Dues Process-II The Flow — Mr Floyd — The Box —The Hard Key

Dues Process II - The Flow, Mr. Floyd - The Box - The Hard Key

June 10, 2020|CAMPAIGN

"I've Been Doing Research"

Dershowitz and other JD's, some of whom intone their corned-beef-gravitash into radio microphones, like to say, "I've been doing research." Ok, then try some research where there's a diffusion pump and a laser and a beam collimator for starters; and when you come into the lab at 3am there's a bearing rattling in the forepump and "oh dang" gotta find a new forepump, plumb it in, and restart my vacuum pump-down and wait another 12 hours. That's research where "nature cannot be fooled" (I'll talk about Richard Feynman, soon); and there's the Chiffon margarine corollary. You can't write your way around these lab things.

Or when I was trying to start the 6.9 IDI in my '87 F350 a couple of weeks ago. I had to move it, and it had been sitting for four or maybe five years. That was longer than the three year hiatus when I had started the Perkins 4-cyl in my Allis Chalmers backhoe, which has a shot torque converter and was why I got a "bargain" on it (and I knew the converter was shot when I bought it). But that Perkins started like a dream. Go diesels!

BTW, these and my other prized stuff (which the uninformed call "junk") are off of craigslist. Craigslist is my addiction, I confess - or was, before my accident. If it had an engine, I got the shakes. A diesel, the cold sweats began. For the F350, because my physical problems now made it difficult, though possible, for me to remove the old batteries (my arms are strong, but my balance is not good, though still improving a bit), I used two of the thick jumpers (whatever the thickest ones are from Walmart - 2 or 4 gauge - I don't remember, I have at least three sets of those jumpers; they're the ones that cost about $44, ten or more years ago, in the nice pouch, not the plastic pouch). So I went and got one new battery because I hoped I had a good one lying around for the second battery. I was looking for the ValuePower brand they (Walmart) came out with a few years ago, all selling at 49.99, which are ok for me when I remember often enough to take care of them. But they seem to have discontinued ValuePower recently, and now it's one of the Ever ones at about 54, which is fine. (That reminds me, I have to pick a core, among the couple of dozen I have, to return for the 12 core deposit.) For the 2nd battery, I did have a ValuePower from about 2016, which I had taken decent care of, though it had been sitting the last 2+ years since my accident, and I used one of my Schumacher chargers and my little pulse conditioner (which seems to have brought a few batts back) - here they are...

I got the Schumacher on the left at a Walmart near Indy South Greenwood airport, the week before my crash. I wanted it to keep the plane's battery charged while I had avionics turned on and was testing them and fixing another thing.

The old ValuePower came up green, so I used one jumper to connect the old ValuePower to the new Ever (both on the ground) and then the second jumper up to the battery cables in the 350. I disconnected the hot from one batt in the 350 and the gnd from the other, so as to take them out of the circuit - but the cable, in the front of the engine compartment, still joined the the hot wiring on each side, so all devices were powered. The solenoid engaged and the starter turned just a little (but not really enough to call it a "crank") but no dice beyond that. The clamps seemed to be tight. I'll finish telling you everything later; it's a pretty interesting sequence and diagnostic problem, as it turned out. I did get it started with a friend's help, because I'm still adjusting to my new physical realities.

Two and a half years ago, that friend had dropped everything when his wife saw my crash while she was searching online for me because they hadn't heard from me. He immediately drove 1200 miles to Albuquerque to see me and get my stuff from my crashed plane, with the rancher on whose land I'd crashed. I'm a lucky guy to have such a friends, as I've mentioned - and more. But I'll get to my main topic now. (And BTW, I have pics of my AC6140VPP and will post them here tonight or tomorrow.).

So, like Dershowitz and those other JDs, I was doing research too. On my Mac when I was in my hospital bed and had time on my hands. I made a very close inspection of the actual, original, archived 5th Amendment text. I'm a Constitutional textualist who practices Constitutional textualism. This is how you become a political science (polisci) major and scholar and get on the Supreme Court - by adding "ist" and "ism" to things. I zoomed in with my special, sophisticated image inspection, recovery, and reconstruction tools. I started to see it, as the tools began revealing what had been hidden for over 200 years. It was all there. And with what appeared to be a watermark, "Ps YO"- what my research revealed to be the Ye Olde version of Photoshop.

The next level made it clear.

Photoshop YO was used to remove the "s" but it didn't do a clean job. I found the tell tale signs, and my artificially-intelligent tools reconstructed the original automatically. I think the 18th century hacker was Poor Richard because his lesser-known appendix, Almanac Hacks & Cracks (a penny saved with warez), described how to crack Ps YO. But he couldn't patch around everything, including the watermark.

So there you have it. And the Dues Process exists, despite Poor Richard's effort to erase it. And the question is...has it gotten worse over time? I'm quite sure the answer is yes, and I'll show you why in another blog entry.

But for now, the basic Dues Process flow goes like this (there are variations). Judges want good clerks. Clerks want good jobs. Lawyers give clerks jobs; pro per's (self-represented people) do not. Judges want fat post-retirement "alternative dispute resolution" and "special master" gigs where they write their own tickets and the sky's the limit. (Some just want to be invited to speak at lawyerly things.) Lawyers, and especially big law firms, have cases where that is possible, Pro per's do not. So if you want to "win," i.e. have the case handed to you, you need to pay into the legal monopoly - the Dues Process - and hire a lawyer. They also feel a need to validate their JD's - and for good reason.

This is no secret to the lawyers and judges. You may hear boilerplate protestations from them, but they know. You can call up most any boutique appeals law group. They will tell you what I just told you: "it isn't fair or right, but that's the way it is." They all know. Whatever the variations on the Dues Process flow, above, it is a state-sanctioned monopoly. Together with immunity for judges and what's called the litigation privilege (in varying degrees depending on the state), this is the perfect incubator for cronyism and then blatant corruption.

This is an inescapable human nature thing. You can remember it from the elementary-school playground with "clubs" and "cliques" and such. The corruption in this club — which is an oligarchy every bit as much as that in Ukraine, a country tagged as corruption-central — is responsible for Mr. Floyd's tragedy. Just three days ago, June 7, a legal publication (LAW360) had an article (though I admit I haven't read it carefully): "The local prosecutor's [(Hennepin County; search Berman v. Segal)] initial court filing puzzled criminal justice experts ... For some, it called into question the prosecution's commitment to its own case, demonstrating wider challenges to securing convictions against police who abuse their authority." You can search on phrases there to find the article. But remember, please, as I said I would emphasize: there are many exemplary police, whom we need in order for everything to function. And I am not a so-called "bootlicker."

This corruption has largely escaped the attention of the media and the public. By and large the media don't know what to focus on, except sensation and, now, animus towards DJT, which they stoke and people follow. And people either don't care or don't have time to care about corrupt lawyers and judges. They've got to get kids to Little League and gymnastics and such (and I know this well), so they've got their hands full just as it is.

People just hope - and it's understandable - that things move along ok, and they don't get caught up in a big problem the way Mr. Floyd tragically did. BTW, I don't want to start inadvertently getting breezy and then skimming-by Mr. Ford's tragedy, as time fades things from memory. While all tragedies are indeed tragic, what is uniquely-appalling about Mr. Ford's (and the way Mr. Shaver ended was uniquely appalling in its own way...and I say that with a prayer for his girls) is the insouciant callousness (that is not redundant, and I'll emphasize it later) of the knee on Mr. Floyd's neck for so long. Google-search these words: torturer's horse innocent behind. It's real short and really important. Bad sh*tuff happens and Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da. The poem was written in 1938, about the rise of dictators, while life just went on. I've already told you that there's one blatant, kingpin dictator judge in Hennepin County courts (like no other judge you'll ever see anywhere, and I'm firm on that). And I'll start to set the stage for my presentation of this dictator and his gang's murder of Mr. Floyd, by showing you the legal mob's "disgruntled litigant" multitool in a minute.

And the MN court of appeals rubberstamps this judge's edicts as just fine, when the law everywhere says that arbitrary decisions must be rejected. Look at Berman v. Segal. I was saying this a few months ago: that Hennepin was bad sh*tuff waiting to happen: "the appellate Court’s affirmation of the mere unreasoned 'belief' of a judge, as a valid exercise of discretion, defines pure arbitrariness, as from countries run by military regimes." Berman v. Segal Doc. 8-1, p. 223 (filed in Hennepin April 15, 2020). That knee on Mr. Floyd was from the Hennepin regime, which includes its courts and this kingpin judge.

You can't blame average people, and I know plenty of average dad stuff first-hand (plus some way off-average stuff I'll tell you about soon). Life is finite, and you want to spend it with your loved ones, especially every precious moment of every kid-stage. So you do the best you can and hope that corruption or whatever government hassle just isn't too bad. But this is how corruption rots things. And it's especially invidious when it's from those - the lawyers - who are accorded very special privileges with whoop-dee-doo words like "punctilio" to describe the very highest of standards - to which they are supposedly held.

These lawyers and judges (not all, but a great many) desecrate everything. Especially those who died in awful places and were made suckers - by this Hennepin judge and his MN court of appeals buds - for marching off and believing in "justice for all." A week after my son was born, I was reading an obit over the phone to my parents, to let them know the fellow after whom their grandson was named. I can't find the obit, but I'll try to and be back with it.

My son's namesake was a stand-up guy. Midwestern boy. Persistent. He tried to test into West Point twice but didn't pass. He did get one of the governors's allotted West Point slots, but he wanted to take the test again and do it by himself. He tested-in on that third try, and he let someone else have the governor slot. I was reading this to my folks. When I started to read the word that came before, "March," my voice stopped working. Froze. The muscles just did that thing...like, "there's something in my eye." By the way, I went to hear A. J. Croce a few months ago. Same Croce. Go see this kid. I guess he's a young or middle aged man now. No matter what you think of me and my views, take my word that this kid's a shining star - subtle, funny, great musical talent, tight band. He knows his music and songwriters and songwriting - Mussel Shoals, all of them. Read online about him and his childhood. Great show with an especially poignant ending.

So, I gave the obit to the decades chick - the niece of this West Point, persistent fellow - to read to my folks. Bataan Death March. Davao POW camp. Then it ended mid-December 1944 with the sinking of the Oryoku Maru. A hell ship that was bombed by us, without knowing who was inside. That persistent, stand-up Midwest boy was killed instantly on December 13, 1944 or in the days after by drowning or more horror, with many other stand-up Americans and other prisoners. Who had all marched off believing in "justice for all." They weren't standing up in a hell ship. You can read online about the hell. Killed inadvertently by American bombs, after they had spent over 2 1/2 years in Davao. After the Death March. Buried, Manila American Cemetery. So whenever someone says to me that I'm wasting my time, I just think of that Bataan March, and then April 1942 to December 1944 in Davao, and then the inside a hell ship. I won't write about that hell, here.

This desecrating judge in Hennepin - and those elsewhere - doesn't know me. I was certainly never in Bataan or Davao or a hell ship. There is no way what I've been through compares with those. I will tell you later how I must have found a cellphone after the crash - though I don't remember - and called 911. Maybe the panel lights were still lit; I don't know. The phone I kept in my shirt pocket was just for backup navigation, no cell service. I kept a second phone, with service and navigation, on the passenger seat with other stuff. I had two others with service somewhere else, maybe in my backpack, but i don't remember. I don't know how I found one with service in the cold and maybe without lights. I'll tell you later what I can figure out. I will tell you now what it's like to wake up with an entire excruciating lower body, with metal throughout my legs and ankles, and yell, "Please, God." That kind of pain doesn’t elicit the usual suspects: hammer + thumb = S.F.GD-optional it. It starts with “Please, God.” Then something like, "take me away." I don't remember that part exactly. Do you want the hardest working, butt-bustingest Senate representation ever? Who doesn't lose site, in his mind, of Bataan or Davao or a hell ship, though I'm sure a mind cannot "see" such horror without realtime images to recall. And I'm super dee duper upset.

Back to the every day, now......... People simply don't have the time to deal with everything (including reading my long blogs), so they see corruption as a tax that you just have to pay. Read Berman v. Segal: see the Hennepin judge's approach, that everyone should just rollover and let the oligarchs have their way - because you don't have the time or stomach to deal with them. Never mind Berman's neuropathic agony and battle against opioid addiction. It's all a certified process of the oligarchs. Baloney.

The oligarchy's obscenity is front and center in Hennepin courts and in the MN court of appeals, which is what I was writing about in Berman v. Segal, over the last several months. Corruption is on full display. There is a direct connection between the brazenness of this judge's corruption - and the MN court of appeals - and Mr. Floyd.

Not so many people in the US see the legal oligarchy's corruption (or its true extent) and its connection to Mr. Floyd's tragedy and other tragedies and problems we have. But the Dues Process infiltrates, to one degree or another, nearly everything, including district attorney offices and police departments. But remember again please, there are many exemplary police.

Later, I'll also talk about "judicial independence" - the lawyers' endless refrain used to whitewash whatever is needed in order to perpetuate the abomination. And their other goto phrases like, "disgruntled litigant" - their multitool to minimize the huge problems they create and that ultimately come down on and strangle a helpless man like Mr. Floyd. BTW, you know who also knew it's all a scam and said so? Scalia J., Mr. Conservative himself. Buy my book *plug* and I'll show you Scalia J. saying it’s wired, the fix is in. Courts know how to make it "come out right.” Just like those who buy judges in Ukraine. We don't have the out-and-out judge-buying with C-notes passed under the robe (or we probably don't). The Dues Process is more discreet.

Now, since I'm being "political," I'm supposed to put myself into the buzzword bilge puddle and pick some words. Ok, in some very important ways, I'm more "conservative" than all the Foxsters and their panty hose rolled into one. I am not correspondingly more "liberal," but I am very "liberal" in important ways. You probably know where this is going, and you're basically right. But my theme may have some variations on the typical one. For example - and I would hope you've figured this out since Covid hit but if not, I'll tell you - we export slavery. So all the libs, progs, left-liberts etc. should multiply their liberal guilt by a thousand because you are on the M side of the slavery equation. It works out pretty well, doesn't it? The polysci's and other such liberals compensate with their "righteous anger" because they can't figure out why they live so well when they have no truly marketable skills. It must be those bad conservatives, because...well, they're not righteously angry. The polysci's don't see the slavery export/import deal for their highlife.

And for cons, "constitutionalists," right-liberts, etc., we export slavery. So although Lizallele from Massachusetts and Bamalaureate don't know basic accounting when they say "You didn't build that" - and they apply it 100% across the board - they do have a point. The first thing to ask (rhetorically) is: you know who's the biggest importer of slavery, right? I'll give you 1.4 billion guesses.

Back several years ago, if you looked at the tables comparing fully-loaded hourly wages for Foxconn Wisconsin and Foxconn China, you had to ask yourself, "How's this going to work?" I made a copy of the tables on notepad or somewhere, but they're on the web somewhere too. The China number was a little north of five bucks; and the Wisconsin number somewhere in the mid 20's. That was apart from the several BIL that Wisconsin was giving in subsidies. This was about as controlled an economic experiment as you could get. And unless Foxconn could swallow an enormous loss leader so as to increase the feel-good bonus from US jobs — so we would ignore China's slavery-behind-the-curtain — Foxconn Wisconsin would never happen. According to the IWT (Incontrovertible Wiki Truth), it's not happening. So there it is. Slavery works just fine for the M's, thank you. Welcome to the M club, and if you didn't know, you've been a member for a long time. And this relates directly to the legal monopoly (and so, to Mr. Floyd), which I'll explain shortly too.

It should have come as no surprise to you when, last December, the plea from the Chinese prison worker/slave showed up in a greeting card. It wouldn't have been a surprise if you had noted, for example, the organ-transplant trade balance. PBS, with its puffy-microphone "objectivity" had an interview (https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/china-still-gathering-organs-executed-prisoners) with a kidney transplant recipient, who got his Chinese kidney fully installed for $10k - the deal of a lifetime, indeed. He got it in a week, and he had a "rare blood type." Even with 1.4 billion people, one has to wonder about the chances of finding a "rare" — and voluntary or accidentally-deceased-involuntary — match in a week. Maybe so, but a Chinese woman was also interviewed in that segment. She described how Chinese authorities drew her blood under some baloney pretense in "horrific" conditions, when they were obviously typing her for a transplant match - as an involuntary donor. The PBS interviewing "journalist" was an interesting site with his hard-hitting, contrarian questioning (I just watched it again).

So the organ business is one (just one) of the subsidies...or tariffs or import/export quotas or whatever you want to call the finger on the trade balance scale for the US's M side of the equation. I am not doing a "bleeding heart liberal" thing here (and yes, organ-harvesting is an atrocity). On the contrary, I'm pointing out that our American "lifestyle" depends on atrocities to provide a whole array of cheap/slave/raw-material labor and "things" from China. That is the atrocious ledger of the trade "balance" that makes life here "good" - but nevertheless on the M side.

Oh wait. I forgot, the Chinese gov said they stopped organ harvesting. And there's a FOIA disclosure to prove it; so none of this matters. Past tense. My bad. These are the facilitators of that trade "balance" and why we don't have slaves here digging neodymium and other raw materials out of the ground. I note that there apparently is a mountain in West Texas with a load of rare earths in it. It also remains to be seen what the cost is for digging it out, but regardless, that may well be a fantastic find.

So what does all this mean? ...from just another nobody peeing on himself in a corner of the internet (and I'll have you know that I passed my bladder tests with the correct flying color, thank goodness). Well, apart from the moral issue there (and it's a huge one), if you didn't know it (even after Covid), the US is enormously dependent on China - including its slavery. This is not only for your Iphone but also for raw materials pulled out of the ground (or abdomens), which go into, among other things, critical drugs that keep you, and/or many of your friends, ticking along. Pulling raw materials out of the ground is dirty work (to say nothing of abdomens). And if/when the price for that labor goes up from slave wages, that affects prices for essential things here, which do not include keeping your Bikram temp wherever it's supposed to be. We live (and have been living) a very luxurious life in part due to Chinese slave labor.

But the other part is from our "free" enterprise and "free" markets (I'll explain the quotes in a minute) that allow inventiveness to run with an idea and angel-investor markets to nurture it and bigger markets to propel it to production and into your expert texting fingers; or into your coronary arteries with stents; or into 12 of my vertebrae (and legs and ankles) with Striker titanium and cobalt-chrome pedicle screws and lateral mass screws and blocker screws and primary and accessory rods and crosslinks and more. So make no mistake about me: I'm a very-firm believer in "freedom," and I'm reminded of it constantly in my spine with its limited flexibility and a lot of discomfort (and the hardware put there by the incredible talent and training of surgeons and nurses and staff)...and also reminded of it when my daughter sits on my lap and says, "Daddy, I want to tell you something." Something that - may they have peace and comfort and a wonderful lives ahead - the Shaver's and the Floyd's don't have.

But the reason I put "free" in quotation marks is that we are a heavily managed system with heavily managed markets (in case you haven't noticed recently, but Covid's restrictions are merely extensions of existing economic management). Our markets are not truly free, far from it. Truly free markets are brutal, and you wouldn't like them one bit. And the first things to go in a truly free market are government monopolies: #1) money; #2) the legal oligarchy's monopoly, so keep that in mind when some lawyer squeals that he's a "freedom" believer. Not when he or she realizes that the Dues Process will be gone. (I will say that, of the TV lawyers, Andy McCarthy is sharp as a tack and right on the mark and has the perfect low and moderate key approach; and Joe diGenova really cuts through the baloney, though he overuses "disgrace" and "ashamed" for various lawyers who have no grace or shame.)

If you (or your elected reps) don't keep all this in mind, it will be a harsh transition to really free markets if (and inevitably when) China makes its transition out of the slavery-import biz. If China's transition is swift, ours will be an extremely harsh transition. The moral burn is that in order for the US to keep our transition manageable, China has to keep its slavery humming along, so there's not a discontinuous event. You may cheer for Chinese dissidents (and yes, I was extremely moved watching Tiananmen live on TV), but if China suddenly became an actual free country, your Bikram temp would go out of its designated range immediately. Yeah, my "targeted constituency" (God help me, I sound like a polysci "political operative") is not Bikram, when I start off with diesels.

And another factor is that China is obviously the Lipoplasm's (north of Seoul) benefactor, a fact that adds a great many complications. Sorry that I'm not Mr. upbeat-slogan, "we can do such and such," but engineers have a job - and habit - of identifying real problems and looking for real solutions...not writing their way around problems.

The only realistic solution is to move as quickly but as smoothly as we can away from our current dependency on China. That's easy to say and a whole lot more difficult to do. I won't say, "impossible." But politicians with up-nostril views for their publicity pics - so they can appear visionary and see deficits to the horizon and beyond - aren't being real. Covid - for all of its awfulness - has...............I'll just say that it is significant. Later, I'll try to figure out the right way to say it. In short, we are in a box.

The key is a very hard one to insert into the American brain to make it understand that we are the Ms in the slavery equation. I've obviously made no secret of what I think of the legal oligarchy and its Dues Process. That monopoly is also part of the hard key. That monopoly distorts nearly everything, and soon I'll show some distorted things that, I'm quite sure, will surprise some people. In other words, the legal oligarchy and its Dues Process suddenly transform men and woman - who previously had lofty notions of race and gender injustice - into abettors of sweeping it under the rug. Does any of this sound familiar, Tina and Amy? I'm sure you're reading with rapt attention.

Before I formally disclose my specific solutions for world political and economic paradise, I need to talk about the fundamental measure of inflation. It's SAM'S CHICKEN APPLE SAUSAGES and its particular packaging, too. The contents have a very high animal protein-to-fat ratio and no FDA-certified bad stuff, at least in the last FDA revision of which I'm aware. Follow the price of this SAM's product closely. It is the fundamental inflation measure. It's also in the Bureau of Standards (which is now called something new, but I still call it NBS; and I'll talk about NBS more next time.)

SAM'S CHICKEN APPLE SAUSAGES is also the new standard unit of mass, next to the platinum-iridium kilogram standard, which will be undergoing decertification over the next decade as we transition to SAM'S.

Two SAM'S CHICKEN APPLE SAUSAGE

packages are required for the Cesium

beam time standard because of relativistic time dilation. The close-up shows the multiple-pass laser interferometer that corrects for the slight warpage of space-time that occurs when a bottom sits on a sofa. This particular "W" beam external-etalon interferometer was invented by Sam Walton. Quite a fella.

I'll have more to say about the Dues Process next time and very soon. I'll also have more to say about NBS, the Bureau of Standards, now NIST but it's still NBS to me.