Police: “We had seven patrol cars chasing the subject vehicle,  deployed spike strips and boxed the suspect till the car finally quit.”
US Coast Guard: “That’s cute.”

Place an order yesterday for hardware items to be used in a small project. The main tool is not available even though it says so and nobody contacts me. They are helpful and tell me they can have it in 10 days. Cancel order and project.

Mom’s insurance denies one treatment and informs us (not the doc) that there is a cheaper alternative available.  Waste 30 minutes sending paperwork to doc and talking.

After two days of fighting with an online form, I finally get an RMA# to send an electronic device for repair.  I get the label, go to print… No ink.

It is barely 10:15 am

I still have to go out, but I do not know if it would be wise with my luck today.

Have a funny

UPDATE: I finally went out to attend some urgent business. I had a back up trauma kit, three tourniquets, 3 spare mags, 2 knives and a tomahawk. Made it back home safely, sat down to lunch, knocked the class of water which proceeded to waterfall on my groin.

I give up.

Mississippi State Rep. Robert Foster is running for Governor and is the wisest politician in the state.

A female reporter, Larrison Campbell, made the request to do a ride-along, where she would follow him around for a whole day and report on his campaign.  He said sure, with the caveat that she bring along a male chaperone.

Foster has made it very clear that he wants to avoid the appearance of impropriety.

That, however, has launched Campbell into exalted victim status.

Campbell did a live interview on CNN, with Foster being allowed to call in to discuss this.

“What you're saying here is a woman is a sexual object first and a reporter second.”

Reporter Larrison Campbell responds in real time to Mississippi State Rep. Robert Foster, who denied her request to accompany him on a campaign trip unless she brought a male colleague. pic.twitter.com/jVqNZvIbsS

— CNN This Morning with Kasie Hunt (@CNNThisMorning) July 11, 2019

There is an old expression I learned as a kid.  It comes from the rules of ethics for Judges.

“The appearance of impropriety is as bad as impropriety itself.”

Foster may or may not trust Campbell.  I don’t.  Not because she is a woman but that she is a member of the Press and Foster is a Republican.

I have seen this floating around the internet for some time and it is 100% spot-on accurate:

Rules for dealing with the MSM:

1. Assume malice.
2. Do not talk to them.
3. Have one central point/quote if you do talk to them.
4. Your quote will be taken out of context.
5. Understand that they are not objective.
6. Record everything. Put it in writing. Take notes.

Nevertheless, even if Foster trusts Campbell, he clearly doesn’t trust anyone else.

He doesn’t want an opponent or another antagonistic member of the media to be able to say “I saw Foster riding around in a truck, going into a restaurant with a woman that wasn’t his wife, he’s having an affair.”

Again, it is smart of him not to put himself in that position.

As Prince Humperdinck so eloquently put it “I always think everything could be a trap, that is why I’m still alive.”

The Washington Examiner explained this point very well.

Foster’s campaign director, Colton Robison, declined the request because Campbell is a woman.

“Perception is everything. We are so close to the primary. If (trackers) were to get a picture and they put a mailer out, we wouldn’t have time to dispute it. And that’s why we have to be careful,” Robinson told her on Tuesday.

For not willfully putting himself in a compromising situation, Foster was excoriated on social media, including by other Left-Wing politicians and media personalities.

When the Taliban subjugates women we object. What really is the difference?

— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) July 11, 2019

This is exactly like the Taliban.  A man not wanting to give his political opponents ammunition against him by avoiding the appearance of impropriety is exactly why the Taliban forces women to wear burkas.

If your view of women is so backward in 2019 that you can’t be alone with a reporter doing her job, what the hell are you doing trying to be the governor of a whole state? https://t.co/sRFcYW5kp7

— Kirsten Gillibrand (@SenGillibrand) July 11, 2019

May I remind you that Senator Gillibrand brought Emma “Mattress Girl” Sulkowicz as her guest to the State of the Union speech and that Columbia University was forced to settle a lawsuit with the man she falsely accused of rape because the University punished him and took Sulkowicz’s side despite her accusation being thoroughly discredited.

When a Senator who rewarded a woman who made one of the most disgusting false rape accusations of the last decade with a trip to the Capitol calls you out for wanting to avoid the appearance of impropriety, take that with a grain of salt.

As if to prove Foster completely right for standing by his principle of not putting himself in a compromising position, the social media erupted with people stating that his refusal to be alone with a woman he is not married to is evidence that he is a rapist.

The reason doctors have female assistants in some clinical settings usually has to do with a patient having her pants off.

If this RWNJ fanatic can't keep his pants on unless there's another guy in the room, how exactly is that this reporter's problem to solve for him?

— Tom Says "Get Vaccinated or Fuck Off" (@realtmarsh) July 11, 2019

If Robert Foster is primarily afraid of being accused of sexual harassment, as he claims, then why does he allow other men to be alone with him? Men can and do accuse other men of harassment. Seems more likely that Foster can’t trust himself to behave appropriately with women. ?

— Nicole Lockney ♿️ (@holyspacemonkey) July 11, 2019

I assume to protect her from him.

— Emily Gallo (@ViolinMouse) July 11, 2019

Interesting, and disappointing, that guys are responding to #metoo by avoiding being alone with a woman rather than making sure they behave appropriately with a woman.

— bronwen taylor (@bonnie54_uk) July 12, 2019

The assumption is that it’s always the man who is at fault and every accusation is always the truth.  And they wonder why a man like this would never want to be in a position where he could be accused of something.

I think this is the worst thread I saw on this topic.  Because Foster wanted to avoid the appearance of impropriety, the internet has tried and convicted him of being a rapist and a pervert.

The other line of argument that is made is that if he is elected he won’t hire women because he discriminates.

I assume that he also wouldn’t have hired a female campaign manager since presumably they would spend time alone together. If elected governor, what other jobs would women be disqualified from obtaining because they would potentially need to be alone with him?

— RJ (@thirdcoastfem) July 11, 2019

This is handled in business all the time.  As Foster said, you just don’t have a closed-door meeting alone with someone who could put you in a compromising position.  If it has to be closed-door, have another person there.  In the private sector, it’s very common to have HR there for these types of things.

It protects everyone. It protects the boss from accusations of being a sleaze.  It protects the subordinate of accusations that she slept her way to the top.

The strangest one I saw was the idea this is a violation of the separation of Church and State for this guy to hold fast to his beliefs and wedding vows.

NO. This is an unacceptable for a person in government. If that religious quirk is so important to him than he should stay in the private sector. We do NOT need to sanction/encourage/make room for this religious rule over US.

— heidiotoo (@heidiotoo) July 11, 2019

The most fascinating thing about all of this is the very same news day that this story came out, an enlightening one about Trump came out.

A former Trump staffer, Alva Johnson, was suing Trump for sexual harassment, saying that he grabbed her by the shoulders and forcibly kissed her.

Yesterday, we all got a chance to see the video footage of the incident.

Seems like her case is a load of horseshit gunning for a payday.

And this accusation was leveled with other people in the room.

If you are a Republican, you cannot be too careful.

If you are a Democrat, you can fly on a plane full of underage prostitutes to a private sex slave island with a convicted pedophile 26 times, and the media will ignore it.

Because Foster refused to give the Left and his opponents the rope to hang him, they are going to hang him with their own rope.

This is the position they are trying to put all Republicans in, damned if you protect yourself of accusations, damned if you don’t.

This morning I wrote a post why I think we need to address the pedophile donor scandal by making a bunch of perverts and their supporters dance the Danny Deever from a bride.

Miguel made a very reasonable retort, as I knew that he would, about not feeding The Machine.

I resect his position, and he is right about a lot of things.  Street justice has a tendency to take innocent lives.  It does exist to satiate a desire for vengeance more so than actual justice.

Here is the issue that needs to be addressed.

From the New York Post (which has become one of my favorite news sites):

NYPD let convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein skip judge-ordered check-ins

Convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein never once checked in with city cops in the eight-plus years since a Manhattan judge ordered him to do so every 90 days — and the NYPD says it’s fine with that.

After being labeled a worst-of-the-worst, Level 3 sex offender in 2011, Epstein should have reported in person to verify his address 34 times before he was arrested Saturday on federal child sex-trafficking charges.

Violating requirements of the state’s 1996 Sex Offender Registration Act — including checking in with law enforcement — is a felony punishable by up to four years in prison for a first offense.

Subsequent violations carry a sentence of up to seven years each.

But the NYPD hasn’t required the billionaire financier — who owns a $77 million Upper East Side townhouse — to check in since he registered as a sex offender in New York over the controversial 2008 plea bargain he struck in Florida amid allegations he sexually abused scores of underage girls in his Palm Beach mansion.

Why am I not shocked by this at all.

Let’s skip down a little bit.

Musumeci insisted that Epstein wasn’t a “resident of New York” and that his seven-story townhouse at 9 E. 71st St. was a “vacation home” at which he had no plans to ever stay “longer than a period 10 days.”

Pickholz insisted that Epstein would have to abide by the mandatory reporting requirements for Level 3 offenders.

“I am sorry he may have to come here every 90 days,” she said, according to an official transcript. “He can give up his New York home if he does not want to come every 90 days.”

That was the same hearing where, in a highly controversial move, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office tried to argue on Epstein’s behalf that he should be deemed a low-risk Level 1 offender, which would have exempted him from the reporting requirements.

The DA’s office has said that the prosecutor in that case — Jennifer Gaffney, who quit last year — “made a mistake” and that DA Cyrus Vance Jr. was unaware of it at the time.

Bull-fukcing-shit that NY DA Cy Vance didn’t know what was going on in his own department with a billionaire who bankrolled half of New York City and New York State Democrats.

The NYPD cop assigned to monitor Epstein has repeatedly complained to Vance’s Sex Crimes Unit that Epstein wasn’t in compliance, according to a source familiar with the matter.

But prosecutors told the cop to merely send Epstein a letter reminding him of his reporting requirement.

A Vance spokesman denied that allegation, saying “the NYPD — which is the agency responsible for monitoring SORA compliance — has repeatedly told us that Mr. Epstein was in full compliance with the law.”

“Our office vigorously prosecutes all failure-to-verify cases. Our prosecutors did not and would not discourage the NYPD from making an arrest,” Vance spokesman Danny Frost said.

Again, bull-fukcing-shit.  This has Vance’s fingerprints all over it and he is being covered for.  He know this because this is exactly the same horseshit story that they came up with when Vance didn’t prosecute Harvey Weinstein either.

NY DA Cy Vance is the son of Cyrus Roberts Vance, Jimmy Carter’s Secretary of State and was a bigwig in New York politics.  Cy Vance is part of a dynasty.  He is joined at the hip to New York political corruption.

The apple is rotten to the core.

Clearly, we cannot trust those in power to police and prosecute themselves.

The question has been asked since the days of the Roman poet Juvenal: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (Who watches the watchmen?)

The answer seems to be “nobody.”

At the national level, I have lost faith in our electoral system.  The Trump administration did that.  Not that Trump won, the people spoke and sent an outside to Washington.

I have lost faith because it is clear that the bureaucracy in our government is not swayed by our elections.  They keep trucking on protecting their own.

At the state and local level, corruption and backscratching reigns supreme.  Who could run against Cy Vance?  Who could challenge the Chicago Machine or the California Machine?

Those are just about impenetrable.

I would love, LOVE, to have some sort of Nuremberg like trial for all these corrupt politicians and present evidence of their corruption and favoritism and have it all above board.  Then I remember that we got to Nuremberg by killing 350,000 Germans (miliary and civilian casualties).

Simply trusting the system to work, hoping that a few good people trickle in and don’t get corrupted or undermined by the corrupt, and fixing from within seems like a pipe dream.

To me, it’s not just about the perverts but the people who protected the perverts as well.  More political revolution catalyzed by child molesters than frontier justice.

One of the things that few details left out of Civil War discussions was the destruction of political dynasties.  Many wealthy families sent sons off to war to raise the family’s status, assuming that officers would be spared as gentlemen.  Only the labor class enlisted did the fighting and dying.  That was the British model.

The Civil War was not the gentlemanly combat these families thought and many a wealthy bloodline was pruned from the family tree.  This was a key factor in the social change that happened after the war ended.  The nation’s ruling elite was significantly reduced in offspring.

The untouchable elite need to be removed from power.  The status quo is not sustainable, so where to do we go from here?

I have to come up with a firm the definition for The Machine. My concept is born out of the excessive use of the guillotine against created enemies during the French Revolution. All manner of fast and simple execution (mechanical and procedural) coupled with the human need for satisfaction on seeing a wrong righted are ripe for abuse.

Human’s have a tribal and strong capacity for empathy. Although the word is tied to good feelings and a sense of group euphoria, it also needs to be recognized that we all can empathize being angry, feeling hatred and desire revenge. Once The Machine gets started to satisfy the desire for revenge, it won’t stop till enough killing is done and the crowd is satisfied or horrified. The problem is that The Machine is a blunt instrument and it is not tuned to seek for justice but simply to achieve gratification. Think of it as a shot of a murderous heroin into an outraged collective.

And I am not some superior being incapable of feeling anger agianst a true monster walking among us. This reserch I am helping with has me sometimes having to walk away from the computer and take a breathing because there were some truly nasty creatures walking upright as human beings in the past. The last one that had me boiling was a drunkard father who decided to erase his family from existance including a 4 month old baby he killed by simply driving his fist through the baby’s face.

But as much as I would not mind seeing this bastard slowly dipped inch by inch in a vat of sulphuric acid, I need to accept the fact that the justice system has to take precedent. Why?  Once again, lynching is a tool of immediate gratification and that is dangerous because 1) it leads to mistakes and 2) it can be easy manipulated.

In 1891, the city of New Orleans was shocked about the kiling of the loved chief of police. It was especulated it was the Mafia so the usual Italian suspects were rounded up, charges presented against 19 people and a trial conducted. Six of the accused were  acquitted and the locals were not amused. Knowing that they had not been relesed from jail yet, a mob stormed it and shot them inside their cells. But when the smoke cleared, there were 10 bodies, not six. The mob simply killed 4 people unrelated to the case because they were available. This episode is considered the biggest mass lynching in the US and it was done because people felt cheated as their expectations of revenge were not satisfied.

And as for convenience, too many cases I have read that after a particular hineous crime, specially against women or children and where no firm culpable party had been found, somebody would eventualy blame it in the local minority or undesriable of any color. Once again, the demand for intant bloody gratification led to deaths of innocent people or at least still not guilty since nothing was proven to say otherwise.

So, even though I could very well be a part of a mob seeking to show somebody the application of hemp in the Irregular Justice System, the idea that I would be complicit in the death of an innocent, no matter how small the chance, is something that I could not have in my conscience.

I have been thinking about the Jeffery Epstein case a lot the last couple of days, then my wife sent me this:

Stop Calling Epstein’s Victims Young Women. They’re Children.
In no world is a 14-year-old an underage woman. She is a child.

Epstein pleaded guilty to state charges of soliciting prostitution in 2008 and received an extremely lenient sentence. He had to register as a sex offender and spend 13 months in jail but was allowed to leave the jail on work release. What’s more, Acosta and his court also agreed to abandon investigating Epstein any further, and to not to prosecute any person who was also accused of finding Epstein young girls.

When it comes to the Acosta thing, I’m not going to defend his actions, I know nothing about that first case.  What I am sure of is that people are making a lot of hay out of it because he is a Trump secretary.

I have heard very little criticism of all the sweetheart deals that NY DA Cy Vance cut for Epstein and Weinstein.  Cy Vance, as readers of this blog will know, is the DA famous for prosecuting working-class New Yorkers for pocket knives they need for their jobs under NY’s terrible gravity knife law and he fought the reformation of that law tooth and nail.  So ruining the lives of working-class men, especially black men, over a utility knife was more important to the NY DA’s office than throwing wealth serial rapists and child molesters in prison because they donated to Democrats.

This disturbing case is receiving a lot of media coverage. And as outlets have reported on Epstein’s charges, I’ve noticed that many reports continue to refer to the victims of his crimes as women instead of girls. They mention that Epstein lured “underage women” to his home under the guise of getting massages, to engage in sex acts with those “underage women” for pay and recruited those “underage women” to find him more underage women to engage sex acts with. Several articles published yesterday stated that Epstein was trafficking “underage women” or “young women” for “sex” or sexual acts. 

Here’s the thing: there is no such thing as an “underage woman.” There is such a thing, however, as a young woman — but a young woman is still over 18, and Epstein’s alleged victims were not. At least one article, confoundingly, referred to the girls as “underage females,” which somehow both robs them of their girlhood and their humanness. 

This is 100% true.

Then there is the case of Ed Buck, the wealthy California donor who likes to have his black rent-boys OD and gets the LAPD to clean up his mess, who just got accused of human trafficking.

Miguel, in his paging through the annals of history, has come out strongly against lynchings.

As much as I respect Miguel, right now, I am in favor of them and becoming increasingly so.

I am tired of watching our two-tiered justice system in action.

I am tired of watching supremely wealthy and well-connected individuals get the most minor slap on the wrist because of who they know and who they donated to.

They can rape our daughters to death and spend a weekend in a minimum-security jail because of checks they made out to various reelection campaigns.

They are effectively untouchable.

Here is the thing, the French monarchy was also untouchable until it wasn’t.  The Romanovs ruled Russia for 304 years, but there are no more Romanovs left today.

I have said it before and I will say it again, the justice system works when there is the understanding that applies equally to all, without bias or prejudice.  When the system fails, and it is no longer respected, people take justice into their own hands.

I’m wondering how the national conversation would change if these well-connected perverts and the people who protected them were found swinging by their necks from overpasses?

The untouchable class acts the way it does because they know they are untouchable and are only doing the bare minimum show of law and order to appease the masses and pretend that justice is blind.

Maybe they should be reminded that they can be touched.

I think a real blockbuster of a rope party is just what we need to take their fingers off the scales of justice.

I saw this on YouTube.  More accurately, I saw about 47 seconds of this on YouTube.

Once my vision came un-blurred and the pounding in my skull stopped, I wondered if Michael Moore is actually a Vogon considering both how he looks and just how terrible his poetry is.

But assuming that he is human… what the fuck is he talking about?

Rashida Tlaib has been in office for six months and seven days as of the posting of that video, she has no legislation to her name, and is famous for anti-Semitism, hating Israel, and palling around with terrorist supporters.

I’m not sure how that makes her the “motor city avenger” or “fierce force for justice,” or likens her to any of the civil rights activists that Moore compares her to.

Objectively, this is nonsense.  But to the cult of intersectional personality, a Muslim woman of color who hates America is a saint.

This is just more evidence of our need for a national divorce.  How can we ever see eye-to-eye with people who look at a freshman Congresswoman who only goes on camera to explain how her anti-Semitic statement wasn’t really anti-Semitic and how if you think that it was, you are an Islamophobe is tantamount to Rosa Parks.

P.S.

Don’t tell me that her 15 minutes of fame are almost up.  Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar have that seat on lock unless there is a major demographic swing in their districts or they are redistricted by a census.

Omar represents the largest Somali community in the US, and Tlaib represents half of Wayne Country, Michigan home to one of the most concentrated Palestinian communities in the US (there is a reason it’s called Dearbornistan).

Muslims will not vote for a non-Muslim.  Life long Detroit Democrats will not vote for a non-Democrat.  And White Progressives will vote for the most intersectional candidate.  Since it would be almost impossible for another Democrat to primary Omar or Tlaib, they have those seats for life.

If either runs for the Senate, I can see them losing a statewide election, but in their districts, they are perfectly safe.