{"id":486,"date":"2019-09-30T17:59:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T01:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/interestingitems.org\/wp\/?p=486"},"modified":"2019-09-30T17:59:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T01:59:00","slug":"interesting-items-09-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interestingitems.org\/wp\/2019\/09\/30\/interesting-items-09-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Items 09\/30"},"content":{"rendered":"

Howdy All, a few Interesting Items for your information.\u00a0 Enjoy \u2013<\/p>\n

In this issue:<\/p>\n

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  1. Whistleblower<\/li>\n
  2. Ukraine<\/li>\n
  3. Telcon<\/li>\n
  4. Trolling<\/li>\n
  5. Lisa<\/li>\n
  6. Laddie<\/li>\n
  7. Greta<\/li>\n
  8. Boris<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    1. Whistleblower. The latest deep state assault on President Trump is a whistleblower complaint about a phone call last July with the newly elected president of the Ukraine.\u00a0 The call was ostensibly to congratulate him on his election and in the course of the discussion he expressed concern about corruption in the Ukraine and discussed investigation into both Ukraine\u2019s participation in the 2016 Clinton campaign and Joe Biden and Biden\u2019s son payoffs.\u00a0 The \u201cwhistleblower\u201d complaint was filed August 12.\u00a0 It apparently was in the hands of democrats on the House Intelligence Committee a day or two after it was filed, as Chairman Schiff (D, CA) started tweeting about it a couple weeks later.\u00a0 Last week, the story blew up and was used by House democrats as a vehicle to announce an impeachment inquiry into President Trump playing quid pro quo with Ukraine.\u00a0 Important point here is that there was no formal vote taken by the House for the inquiry.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know how that is going to work for subpoenas of information, as a formal impeachment vote by the House allows legal subpoenaing of transcripts of a wide variety of transcripts of Trump phone calls with other national leaders, which would allow them to mine the calls for more excuses to impeach.\u00a0 OTOH, an informal process, not so much.\u00a0 Indeed, Pelosi made her announcement before the White House even released the transcript of the phone call<\/a>, kind of a Red Queen approach, announcing the verdict before the trial.\u00a0 As the week progressed, pieces of the whistleblower complaint started to hit the public and it was increasingly odd, as the 9-page complaint reads like a legal brief rather than an actual complaint.\u00a0 The complainant is CIA, the same agency that worked hand in glove with the FIB to surveil the Trump campaign during the last election and afterwards.\u00a0 Worse, the complaint is nothing but hearsay, as the complainant neither listened directly to the call nor had any direct knowledge of what was discussed.\u00a0 Previously no whistleblower complaint was possible unless the complainant had any direct knowledge of whatever it was that actually happened.\u00a0 The intel community changed the whistleblower requirements to allow hearsay evidence in late August and uploaded the new form to their web site on August 24, nearly 2 weeks AFTER the complaint was filed.\u00a0 This smells a lot like an orchestrated, coordinated hit, just another round of Russia collusion hoax.\u00a0 For their part, Pelosi\u2019s House plans on an impeachment vote by November.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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      1. Ukraine. For their part, the Ukraine has been investigating corruption for years.\u00a0 In some ways, they have to, as the US is the only thing standing between them and a successful engulf and devour invasion by Putin\u2019s irregular green men.\u00a0 The Ukraine worked with both the Clinton campaign and the DNC to gather intel and participate in the entrapment attempt for Trump campaign officials.\u00a0 They have been trying to get that information to the FIB and the Justice Department, neither of whom have been interested in getting that information.\u00a0 Joe Biden famously threatened the former Ukrainian president with the US withholding over a billion in loan guarantees if they wouldn\u2019t fire a prosecutor investigating his son\u2019s presence on the Board of Directors of a large natural gas company in Ukraine.\u00a0 The prosecutor was quickly fired.\u00a0 Biden\u2019s son made at least $3 million over the years as the oligarch paying him believes he has purchased access to the former VP and (hopefully) future president.\u00a0 Biden was stupid enough to run his mouth and get recorded telling the story afterwards as he bragged what sort of big man he was.\u00a0 It is this corruption that Trump was asking the Ukraine to assist investigations in the US with.\u00a0 And it is this corruption that House democrats and their water carriers in the media want to bury just as deeply and completely as possible.\u00a0 Final happy thought, all of this is perfectly legal (asking for help investigating), as the US and the Ukraine have a current treaty<\/a>, passed during the Clinton years, requiring this sort of cooperation.\u00a0 Trump was following the law, House democrats, the media and the Bidens, not so much.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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        1. Telcon. Nobody in all this discussion seems to mention or care about the great damage the ability of the intel community to listen in on presidential phone calls and then leak the contents of that phone call is doing to the ability of the president and in turn this nation to conduct foreign policy.\u00a0 This is at least the third phone call the intel community leaked since Trump has been inaugurated.\u00a0 Trump speaks with a lot of foreign leaders.\u00a0 Some are friendly.\u00a0 Many are not.\u00a0 These self-officious, self-righteous democrats in the intel community are putting the interests of their political party above the good of the nation.\u00a0 Several nations have reportedly expressed their concerns privately.\u00a0 And several leaders have publicly stated that they are much less likely to talk with the US after this event.\u00a0 Democrats don\u2019t seem to care a lot about the international damage they are causing, as Schiff\u2019s House Intel Committee over the weekend demanded transcripts of all presidential calls between Trump and Putin.\u00a0 There is still a lot of swamp to drain, particularly in the intel community, which appears to be as corrupt as the FIB and (In)Justice Department.\u00a0 I expect in the very near future, there will be no more intel monitoring of presidential phone calls or contact with any other world leader.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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          1. Trolling. President Trump is one of the Great Tolls ever to hold political office.\u00a0 A couple weeks ago, he took his road show to California<\/a>.\u00a0 While there, he autographed the border wall, revoked state authority over setting fuel emissions standards, and blamed California\u2019s policies for the homelessness crisis while there.\u00a0 After he returned, the EPA started talking about citing San Francisco for Clean Water Act violations due to runoff from the homeless encampments.\u00a0 This is truly world class trolling, and nicely infuriates the democrat leadership in California.\u00a0 Limbaugh several weeks ago called for Trump to go to California.\u00a0 Appears someone was listening, as he made the trip.\u00a0 While there, he held fundraisers in the Bay Area, LA and San Diego, raising over $15 million.\u00a0 California democrat leaders despise the border wall, which was why he went there and autographed a newly renovated section of it.\u00a0 California democrats wrap themselves in concern for the environment and have for years gotten away with ratcheting down emissions standards and vehicle MPG standards to the point that they are driving what they demand Detroit manufacture.\u00a0 That now stops.\u00a0 Finally, we see the claims of heartfelt concern for the homeless, and Trump is blaming the very people who claim to care about the homeless for creating the problem.\u00a0 Finally, when the EPA swoops in and cites San Francisco for Clean Water Act violations, we will have reached trolling nirvana.\u00a0 Saul Alinsky\u2019s Rules for Radicals<\/a> documents this nicely:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

            \u00a0\u201cMake the enemy live up to its own book of rules.\u201d If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

            Perhaps the left are not the only people who can play that game.<\/p>\n

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            1. Lisa. When Alaska\u2019s senior US Senator sticks to business, energy and Alaska issues, she does very well.\u00a0 When she wanders off into other topics, things get dicey at best, as her natural liberalism comes out.\u00a0 She had herself quite a couple weeks, unfortunately for the rest of us.\u00a0 First, she stepped off into the anti-vaping hysteria, co-sponsoring legislation banning flavored vapors<\/a>.\u00a0 As with all stupid ideas, she chose to work with senate democrats.\u00a0 Of course, Lisa hasn\u2019t publicly said anything about the fact that vaping illnesses have been clustered in locales with black market THC, oils, and other non-water based vaping products.\u00a0 Instead, Lisa is out to help The Children from the scourge of vaping.\u00a0 If she isn\u2019t careful, she is going to make a great case for a return to Smoking in the Boy\u2019s Room.\u00a0 Brownsville Station will be very proud.\u00a0 Second bit of Lisa foolishness was a statement that she wasn\u2019t really happy with the science that the Army Corps of Engineers is doing in their permitting process on the Pebble Mine<\/a>.\u00a0 The anti-Pebble forces have been trying mightily to drag her into opposing the mine.\u00a0 So far, she has mostly behaved herself.\u00a0 Of course, as Chairman of the Senate committee overseeing the EPA, she was completely silent on the fraud upon the public the EPA committed preparing their anti-Pebble watershed assessment.\u00a0 Apparently, the EPA can commit fraud right and left but if the Army Corps arrives at the wrong solution, they aren\u2019t doing proper science.\u00a0 Final Lisa event was when she tapped into her inner Orange Man Bad and voted for a democrat senate resolution opposing DoD money swung for border wall construction<\/a>.\u00a0 The resolution passed the Senate 54 \u2013 41 with 11 Republicans voting for it.\u00a0 As I understand the festivities, there are not enough votes to override a presidential veto.\u00a0 Still, Lisa Murkowski hasn\u2019t lifted a finger to stop the invasion from the south other than dabble with the amnesty lobby.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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              1. Laddie. Republicans in the Alaska Senate rejected Governor Dunleavy\u2019s nominee to replace the sadly departed Chris Birch in the state Senate.\u00a0 The procedure is for party officials in the district to come up with a list of three names to send to the governor who has 10 days to make the selection.\u00a0 As this was a same party affair, there was supposedly no problem.\u00a0 But there was a problem, as the senate Republican majority has decided that the Permanent Fund Dividend no longer belongs to the citizens of Alaska.\u00a0 The nominee was former Navy Seal and current House member Laddie Shaw.\u00a0 He has a different opinion on the PFD, believing that the yearly payout should be per Alaska state law rather than some arbitrary number out of the Senate majority.\u00a0 The vote to confirm split at 6 \u2013 6 which was not enough to confirm the nomination<\/a>.\u00a0 There were several attempts to justify the eyebrow-raising vote, none of which carried much weight with the rest of us.\u00a0 The other sitting representative in that senate district, Josh Revak also a veteran was nominated following the rejection.\u00a0 This time around, two thirds of the Alaska congressional delegation weighed in supporting the new nominee.\u00a0 We will see what sort of guts ball the free money senate majority wants to play, if they want to tell both sides of Senate District M their House representatives aren\u2019t up to their august newly defined standards of political deliberation.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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                1. Greta. Latest child mascot for the totalitarian left was a Swedish 16-year-old named Greta Thunberg who rode a yacht funded by Euro-climatistas to come to the US, speak to congress and afterwards the General Assembly of the UN.\u00a0 She was quite angry, as those of us who have attempted to make the world better for our children and grandchildren have not performed up to her lofty standards.\u00a0 Not only did she lecture the assembled, but she posed a list of demands.\u00a0 At the risk of violating Godwin\u2019s Law, I do want to note the number of times totalitarians surrounded themselves with children, particularly blond children with braids.\u00a0 Someone posted a photo of Stalin and Hitler with little girls in braids. \u00a0Today\u2019s wannabee totalitarians are doing the same things, hiding behind children in their quest to impose a climate solution on all of us.\u00a0 Anyone notice that the political left, being unable to make their case to the general public now hides behind children, preferably aggrieved teens like Greta and David Hogg, casting them with absolute moral authority?\u00a0 The left is making our children miserable over the destruction of their world<\/a>. \u00a0This was bad enough that Scott Adams wrote a piece on the Dilbert Blog apologizing for their angst, ending with \u201cwe got this<\/a>.\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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                  1. Boris. Looks like the leaders of my three favorite nations, the US, Great Britain and Israel are all under attack by the political left in their respective nations.\u00a0 The democrats are working on a Trump impeachment.\u00a0 Israel is threatening Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with prosecution over a variety of corruption charges.\u00a0 In the UK, the anti-Brexiters took their case to the UK Supreme Court, which ruled that his dissolving Parliament and the Queen\u2019s approval of that unconstitutional<\/a>, injecting the UK Supremes squarely in the middle of the Brexit fight and trashing the remaining authority of the Queen on the side of the Remainers.\u00a0 Note how the political left in all three nations is using and abusing the legal system in each nation to overturn the legitimate vote and interests of the people who actually won elections – lawfare.\u00a0 Parliament passed a number of laws before Prime Minister Johnson dissolved their session intended to obstruct and delay his promise to leave the European Union by October 31 as promised.\u00a0 25 members of his Parliamentary majority voted for these laws.\u00a0 Normally when this happens, someone in Parliament call a no confidence vote and an election is held.\u00a0 One of the laws Parliament passed prohibited calling that sort of election.\u00a0 Now that the UK Supremes have entered the fray, things are going to get a lot more interesting in the UK.\u00a0 There will eventually be an election.\u00a0 And the Remainers who continue to obstruct the will of the people who put them into office will be defeated.\u00a0 But it is going to be ugly for the next month.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                    More later –<\/p>\n

                    – AG<\/p>\n

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