was very telling to him and may reveal how little Biden knows about the market.  "It’s either straight ahead misdirection or a deep misunderstanding of basic market dynamics," Bezos added in his response.  "Gas stations don’t control what they ultimately can charge," he added. "People aren’t this stupid."  [Markup on gasoline at convenience stores is about 3%.]  Bezos has emerged as an unlikely critic of the Biden administration as Biden continues to try and pin the blame for record-high gas prices on anything ahead of the midterms election.  Over the past year, Biden has blamed 

• former President Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans, 

• Russia and its ongoing war with Ukraine, 

• the coronavirus pandemic, 

• oil production companies, and now 

• even gas stations as gas prices are the highest ever recorded in U.S. history.

Previously, Bezos and the White House feuded over rising inflation, which the White House sought to blame on large companies like Bezos’ Amazon.  "They understandably want to muddy the topic," Bezos tweeted in May. "They know inflation hurts the neediest the most. But unions aren’t causing inflation and neither are wealthy people."  "Remember the Administration tried their best to add another $3.5 TRILLION to federal spending. They failed, but if they had succeeded, inflation would be even higher than it is today, and inflation today is at a 40-year high," he added.

2022 July 7  https://townhall.com/columnists/laurahollis/2022/07/07/democrats-are-losing-the-culture-war-n2609871   Democrats Are Losing the Culture War Laura Hollis   The political left in this country is suffering setback after setback...This was a foregone conclusion the moment that the Democratic Party yoked itself to extremists... Black women are 6.5% of the U.S. population but account for almost 40% of all abortions -- a statistic that should concern anyone aware of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger's appalling racism.  930,000 U.S. abortions in 2020.      Justice Department has sued Arizona for requiring proof of citizenship to vote.  Democrats want a system where millions of noncitizens can have their illegal "votes" illegally "harvested" and dispensed to Democrat political candidates.

2022 July 12  The desire to silence dissent is now culturally pervasive across many fields. In science it has become especially toxic, as this story clearly shows:  Twenty-four astronomers and physicists from ten countries have signed a petition protesting the censorship of papers that are critical of the Big Bang Hypothesis by the open pre-print website arXiv. Run by Cornell University, arXiv is supposed to provide an open public forum for researchers to exchange pre-publication papers, without peer-review.   https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/today-blacklisted-american-scientists-questioning-big-bang-theory-protest-censorship-of-their-work/

2022 July 12    https://medium.com/illumination/why-are-so-many-democrats-whining-about-joe-biden-5042e2164153       They want to give themselves a congratulatory pat on the back and praise themselves and the Democratic Party for electing Barack Obama.  Please!!  Liberals need to stop thinking they’re progressive, anti-racist, and in favor of “radical” change because they voted for Obama!!  While I voted for Obama both times, Barack Obama did not lead a revolution. Obama was actually a rather disappointingly conventional president.     The writer of the web page says few Dem voters want revolution.

2022 July 14  https://civilcandor.com/liars-govern-america-why-wont-democrats-tell-the-truth/    Lies are essential Democrat Party politics. We can’t believe anything we hear. Liars govern America from the lowliest liberal member of the House all the way to the Oval Office.  The lies, misrepresentations, disinformation, and propaganda from Democrats keep coming fast and loose. Here are the most recent updates that showcase the complete lack of honesty from the party hacks who are now in control of America:  [see the web site]     Pres. Biden We have to ask: Are you on the side of truth or lies; fact or fiction; justice or injustice; democracy or autocracy? That’s what it’s coming down to.  He is talking about his own party!     Speaker Pelosi  Every single House Republican voted to defund the Capitol Police. Not true.  From a party that supported demands to defund local police departments throughout the 2020 election cycle and last summer’s Black Lives Matter race riots. Now they need to dispel the truth and get back in the good graces of police unions.    V.P. Harris  The President and I are absolutely committed to ensuring that our immigration system is orderly and humane. And I do believe that we are making progress in that regard.  Ask any overworked Border Patrol agent on the Mexico border and they will dispute that.  While they are tied up, processing "undocumented immigrants" in Texas, the cartel is half a mile upriver, freely ferrying drugs and more "immigrants" across the river.

2022 July 12   https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/07/pro-abortion-doctor-abortion-is-normal-and-an-act-of-love/        by Mary Chastain    Dr. Colleen McNicholas from “Planned” Parenthood St. Louis, thinks abortion is normal and an act of love.                https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/07/pro-abortion-prof-wont-say-an-unborn-baby-has-value-but-the-person-with-capacity-for-pregnancy-has-value/     BRIDGES: ...people with the capacity for pregnancy [new way to say woman]. They have intelligence, they know what is best for themselves.

    CORNYN: “And do you think a baby that is delivered alive has value?”

    BRIDGES: “Yes.”

    CORNYN: “Do you think a baby that is not yet born has value?”

    BRIDGES: “I believe that a person with a capacity for pregnancy has value. They have intelligence. They have agency. They have dignity.”          Mary Chastain:  "Just admit that you don’t think an unborn human being has value. Say it out loud."

2022 July 12   https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/12/politics/woke-green-new-deal-defund-the-police/index.html

CNN admits:  Drum writes:  "Despite endless hopeful invocations of 'but polls show that people like our positions,' the truth is that the Democratic Party has been pulled far enough left that even lots of non-crazy people find us just plain scary...Democrats have stoked the culture wars...James Carville who was the first to warn Democrats that focusing on very liberal policies -- and demanding that the general public pronounce support for those issues or run the risk of being labeled "intolerant" -- is political poison for the party ... "Wokeness is a problem and everyone knows it.  Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was even more blunt: "From 

• election law to 

• environmentalism to 

• radical social agendas to the 

• Second Amendment, 

parts of the private sector keep dabbling in behaving like a woke parallel government. Corporations will invite serious consequences if they become a vehicle for far-left mobs to hijack our country from outside the constitutional order."

2022 July 22  New York Post     Ezra Klein urged Demos to recognize that most voters are not liberals, are not woke.  The Squad's core positions are wildly out of touch with the broader electorate's priorities.  High inflation, record gasoline price, rising crime (eliminating cash bail, making it free;  defund police departments), immigration flood.  The Squad uses class-based political warfare, identity politics, disruption for disruption's sake.               Millions of teens questioning their sexual identity.  Men in women's bathrooms, prisons, sports teams, drag queens at libraries, SCOTUS candidate Ketanji Brown refusing to define a woman, dares not answer for fear of backlash.

    Remnantnewspaper.com  Most Latinos are patriotic.  They have no time for gender, race, open borders, national anthem kneelers, and the socialism they and their ancestors have lived under [in Cuba and Venezuela].  Look at Marco Rubio's family.  Latinos can define what a woman is, while white Democrats can't.  

    Rightamerican   James Carville, Democrat:  What went wrong [in Democrat strategy in the last 15 years] is just stupid wokeness.  Even Pres. Obama, who peddled identity politics, said the Left went too far in 2019.  Wokeness is not successful.  "Get over that quickly."

    As one reads progressive web sites, one comes across the PC phrases "person with a p_____, person with a v______, baby delivered to a person with a u_____."  [But don't say man or woman.]  Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown wouldn't define "woman" when she knew she would be condemned by liberal media if she didn't use the PC phrases.  Trigger phrase this, snowflake that, personal pronoun this, gender reassignment that, undocumented immigrant, Meryl Streep is an actor, not an actress.  An urban disturbance with shop windows broken and looting is called a progressive protest, and mainly peaceful, but if it is associated with the alt-right, the same behavior is called a riot.  So many PC phrases that are likely to be supplanted in two years and never heard again.  Prof. Clifford Staples quit being a Marxist. He found that freeing up students from the conservative behavior of their parents releases the students "to replace truth with opinion, to 'unleash the hate and unsheathe the knives.'"  "In the absence of truth, all that remains is power."    (See this web site, Intolerance in Academia sub-page of the physics time line 1900-1990 sub-page.)

    Townhall  Leftist organizations are being eaten from within.  Take any perceived slight.  Take it to the front and center of "my truth."  Assume the greatest evil.  Make it into an outrage campaign.  Cultivate microaggressions.  Reject any apology.  The Washington Post has suffered from woke zealotry and cancel culture, and fired a woke ringleader after a reporter retweeted an insensitive joke and was suspended without pay.  Liberal executives allowed the bleeding.  Progressive organizations are paralyzed by in-fighting.  Liberal organizations are hijacked and driven into the ground by toxic culture.  ACLU, Sierra Club, Guttmacher Institute.  ACLU used to have some common ground with Republicans.  Starbucks has been protested against by climate activists, vegans, unions, BLM, homeless, and divestment activists.  By appeasing one group, they welcome more.  An executive claims that woke office drama consumes 90% to 95% of his time.  Executives resign when they can't stand the drama.  Incompetents have gotten ahead of the game by beating others to outrage, and are protected during the "investigation."

    The White House and administrative agencies are pushing corporations away from fossil fuel, and are endangering the trillions of dollars of invested retirement funds.  ESG, environmental, social, governance, is the darling of progressive investors.

2022 July 9   https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/new-york-times-says-biden-s-age-is-an-uncomfortable-issue-for-white-house-democrats-in-stunning-report/ar-AAZoYa0?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=3d00ea22817b4712a142428253230dde     New York Times report.  "But the reality is that managing the schedule of the oldest president in American history presents distinct challenges," Times chief White House correspondent Peter Baker wrote. "And as Mr. Biden insists he plans to run for a second term, his age has increasingly become an uncomfortable issue for him, his team and his party."

2022 July  Monkeypox is endemic to African animals and some African people in 11 countries.  But it is spreading rapidly in the West in the wake of HIV, COVID-19, and the increase of syphilis over 20 years (CDC web site), but MPX is in 95% to 98% in a certain community.  It is rarely fatal but causes smallpox-like lesions that are painful.  If these lesions are in the mouth or lower intestinal tract, they are very painful, but that seems to be escaping the attention of CDC and public health during July.

Hot spots for monkeypox are Austin, Chicago, NYC, D.C., Bay Area, West Hollywood, Atlanta.  The U.S. surpassed Spain in MPX in early August.

There is controversy about calling Western monkeypox a sexually transmitted infection, STI.  Progressives insist monkeypox is not STI, and they complain about stigmatization that goes along with monkeypox if it is deemed STI.  But health workers may as well think in terms of STI because 95% to 98% of Western cases are in men who _ _ _ _.  These infected men have trouble finding doctors who will treat them, because the caseload is almost entirely among the 2% or 3% of the male population who _ _ _ _, and among them, a majority refuse use of c _ _ _ _ _ _, disregarding the clear advice of CDC on its web site.  When a doctor has a patient who refuses the doctor's directions, the doctor is likely to have the patient find another doctor, because doctors want their patients to follow their directions.  Doctors don't like to be frustrated when they have to go over and over the same set of communicability questions on multiple doctor visits of one patient, and receive the same answer, "I don't like to do that, I want to be free.  I have rights."  Also, monkeypox lesions leak the virus in the clinic, and special hygiene must then be exercised to protect the next patient.

The more progressive a person is, the more he declares that MPX is not STI.  It goes with the territory.  The same with complaining about stigmatization.  

CDC associates MPX vaccine priority with living with HIV or at risk for HIV, and men who _ _ _ _.  (cbsnews.com)  But some people outside the 95 to 98% are catching MPX and not being targeted for vaccine or the warning messaging, and they get a lot of press for being overlooked.  Some call for "dating apps" to be required to carry MPX warning.  

In Spain, abstinence is a hot topic.  Catalonia has many cases.  15,000 people are in the high-risk group in just Barcelona, and there are 1500 MPX cases.  Archyde.com:  "At the July 9 Pride March, I didn't do anything."  Nervous laugh.  "I didn't go to s__ clubs."  The risk is major in s__ clubs.  A person on vox.com is "trying to replace the language of 'men who _ _ _ _ ' with either 'men and their s__ networks' or 'q_____ people and their s__ networks,'" because vaccine goes to certain groups based on the exact language.  CDC web site changed the phrase to "people who have had multiple s__ p___ in the last 14 days," "focusing on behavior."       VOAnews.com:  striking a balance between not stigmatizing men _ _ _ _ _, while also ensuring that both vaccines and pleas for greater caution reach those currently in the greatest danger.  [Satisfying one causes protest about the other.]  "Contact tracing is very complicated because it can be a very sensitive issue for someone to identify their...partners."  [And much of the activity is anonymous and with drugs being used.]  More "partners creates greater risk."  "Fatigue from the COVID-19 pandemic has played a part...isolate until they are fully healed...people close the webpage and forget what they have read...you couldn't do this or that, and now, here we go again.  People just hate it and put their heads in the sand."  [Then they go out to the rave.]

"Saunas and group s__ are pretty freaking risky right now."  And bathhouses.  "Love for those types of spaces."  "G__ s__ doesn't drive anything."  "S__ is normal and healthy."  "S__ with the lowest risk possible."  "Risk and pleasure."  "An oppressive American health care system."  Abstinence and less risky behavior..."It's not for forever;  it's until we have better access to vaccines..."  

    A doctor on TV (was it Newsy or ?) advised that people not add to their contacts from the community at this time.

    MPX virus remains dangerous up to at least two weeks.  It lives longer in coolness and darkness.  

A thinking person wonders when the next infection will follow in the stead of HIV, syphilis, and MPX.  COVID-19 was different, being deadly and easily communicable, but a lot of suffering, concentrated in that certain community, comes from the other infections.   When a s___ inexperienced woman marries a s___ inexperienced man, they sidestep all these infections.  It makes you think about the best ways to live, which is the definition of that old word, morals. 

2022 Aug 2  U.S. House of Rep. Speaker Pelosi visits Taiwan, rebuffing threats from the People's Republic.  MSN.com:  four China warships in Japan territorial water, China army "deep" into Ladakh, recent provocation of Phillipines.  Col. Kefei:  "must not arrange for Pelosi to visit Taiwan...Chinese military will never sit idly by...PLA has right to forcibly dispel Pelosi's plane...shoot them down."

2022 Aug 1  Breitbart   Soros defends his "bought-and-paid-for" prosecutors (San Antonio has one).  "Treat drug addiction as a disease, not a crime."  Soros repeats CA Gov. Newsom's statement that Republican-run states have the highest murder rates, ignoring the high rates in Democrat-run large cities.

2022 Aug 11    https://meaww.com/sex-therapist-miranda-galbreath-viral-video-youtube-pedophilia-minor-attracted-people-ma-ps-viral    Don't stigmatize pedophiles!  Call them minor-attracted people.

2022 Aug 16   Billionaire Soros funds election campaigns of progressive district attorneys, including San Antonio, see June 25 2022 in this time line.       "His bought-and-paid-for prosecutors encourage lawlessness, harm law-abiding residents (especially minorities), drive businesses out of cities, and demoralize the police by treating them as the criminals.   Free bail; refusing to add sentencing enhancements; releasing hardened, convicted felons from prison; not prosecuting violent juvenile offenders in adult court; ignoring shoplifting, drug possession, and prostitution.

https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/08/16/soros-claim-about-progressive-aka-rogue-prosecutors-is-big-lie/             “Bail reform” changes in Chicago, Cook County “appear to have led to a substantial increase in crimes committed by pretrial releasees."   George Gascon (Los Angeles), Larry Krasner (Philadelphia), Kim Foxx (Chicago), Kim Gardner (St. Louis) 

2022 Aug 29    https://heavy.com/news/ethan-miller-bend-safeway-shooter/             JE:  If materialists like Marx had never been published, and skeptics had never had the exposure that they have had, would Ethan Miller have never fallen into so much darkness that he would have shot up the Safeway?

From the Heavy web site, edited by JE--This is it.  Today's the day I die.  After my massacre I'll be gone.  Truly at peace.  A million miles away in another universe.  [The Christian view is that he is now in Hell, but materialists say that he is nothing after he dies, like everyone is nothing after dying.]      Why?  I can already see all of you asking that question.  I have no idea, my head doesn't work anymore.  I can never shut my thoughts off.  I'm FULL OF RAGE.  Citizens live in a dehumanized state.  [The World, the organized, Satan-led world, is indeed in a sorry state.  Ethan Miller didn't hear about Jesus' forgiveness, or at least he didn't receive that forgiveness.]  We don't know who we truly are.  I am above you dumb little humans.  Don't get me started on that dumb little god you worship.  You are sheep.  [Well, actually, we seek to be sheep following our Shepherd.]  I hate myself.  I'm a blood-thirsty, evil psychopath.  The entire world fell for COVID.  The government forced us into isolation.  I was turned into a monster by the world.  They force a false belief system, morals, down your throat.  I'll be damned if I let anyone control me.  [He let Satan control him.]  I'm glad I realized this now instead of wasting years living a miserable life here.  I'm  going to start a violent revolution.  I'll have a good time killing.  Move on to peace for eternity.  The pure brutality of shooting up a school is so exciting.  Existence means nothing.  [Marxists say that individuals mean nothing, what matters is the earthly experience of large groups.  Individuals count for nothing because nothing follows death.]

2022 Aug 30  https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-latest-fallout-from-the-hunter-biden-investigation-is-raising-eyebrows/ar-AA11huwb?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=82c8c55bbc87471e81feaa4b8e3a66d9

     The investigation into Hunter Biden's business dealings has been going on for years now — since 2018 to be exact (via CNN).

     The Washington Times reports that Timothy Thibault, an assistant special agent at the FBI, has suddenly resigned after a 25-year tenure in light of allegations that he acted with political bias in keeping the president's son out of trouble in the course of the investigation into his business conduct.  Analyst Brian Auten is also being accused of working with Thibault in what Senator Grassley described as a scheme to "undermine derogatory information connected to Hunter Biden by falsely suggesting it was disinformation."  Auten is part of the largely-discredited team that led the investigation into Russian collusion involving former President Donald Trump (via RealClearInvestigations). Alarmingly, this team oversaw the FBI raid at Mar-a-Lago.  Donald Trump had a lot to say about the unfolding situation...Mark Zuckerberg having admitted Facebook suppressed stories about Hunter Biden before the 2020 election due to allegedly having received intelligence from the FBI about potential Russian propaganda around the matter (via New York Post).  The revelation was made during the Meta executive's appearance on Joe Rogan's podcast. 

2022 Sept 22     https://washingtonstand.com/news/let-us-raise-our-kids-thousands-of-canadians-protest-lgbt-school-policies

Thousands of promoters of “parental rights” and “trans rights.” Angry parents, trying to protect their children from being sexualized through LGBT indoctrination in schools.

“1 Million March for Children” is coordinated by Ottawa resident Kamel El-Cheikh. “Let us raise our kids.”

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau posts, “Transphobia, homophobia, and biphobia have no place in this country.” 

2022 Sept  New Oxford Review  p. 16 Robert McTeigue  Christians at the End of the Pax Americana    Aiding the lower rungs of the social ladder..."once the proper function of private and religious charity has become an insidious scheme of cultivating a dependent class willing to trade votes in exchange for donations from the public purse. "  McTeigue was in college in 1980.  "I was staggered to learn that anyone could be admitted to university while in need of 'remedial' courses...When I started teaching in 1992, I noticed that the number of students in need of remediation had increased significantly."  "A steady decline in students' abilities, skills, attitudes, virtues, curiosity, courtesy, and discipline."  "Student quality decreased even as grade point average increased."  "An undergrad degree...is an indicator of debt"...more than an indicator of knowledge or discipline.    

In the past, the Dutch guilder was the world's principal reserve currency, through the actions of the Dutch East (and West) India Company.  The Dutch lost that, and the Dutch empire went away.  The British pound and British Empire, where "the sun never set," had their time of ascendency.  The U.S. turn may be coming to a close after being supreme after 1945.  "The loss of entitlements to the lower strata will lead to shock, outrage, and worse.  For the middle stata,  the evaporation of the dream of inevitable advancement will lead to bitterness, disillusion, and despair."  (JE thinks the violence in Portland and disorder in San Francisco will spread to all population centers.)  "What happens if our government can't save us?"  To survive, be in a small community.  [Believing, local Christians will do for community.]  Psalm 146:3, "Put not your trust in princes."

2022 Sept 30  UC Berkeley makes a Jewish-free zone

2022 Oct 8    https://newscinema.in/kamala-harris-slams-texass-immoral-abortion-ban-during-speech-in-austin     VP Harris shows how she picks and chooses her morals.  Concerning Gov. Abbott and new Texas protection for pre-birth babies,   ‘It’s truly immoral. The government shouldn’t be making this decision for her. It is absolutely about freedom. It is about liberty.’     JE:  VP Harris, you are advocating murder of babies.  Those babies did nothing wrong to start growing in the mother.

2022 Oct 12  National Fraternal Order of Police:  "Since Monday, at least 12 police officers have been shot.  The spewing of anti-police rhetoric by some political and media figures as well as the failed policies of rogue prosecutors and judges [Soros initiative] are placing our officers in greater danger."  Some police are ambushed.

2022 Oct 23  Nation's Report Card, due to COVID-19 absences from school, largest drops ever recorded in math

2022 Oct 24  Portland mayor Wheeler bans 700 unsanctioned homeless camps

2022 Oct 28    https://www.ligonier.org/posts/65-percent-evangelicals-believe-we-are-born-innocent        Survey result reflects a view of human identity that aligns more with American society than the Bible.   The biblical teaching of original sin is not embraced by most evangelicals.   LifeWay Research, evangelicals:

• The Bible is the highest authority.

• I personally encourage non-Christians to trust Jesus Christ.

• Christ’s death on the cross is the only sacrifice that could remove the penalty of my sin.

• Only those who trust...free gift of eternal salvation.

2022 Nov 1   https://catholicherald.co.uk/the-vaticans-new-synod-document-radically-overturns-christian-teaching/  Gavin Ashenden

JE comments:  This article alternates between language of orthodoxy and language of progressivism, so be careful which category a sentence is in.

The Working Document for the Continental Stage of the Synodal Way [modernizing the Catholic Church in Germany,  LGBT pride flags are seen at some meetings, Roman Catholic church in Germany...homosexual priests and bishops can publicly state their sexuality, without fear of job termination.] must be exposed as the Trojan horse of heresy.  [Talk of radical reform quickly followed in Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria.  The [radical] agenda of a limited group of theologians from a few decades ago has suddenly become the majority proposal of the German episcopate.  JE comment: the German Synodal Way was a series of meetings to advance radicalism, that the Vatican failed to disperse.]  Play tricks with words.   Turn the Catholic Church upside down...The document is called Enlarge the Space of Your Tent...'radical inclusion.'   God, who is Love, must be in favour of radical inclusion, and judgement as traditionally meant must be an abberation.   “Jesus goes and Marx stays.”  Polygamists are reached out to and drawn “within the tent of the Church”.  In the Old Testament, "division was everywhere as a means of distinguishing between" the holy and unholy.  Removal of repentance.

November 8 2022   https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/11/08/how-woke-language-distorts-the-world/   Armenian (?) Peter Boghossian

Wokeness takes familiar words and fills them with a new ideological content.  [The same as JW and LDS and other cults change words and derail rational thinking.]  Every word in the woke lexicon conceals activism, obfuscation, and concealment.  

'Inclusion’...‘a space that restricts speech’.   The woke agenda runs into trouble as soon as a term is translated out of English, the mother tongue of the leading wokerati...no word in Hungarian for ‘gender’. Consequently, Hungarians import and use the English word ‘gender’, and with it the woke discourse that accompanies the term. 

2022 Nov 17  https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2022/11/17/angry-hypocrisy-and-convenient-ultramontanism-at-the-national-catholic-reporter [conservative]/       (Progressive) ncronline.org:  rooted in Second Vatican Council...social justice...[pro-LGBT]...rich diversity"             "Operating from within a populist, liberal modality, [National Catholic Reporter (progressive)] adopted the rhetoric of...the Sixties in order to agitate for...changes to Church doctrine, morality, and practice...modernity and the secular liberal trends...a “curve of history” that the Church needed to get in line with or perish."  "Anti-papal message" during [conservative times] Humanae Vitae, John Paul II, Benedict XVI.  NCR complained bitterly about the conservatives.  But with Pope Francis, they now are "reminding us it is “Catholic teaching” to support whatever the pope is doing and saying."  A "shocking turnaround" of opinion at NCR.  "One is only prohibited from insulting this pope."  "Playing us for fools."  When progressives attained "power...openness ceased. Just ask any seminarian from that era what fear and dread it put into your soul if you were ever labeled “rigid”."  "Chanceries filled with authoritarian apparatchiks of the Left who are as vicious."

     2021 Jan 28  ncronline.org concedes that "majority of men who choose priesthood these days..."rad trads."  U.S. Bishops' Conference, too, has taken a hard turn to the right."

2022 Nov 19  U.S. Sec. of Defense Austin:  "Putin's fellow autocrats are watching.  They could well conclude that getting nuclear weapons would give them a hunting license...autocrats decide which countries...can be snuffed out."

2022 Nov  New Oxford Review about Putin and Ukraine and Putin's threats of atomic bombing     from Joseph Kerwin in Bryan, TX, a boy during Hitler's rise, when the U.S. defended itself.  "If you find a Hitler growing strong in your midst, defeat him...Putin to be such a threat, and I support the U.S. and NATO...to thwart him.  Is he a nuclear threat?  Yes, but we can't let that hand him victory.  What if he uses a nuclear weapon?  Descend upon him with our full fury...using our non-nuclear weapons to crush him."

2022 Nov 29  European Union with its decrees from a central "government" wants Netherlands to buy out 3000 farms and shut them down.  Not popular in Netherlands.  This sounds like a kindred spirit to Brexit.

2022 December 3   https://www.foxnews.com/politics/catholic-bishop-blasts-evil-woman-hillary-clinton-comparing-pro-lifers-taliban-russian-war-crimes

Tyler, TX Roman Catholic bishop Joseph Strickland (who will be excommunicated by Vatican) on Hillary Clinton:  "Don’t listen to this evil woman...Her lies and immorality need to be silenced for the good of humanity."

Dec 18 2022 Reuters Pullella:  Vatican defrocked anti-abortion priest Frank Pavone...Strickland defended him publicly.  "This holy priest is cancelled while an evil president [Biden] promotes the denial of truth and the murder of the unborn at every turn, Vatican officials promote immorality and denial of the deposit of faith and priests promote gender confusion devastating lives."

The Coalition for Canceled Priests

Janet Smith conservative Catholic writer

https://janetsmith.org/causes/catholic-clergy-corruption-crisis/    links to important writing

     To the US Bishops:  A (Friendly) Call to Repentance and Reform  https://catholicvote.org/to-the-us-bishops-a-friendly-call-to-repentance-and-reform/

     ...g  networks throughout the Church. No More Victims, a group I work with, has published online and sent to all bishops “What We, the Laity, are Reading that has Shaken Us to the Core.”  Bishops have inherited dioceses with priests...5% and 60% are sexually active with males...culture in which it is more important to protect the institutional Church.  

     https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/ the-legion-of-christ-and-the-need-for-universal-indignation   (continuing Janet Smith)  ...abuse of minors in the order since its founding in 1941...Father Maciel 60 victims.

     Janet Smith in National Catholic Register  Cozzens in 2000:  The Changing Face of the Priesthood, Michael Rose in 2002, 2015:  Goodbye, Good Men  Chalk it up to the seminaries, but they improved after 2005.  

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/01/gay-priests-catholic-church.html  Andrew Sullivan  Jan 21 2019  15% to 60% U.S. Catholic priests g    much higher in Franciscans and Jesuits.  "Wreaking great devastation," Bishop Robert Morlino.  Lepanto Institute.  

2023 New Oxford Review Jan-Feb 2023 p. 40

Christopher Beiting    The Grave Consequences of the Church's Great 'Emphasis Shift'

Few ordinary Catholics have heard "outside the Church there is no salvation," which is in the online Cathecism.  It is scarcely taught since Vatican II, but what used to be heresy is now taught:  muddledness.  "All religions are equally capable of leading people to Heaven."  Karl Rahner is one teacher of this heresy.  The Church once proclaimed Christ.  Now she engages in "dialogue," "promoting her commonalities with" other religions.  Ecumenism used to be condemned, but after Vatican II there are formal offices to facilitate ecumenism.  Collapse of mission work, exodus from the Church, apathy.  "We need to proclaim the Gospel and abandon the...endless dialogue."  [A Catholic says] The current mess is as bad as the mess of the Protestant Reformation.

    Page 46  "Never have we had a pope [Francis] who is so wrong about so many things."

    Page 47  Woke thinking comes from Hegel, Marx, Engels, Freud, Lenin, Dewey.  The Frankfurt School gave us critical theory.  Woke thinking is 

1) the group over the person, 

2) will over reason, 

3) human power over divine rights.  

The sexual revolution wrecks the family.  Woke revolutionaries like to control our thought and speech ("My pronouns are they/them/their.  If I, by myself, walk into a room, I want you to say, "They walked into the room with their backpack."), employ critical Marxism, and destroy history. 

2023 Feb 20    A relation of the writer was the hardworking headmistress of a Friends (Quaker) school for years, spearheading from the formation in 1987 through to 2018.    The Progressive Education Network was the choice for this Friends school.   "Student voice, agency, conscience, intellect, just, equitable, sustainable."  No grades.      These are progressive aims that JE disputes.  These values consider that people can be perfected, and the school location is the city of Princeton University, which Woodrow Wilson led away from orthodox Christianity.  (See this time line for Wilson's disastrous influence at Princeton 1902, also see 1908, 1912.)                      When I look at reviews of Friends schools, most parents (who pay a lot for this private education) are delighted with the education of their children.  But some cite problems.  "School has gone downhill dramatically in past few years."  (Since my relation was fired.)      "Diversity, equity and inclusion [DEI] is a serious problem.  [too much DEI]  Behind closed doors, they treat students with bias and enforce silence.           "The school has been completely ruined by its mission for 'diversity.'"    Against the ideas of Quakers.  The whites teaching diversity have a savior mentality.  "Don't send your child here."    Left-wing fanaticism.   Not college prep.  "Breeds a sense of classism...exclusion, bullying."   "If your student is gifted...unwillng to help, even somewhat threatened intellectually."   "Not very consistent with Quaker values."  "Point of view on worldly issues is very one sided."  

2023 Feb 24  On Gordon Deal's 4AM news show on radio, a Yahoo Finance opinion person says the expensive support of U.S. toward Ukraine (Russia's war inside Ukraine is one year old) is worth it.  The man says Putin has a long history of grabbing, then grabbing more.  If Putin grabs Ukraine, what country will be next?  Poland?  Look at Putin's grab of Crimea 2014 and Georgia 2008.     Also look at Putin's murders by radioactive material, other poisons, and Putin's enemies tossed off of high places.    The opinion person says Ukraine is very useful to the West as a stopper to Putin's aggression.     Search in the time line for other notes on Putin, the former KGB employee.

2023 Feb 24  Coldest weather in Los Angeles in 34 years.  In Portland, 11" snow, much more than forecast.  Libraries  closed, homeless people sheltered in libraries are turned out.  Some use free bus to temporary warming centers.  Over time, most Portland homeless people (the "unhomed") do not remain at shelters.  [Because of bedlam?  Psychotic people in a shelter can be loud for hours on end.]      Bedbugs in shelters are a big problem, volunteers who go to help cannot take in a purse and have to get home, put their clothing immediately into hot wash water, and shower to get the bedbugs off.  How about the bedbugs that shake loose into their vehicles?           Amazon.com has 20-pack of sleeping bags with "homeless" in the title, $400.     5200 homeless people in Portland.  Portland City Council is considering outlawing street camping by 2024.    Portland Street Response, distributing free tents, has to make emergency calls when "de-escalation tactics" don't work.  Homeless people are "wary of emergency services."  "Homeless-related fires" are a problem.  Around three homeless Portland people a year die from fire.

2023 March New Oxford Review  has numerous points

 p. 9    Modernism affecting Christian churches--letter from senior editor of Touchstone, S.M. Hutchens    Ordination of women can be from "sectarian enthusiasm," selective reading of scripture overwhelming tradition and "indelible patriarchy."  But it can also be from modernism, and the impulse to modernism can alternate between "innocent mistakes" and "diabolical aspects" of apostasy that make for a different religion, where women taking the topmost leadership is the "most prominent symbol."  "This process proceeded, as Prof. Tighe shows, rapidly in the Episcopal Church" whereas it was slower among other protestants.  [NOR Dec 2022 The St. Louis Congress [1977]: Forty-Five Years Later where conservative Anglicans made their stand]  "Not every ordained woman was 

• an affronted claimant to supposed rights denied,

• a confessing feminist, or

• a lesbian."

Protestants led in modernising and Roman Catholics are now "far advanced" down that road, witness "the current situation in Germany" that Pope Francis does not confront, as he "unilateraly amends the Catechism."  The example in Luxembourgh is archbishop Jean-Claude Hollerich.

    Joseph Blake p. 10:  North American Episcopalians [have always been] led by "social elites" who "offer a genteel, progressive religion" flowing with the "Zeitgeist."  Bishops "full of passionate intensity" dominated, and humble bishops were "too polite to object."  Concerning Pope Francis, "once you call into question papal authority, you open the door to further division."  "Endowments at major churches will always make sure the lights are on" even if the membership is low.  Page 13, the same with Unitarian-Universalist churches.

    Page 14  1977:  American Church News becomes New Oxford Review

    Page 15  "Ferocious young ideologues at Pride parades"

    Page 43  "Cultural inertia that carried along even drifting and indifferent Catholics--yes, that's gone too."

    Page 48  Unsettled:  What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters by Steven Koonin  Some scientists admit they shade the truth to obtain political or economic outcomes.  "The dance reminds me of experts in other fields who witness the failure of one Darwinian prediction after another but proclaim the theory is unassailable, and the next discovery will confirm it--until it doesn't."  evoxcross

        Pew survey of conservative Episcopalians shows that even conservatives have slipped away from orthodoxy, 56% of conservative Episcopalians think right and wrong depend on the situation, relativism.  Sources of guidance on right and wrong:  63% just use common sense, only 21% factor in religion.

2023 Mar6    From web site xxxx that I can't re-discover, but here are notes.

Mark Wingfield, long-time editor for Baptist Standard, weekly for Baptist General Convention of Texas, and associate pastor at Dallas Wilshire Baptist.  He has strong opinions (that I mostly debate), in his web page that I can't re-discover, but here are some quotes.

1) The American Right, theologically, defined itself by what it is against.  

Against inclusion of          .  JE answers:  Is it wrong to be defined by what I am against?  But that is the way you characterize me, as if you are on the offensive and I am on the defensive.  But apart from that...           is welcome at my church, but         will hear, over time, that the ancient cities of S     and       had reputations for predation and abusing.  ("Over time" means that it isn't a leading topic at the church, it takes years of Bible sermons to get the drift.)  But the predation stands out in the Genesis writing.  How much does predation or abuse go with         ?  Especially after 1980?  There are plenty of people, orthodox Christians, who say there is a linkage, and those people also have a view about nature vs. nurture, that          is nurture, whereas          say it is inborn, it is nature, and they have that view to escape personal culpability.                But of course predation also goes with plenty of men who call themselves hetero.  Parents at church want a safe place for their children, there should be no gray zone in churches.    

JE answers:  If a church is inclusive, are there limits?  Look at the web page of UUMC Austin.  We commit ourselves to love and follow the God revealed in Jesus without denying the authenticity of other paths to the holy...practicing our faith is more important than adhering to doctrines.  Some staff at UUMC Austin are from Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Presbyterian by training and employment in a progressive Methodist church.  That seems curious.  It may be that these progressives like Austin (what progressive wouldn't like Austin?) and want to stay in Austin for employment.  

  Profile of the program coordinator at that seminary  [ Linkedin:  for the Office of Student Affairs and Vocation, Resident Chaplain at Muslim Space, and was Student Body President at Aus Pres Th Seminary ], as of Mar 30 2023 What motivates you toward excellence? The teachings of my faith tradition (Islam).      JE comment:  a seminary that calls itself Christian (their web site, "leaders from diverse Christian traditions are moved to connect with their calling, challenge their assumptions [code for "doubt the Bible"], and change the world as they become confidently [code for being autonimous] equipped for Christian ministry") has a Muslim staff member?  A review on Glassdoor of Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary:  "inclusivity of wide range of people and perspectives...at the expense of compromising historical Christian theological orthodoxy."  "The culture is toxic and as many as 15 staff left in a single year."  "LOTS of hypocrisy...history and knowledge is leaving the organization."

2) Against leadership by women.  JE answers:  how many men are eager to take advice from women?  If a woman is the church's pastor and if most deacons are women, and some feminism creeps in there, what are the men going to do about it?  They will stay home.      Do children need moms?  And do they need dads?  A child with a female mom and a male dad, all under one roof, gives the best results, though many progressives debate this.      Men and women are not interchangeable.  Alternatives to male leadership in church are tried by many congregations, but what is the outcome?

3) Against abortion in all cases.  JE answers:  Mark, how can you be on the side of abortion for some...in fact, don't you really want abortion for ALL women who want it?  And who cares what the baby wants?

4) Against reading sacred texts in light of modernity.  JE answers:  modernity has been going on since 1899, see "1899 apostolic letter by Leo XIII" in this time line.  In fact, modernity stands on the excesses of the Enlightenment, from centuries ago.  Free thinking leads people away from Jesus' forgiveness.  For starters, it distracts.  Then free thinkers branch into all kinds of excesses.  Reference:  Wiker, 10 Books that Screwed Up the World.

5) Against people thinking for themselves.  JE answers:  see free thinking above.

6) Against scientific discovery.  JE answers:  molecular biologists discover the giant molecular machines in the cell, 60,000 atoms that have to be just right.  Kinesin, ribosome, chloroplast, ATP synthase (cytochrome C synthase).  Irreducible complexity.  Look at YouTube for animations of these machines.  You think randomness came up with these?  In the face of the predominance of harmful mutations?  More and more scientists rebel against the hegemony of evolution-minded professors.  And more scientists decide that the Earth is probably the only place in the universe with life, considering that the evolution story requires billions of years of steady climate, which is unlikely.  Reference:  search this  time line for exovcross, a character string that homes in on evolution topics.

https://evolutionnews.org/i/molecular-machines/     Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology:  ‘molecular machines,’ molecular structures that carry out the complex physico-chemical processes on which life is based.  Behe.  250 new molecular machines in yeast alone!  “The complexity of life’s foundation has paralyzed science’s attempt to account for it; molecular machines raise an as-yet impenetrable barrier to Darwinism’s universal reach.”   'The light of evolution’: we know that Dobzhansky (1973) must be right, [that evolution has made all this, but designed complexity is what we are seeing more and more]. 

34 of 40. The MRX complex forms telomere length counting machinery that measures the integrity of telomeres, the structures that protect the ends of eukaryotic chromosomes. Properly measuring telomere length is vital to ensure proper cell lifetime and genome stability.

35. Apoptosome / Caspase  David Goodsell, “Caspases are the executioners of apoptosis,” and they work by destroying specific proteins in the right order so as to “disassemble the cell in an orderly manner.”  [JE:  'in the right order' may mean shedding small parts so that large debris doesn't clog up the works.  The lymphatic system has (Wikipedia) "interstitial fluid, collecting waste products, bacteria, and damaged cells, and then drains...into the lymphatic capillaries and lymphatic vessels," draining into the intestines, thinks JE.]

38 of 40. Helicase/Topoisomerase Machine  cutting one DNA strand and then holding on to the other while the cut strand unwinds.   (evoxcross signal in time line)

7)"God might have told me something different than you believe God told you."  JE answers:  what type of god are you paying attention to?  A reliable God has the same message for everyone.

8) Literal interpretation of Bible.  JE answers:  literal interpretation works.  When you allow each person to have his own exceptions, see what happens.  Is a literal interpreter the "only one"?  No, the "only one" is the source document.  The Holy Spirit's document stands up against heterodoxy.

9) The Earth is the center of the universe?  JE answers:  read Lucky Planet: Why Earth is Exceptional-and What That Means for Life in the Universe by David Waltham.  Cosmologically speaking, astronomers now say there is no center of the universe.  Mark W means, of course, that conservatives call Earth the center of importance.  As JE looks at the evidence, that is exactly what I see, Earth is the only place God has set up with life;  the human brain was God's central piece of creation, and the rest of the human body, and the rest of the planet, is a support system for the human brain.  https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/editorials/the-human-brain-is-the-most-complex-structure-in-the-universe-let-s-do-all-we-can-to-unravel-its-mysteries-9233125.html

Look at NASA web sites about the Solar System, the planets and the many moons.  There is a lot of talk about potential for life, https://www.science.org.au/curious/space-time/there-life-galilean-moons-jupiter.      Reference:  in this time line, search for Drake Equation.  The numbers I put into the Drake Equation come out with Earth being the only place with intelligent life.

It says a lot when Mark Wingfield is associate pastor at Dallas Wilshire Baptist, a congregation akin to First Baptist Austin.  It also says a lot that BGCT is trending conservative now after experimenting with progressive policies in the 1980s and 1990s.  Just as the Global Methodist Church is trending conservative as the United Methodist Church implodes.

More about Baptist General Convention of Texas--this long-time Texas SBC organization had taken a progressive turn in the 1980s.  It is trending conservative, recently.  Evidence:  Pastor Nathan, San Antonio CHBC, spoke at BGCT university Hardin-Simmons in Abilene.  He notes that HSU has been a secular place for years.  A student told him that "we don't get [affirmation of Bible and Jesus' forgiveness] here too much."  HSU had a seminary, until 2022, where some people said, "From the evidence we have, Jesus could have been a woman" ...  a controversial doctrinal statement focused heavily on sexuality and gender.   But since 2016 a new president of HSU, Eric Bruntmyer, is turning toward orthodoxy.  During Bruntmyer's 12 yrs at Dallas Baptist University, a place that is more othrodox, there was growth.

2023 Apr New Oxford Review  p. 36  Pieter Vree  The way that Roman Catholic churches shut up during Covid-19 may be a foretaste of a shrinking catholicism in the near future.  Pope Benedict, 1997, could see that the church may return to mustard-seed size, small groups living an intense struggle against evil but bringing good into the world, letting God in.

2023  Dick Morris writes Corrupt, The Inside Story of Biden's Dark Money.  Morris "unmasks the treasonous behavior of arguably the worst first family."  (Considering son Hunter's long-term addictions, the abandoned laptop evidence, 'Don't worry, unlike Pop I won't make you give me half your salary.')  Enriched from China, Ukraine, Moscow, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Costa Rica, Romania.  Mastermind, Joe Biden.  Bribes and payoffs.  The U.S. "threatened from within...Biden's making."  Joe Biden's dementia is evident in his second year as president.  Feb 2024:  Politico.com  "Robert Hur jolted the presidential campaign Thursday with a withering assessment, 'well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.'”

2023  Donald Trump recognizes Kash Patel book Government Gangsters, deep state.  Patel will become FBI director in 2025.

2023 Ap 8 https://washingtonstand.com/news/biden-regulation-could-deny-christians-conservatives-government-employment-critics

©2023 Family Research Council [most of this is quotes from sources]    Ben Johnson   

 “[k]nowing and willful engagement in acts or activities designed to overthrow the U.S. [g]overnment by force.”  "By force" is to be deleted, introducing ambiguity in what the law means.   “The idea that mere speech can be deemed ‘violence’ has gained some acceptance in much of America,” FRC’s comment states.    The language “would allow hiring managers to reject candidates solely on the grounds of being lawfully critical of government policy,” said a statement spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation.    Fantasies of depriving one’s political enemies...have increasingly consumed the Left. In 2020, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez endorsed...Trump Accountability Project to blacklist “Trump sycophants” from gainful employment.

2023  Pres. Biden did not follow longstanding practice, Circular A-4, about "regulatory impact analysis."  Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis notified Pres. Biden that some of his changes "depart from widely accepted practices, principles." 

2023 Ap 10  Listening to radio talk shows, a trend is that trans and other aspects of LGBTQ are the leading charge of progressives.  Two mass shootings have labeled the shooters "trans" as if that was significant;  in the Nashville private school shooting, the long writing of the shooter has not been made public in three weeks...not even by May 8, and it sounds like whoever is controlling the withholding of the manifesto is doing so for a reason.

2023 May 2  realclearscience  'The First Crewed Mission to Mars Should be All Female"  Women, being less mass than men, need less food, oxygen, living space.  26% less calories.  10% less payload of supplies to Mars.  Women are less confrontational. 

     BBC Science Focus  Mars base is beneath the soil surface, giving shielding from cosmic rays.  The soil itself is nasty, sharp-edged grains and "hormone-disrupting chemicals."  Periodic, planet-wide dust storms.  Anyone venturing out onto the surface in a space suit would have to be dusted off before going back into the base.  The enormous farming rooms have to be pressurized with oxygen and nitrogen and can't have any leaks;  leaked oxygen and nitrogen would be costly to replace if it has to be extracted from the mostly-carbon dioxide, near-vacuum Mars atmosphere  .  It is foolish to consider Mars to be the escape plan from Earth in case an asteroid hits Earth.  

     NASA web site     Five problems living in space or Mars-- radiation including cognitive decrement, lower/no gravity giving neuro-ocular syndrome, isolation from Earthlings (on Mars, inability to have a two-way conversation with Earth), a closed environment with lowered nutrition, distance to Earth preventing rescue.  30 human health risks.  The "space exposome."   https://humanresearchroadmap.nasa.gov/evidence/other/degen.pdf

     For just a single Mars mission with return to Earth, circulatory disease increases death rate by 40%.  Impaired motor function from nerve damage.  Dementia increase, known to exist from cancer therapy involving gamma ray and proton therapy.  Adverse cognitive or behavioral conditions, leading to mental disorder and psychosis.  On Skylab, hostility and irritation.  On Mir, depression.     

2023 May 28  State Farm Insurance stops further home insurance sales in California.  Too many wildfires.  Last year, American Insurance Group stopped sales for home policies with value over $1M.

2023 May 8  The end of "Title 42" on May 12 is dreaded by many regular Americans.  Press tells us there are tens or hundreds of thousands of "migrants," largely Venezuelans and Guatemalans, ready to flood across the border, waving mass-printed, partially filled-out asylum applications.  This has been going on for months, the immigration judges are months to years behind on processing the cases, and the migrants are merely given dates to come back for hearings, and no one expects these poor people will come back for their hearings.  They are flown or bussed to cities all over the U.S.   Chicago and New York City mayors complain that their facilities are overloaded.  Migrants are camping in public places in El Paso.  The Mexico cartels have made an industry of extorting thousands of dollars per individual, issuing wrist bands to organize the process, queuing them across from and illegal entry point, distracting Border Patrol by an incident a mile from an entry point, then putting dozens to hundreds across the border, and infiltrating Fentanyl along with the people.  (CBP, as it is, is usually overloaded with screening and documents, and are taken off their proper duty at the border.)   Stolen or illegal guns go the opposite direction.  Ordinary Americans are recruited to drive vehicles with concealed migrants from the entry points to safe houses in the border states.  "Unaccompanied children" are directed into channels for trafficking.  1500 U.S. military are being sent to the border, but not with arms to do any enforcement, they are intended to be paper shufflers to offload some work from CBP.

      In San Antonio, Catholic Charities handles hundreds of migrants per day.  They are on local TV news.  They are getting millions of dollars of grant money, but they say they don't know what to do when the floodgates open.  JE's wife is bothered that things will be out of control, and we better stock up on food and supplies.  Some logical thinking says that she is correct.  Within the past ten years, there have been invasions of hundreds over border crossings, people running across the bridge and there aren't enough CBP people to stop them, and CBP isn't going to gun them down;  San Diego comes to mind.  Our close-to-the-border experience at El Paso, on our Organ Mountains trip, showed why there are pedestrian crossings that are actually chain-link tunnels, it is to keep people from jumping into the auto lanes and just running past.  Any border city is liable to collect thousands of migrants, all Spanish speakers, and there is nothing to keep them in shelters, because there aren't fences around the shelters.  There is nothing to keep migrants from making an organized march to a big-box store like HEB or Walmart, pick up as much merchandise as can be carried, and just walk out with it.  Or load up shopping carts and push them off site.  Since guns are tightly controlled in Mexico, at least they aren't going to be armed.  But there are knives on the hooks in the U.S. stores!  And Walmart and Academy have the guns and rounds.  It hasn't happened yet, but what if a march turns violent, and migrants break into homes and apartments to squat?  There aren't enough police to handle that if there are hundreds of cases.  What if migrants set dumpsters or buildings on fire to divert emergency services?  If this is done on a school day, the streets will be filled with the cars of parents going to rescue their children.  In progressive cities, there are bans on profiling, and police can't just round up anyone who looks like a non-citizen.  (The attitude of progressives all across the U.S. at this time is that police are the enemy.)       What happens if the migrant population in a city balloons the population to 130% of normal, and the food-supply chain can't cope with it?  If normal commerce in a city is interrupted, service workers will be off work and won't be earning income and spending for their needs.  It could be like the Great Depression on a city-by-city basis.  

     Not just the cities are threatened.  Local TV news talks to ranchers.  There are plenty of ranches in border counties that have fences cut, livestock loose, and buildings broken into.  It is likely that many rural people will pack up and leave for their personal safety.

2023 May 5     Outrage in Uvalde about the fourth graders and teachers murdered in 2022 continues on local, San Antonio TV.  Plenty of law enforcement were steps away, restrained by lack of leadership, while the shooter continued to kill.   Recent mass shooting at Allen, TX outlet mall targeted people who looked different.

https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/most-mass-shooters-are-terrorists-not-mentally-ill     May 31, 2022 Seth D. Norrholm, PhD Alan D. Blotcky, PhD

Mass shootings at schools, grocery stores, places of worship, and public events requires a mind that is lucid and capable of producing rational thought...2017 Las Vegas shooter had notes on distance, trajectory, and wind changes...an adherence to ideas and rhetoric that are bandied about as truth on media outlets [social media]...government officials echo these “truths” and reinforce their so-called legitimacy. The result is a radicalized—not mentally ill—individual absorbing all of this extremist ideology who then takes advantage of the easy access to guns in America...ideology, racism, and perceived injustice trump mental illness in many of these cases.  Racism is not mental illness. 

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/shadow-boxing/202303/mass-shootings-and-mental-illness-which-research-is-right      U.S. Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) five-year survey of targeted violence (2016-2020).

• Most had exhibited behavior that concerned family members, friends, neighbors, classmates, and co-workers.  [Uvalde shooter displayed poor work performance and hate at his fast-food workplace, he saved up his earnings to buy weapons.]

• Many had a history of aggressive behaviors.

• Grievances motivated 50%.

• Most used firearms, often illegal. [Gun control would work only if thorough and over a period of 20 years.]

• One in four subscribed to a conspiracy or hate ideology.

• Many experienced stressful trigger events, including those related to family/romantic relationships, employment concerns, and legal issues.

• More than half experienced mental health symptoms prior to or at the time of their attacks. One in four committed suicide.

JE comment:  Hate is a root of most mass shootings.  Hate is made worse by the culture legitimizing freedom to think and do anything you want, "as long as it doesn't hurt others," the exercise of free thinking without restraint on action, the elevation of autonomy with no care for the community good.  Such thinking is a modern phenomenon, it used to not be this way.        

• "It is OK to look at porn, that is my freedom and it won't stimulate me to act." 

• "I can have a girlfriend on the side, and my cranky wife shouldn't restrict my freedom." 

•  "I have to pay taxes and live poor while those people get welfare, rent subsidy, and the food bank.  The system is rigged against me.  My hero is that young man who shot up those deadbeats."  

• The same idea, without violence toward others, just abuse to your own body:  Wikipedia, the fat acceptance movement, also known as fat pride, "I can look any way I want, that is none of your business.  You can just look the other way." 

•  "Look at that trash around the apartments, someone should pick it up.  I didn't put it there, and I shouldn't have to look at it."    

 Free thinking is a departure from Christian love for all people.  A Christian should discipline himself to do good for himself and other people, to the point of praying 1) that God will help them and 2) God will give him patience when other people abuse him.    2 Timothy 3:12 Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.  Matthew 5:10 Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake.  Matthew 5:44 Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.  1 Peter 4:12-14 Do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you...rejoice insofar as you share Christ's sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed. If you are insulted for the name of Christ...

https://answersingenesis.org/morality/are-people-free-to-do-what-they-want/    David Wright Dec 11, 2006     No absolute standard of personal conduct (except what hurts others)...he is making his own absolute rule about what people should be allowed to do: anything that neither hurts others nor asserts that an absolute standard of conduct exists!

2023 May 17     https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/elon-musk-has-controversial-idea-to-bring-down-billionaire-george-soros/ar-AA1bkdlW?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=c8094735210d458fdce610bca3a2dbc4&ei=4

by Luc Olinga © Provided by TheStreet  (critial review by JE)

Elon Musk...leveled serious accusations against his peer billionaire, George Soros...Soros, 92, is...a Holocaust survivor.  "You assume [Soros' intentions] are good intentions," Musk responded. "They are not. He wants to erode the very fabric of civilization."  [JE:  Soros is of like mind to progressives in that they all think humans can be steered on a course toward perfection.  Governments should do the steering, and woke elites should be the shepherds in those governments.  Jeremiah 17:9  The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked:  who can know it?  They think there is no place for God.  KROFT: Do you believe in God? SOROS: No. Interview on CBS “60 Minutes” (Dec. 20, 1998) Compiled by Bill Dunn © Freedom From Religion Foundation] 

Musk portrays Soros as a villain who controls many district attorneys like puppets.  "Soros astutely identified a massive arbitrage opportunity in DA elections, where a relatively small amount of money has outsized influence," Musk said on May 17. "Soros’s instructions to his pet prosecutors...minimize prosecuting even violent criminals."  [San Antonio DA Joe Gonzales took more than $1.4 million from the exclusively Soros-funded Texas Justice and Public Safety PAC in 2018.     https://nypost.com/2022/06/08/how-george-soros-is-remaking-americas-justice-system/]

The financier has made numerous contributions in support of reform-minded prosecutors across the country since 2015. In a WSJ op-ed, the billionaire said that he had "no intention of stopping" his support of progressive candidates.  His son Jonathan...$20,000 to NYC Alvin Bragg's 2021 campaign.  Soros personally and Democracy PAC...The Color Of Change PAC spent $500,000 on Bragg's 2021 election campaign.  

In his first year, Bragg downgraded 52% of felonies to misdemeanors — 39% downgraded in 2019 — and 51% conviction rate for felonies he did charge. If you defend yourself...his office will prosecute you as the criminal while treating your attacker as the victim — just as he did with bodega clerk Jose Alba. https://nypost.com/2023/04/02/what-about-new-yorks-victims-alvin-bragg/

2023 mid May  On the Clay Travis (Tennessee, lawyer) and Buck Sexton (Manhattan, CIA) Show, Buck says there is so much marijuana smoke on the sidewalks of Manhattan.  Some research by JE shows what is going on, and shows the continuing health threat of marijuana, the move by progressive law enforcement to not prosecute, the appeal to politicians of taxation of legal marijuana.  These are high prices to pay for casual, recreational marijuana use.

New York State legalized small-quantity, recreational marijuana about two years ago (timeout.com), and retail sale in brick-and-mortar dispensaries was allowed in about Jan 2023.  But there are two licensed dispensaries in Manhattan and 400 illegal shops. CBS News New York.  "Permits issued as part of a racial equity plan to help those hurt by the state's tough drug laws." (JE:  sounds woke)    (Federal govt. is opposed to widespread marijuana but enforcement is not widespread.)  In 2022, there were high-sounding words from the New York authority, Office of Cannabis Management, about tracking marijuana from "seed to sale," tracking source of seeds and variety, growing locations, pesticide use, harvesting, packing locations, and distribution channels.  "Properly tested, authentic brand, QR code giving Certificate of Analysis." (Timeout.com)   "We will have the most diverse, inclusive, equitable, high-value industry in the world."  Some of this may be in effect for the few legal outlets in New York state, but impromptu sidewalk sales are mostly from unregulated, illegal sources, are not contributing to state tax revenue, and have been going on for two years.  (amny.com)  A dozen vendors every day at Washington Square Park.  Law enforcement and parks authority:  "We don't want to recriminalize marijuana."    Marijuana smoking is all over Manhattan parks, though all smoking is illegal in parks.  Cash sales draw robbers.   As Buck noted, pedestrians in NYC walk through stinky smoke and carry the odor into workplaces.  nypost.com:  "If I walk in reeking of pot no one is going to say anything."  The impromptu sellers set up a folding table on a bridge or at a park and make $500 per day.  They are rarely cited by police.  Any fine is merely a cost of doing business.  

Internet search phrases:  THC psychosis, does marijuana really improve performance, cannabis creative.

THC content of marijuana was 1.5% in the 1990s but is commonly 10-20% now.  THC extracts, waxy substances, can reach 90%.  (Amsterdam has had high-potency marijuana for 25 years.)  Marijuana is not a health risk as tobacco is, and marijuana users (famously, Willie Nelson) claim they can concentrate better (such as UPS package sorting).

If one looks for health warnings of marijuana and THC, they are all over.  Below-age-21 harm is commonly reported.  Minnpost.com Marijuana-related med emergencies, 800,000 yearly in ER (2021) and millions with psychological disorders.  "Cannabis use disorder can be devastating." (APA)   "Wasn't supposed to be addictive," but ends up with lost families and jobs.  Cannabis dependence with psychotic disorder with delusions, cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome.  Colorado case, sustained use by 20s son produced dozens of police calls, jail stays, inpatient treatment, insurance claims $600,000.  

Harvard Business Review:  joviality from marijuana just makes it seem like more creativity, actual creativity is not a result of marijuana use.  College students:  trouble concentrating, memory problem, feeling antisocial or paranoid, lower GPA, skip class.  (Antisocial definition:  shunning social contacts, hostile, disruptive, violate mores, antagonistic.  Being antisocial is not just shying away, it is harm.)

2023 May 23  U.S. Surgeon General issues major advisory on social media use and teen's [especially girls'] mental health.  American Psychological Assn issues advisory, "first guidance of its kind."  The like button is AI encouraging excessive [addictive] scrolling.  Bigger problem in early adolescence.  Preference for social media over in-person is a warning sign.  ABC News:  Why are teen girls in crisis?  It's not just social media.  [ABC News says "girl," not "identified as female at birth!"]  Anxiety over academics, post-pandemic malaise, social media angst, school shootings, climate change, political unrest, trans, trying to be perfect, harassment, thinness pressure, bullying.  Girls agree that girls are meaner and cattier.  60% of U.S. girls report persistent sadness and hopelessness.  Boys are affected half as much.  Huffington Post:  girls as young as 6 doubt their intelligence.  It's not cool to be smart.  JE:  combine college debt with the pressure to get a four-year degree and a career, read web pages about return-on-investment of four-year degree, and consider how many 4-year degrees don't really get you a job in the field because you really need a masters degree, and it does sound depressing.  An alternative:  community college or certification program.  Another alternative:  women who marry, have a family, and don't have a full-time job have time to volunteer and participate in their childrens' education.

2023 May 24  Washington Post  California Gov. Newsom accuses Target of "selling out the LGBTQ+ community to [conservative] extremists."  "A systematic attack on the gay community."  JE:  On the contrary, the community has radicals, and political radicals, that systematically attack traditional life, commonly using Alinsky's Rules for Radicals.  It is common for a progressive to charge conservatives with an offense, when that very offense is what the progressive is guilty of.

2023 May 22  NAACP warns Blacks against travel in Florida.  With DeSantis as governor, "all-out attack on Black Americans...voting rights, immigrants, women's reproductive rights [abortion], free speech."

2023  Time   U.S. shortage of medical doctors.  CDC:  6 in 10 adults have chronic disease, diabetes, cancer, heart disease, lung disease, Alzheimer's.  Better insurance means more people seeking appointments.

2023 June 4   Pregnant Transgender Man Gets Backlash Over Glamour UK Pride Issue: “I’m A Pregnant Man, And I’m Trans” Story by Maurice Cassidy • June 4 2023 10:04 AM

2023 June 4  Elon Musk Sends a Powerful Message to Anxious Farmers Worldwide Story by Luc Olinga • June 4 2023 10:10 AM  © Provided by TheStreet

Ecology versus agriculture. Ireland...gap between the capital, Dublin, and rural areas.  Agricultural sector is largely based on cattle breeding, which is particularly polluting.

In 2021, a major international agreement...reduce global methane emissions by at least 30% from the 2020 levels by 2030, which could eliminate over 0.2˚C of warming by 2050. In Ireland, reducing methane emissions means reducing the number of livestock, especially sheep and cattle...eliminate 200,000 dairy cows. The cows would have to be "culled" at a cost of 600,000 euros to taxpayers over the next three years.  "The push to end life, of both animals and humans, in the name of “climate activism” is fundamentally evil," a Twitter user posted on June 3.  "This really needs to stop," Musk commented. "Killing some cows doesn’t matter for climate change."

Activists want them to abandon the use of fertilizers.  "I’m super pro climate," Musk said on March 6.  "But we definitely don’t need to put farmers out of work to solve climate change."

New Oxford Review June 2023 Letters to Editor  A long rant from Leslie Aguillard, Denver, with replies from Jason Morgan, who Aguillard disagreed with.  JE paraphrase.  This sheds some light on rank and file Catholic thinking.

I was raised Catholic.  I liked incense and choir.  But I didn't like traditions.  [Morgan:  tradition is wisdom bought at the price of generations of human stubbornness running so many times into the same brick walls of error.  More than tradition, Catholicism is about Jesus resurrected and in our bodies and souls, a world made new.]  Paul was an opportunist who championed his own view of Jesus.  [Morgan:  Was Paul opportunistic?  He missed a lot of opportunities, being imprisoned, stoned, and shipwrecked for the cause that Jesus set him.*]  Let the Jewish scholars teach the Old Testament, the Christian theologians don't know the OT.  The OT teaches misogyny, racism, white supremacy.  [Morgan:  Jesus wasn't white, he loved his mother, he saved a woman from stoning, and he died for everybody.]  We are all saved.  [Morgan:  such logic does not inspire confidence in the brain thinking its way out of logical mire.]  No one I know is a "true believer" in whatever religion they were born into.  Science provides [meaning in life] for me, though I was ordained an Independent Catholic priest 20 years ago.  [Morgan:  Aguillard professes a destiny of gravity, particles, and waves, a maze of dead ends.  What grocery aisle does Aguillard look to for unconditional love?  Science is existential anxiety.  Stephen Hawking found science so lacking in hope that he fiddled around at the edges looking for something or someone to give hope.]  Jesus was a good, kind, brave man.  [Morgan:  Jesus said, "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life."]  It is fine that people find comfort in their beliefs as long as they do not force others.  We need to leave each other alone.  [Morgan:  did you leave me alone?  No, you wrote a letter about me to the editor of a magazine, complaining about me.]

Morgan concludes:  People "wandering around, lost...heartfelt freight of silent desperation.  I was such a one.  I know a cry for help."  Christ sacrificed his body through torture, but a new Heavenly body will only cost me a present death to sin and the flesh.  There is a tension between what we'd like to believe happened and what really happened.  Don't run off the rails and get your thinking messed up.  *Matthew 28 make disciples of all nations.  Acts 1 be my witnesses to the ends of the Earth.

2023 June 18  Submersible Titan, diving in the deep Atlantic to the wreck of the Titanic, with paying passengers, implodes and kills the five occupants.  This is the thirteenth deep dive of Titan.  The main feature of Titan is titanium hemispheres at the ends of carbon-fiber cylinder, the carbon-fiber cylinder wall thickness being 4.5 inches thick.  The designer of Titan cared little about "certification."  The speed of the implosion, the speed at which the breaking shell travelled, propelled by the enormous water pressure, was around 1000 mph, and the implosion was complete in about 1.5ms.  The occupants had no awareness of the ongoing of the implosion, as visual and auditory nerves and the brain take at least 30ms to be aware.  But there may have been cracking sounds earlier, and these were heard on previous dives.  It is well known that a volume of air, when compressed, heats up a lot, and simulation shows that the tiny, shrunken air bubble, including the compressed air from five pairs of lungs, at the end of implosion, was well above ignition temperature of combustibles, but for less than 0.001 second.  It is believed that the first penetration of ocean water into the hull forced a water jet upon the occupants, then more and more water jets, so forceful that they chopped up tissue and maybe even jetted through the carbon fiber on the other side of the hull.  The high temperature of the greatly compressed gas caused a steam explosion, immediately following the implosion, and the steam explosion blew outward (not inward!) the acrylic window in the front hemisphere.  Jagged pieces of carbon fiber acted like knives--how about a knife travelling at hundreds of miles per hour?  Human remains were recovered, but by 2025 the nature of the remains is not public.  They are probably finger-sized, maybe bone.  There may be a water-cavitation effect that greatly increased the destruction;  cavitation and collapsing water-vapor bubbles are so forceful that pure water erodes steel;  even low-pressure, high-volume turbines in hydro power plants (in dams) need new steel edges to be welded every year or two (power plant at the dam of Lake Buchanan, Texas Hill Country).  

     Titan's heavy titanium end hemispheres closed onto titanium end rings that were glued to the carbon fiber cylinder.  (Just depending on glue was unsettling to some experts.)  The front hemisphere, with the thick acrylic window, was easily detachable from its end ring to give an entry for people.  

     Various submersible experts were very critical of the design of Titan.  TV-famous adventurer Josh Gates visited Titan's insides before a dive and declined to participate.       Carbon fiber has strength in tension, a good feature for a "space elevator" or a high-altitude airplane.  Compression is not so good.  If a cylinder of "hoop-wound" carbon fiber strands, wet-wound with resin, is not quite circular, like being very slightly hexagonal, there is force on the "flats" that will cave in the cylinder.  An analog is a skyscraper, it needs to be vertical (aligned with gravity) to the tune of maybe 0.3" in 800 feet, 0.003%.  With Titan, the hoop-wound fibers were interspersed with hand-placed "pre-preg sheets" that have fibers running axially, to give strength axially.  This would be a source of "not circular."        Both titanium and carbon fiber should be certified for maximum depth, says an Internet source, and the maximum depth should be "less deep" with each additional deep dive.     Another Internet source says Titan was subjected to freezing temperature in air (a publicity appearance) with water falling, and water may have penetrated into voids, expanded during freezing, and broken fiber strands.  Another Internet source says "cyclic loading" of carbon-fiber structures degrades the fibers and the resin binding.

2023  Ignatius Press catalog for The New Relativism  by Karlo Broussard     Pope Benedict had warned that "you have your truth and I have mine" is insidious.  Now we are being told that relativism is not a problem anymore.  In today's woke world, people are newly moralists, 

prohibiting anyone from being 

• racist

• sexist

• judgmental

• bigoted

• anti-science 

Scratch these modern commandments;  lurking underneath is relativism.

2023 July-Aug New Oxford Review p. 28  Thomas Storck 'Ecumenism:  A Reassessment'

In 1910, an early ecumenical meeting of Protestants resulted in the World Council of Churches [which quickly went the liberal route].  The liberalism was from waning doctrine and the waning influence of Christianity in the public and private spheres.  [The roaring twenties were coming;  immorality rampant.]  Roman Catholics were attracted into ecumenism with Protestants, though Catholic leaders saw problems.  

Following Vatican II in the 1960s, "Common Declaration" in 1966 with British Anglicans flew in the face of the Catholic teaching, Anglicans are members of a "man-made structure that lacks a tradition of valid sacramental orders."  A traditional view of Catholicism:  the Church which Christ founded and which is governed by the successors of Peter.  (Mysterium Ecclesiae 1973)  Storck:  Ecumenism raises false hope among Protestants and causes general muddling of clear thinking.  There is a disconnect between Catholic doctrine and the application in life.  

From 1973 to 2023, problems for Catholics are "banal liturgy, bad catechesis, and toleration of error in Catholic colleges."

2023 July 19 New Yorker  copyrighted  The Family Heritage That Led to Hunter Biden     But the PBS web site doesn't block the transcript.

How the previously untold history of the Bidens illuminates the story of the President’s second son.

With Tyler Foggatt

     An interesting story, a little fair use from copyrighted sites and other sources.  It doesn't reflect negatively on Pres. Joe Biden, and in fact compliments him for his doing without alcohol.  But explains why Hunter is where he is.  If Pres. Joe Biden had used alcohol, he wouldn't have risen so high, just as Ted Kennedy the alcoholic was likely limited by his addiction.     Hunter Biden [likely, from all evidence including his laptop] leveraged his father’s high politics [with his father's collusion, from circumstantial evidence] for his own gain.  Hunter's raging alcoholism, drugs. 

     In July, 2019, The New Yorker:  “The Untold History of the Biden Family.”  Its author, Adam Entous:  rags-to-riches-to-rags story behind the President’s modest upbringing in Scranton.  [At odds with the story that the Bidens tell.]  "Crucial context for the Hunter Biden saga."

     https://www.pbs.org/wnet/amanpour-and-company/video/adam-entous-the-untold-history-of-the-biden-family/  Interview with investigator Adam Entous.   Around WWI, Biden family married into a wealthy family that made excess profits (corruption) on government contracts in WWI.  Bidens spent money lavishly in presence of Sheenes, beyond their ability.  But Sheene wealth ended after WWII.  IRS made them repay some of the excess profits, and the Sheenes had to sell several mansions.  Both the Sheenes and Bidens have family alcoholism, and Joe Biden the President does not drink alcohol, he has "seen all these relatives undone by alcoholism."  This is not known by many Americans.  Hunter but not Beau succumbed to alcohol, the family curse.  Beau's widow, Hallie, who was taken advantage of by Hunter;  Hallie was in rehab four times.  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9717919/FIVE-members-Joe-Bidens-family-rehab-drug-alcohol-abuse.html     Sheenes continued to be plagued by alcohol and are impoverished, and pretty much resent the Bidens for ending up prosperous. 

2023 July-Aug New Oxford Review p. 11  John Fay letter to editor, about invalidity of evolution.  It is improbable for complex life (self-reproducing, food-consuming, waste-eliminating, self-propelling, thinking, sensing, social, internal temperature-regulating, chemical processing) to happen by random steps.  To begin with, the proteins are very complex, and there is not enough time in mere billions of years that random changes can produce the 20,000 protein-coding genes in humans.  (100 amino acids in a specific sequence, coding for just a part of a protein, have to get it right out of 1.7e132 possible sequences, whereas there are only 1e80 atoms in the known universe.)  "The theist looks at this improbability and sees an intelligent designer;  the atheist speculates about a cyclic universe or an infinite number of universes [multiverse].  Neither is science."  Evolutionists and materialists often use evolution to declare that God is unnecessary, but this is neither science nor logic.  evoxcross

July 12 2023    received in e-mail, a petition

To Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin:  With the increasing threats to American interests and allies across the globe, I am shocked that the U.S. military seems to be more focused on promoting Pride flags, preferred pronouns, and abortions at taxpayer expense than preparing our armed forces to defend our nation.

This political agenda is contrary to the core principles of duty, honor, and country that made our military the greatest fighting force in the world. It also creates a hostile environment for many men and women of faith, discouraging them from entering or remaining in the armed services. The historic declines in recruitment will only continue to plummet until leadership throughout the Pentagon and the military ranks reject partisan and divisive ideologies.

I urge you to address this ongoing problem and return the focus of the U.S. military to training our brave men and women to fight and win our wars.

July 12, 2023   Dear John and Margaret, Last week our nation celebrated its 247th birthday. Every July, Independence Day is a time to remember America's heroes -- including our men and women in uniform -- and reflect on our cherished freedoms because of their sacrifice.

The U.S. Armed Forces has had the reputation of being the greatest fighting force on earth. But recently, our military has been trending weaker and more woke -- with the Biden administration promoting drag queens, Pride flags, and abortion within its ranks.

Radical ideology is replacing American patriotism, destroying morale, and making a mockery of our military on the world stage.

Thankfully, some elected leaders are pushing back against this dangerous nonsense. And Family Research Council is standing with them.

For weeks, Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) has led the charge to reverse the Pentagon's unprecedented and unconstitutional expansion of abortion in the military by refusing to advance promotions of military generals and flag officers until the Biden administration relents.

In February, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin bypassed congressional authority and implemented a new policy that allows service members and their dependents to receive up to three weeks of paid leave and paid travel and transportation costs to go out of state to receive an abortion.

Under this policy, an estimated 4,000 unborn lives a year are at stake. "The Biden administration wants to mobilize our military against the weakest and the most defenseless: the unborn," Tuberville said in a speech on the Senate floor. "I believe that is wrong. It is immoral."

Family Research Council is working with allies on Capitol Hill and from other conservative organizations to expose the woke ideology that is weakening our military ranks -- but we need your help.  You see, the Pentagon is not only using your tax dollars to cover abortions, but they are also expanding "gender transition" procedures for service members' families -- including minors -- in the military hospital system.

2023 July 22   https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/southern-california-school-board-oks-curriculum-after-gov-gavin-newsom-threatened-a-1-5m-fine/ar-AA1edDIh?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=c129b9b2f2264f3ab7a53e2097211ac2&ei=13

Rejecting the curriculum meant the district would have to use a textbook published in 2006. Those textbooks do not comply with a 2011 state law that requires schools to teach students about the historical contributions of gay, bisexual and transgender Americans. Newsom, a Democrat who has often sparred with Republicans in other states over banning books, threatened to fine the district $1.5 million if it didn't approve the curriculum.

2023 July 23   Vice Pres Kamala Harris tells a large audience a lie?  https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/kamala-harris-is-torn-apart-by-cnn-for-on-air-lie/ar-AA1ehpzI?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=b1056676230b41a581ce3415a3534978&ei=10      "They want to replace history with lies," Harris said. "These extremist, so-called leaders should model what we know to be the correct and right approach if we really are invested in the well being of our children. Instead, they dare to push propaganda to our children."     Kamala Harris was called out by CNN political commentator Scott Jennings about Florida's middle school curriculum, claiming that children will learn about how enslaved people "benefited from slavery." "She can read something on Twitter one day and be on the airplane the next to make something literally out of nothing. This is a completely made-up deal."

2023  A new book from Ignatius Press, The New Relativism    Unmasking the Philosophy of Today's Woke Moralists  by Karlo Broussard   advertisement:  " 'You have your truth and I have mine' was popular ten years ago.  In today's woke world, most people are now moralists, not relativists.  They impose a litany of commandments to make sure no one is racist, sexist, judgmental, bigoted, anti-science.  It is a dictatorship.  Scratch these modern commandments and you'll find the same relativism.

2023  https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/stupid-john-kerry-should-be-fired-calls-for-climate-czar-to-face-the-axe-after-dodging-questions-about-staff-and-private-jet-use/ar-AA1dW8L5?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=68110feead02425e94aa8917257b5464&ei=19

“We don't own a private jet. I don't own a private jet. I personally have never owned a private jet,” Kerry added.    Kerry’s point was carefully worded, however.  According to flight tracking data obtained by Fox News in July 2022, a Gulfstream GIV-SP jet owned by Kerry's family made a total of 48 trips that lasted more than 60 hours and emitted an estimated 715,886 pounds, or 325 metric tons, of carbon over the course of the Biden administration's first 18 months.

2023 Aug 1  Green Breakdown by Steve Goreham    Disposing of old wind turbines (fiberglass) is a big problem, in 2019 720,000 tons of blades to get rid of in the next 20 yrs.  "Net Zero agenda...is costly, dangerous, and destined for failure.  Related books:  Climatism Science Common Sense,  The Mad, Mad World of Climatism,  Outside the Green Box.

2023 Aug 5      one year before Kamala Harris takes over as Dem candidate for president.

2023 Sept 1  https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/we-need-to-slow-down-top-transgender-psychologist-says-peer-pressure-may-be-influencing-kids-to-change-gender-challenges-medical-system/ss-AA1g2g8e?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=28d1871ff23f48bbbb2b32e670d15756&ei=10#image=2       Erica Anderson    She reportedly believes that trans healthcare should not be offered to those under 26 under the popular "informed consent" model...promotes using a year of "gatekeeping" for people who wish to transition...calling transitions a result of peer pressure, something that has been widely criticized...told The Washington Post, "A fair number of kids are getting into it because it’s trendy...I think in our haste to be supportive, we’re missing that element."

"Giving hormones on demand will result in many more cases of poor outcomes and many more disappointed kids and parents." [JE:  not just disappointed, but when there is surgery it is usually 'damaged for life']

"I've never seen a major mental illness cured by a gender transition."

Authorities in Europe have decided "to pivot and take a more cautious approach."

"Too often kids are rushed towards medicalization and that this is not good."  Potential malpractice.

In Sweden, a child was put on puberty blockers for four years and at 15-years-old, developed osteopenia, a condition where an individual lacks bone density that can lead to osteoporosis if left untreated...cannot stand for longer than 15 minutes.

American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), which she said has been "stonewalling the idea that they need to do an evidence review."

2023 Sept 2  https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/lgbtq-community-is-there-a-backlash-in-europe/ar-AA1g7ZrC?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=e1f00df002fe4c27b82bda1d1013c55d&ei=16      References to grooming and recruitment of children into the LGBTQ community...sex education that includes queer sexual identities in schools [JE:  so-called comprehensive sex ed, SIECUS, where the web site promotes "sex ed for social change," changing your society into something it hasn't been] is increasingly a contentious topic in both Europe and the US.

2023 Oct 10  PBS Newshour has a long news item about the swing of Oregon voters, from 68% favoring Measure 110 (decriminalizes hard drugs in personal-use amounts) before the vote, to the current 54% favoring recriminalization.  The TV news item reviews homelessness and tents along Portland sidewalks but does not mention the violent riots that persisted for a year in Portland.  It depicts police who know what would help, but they are hemmed in by liberal laws.

     2022 Sept 29  https://www.newsweek.com/two-years-later-oregons-drug-decriminalization-not-going-well-opinion-1747113   Kevin Sabet    Measure 110 was intended to get help for substance use disorder. But less than 1 percent of Oregon residents who accessed drug-related services since 110 was passed have entered treatment.  Treatment is not mandatory.  Drug users who are arrested can pay a $100 fine and are free to use drugs until they die.  Oregon opioid deaths increased 58 percent between 2020 and 2021, while national deaths were up only 17 percent.  Some...denounce encouraging people to enter treatment––it violates their autonomy.  [JE comment:  autonomy is a social disease in the West, search my Physics Time Line web site for autonomy.]  Oregon has a high rate of teen marijuana use and second-highest U.S. rate of mental illness.  Recovery and abstinence are goals in other states, with degrees of compulsion. 

2023 Sept 22  https://washingtonstand.com/news/uk-report-over-one-third-of-children-on-puberty-blockers-experienced-worsened-mental-health-1

UK Report: Over One Third of Children on Puberty Blockers Experienced Worsened Mental Health  S.A. McCarthy

New research from UK is showing that over a third of children placed on puberty blockers and hormone drugs suffered severe mental health deterioration afterwards.

Contrasting data was a 2011 study conducted at the Tavistock Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) clinic for children: puberty blockers cause no adverse mental health effects. 

However, new analysis conducted by Susan McPherson and David Freedman: the majority of children put on puberty blockers and hormone drugs experienced erratic and fluctuating mental health.

The original study, conducted on 44 children between the ages of 12 and 15, was reportedly based on group averages, while the new analysis relied on individual results.  Last year, Britain’s NHS closed down the Tavistock GIDS clinic after a government report found that the staff rushed and even pressured minors into taking puberty blockers and hormone drugs with almost no psychological or medical oversight. 96% placed on puberty blockers by Tavistock staffers.

Puberty blockers and other hormone drugs, which the Tavistock clinic had been prescribing to children as young as 10 years old...whistleblowers...countless former patients who now, as adults, regret being put on puberty blockers and hormone drugs.  250 “patients” in 2011, 5,000 in 2021. Gender dysphoria from mental disorder to a human rights issue...lack of ongoing and long-term follow-up reports that address the impact of cross-sex hormones and surgeries.”

Growing swath of European medical experts who have backed off gender transition procedures for children. France, Sweden, Finland, and Norway have also put restrictions on the use of puberty blockers and hormone drugs on children. The U.S. still hasn’t.

In contrast to Europe, here is a sample of trans affirmation steaming ahead in the U.S.:  https://washingtonstand.com/news/ohio-governor-walks-back-health-safety-protections-on-transgender-industry    Feb 9 2024  Republican Gov. Ohio...has weakened proposed...increasing the speed at which the transgender industry can begin cross-sex hormones or surgeries...based on “assurances” from the transgender industry that it already self-polices...still being sued by the ACLU... Rep. Gary Click (R-88) said...ACLU has “a storied history of inventing fictitious rights"...Children, he said, have a right to grow up with their natural sex hormones and body parts intact. “Parents have a right to be free from counselors who groom their children"...“A 2021 comprehensive data review of all 3,754 trans-identified adolescents in US military families over 8.5 years showed that cross-sex hormone treatment leads to increased use of mental health services."  

2021 Nov 3   Glenn Youngkin won the Virginia governor’s race early Wednesday, tapping into culture war fights over schools (critical race theory, protesting parents harassed by FBI, Loudoun Cty school board) and abortion.  Opponent is friend of Bill and Hillary Clinton, McAuliffe, who said, "I don't think parents should be telling schools what they should teach."  Someone:  "too many whites leading classrooms." 

     2024 May New Oxford Review May 2024 p. 5 Letter to editor by Dan Arthur Pryor   "Gender dysphoria in minor children is proceeding at lightning speed in the U.S." [but has stalled in Europe, where, somehow, common sense has put the brakes on.] The push of cancel culture and media insistence. Jason Morgan replies: Satanic abuse of children. "Doctors who claim to offer 'gender-affirming care' to the psychologically and spiritually wounded do not love their patients, they hate them."

2023 early November   Fox News  Gov. Newsom trashed for admitting San Francisco was cleaned up for China summit:  'Slap in the face.'

National Rep. Congr. Comm.:  "Why will they clean up for China but not Californians?"  Cleaned up are homeless camps, open-air drug markets, property crime.  San Francisco homeless:  7700, mental illness and addiction.

Court orders have made it difficult to permanently remove camps.  Tenderloin "unimaginable human suffering" but is next to Twitter (X) headquarters.  Addicts overdose and die in open sight.  "San Francisco feels clean, smells good, and feels MUCH SAFER."  Van Ness street camps were visited 23 times during six months.  Van Ness was then cleared out, but homeless population scattered to other areas. 

2021 Nov 11  mediaite.com  BLM leader threatens Mayor Adams with 'riots' and 'bloodshed.'

2023 Nov 11  https://www.reuters.com/world/pope-francis-dismisses-conservative-us-bishop-strickland-2023-11-11/

Pope Francis on Saturday dismissed Bishop Joseph E. Strickland of Tyler, Texas, one of his fiercest critics among U.S. Roman Catholic conservatives.    Strickland named to the diocese by the late Pope Benedict in 2012, tweeted earlier this year that he rejected Pope Francis' "program undermining the Deposit of Faith".     ..critical of the pope's attempt to make the Church more welcoming to the LGBT community and attempts by Francis to give lay people more responsibility in the Church (JE:  this can be seen as Pope Francis using laypeople to get done what the Catholic hierarchy won't do.)      

     Strickland in Tyler Morning Telegraph:  "The fundamental truths that once were and still should be the bedrock of our society are being challenged daily."  Related:  Sept 2020 Catholic pastor James Altman video "You cannot be Catholic and be a Democrat."    "You see all this confusion and turmoil in the church and then the one bishop that is standing up for authentic Catholicism, he gets targeted and removed...future saints are persecuted."  In France, two noted removals:  1995 bishop criticized church liberalism, archbishop ordained four bishops without Vatican approval and was excommunicated.  Malloy:  heterodox theologians and bishops challenge moral teaching.  Conservatives can't remain silent.  Faggioli:  erosion of norms around civility and conversation, spurred by social media.  

2023 Nov 13  Catholic News Agency    Noted atheist and former (2002) Muslim Ayaan Hirsi Ali is "now a Christian," British web site UnHerd.  The modern world is a "nihilistic vacuum."  

2023 Nov 16  One of the talk shows:  the European countries, even the socialist ones, do not do deficit spending like the U.S. does.  Our national politicians have no intention of paying off the national debt.  They find ways of paying the interest on the debt.  See Wikipedia, debt monetization.  

2023 Nov 16  Coast to Coast AM has Winter Laake, Satanist.  Interesting points.  He is hard on Islam, calls Islam barbarians.  In Islam, anyone not like Muslims is infidel.  Satanists don't worship like Christians worship;  Satanists do have rituals.  The Bible is a bloody doctrine.  (Shows his complete ignorance of what the Bible is.)  People are indeed evil, and that is quite apparent by age 6.  (But any parent knows that two-year-olders lie.)  There is no hell like Christians think about, there is death followed by life, in an endless chain.  (George Noory likes reincarnation.)  Laake uses Tarot cards.  Satanism isn't so much about sex;  Wiccans in Britain and Europe "pat each other on the back and go have sex."

June, Nov 2023 The American Spectator  Jesuit Father James Martin is an apologist for pro-rainbow, while June is Pride Month.  Fr. Martin:  month of Sacred Heart of Jesus and Pride Month "are not contradictory but complement" each other.  

2023 Nov 27  Deceased wife of Pres. Carter, Rosalynn, lies in state at Glenn Memorial UMC on campus of Emory University.  This UMC is a leader in LGBTQIA+ inclusion among churches.  (Global Methodist Church is the breakaway branch from UMC and is especially African Methodists, where Methodism is growing.)  Glenn Memorial web site lacks what is common among Protestant churches, "What we believe."  The web site pays lip service to Christ and the Holy Spirit.    Senior pastor Mark Westmoreland:  (Mar 13 2021) response to Bishop Sue Haupert-Johnson (who favors open ignoring of Book of Discipline)...I long for the day when our current disciplinary language is changed...Intentional inviting that we progressive UMs...long-delayed worldwide General Conference will have heated debate and may overturn the past, conservative majority.  Local U.S. Methodists are electing representatives to 2024 General Conference who are progressive.    Other Protestants split:  American Baptists, Episcopalians, Evangelical Lutherans, Presbyterians.     A Glenn Memorial layman:  supporting LGBTQ candidates for ordination.  "We are moving on to perfection as Wesley has said."  (A red flag to JE, Bible says no human is perfect.)

     2022 Ap 28  Jeremy Smith, a progressive   hackingchristianity...united-methodist-church-no-not-yet.html   'Shall Progressives Inherit the United Methodist Church?  No.  Not yet.'

     "With the expected exodus of [GMC]...will immediately lead to a progressive takeover."  "Wrong."  "Barrier to changing those is so high."  "Election of a bloc of moderate/progressive bishops who will pledge to not enforce the anti-LGBTQ+ sections of our polity."  [JE:  revolution.  What interferes with this progressive push in UMC is from other places in this time line, progressives tend to fall away from going to church on Sundays and contributing, there are better ways to spend time and money.]     Got Questions:  Progressive Christianity also tends to emphasize what is known as "collective salvation" over the biblical concept of personal salvation.  Collective means restoration of whole cultures to Marxism.

2023 Nov 28  U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization will soon issue a road map to reduce climate change by reducing red meat consumption among "over-consumers."  Also, dairy.  "40% of methane."  

2023 Nov 28  https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-11-28/democrats-biden-white-house-2024  

By Jonah GoldbergColumnist 

In their new book Where Have All the Democrats Gone, Ruy Teixeira and John Judis argue that the Democratic Party has been led astray by what they call a “shadow party” of very progressive activists that can’t see through the bubble they live in...corrective to their 2002 book The Emerging Democratic Majority, that demographic changes would bolster Democrats after the old FDR coalition. That book seemed prophetic in 2006 and 2008...not fared well since.

Exodus of the white working class from Democrat Party.  Four issues turn off voters: race, immigration, transgenderism, and climate change...prioritizing extreme framing.  Some of the non-white working class is going with them.  “Defund the police” was a compelling idea to the shadow party.

[Both parties operate as if] it’s better to rule with a narrow, vulnerable majority than to govern with a broad one. [During Biden's presidency, 2020 to 2024, Republicans have a fragile House majority.  Dems have a fragile Senate majority that is sometimes punctured by Sinema and Manchin.  The "Biden crime family" is investigated only because the slim Republican majority in the House occasionaly pushes ahead.  (The numerous Biden family shell companies that receive millions of dollars of donations from China, etc. comes to light about Jan 2024.)]

2023 Nov 29  Another armed carjacking in District of Columbia, this one makes national news.  An FBI special agent carjacked 1.5 miles east of the Capitol, after noontime.  Car recovered by Metro PD within an hour.      In October, Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas was carjacked by three armed attackers near the Capitol.  A U.A.E. diplomat was carjacked.    D.C. carjackings are up 100%.        Living in San Antonio, John & M note that San Antonio has a lot of violent crime, as seen on 9 P.M. Fox News.  It is not safe anywhere in San Antonio after dark.  But San Antonio murder rate, 8 per 100,000 population, is 55th among U.S. cities, behind Boston and ahead of Ft. Worth.  But worst are St. Louis, Baltimore, Detroit, New Orleans at 40 and above per 100,000.  We have visited Baltimore (creepy men at light rail station after dark) and lived in Dearborn, near Detroit.

2023 Nov 30  Coast to Coast AM with host George Noory talking with guest Chris Aubec.  [His new book is Saucers: Tracing the Origins of Disc-Shaped UFOs with a lot of research from original sources.]  Noory:  You don't think we on Earth are alone in the universe, do you?  Aubec:  Certainly not.  The universe is so vast that it must be teeming with life.  Noory:  Are UFOs interplanetary?  Aubec:  They are likely interplanetary or interdimensional.  But think about how the visitors keep doing the same things, sampling soil, abducting people and examining them and such.  The same things over and over.  You wouldn't expect that if visitors were interplanetary [they would be sharing their results around and not repeating the same activities].  So between interplanetary and interdimensional, I come down on the side of interdimensional every time.          [They acknowledge recent U.S. Government terminology, UAP, unidentified aerial phenomenon.]  JE comment:  David Waltham's book Lucky Planet and other books say humans are alone in the universe, and there is plenty of information now about the great rarity of a long-duration-stable environment, if indeed the Earth is old, and the nonexistence of evolution, that say that life cannot just crop up across the galaxy.  See my speculations in this time line at 1961 Drake Equation and 2023 Mar 6 item 9.

2023 Dec 1  Conservative Catholic Cardinal Burke doesn't have an apartment at the Vatican any more.  Press is saying Pope Francis took it away because Burke and other conservatives are plaguing the Pope with dubia, official doubts about doctrine.  

     A web site, cardinalburke...  "Notification to Christ's Faithful Regarding Dubia Submitted to Pope Francis on Oct 2"...in view of various declarations of highly-placed Prelates...that are openly contrary...falling into error...our letter of July 10, 2023...five dubia...his letter [in reply] of July 11...we reformulated the dubia to elicit a clear[er] response [Aug 21]...not received a response...signed, Brandmuller [of the German church], Burke, Sarah [Africa, JE has one of his books], etc.    On Vatican News, Francis has responses to the original dubia which include "blessing of same-sex unions, priestly ordination of women, repentance as a necessary condition for sacramental absolution."  ...In people who have a very wounded self-esteem, declaring themselves guilty is cruel [JE:  self esteem is from David Hume (denier of miracles, a skeptic) and William James (Wikipedia);  self esteem is not the best way to think about the Bible and Jesus' forgiveness]...we should not demand from the faithful overly precise and certain resolutions [Francis' M.O., keep it vague].

     National Catholic Register Mar 11 2022  Cardinal Brandmuller:  "The Synodal Way of the Catholic Church in Germany is on the 'wrong track that is lost in nothingness.'"  Heresy of modernism.  "Clearly contradicting the authentic Catholic faith."  The Synodal Way votes in larger majority to make priestly celibacy optional.  Bishops voting this way are against their sworn obligation.  New [or recent] is "practiced homosexuality is recognized as morally permissible."  In part, "corresponds completely with the teachings of Martin Luther."  "Ever-evolving 'religious consciousness'" from Hegel.  "Should have urgently dealt with these movements" as Pope St. Pius X did in 1907.  "Smoldering underground."  At the Synodal Way, "no mention of death, judgement, and eternal life."  Is the Church simply a NGO, one among many?

     National Catholic Register   German progressives seek gender theory as part of theology, lay governance.  Liberal Lutherans have had these for years.    Pope Francis came in in 2013 and summoned Catholics to get out of the sacristy and get dirty.  Now, there is an "image of bishops and ecclesial bureaucrats sitting around tables" in clean synod halls.  The coming U.N. climate conference in Dubai to be like the Synod on Synodality, meetings about meetings, networking about networks, dinners about dinnerality.

     ncronline.org   NORC Chicago survey:  American Catholics are somewhat more tolerant than Protestants about divorce, homosexuals, living together without marriage.  Since 1973.  Internationally, the more the Catholic percentage, the more the tolerance.     Post-Vatican II, Catholics were either 1) following the documents of the Council, or 2) ignore the documents and go with "the spirit of the Council."  The latter predominated at seminaries, religious orders, Catholic universities, diocesan bureaucracies.  Result:  "collapsing Mass attendance, vanishing vocations, swift erosion of Catholic identity."  But the former was represented by two new popes, John Paul II (Polish) and Benedict (German).  Douthat:  Benedict could not finish John Paul II's restoration or control an ungovernable, corrupt, leak-riddled Roman Curia of the Vatican. 

     Wikipedia on Synodal Way  By Nov 2022 German Catholic labor law, gay priests can publicly state their sexuality but not be fired.  

     https://catholicherald.co.uk/germans-fail-to-muster-lay-support-for-schismatic-synodal-way/  "the abuse cases has been exploited to push through other ideas not directly related to it,” he said, adding that the German Church appeared to be 'distancing itself from the Magisterium'."  

     National Catholic Register   By German culture, those registered in Germany as Catholics have a tax levied to support the Catholic Church, 8% added tax, withdrawn from income by the government.  The tax ends if one applies to a local magistrate to cease being Catholic.  [Same applies to any religion.]  East Germany is "widely considered one of the most Godless places on earth."  Sunday Mass attendance 5% before Covid.  Projection:  by 2060, 40,000 parishes, monasteries, etc. in Germany will close.  Currently, 800,000 Germans employed by Catholic Church.  A collapse and shrinkage might "free the Church from the outsized influence of" employee organizations and heterodoxy.  

2023 Dec 13 About suspected and shady or illegal income of Hunter Biden flowing in part to father Pres. Biden, though the president denies it, Rep. James Comer (R) says "The more evidence we find, the more they change their story." Heard on Hannity radio show.

2023 Dec 14 Fox Business     Improved Explosive Devices, IEDs, deadly against American Army in Afghanistan, are a new weapon of Mexican cartels. Mexican Army seized ten IEDs at the border. In Michoacan state, lime and avocado growers are extorted. Cartels have downed a Mexican army helicopter, killing troops, using a rocket propelled grenade, RPG.

2023 Dec 15 NY Post 50-yr-old man, Nicholas Cepeda or Melody Wiseheart, prof at York U, saying he identifies as female, competes against teenage girls in Barrie, Ontario, Canada at the Trojan Cup and places second in an event. The age range for the event allows this. He changes in the girls' locker room; mothers of teens set up a towel structure to afford their daughters some privacy. Swim Ontario defends his/her action. "Welcoming for all."

2023 Dec 16 NY Post Senate staffer Aidan Maese-Czeropski (D) (face seen) and another man, both nude, film an interaction on a table in the large hearing room Hart 216 and publish 8-second video to a web site. Aidan is 24 yrs old, grad of UCB. The next day, he is fired. On his social media, "I have been attacked for who I love. Never disrespect my workplace. Exploring what legal options I have." This shows up widely on Internet. JE: if he doesn't disrespect his workplace, does he think he is respecting his workplace? In Townhall, in November "the chief of staff just promoted me and in the same breath suggested I tone down my social media." Boyculture.com: "this makes gays look bad." "Politically, actions like these coming at times like these are super unhelpful. We do have to work with the reality of how [majority straight] people think."

2022 March 28 The Independent Rep. Madison Cawthorn: Sexual perversion rife in D.C., lawmakers who fight drug addiction openly use drugs.

Dec 18 2022 Reuters Pullella: Vatican defrocked anti-abortion priest Frank Pavone...Strickland defended him publicly. "This holy priest is cancelled while an evil president promotes the denial of truth and the murder of the unborn at every turn, Vatican officials promote immorality and denial of the deposit of faith and priests promote gender confusion devastating lives."

The Coalition for Canceled Priests     Janet Smith conservative Catholic writer

https://janetsmith.org/causes/catholic-clergy-corruption-crisis/ links to important writing

To the US Bishops: A (Friendly) Call to Repentance and Reform https://catholicvote.org/to-the-us-bishops-a-friendly-call-to-repentance-and-reform/

... g    networks throughout the Church. No More Victims, a group I work with, has published online and sent to all bishops “What We, the Laity, are Reading that has Shaken Us to the Core.” Bishops have inherited dioceses with priests...5% and 60% are sexually active with males...culture in which it is more important to protect the institutional Church.

https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/ the-legion-of-christ-and-the-need-for-universal-indignation (continuing Janet Smith) ...abuse of minors in the order since its founding in 1941...Father Maciel 60 victims.

Janet Smith in National Catholic Register Cozzens in 2000: "The Changing Face of the Priesthood," Michael Rose in 2002, 2015: Goodbye, Good Men Chalk it up to the seminaries, but they improved after 2005.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/01/gay-priests-catholic-church.html Andrew Sullivan Jan 21 2019 15% to 60% U.S. Catholic priests g    much higher in Franciscans and Jesuits. "Wreaking great devastation," Bishop Robert Morlino. Lepanto Institute.

2023 Dec 21: CoasttoCoastAM Dr. (M.D.) Geoffrey Simmons was an evolution supporter for 30 years. Then he changed to support Intelligent Design and is a fellow with Discovery Institute. Author: What Darwin Didn't Know, Billions of Missing Links. A caller asks if he has received Jesus' forgiveness (JE words). He is Jewish and pays attention to Genesis through Deuteronomy.  evoxcross

2023 Dec 21 https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/abp-vigano-bergoglios-approval-of-blessings-for-homosexual-couples-shows-he-is-a-servant-of-satan/ Excerpts with critical review.

Archbishop Viganò writes fighting words: [Pope Francis] Bergoglio’s ‘blessings’ for homosexual couples show he is a ‘servant of Satan’

Satan "does not say to us:

Sin and offend the Lord who died for you on the Cross,

because Satan knows that a normal person does not want evil in itself, but that he usually does evil under the appearance of good." [Normal people do not rush to sin, they have a conscience that normally steers them toward caution.]

"In order to convince a man into adultery, the tempting spirit shows him the supposed advantages...the benefit of peace in the family. To urge a priest to accept the heretical deviations of his superiors, [Satan] emphasizes obedience to authority and the preservation of ecclesial communion."

"The next fall is all the more casual." "Away from the thought of Christ’s Passion [in the hours before his death on the cross], from the fact that every blow of the scourge, every slap, every thorn...is the fruit of our sins. And then, if you give in to temptation, it’s not your fault."

"Rebel against God, reject Him, blaspheme Him, hate Him because He has deprived you of your right to happiness." [H are inclined to say to each other, "Oh, they are trying again to take away our rights."]

"The delirious Declaration Fiducia Supplicans [written by Archbishop Tucho Fernández]...deception of the Bergoglian hierarchy, showing these false shepherds for what they really are: servants of Satan and his most zealous allies, beginning with the usurper who sits...on the Throne of Peter...like all those issued by Bergoglio, mocking and deceptive:...forgiveness without repentance." [Pope Francis has said that all will be together in the end. "Even the murderers?", a reporter asks. Yes. Never fear the final judgment, because Christ will always be at our side.]

"Sulphureous conciliar and synodal pharisaism. It is their immortal soul that is sacrificed to the woke idol, because on the day of the Particular Judgment they will discover that they have been deceived and betrayed by those who on Earth hold the authority of Christ." [The Roman Catholic doctrine of the successor of Peter, the first pope.]

"A lie that many members of the hierarchy want to believe." "Race to legitimize sodomy."

"For priests who do not agree...two paths are being prepared: the first, to be expelled from the parish or from the diocese ad nutum Pontificis; the second, to resign themselves to bartering their right to dissent in exchange for the recognition of the right of other confreres to approve." [A priest's pension depends on his continuance of conforming to the hierarchy.]

[From what the Pope says...] Bergoglio "does not want souls to be saved; he does not proclaim the Gospel opportunely." "Provoke Catholics to turn away from his church and leave him free to turn it into the concubine of the New World Order." [Many Baptist churches have former Catholics, those who want to hear the truth.]

"What’s going to prevent this blessing from being imparted...polyamory; or to minors, in the name of the sexual freedom that the globalist elite is introducing through the U.N. and other subversive international organizations...always be in the name of welcoming, integration, inclusiveness."

"This mad race towards the abyss to which a sect of renegade apostates would like to force us." "Warn the faithful and prevent these sacrilegious blessings in their dioceses."

Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop

The preceding makes more sense when this is understood:

https://www.corrispondenzaromana.it/international-news/archbishop-vigano-towards-anarcho-vacantism-2/

"The last months of 2023 has he explained his position with sufficient clarity."

“'A defect of consent' which would invalidate the government of Pope Francis. The defect of consent would consist in this: that the pope accepted his election outwardly, without the intention of promoting the good of the Church...Bergoglio’s behaviour is...anti-Catholic and heterogeneous with respect to the very essence of the Papacy...always rupturing...the Magisterium of the Church...and thus cannot be the true pope, even if he materially occupies the papal throne...what conspirator who acts maliciously in order to ascend to an office would be so naive as to explain to those who must elect him that he intends to become Pope in order to carry out the orders of the enemies of God and the Church?" [Vigano disagrees with those who say the role of Pope is vacant.]

https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/abp-vigano-bergoglios-approval-of-blessings-for-homosexual-couples-shows-he-is-a-servant-of-satan/

"He encourages [a same-sex couple], blesses them as irregular, as if they were not; but at the same time he deprives them of marriage [holding onto the traditional doctrine that marriage is between man and woman, permanent], and in this way admits that they are irregular. Bergoglio does not ask them to change their lives, but authorizes a grotesque farce." Look for a blessed couple to go and be civilly married, then gather with friends to "celebrate, cut a cake, and receive gifts," pretending to have been married by a priest.

catholicnews Cardinal Gerhard Muller: A priest giving a pastoral blessing; it would "be neither pastoral nor a blessing."

Muller in CNA: This type of blessing could as well be blessed on an abortion clinic or a Mafia group.

A web site: Fernández writes that those "seeking a blessing should not be required to have prior moral perfection." Remember Francis in 2013 said, "Who am I to judge?" "Some bishops will use it as a pretext to do what the document explicitly forbids, especially since the Vatican has not stopped them before."

2023 Dec HotAir web site In New York City, about 25% of high schools have been high-performing high schools, that have been for high-performing students. Liberal Mayor de Blasio decided it was unfair, or against equity (equality of outcome), to admit the most capable students (often Asians, rarely Hispanic and Black) to these schools. A lottery came to be figured into admission to try to bring about equity, by removing the most capable students. And the mayor moved against gifted programs. Mayor Adams, the successor, is reversing some of this in a "sweeping move." Stuyvesant High School, a block from World Trade Center, is the "most selective." In 2022, in 762 openings, 7 Black, 20 Latino, 489 Asian, 158 white. "Not make sense to hand 2/3 of the spots...to Black and Hispanic students who haven't prepared." San Francisco has been through this turmoil and had high schools drop out of the top-100.

2023 Dec Yale Univ., Pew research or poll    American Jews are shrinking, among "conservative" and reformed Jews. Orthodox have larger families and are growing. (Do Christians have the same characteristic?) This will affect how Jews vote, since the Jewish vote in America has long been liberal. (Fashion and movies.)

2024 January  https://www.summit.org/resources/articles/hijacking-jesus-how-progressive-christians-are-remaking-him-and-taking-over-his-church/

Over the last several decades, progressive Christians...reinterpret Him as a Jewish mystic or as a manifestation of God devoid of divine claims and miracles...Progressive Christians say their “modernizing of Jesus” makes Him a more friendly and accepting figure...And they are not subtle about it.

...They see it as a recovery—a rescuing of Jesus...Jesus as more of a “liberator” than a “Savior.”  The Church has only become susceptible to these attacks through its own laxity in preserving doctrinal truth.

2022 Jan 14  Canada  Bill C-4  criminal code bans [gay] conversion therapy   ambiguous, judges legislate, threat to parents about what they say to their own children (Tatum Report)

2024 Jan 15 Catholic News Agency  controversial Pope Francis statement:  Not a dogma but my personal view, I like to think of Hell as empty.  2001 Jan  New Oxford Review  editor Dale Vree    not all are saved, 'If Everyone is Saved...Why Bother?'

2024 Jan 31  FBI Wray testifies before the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party.  FBI acted against Volt Typhoon, which inserted malicious code into hundreds of routers, many of them outdated and vulnerable.  Targets include water treatment, power grid, oil and natural gas, and ports and transportation.  From last May, Microsoft advised people to take some security actions.  Jan Easterly:  hackers able to live within a computer's operating system and act at the level of sys admin.  [ Windows 11 is resistant to root kits. ]  "If or when China decides the time has come to strike," such as to overwhelm Taiwan.  [ Much press recently about the world's biggest semiconductor fabs in Taiwan, using the most sophisticated processing to make advanced processors.  A clue about world's sensitivity to semiconductor tech:  the supply-chain disruptions at COVID-19 time put lower-tech semiconductors in short supply and kept cars from being built, the modules and PC boards couldn't be made.    Another vulnerability is that of the power grid, including long-lead-time large transformers, to nuclear electromagnetic pulse, NEMP, and this is a frequent topic for Coast to Coast AM. ]  "Very basic flaws in our technology.  We have made it easy on them."  "Inherently insecure because of decades of software developers not being held liable for defective technology...speed to market prioritized against security."  CNN:  "deeply entrenched in US infrastructure."    "The defining threat of our generation."  "Potential mass casualties."  "Exacerbated by the interconnected nature of modern infrastructure."  [ JE:  where a library of code could be infected, and that library is widely used in Linux, Microsoft, Apple, and industrial controller software in a large percentage of computerized systems, ranging from smart phones to airline scheduling.  Ref:  Dec 2022 Southwest Airlines massive shutdown.              JE:  the mention of mass casualties can be these ways:  pharmacy computers shut down so people can't get medicine, that could kill 4% of U.S. population, 13 million, in weeks.  Fuel-supply disruption could keep bodies from being buried.  Water treatment stopped in inland cities, raw sewage dumped in rivers causes infections from Campylobacteriosis, Cryptosporidiosis, E coli, Giardiasis, and many others, killing millions downriver, at a time when hospitals are overloaded by unmedicated, chronic-disease sufferers.  Traffic-signal shutdown keeping people from going to work and keeping trucks from delivering to stores;  probably affects rail deliveries, also.  All containerized shipping stopped;  12 U.S. seaports annually handle 23 million twenty-foot equivalent units of cargo, TEUs.       Business software users and consumers would doubt the security of transactions and might refrain from doing business and buying online, and this could make credit card users refrain from buying.  This would be an unprecedented economic disruption.  If electrical power is stopped, looters would clear out food stores, and starvation could happen.  (Good for the survivalists who stockpile.) 

2024 Feb 9   six months before Kamala Harris takes over as Dem candidate for president.      Special Prosecuter Hur releases report after a year about Pres. Biden's collection of classified documents scattered at residence and locked (?) in a former office at a university, both after Biden's vice presidency concluded.  A political firestorm and crisis for Biden's second presidential campaign, with 271 days before election.   MSN.com:  political blowback...could prove...devastating, reinforcing impressions that he is too old and impaired.  Hur report:  "Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury [if he were charged with crime], as he did during our [multi-day] interview with him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory."  The report:  1st day interview, Biden didn't recall easily when his VP term ended, "2013?" where it is actually 2017.     "It's a nightmare," said a Dem House member.  NBC News poll Jan:  76% of voters have major to moderate concerns about Biden's mental and physical health.      Radio news over two years has highlighted "gaffs" and tripping on stairs, all in public events.  Twice this week, Biden mentioned publicly recent conversations with foreign leaders, but those leaders died long ago.     Liberal commentators gloss over this and say former Pres. Trump says like things.     Another Dem:  "If the only reason they didn't charge him [criminally, as Trump is being charged criminally for classified document retention, though under lock at Mira Lago, a highly patrolled location, but not in an old box in a garage among messy household "detritus" as Biden did] is because he's too old to be charged, then how can he be president?"    Speculation is that the report had to choose between a criminal charge and no-charge based on something reasonable, and the latter tack was taken, though the frankness about Biden's health invites immediate outrage.     MSN.com:  Dem former Clinton advisor Begala:  "Terrible for Democrats.  And anybody with a functioning brain knows that."    Fox News:  Dr. Marty Makary:  "age-related dementia...significant progression...not subtle...obvious even to a lawyer [Hur] who made the diagnosis in this report...decline right in front of our eyes."  Makary:  unlikely to stabilize.  "If this were the CEO of a company, people would not buy the stock."  "Distinguished career" is debated by radio program Buck and Clay, they say he was merely a third-rate leader in the U.S. Senate [JE:  from the small state of Delaware where there isn't so much selection available to voters.]      Pres. Biden appeared late evening of the day the report came out, press conference hastily called, "lashed out" at the report but had memory trouble during that very press conference.  Buck and Clay:  Biden frequently makes the sympathy appeal, his first wife and baby daughter died in car crash, son died from cancer, other son a long-term drug addict.       Someone on radio:  Mrs. Biden likes being First Lady, otherwise she would be pressing him to step down.

2022 Feb 18  foxnews.com   UT Austin prof Richard Lowery blasts activist faculty, UT Austin is a social justice indoctrination camp      Tx Lt Gov Dan Patrick:  consider ending state university tenure

2024 about March 5  Coast to Coast AM with George Noory   I don't know who the guest is, but nominal Catholic Noory clearly states what has been veiled before, his idea of Christianity is to develop your soul and keep it pure.  (Noory holds dear the idea of reincarnation and promotes astrology and mediums.)  This is at odds with orthodox Christianity which says sin is a fundamental problem of all people of all time, and Jesus' forgiveness is the thing that saves people, not being good.  Many Catholics are stuck in ignorance and are taught that being good is the real thing.     https://samueltwilkinson.com/  In Purpose, Yale Prof Wilkinson [evolution supporter]...discoveries from a variety of scientific disciplines—ranging from evolutionary biology to cognitive psychology—suggest there is an overall purpose for human existence...Are we ultimately selfish or altruistic? Do we have free will? What is at the root of human happiness? How can a society simultaneously maximize individual happiness and communal well-being?...our innate desire to seek for meaning, purpose, and ultimately God, is not at odds with science and evolution.   evoxcross  A caller, or the guest on the show, says religion gives meaning (which pure science has no comment about) but materialist academe doesn't want to talk about religion.  A Yale graduate, famous William F. Buckley, at age 25 assailed Yale in 1951 in this book, God and Man at Yale:  The Superstitions of "Academic Freedom."  Forcing collectivism, Keynes, and secularism on students.  Hostility toward religion.  https://yalealumnimagazine.org/articles/2105   Buckley's broadside against his alma mater ("hypocrites"), Yale struggled to contain the fallout...fear, revulsion, and damage control were the responses from Yale...Buckley's assertion "that the duel between Christianity and atheism is the most important in the world."  God and Man at Yale, written in 1951, was two years ahead of the death of the evil Joseph Stalin, dictator of U.S.S.R., who was later denounced by Premier Nikita Khrushchev, see this time line.  Stalin and Lenin instituted ruthless collectivism in U.S.S.R., deporting 100,000 Ukranian kulaks to Siberia.

Chalcedon.edu   2005 Lee Duigon   Evangelizing the Ivy League:  "There's a Hunger for Christ on Campus"   The Ivy League universities were all founded by Christians, and many of them started as seminaries for pastors.  They are now hotbeds for secularism.  The Christian Union started in 2001, full-time office at Princeton U.  "We can't just surrender the campus to Peter Singer [see elsewhere in this time line] and his outrageous ethics."  Jesus is superior to any world view.

2024 March 17  Santiago, Cuba, rare public protest over blackouts (frozen food spoils) and food shortage, fuel, medicine.  Due to Covid-19, Cuba is in economic crisis.

2024 March 18    Newsweek     In 2019, Princeton Science and Global Security is a program of Princeton U     A study maps  nuclear strikes by Russia in case of WWIII.  Against political and military leaders, communication, nullify counterstrike, eliminate industry.  San Antonio is not high on the priority, but Houston and Dallas are high.  Clustered targets are Norfolk Virginia Navy up to New York City and San Diego through San Francisco.  Prevailing winds would spare San Antonio from fallout.  If we ever decide to evacuate from San Antonio, I have in mind Uvalde or Del Rio.

2024 Mar, Ap   Search Internet for 'Burglary Tourist' and you find many articles about South American criminals visiting Los Angeles on tourist visas, "casing" wealthy neighborhoods, burglarizing, and selling the goods through poverty-stricken, violent L.A. neighborhoods, and going home with the money.

2022 March 30  Karey Burke, Disney ABC Entertainment president, is apparently mother of trans and mother of pansexual, wants half of future Disney movie characters to be LGBTQIA or racial minority.       Nov 9 2019  nbcnews.com   two Disney employees in Florida among 17 arrested in child porn sting.       Disney company pays financially for this wokeness, lots of people quit looking at Disney and going to Disney.

2024 Ap 9  Uri Berliner, worked at NPR (National Public Radio) 25 yrs, says NPR lost its way when it started telling listeners how to think.  "An open-minded spirit no longer exists within NPR...we don't have an audience that reflects America."  Listeners usually coastal elite.  Uri:  "I was raised by a lesbian peace activist mother.  I fit the NPR mold."  NPR "distills the worldview of a very small segment of the U.S."  The progressive shift was between 2011 and 2023.  "Efforts to topple Trump."  "We hitched our wagon to Rep. Adam Schiff."  (JE:  is he one of the biggest liars in Congress?)  After the Mueller report found no credible evidence of Trump-Russia collusion, Russiagate quietly faded.  No mea culpas.  Blind eye to Hunter Biden's laptop...corrupt world of multimillion-dollar influence peddling.  NPR mission to change America's systemic racism, after George Floyd death.  NPR employee affinity groups based on identity.  [JE:  how much wasted time doing this?  How much wasted anxiety?  Poisoned feelings between employees?] Downplaying atrocities of Hamas on Israelis but highlighting suffering of Palestinians.  Lack of viewpoint diversity.  87 Dems and no Republicans in the editorial department, and they could care less.  I became a wrong-thinker at NPR.  NPR audience "overwhelmingly white and progressive."  Declining ratings.

2024 Ap 17  New York Post  NPR employee Uri Berliner "calls out NPR rampant liberal bias" and resigns.  Essay on Bari Weiss' The Free Press, "I've been at NPR for 25 years.  'Here's How We Lost America's Trust.'  At NPR Washington headquarters, 87 Dems, no Republicans.  Race & identity paramount.  Berliner says many staff [quietly] backed him up.  NPR head Katherine Maher---it comes out that when she was at Wikipedia, she cracked down on the "free and open" ethos because it was based on a "white male Westernized construct."  Woke postings.  

2024 Ap 13  After an Israeli attack on Damascus, Syria that killed high-ranking Iranian military (maybe leaders of the Oct 8 2023 attack on southern Israel from Hamas in Gaza), Iran attack on Israel, the first direct such attack.  From the air, with cruise missiles and hundreds of drones (prop-driven fixed-wing, not the 6- or 8-prop helicopter-like drones) and missiles flying across Jordan to reach Israel.  Jordan's air force downed many, and other defenses took out all but a few.  But future attacks might be greater in number and may overwhelm defense.  Some Jordanian defenses are operated by U.S. military;  hundreds of U.S. troops in Jordan.   

election2024 2024 Ap 18  NBCnews.com   by Sahil Kapur   "Top House progressives," the Congressional Progressive Caucus, intend to push 

minimum-wage increase, 

more antitrust laws, 

Social Security increases if they win in November.  

These promises to voters will convince young voters who don't like Biden's advanced age.  Chairwoman Rep. Jayapal (D):  a second Trump presidency would be "horrific." 

2022 Ap 14  Ukraine, two R-360 Neptune anti-ship missiles hit Russian cruiser Moskva in the Black Sea, and the ship had then caught fire, reached munitions onboard and they exploded.  Ship sank in storm while being towed.  The cruiser is the largest Russian warship to be sunk in wartime since the end of World War II. 

election2024 2024 Ap 24  Progressive Soros "Circumvent FCC Rules to Seize Control of Local Radio"  The Western Journal   200 radio stations, the Audacy network.  "May try to silence...ahead of election."  

2024 Ap 25 Tipoff from Coast to Coast AM  

Retired US Navy captain James E. Fanell, Bradley A. Thayer, Ph.D., is a founding member of the Committee on Present Danger China. They argue the US directly contributed to China’s rise by using them as a source of cheap labor and allowing them to enter the Western economic system.  [U.S. government policy, for decades, gave intellectual property rights to China for any devices manufactured in China but developed in the U.S.  China pirated U.S. software including Microsoft Windows.  Fanell and Thayer review Chinese ICBM silo fields, and shipbuilding which exceeds that of U.S. by about 40 to 1.]  "You don't control the feeding ground of a crocodile by telling it to limit its movements."

Leads JE to check this out:

https://thebulletin.org/premium/2024-01/chinese-nuclear-weapons-2024/     Chinese nuclear weapons, 2024

By Hans M. Kristensen, Matt Korda, Eliana Johns, Mackenzie Knight, January 15, 2024

Citation  Hans M. Kristensen, Matt Korda, Eliana Johns, and Mackenzie Knight, Chinese Nuclear Weapons, 2024, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 80:1, 49-72, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00963402.2023.2295206

China...one of the fastest-growing nuclear arsenals among the nine nuclear-armed states.

Three new missile silo fields for solid-fuel ICBMs, new silos for its liquid-fuel DF-5 ICBMs, new variants of ICBMs and advanced strategic delivery systems. Dual-capable DF-26 intermediate-range ballistic missile force. At sea, China has been refitting its Type 094 ballistic missile submarines with the longer-range JL-3 submarine-launched ballistic missile. In addition, China has recently reassigned an operational nuclear mission to its bombers.  [Consider how close the Taiwan microchip factories are to Chinese mainland.]

The readiness of the Chinese nuclear missile force was challenged in early 2024 with disclosure...corruption...an erosion of confidence in its overall capabilities.     Stealth bomber with longer range...H-20, will have both a nuclear and conventional capability with a range exceeding 10,000 kilometers.

2024 May New Oxford Review May 2024 p. 5 Letter to editor by Charles McCartney   U.S. society is dismantling its civilization, first goes the family, then religion, leaving just government. "Erosion of Judeo-Christian fundamentals, hardhearted media, politicians." Leaves "an ego-driven society."

2024 May 15  Psychology Today  by Neil Farber M.D.     The Truth About the Law of Attraction, It Doesn't Exist!      Teresa Yanaros in Spirit Sanctified, Faith Under Fire series    The Core of New Age Deception  self-deification, self-reliance, personal enlightenment.       Self-deification, self-idolatry cloaked in pleasant euphemisms.   

2024 May New Oxford Review May 2024 p. 28 Jason Morgan, Mark Ramseyer "How Cowardice, the Herd, and Twitter Mobs Threaten Academia"

Cutthroat careerists stalk the halls of universities. Promotions. Staying ahead of the woke mob. The authors are grads of U to Tennessee at Chattanooga, "a point of ridicule to academic Twitter mobs." "You upended three decades of fake news" that claimed to be "rigourous scholarship" when you debunked Jeju Island sex slaves in WWII. Asian historians agree with Ramseyer but American historians "recycle" the sex-slaves "nonsense." "For your trouble you got death threats and new crews stalking you at your house." "Endless cancelings, university punishments, DEI complexes, diversity-statement oaths." "Dismantling our academic freedom." "The slogan in American academia seems to be, 'You Don't Have the Authority to Ask Questions.' " "Students who want to think for themselves avoid the humanities" and often go STEM. "The students without intellectual courage are practically the only ones who sign up for history and literature." Try to out-woke the other lemmings. "In an academy hijacked by DEI and groupthink," there are clannish inquisitions.

2024 June 25  https://dailycaller.com/2024/06/25/military-vast-dei-bureaucracy-biden-study-finds/         Pres. Biden went with what his advisors told him, bringing about “race and sex-based scapegoating and stereotyping” environment in the military and hampering defense effectiveness.  DEI indoctrination has become a core component of military training.  "Defend a nation that is an alleged cesspit of racism and discrimination.”   The new Trump administration is changing this, Feb 9 2025.

election2024 marks the frequent notes about the 2024 presidential election, here into Jan 2025

election2024 2024 June 27   one month and 8 days before Kamala Harris takes over as Dem candidate for president.   A presidential candidate debate, 90 minutes, is sponsored by CNN, with commercials, apart from the old-line Commission on Presidental Debates, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.  Trump and Biden.  Biden and up to 16 advisors met for five days at Camp David to prepare, while Trump, fresh from the long NYC criminal trial about the Stormy Daniels funding and 34 felony convictions, continues rallies.  (Sentencing is pending, but will be delayed until September after the Supreme Court's decision about presidential immunity, July 1.)  Biden is seen by most Americans as declining mentally, and many videos bear this out.     https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/joe-biden-age-election-2024-8ee15246?mod=hp_lead_pos7 by Wall Street Journal:  Kevin McCarthy: “I used to meet with him when he was vice president. I’d go to his house. He’s not the same person.”

The Journal reported that the White House insists Biden remains a sharp and vigorous leader, and that any criticism is all about partisan politics.  Special Counsel Robert Hur's report in February about Biden's long-time retention of classified documents in an automobile garage:  “It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him — by then a former president well into his eighties — of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness.”   "Well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory." 

     JE's comment:  If Pres. Biden is so affected by dementia when he is thoroughly prepared by a staff for five days, what is he like when there is a crisis and he meets with the Joint Chiefs or the Cabinet or a hostile world leader?    Conservative press notes that the President is the one to make the ultimate decision about ICBM launch against Russia or China.  See in red area below, KTVZ.com.

     Politico quotes Biden:  "I know how to tell the truth.  I know right from wrong."  JE:  Yet, he says many things that are not true, as many Democrats do, especially Congressman Adam Schiff, and the media ignore the lack of truth.  And Biden toes the abortion line with Planned Parenthood, that the good of the mother, or the wishes of the mother, goes before life of the baby.       Reason Magazine quotes Biden from the debate, the most rambling of his statements:  "...I've been able to do with the with the Covid, excuse me, with, um, dealing with everything we have to do with, uh, look, if ... we finally beat Medicare."     No one offers an explanation of what Biden was trying to say.    Reason:  many answers an incoherent jumble, struggling with germane responses, halting, hard to follow.     Business Insider:  spoke too quickly [JE:  Biden has always talked quickly, and in old age he can't slow down;  this makes him hard to understand], couldn't enunciate and emphasize keywords.  Averting eye contact.      He [his debate negotiation team] pushed for an empty room, muted mics, Fox News on the sidelines.  He got everything he desired [, and Trump gave him everything, yet it didn't go well for Biden.]   David Axelrod, former senior Obama advisor:  a sense of shock at the beginning of this debate.   [For 30 minutes at the start of the 90 minutes, Biden was doing poorly.]      Democrats are scrambling to  fashion a way forward before the Democrat National Convention in Chicago August 19.

2024 June 29   one month and one week before Kamala Harris takes over as Dem candidate for president.    https://nypost.com/2024/06/29/opinion/a-party-of-shameless-liars-how-did-dems-let-this-happen-and-other-commentary/

     editorial  A party of shameless liars, how did Dems let this happen? and other commentary  By Post Editorial Board  JE:  Two days after the dramatic mismatch of intellect at the Biden/Trump debate hosted by CNN.

     National Review’s Charles C. W. Cooke, conservative:  “When they complained about ‘right-wing media,’ they were lying to us...Biden’s age...[they insisted] Biden was impressive and sharp behind closed doors, they were lying to us.”  Dem leaders' change of mind about Biden's ability "does not change the fact that they...lie to you for any political advantage they can gain.”  [JE:  such as CA Rep. Adam Schiff, the prime example.]  Fawning "journalists dismissed troubling videos of [Biden] as “cheapfakes.”  "A catastrophe for an entire class of experts, journalists, and pundits...since 2020”:  The Free Press’ Bari Weiss.  [Rarely] “are so many people exposed as liars and sycophants.”  And "he holds the nuclear football.”     But similar Internet searches show that both Dems and Republicans lie.  JE:  it is hard to judge which Internet accounts fairly judge the relative levels of lying.  But they agree that partisans forgive their own party's lying because it advances the party goals.  In the case of Dem leadership, many say that Democrats were taken over at the top by extreme progressives, some years ago.  Most of a year later, conservatives still say there is no national leader for Dems.

JE:  lying is a big deal.  You can find Internet pages that say that Republicans lie much more than Dems, but many of those are from PolitiFact and JE thinks PolitiFact is unreliable.  What does the Bible say about hying?  "Keep your tongue from eval and your lips from deceitful speech."   "Speak the truth from the heart."  Many others.  In Britain, bbc.com, Peter Oborne in Telegraph, Labour MPs "are much more likely to lie."  "Progressives view social conventions and restraints as the crucial impediment to human fulfilment."       https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/3101464/what-else-democrats-are-lying-about-part-4-most-things/     Washington Examiner:  new FBI protocols deter accurate reporting     National Review Cooke Mar 11 2022   The party's blatant falsehoods can distract voters from the mess...for only so long.  Elena Gorokhova paraphrased:  "You know they are lying, they know they are lying, you know they know."    Wall Street Journal May 22 2020   "Rep. Adam Schiff was playing to the base with a calculated lie...a hero--to some.  There are not, nor will there be, consequences."  Schiff was the 26th U.S. Congress person to be censured about the "Russia probe."  He calls the censure "a badge of honor."  

2024 July 2    https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/02/biden-campaign-debate-inner-circle-00166160         ‘We’ve all enabled the situation’: Dems turn on Biden’s inner sanctum post debate       By Eli Stokols, Elena Schneider, Jonathan Lemire and Adam Cancryn          he is not a pleasant person to be around when he’s being briefed. It’s very difficult, and people are scared.        perfect storm because he just gets more and more isolated         shattered the party’s magical thinking [JE:  by the time that Pres. Trump is rolling out big things daily, Feb 2025, including suppression of DEI, Americans are in the main welcoming-to-enthusiastic about a return to common sense, replacing the grudging acceptance of bizarre public policy during Biden's presidency.]            Even the president’s family...was pointing the finger at...the senior team           he has not changed those people for 40 years    an impenetrable group of enablers      "[The campaign] was going to be about Trump, not about Biden, and at the end of the day, people just wouldn’t vote for Trump. But here we are, we’re sitting in July, and the race is about Biden."        elite political and media class     “If you try [to dissent], then you don’t get invited to the next call."     inability to formulate clear responses on the fly and without a teleprompter    The day after the disaster debate, Biden made an "explanation about his poor performance and determination to “get back up” and keep fighting"...[and that was done] with the aid of a teleprompter   =:^(          [JE Feb 13 2025:  Biden's White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is not blamed or mentioned in these Internet sites.  But...foxnews.com  Joe Concha  my top five cringe KJP moments     Jen Psaki could lie, KJP couldn't think on her feet.]

election2024 2024 July 3  After June 27 debate between presidential candidates Biden and Trump, unusual because they both seek a second term, Biden maintains that he is fit as president and will continue his candidacy, despite deficiencies seen by everyone who watched.  The TV audience was large, 51 million, energized by months of controversy over whether Biden has dementia.     

     Politico  Jay Surdukowski, Democrat activist:  Biden is toast.  Raspy voice, disjointed, rambling answers, losing train of thought.  Trump says on the air, "I really don't know what he said at the end there.  I don't think he knows what he said."

     CNN Politics   Dem donor class is in crisis

     ABC News   [For months, video of Pres. Biden shows halting gait and verbal gaffes.]   The gamble did not pay off.   Higher taxes on the wealthiest...child care, elder care, strengthen our health care system. [People who do the math show that 100% marginal tax rate on the wealthiest does not pay for any of that.]     Sen. Coons:  Biden is the only one who can beat Trump.  [This is common knowledge, any Dem replacement would be far behind in name recognition.]   Biden quoted by ABC News web site:  Making sure that we're able to make every single solitary person eligible for what I've been able to do with the--with the COVID, excuse me--dealing with everything we have to do with, look...we finally beat Medicare.

     Politico   Dems really have no way to spin this.  The senior team's management of the president growing more strictly controlled as his term has gone on.  Great lengths to curate the information being presented [to Biden] in an effort to avoid provoking a negative reaction.  It's a Rorschach test, not a briefing.  People are scared _____ of him.  A perfect storm because he just gets more and more isolated from their efforts to control it.  Inside the White House, Biden's growing limitations were becoming apparent long before his debate meltdown.

     MSN   Chandler West, on Biden White House staff until May 2022:  I know how the White House operates...but for weeks and months, in private, they have all said what we saw [what a worldwide audience saw during the debate] -- Joe is not as strong."  A Dem campaign e-mail:  critics are a bed wetting brigade, self-important podcasters, MAGA uncles.

     NationalInterest.org   Biden is in it to win--and then could step down...Kamala Harris would be the first woman president.  

     Side note:  France election trend is toward far-right, Marine Le Pen, anti-immigration National Rally, inflation and low incomes, left behind by globalization

     Financial Times (London)   extensive panic on Capitol Hill, we need an open convention

     Rep. Jim Clyburn:  preparation overload [days and days at Camp David]

     KTVZ.com   The dictators of China, Russia, and Iran see the same Biden that Americans saw.  An opportunity to expedite their goal of ending America's status as the world's preeminent superpower.  [Chinese navy is occasionally playing dodge with U.S. Navy in international water in South China Sea.] 

     CNN Politics:  An Asian diplomat:  I could not believe my eyes.  Front page across Europe, newspapers excoriating the President.

     Yahoo News   R.T. Ryback:  elected officials remain 'shockingly silent' in public about replacing Biden for fear of political retribution.  But replacing Biden would create further division among Dems.  A weak Biden pulls down the Dem vote, up and down the ballot.  [This is why Dems don't pull the plug on Biden, doing so would practically guarantee a Trump win in November.  Dems are after a continuation in power, they don't care much at all about Biden the politician.  It is easy to argue that Dems are committing elder abuse.]

     This Morning, America's First News, with Gordon Deal, July 2 4 AM:  Biden's age front and center.  Dem senators and representatives who are seeking re-election are telling Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries that Biden is hurting their vote.  

     The Daily Caller   "Jill Biden Says She Understands Americans' Financial Pains While Wearing $10,000 Outfit for Vogue" [Magazine] Interview

     The Hill   Presidential aides shield Biden from big moments, including interviews and off-the-cuff interactions.  Backfired at the debate.  "Everyone has been on eggshells about this sort of thing happening."  "The staff watch him like a hawk to step in before a thing happens."  "Oh, God, is this the day when something sideways happens?"  

     Washington Examiner  March 7 2024  On MSNBC, March 6, Morning Joe Live, Joe Scarborough defends Biden.  In hours of talking with Biden, "might misplace a word here or there" but is really sharp.  The best Biden ever.  Because he has been around 50 years.  If it weren't the truth, I wouldn't say it.

     Axios   Stunned many because closest aides took steps early in his presidency to essentially rope off the president.  Even the White House residence staff is kept at arm's length.  The separation between the family and the residence staff was so big...it's not supposed to be.

     July 3     one month and two days before Kamala Harris takes over as Dem candidate for president.   Dem governors meet with Biden at White House.  Reuters:  they vow to stand with Biden.

Jan 7 2014 yahoo.com

Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has harsh words for Vice President Joe Biden’s foreign policy judgement in his soon-to-be-released memoir, Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War.  Gates calls Biden “a man of integrity,” but “I think he has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.”  [JE:  Once Hunter Biden's laptop divulged so much about millions made by Hunter, advising foreign companies but really just a personal connection to Joe Biden the U.S. VP, greasing the rails to get things done,    and the dozen or so shell companies, LLCs, that the payments were made to, then the funds divided up and shifted around to cover up the corruption, with 10% to the Big Man, the integrity of the Biden family is much in doubt.]

     Gates, the only high-level holdover from the Bush administration to President Barack Obama’s Cabinet, reveals he nearly quit his post in September 2009 while Obama reviewed his Afghanistan strategy...“deeply uneasy with the Obama White House’s lack of appreciation — from the top down — of the uncertainties and unpredictability of war."   Gates was a backer of a substantial troop increase for Afghanistan early in Obama’s first term, while Biden argued for a smaller counter-terrorism mission in the country.

Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton discussed their opposition to the 2007 Iraq surge in the context of politics. “Hillary told the president that her opposition to the [2007] surge in Iraq had been political because she was facing him in the Iowa primary. . . . The president conceded vaguely that opposition to the Iraq surge had been political. To hear the two of them making these admissions, and in front of me, was as surprising as it was dismaying.”

election2024 2024 July 5   one month before Kamala Harris takes over as Dem candidate for president.  Pres. Biden accepted (or advocated for??) an interview with Dem. media person and former Clinton White House communication director George Stephanopoulos, with the aim of answering critics of his debate with Trump on June 27.  The interview was recorded mid-day and aired at 8PM Eastern time.  To his great credit, Stephanopoulos was on air before the interview playback, saying ABC did not edit the 22 minute interview, "did not touch" the video.  Biden continued his strong push to continue as the Democrat presidential candidate despite falling polling.  He declined to be cognitively tested, and depends on the good bill of health given him early in 2024, details of which are available on-line.  (Some note that Biden's cognition deteriorates over the months, implying that a five-month-old medical report has limited validity now.  Significantly, the President's old-person gait is due to spinal arthritis.  But see below Dr. Tom Pitts.

     Yahoo News:  Longtime Biden friends say president didn't remember their names in social settings, New York Magazine source.  Decline a "dark family secret for many elite supporters."  "Opened the floodgates."  Olivia Nuzzi:  The Conspiracy of Silence to Protect Joe Biden.  (Title of web page on-line.)  She writes that people are suspecting "the president may not really be the acting president after all."     The New Republic (web site), interview with Semafor, "feared that some policy decisions were 'being made without' Biden's knowledge."  "I'm incredibly upset and scared for the country."      Politico:  David Axelrod:  "Fitness for the next four years, not his performance in the past four years."  [But Biden knows that any Dem. replacement would start from even further back, and Biden, by his words, says his candidacy is the best way to prevent the "pathological liar" Trump from winning.]  "Worse with every Democrat office holder who does not want to lose their seat."  Aide to a Dem governor:   Take everyone down with him."  

2024 July 6    Roman Catholic Archbishop Vigano, strident critic of Pope Francis (false prophet, servant of Satan), is excommunicated, or laicized.  He is aged 83.  See several notes about Vigano above in this time line, 2018 Nov, Dec, 2019 Feb, 1965, 2022 June 4, 2023 Dec.  Vigano has sought support, quoting Jesus:  "if you remain silent, the stones will cry out."  Writer JE can't find whether laicized priests lose pension.  A related case is Tyler, TX bishop Strickland, 2022 Dec 3, 2023 Nov 11.

2024 July 9   msn.com      Neurologist says Biden displays 'hallmark' symptoms of Parkinson's:  'Not a hard case' to diagnose        (JE was wondering where the networks are, isn't it easy to get a neurologist interviewed who can comment about Biden?  A talk show gave reference to Dr. Pitts.)

WH press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre  ;^)   fiery press briefing after the Trump-Biden "disaster" debate, where she insists Pres. Biden is "as sharp as ever."  Practically no one else agrees, even Democrats.      And the regular, intensive medical exams of Pres. Biden show no neurological trouble?  Contrast that with msn.com----Dr. Tom Pitts says "he has these classic features of neurodegeneration."  On NBC News Now.  "I could've diagnosed him from across the Mall."  Rigidity of movement a hallmark sign of Parkinson's.  Loss of arm swing.  Slow movement.  'En bloc' turning.    Dr. O'Connor Feb health report:  detailed neurologic exam ... no findings.      

Turning changes associated with Parkinson's Disease include the ‘en bloc’ phenomenon where upper and lower body segments turn simultaneously, a longer duration of turn, less accurate turn completion, a narrower base of support and the use of ‘step turns’ rather than ‘pivot turns’     YouTube  Abnormal Gait Exam:  Parkinsonian Gait Demonstration       YouTube News Nation On Balance with Leland Vittert   Dr. Drew Pinsky    it is fair for doctors to view a video and "describe what we see."  Lack of facial expression, motoric slowing    constellation of symptoms         Spectacular news on July 21, Biden drops out of presidential race.

2022 July 31  georgesoros web site, referencing Wall Street Journal article written by Soros or his organization     "I'm concerned about crime."  "Yet our system is rife with injustices."                  This article sets out a thoughtful plan of Soros, but the soft-on-crime DAs are soon causing crime;  maybe the "research" that Soros looks at is faulty, pie in the sky.  

election2024 2024 Aug 5   Kamala Harris wins the Democrat presidential nomination in a virtual roll call of delegates to the convention;  the convention will start Aug 19, two weeks after Harris is coronated as candidate.  

election2024 2024 Aug 6    90 days before election  Expected Dem VP candidate Shapiro is passed over in favor of Gov. Walz.  What is the problem with Shapiro?  The right press notices that he is the Jew in the frontrunners.  He is pro-Israel on several issues, while Dems are paying outsized attention to pro-Palestinians, though Shapiro and Walz agree on a lot about Israel, and Walz is not Jewish.  There is lots about Walz for critics to harp on, he signed a Minnesota bill that places feminine hygiene products in boy's school bathrooms, a pro-trans item.  NRCC chairman says, "Harris' ideological comfort zone remains at the very far left fringes of her party."  Candidate Trump said on Truth Social, "THANK YOU."  David Hahn:  Walz did nothing to stop riots in Minneapolis after George Floyd killing.  (While Kamala was raising bail money to get arrested people back on the streets.)  

election2024 2024 Aug 20  Clay and Buck Show makes such a to-do about the lies of Pres. Biden during his hour-long speech concluding the first night of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.  (Pres. Biden had finally accepted Dem elites such as Pelosi telling him to end his campaign so that a younger Dem could be president in the next four years.  Pres. Biden really looked pretty good on this night, at 10:30PM, but at other times looks demented.)  

https://www.politifact.com/article/2024/aug/20/fact-check-biden-hillary-2024-dnc-day-1-chicago/

(JE:  beware politifact, it may be strongly partisan)

Biden: "And you know, Trump will do everything to ban abortion nationwide."  DNC video advertisement: Trump said, "There has to be some form of punishment" for women who have abortions.

Mostly false

Biden: "Instead of paying $400 a month for insulin, seniors with diabetes will pay $35 a month."

Half True.  Medicare enrollees likely were not paying $400 a month before these changes.

Biden: "Trump wants to cut Social Security and Medicare."

Mostly False for Social Security and Mostly False for Medicare.

Biden: "On (Trump’s) watch the murder rate went up 30%, the biggest increase in history."

Half True.

Biden: The average semiconductor industry salary "will be over $100,000 a year, and you don't need a college degree."

Mostly False, more like $70,000.

Biden: "We have 1,000 billionaires in America. You know what their average tax rate (is)? 8.2%."

False. 

Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill.: "Want to have a child, but need IVF? Too bad. That’s shut down, too (under Trump)."

False. 

U.S. Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif.: "While schools closed, and dead bodies filled morgues, Donald Trump downplayed [COVID-19]. He told us to inject bleach into our bodies."

Mostly False.  [Governing Dems often went to extremes with shutdowns.]

Other disputed things were found true by the checkers.  Trump is often found to be false by fact checkers, but that is often because when Trump says there was no inflation in 2020, he means there was small enough inflation that inflation was not alarming.

election2024 2024 Aug 16 https://news.yahoo.com/news/harris-economic-plan-promises-voters-191008316.html

Harris' economic plan promises voters affordable groceries and homes. Don't fall for it.  Nicole Russell, USA TODAY

Up to $25,000 in down payment assistance.  Where will that money come from? What will it do to home prices?  Place a federal ban on price gouging for groceries.  (oldest tricks in the book: Demonize companies for capitalism.)  The Washington Post: "When your opponent calls you 'communist,' maybe don't propose price controls?" Writer Catherine Rampell.  A $6,000 tax credit for newborn?  Most of these are ideas rooted in a socialist approach to economics.  Expanding government's reach, restraints on the free market.  [JE:  were Harris' parents Marxist?  The New Yorker Donald Harris is a renowned Marxist economist from Jamaica.  New York Post  Marxist dad issued warning against mass immigration:  'Serious problem for blacks,' 1988 paper 'Black Economic Progress:  An Agenda for the 1990s.'  "Typical of far-left economic thinking on immigration."]

election2024 2024 Aug 19 77 days before election  First day of Dem National Convention, many speakers and singers delay Pres. Biden until well past prime time.  Speculation that since he is out of the election, it is best to remove him as much as possible from the prime time, in case he stumbles.    Yahoo News:  Nate Silver, the delays were by design.       Mark Knoller:  "Biden was booted...out of prime time."    Transcript from TIME, these are quotes:  what I saw in Charlottesville in Aug 2017, extremists coming out of the woods, carrying torches, their veins bulging from their necks...Neo-Nazis, white supremacists, Ku Klux Klan...didn't even bother to wear their hoods.  Hate was on the march.                 Biden left out the fact that KKK was southern Dems.  

CNN fact checks Dem statements during first day of DNC.  The CNN web page is copyrighted, so here are just some phrases, but the net is that there was a lot of lying.  

Democratic state and federal officeholders, including President Joe Biden, delivered some false, misleading or lacking-key-context claims.  Biden repeated misleading claims...overstated...outdated...omitted context...Sen. Dick Durbin...without mentioning the critical context... Sen. Mallory McMorrow falsely claimed... Rep. Robert Garcia misleadingly...wrongly saying Trump had instructed Americans to inject bleach.

JE:  Not saying that Republicans don't lie, but are these DNC lies consequential?  Sure they are.  The leading Dem claim that Trump lies over and over about a stolen 2020 election is walking a fine line;  NPR says 44,000 votes in Georgia, Arizona and Wisconsin separated Biden and Trump from a tie in the Electoral College.  JE:  Aug 26 2024 Texas has recently removed 500,000 dead people from voter rolls.  Up to 2000 people, immigrants unqualified to vote, may have voted in 2020.  When a political race is so narrowly balanced, a little fraud can switch the election.

[DNC speech  In a big white straw hat] JAVIER SALAZAR, BEXAR COUNTY SHERIFF: On the other side of the border the traffickers, they pack migrants into 18-wheelers like cattle, fifty, a hundred at a time, then they seal the doors. That is where the 911 calls come. We hear them, desperate, terrified , gasping for air.

Sometimes, we get there in time. Sometimes, despite our best efforts we can't.

When Donald Trump comes down to Texas and stands next to officers in uniforms, just like mine, he is not there to help us. Don't think that, not for a second. He is a self-serving man. I mean look, just like when he killed the border bill, he just made our jobs harder.  [The border bill was stopped in the U.S. Senate for multiple reasons, including inadequate time to examine and amend.  Numerous border sheriffs are Trump supporters.]

Kamala, on the other hand has been fighting border crime for years. She has gone down to Mexico and worked to stop the traffickers. When the traffickers didn't stop, she put them in jail. Now, down in my neck in the woods we call that fooling around and finding out.

I may be paraphrasing a bit. We protectors -- the border sheriffs that I know and I, we're like Kamala. We protect and serve, we enforce the law. We show compassion and we fight like hell to protect our border. Because that's what's all we've always known in Texas.

Cuando peleamos ganamos. When we fight we win.    JE:  Sheriff Salazar is sheriff in my county, Bexar County.  He is distinctly partisan whereas SAPD chief McManus seems to stay out of politics.  Salazar is criticized by most Texas border sheriffs.

"When the traffickers didn't stop, she put them in jail" statement by Salazar may be reference to https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-kamala-d-harris-announces-takedown-contra-costa-gangs-nets-35 in 2011 and Operation Road Trip in 2014.  But Salazar said what he said to be ambiguous.  Joe Pags Show originating in San Antonio accused Salazar of lying right and left in his short DNC speech.    It may be that DNC set up Salazar to make a statement that Kamala can hang her hat on in subsequent campaigning.  Sheriff Salazar is an outspoken Dem while San Antonio PD police chief McManus seems to be above politics.

election2024 Sidebar Program by Nico LaHood with Karen and George WOAI Saturday San Antonio Aug 24 2024 

JE interpretations.

Americans are in tribes.  More emotion and less reason.

Walz essentially says government does whatever it wants and don't you complain about it.   That is the way he governed Minnesota during COVID-19 and during riots after George Floyd death.   Walz is communist, says Nico. 

DNC (Dem National Convention in Chicago) hid who they are.  No policies mentioned because they are after power, and you don't need policies or consistency to exercise power.  Policies get in the way of power, when you want to switch policies.  There are no moral principles behind Dem power.  JE:  Around Aug 26, more and more talk about Kamala Harris being vague in her campaign speeches, saying nothing where she can be pinned down or charged with 180-degree changes to what she advocates.

Battle of world views.  Dems are in a delusional bubble.   Can anything Dems want be reduced to policies or platform?  (Is there reason behind Dem power?  Is it merely capricious rule by elites?)    

[Abortion is an exception to principles-free ruling, if that industry has principles of population reduction or female freedom from responsible sex, Dems endorse it.  Not complaining that women are responsible for unwanted pregnancies, it is just that women are usually able to say no to men.  Men have equal responsibility in creating unwanted pregnancy.]

Bexar County Sheriff Salazar has lost himself to politics, some local people call him Hollywood Javier.  No one holds him to account.  Nico has known him for years.

The border bill defeat that Sheriff Salazar blamed on Republicans:  the border bill was bad legislation, it would have been bad if Congress had passed it and Pres. Biden had signed it.  It had a lot of click bait.  It codified illegal migration.  The 5000 per day threshold for its intended application would have been meaningless because no one would be counting anyway. 

About Robert F Kennedy Jr. endorsement of Trump and RFK cessation of his independent presidential campaign:  RFK Jr cares about children and cares about damage done to children by COVID policies and school closures. His family remains true to Dem machine and turned against him.

George:  I would love RFK Jr to be Secretary of Dept of Health and Human Services.  Here is how HHS describes itself:  Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), Head Start, child care, and child support help individuals, families, and communities.  Informing you about food, drugs, medical devices, violence prevention.  Flu, vaccines, tobacco, health care, mental health, food safety, bullying, HIV/AIDS.  Poverty Guidelines.

Kamala said during the DNC that the border is secure.  This has been a widespread claim in the Biden Administration.  [JE:  this is a lie.] Despite surges in illegal crossings, crossings away from ports of entry, "got-aways."

FACTSHEET: Final FY23 Numbers Show Worst Year at America’s Borders—Ever   October 26, 2023   WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the House Committee on Homeland Security...    and this House committee makes this web site only because Republicans have a (tenuous) majority in the House.  Otherwise, the House would be as ineffective toward border control as the Senate is.

AB-1840 California   Politico  By Eric He 08/26/2024 A first-in-the-nation California proposal could make undocumented immigrants eligible for up to $150,000 [per home] in state-supported home loans [JE:  how much of this is subsidy, taxpayers giving money to migrants?] just as immigration has become an incendiary topic in the presidential election.  JE:  California has high income tax plus sales tax, making it so expensive to live in California that the middle class can hardly afford home or apartment.  And wildfires are boosting fire insurance in areas that have trees close to dwellings, which is why the town of Paradise burned up.

election2024 2024 Aug 23  73 days before election    Fox News  Robert F. Kennedy Jr. withdraws, asks supporters to vote for Trump.  Said in Phoenix that the Democratic Party "waged continual legal warfare against both President Trump and myself," and "ran a sham primary."  "Relentless, systematic censorship and media control."    DNC battled Kennedy and his supporters at nearly every step as he worked to place his name on the ballot in all 50 states.       Kennedy described the modern Democratic Party as "the party of war, censorship, corruption, big pharma, big tech, big ag, and big money."

"The DNC waged continual legal warfare against both President Trump and myself," said Kennedy. "Each time that our volunteers turned in those towering boxes of signatures needed to get on the ballot, the DNC dragged us into court, state after state, attempting to erase their work and disappear with the will of the voters, which signed those petitions." 

"It deployed DNC aligned judges to throw me and other candidates off the ballot, and to throw President Trump in jail."    Meeting personally with Trump..."we are aligned on many key issues," said Kennedy of the meetings.        Kennedy will become Secretary of HHS in five months

election2024 The Atlantic   "Democratic Party:  Now, as ever, it is a bit of a mess."  [Because of rampant identity politics?]  "This can make for an awkward production [thinking of a national party convention as a production, and this DNC was a production]."  "Tried to put a chipper face on."  "Politics of joy."  [JE:  a meaningless phrase to distract voters.]    Demonstrators outside, at Union Park, "condemned Harris as responsible for the bloodshed in Gaza."      JE:  When we took our granddaughters to Chicago on our return Amtrak trip from upstate NY, NH, VT, we stayed in Chicago Loop on night of July 4, 2023, three months after the April 16 youth riot in the northeast corner of the Loop, knowing that Chicago had to clamp down on violence before the Dem National Convention a year later.  And Chicago got it done.

election2024 2024 Aug 26  https://unherd.com/2024/08/the-democrats-have-pulled-off-a-miracle/   David Samuels        Kamala Harris' "thankless appointment as the Administration’s “Border Tsar”...negative profiles in reliably liberal outlets, which suggested that Harris was a capricious, unlikeable boss who had trouble retaining staff and was out of her depth in a policy role."  "In the three weeks before the convention, Harris was duly transformed from a surly, almost forgotten loser in DC power games to a shining new star whose watchword was “joy”."  The goal of Harris' campaign was just to beat Trump [, not for any better reason].  During her Dem Convention acceptance speech, "abandon positivity and recycle old attack lines...her voice became unpleasantly insinuating and cynical...like a hack."  "Obama wields his stiletto in the dark."  "Disintegration of the agreed-upon pseudo-reality in which Joe Biden was running the country."

election2024 2024 Aug 27 Clay Travis on Clay and Buck Show  FBI had Hunter's laptop and knew it was valid, but someone in FBI steered FBI to warn press that laptop was Russian disinformation, and this kept Biden's image of grandfatherly benefactor to the U.S. from being trashed by a laptop scandal.  Kept Trump from winning the election.  Clay says this is a scandal way beyond Watergate.  Mark Zuckerberg confirmed some of this to House committee Aug 26, a letter.  After four years, no one in FBI is held accountable.  Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson calls into the show.  Sabotaging our investigation of Hunter.  They were essentially told by the FBI, "no one who cooperates with this will get in trouble."  Coordinated with warnings to Twitter, Facebook, liberal media, etc. to bury the truth in the laptop until after Biden inaugurated.

     Senator Johnson "resisted stay at home orders, used his chairmanship of the Senate Homeland Security Committee to invite witnesses who promoted fringe theories about COVID-19 and spread misinformation about COVID-19 vaccinations."  This is a quote from a liberal editor of Wikipedia.  More liberal Wikipedia:  "Johnson rejects the scientific consensus on climate change."  

election2024 2024 Aug 28   68 days before election Clay Travis    Clay and Buck Program on radio    paraphrase by JE     Kamala Harris has a whole staff of advisors.  They are so terrified that she will say something harmful to her campaign that they won't let her be interviewed.  She is a chameleon, she is walking back many of the statements she made as vice president.  Eliminate the electric vehicle mandates.  Build more Southwest border wall.  On the other hand, uniformed, armed public-school security police (campus police) must be eliminated.  These pronouncements are because she wants to win against Trump and she says whatever she thinks will appeal to undecided voters.  She has no foundational principles backing up her values, everything is ad hoc.

     "Kamala is no genius."  She took two tries to pass the bar exam.  Gov. Walz is a moron, I think.  (Paraphrase the on-air radio show.)

     I get death threats for what I say on the radio.  I have private security to protect my family.  The security officer told me he counted local police driving by on the street, twelve times last night.  They have my back.  How about the FBI, when we know the FBI influenced social media to ignore the Hunter laptop?  My local police have my back, but I don't know about that FBI.

     The New York Times and Washington Post are abandoning much of their advertising revenue source in favor of revenue through Internet subscription.  They no longer report truth.  What they tell subscribers is what the liberal subscribers want to hear, that they are the good people and Republicans are the evil people.  NYT and the Post are ignoring the current story, Zuckerberg (Meta, used to be Facebook) writing to the House Judiciary Committee chaired by Jim Jordan about censorship (about Hunter's laptop) promoted by FBI, and how Facebook complied, but Meta would probably not comply today.  (Other censorship was about COVID vaccine effectiveness.)  

     Jim Jordan (R Ohio) live with Clay on Aug 28.  Facebook was steering traffic depending on the politics advocated on web sites, and Facebook took away my (Clay's Outkick) traffic.  A big financial impact.  

     James Bennet 2023 Dec 14  https://www.economist.com/1843/2023/12/14/when-the-new-york-times-lost-its-way    Quotes from a very long article.

Polarization and social media viciously enforce rigid orthodoxies.  [He means progressive orthodoxies, and there are certainly conservative sources that enforce conservative orthodoxy.]  Your own side demonizes for fear they will harm its [own] cause.  Times and other mainstream news organizations failed plenty of times to live up to their commitments to integrity.   The national media followed the money by serving partisan audiences the versions of reality they preferred.  To assert that the Times plays by the same rules it always has is to commit a hypocrisy that is transparent to conservatives, dangerous to liberals and bad for the country.  Progressive elite talks to itself about an America that does not really exist.

election2024 2024 Sept 1  speculation by John Engelbrecht    After seeing Rick Steves in Leipzig and Dresden Germany, both in eastern Germany as is Berlin, which were sites of giant battles in 1800s and in WWII (Leipzig, the Battle of Nations which defeated Napoleon), I think this:  Americans fought and died in WWII in these places (less so in WWII Japan, the fire-bombed cities in Japan were witnessed by few Americans) and brought home memories of awful death and destruction.  Surely those memories affected politics in the U.S.  Those WWII veterans have died, now, and no longer affect U.S. politics.  Is this why U.S. politics is so toxic now?  I do not see this in the media, so I can claim it as an original thought, for all I know.

2024 Sept 18    Sean "Diddy" Combs, now age 54, a rich (maybe $800 million) "music mogul," has gotten himself a lot of trouble, and quickly once things started rolling, because some women are complaining in court (Cassie Ventura) and Homeland Security has collected much evidence, March raid of Combs' LA and Miami properties.  This is a big difference from what happened with Epstein and Weinstein, where cases dragged for years.  (This time, with Combs, a racketeering conspiracy charge.)  How many more powerful men are now going to face consequences?  Are they busy combing through logs and destroying evidence?  Are Combs' facilitators, among his paid staffs, going to be indicted?  Are the hotels where he rented suites or floors in trouble for letting anything happen during a day or up to three days, when freak offs typically destroy furniture, floors, and walls, and hotels charge Combs for repairs?  Don't they know what is coming?  Does a hotel need to buy into the idea that personal freedom is limitless?

Two sources   https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/diddy-arrest-prosecution-cassie-change-game-rcna171534

https://www.businessinsider.com/sean-combs-diddy-appeal-jail-conditions-trial-prep-2024-9?op=1

He is in jail in a "notoriously violent and uncomfortable" Brooklyn jail, denied bond because "victims [allege] he tries to threaten and control witnesses."

"Combs could send "coded messages" to obstruct justice," sending them to his many employees.  ""Security staff, household staff, personal assistants, and high-ranking supervisors” of his companies."

"For more than a decade Combs planned and ran an elaborate series of "Freak Offs" — highly orchestrated s    performances, typically held at hotels, at which he used drugs, violence, and threats to coerce [invited and unpaid] women [and drugged them, and men, with cocaine, ecstasy, GHB and ketamine] into s    activity with" paid male pr         , blackmailing the women to stay quiet.  "Combs reached out [using smart phone media, for which call logs generally can't be erased] to victims dozens of times to try to feed them false narratives that they had willingly engaged in ..."    Judge "strained to understand why the [defense attorney would say the] example of violence caught on tape...should not be an indication that he's a danger to people around him."  "He still has "vast resources" at his disposal to help him flee if he wanted to, and alleging that he repeatedly called grand jury witnesses to get them to change their stories about him."  [Is this witness tampering?]

   "Jeffrey Epstein and Harvey Weinstein — like Combs — were prosecuted in New York, and their...prosecutions experienced critical delays and derailments.  In Epstein’s case, he was not indicted...[until] more than a decade after reaching a...deal in Florida that allowed him to resume his pattern of r_ _ _ and ... abuse of minors."  "Epstein and Weinstein...crimes were also facilitated and then concealed by a coterie of employees, publicists and friends."  In Combs' present case, 120 smart phones and other computer parts in custody have evidence.  Three AR-15s with defaced serial numbers.  Evidence from 300 grand jury subpoenas.  "Squirreling away his victims in hotels...to recover from injuries Combs inflicted."  

As of Nov 2024, Combs is still in jail.

     complex.com...turned-him-into-a-monster:  ex-bodyguard Gene Deal...the music industry changed him...when he lived in Cali, Colombia and Miami he turned into Godzilla.  He learned from Andre Harrell, Russell Simmons [alleged victim's public notice starting 2017 for assault in late 1990s]...make him think he can get away with the same thing...he knew he was wrong.  "Shyne took the fall in 1999 shooting in which Diddy was acquitted."

     Various Internet sources:  Hip hop music lyrics are sometimes about Black Americans being disproportionately punished through the legal system.  JE:  Blacks surely do show up in prisons far in excess of their percentage of population, but that is because there is more urban crime among Blacks.  Fewer tips to police, fewer witness testimonies in court, more fear of reprisal from gangs, less cooperation from communities where there is nightly gunfire on the streets, crowds of witnesses melting away from around the bodies on the sidewalk when police arrive.  Hip hop lyrics complain about racism.     But should the lyrics popularize hate of police?  Famous [or infamous, for prosecuting former Pres. Trump] Fani Willis, Atlanta-area DA:  "Prosecuting 26 alleged members of the Drug Rich Gang, who are charged with kidnappings, armed robberies, shootings and high-profile home invasions."  “If you decide to admit your crimes over a beat, I’m going to use it.”  “I’m not targeting anyone, but however, you do not get to commit crimes in my county and then decide to brag on it.”  https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/31/us/rapper-lyrics-used-against-them-court/index.html

How much does First Amendment protect free speech violence in lyrics?

2024 Sept  New Oxford Review, a conservative Catholic journal, p. 30 by Pieter Vree chief editor  "A Machiavellian on the Throne of Peter?"   Theme:  Pope Francis takes opposing sides, who knows what he really promotes.      Pope Francis "the greatest dissembler (hiding his true nature behind false public statements) the papacy has ever known."  Known from leaks:  May 20 2024 Francis talks to 200 Italian bishops, "there is already enough [homosexuality] in Catholic seminaries."  June 2024 Francis talks to priests of Diocese of Rome, "In the Vatican, there is an air of [homosexuality]."  But another June meeting, Francis tells Catholic traditionalists they are not okay, they are guardians of the ashes of the past.      He "keeps us mired in confusion."  "In early June...appointed three men to posts in the DDF.  One commonality these three share is their open promotion of homosexuality...Jose Cardinal Tolentino de Mendonca...Marcello Cardinal Semeraro...Archbishop Bruno Forte...prominent pro-gay voice."  "Speaking out of both sides of his mouth...queering of the Church."  "Soundbite approach to theology."  See this time line, New Oxford Review May 2024:  Victor Manuel Fernandez, celibacy "up for discussion."

2024 Sep 19  Are southern-border migrants shunted off to child labor and prost_ _ _ _ _ _ _?  Yes.  NYPost.com  Seedy NYC 'Market of Sweethearts' raided.  Queens.  DHS has found plenty of youth cleaning slaughterhouses all night.  

election2024 2024 Sept 25  40 days before election  Clay and Buck Show, they say that Democrats are in a presidential campaign mode of "whatever it takes."  The hate of Donald Trump is so extreme, though much of the criticism of Trump is not true, that the Kamala Harris campaign doesn't care that she takes certain positions four years ago but flip-flops now.  She flip flops because she is looking for votes, she is buying votes by promising to do things, and her advisers calculate how many votes are lost vs. gained by flip flopping any policy.  But if she casually changes her mind about Mexican border wall, electric vehicle mandate, eliminating private health insurance, ICE, defunding police, Green New Deal, how many more things can she flip flop if she is elected president?  Should the American public accept frequent changes of policy that seem to be devoid of undergirding values?        Harris is granting few interviews.  Conservatives charge that she is hiding from the press and the public.

     Same day, Pres. Biden on The View ABC says if he had continued in presidential race of 2024, he would have beaten Trump.  Polls at the time of Biden's dropping out disagreed.  ABC News recently:  Schumer and Pelosi pressured him to drop out.  On The View, Biden repeats his criticism of Trump:  not a social redeeming value there, not believe in democracy.  Trump supporters charge that the criticisms of Trump are generally true of Biden and Harris, not Trump, if you hear a Democrat leader complaining about something, it is often more true that the Democrat speaker himself is guilty of the charge.

election2024 2024 Sept 30   deskooled.com  American Federation of Teachers, associated with AFL-CIO and co-founded by notorious progressive John Dewey;  Pres. Randi Weingarten:  Patriots are Undermining Democracy     This is the type of Dem campaigning that will repel enough Dem voters to let Trump win.

2024 Oct 2  Nature magazine  https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03190-y

Largest brain map ever reveals fruit fly’s neurons in exquisite detail

140,000 neurons and captures more than 54.5 million synapses

8,453 types of neurons — much more than anyone had expected. Of these, 4,581 were newly discovered.

2024 Oct 12  Durant announces largest prime number is proven, 41 million digits.  He spent $2 million, networking commercial computers in data centers, since 2023 October.  

2024 Oct 3 NBC News  By Kevin Collier

The FBI and Microsoft have seized 107 web domains they say Russian intelligence (Star Blizzard, Callisto Group) used for cyber-espionage.  Russia’s FSB intelligence agency ... spear phishing campaign ... think tanks, NGOs, defense foreign affairs, and security policies, as well as nuclear energy related technology, research, and development, all of which is particularly valuable to the Russian government’s efforts to engage in malign foreign influence operations within the United States,” the FBI said in the affidavit.  Another web site:  "only scratching the surface."  

2024 Oct  A Story About Federal Government Onerous Regulation

affecting apartment renters, when costs due to regulation are a hot topic after Donald Trump elected in the Nov 2024 election.

The regulation:  NSPIRE HUD inspections (came about in 2023) of rental complexes (and rental homes and small developments) when only a fraction receive subsidy so that low-income renters pay a fraction of rent.  

The complex:  eight years old, far west Bexar County, suburban, dense population, one and two bedroom, single story with some renters disabled and elderly, part brick, 9 foot ceilings, granite countertops in kitchen and bathrooms, fire sprinklers.  Nice pool, exercise equipment.  The original plantings were nice but over 50% of shrubs died in freezes and droughts and have not been replaced, so the complex doesn't look so nice anymore.  Two maintenance men for 200 units.

Inspection routine:  residents notified, full-page checklist supplied.  "Windows not obstructed by furniture" in case of need to evacuate in a fire.  JE feared our nice outside shrubs would be cut down because they might impair evacuation through windows, but that hasn't happened in the month after inspection.  Pair of inspectors checked that all windows stay up when opened so that a resident can bust out screen and climb out in a fire without being pinned by the window sliding down.  Smoke alarms tested.  Followup paperwork showed some housekeeping needs, which we took care of but we were left guessing about whether we took care of enough.  The inspectors are trained and we don't know the details of what they are looking for.  JE looked on Internet and found that NSPIRE requirements are 100 pages long, more or less.  Some deficiencies, the "life-threatening" like exposed wires, must be fixed in 24 hours, others have up to two months.  JE has an eight-foot-long work table that blocks a window in the second bedroom, the one without bed but used for computer equipment and hobby, but it has two hinged leaves and I cleared one and propped it up, giving some window access, but who knows if that is enough.  Leasing office notified residents there would be spot checks of 15% of units, mix of full-pay and subsidized.  We were not inspected.  Don't know if next inspection is one year or three years.  This process gave the residents who care quite a bit of anxiety, we don't know how heavy-handed the inspectors will be if they select our unit.  We wonder if rent will go up to cover extra maintenance.  

     Nov 14:  JE looked on Internet and found housing authority accounts.  Virginia FAAR--constrained supply of lower-price-point rental units.  NSPIRE is "incredibly copious and far-reaching."  "Landlords may be driven away from the program."  "Sweep all landlords into this complex inspection process instead of targeting the bad actors."  FAAR asks for "more flexibility for inspectors to work with landlords."  The Oklahoman--"housing authority grappling with staffing."  Score of 7 out of 100 for 448 scattered sites.  An unfunded mandate.  Costly upgrades like adding breaker and wiring to place refrigerator on an unshared breaker, and keep outlets six feet from plumbing.  "New source of administrative red tape."  "Mountain of follow-up paperwork."  Maintenance has to submit photos of repairs.  Some upgrades require licensed contractors, very expensive.

2024 Oct  E-mail to JE is suspicious, I did not open the e-mail.  Chase Bank web site warns of ongoing fraud like this.  From their copyrighted web page, a fraud text message can say, “from the...Fraud Department. Did you initiate a payment for $XX? Y or N”

Upon a response of “N,” the fraudster calls you to inquire about a bogus transaction.

If you say it is invalid, the fraudster...offers to freeze your accounts, with a code to your smart phone. It is actually a password reset code whereby they access your online accounts. 

2024 Oct 4  In a span of 9 hours, JE sees orthodox Christians in the U.S. in two different lights.    1) pessimistic, New Oxford Review Oct 2024, Prof. Caitlin Smith Gilson "Twilight of the Universities", and 2) optimistic about orthodox Catholics, an Internet article by AP News by Tim Sullivan, 2024 Ap 30, many new U.S. Roman Catholic priests are orthodox, or conservative, and parishes in their influence are turning orthodox.  Though progressives in those parishes get offended and leave.  Parallel to United Methodist Church shrinking and Global United Church, orthodox, growing.

     Pessimism Prof. Gilson writes in New Oxford Review.  She talks in a roundabout way to avoid condemning one university, but it seems she, a conservative Catholic philosophy professor, and the entire theology department were fired from University of Holy Cross and replaced by woke-minded liberals.  But among the universities Gilson has taught at, maybe another one is the one she refers to.  To remain in academe, they all had to find new teaching positions, and most had to take low-pay, entry-level positions, as there are no tenured positions held in reserve.  What she writes is along the lines of decades of advancing progressivism in U.S. Catholic church, which is showing signs of turning around.  Her experience was a sudden "wokening" at her university.  The fired professors were pretty much marched to the edge of campus, never to return.  Some phrases:  intellect, wisdom, and common sense once commingled in most universities.  Deadening identity politics sweeping through, progressivism free from basic principles, fraudulent language games, every drive is a lust to rule [in other articles, the phrase is that progressives and Marxists operate by power].  New, conservative universities are Hillsdale, Ave Maria, and University of Dallas.  

     (Parallel between 1) woke and 2) purposeless evolution by mutations.  They both operate by power and are ready to dismiss faculty for failing the litmus test.)

     More phrases.  Suppressing essential civilizational values under the banner of the cult of the victim.  Following Descartes;  see this time line for the depredations of Descartes.  Truth and freedom are nonrational in the woke mind.  Critical Race Theory is hallowed ground, it celebrates all that is opposed to Catholic teaching.  Catholicism becomes a discomfort and oppression.  Sexual politics is often a catalyst.  

     Optimism The counterpoint to what Gilson writes about is AP News, https://apnews.com/article/catholic-church-shift-orthodoxy-tradition-7638fa2013a593f8cb07483ffc8ed487.  Tim Sullivan, 2024 Ap 30.  A Step Back in Time:  America's Catholic Church sees an immense shift toward the old ways.  In liberal Madison Wisconsin is St. Maria Goretti Catholic Church with a new pastor in 2021.  "Sermons were focusing more on sin and confession [the confession booth]. Priests were rarely seen without cassocks.  At the parish elementary school, students began hearing about abortion and hell."  Two generations liberalized by Vatican II are dying and falling away from church attendance, and are being replaced by young families with many children, families that respond to "no contraception," who do not fret about overpopulation.  [This is also a trend at Calvary Hills Baptist in San Antonio.]  "An outspoken 72-year-old priest at Blessed Trinity Parish in Cleveland, was blunter: “They’re just waiting for us to die.”"  

Voices for orthodoxy:  Sister Miriam James, Jackie Francois Angel, Mike Schmitz.

https://chastityproject.com/2014/02/the-devil-wants-you-to-settle-in-your-relationship/        Jackie Francois Angel

"Most American Catholics are far from orthodox...support abortion rights...birth control.  Those Catholics are not in church."  "Conservatives increasingly dominate the U.S. Catholic Bishops Conference and the Catholic intellectual world. They include ... six of the nine U.S. Supreme Court justices.  Then there’s the priesthood.  Young priests driven by liberal politics and progressive theology, so common in the 1960s and 70s, have “all but vanished.""  Mention of the Tyler, TX conservative Bishop Joseph E. Strickland, excommunicated.  Also look on-line for Archbishop Vigano, a potent critic of Pope Francis.  Pope Francis criticizes the conservatism, “Being backward-looking is useless.”  Yet Pope Francis holds onto most tradition.  Benedictine College is conservative, double enrollment in 20 years.

So much space is given to the 2024 Presidential election because the outcome is being called the most significant election in decades.

election2024 2024 Oct 8   27 days to election  Kamal Harris on The View show is asked what she would have done differently from Biden.  "Not a thing that comes to mind."  On Nov 6 CNN web site, she immediately know that was not the best answer.  Aides start cleaning it up, because lots of Americans are complaining about inflation and other deficits of the Biden presidency.  Aides new to her campaign exerted control.  "She struggled with preparation.  She grew hesitant."

election2024 2024 Oct 12     https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/for-liberals-a-familiar-sinking-feeling-returns/ar-AA1s7qOR

JE sees web site, Oct 12 2024, which makes John think that feminist ideas, young women convinced that marriage is slavery, not wanting a man ruling them in a marriage, thinking of pregnancy as a disease, but they want the government to be a substitute provider and protector.  And they are solid Kamala Harris voters.

Liberals think, "We can't stop worrying about it because so much is at stake."  "I truly believe [Trump] will continue to undo some of the constitutional rights and perpetuate a sense of fear, disrespect to minority groups, and bring more instability to an already extremely fragile and divided country," she said.  Peterson, from Colorado, echoed those concerns.  "I'm honestly just scared things will never go back to how they were, having debates where the parties are professional, respectful and actually care about the people they're representing," she said.

But conservatives take these very worries of liberals and show that Kamala Harris as president could produce the very things that liberals fear from Trump!  In fewer words, it is so often true that what Dems accuse Republicans of is exactly what Dems are doing!  

Whereas liberals worry about "So much is at stake," "undo some of the constitutional rights," conservatives fear that the most liberal (some say) presidential candidate, Kamala Harris, could trash constitutional rights...BBC 8 Oct 2020: "GovTrack...lists her as the most liberal of all 100 senators...she was "open" to discussing the highly controversial idea" of adding two or four Supreme Court justices...defunding of police departments, as many liberal Democrats desire...legalizing marijuana at the national level [when New York legalized marijuana, New York City residents noted the dramatic stink along city streets]...one of the first top Democrats to join Senator Bernie Sanders' 2017 Medicare for All...co-sponsor of the Green New Deal...$10 trillion climate plan for net-zero emissions by 2045...promised to use executive action to enact stricter gun control...supported highly contentious taxpayer-funded abortions...proposed providing all workers with six months paid family leave for personal or medical issues...large companies should be required to be "equal pay certified"...path to citizenship to the millions of undocumented [migrants] living in the US [then they would be a Dem voting bloc that would overwhelm Republicans], decriminalizing border crossings by undocumented immigrants and providing taxpayer-funded healthcare for those crossing the US border without papers.

Whereas liberals worry about "Disrespect to minority groups," "actually care about the people," conservatives know that the Democratic Party machine routinely harvests votes of minorities (and "identity-politics" voters) and then forgets about them until the next presidential election, thus disrespecting them.  Evidence that Republicans care more about people.  (Government policies affect people, and Republicans have policies that are better for families:  Teamsters Union not endorsing a presidential candidate in 2024, breaking with three decades of endorsing Dem.  Teamsters internal polling:  60% for Trump, 34% for Harris.)

Whereas liberals worry about "Instability to an already extremely fragile and divided country," but big-city mayors let the riots proceed after George Floyd died (such as Kamala Harris' running mate, Tim Walz, then governor of Minnesota, who didn't interfere with Minneapolis burning), abundant Dem lies during the 2024 presidential campaign (liberal U.S. news media let them lie and don't challenge it, in the name of 'free speech') (Dems lie and repeat the lie so often that people start believing it).  Dems are now in the business of garnering power as their reason for existing;  intelligent and rational governance is of little concern to Dems.  (Progressives in the umbrella of postmodernism are after power, not rights.)  This makes one recall how the Bolsheviks came to power in Russia, they pulled a black curtain around their ruling elite and carried out random killing campaigns, fulfilling death quotas, to terrorize urban populations into submission.  (I obtained Viktor Kravchenko's book, I Chose Freedom, through Amazon, and my used copy came from a personal library that was sold by the family of a deceased man.  But Wikipedia says there are reprints coming out after 2000, including 2022!) Could radical Dems and Antifa edge toward these tactics?

2024 Oct 14  Center Square by John Hendrickson and Stephen King    Progressivism:  The Undoing of Society or a Way Forward?   Starting 2009, Pres. Obama "fully embraced the cultural revolution"...bigger federal government, ACA, New Deal-style stimulus, abortion, same-sex marriage, migrants, trans, identity politics, DEI,    spreading to state laws.  Progressives say Constitution is obsolete, an obstacle, as Woodrow Wilson taught.  War on the past, revisionist history, indoctrinate children in schools.

election2024 2024 Oct 16  19 days before election    Bret Baier on Fox News interviewed Kamala Harris.  Bill O'Reilly says on Oct 29 on Clay and Buck that Baier asked ten questions of Harris, and she directly answered none of them.  "She pivoted to attacking Trump on everything."

2024 Oct 20  Pastor Nathan Clardy at Calvary Hills Baptist in San Antonio, two weeks before the contentious U.S. presidential election:  we all want change in America, to benefit our children.    By and large, the American Christian church is not listening to God.  (Think about the bulk of Episcopalians, Presbyterians, the United Methodist Church (though the new Global Methodist Church is on the right track), Roman Catholics.)  Don't seek revival just for your comfort.  Point people to Jesus.

election2024 2024 Oct 24  11 days before election  https://news.yahoo.com/news/desperate-kamala-harris-finally-revealing-134317497.html

'Desperate, Kamala Harris is exposing how dangerous she is'  by Paul du Quenoy Palm Beach Freedom Institute   copyrighted, this is a critical review by JE.     Trump leads on the economy and immigration, most important issues for many.  Dumbfounded Left...circular firing squad to assign blame for Harris’s probable loss. [Which will show up on liberal media but be ignored by conservative media.]  Kamala rhetorically challenged [word salads when she has no backup to her 'values']...an “opportunity economy”, a vacuous concept.  “Democratic socialists” are Dem's controlling progressive wing.  [Lacking substantive counterarguments to Trump, Kamala is] Pivoting to sheer demagoguery...Trump as a “fascist.”  [Clay and Buck say there are Jewish flags at Trump rallies.]

     Trump at Madison Square Garden rally:  “Kamala’s gross incompetence disqualifies her from being president of the United States of America.”  “She is unfit for office and everyone knows it. No one respects her, no one trusts her, and no one takes her seriously.”  

“Everyone knows she is a very low IQ individual.”  JE:  This isn't necessarily name calling, though Harris calling Trump fascist is name calling.  Kamala took two tries to pass the California bar exam, a tough exam, so her IQ probably is not low at all.  Much of Trump's statement is opinion.  But the turnover in her VP staff is high, 91% in three years.  National Review:  atmosphere of suspicion and disorder.  JE:  since Democrat elite is after power and not much else matters, it doesn't matter to them about their candidate's fitness or their respect for her.  But the trust factor is probably important, and she may have already proven that she will do what powerful people tell her to do.

     CNN on why Biden chose Kamala for VP:  she is nationally known (2020 bid for Pres.), California attorney general and US senator since 2017, a younger generation of leader, first Black and South Asian American woman to appear on a major party’s national ticket, from California, a trove of both Democratic votes and Democratic donors, outspoken voice on race police reform – following the death of George Floyd in May.  "There was no one else on Biden’s VP shortlist that checked so many boxes."

2024 Oct 24  usatoday  The Joy is Over.  As Election Nears, Harris Tone Goes Dark.

election2024 2024 Oct 25  On WOAI radio San Antonio, nationally known Mike Opelka says that in 2016, when Hillary Clinton was narrowly defeated by Donald Trump for President, most national news media (the leftist press) stopped using standard journalism.  CNN Politics updated Nov 8 2016, "Hillary Clinton's odds of winning...rose to 91% on the Monday before Election Day...Trump's odds are at 9%."  They started slanting coverage, or stopped reporting all relevant information (stopped "being balanced"), in favor of benefiting Democrats.  JE opinion:  Most U.S. news organizations think it is their responsibility to nudge U.S. politics toward Democrat values.  Those are the values they think are needed by America, they think conservative values are harmful, and in the rare times they have to justify what they are doing (being held to account), they would say they are just acting in the best interests of the country.  Conservatives say they are lying and leading the U.S. on a harmful path.

election2024 2024 Oct 25   10 days before election   Fox Business:  LA Times doesn't endorse Kamala Harris.  (Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong blocked the newspaper's editorial board's plan to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris.)  Washington Post, owned by Jeff Bezos, does not endorse Harris, the first time in 36 years that it hasn't endorsed, and the editor at large Robert Kagan, 25 year veteran at Post, "quits after paper declines to endorse."  

election2024 2024 Oct 26  CNN Business:  Washington Post in deep turmoil as Bezos (Amazon, Blue Origin) remains silent on non-endorsement.  CNN:  "high-profile Post staffers have publicly expressed their dismay."  But the Post publisher, Will Lewis, says, "As Publisher, I do not believe in presidential endorsements."  Famous Watergate journalists Woodward and Bernstein:  "the threat Donald Trump poses to democracy."       On the Buck and Clay radio show (iheart radio network), they continue to say that Kamala Harris is an empty suit.  (They say her past election wins have all been the Democrat machine clearing away competitors, to hand her wins.)  1010wcsi.com:    Clay and Buck take apart Harris' failed attempt to answer questions from a friendly interviewer, Anderson Cooper;  Holocaust survivor 94-yr-old Auschwitz survivor condemns Harris for comparing Trump to Hitler and shows her tatooed prison number on her arm.  GlobalPlayer.com:  Kamala's CNN Town Hall is a word salad disaster;  MSNBC Mika Brzezinski hysterical comparison of Trump to Kamala, he's Hitler and kills women.    Aug 22 2024 https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4843419-kamalas-moment-the-pantsuit-is-truly-empty/  Derek Hunter  "She is an empty pantsuit, basking in the glow of positive media coverage and unburdened by accountability...the first nominee of either party who did not have to secure a single delegate or a single vote in the primaries...her acceptance speech [during Dem Convention] was all sizzle and no steak...The bio in her speech was [merely]...reshaping standard information into applause lines. Her intro video talked about...issues near and dear to the left. What it didn’t contain was any accomplishments...How she will pay for her laundry list of promises is unknown."

newsone.com   Harris:  "I will always tell you the truth."  But how many lies has she been saying?

2024 Oct 28  2024 Oct 28  https://edition.cnn.com/2024/10/28/media/washington-post-endorsement-subscribers-resign/index.html    Three Washington Post editorial board members step down amid wave of canceled subscriptions over non-endorsement By Hadas Gold, CNN       Roberts:  “We face a terrible, terrible choice, I believe, a looming autocracy. I don’t want to be silent about it. I don’t want the Post to be silent about it."     Non-endorsement is a choice of owner Jeff Bezos.

2024 Oct 28  Coast to Coast AM  Dr. Nick Begich    There is a deep state in the U.S.  It isn't so much an organized thing, it is more individuals, and it is individuals benefiting themselves.  A lot of the deep state is due to government contracts, contractors rather than office holders.  The deep state will persist until there is a lot of presidential pardon to get whistleblowers out in the open.        About U.S. controversy and political polarization, Begich says "God is probably the only way this is going to get solved."

2024 Oct 30  Bigfoot is less credible to JE;  listening to a Coast To Coast AM broadcast, I find on WWW 'what bigfoot eats' but not 'can bigfoot get sick' and not 'can bigfoot die.'  Considering that bigfoot is large, a bigfoot carcass would be extra long-lasting, extra stinky, and extra discoverable.  There are some WWW web pages for bigfoot cadaver carcass.  A woman caller says she saw a 13-foot-tall bigfoot while driving at night;  JE knows that 13 feet tall is taller than elephants, the largest living land animals;  a 13 foot tall bigfoot would weight about 2*2*2=8 times a 6'6" man, which would be about 1400 pounds.

election2024 2024 Oct 30    5 days before election    Kamala Harris Dem presidential candidate Washington DC Ellipse major speech  [JE's interest is this, if she becomes the next president, will she live up to promises given on Oct 30, seeing as how she has flip-flopped on lots of Dem policies as she has steered toward the center during the presidential election to gain votes in a 49%-49% tie, since Pres. Biden bowed out or was forced out.  In light of NBCNews "after the election, there will be a battle for the soul of the Democratic Party when it comes to economics, said Adam Green of Progressive Change Campaign Committee."  How much does Harris promise conciliation and how much does she promise a fight?  Record here before the election some ideas, and if she wins, come back to this from time to time and see if she is conciliatory as promised, or a fighter, or a punisher.]   Lines from the Ellipse speech, trying to pin down the candidate about her promises, and without JE complaining about lies:  A choice about whether we have a country rooted in freedom for every American or ruled by chaos and division.  Trump sent an armed mob to the United States Capitol.  He has an enemies list of people he intends to prosecute.  who is unstable, obsessed with revenge, consumed with grievance and out for unchecked power.  for too long, we have been consumed with too much division, chaos and mutual distrust.  It is time to stop pointing fingers...start locking arms...turn the page on the drama and the conflict, the fear and division.  I am not afraid of tough fights against bad actors.  There’s something about people being treated unfairly or overlooked that, frankly, just gets to me.  I will always listen to you, even if you don’t vote for me. I will always tell you the truth...I will work every day to build consensus and reach compromise to get things done.  I will work with everyone, Democrats, Republicans and Independents.  Donald Trump would deliver tax cuts to his billionaire donors. I will deliver tax cuts to working people and the middle class.  I will fight to make sure that hard working Americans can actually afford a place to live. [JE:  what business is it of government to guarantee housing?  Isn't that what a socialist government does?]   A woman who survives a crime of a violation to her body should not have the authority to make a decision about what happens to her body next?  That is immoral [to deny it].   One does not have to abandon their faith...to simply agree the government should not be telling her what to do with her body.  [Forget the baby.]      Remove those who arrive here unlawfully, prosecute the cartels and give border patrol the support they so desperately need.  [Oct 15 2024, nypost, border patrol agents threatening to leave in droves if Harris wins.]  Uphold our security, advance our national interest and ensure that the United States of America remains as we must forever be, a champion of Liberty around the world.   I pledge to seek common ground and common sense solutions to make your life better...to listen to experts...and to people who disagree with me...to be a president for all Americans, and to always put country above party and self.  Our belief in fairness and decency  May God bless the United States of America.  

     [Looking at Internet about 'Kamala fight,' you see 'Progressives gear up for their first big fight if Harris removes FTC Chair Khan,'   Yahoo.com Harris is leading the fight for a better future, newsObserver.com VP Harris rallied voters in Raleigh to 'fight to realize the promise.' ]       JE:  In the context of her speech, when you say you are fighting, usually you are fighting against someone.  Who is Harris fighting against?  Harris might be fighting against, in her imagination, the future tyranny of Donald Trump.  Or does she intend to fight every conservative?  But conservative radio shows currently are warning that out constitutional rights will be negated by a Kamala Harris presidency.  Does Harris sound conciliatory at the Ellipse after many statements about fighting?  At the Ellipse, Harris says stop pointing fingers, turn the page, always listen to you, tell the truth [JE:  many lies in the campaign], reach compromise, work with Republicans, seek common good, country above party, fairness.  If Harris talks at the Ellipse about fighting, does she want to fight conservatives in Congress?  Or does she sound conciliatory now but intends to dominate over all conservatives?   As of 1AM CST, Nov 6, Trump is winning and we aren't going to find who Harris intends to fight against.        Trump also talks about fighting.

So much space is given to the 2024 Presidential election because the outcome is being called the most significant election in decades.

election2024 2024 Nov 4   1day before election    Coast to Coast AM has astrologer John Hogue predicting Trump will win over Kamala Harris for president.  He has been correct on 14 previous elections in a row, and the Trump win on Nov 6 1AM CST Wedn pushes that to 15.    In all, the four hours of the program has four guests talking about the election.  Hogue observes that Harris struggles to be authentic.  He says a small amount of election fraud can change the winner, and he wishes there had been a recount in the 2020 election, which could have removed the lingering doubt about election fraud in 2020.  He talks about the deep Washington DC swamp, political influence of powerful people, getting close to terrible war when certain people in the U.S. have power.

election2024 2024 Nov 6 1:14AM CST  several hours after West Coast polls close     Georgia, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania narrowly go for Trump, pushing Trump's electoral college tally past 270.  Dr. John Curtis on CoasttoCoastAM.com:  Dem campaign managers are smoke blowers to the bitter end;  a lead Harris campaign manager was interviewed late on Nov 5, Tuesday, and forecast all seven battleground states would go for Harris.  But they are going mainly for Trump, it turns out.  CNN web site:  "Seconds after North Carolina was called for Trump, the audio was switched off the big [live network election] screens and music blasted through the speakers to try to salvage the energy.  Most kept staring silently at the numbers."  

election2024 2024 Nov 6  Yahoo News  The most Latino county in the U.S., Starr County TX, had more Republican voters than Dem for president, for the first time in over 100 years, as did most border TX counties.  A resident of the county:  Harris "got caught too many times lying."

     Biden on Wednesday:  Harris has "been a tremendous partner and public servant full of integrity, courage, and character.  [JE:  this is not reality.  Harris reversed many of her historic policy statements during two months as she strained to attract voters.  She confounded many on the far left as she tried to steer toward the center.]  Under extraordinary circumstances [JE:  your denial of your limited intellectual capacity], she stepped up and led a historic campaign that embodied what's possible when guided by a strong moral compass [JE:  morals invented, not morals from the Bible, she is a San Francisco liberal, it is said she was the most progressive in the U.S. Senate when she was the junior California senator] and a clear vision for a nation that is more free, more just."  [Freedom does not sound like hounding trans people who regret, prosecuting people for exercising freedom of speech.  Justice?  Justice by what standard?  Think about the lawfare against Trump.]  

     James Carville, the Ragin' Cajun, who helped Bill Clinton overcome the Gennifer Flowers scandal [was he with her for one night or 12 years?] with the campaign slogan, "It's the economy, stupid," is 80 yrs old and saying things about Donald Trump.  Widely reported in media, from Politicon:   I look across this country and tens of millions of people fell for this s_ _ _, and it’s depressing.”  [JE:  Democrats are the ones who fell, the candidacy of Kamala Harris was flawed and is being picked apart by even Democrats on this day.]  A country “that has put a felonious bigot” back in power [Federal indictments of Trump are being dismissed today]... [Americans perceived] disorder on every kind of level, border policy, foreign policy, economic policy, [and abortion, and turned to Trump for solutions.]  [JE:  True]  [JE:  Behind closed doors, Democrats are doing a lot of finger pointing, and even in public.  The blame game, (ABC News:) unmitigated disaster, (WSJ:) recriminations, (Politico:) Democrats are in their nightmare scenario, (?) sleepwalked into disaster;  they are suffering consequences of lying, as in "lying so often that people start believing and repeating the lies."  In the news are speculations about the 2028 Dem and Republican candidates for president, and young VP-elect Vance is paid attention to.]  See in the time line 2017 Nov. New Oxford Review p. 9 replace truth with opinion, "unleash the hate and unsheathe the knives."  "In the absence of truth, all that remains is power."  Powr is the main concern for postmodernists, they even exert power over language, changing words to make new reality.

More and more in talk shows on radio, conservatives acknowledge this:  Dems complain that Republicans are doing the bad things that Dems themselves are doing.  (Hypocrisy)    Search Internet for that.

•      PJ Media Dec 6 2024   Saul Alinsky-like tactic, Obama a "practiced expert."  

•      townhall.com  Mar 6 2017  You Can Tell What Leftists Are Doing by What They Accuse Conservatives of Doing     Schumer

•      medium  caityjohnstone.medium    June 26 2017  5 Things That Democrats Do Constantly, Yet Accuse Other of Doing

•      Ted Cruz  Jan 11 2024    Democrats Keep Accusing Republicans of What They Are Actually Doing

•      FoxNews.com  Sept 25 2021  Greg Gutfeld:  Whatever the Dems accuse you of doing, they are in fact doing themselves

•      FoxBusiness  Sept 19 2024  What Democrats accuse Republicans of doing are 'the exact things they're responsible for themselves

2024 Nov 6  NBC News Korecki, Alcindor   Democrats shattered.  Fury, sorrow, finger pointing, self reflection.  Party adrift.  Once upon a time, protector of downtrodden.  Now, elites.    Fundamental negatives of a nation were baked into the Harris campaign.    HuffPost.com  Trump did better in every single county than in 2016 or 2020.     U.S. News and World Report  Harris outspent Trump, $800 million to $360 million.  Not including super PACs.  Total political spending for 2024:  $16 billion.

2024 Nov 7  Newsweek  James Carville:  Dems lost because they didn't open a distance between Harris and woke-era politics.  "To defund the police, wanted to empty prisons."  Inflation.

election2024 2024 Nov 6, the day after Trump defeated Harris for president.  Looking at Internet for frank Democrat thinking about their loss, "finger pointing" is a good search term, and there is plenty of it going on.  The reasons for Dem losses have been articulated by conservative talk-show hosts for years.  JE:  Democrats could have used Clay Travis and Buck Sexton as consultants to avoid their loss.  The identity politics and trans fixation of Dems and progressives steered them away from dealing with the grievances of Americans.

     https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/shattered-democrats-grapple-kamala-harris-loss-rcna178967

     https://www.yahoo.com/news/ocasio-cortez-says-she-won-033910617.html   next four years under Trump will be a “very, very, very difficult, challenging time”...[if Dems get majority in] House of Representatives...“block some of the most heinous legislative proposals”...era of “fascism and authoritarianism.”  JE:  AOC shows the extremeness of her progressivism.

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     https://www.pressreader.com/uk/daily-mail/20241107/281711210164163

     CNN web site:  Biden "should never have been anywhere near the 2024 race," he should have dropped out in 2022.  Trump "is telling us such dark and sinister things," says Senator Booker.  "Multiple aides told CNN how much they were grinding on one another."   "Paper over a lot of the infighting."  It "just raged behind the scenes" from the start of Harris' campaign.  Recruitment of a competent Pennsylvania governor, Jewish Shapiro, for VP was scuttled when Minnesota Governor Walz was chosen, and Pennsylvania's vote maybe went for Trump because of that.  "Obama alumni suddenly rushing onto her campaign were pushing for Shapiro."   "Top aides kept Harris away from interviews."  

     Californians passed Proposition 36 to increase punishment for retail theft, reversing 2014 law. [ref:  up to $950 per cart has been a misdemeanor and police don't come to prevent the theft.]  Californians for Safety and Justice warns that Prop 36 will make people worse off.

     U.S. Border Patrol agents "reacted ecstatically to news" that Trump won.  "We can now take care of our country and our citizens."  [BP agents had been taken away from border crossings to do paperwork admitting illegal migrants, leaving the cartels to freely send migrants across.] BP wants end of catch and release.  In Biden's four years, 10.7 million caught.

     A day or two after election   https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/opinion-harris-staffers-furious-over-post-election-pep-talk-detached-from-reality/ar-AA1tKsB9   The Daily Beast    Opinion:  Harris Staffers Furious Over Post-Election Pep Talk: ‘Detached From Reality’ by David Gardner      Attempts...to sugarcoat their election nightmare.  Harris was blasted for her “happy talk.”  “We are told the fate of democracy is at stake, and then the message was, ‘We’ll get them next time.’”  [JE:  this may be taking the campaign staffers for granted, assuming they will all come back and work just as hard in 2028.]     Dem leaders begged staffers not to speak with the media...contain the internal bickering.  “How did you spend $1 billion and not win?...[ending in] $20 million of debt."  Axios:  Dem campaigns $2.1billion, Republican campaigns $1.3billion     Republicans didn't spend anywhere near what Dems spent.     Back and forth about whether Biden should have stayed in the race.

election2024 2024 Nov 8  3 days after election   https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/pelosi-blames-harris-loss-bidens-late-exit-open/story?id=115652125  84-year-old former Speaker Pelosi:  had the president [Biden, age 81] gotten out sooner, there may have been other candidates in [an open primary] race.  [And better candidates than Kamala Harris.]  And because the president endorsed Kamala Harris immediately, that really made it almost impossible to have a primary at that time.      I don't respect [Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders] saying that the Democratic Party has abandoned the working-class families...  Guns, God and gays — that's the way they say it," she reportedly said. "In certain communities, what they call God, what we call a woman's right to choose."  Note that Pelosi calls herself a good Catholic.     Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders had said, "It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them."  Politico:  "Democrats are directing their rage ... at Joe Biden."  "They were forced to embrace a candidate who voters had made clear they did not want...have done an enormous amount of damage to this country."  

Opinions vary about Bidenomics' effect on the election.  'Bidenomics' is not a term of criticism, it is a term used in the Biden administration that connotes approval.  And among conservatives, Bidenomics has a different connotation...

     Axios:  a Biden-Harris official says "we got it wrong on economic policy."  People being economically squeezed [the years of inflation, grocery bills dramatically higher, mortgage interest way up] means they will seek a different president.  "The party [Dems] was lied to [by its own leaders] who "never bothered to actually listen to voters."  Harris campaign an unwieldy mix of ["resentful"] Biden people, Obama aides, and those trusted by Harris.  Global migration overran Biden's border policy, "acknowledged" by many Biden officials.  [Conservatives say that Dems purposely admitted around 10 million illegal entrants to (eventually) swell the Dem voter pool to create a permanent Dem voting block that could progressiveize the whole country, forever.]  Harris told staff, once the direction of voting was apparent, "We all just speak truth, why don't we?" as if [JE:] lying or skirting the truth has been normal in the Biden administration.

     Upworthy:  polls say Biden was the least popular presidential candidate in modern times.  But "a record of historic accomplishments."  JE:  you can call it that if you ignore the truth.     2020 "focus on racial matters and policing" [the riots and BLM when George Floyd died], "inspiring BLM rallies" [JE:  they were hate filled], "billions of dollars in private property damage through riots" "left the nation...confused [and outraged at progressive mayors and governors who let the rioting go on, such as Gov. Walz, Harris' running mate]."  "Nation desperately needed a new commitment to climate change," [JE:  faux pax, should have said 'needed commitment to handling or responding to climate change.  Numerous scientists say that climate change has nothing to do with fossil fuel, but climate scientists who want to swim with the tide toe the line of environmentalists]  "23 of Joe Biden's greatest accomplishments," [JE:  painting Biden's actions in best possible light.]  $1.2 trillion infrastructure package [JE:  how much was dumped into national debt?]  Half billion "life saving" COVID vaccinations, [but conservatives doubt they were life saving, and some say they were harmful (heart trouble increase after vaccination)].  $369 billion for climate change.  Ended Afghanistan war [widely criticized way of ending it, the enemy flying a fortune in abandoned U.S. helicopters over the rejoicing Afghan parade.]  Up to $1400 per U.S. citizen (was it a majority?  JE and wife each got a credit, we just deposited to bank account, not having a real need for it) "while supporting renters."  [JE:  with handouts?]     Taxation of corporations to insure they pay fair share [as if this is true, as if there is no pass-through effect on consumer prices and employment.]    

     Time magazine prints what JE calls smoke and mirrors, the unapologetic deep-state progressive stance:  U.S. economy [delivered in Jan 2025 by Biden to new president Trump] is "strongest economy in modern history."  [JE:  this is a lie, isn't it?  Is it more like the U.S. is the most indebted?]  Prices continue to fall [JE:  said as if consumer prices continue to fall after a long period of stable, low inflation...really, it is "continue to gradually ease down after historic inflation that has impoverished many."]  Time blames the Federal Reserve for excessive rate hikes.  [Biden brought on the need for the hikes.]     "To whom that credit should go:  President Biden."  

     Investopedia:  Bidenomics promoted green energy [much debate over payback time of green energy, energy-intensive manufacturing of solar cells and windmill blades, electric vehicles wouldn't be selling so well without $7000 gift to buyers], increased tax rates to wealthy and corporations [as if that is praise worthy], union promotion [more and more union members are voting Republican, Teamsters did not endorse Harris].

     Climate  Kate Aronoff Nov 7 2024:  'Why Bidenomics Failed to Win the White Working Class'   Paraphrase:  "Biden bet that subsidies to rebuild American manufacturing would make voters vote Democrat, while lowering emissions."  "Massive subsidies to [U.S.] companies to invest in ... technologies stateside."  "Narrowly defined terms of success" for Bidenomics.  Inflation Reduction Act ... "as a tool to win back disaffected voters, may have been worse than nothing."  "Biden administration's economic narrative full of contradictions."  "Harris made no attempt to ... offer something new."  "Bidenomics looks like a resounding political failure."  Bidenomics was marketed to give some advantage to some people but "has fallen flat politically."  "Most of the middle class does not work in manufacturing...[while] home prices have risen 45% in four years."  "Health care, childcare, and college educations are wildly expensive."  "Harris mainly promised to not be a Trump."   

     Much finger pointing among Dems, much hand wringing about what should have been done to avoid such a turn toward the red (conservative) party.  NPR.org:  [calls for one of three Court liberals] Justice Sonia Sotomayor to step down. .. 69 years old...diabetes...this gentle prodding to retire get started?  SHAW: ...article written by Mehdi Hasan, basically making the case that Sotomayor should retire and retire now... Ruth Bader Ginsburg and her decision not to retire at several critical points during the Obama administration [and she died in office and was replaced by Trump nominee Amy Coney Barrett, giving 6-3 split in Court].

election2024 2024 Nov 9 to Nov 13  4 days to 8 days after election   search Internet for 'woke America lost election,' trying to understand the thinking of Kamala Harris voters

New York Post  Yale psychiatrist Amanda Calhoun urges MSNBC viewers to shun Trump-voting family during holidays by Olivia Land.  Election hysteria in left-leaning MSNBC.  "There is a societal push that if someone is in your family, they are entitled to your time...Absolutely not."  [JE:  this is harmful advice.  Christians counsel the wisdom of tolerance and forgiveness, love of brothers.]

Fox News:  Washington Post offers advice on emigrating from U.S. to get away from toxic Trump voters.  A company, Expatsi, guides for a fee.  "Can be complicated and expensive" to emigrate.  Annual surcharge to participate in socialized health care.  Destinations are Canada, New Zealand, UK, Ireland, Australia.  Californians especially.     Trump won over Harris despite Harris out-spending Trump by 2 to 1.  Fortune:  CEOs supported Harris much more than Trump.        ABC News:  Republican voters bothered by weaponization of the legal system against Trump.  Voters liked Trump's strongman language.  [Clay and Buck talk a lot about weak male liberals such as Harris' VP candidate Walz, lacking in testosterone.]  45% of voters say their own financial position is weaker under Biden.  Trump has re-oriented the Republican image away from country club to being the working-class party and the party for people without college degree.  [Aided very much by progressive Dems being obnoxious and bowing to wokeness.]  Elaine Kamarck at Brookings Institution has a reality recognition:  Trump will not solve the income gap between no-college and college-graduate Americans.  "He's an angry man and they think, 'He's angry like I am.'"  The Hill, Austin Sarat:  Voters rejected a woke America, Dems should listen.  In 2016, Florida Governor DeSantis made Florida the place where 'woke goes to die.'  And Trump turned every rally into a war on woke.  Americans voted for Trump because he is "crude, offensive, and politically incorrect."  Trump in 2024 attracted multiple races and generations.  "Millions cast their ballots for him...because of what progressives find most offensive...he violated every convention of woke culture."  Anand Giridharadas:  woke people should acknowledge that they are broken.  Rebuild so as to win.  Progressives and the old Dem coalition are broken, "their understanding of freedom isn't playing in Peoria."  The Hill, by Austin Sarat:  Harris advocated for "freedom from want [that] requires public intervention."  [JE:  this view is the socialist view, isn't it?  What business does government have in redistributing wealth so there is no want?]  "Many Americans are now deeply disillusioned with government and policy wonks."  Trump rebuffed the idea that government makes your life better.  Trump advocated for masculinity, say what you think, freedom to offend.  [JE:  in other words, quit tiptoeing around the snowflakes.]  Many Americans object to the thought police;  should a trivial, frank comment evoke outrage?  People who are hounded by the woke choose silence over accidentally provoking outrage.  Economically hurting people can't understand progressives getting so offended by what is said.  [George Packer says wokeness attempts to cleanse language of privilege, hierarchy, bias, exclusion.  Sierra Club.  Forbidden words:  urban, vibrant, hardworking, brown bag, poor, battle, minefield, depressing, migrant.       It isn't that conservatives must learn to reign in their speech to comply with wokeness, it is that there should be freedom of speech, like the First Amendment.  Cultural Marxists should not reign in our country.]  Sarat says keep the woke goals but rebalance, find new ways for tolerance and forgiveness, turn down burner on indignation, and don't offend Americans.  LGBTQnation.com by Greg Owen:  Gay Bronx Representative Ritchie Torres blames Dem loss on 'wishful thinking.'  "Trump had no greater friend than the far left."  "Alienated historic numbers of Latinos, Blacks, Asians, Jews...absurd to say 'defund the police, from the River to the Sea, Latinx.'"  Latinos dislike 'Latinx.'  Arizona Senate candidate Gallego:  latinx appeases white rich progressives.  White liberals, don't impose your thoughts on us.  LULAC is against latinx.  Gallego:  public opinion matters.  Don't push for utopia.  [JE:  he means progressives should stop short of trying to wholesale reform language and policy.  It isn't that conservatives must learn to reign in their speech to comply with wokeness, it is that there should be freedom of speech, like the First Amendment.]  Psychology Today, MaryCatherine McDonald:  Moral Injury Meets Politics.  Deeply held values, being rebuffed by the election, wounds many.  Healing is needed.  The wound is moral injury.  Violation of moral values. [JE:  progressive values, she means]  

• Our parents may not always have our best interests at heart, it turns out.  

• Maybe people are not generally good and kind.  

• Maybe some trusted institutions are not just.  

• "Our moral compasses are shattered."  

• "Comforting truths...seem false."   [Do you seem comfortable only when you can see other progressives?  https://www.quotev.com/quiz/15742721/Are-you-Progressive-or-Conservative/result]

• We feel betrayed.  [McDonald seems to be on the right track, here.]  

• "If truth can be rewritten, and morality is subjective, how do we find meaning?"  

• Have our values "been fatally flawed all along?"  What a "humiliating" thought.  [JE:  every born-again Christian, without exception, has at some point in his life had the humbling, voluntary experience of admitting to God that he, as an individual (not as a group* and not as a society, but individually) has a sin problem that separates him from the one, personal, supernatural, authoritative, loving God, and then turn away from sin, and receive Jesus' forgiveness.  The way is then open to read the Bible and be join the disciples for the living Savior, Jesus.  The Holy Spirit works in such a person.  Instead of being humiliated by fatal flaws in one's life, such a person can read how Paul turned away from his fatal flaws and began his life as a new person, a change of such importance that it is like being born again.]    *not as a Progressive Christian

• [JE:  this is wrong:] Woke people need to realize that meaning is not found, it is created within each person.  [JE:  this is a spiritual fallacy that plagues liberals.  This is postmodernism.]  

Rolling Stone:  erosion of human rights and body autonomy [abortion] and democracy.  Terrifying future.  Worldview under attack.  Fracturing of relationships.  [JE:  Like Amanda Calhoun says.  If you want to withdraw from conservatives, call that your freedom of speech.  On the other hand, try showing some forgiveness and self-giving love.]        Grief over more than half the voters choosing Trump, who is a convicted felon, misogynist, insurrectionist.  Government becomes unpredictable.  [JE:  Yes, Trump wants to fire a lot of bureaucrats and reduce the tyranny of the administrative state, where 90% of federal prosecution is conducted by the administrative state.]  Dion Metzger, psychiatrist in Atlanta, "dread of what's to come.'  People of color, especially, should walk away from people [JE:  he means voters who vote differently than you] you don't feel safe with.  Disengagement can be self care.  Investblick.com:  a fallen electorate is not unique to U.S.     Ritchie Torres again:  progressives for ten years have turned off rank-and-file Dems.  He does not "discern many missteps" in Harris' campaign but "she tossed up clouds of vagueness."  "Trump campaign bludgeoned her with endless commercials" over her past advocacy for state-funded gender transition for prisoners.  Dems have acted as if people of color would go for progressive values.  Leakage of people of color to Republican voting is a "betrayal."  Rev. Al Sharpton:  Black men are among the most sexist people.  Latino and Black voters actually want to restrict migration.

election2024 2024 Nov 10  More about Democrats alienated from voters, Politico.com    Otterbein and Messerly    Dems have lost white voters, and now Latins and Black men.  Progressive Jayapal:  We have become a party of elites.  Progressives vs. moderates.    

2024 Nov 10  Reuters  former U.S. generals and defense secretaries are among Trump's fiercest critics.  [Wokeness in the military is from woke leaders at the top.  It amounts to corruption, and it reduces U.S. ability to deter and fight.]

election2024 2024 mid Nov  USA Today    Deep discontent with the harm "progressivism" has wrought...rooted in the notion that the masses don't know...we need experts to tell us what to do, what to believe, how to raise our children.

     election2024 APnews.com   Trump and conservatives demeaned transgender people.  Backlash.  Palpable fear of potential Trump Administration marginalization of trans.  LATimes.com  virulently anti-trans campaign...against queer community...frightening.  

     election2024 The Hill Nov 13 2024   the working class rejected Dems...leftists believe moderates failed to uplift marginalized people, leaving them open to Republicans.     D'Alessandro (Sen. Bernie Sanders, socialist):  "lead with economic issues...you can [then] do the other things."   Progressives erred by having a fear-based campaign.  Marianne Williamson:  "Dem elite...paternalistic...people should simply surrender to their superior wisdom...the wizard is exposed to have been a bunch of soulless managerial types feeding on" the moribund Dem party.

2024 Nov  New Oxford Review  by Pieter Vree  p. 33   Pope Francis in Asia, "There's only one God, and each of us has a language to arrive at God.  Some are Sikh, Mulsim, Hindu, Christian, and they are different paths."  Charles Chaput in First Things:  Francis has the habit of leaving the listener confused and hoping the Pope meant something other than what he actually said.    Though Pope Gregory XVI in 1832 said indifferentism [any religion professed saves the person] is an abundant source of evils...as long as morality is maintained.  John 14:6 

2024 Nov  New Oxford Review by Preston Simpson reviewing Thomas Sowell's Social Justice Fallacies   Modern social-justice advocates chalk up all economic differences between races to racism.  But look at Balck poverty from 1940 to just before the civil-rights laws (LBJ Great Society), Black poverty fell from 87% to 47% in two decades.  Without significant government action.      Then the fall stalled once "measures against racism" started.  Paul Johnson:  "How many of our glib assumptions...have been tested before...many times...and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false."     JE knows that great tracts of high rises for poor people in Chicago, the "projects," were not maintained, were not protected from vandalism, were abandoned for being in bad shape, and were then demolished.      https://nationalcenter.org/ncppr/2014/01/08/lbjs-war-on-poverty-hurt-black-americans/   Black Activists Criticize Handout Mentality that Destroyed Traditional Families, “unconditional war on poverty in America.”  2014 "black activists with the Project 21 leadership network are critical of how that war has been waged. They note the expansion of government and a strategy focused on handouts that discourage self-improvement caused more harm than help to the poor."

2024 Nov 12  Archbishop of Canterbury Welby in Church of England resigns, he failed to notify British police that atty John Smyth had abused 105 boys from 1970s to his death in 2018.  Makin Review.

2024 Nov 13  NPRillinois.org  (NPR is all left of center)  "For years...Trump has talked about...dismantling...deep state.  Now, he's taking action...So, how quickly could...administration start getting rid of federal workers?"  Out of 2 million federal workforce [including military?], 100,000 "could be moved out...immediately."  Schedule F may be a new employee category that gives the President flexibility.  wgbh.org Boston:  slash excess regulations.  CNN:  future Supreme Court nominations..."Federal workers are now dreading an expected purge."  "How far will Trump go in exacting revenge he promised...following impeachments, indictments."  "Dems...dissolve into self-recrimination...lack a clear leader...foreign leaders are gaming out how to deal with the unpredictability."  "Frantic reordering and recalculation inside the U.S."  [JE:  the tone of CNN is alarm, doom, and gloom.]

election2024 2024 Nov 13  ABC's The View, the popular panel with liberal women, has been uniformly anti-Trump, but Trump's big win makes ABC wonder if a pro-Trump voice should be included.  New York Post:  a) calls The View 'lefty insanity,'  b) The View formerly had a strategy called 'abandon all principles to elect Democrats.'     ABC News is the debate host in which Trump was fact-checked to his face in real time while Harris was allowed to "slide."  Whoopi Goldberg has blamed inflation on grocery store owners [as Biden has], Sunny Hostin has told people to abandon Trump-voting relatives.  MSN.com says a "well-placed source in ABC" says it is not accurate that ABC is seeking a pro-Trump voice.  "There is definitely a network-wide push and sense of responsibility to give a voice to the 75 million people who voted for Trump."  A conservative woman who has been on the show:  "The hosts wouldn't be able to handle it."

election2024 2024 Nov 13  President-elect Trump invited to White House to talk with outgoing Pres. Biden.  "I asked him, I said, 'So who do you blame' [for the loss by Democrats].  "Because he was very angry, you know."  "I blame Barack."  "And I also blame Pelosi."  

2024 Nov 14  https://www.healthdata.org/news-events/newsroom/news-releases/lancet-without-immediate-action-nearly-260-million-people-usa

The authors warn of a crisis of overweight and obesity across the USA.  Striking health, social, and economic consequences.   Need for policies...access to healthy foods and regulation of the food, agricultural, and marketing sectors.  [Need to reduce flashy marketing of bad food, such as greasy hamburgers stacked high with multiple beef patties, bacon, and cheese.]  52% of males age 15-24 years in Texas overweight to obese.  Prevalence of childhood hypertension and type 2 diabetes.

election2024 2024 Nov 14  Clay and Buck Program:  it is likely that Dem leaders sat Biden down and said, essentially, "Old man, we just pulled the pin on the grenade, what are you going to do about it?"  No way did he voluntarily step out of candidacy.

2024 Nov 15  Detroit Free Press reported by USA Today.com   "Trump agenda...would upend the strategy Detroit's automakers have spent billions of dollars pursuing: the transition to electric cars...freeze fuel economy standards for at least a decade [instead of ratcheting up the miles per gallon]...[eliminate] the $7,500 tax credit consumers receive now toward the purchase of an EV...GM has set 2035 as the date to be all-electric...Kathy Harris...climate-fueled storms and heat waves harming so many already, the only winners would be Trump’s donors in the oil industry...Moreno [won over incumbent Democrat Sherrod Brown, campaigns cost $500 million]...the industry must focus on cars people want and can afford...Ford has lost billions of dollars trying to pacify political leaders...The minute that China thinks they can come here with their cheap, fully electric garbage cars … they’re sadly mistaken."  About 2024, many China car manufacturers built low-mileage (as low as 62 miles per charge) EVs.  They were junked in a few years and sit in mounds at the outskirts of Chinese cities.  China's CCP gave rebates to finance the car building.  Some companies received rebates for never-built cars, $1.3 billion.

     Even some Dems campaigned against EVs;  Elissa Slotkin.

2024 Nov  Fox Business  Stuart Varney:  Biden's Ukraine decision Puts Trump in a Tough Spot   about Biden authorizing Ukraine to use U.S.-supplied and maintained, long-range missiles to attack an area of Russia where tens of thousands of North Korean troops are preparing to take back territory captured by Ukraine.  Missiles fired.  [A guest on Coast to Coast AM says the missile system is so complex that Americans targeted and fired, with Ukrainian military observing.]  Putin revises nuclear doctrine to threaten the West, "first use."  "Biden is not in good shape...missed a photo op with world leaders [at meeting in Europe]...reporters eventually found him behind a palm tree.  He just doesn't appear to know what's going on."  "Putin is exploiting America's dilemma."  [Trump has said for a year that he will end the Russian invasion of Ukraine in a day, once he is President.]  "Is [Biden] competent to make these decisions?"  

2024 Nov 19  Sarah McBride is the first trans woman in the House of Representatives.  Had been president of the American University Student Government, leader for LGBT at that university.  On March 12 2025, Texas Republican committee chairman Self calls Rep. McBride "Mr.," which provokes Dem Keating.  This is following Pres. Trump's proclamation that the U.S. Government will recognize just male and female, not dozens of genders.  [Tim McBride underwent facial surgery to feminize, it looks like.  Make what you will about McBride's trans story.  No regret is apparent in this case.]

election2024 2024 Nov 20  https://newrepublic.com/article/188597/democrats-left-election-interest-groups       Adam Jentleson...Democrats are “crippled by a fetish for putting coalition management over a real desire for power,” and too eager to please “liberal and progressive interest groups” that “impose the rigid mores and vocabulary of college-educated elites, placing a hard ceiling on Democrats’ appeal.”  "Democratic Party’s problem...its highest-profile leaders...don’t seem to believe anything they say [whether it be] centrist, progressive, or otherwise."  "The “Democratic Party” is...a somewhat random collection of politicians, staffers, and consultants aligned behind the loose goal of their own gainful employment."

election2024 2024 Nov 20  Clay and Buck:  We care a lot about telling you the truth.  But CNN and MSNBC don't care much about truth, they are after manipulating emotions.  Who is the leading Dem for 2028 president?  Kamala again!  Newsweek:  Echelon Insights surveyed 1,010 likely voters between November 14 and 18 with a 3.5 point margin of error...Democrats 41 percent stated that "if the 2028 Democratic presidential primary were being held today" they would vote for Harris, well ahead of Governor Gavin Newsom on eight percent.    Clay and Buck:  Progressive news sources lost credibility when they lied about COVID-19, and when they said Biden was sharp as a tack when it was obvious he had mental deficiency.

     Rush Limbaugh was "mayor of Realville," Clay and Buck are "on the front lines of truth."  

     legalinsurrection.com:  Cohen pledged to leave America if Trump is elected to a second term...disgraced ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, who in September said on MSNBC:  head out of the country, possibly doing so under another name:  “I’m out of here. I mean, I’m already working on a foreign passport with a completely different name.”  Clay and Buck speculate that this is illegal, probably.

election2024 2024 Nov 21  Newsweek:  Ellen DeGeneres is Reportedly Leaving the U.S., Headed to UK after Trump Win

2024 late Nov  Senator John Fetterman (Dem or Independent?), paraphrased:  the 2024 election caused hurt for Democrats when woke things were said in deep-blue districts, then Republicans made the public think all Democrats think those things.  Weaponization.  Purple-state voting was very affected, in favor of Republicans.  Trump won all seven battleground states.

election2024 2024 Dec 19    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14211289/Joe-Biden-health-Jill-exposed-MAUREEN-CALLAHAN.html      what we're learning is terrifying. Infuriating. An unacceptable abuse of power...by a nameless, faceless cohort.      New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, depict a president thoroughly out to lunch for his entire term    outlets are shedding eyeballs and subscribers      [In light of an] "incendiary geopolitical backdrop, the Dems...plotted to install him again."     VP Harris, the ultimate DEI hire     Obama, who apparently was running his third term from behind the curtain, Biden his useful idiot.

2022 Dec 29  https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-nature-of-deception/202212/pathological-lying-in-politics   a large study that examined the propensity to lie among politicians found that those politicians who are most willing to lie tend to be more successful in getting reelected.   Escape the consequences of lying.

     https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-resolution/521/text  Special Counsel John Durham, which documents how the conspiracy theory was invented, funded, and spread by President’s Trump’s political rivals;  Adam Schiff [D CA]...access to sensitive intelligence unavailable to most Members of Congress;  ...for years Schiff...[spouted] evidence of collusion that...never existed;

     ...Schiff has spread false accusations...March 20, 2017, Schiff perpetuated false allegations from the Steele Dossier...  [CNN:  Federal election regulators fined Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign and the Democratic National Committee earlier this month [Mar 2022] for not properly disclosing the money they spent on controversial opposition research that led to the infamous Trump-Russia dossier.] [a fictional dossier]

2024 Nov 8  Fox News  Andrew Miller  Soros-backed policies took beating in deep blue state [California].     Walgreens, downtown LA and San Francisco CVSs, mom and pop stores closing because of organized theft up to $950 per person being a misdemeanor, police won't come.  LA County DA Gascon's reforms had been:  no cash bail, no death penalty, violent, under-18 criminals not prosecuted as adults.  "Major sea change."  Prop 36 rolls back Prop 47.   

2024  Humane Society takes a new name, Humane World for Animals.  In the direction of stopping people from eating meat?  "Plant-forward."  

2024 Dec  IEEE Spectrum   Huawei (Chinese brand of networking gear) is suspected of having backdoor and ill intents for Western users.  Radio Access Network placements of Huawei gear can be replaced in Europe for average 29 Euros per resident of Germany, and 6.5 Euros for average European.  John Strand in Copenhagen:  "Chinese can shut down or slow or meddle with the mobile network."    About 20 years ago, Chinese-manufactured computer motherboards were suspected of having a tiny embedded spy chip, right inside the fiberglass layers, but visible by X ray.

2024 Dec 2  searching for 'shaman frequency universe energy source,' examples of Law of Attraction and false spiritual:  The Shaman Within:  Channeling Universal Life Force, The Secret Power of Sound, The Shaman's Library:  Healing, Sacred Frequencies.  These are common on Coast to Coast AM.

2024 Dec 2  Jesse Kelly Show  Jesse charges that Joseph Biden groomed his son (or both Hunter and Beau?) from early on to be a "bag man" in service to the family fortune.  Soon after a terrible car crash that broke Hunter's hip (age 2, the crash killed Mrs. Biden and sister of Hunter), Joseph had [nurses dress] Hunter in a suit so Hunter could make a brave show by participating in Joseph's Senate swearing in, with Hunter lying in the hospital bed.  Jesse charges that Joseph used his son's pathetic condition to advance his Senate career.  Jesse charges that Joseph was shameless, using his family over and over to build the family empire.  Jesse says Hunter as an adult obeyed his father and was a willing participant.

     Jesse Kelly's comments are prompted by Pres. Biden's (USA Today) "pardon of his son [for felonies, that] was so broad that it drew comparisons with Gerald Ford's pardon of Richard Nixon." "For any federal crimes “he committed or may have committed" between Jan. 1, 2014, through the end of this year," 2024. 

     "Margaret Love:  ...does not pardon specific offenses, but rather takes a rather broad time span and pardons anything.”

     "Mark Osler, a law professor at the University of St. Thomas and an expert on pardons."  “It’s unusual enough to grant clemency in a case where there hasn’t been a conviction yet. But it’s rarer still to have the breadth of this one.”

    Even some Democrats, like Senator Schumer of New York, don't like the precedent this pardon sets.  They don't want their party to be known as the party of overextended pardons.

2024 Dec 3  paraphrasing Clay and Buck on-air opinion--about Democrat lying--COVID19 gave Democrats practice in lying and expecting to be believed despite some evidence to the contrary, as schools were closed, people in some parts of the country required to stay home and not even go outside, or go outside with face masks, small businesses closed for good due to no customers while large businesses were sometimes subsidized to keep them going.  "Just trust us."  Social media carried some contrary opinions, until the social media masters forbade those contrary opinions and removed the contrary voices (cancel culture, loss of freedom of speech).  Most media closed ranks around the Dem liars.  Dems boosted themselves onto a new plateau of lying.  The obvious guilt of Hunter Biden, colluding with (at the time) V.P. Biden to sell influence internationally, was denied.  Joe Biden enabled the addictions of Hunter.  The evidence from Hunter's laptop computer, abandoned at a Delaware computer shop, was denied and called fake.  During the Pres. Biden re-election campaign, they continued the lie that Biden was just fine, no dementia.  Dems:  "Join us as we promote trans, LGBT, DEI, personal pronouns, men competing against women in athletics."  Dem male leaders followed the path that low-testosterone men follow.  Biden-administration agencies (and New York prosecutor, and Georgia AG Fani Willis) conducted "lawfare" against Trump.  The media invented a story of the evilness and danger of Trump.  So late in the campaign, July 21 2024, Biden is kicked out and Kamala is awarded with the nomination, though she has so few talents that Biden had considered shunting her off to some appointment so he could run with a better-qualified V.P. candidate.  Biden said many times during the campaign that he wouldn't pardon Hunter if Hunter were to be convicted (see next paragraph).  Then Hunter pled guilty to the California gun charge and was convicted of the IRS offense and has been awaiting sentencing.   Polling and the press were confident that Kamala will win over Trump.  

     Then Trump wins, and a house of cards falls.  Dems wonder how slightly more than half the American voting public could be so deceived;  Kamala, despite being a woman candidate and younger, received 7 million fewer votes than Joe Biden in 2020, though there is speculation that the Dem vote harvesting in 2020 included substantial vote fraud.  Dems can't deal with the dissonance between their lies and what average Americans call the truth.  The hypocrisy of the media is now evident.  They are wondering how they can build back for the 2026 election.  They have no clear leader.  Then Pres. Biden goes against what he has said many times and pardons Hunter.  Will Biden pardon himself before he leaves office, to cover his decade or more of influence peddling and getting rich from foreign contributors, the selling of influence?

2024 Dec 3  The American Spectator    At MSNBC, Rising Tensions Fuel Fears of Collapse    lost half of viewers   Rachel Maddow ($25 million/yr contract for one show a week) viewers down, Joy Reid's Reidout cancelled    Feb 26 2025, Morning Joe viewers down.  Fox News is "scoring huge ratings."    MSNBC "a guest-driven, fully opinion [progressive opinions, only] operation," not news driven.  In general, progressives continue their progressivism in the face of Trump's conservative onslaught, with virtually no losses during Senate cabinet confirmations.

2024 Dec 4  Supreme Court hears case, Tennessee ban on minor transgender.  25 states ban, 15 states shield trans for minors.

2024 Dec 5  During Hannity radio program, a man is interviewed, and he says FBI is central to the deep state.  Looking up on Internet 'deep state fbi Kash,' there are many web sites, and they are almost all liberal media web sites, handwringing.  One web site says the FBI Intel arm is the deep-state problem.

2024 Dec 5  waysandmeans.house.gov  Dems have had a plan to get IRS to inspect everyone's bank accounts, since 2021, but it is very unpopular.  What is hanging out is whether Biden administration will revise the reporting threshold 1099-K, which is income from payment cards, apps, and online marketplaces.  Could be lots of paperwork.  Dems may require a taxpayer information number, an "information power grab."          Did not happen before Biden administration ended.

2024 Dec 6  Clay or Buck characterizes the U.S. health insurance system, two days after Luigi Mangione assassinates CEO Thompson on a sidewalk in NYC:  Obamacare pools the maximum number of people to maximize the pool of premiums and payments;  it is not insurance, because you don't pay premiums according to an actuarial table, there is income level that is figured in;  it is opaque, not transparent, there are surprise charges that you get billed for;  it is redistribution of income, to where higher-income people subsidize lower-income people (much more than before Obama).  It plays on the idea that was explained by a Frenchman, sometime before 1900, that an individual can receive something "free" because everyone else will be paying the bill.

2024 Aug etc.  George Soros---Washington Examiner 'The Kingmaker of Chaos:  George Soros' failed experiments threaten his kingdom [and at age 94, he may not live to see the results;  George turning over control to son Alex]   "...trial in progressivism...racial justice riots of 2020.  financial nightmare of Black Lives Matter and its pro-defund-the-police movement allies raked in checks from Soros’s Open Society Foundations [BLM leaders spent money on themselves, thinking they could operate above the rules, or maybe didn't care to check out the rules, did not conduct 501(c)(3) business by the rules]...open borders groups"   while the other side pushes for "solutions to the migrant crisis the Biden-Harris administration ignored for years.  The Soros vision is one of unrelenting chaos."  "70 prosecutors with no less than $40 million in funds" for elections.  Including San Antonio.  "push for hard drug decriminalization"   "Wall Street Journal op-ed in 2022 [see this time line 2022 July 31], arguing that there is “no connection between the election of reform-minded prosecutors and local crime rates.” "  "Tides Foundation and Arabella Advisors dark money network, is a crucial incubator of the progressive movement."  

    Kaminsky Aug 9 2024     Jewish Journal:  Hungarian Holocaust survivor Soros with a "political network with offices from Nairobi to Berlin."  India, Hungary, Israel criticize him, France embraces him.  Some Jews love him.  Alan Dershowitz:  "done more than anyone to turn Americans against Israel."  [Is this solely because Dems were turned to favoring Hamas and Hezbollah?]

2024 December, after election  KATU 2 ABC  TNND     21 district attorneys promoted by Soros have been replaced by tough-on-crime prosecutors since 2021. 

 2024 Dec  New Oxford Review   A print "symposium" about Roman Catholics in American public life, including people who aren't Catholic and even a person who may be Buddhist.  Only some comments that an orthodox Protestant picks up on...Since the sex-abuse in the early 2000s came out, priests have become objects of mockery (mostly disdain rubbing off on all priests from the minority of perpetrators.)  About French Louis IX, king 1226 to 1270, who reformed the legal system, presumption of innocence, economic and political high point in medieval France, fair and judicious.  NOR:  "regime aggressively enforced Catholic orthodoxy."        The U.S. administrative state under progressives undermines Constitution.  There is a quasi-religion of wokeness.             A Polish professor in Washington D.C. says his father was almost kidnapped from Poland into Russia as a "Soviet orphan," apparently a common ploy to get rid of troublemakers in Eastern Europe.  "Whole families to prison."  "Without Christian (or classical humanist) morality," society is incoherent and lacks integrity.  [Look at powerful U.S. men who exploit women, it goes with the territory.  Me Too.]  A non-Catholic:  Catholic Church "has potential to restore sanity to our troubled nation."  The U.S. "remains significantly less demoralized than every other developed Christian nation."  Catholic education [K-college] has failed and caused failures in the Catholic Church, producing defective "hierarchs."  "Our daily choices render us fit for glory or damnation."  [Admission of works righteousness.]    A non-Catholic in Plano:  Where the Pope and Vatican have strict policies, U.S. Catholics take free rein.  

     Pres. Biden acts as pro-abortion as practically anyone.   As does Nancy Pelosi.  They both receive Eucharist from most Catholic priests.

     U.S. medicine is, so far, unrestrained in funneling confused young people into trans.

     U.S. Catholics leaders are largely supportive of admitting anyone across the southern border.  

     Academics [how many Catholics, though] shut down free speech that disputes wokeism.

     U.S. Catholics reject rule by Roman Catholicism, and non-Catholics pay little attention to the Vatican.

     Australian Catholic Edwin Dyga:  the revolt against Christian orthodoxy began with the Reformation and proceeded through the humanist Declaration of Independence [and Progressivism, Modernism, post-modernism].  A strain of "the perfectibility of the individual and society" runs through these movements.  "Moral bankruptcy."  "Collapse of Church leadership."  

     Casey Chalk:  Medieval European Catholicism was warlike, confused, violent.  [JE:  a lot of this is because kingship and spiritual leaders got wrapped up with each other.  You don't want to cross a medieval king.]  As Catholic ideals are attacked in the U.S., "keeping the faith may mean moving" to a different state [to escape persecution, such as to keep Catholic children away from secular indoctrination, or to preserve a Catholic hospital's freedom to not abort].

     about Catholics, NOR:  Scripture that comes close to validating the Catholic idea of attaining holiness:  Rom ch 8, the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us.

     PewResearch.org/global/2008  Religiosity Scale of World Catholics puts U.S. Catholics between Poland and Mexico.  Brazil leads.  France is least in Catholicism, then Italy!  

2024 Dec 10  PBS Newshour lead with Merriam-Webster word of the year:  polarization.  In their political news during the following 15 minutes, the two PBS people are pointed in their own polarizing comments.    JE:  It is possible that the new, unofficial DOGE, Dept of Government Efficiency, will tell Congress to cut funding of PBS and NPR.  These organizations are among the leading progressive media, though ranking short of CNN and MSNBC.  

election2024 2024 Dec 11  Jesse Kelly show    Jesse charges that Jill Biden/Kamala Harris rivalry has been fuming for a year, or more.  Jill was likely the main incentive to Joe to stay with the campaign until July 21 2024, then Jill had to give in to the Dem elites.  And she was highly bothered when her rival, Kamala, was handed the campaign.  Then she watched Kamala "burn through" $1.5 billion, and end up $20 million in debt, speaking word salads and losing to Trump. 

2024 Dec 11  San Antonio Fox channel shows Brooklynn Chandler Willy arrested on federal charges    https://www.sacurrent.com/news/feds-arrest-embattled-san-antonio-financial-guru-radio-host-brooklyn-chandler-willy-36273166

San Antonio investment advisor and radio host Brooklynn Chandler Willy was arrested Tuesday on federal charges that she obstructed a grand jury proceeding, lied to authorities and falsified documents.  ... also faces at least three civil lawsuits from former clients who accuse her of defrauding them and playing fast and loose with securities laws.

     Invested $500,000 in a Lubbock-based company on Willy's advice...alleges Willy used their cash to make payments to a credit card, write checks to herself, pay other investors and pay another business she owns. 

election2024 2024 Dec 12, 13    Clay or Buck   The Dem base (not the majority of Dems, just the default base that the policy makers try to please) is narcissistic malcontents.  Wokeness is a cover for mean progressives, and they are mean, and they cancel people who they can't coerce.  

2024 Dec 16  Coast to Coast AM with George Noory and Jerome Corsi    An hour about CIA assassinating Pres. Kennedy, three shooters, Lee Harvey Oswald probably didn't shoot at all.  Corruption in Vatican, excommunicated archbishop Viganò (see other places in this time line), age 83, could be a driver to make Pope Francis resign.

election2024 2024 approx. Dec 23  reported in Newsweek, Wall Street Journal:  "White House that has been functioning with a 'diminished' Biden since as early as 2021."  Many sources, Dems and former staffers.  Limits placed on who Biden spoke with, what the team said to him, types of info the president received.  Newsweek and NewsNationPrime:  Lindy Li:  he is "no longer capable of executing the duties."  "Shadow presidency of his inner circle."  "I know them."  [JE:  the shadows are unelected and probably unaccountable;  if something goes wrong, is there no paper trail to the person who made the wrong decision?] Li on Wikipedia:  Li "co-chairs the Justice Unites Us Super PAC, a multi-million dollar political action committee;"  "Li described the Kamala Harris campaign as a "$1 billion disaster"...donors were misled by the campaign to believe "that this is an eminently winnable race"...America's Newsroom, Li...lost tens of thousands of followers because I dared to tell the truth. Because in a cult, you can't tell the truth. You can't ask any questions."

2024 Dec 17  The Pinnacle Gazette   Trump nominates Robert Kennedy Jr., Democrat then Independent, for Secretary of Health and Human Services.  In 50 yrs in the U.S., the rate of chronic health trouble has increased from 1% to 66%.  Kennedy blames food corporations for (JE:) feeding people food that they like but which kills them.  Food additives in the U.S. are often banned in Europe.  Dr. Oz of TV supports Kennedy.  "800 medical professionals have backed Kennedy."  Regulation of factory farms is possible.  

JE shops at HEB.  JE figures that only 1% of the food items on the shelves are healthy for a pre-diabetic person to eat.  They are so diluted by bad choices that a dietician is quite helpful to spot the healthy choices.

2024 Dec 27  Fox 10 Phoenix  Homeless (in U.S.) increases 18% in 2024.  Inflation, highest eviction rate ever in Arizona...prediction that the number of homeless people over 65 will triple by 2030...memory care issues...medical emergencies that drain their savings.   ABC News:  migrants arriving in big cities.  Double family homeless rate in Denver, Chicago, NY...

election2024 2024 Dec 28  Fox News  Biden still regrets dropping out of 2024 presidential race, believes he could have beaten Trump   ...but careful to not blame Kamala Harris.  "More and more Dems began to call for him...every day."  "Much of his funding dry up."  The Post reports: "Biden...regrets picking Merrick Garland" as AG...aides favored Garland.  

2024 Dec 30  At death of 100-yr-old Pres. Jimmy Carter, Georgia, his election in 1976 is recalled on Gordon Deal radio news program as having resulted from Carter's and wife's hard work getting to know lots of Democrats during his presidential campaign.  He was a Washington outsider.  Likewise, Donald Trump in 2016 was a Washington outsider.  Both of these outsider presidents were thwarted to significant extent by the deep state.  Trump's second election, in 2024, is, in the 54 days since the election, on a trajectory to purposely disrupt entrenched, expensive, ideological bureaucracy which sometimes persecutes average Americans, more than Carter and Trump's first presidencies, when they had been disadvantaged by lack of Washington experience.  The FBI, in particular, is cited by conservatives as having been overtaken by corruption, and by incompetence in light of the two assassination attempts (and narrow avoidance of death) on Trump during his campaign.

Carter was the first Deep South person elected president since Civil War.

2025 Jan 1  George Noory on Coast to Coast AM is personally hosting the live show on the Christmas and New Year holidays.  He explains tonight that he knows how people who have no family are lonely and even grieving during holidays.  And people driving at night benefit a lot from listening to a call-in show.  George wants to provide a live, call-in show so that lonely people can get a little sense of a radio family.  JE is not lonely but understands how this is true.  But Noory, a nominal Catholic, has so many guests who are mediums, astrologers, and others who oppose New Testament forgiveness.

2025 Jan 2  PBS Newshour  Heidi Bierich, doctorate from Purdue, also UC Berkeley, for Global Project Against Hate and Extremism   Their web site:  against far-right extremism and hate movements...white supremacy, anti-LGBTQ+, anti-Muslim, gender bias.  They claim consequences are:  violence, racism, bad government policy.  Existential threat to justice, inclusiveness, and fairness.  Cannot be allowed to grow.  Scourge.  Expose the actors.    cis.org:  she was steeped in ideology of postmodernism, which regards the history of Western Civ as endlessly dreary oppression.  Mark Potok at Southern Poverty Law Center, where Heidi was for a long time:  "Our aim in life is to destroy these groups."  

2025 Jan 2  U.S. Surgeon General reports that alcohol is third leading preventable cancer cause.  20,000 deaths per year, plus liver etc. trouble and drunk-driving deaths.  Alcohol industry is ready to pounce, extensive lobbying in Congress will block any more labelling on alcohol containers.  Consumption was $9 billion in COVID, then declined.  Canada:  "more information on a can of peas than on a bottle of whiskey."   JE:  Government agencies advertise on radio and TV already, such as depicting regular consumers filing with healthcare.gov to get low premiums (with no explanation of whether there is subsidy, 'Welcome to the Health Insurance Marketplace® | HealthCare.gov'), so expect FDA to advertise the danger.  The long-time advice to adults, to drink some red wine to help cholesterol levels, has been waning and now has stopped.

2025 Jan 4  Outgoing Pres. Biden awards Presidential Medal of Freedom to Hillary Clinton, billionaire political financer George Soros, Bill Nye the Science Guy, Bono, etc.  In Biden's last hours as president, he makes unprecedented pardons [whether they did anything wrong or not!] of people that Democrats fear will be hounded by Pres. Trump.

2025 Jan 7  With four major fires in the Los Angeles area, and the Palisades Fire burning many homes between the Los Padres National Forest plateau and the beach (along Pacific Coast Highway) due to the Santa Ana winds blowing embers from the fires toward the coast, 30,000 told to evacuate.  Police and firefighters tell some drivers caught in evacuee gridlock, "Get out of your car if you want to live," and walk over to the beach, and keep away from the homes on stilts that are likely to burn.  Leave the keys in the ignition, maybe the car can be driven away by someone else, if the car doesn't burn.  Dozens to hundreds of cars are abandoned in the traffic lanes.  Bulldozers come along to mash cars out of the way so fire engines can get through;  screeching sounds as cars are mashed.  This even happens on Sunset Blvd and Palisades Drive.  People with horses grab the reins and flee along boulevards where fire is burning at the curb.

2025 Jan 8   Coast to Coast AM with George Noory, Los Angeles is the broadcast home of Coast to Coast AM about half the time, St. Louis is the other home      about the disaster fires, five in three days, in western LA and north of Pasadena.     The environmentalist fanatics [JE:  I think he means woke people who think people are the problem, if you just leave Nature alone, things will be fine] have ignored advice from Europe;  Europeans tell us to groom the forest, rake out all the combustible forest-floor material and trim dead branches from trees, and you can have a little ground fire come through and it won't burn up the tree trunks into the crowns and cause a catastrophe.  And Native Americans for centuries or millennia have set controlled burns during favorable wind to burn out excess dead material.  Closely spaced homes mean a whole neighborhood is likely to burn down at once [HOA could enforce best practices of fire resistance].  There are things that can be done in home construction to reduce fire susceptibility.  [JE sees on TV coverage that plenty of homes are burning from the inside out, a fire approaching from the back, like from a flammable slope, burns grass and shrubs in the back yard, breaks out window glass, and the home burns from the inside;  the other way to burn is shingles catching fire from burning embers, a burn from the top down.]     A construction manager for a large homebuilder that builds 20,000 sq ft homes in scenic Los Angeles areas for rich people calls in;  these fancy homes take three yrs to build, up to five yrs, often have fireproof bunkers up to three stories, underground, sometimes topped with swimming pool to keep upper-floor fire from even warming up the bunker, and owner can take artwork and other treasures into the bunker when fire approaches.  Their expensive wine is in the bunker.  Rich people don't care too much about the upper floors burning.  The narrow roads up steep slopes, narrow before an area is developed, can't be made wider without making lots excessively steep, and the new neighborhood becomes single-road-in area that congests when evacuation order is issued, and long fire trucks have trouble getting in.

     Property tax problem after widespread fire:  those who have assets rebuild, then the country reassesses their property and the property tax goes way up.  A need for grandfathering the tax rate to avoid driving residents away.  Diverting fire-department funding, sometimes to expand spending for homeless people, is a problem.

     As of Jan 9 1AM, 300,000 people ordered to evacuate.    Scammers are posing as insurance agents and stealing identities and passwords.

2025 Jan 10  in the last 5 days, Adam interviewed on Clay and Buck, says that rich Malibu residents whose homes burned...when the ones who can afford to rebuild apply for building permits, and learn that building permits might take 3 to 5 yrs to be issued, they will apply pressure to get more common sense in the process.  Gov. Newsome is already telling a camera crew that regulations in the permitting process will be suspended, as if he knows he will otherwise lose the next election.  This interviewee, Adam, says average workers who provide services in the movie and TV industry, who suffer from Los Angeles wokeism, tell him quietly that his conservative viewpoint is correct.

     Aerial views of burned neighborhoods are showing 100% of lots burned over, for 20-lot by 20-lot tracts, which is an area of 400 homes that are 100% burned.  Schools and shops are burned.  Utility workers are going from lot to lot, turning off gas and water valves.  Utility poles with electricity and telecom are burned.  One wonders about the tax revenue of smaller cities;  surely the cities will not exact customary taxes per lot when the families are living elsewhere in refugee conditions.  Who will pay for debris removal?  Where will the debris go?  How much underground water piping has to be replaced?  Gentrification of middle-class neighborhoods is likely, four lots being purchased and one large home going up.

2025 Jan 13  Days of raging Palisades Fire, stoked by Santa Anna wind sweeping down from the plateau to the north, burn thousands of homes and businesses, even in rich-people enclave Malibu, including beach homes alongside the surf, along the coast-hugging Pacific Coast Highway.  Other fires in the LA area.  Home fire insurance has been rising;  many policies in California just dropped by the insurers;  premium rise in one year from $4500 to $18000. A homeowner couldn't afford to have ten trees at his roofline cut down, and went "bare."  And the trees and his home burned.

2025 Jan 13  https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyn92j4nn2o      Ray, 62 from south London, became one of the first patients to receive Wegovy on the [British] NHS last year and has lost 14kg in five months... probably need to take the drug all his life to prevent him regaining weight...each patient can only receive NHS-paid Wegovy for two years...tiny proportion of the eligible 3.4 million patients in England are getting access to the drugs...if everyone eligible was given the drug right away "it would simply bankrupt the NHS".  Potential serious medical side effects.          Wegovy is advertised a lot on U.S. TV;  sometimes insurance helps pay for it, sometimes the individual can afford it, and sometimes a patient goes without.  But beware the side effects.

2025 Jan 18  https://nypost.com/2025/01/18/us-news/president-biden-insisted-he-didnt-sign-executive-order-just-weeks-after-doing-so-speaker-mike-johnson/   Mike Johnson was repeatedly turned away from talking to Pres. Biden about the economic problem of turning off LNG exports.  The President's aides didn't want Biden to talk privately with anyone because the president's dementia is sometimes obvious, and it takes the staffers so much work to patch up gaffes.  Finally, Johnson gets an appointment in early 2024, but it turns out to be more of an ambush, the aides grilling Johnson on various points.  Biden told the aides to leave.  "An addled Biden insisted to the Louisiana lawmaker that he never issued the order to freeze new liquid natural gas export permits — even though he signed off on it less than a month earlier...didn’t believe Biden was lying, but was left to believe the then-81-year-old leader “genuinely didn’t know what he had signed”...'I thought, ‘We are in serious trouble—who is running the country?’” Johnson said.    Then in 2025 January, Heritage Foundation finds that almost all Biden signatures are by autopen, and it may be that Biden was in the dark about most of what he supposedly signed, throughout his presidency.

2025 Jan 18  The Hill    by Jonathan Turley  CNN loses defamation lawsuit.  $5 million judgement to Young, to be inflated by punitive damages.   "CNN's defense in court was a case study in how not to defend."  The judge:  "Your credibility with me...is about none."   Recent media losses by NY Times, NBC, Deadspin, ABC News, Fox News.  "Reckless disregard for the truth [lies] is becoming the norm."  "Advocacy journalism."  

election2024 2025 Jan 18  https://www.yahoo.com/news/six-key-people-hid-signs-224657612.html    by Liam Archacki        Donilon, Ricchetti, Tomasini, Bernal         worked tirelessly to manage his challenges    The New York Times reported on Friday, based on dozens of interviews with Biden world insiders.     delaying the sharing of bad polling numbers    convince America that Biden was fit       from mid-2022        struggled...out of the limousine          disoriented or in a fog.   tightly coordinated          scolded reporters...convinced allies     foot injury 2020, Biden declined to wear an orthopedic boot...caused a shuffling gait     

2025 Jan 20  Trump speech after oath of office, says "horrible betrayal," meaning by the Biden administration    Speech is "full of quite big promises," Britt Hume Fox News.  JE:  Biden and Harris are sitting right there and taking it!

     For many years, a radical and corrupt establishment has extracted power and wealth from our citizens.  Stumbling into a continuing catalog of catastrophic events abroad.  We will be working to meet every crisis with dignity and power and strength.  To the black and Hispanic communities, I want to thank you for the tremendous outpouring of love and trust that you have shown me with your vote.  We will not forget our God.  Revolution of common sense.  Designating the cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.   Drill, baby, drill.  Fill our strategic reserves up again.  End the Green New Deal and we will revoke the electric vehicle mandate.  Establishing the External Revenue Service to collect all tariffs.  Stop all government censorship and bring back free speech to America [FBI advised major social media that rumors of Russia interference with 2020 election, and social media censored the Republican and conservative rebuttal].  End the government policy of trying to socially engineer race and gender into every aspect of public and private life.  We will forge a society that is colorblind and merit based.  Stop our warriors from being subjected to radical political theories [DEI and critical race theory, some of U.S. military left the military because of the wokeness].  We will be a nation like no other, full of compassion, courage and exceptionalism. 

     Biden in last 90 minutes before Donald Trump declares his oath of office, "My family has been subjected to unrelenting attacks and threats, motivated solely by a desire to hurt me -- the worst kind of partisan politics. Unfortunately, I have no reason to believe these attacks will end."       "That is why I am exercising my power under the Constitution to pardon James B. Biden, Sara Jones Biden, Valerie Biden Owens, John T. Owens, and Francis W. Biden."      CNN is critical of this defensive tactic.

2025 Jan 22  NYC mayor Eric Adams, who rose to captain in NYC police:  "The Democratic Party left me" and working-class people.  ABC7ny.com:  "Adams claims federal prosecutors targeted him because of his criticism of former Pres. Biden's handling of the migrant crisis...told to 'be a good Democrat'."   April 2:  judge drops the charges, Adams is in the clear.

2025 Jan 23  Former VP Kamala Harris, the lady of the "word salads," is living in Los Angeles but husband Doug Emhoff is working for a NYC law firm and they will have a NYC apartment.  Mrs. Harris may run for California governor, as present Gov. Newsome is term limited.  LLC Pioneer49.

2025 about Jan 24  Bank of America and Chase accused by "Eric" on a radio talk show of canceling bank accounts of high-profile conservatives and fossil-fuel companies.  Christina Urso, journalist and employer, BofA account terminated by BofA "risk department."  Balance by check in the mail.

election2024 2025 Jan 27  https://www.thenation.com/article/society/biden-farewell-address-oligarchy/   Joe Biden's Indictment by Jeet Heer

     Pres. Biden "condemned the very oligarchy he empowered."  "Largest public spending on social policy in generations and invested serious money in tackling climate change."  JE:  Pres. Trump is taking down a lot of climate-change spending through presidential orders.  "Scott Bessen, Trump’s nominee to be treasury secretary...tartly noted that Biden gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom to two people who would qualify as oligarchs...George Soros and David Rubenstein."  "Contradiction between words and actions."  "The architect of the very oligarchy he decries."  "...while pushing for renewed great-power competition with China," the country with rapidly expanding coal-fired power plants.  "Why plutocracy now threatens America, he needs to begin by looking in the mirror."

2025 Jan 20   White House executive order about the letter signed by 51 former intelligence people, warning that the Hunter Biden laptop was fake, disinformation [Kremlin propaganda].  Clearances revoked for most of the 51.  Politico published a story with the misleading headline, "Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo."  Adam Schiff said on CNN, "Well we know that this whole smear on Joe Biden comes from the Kremlin."  Biden himself publicly perpetuated the belief of Russian disinformation.  On February 13, 2023, The Washington Post fact-checker wrote that the Politico headline "likely shaped perceptions of the letter that continue to this day" and influenced the 2020 election.      

     Back to the executive order:  [former CIA acting director] Morell told the House Judiciary Committee last year that correspondence with Biden's campaign was a source of the letter, crafted in the main by Morell.  The letter was processed through CIA for publication at top speed;  it is public just five days after the New York Post exposé.   "Signatories willfully weaponized...to suppress information essential to the American people during a Presidential election."  On Jan 20 2025, clearances revoked for Clapper, Hayden, Panetta, Brennan, Michael Morell, etc.  JE:  many of these names are famous in the last ten years.    Makridis:  the letter was a political document, signed by Dems and some Republicans.     

     New York Post Oct 14 2020  exposes Hunter's laptop contents, Biden crime family shakedowns.  The Washington Times Oct 19 2020:  Morrell invites 50 former intel agents, including contractors who are not to influence politics, to sign, then the letter is public.  15 days later:  the election, Trump loses narrowly;  slight variations in public opinion decide the election.  After COVID-19, ballots cast early and by mail constitute over half of all votes cast in 38 states;  Republicans warn that there was election fraud.

     https://nypost.com/2022/03/18/how-big-tech-media-and-dems-killed-the-hunter-biden-story/    

     https://nypost.com/2022/03/18/intelligence-experts-refuse-to-apologize-for-smearing-hunter-biden-story/

2025 Jan 28  Gregg Braden  Pure Human:  The Hidden Truth of Our Divinity, Power, and Destiny  is probably a manifestation of Law of Attraction.  He says ordinary people can be divine.  

2025 Jan 28  https://dailycaller.com/2025/01/28/white-house-press-corps-briefing-karine-jean-pierre-karoline-leavitt/   Reagan Reese

I saw firsthand how the press turned a blind eye to the president’s condition, coddled the administration...The legacy media failed...it is, quite literally, night and day [with press secretary Leavitt being engaged daily with Pres. Trump and much more forthcoming than Biden's DEI press secretary KJP]. It took Trump just a few hours in office to take more questions than Biden did his entire first week...press corps widely knew the details of several Biden White House stories, but failed to report the scandals. 

2025 Jan 29 with other sources 2018     searching for 'spiritual wasteland of progressivism'   lorenrichmondjr   The Death Spiral of Progressive Christianity:  Why the Mainline Church is in Crisis    The orthodox web site author communicated to followers of some progressive person.  He received replies that mocked him, insulted, misrepresented.  (Sounds like U.S. politics.)  The progressive leader had condemned the orthodox person as being phobic and for using the Bible.     A pastor of a declining church:  the only faithful thing to do is give away the church resources to nonprofits and close the doors.  Dwight Zscheile (ELCA) and Ben Crosby (Episcopalians) write about progressive-church decline, cratering by 2040.  "The broader institutions of the church seem blissfully unconcerned with this crisis."   To Loren Richmond Jr., they think "that the church itself must end...irredeemably corrupt, tainted, purpose opaque."  (JE:  sounds like critical race theory.)      shadowmere.review... Ex-evangelicals deify the [human] will.  Personal experience, choice, preference are sacred energies.  (CHBC San Antonio pastor Nathan Clardy says the same when he says "felt need" of individuals diverts attention away from the Holy Spirit.)  The enemies of progressivism are not so much the godless or reprobates, but are more teachers of sexual morality and original sin.  For progressives, the old prohibition of the world, the flesh, and the devil has become prohibition of Republicans, FOX News, and young-earth creationism.     anglicanwatch  In Episcopalian churches, high level of conflict between church members.  (JE:  especially since the national body owns the properties.)     Recruiting for a new Episcopalian pastor (replacing a pastor who left amid conflict, or retired) has a common rhetoric:  We're a small but loving church with a passionate commitment to growth [though we are broke and haven't paid for a full-time priest in years, find a supplemental job to sustain your family], beautiful area with arts and culture [and few people on a Sunday want to go inside a church building!], seek a rector to expand our outreach [since we need younger members to pick up the slack after deaths in the congregation].

2025 Jan approx.  Christian Post  Censorship by progressives.  John Kerry recently said conservative web sites bypass his preferred referees in filtering out disinformation (his definition of disinformation).  "First amendment stands as a major block to the ability to hammer [disinformation] out of existence."  Hillary Clinton says things like prosecuting Americans for saying (her definition of) propaganda.  "We lose control."  [A widespread notion is that progressives want to control people--for their own good, of course.]  Prof. Jonathan Turley says Clinton is anti-free speech.  Left-wing academics want the Constitution to wane.  Dean Erwin Chemerinsky:  No Democracy Lasts Forever:  How the Constitution Threatens the United States.  

2025 Feb 4  Iran building ICBM nuclear warhead to N. Korea design.  If they can fit on the best Iranian ICBM, can reach Greece.

2025 Feb 15  Once in a while, Coast to Coast AM has a useful program.  Dr. John Gray, now age 73, is the author of 1991 best seller Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus.  His newest book, Beyond Mars and Venus: Relationship Skills for Today's Complex World (December 15, 2020), counters gender fluidity and shows that marriage works better when wives accomplish traditional mother/wife functions in a family, but it raises testosterone level in a wife when she works a job, like in a workplace, away from home.  It is good for a husband to listen to his wife when she wants to talk about relationships or problems.  He keeps mentioning during his two hours in the CtoCAM program that it is good for a husband to listen to wife, then offer to give her a hug;  this is good for the hormones of both husband and wife.  He says testosterone in men has gone down 20% during a generation, when men are criticized in universities for being too aggressive, and such a reduction is not good.  He calls gender fluidity harmful and silly.  The hormones and stress are all interlinked.  Husbands need to help working wives deal with emotions, to help wives come back to their female side.

     On the Clay and Buck program, they are frequently saying that liberal male leaders are lacking in testosterone.  They advertise Choq.

     Gray deals with nutrition.  Belly fat in aging men boosts estrogen and is promoted by seed oils.  A man losing muscle mass also loses testosterone.  Meat consumption helps testosterone, vegan can hurt.  Lutein available in capsules. Being sedentary upsets hormones.  Ozempic helps with weight loss but upsets hormones.  Prolactin in men is important, normal sexual function in a man (and woman) promotes a normal up and down of all these hormones during a day.  When a man solves problems or disappears into his cave to pursue his hobby, that helps his testosterone.

     Gray talks about God and God's design of hormones, but also evolution.  Wikipedia says he had an early relationship (marriage?) with a woman (sounds like Hindu), then a long marriage when he wrote Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus and other helpful books.  His wife died from cancer in 2018.  He was depressed for two years, then married again, and has the new book Beyond Mars and Venus: Relationship Skills for Today's Complex World (December 15, 2020).  Men have 10 to 20 times the testosterone of women, by design.

     In the call-in portion of the CtoCAM show, Gray tells women callers to get to their question, "we have a limited amount of time here."  He doesn't want to waste time, having a long, drawn-out therapy conversation.

still the election2024  2025 Feb 26  whiskeyriff.com  Social Media Goes Off on Hypocritical CNN Anchor Jake Tapper for Writing a Book About The Cover-up of Joe Biden's Cognitive Decline  Aaron Ryan      Media spent 4 yrs telling us that Pres. Biden was in good shape.  Jake Tapper participated in building up Pres. Biden, despite obvious decline of ability.  [JE:  typical of progressives, tell the public anything that will get the higher values of progressives instituted.]  Tapper was co-moderator of the June 27 2024 Trump-Biden debate where Biden had the major shortcoming.  Twelve days before Biden dropped out, Tapper reversed course, says Biden and family in "complete denial [JE:  ignoring Tapper's more than three years of denial]."   Political Insider, Rusty Weiss:  Jake, "you have absolutely no standing to cover the very real...decline you helped hide for years."    Feb 26:  Tapper and a co-writer have a new book coming out in May, Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again.  On Amazon, Tapper is a "most respected journalist."  [JE:  no, he does a lot of purposeful lying in the service of pushing progressivism.]  Biden, his family, and aides lied to "themselves, allies, and the public about his condition and limitations."  "Narcissistic, self-delusional, and reckless...public deception that has few precedents."  "Biden and his inner circle ensured" the "existential threat to democracy" by prolonging Biden's campaign.  "Hubris meets nemesis."  Again, Tapper and so many progressives advanced the cover-up, but in his book doesn't seem to include himself as a perpetrator.  Hypocrite?      Jan 18 2025, The Hill, Jonathan Turley   Radical shift in American journalism...not neutral or objective, it is advocacy journalism.  Journalism schools now teach that objectivity is a dated concept.  Journalism is now activism.  Some outlets double down, hoping they can ride anti-Trump coverage back to robust ratings.  "Bend the moral arc toward justice."  Zachary Young awarded $5 million in lawsuit against CNN.  "Public abandoning legacy media at a run, turning to...blogs."

     JE:  Biden aides are known to have shielded the President from most direct contact from Congress, to even out Biden's limited tolerance of provocation.  Even Cabinet members were limited in their in-person contact to Biden.  Once the autopen signing of almost all documents became known after the 2024 election, many wonder if a shadow administration was running the White House.  [JE:  The answer is yes.]  Top aides and their centrist or progressive orientation:  

• Ron Klain, progressive;  

• Bruce Reed, centrist and a deficit "hawk" who put through some Medicare trimming under Obama, Reed was opposed by AOC;  

• Steve Ricchetti, low-key and soft-spoken, concessions with Republicans to get a budget deal through;  

• Mike Donilon, progressive;  

• Anita Dunn, progressive;  

• Jen Dillon, strategist, progressive;  

• Cedric Richmond of Louisiana, big-time critic of Trump, he "wrecked this economy, just like everything he has ever touched."  [JE:  such a lie by Richmond speaks for itself.] 

Progressive campaigns during the Biden years, according to Politico:  climate change and how to keep humans from making it even worse, student debt forgiveness, marijuana.             Follow the above political advisors over the next five years and see where they alight and how they make income.

2025 Mar 2  LA Times  by Mark Barabak  John Ladd, fourth-generation border rancher in Arizona, on 16,400 acres.  10.5 miles of Mexican border.  Illegal crossers cut through fencing and walk just three miles to State Route 92 for pickup by traffickers.  During Biden administration, up to 700 crossers per day.  Through years, 18 dead found on his ranch.  With Trump back as President, it is down to ten crossers per day.

2025 Mar 6  PJ Media  Matt Margolis  Heritage Foundation's Oversight Project finds the autopen was used to sign almost every document for Pres. Biden during his four years.  "Who was running the country?"  Should the 25th amendment have been utilized to scrutinize Biden?  "Biden administrative orders were aggressively much farther to the left."  "Lindy Li...Biden wasn't running the show;  his staff, his wife, and Hunter were."  "This isn't just a scandal."    See also in this time line 2022 Jan 23

Dec 2024    Wall Street Journal, as reported by MSN, interviewed almost 50 people close to Biden:  Biden Cabinet heads often talked to advisors, not the President.  Policy discussion was not common;  more common were directives that were coming from an inner circle.  Biden had about two cabinet meetings per year.  Treasury secretary Janet Yellen was "kept at an arm's length."  Defense secretary Lloyd Austin had less contact with Pres. Biden as time went on.  His solo meetings with the President became rare.  Democrat donors were shocked to not be able to talk personally with Pres. Biden.  They could submit questions, then were given notes about what to ask.  Aides Annie Tomasini and Ashley Williams "tried to stay within earshot or eye distance" during events.  They routinely gave the President cues about leaving the stage.  

2025 March 6  At the start of Pres. Trump's address to Congress and Supreme Court Justices, "swift and unrelenting action to usher in the greatest and most successful era in the history of our country. We have accomplished more in 43 days than most administrations accomplished in four years or eight years."  He possibly refers to Biden's four years and Obama's eight years.  Shortly, Rep. Al Green, D-Houston, tries to shout down the President, without microphone.  House Speaker Mike Johnson:  "Our members are directed to uphold and maintain decorum in the House."  Rep. Green continued his disruption and was escorted out of the chamber by the Sergeant at Arms.  [JE:] Democrats, holding nearly half the House membership, stonewall in their silence and stillness while Republicans stand and cheer as Pres. Trump recounts near-term actions.  Trump gazes at the sullen Democrats.  "I look at the Democrats in front of me and I realize there is absolutely nothing I can say to make them happy, or to make them stand or smile or applaud...why not join us in celebrating so many incredible wins for America?"  And they do not.  Fox News cameras make repeated views across the Democrats frequently during Trump's 100-minute speech, and they must be sitting on their hands.

     The next day, probably during the Glenn Beck program, is an explanation of Rep. Green's outburst.  Former Representative Sheila Jackson Lee was a "bully" in the House, rising to that notoriety during her 29 years in the House.  (She did not run for reelection in 2024 due to some scandal.)  She allowed no Black House member to outshine her in her flamboyance.  But since her death in 2024, the cork has popped out of the champagne bottle and Rep. Green felt he could put some verbiage to the outrage of the Democrats.

2025 Mar 7   https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5180888-democrats-missteps-trump-hate/    Democrats’ hatred of Trump is destroying their party      by Liz Peek      copyrighted, here are some phrases       Democrats ... lost their minds    not the only recent foolish move     sullen refusal to applaud [during Trump's address to Congress]    their angry souls         The policies they are “resisting” are popular with U.S. voters.      the policies, like the open border, that turned voters against them         Hakeem Jeffries is no Nancy Pelosi, who ruled with an iron fist     unhinged petulance      

     JE:  Dems in Congress are acting like the "mind-numbed robots" they used to accuse Rush Limbaugh listeners of being.  Most Congress votes that I know of have 100% of Dems voting as a bloc.  Fetterman is sometimes the exception.

2025 Mar 13  Coast to Coast AM      guest Joe Allen, https://www.joebot.xyz/   Dark Aeon: Transhumanism and the War Against Humanity     warns about materialist transhumanism, solving problems that people can't solve        Divinity in a data center     A digital god     Steve Bannon warns that AI is moving to be a spiritual entity that is opposed to Christianity   "The Singularity" is when AI will think better than any person can, AI will improve itself in ways that people don't understand, and governments will act on AI advice that is opposed to people's advice      https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/musk-undercuts-trumps-stargate-ai-investment-announcement/3653233/     Elon Musk said OpenAI, Oracle and Softbank [OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Oracle CTO Larry Ellison, and SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son] "don't actually have the money" to back up their pledge to invest $500 billion [of non-govt., non-taxpayer money] in U.S. artificial intelligence infrastructure, the Stargate project    '"There's no doubt" that Musk's testy relationship with Altman was the catalyst for his posts about Stargate.'       10 data centers, each 500,000 square feet, were already under construction on 800 acres in Abilene, Texas.  www.seattletimes.com › business › openai-oracle-eye-nvidia-chips-worth-billions-for-stargate-site       OpenAI, Oracle eye Nvidia chips worth billions for Stargate site      To house 64,000 of Nvidia's coveted GB200 semiconductors by the end of 2026, OpenAI and Oracle.  Crusoe & Lancium

2025 Mar 14  Yahoo News by Rachael Bade   House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate minority leader Schumer angrily fall out of the long-standing Dem lockstep that has delivered plenty of Dem wins when Republicans are fractured.  When Jeffries was not pressured so much, as the House Republican majority got a government-funding continuing resolution passed, Jeffries "ingratiated himself with the [Dem] base."  Schumer was left as the last dam restraining a government-shutdown flood, and after a day of holding out, seeking to blame the Republicans, Schumer relented and advocated for the CR.  Many Dems pile on Schumer.

2025 March 28  https://www.the-sun.com/news/13894494/trump-b2-bombers-iran-deadline/   US B-2 strike force [and ten refueling tankers] massing in Diego Garcia is aimed at Iran…as clock ticks down on Trump’s chilling nuclear deadline...gave the supreme leader a two-month deadline and there is just five weeks to go.  The President has given his team strict instructions to completely obliterate Iran if they ever assassinate him.

still the election2024  2025 Ap 1  https://nypost.com/2025/04/01/us-news/barack-obama-was-working-against-kamala-harris-behind-the-2024-scenes-didnt-think-she-could-win-new-book/     FIGHT: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House        Barack Obama was working against Kamala Harris behind the 2024 scenes — didn’t think she could win.               NYPost By Shane Galvin  The 44th president reportedly argued for an open convention rather than anointing Harris as the nominee       "Clyburn thought to himself, this guy is going to try to rope me into the open convention thing, I better get my endorsement of Harris out there fast so this is a short conversation."              From the Amazon description:  "backstage story of...clawing, backstabbing, and rabble-rousing that drove...Democrats into the wilderness...for the jugular, whether they were facing down rivals in the other party or their own.  [Not to mention the lying by politicians and media.]  Bestselling authors Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes...electorate that felt gaslit by Biden’s insistence that he had delivered economic prosperity [being told the inflation was minor, then temporary, when grocery prices went up and up]...tore his party asunder...as he clung to power...[same authors as] Shattered and Lucky."

2025 Ap 14  A productive Internet search phrase:   (California|New York|Portland|Austin) progressives are ruining (state|city)    Voters, who have been choking on the idiocy of progressives, voted out progressives in the Nov 2024 election.  There are long coattails on Donald Trump.

2025 Ap 15  https://www.crossway.org/articles/ive-heard-it-said-god-will-accept-me-because-i-know-im-a-good-person/    The mixed story about rich investor/politician Michael Bloomberg and his certainty of his destiny in Heaven                  Electrical engineering degree.  Clay and Buck are roundly critical of Bloomberg.  Various radio people call him the worst NYC mayor ever.  Mayor 2002 to 2013.  Wikipedia says he was Republican before 2001, then was important to the "stop and frisk" that reduced crime in NYC.  Public charter schools!  His financial firm and his Bloomberg Terminal with six screens has been lucrative.  Candidate for President for 2020, spent his own money in the amount of $935 million in that campaign, a record.  At Bloomberg L.P., (quoting from the web site) male "employees bragging in the company's office about their sexual exploits.  The company was sued four times by female employees for sexual harassment."   In New York City, required chain restaurants to post calorie counts, limited size of sugared soft drinks.

     From Crossway.com:  The New York Times:  He has little doubt about what would await him at a judgment day. Bloomberg thinks he has earned God’s favor for work on gun safety, obesity, and smoking cessation.  "If there is a God, when I get to heaven, I’m not stopping to be interviewed. I’m heading straight in. I have earned my place in heaven. It’s not even close.”

2025 Ap 16  CBS News  NY AG Letitia James [prosecuted Donald Trump in a civil fraud case;  ruling ordered him to pay over $450 million for inflating the value of his assets to secure better loan terms] may have committed mortgage fraud.  Gave her father's name as husband.  Listed a 5-unit residential location as 4-unit.  

2025 Ap 16  UK highest court:  "woman" refers to a biological woman, not trans.  "Highly anticipated" ruling.  (This is in favor of conservatives.)

2025 Ap 22  Supreme Court will consider a parent lawsuit against Montgomery County schools, Maryland.  Website:  the nation's most religiously diverse counties.  2022-2023:  LGBTQ+ books for K-12 are in libraries for "students' own reading, classroom read-alouds."  An op-out process had been available for parents to shunt their children aside from read-to-the-classroom, then the opt-out was eliminated because it was cumbersome.     Muslim and Christian parents find themselves on the same side!     A school employee:  "Yes, ignorance and hate does exist in our community."  Another employee:  Muslim parents compared to white supremacists.  Deseret.com  It's as if Montgomery County school officials read the Lukumi and Masterpiece playbooks and decided to break all the rules.  A teacher guide:  tell children that people, even doctors, only "guess" a person's gender based on body parts.  Tell a resistant child (balking at the progressive pitch) they are being "hurtful."  

    Three other similar, ridiculous, progressive views:

     2020 May 29  MSNBC reporter, standing on a dark sidewalk with arson-fire business behind the reporter, says "protests" [riots] are mostly peaceful.

     2025 April  Newly discovered Mayan altar, at Tikal, was used to sacrifice children, maybe hundreds.  An archaeologist, Maria Belen Mendez:  "It was a practice;  it's not that they were violent, it was their way of connecting with the celestial bodies."  

     2025 April  Assassin and Ivy Leaguer Luigi Mangione, jailed before trial, a son of wealthy Maryland couple, is made a celebrity by out-of-touch-with-reality social media addicts.  Journalist Taylor Lorenz on CNN:  [he is] handsome and smart, and many women perceive Luigi Mangione as “this morally good man, which is hard to find.”

still the election2024  2025 Ap 22   About Democrats gaslighting the American public about what is now agreed on by everyone, President Biden's mental decline from 2021 to 2024.  "Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso" podcast, did Senator Elizabeth Warren regret saying Biden "had a sharpness to him" up until he dropped out of the 2024 presidential election?  (Dropped out shortly after June 27 2024 disaster debate.)  "I said I had not seen decline."  "Look, he was sharp. He was on his feet."  [JE:  on his feet, and sometimes stumbling.]  "Senator, ‘on his feet’ is not praise," Fragoso argued. "'He can speak in sentences' is not praise." 

still the election2024  2025 Ap 29  https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democrats-opposition-trump-fight-populism/    Rep. Pramila Jayapal       'Democratic Party must stop courting those billionaires' [JE:  but keep coming, George Soros] who are simply pouring money into defeating us, destroying unions...embrace of billionaire megadonors, corporate PACs, and powerful special interests is precisely what led to the disastrous 2024 election. 

2025 Ap 25  https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/breaking/2025/04/25/milwaukee-county-judge-hannah-dugan-arrested-by-feds-at-courthouse/83270885007/

Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan charged with 2 felonies in ICE case        writers:  Daniel Bice John Diedrich Mary Spicuzza Vanessa Swales

Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan charged with two felonies, trying to help an undocumented immigrant avoid arrest.  Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, an immigrant from Mexico. [Working as a cook in Milwaukee 12 yrs] [Illegal alien (says AG Bondi)] Flores-Ruiz is charged with three counts of battery and domestic abuse, violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act and unlawful re-entry (after 2013 deportation).   Dugan appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge during a brief hearing, two hours after arrest.  U.S. AG Pam Bondi posted on X.  Six members of the Milwaukee ICE task force.  Dugan confronted members of the arrest team while "visibly upset."  Dugan told the defendant and his attorney to exit through a side door near the jury box that leads to a private hallway and then to the public area outside the courtroom.  Flores-Ruiz got off the elevator [, left the courthouse] and was confronted by two agents outside the courthouse.  "A foot chase ensued...pursued Flores-Ruiz for the entire length of the courthouse...apprehended him."

2025 Ap 19  https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/read-justice-alitos-dissent-from-late-night-supreme-court-order-blocking-some-deportations    JUSTICE ALITO, with whom JUSTICE THOMAS joins, dissenting.   When this Court rushed to enter its order, the Court of Appeals was considering the issue of emergency relief, and we were informed that a decision would be forthcoming.  This Court, however, refused to wait.     And the Court did not have the benefit of a Government response filed in any of the lower courts.   The papers before us, while alleging that the applicants were in imminent danger of removal, provided little concrete support for that allegation.      In the middle of the night, the Court issued unprecedented and legally questionable relief without giving the lower courts a chance to rule, without hearing from the opposing party, within eight hours of receiving the application, with dubious factual support for its order, and without providing any explanation for its order. I refused to join the Court’s order.

2025 May New Oxford Review  p. 6  by Terry Scambray   Chinese Academy of the Social Sciences, a think tank of Peoples' Republic, had liberty to think about successes of Western society.  "The heart of your culture is your religion:  Christianity...The Christian moral foundation was what made possible...capitalism and the transition to democrat politics."  Some in the CCP agree, though China remains "doctrinaire materialism."  So why do so many Westerners want to destroy what made the West successful?

2025 May New Oxford Review    (See at the bottom of this note that JE has an opinion,  "the death drive is shocking.")  p. 20  by Alexander Riley  Article title "The Death Drive"

     Academic Lee Edelman (Yale) 2004 book No Future:  Queer Theory and the Death Drive, and he has no regrets about the death drive.

     The NOR article highlights this opinion:  it is harmful that atheist homosexuals claim to have a deeper [JE:  and more useful, they say] understanding of human life than Christians do.

     JE:  if homosexual atheists claim to 1) have a deeper understanding of human life, and 2) they see no existence after death, it is remarkable that Christians a) claim the same deeper understanding, b) see more, in fact an eternal, life after death, and c) that eternal life is more than the existence on Earth.

     Edelman criticizes "Reproductive futurism."  (see below, reproductive futurism)  In NOR:  regular people think "it is a) a morally good thing that the human race continue," b) keep marrying, not just living together with a partner, and c) it is good to bear children.  "From the view of queerness, this cannot be defended...[continued humanity is] "a Ponzi scheme."

     Queerness is naricistic, "anti-social and anti-natal hedonism."  [JE supposes that homosexuals go along with Edelman's idea that their sexual lives are indeed hedonism, but JE supposes they would choose a different phrase than anti-social.]

     NOR:  This thinking is "viciously anti-Christian."  Homosexuals "excel" at "purely carnal, anti-spiritual, and anti-reproductive sexual contact."  [JE:  on TV currently are some commercials for PrEP, in which complete strangers, young and male, have spontaneous attraction to each other.  The attraction is overt in the commercial, while any action to pursue dating or "contact" is left to the imagination.  A related Internet web site for a doctor, perhaps in the Warm Springs part of Palm Springs:  in his office rules, that no one (male) should attempt to date the doctor.]

     The NOR writer, Riley, concludes that the death drive is "hiding in plain sight" as homosexuals continue their campaign to be accepted as equally good for society.  Riley advises that Christians stop the slide toward conservatives agreeing with the moral equivalency of atheist homosexuals.

     Wikipedia  Death Drive    Freud    The death drive opposes...survival, propagation, and sex.   Freud associated the death drive with Carl Jung.    JE:  to a Christian, the death drive is shocking.  Why would anyone choose a death drive?  JE supposes this may be natural for materialist atheists and those who say that humans are bad for the planet.

     Wikipedia  Reproductive futurism, a brief article and it is all about Edelman's opposition to reproductive futurism.  Edelman says homosexuals should move beyond the argument that a male couple or a female couple are "optimal parents and that they deserved marriage."  Instead, "embrace their place as symbolic of the death drive."

still the election2024  2025 May 5  For July 8 release, new book by three Washington Post writers, 2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America, the review on Amazon sounds like liberals distorting the record.

     But Fox News and NY Times find this [from reading the book]:  Biden advisors considered having Biden cognitively tested in Feb 2024 (before the disaster debate with Trump, in June) to dispel public concerns about Biden, though they were sure he would be declared to be fine.  This was about the time that Robert Hur's report...described Biden as "a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory."  Chris Whipple:  "At his first meeting with Biden [to prepare for the June debate] in Aspen Lodge, the president’s cabin"...Klain "was startled. He’d never seen him so exhausted and out of it. Biden was unaware of what was happening in his own campaign...president excused himself and went off to sit by the pool."  And fell asleep.  Whipple's book, Uncharted: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History, was released in April.    

     Continuing the Amazon review of the 2024:How... book, "Biden’s longtime doctor, Kevin O’Connor, had told aides he would not take the 81-year-old president’s political standing into consideration when treating him."  In other words, the doctor might be transparent.  And the aides gave up on the cognitive test.  And pursued reelection (did Jill Biden actively push for reelection?) that would have put Biden in the presidency until he was 86 yrs old, [JE:  about 7 years into obvious mental decline].  Since early 2025, everyone agrees that Biden aides, shielding Biden from Cabinet and Congress, were running the administration, not Biden himself, for years.

     Another book:  Allen at NBC News and Parnes at The Hill, FIGHT: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House.  A makeup artist every morning to cover up visible signs of aging.