It is essential that the US hold together for at least 5 (and probably 10) years to counter the principal Russia-China threat—and others. The FED may well be losing control of prices, now.

Monopolies—Concentrations of Power—Are THE Problem. I will debate the judges outside their corrupt, autocratic, courtrooms in the pocket of their lawyer-criminal pals. Silence from them, of course, because they know they don't stand a chance.

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This campaign is about saving/restoring our rights from the destroyers—the lawyer-monopoly infecting the courts & Congress & a huge fraction of the Executive; the media, finance. Also from the money-printing monopoly—the FED. The lawyer monopoly & the failure of the courts are much easier problems to fix than is the money-printing monopoly, but the latter problem is not hopeless, as I'll describe.

You think we have a country remotely like that defined in the Constitution? Our due process & property rights are at the end of the extinction path, led by the dodo imbecile-judges. The FED's infinite money printing will come to an end when they lose control of prices, maybe soon. Then, capital controls: odd/even gas days, grocery days, toilet days. Bitcoin is NOT a solution with any stability. It is the opposite: a brilliant enabler of instability and a financial mousetrap.

The 9th Amendment is the unsung hero: "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or DISPARAGE others retained by the people." This is one of the greatest sentences in the English language. It has the only occurrence of the word, "disparage," in the Constitution. "Disparage" is a very good word because it is "orthographically" similar to garbage. "Orthographic" is having to do with spelling. Disparage means to treat someone or something like garbage. Paraphrased, Am9 is: "Nothing written in the Constitution shall destroy or make garbage of any natural (God-given) right you have." If a judge treats you or your rights like garbage, it's the eeejection seat, as we grade-schoolers used to say in the 60's. It is a violation of his oath to uphold the Constitution. The mathematical proof is short. I'll show you.

July 2020: "China and Russia (further) aligning is VERY bad. Do not unnecessarily p.off the Russians. Respect the Russian people, their enormous talents and rich culture; those have been around far longer than any government and are distinct from it. This is not Russian "sympathizing" or "apologizing." This is smart generally and especially with the Russians. You don't invite people with nukes, world-class scientific expertise (to say nothing of their music and literature) and more, of which they are deservedly proud, to want to take a shot at you."

There was a professor, down by the banks of the dirty-water Charles, who wrote: "Outside of logic and mathematics, our basis for separating fact from fancy has to be probability, whose elementary laws are beyond dispute." This is also one of the greatest sentences in the English language, though it's not clear to me that probability is outside of logic or math, but Irving Segal was a lot smarter than I; and I've quoted that to the 9th Circuit Court and, I believe, to the Sup Ct, because it states how we came out of the caves. If you have a real job—like cutting metal on a milling machine (I've got two) or diagnosing an engine problem (I've got all my FAA powerplant signoffs) or HVAC or plumbing or anything electro-mechanical or troubleshooting on the electronics testbench (and yes, software too:)—then you know how to separate fact from fancy, because you've learned the hard way that the physical world will kick your butt if you don't throw out all assumptions and strive for objectivity in analyzing a problem. Judges, who are polysci's and similar, can't identify a spark plug under the hood. This matters a LOT. They ignore reality or try to write around reality. You cannot, not on your job. They get away with anything and everything. They are troglodytes, benighted in their caves, and they are the root cause of every major domestic problem we have.

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"I filed as a U.S. Senate candidate on June 1 in Kansas and on June 2 in Minnesota. I decided after I saw the knee on George Floyd’s neck on May 25. I was appalled (but not surprised because Minneapolis courts are a protection racket that allows lawyers and police to get away with anything they want). My interest is in the Midwest. The great thing about President Donald Trump’s impeachment and trial was that it showed clearly — if you weren’t aware of this already — that Congress decides what is an impeachable offense. And the only thing that impeaches Congress is the lever behind the curtain in the voting booth. Lawyers and professors don’t decide. Courts don’t decide." (Candidate Statement, Duluth News Tribune, July 22, 2020)

• The courts have failed and gone awry, giving license to bad cops to put a knee on a neck and more. The "rule of law" is a myth. Good police suffer tragic retribution. The world suffers. (If you don't think so, vote for someone else). Congress can fix this relatively easily. My frozen, near-death, shattered body was saved by a hundred police, firefighters, EMTs, and other heroes. I am highly motivated. WashDC power must be decentralized. It will begin to defang the media, who are for the centralized DCNY power interests. To a large extent this includes "Midwest" media, too. They are interested in good "stories" and maintaining cash flow. First, a Senate chamber and offices built in the US geographic center — fully networked to the DC Capitol and in full authoritative combination with DC. Draw a big circle around Kansas City, and think about this, Mitch; and Cincinnati, Madison, Dakotas, Utah, Texas, etc. The cost, relative peanuts. Travel efficiencies↑democracy↑↑↑ How naïve of me.

• Congress could get back to its constituents easily, and allow the heartland to assemble peacefully and petition Congress much more easily. Crazy, I know.

• The Senate can change its rules to use a weighted-sum approach to seniority. Holding all the marbles all the time is not fair or good for the class; the teacher says so, Mitch.

• We have a critical semiconductor shortage/defense vulnerability, broadly at the mercy of China's government. (The articles from the IEEE, etc. assume a large "China" component in the recovery from the shortage.) These are not simply "defense-specific" semiconductors; our network infrastructure and transportation are part of our defense, too. Our energy production and delivery depend on them. Our healthcare system depends on them. Foxconn Wisc. (not a semicon manufacturer) was destined to fail in its "flat-panel" mission from labor-rate disparity. Sorry. (It is now, maybe, making high-end servers, not that this is a sustainable business model, currently.) We have exported slavery (to China especially) for a long time; we have been on the "M" side of that slave equation. "Liberals" who are obsessed with their carbon footprint ignore how we trample kids and other labor in China. Things for us will be more expensive, made here; "What'chu think you get it for free?" Semiconductors must be made here in much larger quantities, including investment in older, more stable but essential technology. The shortage/vulnerability has been a long time in the making. Trusting/depending-on China's government is foolish.

• China and Russia (further) aligning is VERY bad. Do not unnecessarily p.off the Russians. Respect the Russian people, their enormous talents and rich culture; those have been around far longer than any government and are distinct from it. This is not Russian "sympathizing" or "apologizing." This is smart generally and especially with the Russians. You don't invite people with nukes, world-class scientific expertise (to say nothing of their music and literature) and more, of which they are deservedly proud, to want to take a shot at you. Only morons like Chris Matthews level mindless insults with no understanding of strategy, culture, or human nature. And BTW, I survived a thermobabushkular attack. Don't get on the wrong side of a Russian grandma. Trust me.

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If you are still undecided on whom to cast your vote for -- for specific solutions to some big problems and big Midwest-specific problems, presented and fought-for aggressively and compellingly in the U.S. Senate -- I ask you to take a look at John4Midwest.com. And if you are decided, I also ask you to take a look. Moving in the right direction is the most important thing, regardless of who is advocating for the Midwest. You won’t find platitudes and recycled platitudes (platititudes) moving you nowhere on my website. Yes, it's wordy, but you’ll find the specific framework to hold courts to account for their privilege of independence, which they have abused catastrophically. Holding courts to account is crucial to everything. Non-functional courts are the root cause of George Floyd’s death and of the destruction that has followed and much more. Don’t get faked-out by the flowery stuff. Look for the root cause.

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...or Crash.

Sept. 3, 2020: I ain't gonna quit on this. A few weeks after I awoke from the coma, I got an email from some Minnesota lawyers, which began the path to the Minnesota ballot. The court systems are corrupt as all get out. It's the legal monopoly, the Dues Process. It's obvious, and I'll be showing you a lot more, starting next entry, which will be very soon. They're not fooling anyone, and they damage nearly everything in this country. Hennepin is one of the ground zeros (or maybe zeroes). Either way, these are your buds, Tina and Amy. Burke has said so, and it's no surprise.

Step 1: Objective, Computational Justice in Our Courts For True Due Process with No Baloney

Judge Puty; Computational Justice.

The federal courts have failed. They could not scale-up from 1789. They are obsolete and not up to the job. It was a good try by the 1789 designers, but engineering any system bumps up against realities of scale. State court systems are out of control and were set on this path in 1983 by a Supreme Court decision. George Floyd died because of this, and I have particular grief for his little daughter. I decided to file my candidacies because of that grief. I have a Midwest strategy. I explain this in my blog.

Judge Puty (JP) runs on your cellphone. JP would not be the last word. That would be silly. JP would be the first word and express the "Intent of Congress" (or your State Legislature if it follows suit) on your problem that you might want to take to court (or to a government agency, but that would be much more complicated and probably not feasible any time soon). Judge Puty inherited Lucy's Doctor-is-In stand, so she costs only a nickel.:)

If a human judge thinks Judge Puty is wrong, then the judge must say why. That is not optional, and Congress can enforce that. It's high time judges say why. Anthony Kennedy insisted on this, and he was right on the mark. It's in my blog. JP's technology is simple and quite feasible by today's standards. JP has some questions to ask you and some answers to give you, expressing "the intent of Congress." Congress should leverage technology to communicate in the most effective way with those who pull the lever in the voting booth. The voters have the true leverage. Use it and vote for the 5¢ Judge Puty solution. FEMA denied what Governor Walz said was 500MIL in damage. $500MIL : 5¢ = 10 BIL to 1 leverage -- ok, with a few assumptions; but it's still a lot of leverage when you figure in death and destroyed lives and heartbreak.

A small cost to yield working courts that deliver truly-objective due process. Judge Puty's computational (and therefore objective) court articulates the intent of Congress (which is the law and what courts are supposed to try to "ascertain") and does NOT permit unlimited "judicial discretion" or unlimited police "discretion" -- as in a knee on a neck. Save lives, heartbreak, and 500MIL -- for a nickel or maybe a little more. That's leverage any way you cut it. Simplistic, you say? It's a simple and inexpensive step in the right direction, and time will tell whether it's effective or simplistic. That's called engineering and a good bet.

Farming and Ranching -- I've grown garlic on 3 out of 10 acres, for two seasons, as a proof of concept for scaling up to, maybe, a whole 8 acres. That qualifies me as much to be a real farmer as did my 8th grade ice hockey on the C&O Canal qualify me to play professional hockey (and if the kids in Minnesota had seen us Maryland kids playing, they would have ROIFLTAO -- where "IF" stands for Ice Floor of their ice-fishing huts).

My freemartin Jersey, Lulu, is now on ice in the freezer after 10 years during which time I didn't have the heart for it; but my neighbor knew it was long overdue. But I do know a LOT about diesel engines and other engines and the torque converter on my Allis Chalmers backhoe craigslist bargain, and fixing the discs on my disc. I also know a lot about markets and monopolies and scaling laws and diversification -- not all of my knowledge I've borne in mind at the correct time, personally. But I can analyze them correctly on a whiteboard, and here's a general observation: The Midwest's in the middle, but it doesn't get the better half (may one of my heroes, Jerry Reed, rest in peace). Not by a long shot, the Midwest doesn't get the better half. That's in my blog.

First, look at a rather big picture:

https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/ag-and-food-statistics-charting-the-essentials/ag-and-food-sectors-and-the-economy/

Agriculture, food, and related industries contributed $1.053 trillion to U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) in 2017, a 5.4-percent share. The output of America’s farms contributed $132.8 billion of this sum—about 1 percent of GDP.

www.statista.com › topics › legal-services-industry-in-the-us

May 9, 2019:

Legal services industry in the U.S. -- Statistics & Facts. The legal services industry in the United States generated 256.66 billion U.S. dollars in revenue in 2013. By 2018, this revenue is expected to increase to approximately 288 billion.

I don't know where statista.com gets its data. It may be good or bad; I don't know. I believe it's a fair assumption that the USDA has at least pretty good data. Assuming for the moment that both figures a pretty accurate, the legal services industry takes in double the money of America's farms. I am not saying that ratio ends any discussion, but it is a starting point from which I'll continue shortly in my blog. (As I said, I'm updating things as I go, so I'm trying to keep many things going as best I can...thanks....

Update, this is a very important topic, for Kansas especially. I'll have complete update soon. I want to add right now that the legal industry is dependent on its formal monopoly on representing people and corporate entities and the like (and on the informal Dues Process). There is nothing comparable in other industries, nothing for farmers certainly. Agribusiness-style operations benefit from economies of scale, obviously -- buy in bulk and mass produce. Smaller and small farms and ranches are a unique national resource because the risk of disruption is spread over many units; and of course they supply an absolutely essential product.

In a whiteboard "analysis" with a bunch of assumptions, there is an "optimal" point (or points) where finite land is distributed between agribusiness and smaller operations, so as to maximize output to meet demand, profit, risk of disruption, environment risks (that include long-term production and quality-of-life risks) -- all subject to constraints. Also, selling control of that land to foreign interests has risk. Okay great, so where does all that get the smaller farmer/rancher who needs to make it work now, with prices determined as they are now? I'll be back asap to give you a specific answer, with justification.......

Back with an update, finally: ok, the “specific” answer is rather general but there are some important numbers at the end that are not detached from reality. What is the reality right now? I believe there are many people dying from Covid. I don’t know how many actually, because there are great differences in how “ cause of death” is determined. I’m rather certain that this is not a traditional time. (The Kansas City Star has come out with an editorial stating that there are no “traditional Republicans” running for Senate.) I think it is safe to say that people right now are on the risk-averse side of normal: there are a lot of masks around in public, regardless of government mandates. In a risk averse environment, people tend to choose something safe and higher-priced (assuming they can afford it in their budget -- or gut feel, as they look at a grocery store shelf) over something more risky and lower priced. That tends towards the smaller farm and ranch side of Ag, rather than the big-business side, at least if supply disruption is the variable considered (and I think that is the proper focus; people get nervous when they see empty store shelves and for good reason). So what is more important right now are smaller farms, with higher cost of production but distributed risk, compared with agribusiness, in my view. The small farm/ranch is the model with less leverage.

Back to the comparison with the legal services industry. Legal services has a government--granted monopoly. It also produces words, either on paper or on computer. Legal services is highly leveraged in the sense that the marginal cost of a word (the additional cost) is almost zero -- a tiny bit of glucose in a brain reacting to create some neural activity and then wag a tongue or put a finger on a key of a keyboard or whatever. That word is charged a monopolistic rate that, say, is $400/hour -- sometimes charged, wrongly and illegally, for waiting on the phone (I’ll give you an example later).

The cost of producing $400 of wheat or corn or garlic or or beef, chicken, pork or other people-fuel is much higher than however much glucose (and whatever you want to add in bodily production) is spent to produce $400 worth of legalgoop. And people-fuel producers don't have a state-granted monopoly, either. You see where this is going, right? Legalgoop is highly-leveraged in the extreme compared with farming and ranching. It takes very little glucose, etc. to produce $400 of legal income compared with $400 of farm income. And the quality of much of the legalgoop ranks with the by-product of beef farms and the like. Do you wonder whether legalgoop affects farming and ranching? Legalgoop affects everything. For starters, just look at how many lawyers there are in Congress. And there is much more of an effect. (Continued as soon as possible.)

Amendment 1: Don't shout "Jamoca!" at a swimming pool in summer. Aside from that Am1 is inviolate.

Amendment2: I want to preface this, in light of the murder of the federal judge's son and wounding of her husband and every aspect of that attack. There is no corner of any dimension of the multiverse where you can find any suggestion by me that this is not totally awful. It should be obvious that I have a LOT of issues with many judges and I believe they should not be judges, BUT violence against them is not only awful; it won't solve any issues about courts, and it will make them worse. That's not just a trite-sounding line. I believe, obviously, that the Judge Puty (Totoware) technical solution WILL fix the courts and the great many things courts affect -- easily and quickly. I grieve for her son, as I do for Otto and Mr. Floyd's daughter and Mr. Shaver's daughters (and the rest of the families). The particular thought of a 20-year and growing light in the human sky getting snuffed-out just by opening the door makes my heart shudder in its own way. This is what I wrote prior to my reading about the New Jersey judge: the 2nd Amendment is critical and every bit as important as any other Amendment or Article or Section or Clause and right alongside the 1st Amendment and for good reason; but Am2 was and is the Constitution's insurance policy. It is NOT the primary means of "petitioning," and no one should ever say or even think that I've suggested otherwise or ever will. These days a person can attract scrutiny and obloquy simply by speaking and by speaking a reasonable interpretation. My view is that my interpretation is much more than merely "reasonable:" "hunting" and "sport" are mere fringe benefits of Am2, not its reason. And one doesn't have to go to extrinsic Federalist/Schmederalist sources. The reason is protection of what are most dear; and that includes protecting Am1. So long as Am1 (and separately, family and property) is truly protected and truly available -- and that includes the right to petition courts (about which the Sup. Ct. said "The right of access to the courts is indeed but one aspect of the right of petition") and election votes are truly counted and not "stuffed" -- then Am2 is merely insurance. The US consists of at least two sub-countries, and Am2 does not scale well as population density increases. I'd no sooner take my '87 F-350 crew cab to NYC than I would a firearm (and that was true even before I became an "incomplete quadriplegic"). Sure, there was Umpqua College in Roseburg, OR and Red Lake, MN and others (I'm looking at the Wiki on school massacres); but population density is the strongest factor. The choice is the degree of school security/fortification. Put Biden's 2-TRIL climate "fix" towards school security, and children would benefit more from that than supposed "climate security." (No, the science is not "settled," and climate "engineering" is a wild guess, at best.) The greater the population density, the greater the chance there will be friction that leads to something bad; and more targets. Give people greater access to speak their minds by petitioning in court, and they won't "speak their mind with a gun in their hand(s)." (C. Cross' best line.)

Poor Richard had the engineering insight to see that there was really Article 0, which the other founders were calling, "We the People." But the others weren't recognizing that this "We the People" thing was really the first and most important Article -- the real McCoy -- so Poor Richard put it first, as Article 0. Poor Richard knew that Mr. (and Ms.) Peebles worked better, in the broader grammatical context, than "We the People" did (see my blog). Mr. Peebles also has Congress, Article I, the big Magilla. Poor Richard knew that Magilla was not supposed to be for sale, but there was always that risk. I am not for sale, and I have real solutions.

July 27, 2020: I filed for US Senate in Kansas on June 1 and Minnesota on June 2. Such a decision was on my life’s radar as much as hitting the ground at 150mph, which is what the radar track showed from the NTSB. The track is on my blog at john4midwest.com, with quite a lot more. Too much, I know. Life holds surprises that can sometimes be complicated – like walking.

To say I was surprised – a few weeks after I awoke from a two-week medical coma, six surgeries, excruciating pain and a very loud prayer, “Please, God!” with a final request – when lawyers from Minnesota sent me an email, is an understatement. They think they’re “tough,” lawyers do, with their friends in robes for 36 years. I showed them a link to the Mayo Clinic’s description of “neuropathic pain.” (This is all on the public record in federal court, link down the page.) The chief of the Santa Fe rescue teams wrote me, “Your Angel had to have protected you during that long off road Ambulance journey. … I remember talking with other firefighters while we were changing my tire and freezing our behinds off, how you were able to survive receiving a direct hit from those freezing winds for as long as you did. I think there is only one reason.” (Our emails are in my blog.)

I decided to file my Senate candidacies after I saw the knee on George Floyd on May 25. He was a lot tougher than I. I had a hundred rescuers searching for me. I saw rescue lights in the distance, and I had prayer. I had miracle docs, nurses, and techs putting me back together and caring for me, and many more than one angel on my side. I was intubated and on a respirator, and I could breathe. Mr. Floyd had only his last gasps for air. I don't think a mind can focus on prayer while the body gasps for air. Mr. Daniel Shaver in Arizona had only his pleas while sobbing and prone on the floor. Their little daughters don’t have their daddies. Mine does.

The problem is the courts. I saw the writing on the wall, starting last February 10 in a Hennepin County court. It was astonishing. You can write all the “police reform” legislation you want. It won’t matter with dysfunctional/non-functional courts in the pockets of lawyers. It’s the Dues Process, the money flow. See my blog. The root cause of Mr. Floyd’s death was Minnesota courts. I saw additional astonishing words in Hennepin in March. Then astonishing words from the Minnesota Court of Appeals on April 7.

I’ve been designing and troubleshooting electronic hardware for decades. All of science and engineering involves making predictions – probability and statistics. Computer modeling is an essential tool. I’m lucky to have had interesting jobs. Predicting whether a big laser could shoot down a missile. Predicting error rates in data communications. Predicting satellite positions in low earth orbits or station-keeping, predicting what image would show up on a fighter-jet’s cockpit display, predicting how tiny structures would etch on semiconductor wafers. Predictions boil down to tossing a coin over and over. If it’s a mathematically “fair” coin, heads and tails have equal chance. Mr. Floyd and Mr. Shaver didn’t stand a chance. I had all the luck and many angels, too. I’ve thought about this and still do. In 2016, I shed tears for Mr. Shaver and his little girls and have done so for Mr. Floyd and his daughter. Mr. Shaver’s luck ran out well before my 2018 accident and also before President Trump took office. He did not cause either Mr. Shaver’s death or Mr. Floyd’s death. Courts enforce the law on law enforcement. They are the root cause of Mr. Floyd’s death and what triggered the rioting around the world and disaster zones in Minneapolis.

Making predictions on science and engineering jobs is fun. After I read the astonishing words from the Minnesota Court of Appeals on April 7, I did something not fun. I wrote an April 15 petition to the Minnesota Supreme Court. I saw the writing on the wall. I didn’t need a computer model. I wrote that Hennepin County courts and the Minnesota Court of Appeals consider a “judge[‘s] pure arbitrariness, as from countries run by military regimes,” okay. “The mere unreasoned 'belief' of a judge, as a valid exercise of discretion,” is just fine. I put the State papers on the Minneapolis federal docket on May 18. Arbitrariness is how despots make rulings. “Just because I say so.” That’s Hennepin.

I wish my prediction had been wrong. I wish Mr. Floyd were alive with his daughter. But Minnesota courts give judges blank-check “discretion.” They make that clear in their orders. Blank-check "discretion" is unlawful; discretion always has limits. This blank check is telegraphed to police, obviously. Police pay attention. Police with integrity know better. Others don’t.

I consolidated my State court records on the Minneapolis federal-court docket because I wanted those records to be in one easy-to-access place, so people could see a military regime at work. It’s Document 8-1 in Berman v. Segal. One week later Mr. Floyd was dead.

In my blog on June 10, I wrote: “Google-search these words: torturer's horse innocent behind. It's real short and really important. … The poem was written in 1938, about the rise of dictators, while life just went on.” W. H. Auden was making a prediction.

I wasn’t predicting any particular scale of catastrophe. But arbitrariness is easy to recognize: “just because I say so.” That’s how despots give orders. I know first hand that when courts fail, bad cops take the cue. When the bodycam and the written report show two completely different things, you know courts have failed. Bad cops have unlimited “discretion” and abuse it. Like a knee on a neck. However, I have never seen such blatant failure, flagrant cronyism, and “anything goes” “discretion,” as in Minnesota courts.

I’m filing a motion in Minneapolis federal court today, where there is a “self-styled” view of the law from a federal judge, Donovan W. Frank. Due Process does not exist for Judge Frank and his Magistrate. My complaint’s statement of jurisdiction was: “This action arises under 42 U.S.C. §1983; under the due process rights provided by the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.” It’s a sample input in the software, below. Seems everyone knows everyone among Minneapolis judges and lawyers. Here is a part of my motion, but written in the Python language.

import sys

x = input("Input your Statement of Jurisdiction.")

#Type sample input: This action arises under 42 U.S.C. §1983; under the due process rights provided by the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution

keywords = ["due process", "equal protection", "extra mozzarella","SS-396 chevelle"]

for z in keywords:

if z in x:

break

else:

sys.exit("It seems you may not have a question of federal or Constitutional law.")

print("Got it. A federal question.")

print(z)

if z == "extra mozzarella":

yum = input("State-run cafeteria? Deep dish and calzones on menu?")

elif z == "SS-396 chevelle":

vroom = input("What year? All years were great, just curious.")

#def order_text(func_PACER_pdf_ocr_cellpic2text):

# if decode_arg(func_PACER_pdf_ocr_cellpic2text) == 1:

# #return(fetch_pacer(func_PACER_pdf_ocr_cellpic2text))

#

#ord = order_text("0:20-cv-01199-DWF-DTS, DOCUMENT 16")

ord="Order does not mention the basis of jurisdiction."#test case

if z in ord:

print("The order mentioned the basis of jurisdiction. First test passed.")

else:

sys.exit("The order did not mention the basis of jurisdiction. Refer to Senate judiciary subcommittee on impeachment for further analysis.")

You can copy and paste it into a text file and run it in a Mac terminal window by typing: Python (the filename). I think a Windows terminal requires some Python add-on. It’s Totoware, alpha release (see my blog, What would Auntie Em have said? Gale v. Gulch, In Re Toto II). Minnesota courts have jurisdiction over Oz and for good reason.

There is no Constitutional right to a drivers license, but "In such cases the licenses are not to be taken away without that procedural due process required by the Fourteenth Amendment.” (Bell v. Burson (1971).) And “when a State opts to act in a field where its action has significant discretionary elements, it must nonetheless act … in accord with the Due Process Clause.” (Evitts v. Lucey (1985.) “But this Court now has rejected the concept that constitutional rights turn upon whether a governmental benefit is characterized as a "right" or as a "privilege.” (Graham v. Richardson (1971).)

There is no Constitutional right to a $1200 check, either (this is an example; my case is not about a $1200 check). But Due Process applies everywhere a government acts in the U.S. Except in Minneapolis courts and reviewing courts, apparently.

Though I cited Evitts (Lucey and Ethyl and Ricky too) to the Minneapolis federal court (and the Minnesota State courts) those judges ignored it or didn’t understand that this country requires Due Process in a government’s granting or revocation of privileges, not just rights. I’ll have to explain that to them again today in a motion. You know what the answer will be, of course. As I wrote (in Document 14, p. 20 in the federal court), a Minnesota judge will do whatever’s necessary “to get his pals off the hook.” I think the people of Minnesota should know this. I think they are good people and would see that it’s contrary to law and also wrong otherwise.

This extreme cronyism was the arbitrary writing on the wall of the Hennepin military regime (certified by the appellate court) that I referenced on April 15, six weeks before Mr. Floyd was deprived of his right to oxygen. The cronyism apparently extends to Minneapolis federal judges, not surprisingly. That was easy to predict.

Congress decides what’s impeachable. “Abuse of power” is impeachable. The recent impeachment and trial showed that. President Trump was tough enough to stick through it. Many people don’t like him, obviously. He should be credited with, among other things, getting Congress to demonstrate that “abuse of power” is impeachable. (He didn’t abuse his power, and anyone who has tried to get a controlled experiment to work in a lab should realize that; I’ll explain another time.) Democracy was not supposed to be pretty. A knee on a neck is ugly.

“Abuse of discretion” is abuse of power. When the abuse is extreme, Congress can decide it is impeachable. Same with legislatures. The courts are the problem.

Open-source software -- reviewed and certified by Congress -- transmits “the intent of Congress.” That intent can include holding judges to account for decisions that ignore their own case law -- and statute, of course. The software is Congress “holding to account … the independence of the judiciary.” Anthony Kennedy said so, and I agree. The software can save $500MIL in Minneapolis disaster zones, plus lives, plus little daughters’ and sons’ heartbreak. It’s simple to write and it’s cheap.

About John: Engineer - electronic hardware design and test; MSEE Stanford/Ginzton Lab-applied physics; B.A. Oberlin College, physics, math. email: john4midwest@gmail.com .

The Courts Have Failed. The Government Cannot Function Without Its Third Principal Component. Technology Can Fix This Quickly, Easily, Constitutionally.

About John: Engineer - electronic hardware design and test; MSEE Stanford/Ginzton Lab-applied physics; B.A. Oberlin College, physics, math. email: john4midwest@gmail.com .

Discretion Is Out Of Control In The Courts

But Especially In Minnesota

(Reproduced with permission from the Duluth News Tribune, July 23, 2020.)

I filed as a U.S. Senate candidate on June 1 in Kansas and on June 2 in Minnesota. I had decided to file just a few days before that. I decided after I saw the knee on George Floyd’s neck. My interest is in the Midwest.

Minneapolis has disaster areas within it, regardless of whether FEMA designates them.

It’s a good idea to ask whether the same old political sloganeering and policies hold any real solution. I believe they don’t.

I saw the knee on Mr. Floyd’s neck while I was writing an objection for filing in Minneapolis federal court. Last April 7, I had read astonishing words from the Minnesota Court of Appeals. I decided to file a petition with the Minnesota Supreme Court one week later. I wrote, “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."

It’s on the public record under Berman v. Segal. Minnesota courts have a completely wrong and distorted view of what a judge’s “discretion” means. It has led to unconstitutional decisions by Minnesota courts, violating civil rights.

The cop’s “discretion” led to his knee on Mr. Floyd, violating his civil rights.

Courts enforce the law on law enforcement. There’s an important connection there, and it made me decide to file as a Senate candidate.

Minnesota courts, including in Hennepin County, have big problems. I don't know about other Minnesota counties. I know that Minnesotans are good people, but they don’t realize the big problems with their courts.

Problems also stem from federal courts. The federal courts have failed. They were bound to fail because Article III (the court section) of the Constitution could not scale-up from 1789. I’m an engineer, and engineers think about scaling laws.

The great thing about President Donald Trump’s impeachment and trial was that it showed clearly — if you weren’t aware of this already — that Congress decides what is an impeachable offense. And the only thing that impeaches Congress is the lever behind the curtain in the voting booth. Lawyers and professors don’t decide. Courts don’t decide.

The same goes for impeachable offenses for judges. Congress, legislatures, and then the levers behind voting curtains are what decide.

My cousin Steve killed himself after he was charged for the 2008 Ham Lake fire. It was a complete shock to me. I don’t know anything about it but what I read in the news. I did know (and still know) that prosecutorial “discretion” — there’s that word again — is out of control. From my blog: “Steve was built like Smokey the Bear and, given his quiet, unassuming personality, was as likely to intentionally start a forest fire as was Smokey.”

I also survived a high-speed plane crash in 2018. Heroes gave me a second life, which also figured into my decision to file my candidacy. I was given a second life. I won’t give you baloney.

(The above reproduced with permission from the Duluth News Tribune.)

[Additional comment: My accident "figured in to my decision to file my candidacies" for several reasons. One reason was the rescue-heroes (who included State police who found me first) who answered my frozen prayer as I saw the lights of their 4x4's in the distance. When I went back to thank them, they described the weather. One told how, when he got the emergency call, his windshield wipers had frozen while he was driving from the direct hit of sleet on that night of the worst weather in decades. He and the hundred others nevertheless went into immediate action, of course, even to save a doofus like me. These heroes -- especially police who, people forget, respond to such rescue emergencies and all emergencies -- are given a bad name and put in particular danger by the ones who aren't up to the job, for whatever reason, and exact revenge, for example, on George Floyd. I owe my life to good ones who are up to the job -- a job I couldn't do. It's not easy living with crippling injuries, but it wasn't easy for the hundred who responded on that night, either. And as I've said, they all found me because they were all looking and eliminating places where I wasn't. Judges who view "discretion" as some munificence dealt out for how many "respectfully's" they get don't understand the word or the law; and shouldn't be judges, and there a lot of them. And bad cops get the bad message. This problem can be fixed with a component of true (computational) objectivity to which judges must adhere or specifically explain why not. And if they don't, they are booted by Congress and legislatures. It's time to end "deferring to the trial court's sound discretion." It's an unsound system that was destined to fail because humans inevitably abuse power. We can't eliminate judges, but they must be reined in by as objective a standard as possible -- available at your local cellphone store and networked to our legislative bodies. ]

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Engineers must deal with Reality √#1

August 1, 2020: (Note: I invite you to click on the blog image at the top here to get to my blog.) This is the first John "reality check" of a series. Scientists and engineers make reality checks constantly. When there's an equation in front of you, you automatically look at critical points. You automatically look at points where the equation instantly simplifies because some blob of variables and constants turns to 0 or 1 or sometimes to something like π -- that's the PI that you use when there's a circle. This is 8th grade algebra or maybe 10th grade algebra II, and I'm assuming that if you've read down this far on the page, you remember some of that. Oh yeah, and somewhere in those algebras, you learn to "let a variable go to infinity" (∞) or minus infinity (-∞), and that can sometimes simplify a blob, so you can see whether the equation makes sense in reality, even though "infinity" is a little dicey when you talk about reality. But if you get far enough away from something, it's as good as infinity. Simplifying blobs is important.

Just recently, I encountered a situation where a lawyer pointed to a sworn declaration by his client (C), which stated that C was not at some place (P) at particular time (T), and had no idea who I was and knew nothing about me, prior to the court case. At the same time, the lawyer has also claimed that C had a 1st Amendment right to speak to police concerning supposed events that supposedly happened concerning me. Put another way, C swears under oath that it was physically impossible that she could have ever spoken about something because she knew nothing about it, but the lawyer says she had harm stemming from her speaking. This may sound like a blob to you, and you are right. I'll write down the equation for this soon.

And oh, this physically-impossible harm is something about which C can take action, according to a young judge who chit-chats with the lawyer about personal stuff and went to school with the lawyer. But if Congress or a legislature passes a law that makes it illegal to do something that you and lots of people have been doing with no harm to anyone, someone needs to get arrested or have some other actual harm in order to challenge the law in court. I've been sending updates to that State's legislature letting them know what baloney the courts turn their laws into. Congress and legislatures can hold courts to account for their baloney. I'm already trying to do that. It's costing me a lot, but I'm not going to let them get away with baloney -- at least not in private. As I describe in my blogs, Americans and our allies have gone off to war and suffered and died for principles that are supposed to make sense and not get turned into baloney. You want someone who will call the baloney for what it is, and put it to baloney-makers? I'm your guy.

Oh, and I want to emphasize that when you see a π in an equation, it's a good bet that there's something spinning around in a circle (like the world to the fool on the hill; or the world to those in an airplane that has gone into a spin) or something going in an orbit, like a rocket around the earth, or the earth going around the sun, or an electron going around a nucleus.

If you go to my Baloney blog and read my letter to Boeing, I think I quote from the draft memo the NTSB investigators sent me for correction (I'll double check). It was a long memo, and they thanked me afterwards for a "great interview." I gave them everything I had, and I even discovered, on my cellphone, data from the flight track app, which showed me going to the Liberal, KS big Walmart and then to the Neighborhood Walmart grocery because I thought that Great Value 1% Chocolate Milk gallons might be cheaper at the Neighborhood store. I snoozed in the Bronco in the Walmart lot, and I saw Dorothy's House in the distance across the lot. I've thought about that thousands of times since, and that -- had I gone to see Dorothy -- I might have then decided that I was tired and cold and should have gone to Motel 6 for a hot shower and good sleep, instead of crashing. I'll post the whole flight track for you over the weekend.

"Memorandum of Conversation: Mr. Berman stated that after the airplane encountered IMC, he recalled seeing a 1 ft diameter gelatinous form of supercooled liquid on the windshield. The gelatinous form crystallized right in front of his eyes and across whole windshield within 2-3 seconds. Additionally, immediately after the windshield had iced over the airplane nosed over into a "real steep dive". Mr. Berman increased engine power and recovered the airplane into level flight after descending 500-1,000 ft. He does not believe the airframe experienced asymmetrical icing, which would likely have resulted in an unrecoverable spin. After recovering from the dive, he told the controller, 'declaring icing emergency,' and that he could not maintain altitude."

When you write π in an equation on paper or on a blackboard or whiteboard, something is usually spinning 'round. I could not have recovered from a spin at all -- let alone in enough time -- with less than 1500' between me and mountain tops. I would have bought the π and PI and pie and the farm and everything else. I describe in my Baloney blog letter to Boeing what the AI (attitude indicator) needle looks like full down -- at night, and my knowing there's ice on the wings. I've thought about what the world would have looked like while I was spinning 'round, after I saw the needle full down; and never had been able to tell anyone. I'm telling you there is more baloney than you can imagine, and it killed George Floyd and Mr. Shaver, and it is debasing and hurting our country. And it can change quickly, easily, and Constitutionally.

And speaking of π, my daughter and I have bought lots of those little Walmart 50 cent pies since then. Mr. Floyd's and Mr. Shaver's daughters can't do that with their daddies. That's no baloney. It's an ongoing, unnecessary tragedy whose root cause is the courts. It can be stopped.

About John: Engineer - electronic hardware design and test; MSEE Stanford/Ginzton Lab-applied physics; B.A. Oberlin College, physics, math. email: john4midwest@gmail.com .

Totoware Example in Minneapolis Federal Court

August 2, 2020: I filed a Totoware example on Friday in Minneapolis federal court. (Minneapolis was where George Floyd was killed; I say this because there are international visitors to this site.) Ok, I didn't exactly file Totoware in court. I didn't mention Totoware in my filing, but here's an annotated version of my filing, containing lines of Totoware Python code from my tiny, bonehead Totoware Alpha Release, above. My hope is that the young software Aces of the world will take it and run with it open-source (and I'll have a framework shortly), and give it their smarts and creativity and show how to corner and squeeze-out corruption in U.S courts; and maybe elsewhere, I also hope. This will allow "police reform" legislation to actually be applied according to "the intent of Congress" and State legislatures and not get mangled by unlimited "discretion" (and other unlawful "errors of law") from judges. By the way, the law is supposed to be a machine -- totally objective -- outputting the same result for the same inputs. "Discretion" is within a well-controlled range and must always have a reason, at a minimum, but should really be required to be accompanied by a showing of some reasoning. This and the rest of the law isn't just for grins -- though a great many judges think it is (I'll give you some doozies of examples soon). It's what's supposed to make us different from the Lipoplasm (lipidinous protoplasm) north of Seoul. You know, where Otto's appeal is still pending. (This is all in my blog.)

As I wrote at the bottom of page 3 to the Minneapolis federal court: "If a driver license is revoked because an official simply says, 'I believe you can’t drive,' it does not matter how much notice and hearing are given; a neutral arbiter cannot be a despot making arbitrary decisions." I should have put "neutral arbiter" in quotation marks. Purely arbitrary decisions -- such as what I saw in Hennepin and what were stamped with approval by Minnesota reviewing courts -- are the same as from the Lipoplasm. The penalty phase is considerably different here, but pure arbitrariness = pure arbitrariness, regardless of where it occurs.

Obviously I wrote the Alpha Release for the "due process" in the Statement of Jurisdiction in my case. But that doesn't detract from the general principles at work, and certainly due process is -- or was meant to be -- applied very widely, essentially everywhere, and obviously to access to the courts and driver licenses and anywhere a State offers something, regardless of whether it's called a "right" or a "benefit." That's plain as day from the U.S. Sup. Ct, as I wrote above in Totoware Alpha Release. And it's in my court filing here:

A state can't act arbitrarily, which means "just because I say so," the way the Hennepin County judge acted; and which Minnesota reviewing courts said was just fine; and which prompted me to write that Hennepin is a "military regime' and an accident waiting to happen; and prompted me to put this all in federal court where it can be seen more easily and over which federal courts have jurisdiction. If the state does act arbitrarily, it's unfair and by definition a due process violation. If people are grouped as a class for unfair treatment, it opens up "equal protection." Any hard-sci engineer can easily understand these concepts and diagram them out. Software engineers conceptualize and code-up stuff -- in their sleep -- far more complicated than these rules that judges get wrong all the time, often because they are bailing out their buds. This is word problem stuff, like 8th grade algebra.

Open source software would be submitted to Congress for review, testing (only needed if Congress were not in the loop during testing, but I don't see why it couldn't be), and approval. And if I were there, you can bet I would push harder than anyone to get this process in place and fast. Congress can do this because -- like everyone else -- Congress has the right to speak about the job the courts are doing. Congress is making known its intent. My preference is engineering, far more so than -- hold my nose -- "politics," but I have personal reasons for doing this (read my blog), and you won't find anyone more committed to it and harder-working for it.

My example, above, (my case) addresses a large class of cases in which federal courts get around doing their job. A beta release of Totoware covering due process, alone, would cover a lot of useful ground. Cases of real due-process violations are thrown out all the time by federal courts. This would get the courts in line and make "police reform" and other legislation actually effective, because Congress has say over whether judges are doing their jobs and whether they need to go. And voters have the final say over Congress. That is something you can bet I'd never forget.

I'm talking here to the software Aces of the world (of which I am not one; I'm a hardware engineer who does software as needed for hardware bring-up and debug). I'm not talking to the lawyers, though of course they are welcome to state their point of view because a real engineering environment has genuine free speech -- save for disasters like Challenger. But the lawyers should remember: this is an engineering approach, where reality counts 100% of the time. Not legalgoop disassociated from reality.

About John: Engineer - electronic hardware design and test; MSEE Stanford/Ginzton Lab-applied physics; B.A. Oberlin College, physics, math. email: john4midwest@gmail.com .

Letter to Wichita Eagle (July 30, 2020)

If you are still undecided on whom to cast your vote for -- for specific solutions to some big problems and big Midwest-specific problems, presented and fought-for aggressively and compellingly in the U.S. Senate -- I ask you to take a look at John4Midwest.com. And if you are decided, I also ask you to take a look. Moving in the right direction is the most important thing, regardless of who is advocating for the Midwest. You won’t find platitudes and recycled platitudes (platititudes) moving you nowhere on my website. Yes, it's wordy, but you’ll find the specific framework to hold courts to account for their privilege of independence, which they have abused catastrophically. Holding courts to account is crucial to everything. Non-functional courts are the root cause of George Floyd’s death and of the destruction that has followed and much more. Don’t get faked-out by the flowery stuff. Look for the root cause.

The Midwest’s in the middle, but it doesn’t get the better half, not by a long shot. It has gotten the shaft for a long time, and a concerted Midwest strategy is the solution. The first two big steps are holding the courts to account; and reorienting Congress -- physically -- towards the Midwest, Kansas specifically. It’s at John4Midwest.com. This reorientation will benefit the entire U.S. ultimately because concentration of power is always bad news eventually. We’ve had bad news for a long time, with D.C. at the center.

Congress is the big Magilla, and you – Mr. and Ms. Peebles (formerly known as We the People) – are his owner. Magilla was not supposed to be for sale, and I sure am not for sale. If you want the professional and bankrolled politicians, you know where to look. If you want well-considered, novel and effective solutions with low risk, look here. You will not find a better advocate for you. You pull the lever in the voting booth. Reassert your leverage over Magilla.

-John Berman

US Senate candidate, Kansas and Minnesota

About John: Engineer - electronic hardware design and test; MSEE Stanford/Ginzton Lab-applied physics; B.A. Oberlin College, physics, math. email: john4midwest@gmail.com .

Some Other Questions/Answers

1) Kansas' Aviation Industry: I know a LOT about aviation and the industry (and a particular Cessna C177B), in addition to the one pound+ of titanium and cobalt chrome in me. Though I never took the FAA Powerplant exam I had planned (of the A&P rating) I have all my "sign-offs" for Powerplant and virtually all for "General." For various reasons mainly of time (and plus I bought my former -- now crashed -- Velocity XL-RG, an experimental, so the need for my A&P went on the back burner), I didn't get it. Now is not the best time for me to go finish it. I understand a lot about aviation and have a very unusual and valuable perspective. I know that I'm far more qualified to be on Boeing's Board than many there (see my Baloney blog and letter to Boeing), and more qualified than Calhoun to run it (and most any working engineer would be) because, among other reasons, I would never try to foist fault on a predecessor when I had been on the Board for 10 years...and then, in addition, try to "walk back" such a gaff. Engineers are not stupid -- and are, in fact, one of the bedrocks of civilization -- and you don't keep good engineers by setting a prime example of blame-shifting.

About John: Engineer - electronic hardware design and test; MSEE Stanford/Ginzton Lab-applied physics; B.A. Oberlin College, physics, math. email: john4midwest@gmail.com .

Mirror in the Sky.......

(or rye) What is a landslide? Here's one version:

August 4, 2020: If you can zoom your browser in on the table, those numbers are from the Wiki on the votes Mr. Bloomberg won by spending a billion (you can check the Wiki to see if the numbers I grabbed have any big errors)... $500/vote. For me, Kansas filing fee = $1760, Minnesota fee = $400, the rest added another $600 or $700 at the outside -- airfare, Motel 6, car rental...and I had a deluxe pizza delivered to Motel 6 in Topeka, so I'd better check with the Fed. Election Commission to see if I might have a problem with exorbitant spending. So, had I gotten only 5 votes, my cost per vote would have still been a bit greater than that of Mr. Bloomberg. My speculative hope was for 6 votes, and I would then have edged out Mr. Bloomie in overall vote-getting efficiency by going under $500/vote. Right now I see 770 votes, and I'm thinking that maybe you confused me with some other John Berman...like John D. Berman (https://web.ma.utexas.edu/users/jberman/) who is a postdoc mathematics fellow at University of Texas, Austin. This kid (young man) won the gold medal one year in the International Mathematics (high school) Olympiad -- something I certainly could not have done when I was in high school, or now. So I'm honored if you confused me with that remarkable "John Berman."

I will keep pushing forward with these ideas/solutions and more. You all have flabbergasted me. Truly. Even had I gotten zero votes (and I wasn't counting that out at all), I would still have kept pushing just as hard as I will now. But I will have a remarkable wind at my back thanks to your votes. Although I'm absolutely and hugely honored (small "h") by your votes, this is all to Honor (large "H") the memories of Mr. Floyd and Mr. Shaver and the lives of their kids and families going forward; AND any others you want to include for whatever reason who lost their lives in whatever way it happened. I was given a second life when all the odds were against me, and I was moved to file these candidacies by seeing some lives lost in particularly appalling ways, as well as having seen the writing on the wall in Hennepin. This country can be much better, and technology can cut through the baloney to some real solutions; and you all have truly inspired me that these ideas can be realized. The ideas and viable solutions are what matter most, and then getting them passed in Congress and legislatures and tested out and tuned up and making this a better country. And though technology holds wondrous promise and solutions, the solid Midwest values and insights and work ethic from my friends over decades (and a some relatives too) have been an equal wonder in my life.

I'll keep adding my entries here, for sure, so please keep checking back. I'll also add an email notification signup, as soon as I find where the built-in website function is, among the options, and where to put it. (I'd need to have it automated since there will surely be a tidal wave of everything flooding in because of my $/vote overall-efficiency landslide -- at least with respect to Mr. Bloomberg. I'll invert it to votes/$, so more is better: Bloomie ~ .002; JB ~ .294). Right now, in honor of Mr. Bloomberg, I'm going to exercise my right to Slurp and find the largest cup I can at the 7-11.

About John: Engineer - electronic hardware design and test; MSEE Stanford/Ginzton Lab-applied physics; B.A. Oberlin College, physics, math. email: john4midwest@gmail.com .

"Technology, Baby"

August 6, 2020: It’s technology, Baby, said Tele Savalas, the telecom hardware engineer. Optical systems guy. He also played a Fender Tele in his off hours. Tele had a micro array of phase conjugate mirrors etched into the substrate covering his skull. Way a-head of his time. His hobby was catching bad guys.

About John: Engineer - electronic hardware design and test; MSEE Stanford/Ginzton Lab-applied physics; B.A. Oberlin College, physics, math. email: john4midwest@gmail.com .

I sat down and wrote you a long letter: Whaddaya say? Tina and Amy? C'mon now, whaddaya say? (Part 1)

August 8, 2020: Actually I wrote Tina and Amy twice by email -- both simultaneously and identically by cc-ing them and about a half-dozen staffers. It actually wasn't a very long a letter, but I had written some other people previously and had forwarded what I had written to Tina and Amy and staffers. I got an auto-return response from one of them. That's all good. I'm pretty sure some people on their staffs saw the letter. I sent a short follow-up four days later. I think it was a very important letter. If I represented you, I'd write some Python code to scan my emails for critical words, such as were in the emails I sent to Tina and Amy. That would almost assure that I wouldn't miss critical emails.

I think others -- those who read my site and blog and also others, who are Minnesota voters but don't read me, not yet anyway -- will probably think my email was important. I'll show you the letter very soon, in Part 2 and I'm trying for posting both parts today.

Sorry to say, Tina and Amy, you failed. By all appearances, you are phonies on a very important issue you claim to champion and have leveled harsh criticism about, especially towards DJT and people associated with him. Of course it concerns DJT, because everyone holds him responsible for everything, when he clearly is not. I'm not saying DJT is perfect, of course. Those who support him know full well that he's anything but perfect and far from it. But that's one of the very important things about DJT. He got to the White House not as a friend of General Powell and others for decades in D.C. I made that obvious point and other points in my letter to Gen. Powell in my blog. DJT's making it to the White House was an important event, regardless of what people think of it and whatever suspicions they have about how he did it.

As should be obvious to anyone who has read down this far on my site, DJT is not at all the biggest "problem" -- to the extent that he's even a real problem. The courts are the real problem, and the legal monopoly -- the Dues Process -- in particular is the root cause of the subversion of anything remotely called "justice." The country cannot function properly with a court system the way ours is today. It is the single biggest problem, and its corrosive effects have destroyed much more than meets the eye. But the courts are, relatively easily, brought into line -- using actual technology. Not just ECF-PACER -- the federal electronic filing and document retrieval system, which is definitely important -- as one bigwig lamely fell back on when he testified to Congress. Technology can and should do much more than just file and retrieve documents in a court system, as I've outlined with Judge Puty and Totoware. Had they been in place and the court system not been out of control, I strongly believe that George Floyd would be alive and playing with his daughter now.

In any event, of course DJT is far from perfect, and a great many people obviously have extreme antipathy towards him. But they are no way near objective about him. "Objectivity" is a subjective thing because objectivity is impossible in the pure sense, of course. Judge Posner wrote: "Recognizing the inherently subjective character of this ostensibly objective test." There are things I've disagreed about with Posner (and one thing that he supposedly said, not in a court opinion, was downright stupid), but he nailed that one, and he's nailed other things. He was the hardest working appellate judge I've come across (though in fairness, I've never made an exhaustive review of judges; a random sampling is all one really needs to make in order to see the big problems), which was clear to me just by searching on the 7th Circuit's website, which at the time had an actually-useful search function. That and the D.C. Circuit were the two sites with actually-useful search functions. I once wrote a little comment in the "How are we doing" feedback box to the 9th Circuit, concerning their touting their "advanced search" functions. It was nothing, just a piddly basic search, at least at the time. Maybe things have changed. I've been studying, as a sideline, the court system for some time. It's basically awful.

Anyway, I've sidetracked myself again. DJT does respond to nearly everything, it seems -- while Tina and Amy do not -- and that also creates big problems for DJT. And he even muses over that Twit-thing and makes his musings public, which is really bad, and I wrote early on here that he should deep-six that Twit-thing. Here's another, more direct and immediate suggestion for DJT about that Twit-thing or things. It concerns my truck, but any truck will do and most cars will.

About John: Engineer - electronic hardware design and test; MSEE Stanford/Ginzton Lab-applied physics; B.A. Oberlin College, physics, math. email: john4midwest@gmail.com .

I sat down and wrote you a long letter, Tina and Amy. (Part 2) ...and you went shopping instead.

August 9, 2020: With only a little bit of further ado before I show you my letter to Tina and Amy, I'll say that I know how to write in the Indignant Chick vernacular. Indignant Chick is an English dialect. Black English Vernacular is a dialect, too. I started a "seminar" my senior year in college called The Black English Vernacular. Calling something a "seminar" makes it extra collegiate-sounding, so no matter what it's about, it sounds more legitimate with "seminar" attached. It was in the sociology department. I had no reason to believe I'd meet any chicks in the class, but I thought I'd give it a try. I don't remember anything about any chicks there. I remember that I lasted some time into the second week. Maybe a total of four classes. I tried to get my money back from the bookstore for the book, but they wouldn't take it back. I had annotated in a useful way, I explained to them. My annotations would be helpful to the next buyer. I had written in all caps: THIS IS TOTAL B.......! But no dice.

Before I show you the letter I wrote to Tina and Amy, I'll show you a snip of a letter I wrote to someone else in Minnesota. This was last April 7, just after the Minnesota Court of Appeals sent out the order with astonishing words: that "discretion" in Minnesota means a judge can say and do anything he wants -- like a military regime -- which I've referenced quite a number of times. Here's what I wrote to this other person:

My mom was a “one world” type, and I’m not saying exactly how I feel about that. I have mixed feelings. My mom’s last days were with her bilingual granddaughter, though. I have taken a financial bath (and with untold hours spent) because I legally moved my mom to California from Maryland. I didn’t know it at the time, but I had run afoul of the mob, where the trust fund cow must be kept in the barn for milking. However, the relationship between my daughter and my mom, through her last days, was priceless. I have pics.

One of the chapters in my book is, 𝚂̶𝚘̶𝚖̶𝚎̶ All of my best friends are black. In kindergarten, Otis, Jody, and Lincoln were my best friends, along with Camilla, whom I had a crush on. Otis said to me, about a decade ago, “Didn’t we all!” Otis also said to me a few years ago, “Hey bud, you don’t ever need a reason; you just pick up the phone, ok?” That’s priceless too. No matter how much money the lawyers will end up XXXXXXXX from the trust — and I’ve accepted that they will XXXXX it all — I have some priceless things.

Otis and I are "birthday brothers," one day apart. We would go to each other's bday parties and usually sleep over the night before. I have a pic of Otis and me on my front steps, with a few girls, at my 6th bday party, but I can't find it along with a bunch of other memorabilia. I'm trying not to be beside myself. I remember where I saw it all last and approximately when. But I just cannot find the stuff. My tetra-para-hemi-plegia-paresis (which is what you get when three mathematicians open a candy store) isn't helping my search any.

There are few people more upbeat than Otis. You need to see the pic of my 6th bday. I'm not telling you this stuff to assert my "liberal credentials" or baloney like that. As I wrote in my blog, “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.”

I'm telling you this because it shows the great friends I could call when I was pondering, in my hospital bed, "going shopping instead," a line I first heard in 4th grade on one of the Butterfield Blues albums. I'd been looking up the oxycodone dosage that would induce respiratory arrest. It's hard to find. Everything is "suppression," but not "arrest." It was never really a serious consideration (so the FAA medical people can put down their note pads), but because I'm an engineer and have a habit of considering all possibilities, I was checking out the information. I had my daughter and one other person -- from Ukraine -- to live for; and hope for at least one, particular other person. I knew that many rescuers had been out in brutal cold to search for me. I knew that an entire little church and children's school were praying for me at least weekly. I knew that miracle docs and nurses and techs there worked and worked to save me and put me back together. And I had buddies from all times in my life, including my B-day brother, Otis, from kindergarten. I could not let them down and trade them for oxycodone.

Here's the email I wrote to Tina an Amy and a half-dozen of their staff. It was a test. As I've written here, as an engineer I have this thing about testing stuff. I can't help it. It's engineering. I love it. I wrote the emails in the Indignant Chick vernacular. I know it well, having received it, on occasion. Okay, maybe more often. I sent my email as Atty XX. I called attention to a San Francisco federal judge, Alsup, with a Twit-thing account which he used to "insult" people by calling them, "pussies" and used "hood" talk -- like the Black English vernacular but updated since my college senior year.

Also pasted here are what I had previously written (in late 2017) to women lawyers on a California Bar committee (I think it was) on "women in the law" -- that sort of thing; and then to the dean of Stanford Law School, who was giving a lecture entitled, "What matters to me." I was wondering how much it mattered to women lawyers, that a federal judge -- who hears cases on women things and race things - used adolescent "insult" language of a women-specific nature and hood talk. Late 2017 was well before the Brettster J. issue came on the scene. Then I had my plane crash in January 2018.

Sometime mid or late 2018, I checked and Alsup's Twit-thing account had been deleted or suspended. His postings had been there for six years, since 2012.

It was a decent bet that word had gotten to him through back channels to delete his account -- though it now says "suspended."

There's (at least) one other possibility, though I don't think it likely.

If I were representing a constituency -- take Minnesota as a random example, Tina and Amy -- and I got information like this, the first thing I would do is send an "evidence preservation" letter (which anyone can send) to the Twit-thing and demand preservation of the entire account history of @askalsup, including IP addresses from which the account was accessed by the account holder. I don't know whether Twit-thing keeps that info, but I'd demand its preservation. In California and probably other states, if a company doesn't preserve evidence when that kind of letter arrives, it can have liability problems -- at least in theory. A Senator, like Tina or Amy, would probably be taken seriously. As I wrote in my email to Tina and Amy (you can read it, down the page), "That Alsup was not called out on this, shows, I think, just how seriously woman lawyers in positions of power or influence really take their commitment to calling incontrovertibly demeaning behavior from the judiciary for what it is. Not seriously enough to stand up to an Article III judge. Except when something may have occurred at a high school party 40 years ago, according to faded and contradictory memories." (Pretty good Indignant Chick imitation, eh?)

Last April I sent the email to Tina and Amy and staff. (I got one auto-acknowledge reply.) Last month I sent it to some members of the "women in the law" committee of the American Bar Association. Silence and no action. All of them. My conclusion, which was my hypothesis, is that all the "women in the law" stuff is baloney. First and foremost (certainly in civil litigation) it's about the Dues Process, the money flow. And becoming overtly too critical can jeopardize that -- especially calling out a member of the inner circle of the Royal Family, the Article III judges. They attacked Brettster J. tooth and nail based on evidence that was very difficult to check out; but no one would take the simple step of writing to Twit-thing and demanding to get to the bottom of the Alsup Twit; and write Roberts C. J. and others. And then Tina and Amy could get a subpoena sent out from Congress.

Had I been representing you, I would have done those things immediately.

That would have been simple. But the Dues Process -- the legal monopoly -- gets in the way, except when the political tune is not your team's tune. See what I mean? Guess whose team George Floyd was on? And other average Minnesotans, guess which team you're on? You're not on team Tina-Amy-Alsup-Burke -- the last one a Hennepin judge who's another social menace (see my blog entry, Kevin the Menace). A Burke Twit, shortly after Amy withdrew her prez candidacy (and which Burke deleted), mentioned how he's friends with Amy. No surprise there. They're all a small circle of friends, as I wrote to the federal court.

You vote for me, and my Python code will scan my emails and not overlook you; or if it happens, you write again, and we'll modify the code. Representation should be as interactive as possible. Technology helps that a lot. As I wrote in my blog (Quiz Time #1): "I'm assuming here that you don't want to be treated like an idiot and that you believe you deserve the opposite of such treatment."

I don't think I've ever used the word, "pussy" (or "chatte" in French) in a derogatory fashion, not even in junior high (but I may be mistaken) or later. You may not believe me about that, and that's fine. I'm not puritanical, as you might have guessed. But there are certain words I keep in reserve. And I happen to like the word, "chatte," and its English equivalent in...you know -- ummmm -- intimate situations of admiration, inspiration (dual meaning)...and other, you know, "shun" type words; but that's private stuff between me and her. And I'm not a federal judge or any judge with "discretion" -- infinite or finite.

What kind of judgment can a "grown" man, who is a federal judge with lifetime tenure, have who puts out Twit-things like that? Tina and Amy (and lots of women lawyers) are obsessed over bashing DJT, but an adolescent federal judge apparently gets a pass -- a behind the scene nudge to grow up and get rid of the Twit. The account says, "suspended," not deleted. There may well be IP addresses in the history. Whadda you say, Tina and Amy? Or you could just write a letter to some judges asking for an explanation. You could have back in April when I sent you the email.

I repeat. If I had gotten info like that, I would have immediately demanded explanations. You betcha. That should be obvious now, given all I've written.

Atty XX <attorneyxx@gmail.com>

to: senator@smith.senate.gov, jeff_lomonaco@smith.senate.gov, Gohar_Sedighi@smith.senate.gov, Ed_shelleby@smith.senate.gov,

senator@klobuchar.senate.gov, Elizabeth_Peluso@klobuchar.senate.gov, Elizabeth_Farrar@klobuchar.senate.gov

date: Apr 20, 2020, 8:02 AM

subject: Ain’t Misbehavin’

mailed-by: gmail.com

I am writing to inform you of, what I consider, an ongoing outrage that has continued for essentially eight years. What you will do about this “misbehavior” (Article III, Section I) remains to be seen. According to your public personae, “Klobuchar knows the struggles that all ambitious women face at work” and “Tina Smith” ... a “strong advocate” and “staunch champion for women's rights,” etc. etc. Let's see.

Back in late 2017, I sent emails to a women lawyers association and a law school dean, in positions suited to take steps to start a correction of this Article III infection. At most, they put a band aid on it and covered it up.

For over five years, from May 2012, this Ninth Circuit District judge, Alsup, had a Twitter posting (attached) referring to certain people as “pussies,” who used a particular software technique and evidently weren't up to his manly software standards. How ironic on several levels. He also likes “old men” age-dissing talk and hood talk, “fool.” This stuff is revolting enough in normal circumstances, but publicly, from an Article III judge?

In October and November 2017, I sent the emails I mentioned. No response. However, Alsup's account was deleted some months later in 2018 (now says, "suspended," which makes me wonder whether some contrived "denial"might have been made). Here's one email I sent, with recipient identifying information deleted — for now:

Attached is a screenshot of the twitter site: https://twitter.com/askalsup?lang=en

where Judge Alsup of the NDCA wrote, "DI [dependency injection] is for pussies."

Does this matter to you? It matters to me a lot. I'll tell you why. I find it revolting that an Article III judge would publicly display such an adolescent and contemptuous attitude, especially in a written setting where he had time to contemplate what he was writing and, further, where he would leave it posted for five years. I don't have to tell you about the stature and power of an Article III judge and how women parties and attorneys appear in front of him and, apparently, appear to him.

Back in 1989, the cover, "Has Silicon Valley Gone Pussy," killed Upside magazine. Why is a federal judge's similar disparagement any more acceptable? It's not acceptable at all.

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=86895&page=1

I write this email anonymously because in my current situation I have too much to lose by not doing so anonymously. Without, I hope, presuming too much, I would think that ### Law, with its Women of ### Law organization would want to take a public stand on Judge Alsup's behavior. After all,

http://www.uscourts.gov/judges-judgeships/judicial-conduct-disability/faqs-filing-judicial-conduct-or-disability-complaint

You may complain about actions taken by a judge outside his or her official role as a judge only if “the conduct might have a prejudicial effect on the administration of the business of the courts, including a substantial and widespread lowering of public confidence in the courts among reasonable people.”

I believe this is directly applicable to such a repugnant statement from an Article III judge, and such a lowering of confidence should, in particular, be felt by all of ###'s women -- and, I would hope, men too.

The junior high, misogynistic “humor” brazenly public by an Article III judge mattered enough for his account to be deleted or suspended, but he's still on the bench.

I'd guess that, through back channels, Alsup was told that deleting it would be wise. That, doesn’t solve the real problem, of course. His resignation would have been a real start.

Now, I am calling it to your attention. That Alsup was not called out on this, shows, I think, just how seriously woman lawyers in positions of power or influence really take their commitment to calling incontrovertibly demeaning behavior from the judiciary for what it is. Not seriously enough to stand up to an Article III judge. Except when something may have occurred at a high school party 40 years ago, according to faded and contradictory memories.

That's all I have to say. For now. The question is: what are you going to do about this inexcusable junior high boy, Alsup?

How does this compare with Franken? For one thing, Franken didn't have lifetime tenure with “absolute independence” and the power to ruin individuals at whim, dontcha know. So whatcha gonna do?

from: Atty XX <attorneyxx@gmail.com>

to: sscharf@scharfbanks.com, gbuckley1@luc.edu, cmchang@duanemorris.com, katherine.larkin-wong@lw.com

date: Jul 10, 2020, 6:09 AM

subject: Fwd: Ain’t Misbehavin’

mailed-by: gmail.com

I have been concerned about Alsup's "Pussies" tweet for years. You can read the forwarded emails. He should have been gone long ago. Alsup's twitter account was removed first (in 2018), I believe, and then marked suspended. Regardless, any judge, but especially an Article III judge, should not be permitted to stay on, with such behavior. The Minnesota Senators don't care, apparently, despite their "fierce" support of women's issues. So what is your position and action? This is all the more relevant with your articles, "Left out and left behind" and "Walking out the door," and Kozinski too, etc. There's a lot of talk, but when there's hard evidence to explore on an Art. III judge, the enthusiasm dries up. What say you?

A lowering of public confidence in the courts among reasonable people?

from: Atty XX <attorneyxx@gmail.com>

to: info@cwl.org, christine.goodman@pepperdine.edu

date: Oct 28, 2017, 8:37 PM

subject: A lowering of public confidence in the courts among reasonable people?

mailed-by: gmail.com

Ms. Calderon and Ms. Goodman,

Please see:

https://twitter.com/askalsup?lang=en

Judge Alsup, "DI [dependency injection] is for pussies." (Also see attached.)

http://www.uscourts.gov/judges-judgeships/judicial-conduct-disability/faqs-filing-judicial-conduct-or-disability-complaint

You may complain about actions taken by a judge outside his or her official role as a judge only if “the conduct might have a prejudicial effect on the administration of the business of the courts, including a substantial and widespread lowering of public confidence in the courts among reasonable people.”

Might an Article III judge's use of the word, "pussies," on twitter as a disparagement to mean "weaklings" cause a "substantial and widespread lowering of public confidence in the courts among reasonable people?"

Back in 1989, the cover, "Has Silicon Valley Gone Pussy," killed Upside magazine. Why is a federal judge's similar disparagement any more acceptable? It's not. I think it's revolting.

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=86895&page=1

https://twitter.com/askalsup?lang=en

Does this matter to you and why or why not?

from: Atty XX <attorneyxx@gmail.com>

to: emagill@law.stanford.edu

date: Nov 4, 2017, 2:34 PM

subject: Does this matter to you and why or why not?

mailed-by: gmail.com

Dear Dean Magill,

Attached is a screenshot of the twitter site: https://twitter.com/askalsup?lang=en

where Judge Alsup of the NDCA wrote, "DI [dependency injection] is for pussies."

Does this matter to you? It matters to me a lot. I'll tell you why. I find it revolting that an Article III judge would publicly display such an adolescent and contemptuous attitude, especially in a written setting where he had time to contemplate what he was writing and, further, where he would leave it posted for five years. I don't have to tell you about the stature and power of an Article III judge and how women parties and attorneys appear in front of him and, apparently, appear to him.

Back in 1989, the cover, "Has Silicon Valley Gone Pussy," killed Upside magazine. Why is a federal judge's similar disparagement any more acceptable? It's not acceptable at all.

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=86895&page=1

I write this email anonymously because in my current situation I have too much to lose by not doing so anonymously. Without, I hope, presuming too much, I would think that Stanford Law, with its Women of Stanford Law organization would want to take a public stand on Judge Alsup's behavior. After all,

http://www.uscourts.gov/judges-judgeships/judicial-conduct-disability/faqs-filing-judicial-conduct-or-disability-complaint

You may complain about actions taken by a judge outside his or her official role as a judge only if “the conduct might have a prejudicial effect on the administration of the business of the courts, including a substantial and widespread lowering of public confidence in the courts among reasonable people.”

I believe this is directly applicable to such a repugnant statement from an Article III judge, and such a lowering of confidence should, in particular, be felt by all of Stanford's women -- and, I would hope, men too

Again, there's (at least) one other possibility, though I don't think it likely.

It's not just a quiet resignation that's in order; it's confirming that a judge who Twits like an adolescent "presides" over and decides very important issues. This emphasizes why we need a truly-objective component of "justice" in order to get some real and true Justice -- not some title for certain judges who are unworthy as a group and don't come close to true Justice. And yes, there are some things that a truly objective. And Congress and legislatures decide their intent and how to make their intent clear. Tina and Amy need to really dig-in and work and really use technology, as do all Congresspeople and legislators. You want someone who really will dig-in and work and use technology? Here I am. And I have a lot of personal motivation -- and not just some polysci degree.

About John: Engineer - electronic hardware design and test; MSEE Stanford/Ginzton Lab-applied physics; B.A. Oberlin College, physics, math. email: john4midwest@gmail.com .

Chicks v. Koz

August 10, 2020. Before I start about Chicks v. Koz, I want to add a couple of things to my last posting. First, I forgot to mention that Atty XX sent a follow up email to Tina and Amy and staff on April 24 .

from: Atty XX <attorneyxx@gmail.com>

to: jeff_lomonaco@smith.senate.gov, Gohar_Sedighi@smith.senate.gov, Ed_shelleby@smith.senate.gov, senator@klobuchar.senate.gov, Elizabeth_Peluso@klobuchar.senate.gov, Elizabeth_Farrar@klobuchar.senate.gov, john@tinasmithmn.com, media@tinasmithmn.com, info@tinaforminnesota.com

date: Apr 24, 2020, 12:40 PM

subject: Re: Ain’t Misbehavin’

mailed-by: gmail.com

One other thing. An Article III judge mixing-in "case dismissed" (a crucial aspect of his essentially unbridled power) with his revolting, juvenile "humor" is especially revolting. By the way, this will be an issue for Senator Smith in coming months, whether she makes it her issue or not. It doesn't matter who I am. The substance matters, and the substance here is awful and not getting better.

I got an auto-reply:

Thank you for your inquiry Re: Ain’t Misbehavin’ Inbox x

Media Tina Smith for Minnesota <media@tinasmithmn.com> Apr 24, 2020, 12:40 PM

to me

Thank you for your media inquiry. This is Senator Smith's campaign media account. For inquiries or requests related to Senator Smith's Senate work, please email media@smith.senate.gov.

So, the message was delivered twice to a bunch of addresses for Tina and Amy and staff. One or more people ignored it or dropped the ball or, possibly, just didn't notice it at all. The third alternative is a bit hard to believe, given the number of email addresses. The first two alternatives are really serious, in my view, because I would never ignore something like that or drop it. I'd run full steam to get it verified or debunked (that is actually debunked, not the pseudo "debunking" on "fact checks;" see my blog entry Quiz 2.0). If Tina's and Amy's email systems are so bad that they miss two emails altogether, addressed to over a half dozen staff, then my Python code email scanner (or someone else's or something similar) can take care of that.

Back in April, I wasn't seriously thinking of any candidacy. I had seen the abominations from Burke, the Hennepin judge, and then from the MN Court of Appeals; and it was obvious that "petitioning" in MN courts was a joke. So the alternative for me was some "political" petitioning (something that, as I've written, under normal circumstances would make the exoskeletons on the bugs crawling on my skin, crawl). But it was when I saw George Floyd and seeing my quasi-prognostication about Hennepin as a "military regime" there on TV on a gasping man, that I decided to do this.

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Ok, I don't know whether I mentioned it, but I'm presiding over the case Chicks v. Koz. I'm Juicetice Johnny, but you should not ever think that I want to (or have ever wanted to) be a lawyer or judge. Hardware engineers, though, would make great judges, because, as I've said (and as every hardware engineer -- or engine mechanic or other hands-on person with real troubleshooting that cannot be patched in software (software is supercomplex in its own right but can be patched) -- knows), you throw out all assumptions. One bad assumption can ruin your whole day of troubleshooting.

BTW, I actually may have been the youngest expert witness ever, when I was in 7th grade. A neighborhood kid fell off a tire-rope swing that swung out over the creek in "The Valley" in our neighborhood. (He got a really bad leg-break and maybe more, and it may have compromised his health for life; so it was a big deal for our neighborhood. I don't think they used titanium rods in femurs in 1969; I think about these things in terms of the technology that put me back together.) A bunch of us kids went to another kid's house for the rope-swing after the annual Halloween party at the local swimming pool parking lot.

In court, there were questions to me about the slope going down to the creek and angles of the rope and such. There were some objections from the defense lawyer, and he asked me some questions. I inadvertently made the jury and judge laugh twice with my answers -- once when I mentioned Wiley Coyote, not with respect to the kid falling but about my Big Bertha model rocket, which I talked about when they asked me what I knew about "angles." Anyway, it's in my book, along with tons of other "fascinating" stuff:). My homeroom teacher was excited that she could mark "court summons" on my attendance sheet, a first for her. And the lawyers shouldn't infer (the way they jump to conclusions so often) that that had anything at all to do with my unfortunate legal sagas.

So, Koz was a judge on the 9th Circuit appeals court, which is in California (mainly) and handles the largest region of the US including some Pacific islands. Brettster J. clerked for Koz. Koz resigned at the end of 2017 because of accusations of his sexual harassment of clerks. Some (probably lots of) people want to tie Brettster J. to Koz in this way. Now, remember -- and I'll keep reminding you -- that Juicetice Johnny is a hardware engineer and throws out all assumptions. So I haven't formed any opinions about the accusations against Koz or the questions and insinuations about Brettster J. on this Koz-harassment topic. (I'm quite okay with Brettster J. after the "party" accusation, which I'll explain another time.) I don't have any opinion because I don't have any personal knowledge, which means stuff I've experienced with my five senses -- or if you're Uncle Martin, at least one extra sense with his levitation finger, which provides feedback to him, so it is sensory-motor skill. I also haven't seen any actual evidence (including having read testimony; I've just taken the case up). I once had to remind an appeals court of the significance of "personal knowledge," which they discounted anyway. The court system is just awful.

But now I want to make a side comment, which is a general comment, and this doesn't reflect any conclusion about Chicks v. Koz. I'll comment by way of an anecdote. A buddy of mine from Cleveland told our group of friends how his dad was in the grocery checkout line with his young-teenager daughter. This was in the 1970s. I don't know exactly what magazines were there in the line, but the story was that some guy in line just ahead of them was looking at a magazine with some revealing photos -- perhaps his own mag and not from the checkout line. My buddy's dad said to the guy to put the mag away because his daughter was there. The guy said no.

The announcement over the store speaker requested clean up at register 3. The dad was in the register 2 line. If that doesn't make sense to you, it was his uppercut that sent the guy most of the way over the magazine rack.

By telling you this anecdote, I am not expressing an opinion on the truth or falsity of the Chicks' accounts. Not at all, and I'm not sarcastic at all, either. They may well have been harassed as they say. Or maybe not. What I'm thinking is that either the Chicks don't have daddies or they didn't tell their daddies or they told their daddies that there's a big paycheck at the end due to the legal monopoly. Otherwise, there surely would have been one daddy who would have sent Koz from register 2 to 3. (BTW, I add that this is a joke -- joke about Koz register 2 to 3 -- if that is not obvious to everyone. The story about my friend's dad was true, but I do NOT suggest violence in any of this. Okay? Understand that first and foremost.)

This is the effect of the Dues Process, the legal monopoly. And this goes to the silence from the women lawyers about the Alsup Twit-thing. You cannot rock the royal boat of the Dues Process. The financial consequences are too great. This is why you won't get anything resembling actual "justice" with the legal monopoly, And no, "justice" is not simply what judges say it is, with everyone else merely a "disgruntled litigant" (see my blog entry Hansel and Gruntle). There are elements -- some big elements -- of objectivity, and they are, in a great many cases, destroyed by the Dues Process. And its silence on reprehensible things. Either that Twit-thing was Alsup's or it was a hack. Either way, the silence -- as the saying goes -- has been deafening, including that from Tina and Amy -- "champions of women's" blah-de-blah whatever their writers write for them. More on this soon.

About John: Engineer - electronic hardware design and test; MSEE Stanford/Ginzton Lab-applied physics; B.A. Oberlin College, physics, math. email: john4midwest@gmail.com .

Hypothetical Penalty Phase: You're Awesome, My Little Pony!

August 11. 2020: Juicetice Johnny wants to talk briefly -- and only hypothetically -- about the penalty phase in Chicks v. Koz, if a penalty phase would be necessary. I'll emphasize again that I don't know what happened, and maybe nothing happened, and maybe something happened. Like any good hardware engineer, I throw out all assumptions (or try to as best I can). I also know that everyone brings to the table his or her own experiences. So making presumptions about a defendant's, for example, having only boys for kids may miss something in the past. People lose children and others dear to them. And little boys deserve to be awesome too, of course.

I know the world can get you down

Things don't work out quite the way that you thought

Feeling like all your best days are done

Your fears and doubts are all you've got

But there's a light, shining deep inside

Beneath those fears and doubts so just squash 'em

And let it shine for all the world to see

That it is time, yeah, time to be awesome

Ah, ah ah, ah, awesome

It's time to be so awesome

Ah, ah ah, ah, awesome

It's time to be so awesome

You've no idea how hard it's been (it's time to be so awesome)

This dull routine we've been forced to do

Don't let them rob you of who you are

Be awesome, it's all up to you (awesome)

I feel the light, stirring deep inside

It's like a tale still yet to be told (it's time to be so awesome)

And now it's time

Some people might consider it cruel and unusual punishment to be sentenced to listening to My Little Pony, Awesome! four times a day for 30 days. But they don't know what they're talking about. Awesome! has great structured rhythm on a par with the best musical theater, great arranging, great lyrics and more. It's a song worth getting to know -- penalty or no penalty.

Now, as I've mentioned in my blog, Dora the Explorer's voice is precisely tuned to drive middle-aged men bananas. So that would start getting into cruel, if not exactly unusual. But a rendition that mixed Dora with My Little Pony's Awesome! might well be a truly extraordinary rendition. That's a topic for another day.

There's a good deal in the "Women's Liberation movement" that I think has gone overboard and done more damage than good. I'll give specific examples soon, including very personal examples. But the fundamental problem of those who abuse power -- whether it's on a global scale or on a boss-employee scale -- is a big one. While tech doesn't solve everything, of course, it usually helps a lot. The court system is a standout example of an archaic system that suffers from the same problems that royalty has over centuries; and has caused similar kinds of damage. This can and should change. I would push to change it quickly because the solution is Constitutional, low-cost, and I think low risk.

About John: Engineer - electronic hardware design and test; MSEE Stanford/Ginzton Lab-applied physics; B.A. Oberlin College, physics, math. email: john4midwest@gmail.com .

From the Smoke-filled Room

August 12, 2020: All I can say is, "Wow." Without an exclamation point. An exclamation point isn't suited to, "overwhelmed," "humbled," and "nearly speechless," which aren't really exclamations. Awestruck is a good one, too. Humbled into silence (temporarily) at 15,000+ votes and, at least as incredibly, 6.5%+ . I'm thinking of demanding a recount because the number is too large for me to believe. One thing's for sure: you won't find a candidate anywhere more appreciative of every single vote.

As I wrote above under Mirror in the Sky, all I needed was 6 votes to beat Bloomie on votes/$ basis, overall. It stands to reason (and intuition) that vote-getting is more "difficult" for the "last" 15,000 votes than for the first. That also depends on what one means by "difficult." I haven't spent a dime on advertising -- only registration fees, transportation, motel, pizza, tuna fish and 2% milk from Walmart. The only cost is my time. I have time -- and am not dead -- because of a whole lotta luck and miracles and angels, too...all of which may be one and the same.

I'm in either a Walmart Neighborhood grocery or a big W nearly every day. Yesterday I saw this:

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I Have Registered to Have Write-In Votes Counted

August 13, 2020: My View Is That the Latest (Emerson College) Poll is Clearly Wrong. Here's what I wrote to the professor in charge of the poll:

Dear Professor Kimball,

I'm looking at the supporting documentation (full results and transparency initiative downloads) for your poll, released on Tuesday, on the Minnesota candidates Jason Lewis and Tina Smith and Trump-Biden matchups. Your poll shows a 3 point difference, Smith over Lewis, while Smith got 478k (now 497k) votes and Lewis got 184k (now 192k) votes in the primary. First of all, I'm not saying there's anything necessarily wrong with your methodology or the samples from Aristotle LLC or MTurk. I'm just trying to get my head around what seems to be a big inconsistency.

It seems to me that in order to square the > 2.5:1 ratio in votes with the 3 point difference in your poll, either a great many Lewis voters did not vote in the primary (compared with Smith voters), or a great many Smith voters did not respond truthfully -- unless they "made up" their minds in one or two days. But even then, the ratio doesn't square with truly "undecided."

While making a voting decision may well wait until the last minute, in very round numbers, that would mean a 20k difference (3% of 478k+184k, plus 7% undecided in your poll) became a 294k (44%) difference in just 2 days or so. That doesn't sound like respondents truly "undecided," since those should tend to break in more or less equal parts. I don't see any resolution having to do with party registration (which doesn't appear that disparate anyway, based on data from the Sec of State, not your poll). What am I missing?

Thanks...john berman (BTW, I was in the Rep primary, so my curiosity stems from that).

I added the following a few hours later:

I should add that even if the 20% of so who did not vote for Lewis in the primary, then voted for Lewis in the general election, that would add about 50k votes. Then if everyone who did not vote for Smith in the primary, voted for Lewis in the general, that would add about 68k to Lewis...so a total of about 120k extra to Lewis in the general. That's a total of 300k to Lewis. Still, under those extraordinary assumptions, that's nowhere near a 3 point difference.

Jason Lewis cannot likely overcome that kind of gap. Sorry, but I believe this is a very reasonable conclusion.

With the very generous assumptions above, Lewis has at most 39% to Smith's 61%. The polling was supposed to control for registered voters intending to vote. (More shortly.)

I'm waiting for a response from the Emerson College polling professor. I don't expect responses, but if I get one, then great. I might be wrong. That's the thing about real life with real risk and real jobs. If you make a mistake, you eat it, typically. When JOhio or MIndiana or Bill and JIllinois or Jebraska or Jimmysota make a mistake -- the way we all make mistakes -- he or she might get a little dinged or docked; or sometimes lose his or her job. Not so with judges. No matter how stupid, malicious, or corrupt a judge might be, nothing happens to him or her. Maybe, once in a long while, there will be a reprimand. On extremely rare occasions, one will lose his or her job. Their justification for this rarity, under today's circumstances, is antediluvian. I'll discuss this more, soon. As shown above, I got no response from Tina or Amy on Alsup. I'm pretty sure that Tina's staffers have seen my Alsup posting, above. I'm very sure they got my March 2020 emails, which I've posted above.

Before I write more about the flawed poll, I want to give you an update on the bare shelves at the Neighborhood Walmart (see pic above). According to a clerk I spoke with yesterday, they had a temperature control problem and had to take all of those items away until the problem could be fixed. That sounds very reasonable -- unless you're Hank Hill's neighbor, Dale Gribble, who might suspect the clerk is covering up a luncheon meat shortage. It's not that I poo-poo so-called "conspiracy theories" because I don't; however, there is a conspiracy to poo-poo conspiracy theories, I am sure. This is another example of Russell's paradox at work. I'll discuss this later.

About John: Engineer - electronic hardware design and test; MSEE Stanford/Ginzton Lab-applied physics; B.A. Oberlin College, physics, math. email: john4midwest@gmail.com .

August 16, 2020: I wrote a second quick email to the Emerson College professor late yesterday. Regardless of any specific matters concerning his poll and its results,* the real question concerns the reality -- not predictive polling -- of the 497k votes for Tina against 191k votes for Jason, and whether a general election can see Jason overcoming such a gap. I strongly doubt it, but there are interesting unknowns in Minnesota.

There is an article here (https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/breaking-the-news/presidential-primary-raises-privacy-concerns/89-f0393925-d0ac-4cf2-a882-06e5779d4870) titled: Presidential primary raises privacy concerns.

However, since MN doesn't have a presidential primary (just caucus), the article appears to be referring to the primary for offices other than president. It says: "But a 2016 change in state law could leave Minnesotans revealing information they'd like to keep private. To vote in the primary, Minnesotans must disclose their party selection to election judges. Voters will have to request either a Democratic or Republican ballot. A list of who voted in the primary and the political party each voter selected will be provided to the chair of each major political party. How a voter voted on the ballot will be secret. "

To begin with, there is no break-out between parties on primary voting until 2016, and it seems that 2016 information is provided only to party chairs? It would seem that that information from the Sec. of State should be public. I'll call the Sec. of State office tomorrow. In any event, I looked at some historical data for election turnout (see this site, http://www.electproject.org/home/voter-turnout/voter-turnout-data , and sent a quick Excel sheet I made to Professor Kimball), state-by-state, from primary to general elections. Because MN holds a separate caucus for president than for other offices, there's no info on this site specific to MN. And there is not compete data for all states. For what it's worth, an unweighted average (not weighted by state population or registered voters or such) comes out with a 2.2x increase from primary to general elections over those states that have a presidential primary election. A weighted average would almost certainly give a smaller factor.

But there would have to be a very large disproportionate increase in votes for Jason over votes for Tina in the General compared with the Primary, in order for Jason to win. This is an undeniable reality of the numbers, and I find it hard to believe that that would be doable for anyone; but I don't have any data at the moment to base that on. I doubt I'll find anything either.

I don't see how he can win. No one who voted for Jason or Tina in the primary will switch between the two. If all of the other votes from each party went to Jason, he still would lose by roughly 61 to 39 (see above). The only thing that could change this is a massive increased turnout for him but next to no increase (or a decrease) for Tina. I don't see it.

* And I wrote to Professor Kimball: "I do not doubt that you and your group do good work. I think there might be a basic problem with the sampling method, starting with the Aristotle and ZTurk data; and maybe a couple of other things." And also, more power to Professor Kimball and his group for releasing his poll before the primary results were out. If others (including me) had a poll that showed a 3 point gap, but a 2.6:1 ratio in the primary, I would have stopped release of the poll.

About John: Engineer - electronic hardware design and test; MSEE Stanford/Ginzton Lab-applied physics; B.A. Oberlin College, physics, math. email: john4midwest@gmail.com .

FUNDAMENTAL #1

The Homer-000, pronounced Homer Triple Naught.

This is self-explanatory.

I will add only that Homer Triple Naught events tend to occur with increasing frequency in human males approaching age 60. If you ever sense a Homer Triple Naught event while preflighting a plane, head immediately to the nearest Motel 6. This is especially the case in sub-zero weather.

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FUNDAMENTAL #2

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August 19, 2020: My daughter, her mom and g-ma evacuated at 2am from their house near Vacaville, CA, barely beating the fire.

Everything is gone except the car they drove away in. No physical harm to them, thank God. I have some experience in that department of thanks, approximately. I'll continue here tomorrow.

About John: Engineer - electronic hardware design and test; MSEE Stanford/Ginzton Lab-applied physics; B.A. Oberlin College, physics, math. email: john4midwest@gmail.com .

August 21, 2020: There's no comment that I could make on the fire, which would be worth anything. Fire doesn't leave much behind that's worth anything.

About John: Engineer - electronic hardware design and test; MSEE Stanford/Ginzton Lab-applied physics; B.A. Oberlin College, physics, math. email: john4midwest@gmail.com .

August 22, 2020: Gopher Ball

I guess one has to be careful in Minnesota with the phrase (or term), "gopher ball;" and I'm certain I'm not the first to observe that. I got my first concentrated lesson (that I remember) in the colorful range of baseball lingo in right field general admission in D.C. Stadium, 7-2 Cleveland. My friend and I (not Otis, whom I mentioned up above on this page) were sitting with several fat, loud black men (it's possible they were, then, referred to as "negroes" or "colored," but I don't remember) who were drinking lots of beer and making hilarious (certainly to us 2nd graders) plays on names -- Eddie Brinkman, of course; Bob Chance. I'll stop there, with great admiration for a certain first base coach and former catcher for the Dodgers (both Brooklyn and LA), KC Athletics, SF Giants, and Mets.

The drunk, black guys also gave us kids pointers on how fill in the box score sheet -- with plenty of K's for the Senators, no doubt. I remember that we kids were there by ourselves; maybe a mom (probably not a dad in those first games I attended) was nearby in the bleachers, but I don't remember that. There apparently was no issue with a couple of 2nd graders yucking it up with several slobbering drunks, no matter the race, color, creed, ethnicity, or alcohol blood level. It was hometown bball, and we were eager students of the game, ready to learn everything we could from whoever would teach us.

I'll now confess to you, that I always thought a gopher ball was slow, straight pitch where you could count the rosin crystals on the stitches, and blam-o. Apparently, according to the Wiki and Merriam-Webster, it's any pitch that's hit for a homer -- even a wicked curve, I suppose. This doesn't sound right to me; but hey, there are limits to how much I'll go against the grain. And yes, I get the physics -- that all other things equal, a faster pitch will come off the bat faster, etc. I just thought that a gopher ball referred to a slow, easy-to-hit pitch. "My bad," to use Buffy banter and Willow witticism.

In any event, I have tossed a slow, easy-to-hit gopher-ball of a pitch to Tina and Amy -- three times now -- with the Alsup "chatte" Twit-thing. I'm sure they saw the first two pitches (by email) last March, and I'm nearly sure they saw the pitch up above last week. So when ya gonna swing, Tina and Amy? Hey battah-battah-battah.

About John: Engineer - electronic hardware design and test; MSEE Stanford/Ginzton Lab-applied physics; B.A. Oberlin College, physics, math. email: john4midwest@gmail.com .

August 24, 2020: Should a legislator be a "helicopter parent?"

I think so (and dealing with a Russian mom and grandma of my daughter, I have considerable expertise on helicopter parenting). I've got a lot on my plate at the moment, so I'm telling you a quick, general thought about how I see legislation. You can probably figure out what I'm going to say, based on what I've written, but here it is more explicitly: I don't think Congress' (or a state legislature's) job is done when it passes a bill into law. I'm not talking about funding it and deciding what agencies do what. I'm talking about something like...Yes, you guessed correctly! An amendment to a civil rights act! And Carol Merrill, show us what's behind Door Number One! Jay Stewart intones: Yeeeeeeees, it's a brand new, sparkling clean 1996 Improvement to the original 1871 Civil Rights Act. And it comes with a case of Borateem chlorine-free color safe power bleach! (You can watch Monty Hall and Let's Make a Deal on Youknowwhere. 60s kids watched this stuff when they were home from school with the flu and such.)

Courts have essentially ignored the 1996 Improvement Act, at least the part that allows a person in state court to take an out-of-control state judge to federal court. You need federal judges who, as a first step, know how to read. But then, who also know how to be judges and not ignore Congress' words they don't like. As I've said -- and the reason I decided to file for this candidacy -- I believe George Floyd's daughter would have her daddy today if Congress were a helicopter parent and saw that judges who don't know how to be judges got a spanking -- and the boot too. Out of court. I won't say boot "off the bench," because "the bench" is a sacred baseball term near and dear to my h.....butt. The sacred word, "bench," should be outlawed with respect to judges, but that would run afoul of the 1st Amendment, which is even more sacred.

Congress' job includes that of a helicopter parent overseeing his or her (their collective) legislative child after passage into the wilds of the world, including the court system. And to protect that child from judges who do not understand that they are supposed to "ascertain the intent of Congress," not ignore and/or rewrite what they don't like. Now, I'm not saying that Anthony Kennedy is my idol or anything because he's not, but I give credit where it's due (or try to), and he deserves credit for putting one well over the center field fence, as I've noted. Next time I'll discuss the KJ (Kennedy J.) function in the design flow of Totoware of the Judge Puty Project. I know I've detoured from this core mission, and I apologize. I have a lot going on, and I'm getting back to this core function as fast as I can.

BTW, in the department of never underestimating the Russians (and I never have), at the high end of the weaponry scale, there's atomic, thermonuclear, and then thermobabushkular. You don't want to get on the wrong side of a Russian grandma. Trust me.

About John: Engineer - electronic hardware design and test; MSEE Stanford/Ginzton Lab-applied physics; B.A. Oberlin College, physics, math. email: john4midwest@gmail.com .

August 25, 2020: Random (or possibly pseudorandom or non-random) thoughts

I'm building a mystery -- at least for a little while. It's puzzle time. Sorry if you don't like puzzles, but I have to do this; I'll explain at a later date. Normally, I'll be Mr. Upfront with you (I hope you've noticed that), but I'm up against lawyers and their inside plants -- judges -- and the Dues Process. They have a huge amount of power. I'm not scared of them, though they've tried and will try harder to make me scared. Remember, I somehow survived three hours with the worst weather hitting me in the face -- with my neck and back broken and legs broken and ankles shattered -- as the rescue chief said: "I remember talking with other firefighters while we were changing my tire and freezing our behinds off, how you were able to survive receiving a direct hit from those freezing winds for as long as you did. I think there is only one reason.”

I've had 16,200 or so (plus 800 more in Kansas) additional guardian angels recently. Some people will laugh at such "peanuts." Not me. Thank you. All of you. I won't let you down, even if you mistook me for John D. Berman the math olympian gold medalist.

I started my blogs (click on the Scarecrow at the top) shortly after I filed my candidacies on June 1 and 2. I got this domain (john4midwest.com) on June 10. I started writing. Two months later, over 17,000 of you voted for lil ole me. I'm still shocked. But will always grateful, no matter what. I was never into writing rules or exercising "power," which is what one does in Congress. But, as I've said, I'm Super dee Duper upset and not going to take it anymore; and you know what that really means. You will not find a more determined and harder worker than I am, even though my nature is not geared towards "power."

It is the abuses -- gross abuses -- of power that got me into this: to fight those abuses. In 6th grade, we were the grade designated, "safety patrols," a white belt around the waist and over the shoulder and a badge. They changed the belt to fluorescent orange. That clashed with my fluorescent green socks. (This was 1968.) My mom found fluorescent orange socks on the dollar table at Korvettes, my haberdashery. The only other 6th grader at my bus stop was my neighbor across the street. I don't think she wanted the job, either. Neither of us was the "power" type. She went to Carleton College, by the way, and then became a pediatrician. That's taking care of the powerless. I thought Carleton was too cold. I was the safety patrol and wound up freezing to death after a plane crash. I guess the gods of the Northfield wanted to teach me a lesson.

I'm just playing my cards here as I think best. Right now a random (or maybe a little non-random) playing of cards is the correct strategy. (Pseudorandom is really computer term, and I'm not a computer (not fully, though I have a ton of hardware in me), so pseudorandom is not really applicable.)

This is about D.B. Cooper (no, I'm not solving that mystery). Cooper hijacked a Northwest Airlines 727. Northwest was a Minnesota company.

The Minnesota Supreme Court wrote: “The trial court determined that there was a wrongful abstraction of money from within plaintiff's premises or from within plaintiff's bank premises, and also outside the premises while the money was being conveyed by a messenger as defined in the policy.” “Defendant characterizes the hijacking as extortion, which is "wrongful" according to the definition of extortion provided by defendant. Thus, the hijacking was wrongful. The term "abstract" is defined in Webster's New International Dictionary (2d ed. 1947) p. 10, as 'to take secretly or dishonestly.'[1] In light of the above-quoted rule from the Orren case it would appear clear that airline hijacking for ransom is indeed wrongful abstraction.”

That's public record from the Minnesota Supreme Court. You can put a few words in quotation marks and search for a phrase -- like the bold-typed words. You folks are technically savvy; you know this.

The following are from Maryland's highest court (they call it Court of Appeals):

[W]illful misappropriation of the funds ... violates “Md. Rule 16-609 and section 10-306 of the Business Occupations and Professions Article of the Maryland Code, and is thus criminal conduct under section 10-606 of the Business Occupations and Professions Article of the Maryland Code.”

“An attorney or law firm may not borrow or pledge any funds required by these Rules to be deposited in an attorney trust account ... OR use any funds for any unauthorized purpose.” “ (Attorney Grievance v. Nussbaum, 934 A. 2d 1, 11 (2007).) “When it came time for Respondent to disburse funds from the escrow account to proper payees, he would "borrow" funds from other clients.”

“As a result, in finding that many of Respondent's escrow transactions violated MRPC 8.4(c), the hearing judge thereby determined that these movements of client funds were intentional.”

“Respondent's actions were intentional, not negligent. Given the Respondent's willful and intentional misappropriation of client funds over a period of two years, we are persuaded that the public only would be protected by the imposition of a sanction of disbarment.”

That's public record from Maryland's highest court. You can put a few words in quotation marks and search for a phrase -- like the bold-typed words. You folks are technically savvy; you know this. You can also search on willful misappropriation embezzlement.