{"id":544,"date":"2020-02-10T11:52:01","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T20:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/interestingitems.org\/wp\/?p=544"},"modified":"2020-02-10T11:52:01","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T20:52:01","slug":"interesting-items-02-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interestingitems.org\/wp\/2020\/02\/10\/interesting-items-02-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Items 02\/10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Howdy All, a few Interesting Items for your information.\u00a0 Enjoy \u2013<\/p>\n<p>In this issue:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Acquittal<\/li>\n<li>Aftermath<\/li>\n<li>SOTU<\/li>\n<li>Iowa<\/li>\n<li>Coronavirus<\/li>\n<li>Bloomie<\/li>\n<li>Depp<\/li>\n<li>Rush<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Acquittal. The best news of the week was the acquittal of President Trump Wednesday by Republicans in the US Senate of both charges in his impeachment trial, a fitting partisan conclusion to a partisan effort by democrats to install a parliamentary system here in the US.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/in-historic-vote-trump-acquitted-of-impeachment-charges\/2020\/02\/05\/8b7ea90e-4832-11ea-ab15-b5df3261b710_story.html\">Former Republican Pierre Delectro (R, UT) (Mitt Romney) cast the lone vote to convict on the Abuse of Office<\/a> charge, making the impeachment vote in the House more bipartisan not to impeach that the senate vote to convict.\u00a0 Romney as usual hid behind his religion as an explanation of his vote.\u00a0 What is he really after?\u00a0 Who knows?\u00a0 Who cares?\u00a0 Either way, he has just removed his name from serious consideration for future political success at least with Republicans.\u00a0 OTOH, there was at least one suggestion over the weekend that he would be a potential democrat VP nominee, something he would leap at.\u00a0 Democrats are very insistent that impeachment is forever, something they are very proud of and looking forward to using against Republican senators up for reelection this November.\u00a0 With this in mind, Scott Adams has suggested a response to be used every single time it is brought up.\u00a0 Adams suggests we troll the democrats and simply deny that he was impeached, as an acquittal renders an impeachment moot.\u00a0 Even Trump lawyer Alan Dershowitz has stated that an acquittal makes an impeachment go away, in much the same way that a not guilty verdict makes an indictment disappear in the criminal prosecution world.\u00a0 Do it.\u00a0 Keep doing it.\u00a0 And enjoy trolling the Other Side.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>Aftermath. The aftermath of the acquittal has been quite interesting, with President Trump taking steps to solve some personnel problems.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>For example, the current National Security Advisor last week started talking about downsizing (or right sizing) the NSC staff working in the WH. Under Bush 43, it was around 110 people.\u00a0 O\u2019Bama grew it to around 236, <a href=\"https:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/conway-vindman-brothers-fired-impeachment\">two of which were Vindmans, who were marched out of the WH Friday and sent back to the Pentagon<\/a>.\u00a0 At least one of them is scheduled to attend Army War College in residence, an honor usually reserved for those on the Fast Track to higher rank, likely selected due to his high-level appointment in the NSC.\u00a0 As the assignment happens this summer, it is not outside the realm of possibility that assignment will be cancelled as the Army finds something else and far more pressing for him and his brother to do.\u00a0 Liaison officer at Shemya for the next 5 years would be one such plum (\/sarc) assignment.\u00a0 Expect more of the co-conspirators to make the trip out of the WH and other intel agencies as the days continue to pass.<\/li>\n<li>For his part, Trump made a raucous speech in front of his legal team and Republican supporters in both housed of congress in the WH. On one hand, it was remarkably blunt, and he tore into the people who tried to remove him, like only he can do. \u00a0On the other, it was one of the funniest things I\u2019ve seen in years.\u00a0 The President has a remarkable sense of humor, and great comedic timing.\u00a0 Finally, he went around the room and sincerely thanked everyone who stood by him and helped.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jfCz6dC4prg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/americas-coming-three-party-system_3224966.html\">Roger Simon wrote in the Epoch Times that the nation was in the midst of splitting into three political parties<\/a>: The Trumpertarians (conservative, working and middle class), the Bolivarians (Socialists &#8211; Bernie and AOC), and the Deep Staters which include the old guard democrat party plus the remaining never Trumpers.\u00a0 The more success Bernie has, the more at risk are the deep staters, as the democrat party threatens to split in two.\u00a0 They rightfully view him as a greater threat than Trump, which is why they have turned on the election fraud machine (more on this later) to ensure he gets nowhere near the nomination.<\/li>\n<li>Final observation comes via one of Scott Adams Periscopes. He points out that these festivities have not changed Trump at all.\u00a0 He continues to be just as blunt, profane, and focused as he ever was.\u00a0 OTOH, it has changed Nancy Pelosi, forcing her to become Trump.\u00a0 She was always a viciously cunning political operative.\u00a0 Today, the viciousness is no longer hidden.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li>SOTU. President Trump gave his State of the Union speech Tuesday night.\u00a0 It was one of the better speeches I\u2019ve seen, a ringing celebration of what he sees as the positives of his three years in office.\u00a0 While he did not mention impeachment at all, it was never far from one\u2019s mind.\u00a0 House Speaker Pelosi spent most of the speech making various faces and celebrated the end of it by tearing up the copy of the speech Trump gave her, highlighting Scott Adams\u2019 earlier observation that dealing with Trump changed Pelosi while dealing with Pelosi didn\u2019t change Trump at all.\u00a0 I started watching these things during the Reagan years and came to enjoy them, the ones with Clinton and O\u2019Bama, not so much.\u00a0 The biggest surprise in the speech was the award of the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Rush Limbaugh during the speech.\u00a0 Limbaugh knew he was going to get the award in the WH in the next month or so.\u00a0 This was a huge surprise and triggered yet another round of Rush is a racist commentary from the Usual Suspects of the media.\u00a0 All in all, a very good speech.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xcv7BvepK64?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li>Iowa. <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/news-and-politics\/understanding-the-iowa-caucus-cock-up\/\">The democrat primary in Iowa turned into an unmitigated disaster<\/a>, with the failure to get results for days afterwards.\u00a0 As with all things democrat, the placing of the blame started early and often, with fingers being pointed at an app created by an outfit called Shadow, Iowa organizers, and even Iowa itself (too white, insufficiently diverse). \u00a0As the goat breeding session continued into the weekend, Mayor Pete finally declared victory (at least in the delegate count) and decamped to New Hampshire.\u00a0 The Bernie Bros were livid, and rightfully so, for it appears at this writing that he may end up with the majority of votes and Buttigieg with most delegates.\u00a0 Pay close attention to this, as it is one of the first demonstrations that I can find of the way democrats intend to install and operate proportional voting, aka instant runoffs, nationwide.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/2\/4\/21122483\/iowa-caucus-results-count-rules-change-app\">A cynic would note that all they are doing is implementing incomprehensible rules, turning things into a mess<\/a>, which will make election fraud and eventual theft all the easier.\u00a0 Both Vox and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/a_progressive_commentator_says_the_iowa_caucuses_spell_the_end_for_democrats.html\">American Thinker<\/a> published pieces on just this point.\u00a0 It is very clear that the democrat establishment doesn\u2019t want Sanders anywhere near the nomination.\u00a0 Following the Iowa caucuses, it appears that at least for the time being, they have anointed Mayor Pete as their designated winner.\u00a0 Interestingly, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2020\/02\/06\/oan_suspicious_democrat_caucus_app_with_buttigieg_connections_blamed_for_iowa_results_delay.html\">Shadow, Inc that created the app used to tally votes in caucus is run by three Clinton campaign operatives<\/a>.\u00a0 And Buttigieg has a connection to Shadow.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/article\/2020\/feb\/04\/what-we-know-about-shadow-acronym-and-iowa-caucuse\/\">Sounds like Shadow is the public facing piece of a new democrat elections non-profit called Acronym<\/a>.\u00a0 One would wonder how this rat\u2019s nest of companies was capitalized, as we already know why (to help democrats steal elections).\u00a0 I wonder how much longer the Bolivars (Bernie Bros) are going to allow this to happen.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"5\">\n<li>Coronavirus. Coronavirus continues to rage across China, with reported cases and deaths far below anything of the wild rumors raging both inside and outside China.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/articles\/2020\/02\/is_the_coronavirus_outbreak_chinas_chernobyl.html\">American Thinker wrote a piece a week ago asking if the Coronavirus outbreak was China\u2019s Chernobyl<\/a>.\u00a0 Remember, that Gorbachev himself blamed the fall of the Soviet Union on the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, where the Soviets initially chose to hide everything.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/opinion\/articles\/2020-02-02\/coronavirus-comparing-wuhan-and-chernobyl-is-misguided\">Bloomberg disagrees with that conclusion<\/a>.\u00a0 There are some interesting things about the outbreak.\u00a0 First is that there is an 86% match between Coronavirus and SARS.\u00a0 There appears to be an animal vector in its spread, civet cat consumption for SARS and pangolin \/ bat consumption for Coronavirus.\u00a0 The new virus has some pretty bad capabilities.\u00a0 One is that its incubation time and course of infection and healing is long \u2013 up to 14 days for incubation, and 21 days to run its course.\u00a0 It appears to have a disturbing ability for the occasional infected person to spread the infection far faster and wider than others, especially in clinical environments.\u00a0 Finally, it will reportedly percolate along with a respiratory infection with a sudden and unexpected turn for the worse.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2020\/02\/01\/early-missteps-state-secrecy-china-likely-allowed-coronavirus-spread-farther-faster\/\">If the ChiComs are unable to contain this outbreak, they are in huge trouble<\/a>.\u00a0 So might the rest of us.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"6\">\n<li>Bloomie. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/steve_bannon_lays_out_a_shocking_scenario_of_the_real_reason_behind_bloombergs_investment_of_2_billion_in_politics.html\">Steve Bannon laid out a scenario that describes what he believes to be Michael Bloomberg\u2019s $2 billion investment in defeating Donald Trump<\/a>.\u00a0 Bannon believes that Bloomberg has no interest in being president.\u00a0 Rather, he wants to be totally and completely in charge of the democrat party.\u00a0 Think of the spending as a leveraged buyout of the party.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anchoragemuseum.org\/media\/press-releases\/mike-bloomberg-announces-city-of-anchorage-will-receive-1-million-for-public-art-project-addressing-climate-change-economic-development\/\">Bloomberg even made it to Anchorage a week ago, donating $1 million to the Anchorage Museum<\/a>.\u00a0 In return, <a href=\"https:\/\/mustreadalaska.com\/mayor-berkowitz-endorses-bloomberg-for-president\/\">he got the endorsement of Anchorage Mayor Ethan Berkowitz<\/a>.\u00a0 If Bloomie is paying attention to a little 330,000 community of Anchorage, purchasing a democrat mayor via donations to one of the Mayor\u2019s favorite shiny objects, I can guarantee he is going to be a huge player in the down ballot races \u2013 congress, governors and legislators at a minimum.\u00a0 And we conservatives are going to drown in the flood of money into state and local campaigns from Bloomberg, just like Virginia Republicans were.\u00a0 Bannon believes Bloomberg was setting himself up to be an oligarch, in complete control of the democrat party.\u00a0 He already has over 500 political operatives on salary through the end of November.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"7\">\n<li>Depp. As yet another reminder that domestic violence is a two-way street (men and women participating in the festivities on an equal basis), <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/lifestyle\/explosive-leaked-confession-of-domestic-abuse-of-johnny-depp-turns-metoo-upside-down\/\">comes a leaked audio conversation between Johnny Depp and his ex, Amber Heard<\/a>.\u00a0 Heard confesses physical violence aimed at Depp, anger when he runs away and tries to defend himself from thrown and swung objects.\u00a0 Heard accused Depp of domestic abuse, leading to Depp being dropped from the Pirates of the Caribbean movie series in 2018.\u00a0 The audio also records her slapping him, justifying it because she didn\u2019t punch him.\u00a0 Women lie just as much as men do.\u00a0 The problem is that the courts do not treat them equal, assuming instead that the man is always the aggressor.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"8\">\n<li>Rush. I have been listening to Rush Limbaugh since the Clarence Thomas hearings in 1991.\u00a0 He was the first guy reacting with the outrage at what democrats in the senate and the media were doing to him that I felt.\u00a0 Have been a listener for nearly 30 years.\u00a0 Last Monday, he announced he had been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer and was about to undergo treatment.\u00a0 We will hope that treatment is successful and will pray for his successful treatment.\u00a0 Go with our prayers, Rush.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>More later &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; AG<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howdy All, a few Interesting Items for your information.\u00a0 Enjoy \u2013 In this issue: Acquittal Aftermath SOTU Iowa Coronavirus Bloomie Depp Rush<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/interestingitems.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/interestingitems.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/interestingitems.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interestingitems.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interestingitems.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/interestingitems.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":545,"href":"https:\/\/interestingitems.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions\/545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/interestingitems.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interestingitems.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interestingitems.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}