Month: April 2020

Random Musings 4.20.20

Once again it is time for some Twitter (for those with a litigious bent there is a trademark symbol just after the “r” in the previous word) like random musings from the mind of a quiet, unassuming, at least in my own opinion, person observing the ramblings, rumblings and revelations in the media. Additionally, it appears that Twitter would most likely censor what I have to say any way and Facebook certainly would censor what I have to say.

I am still curious if the former heads and members of the CIA and FBI who apparently spied on a US Citizen after apparently committing perjury to the FISA Court are going to be held accountable? It seems from my perspective that the elites are circling their wagons to protect their own and that they will somehow find someway in some obscure obfuscation of the law to exonerate the apparent crimes. I hope that I am wrong, and I hope it is because the Justice Department and their proxies are being thorough. Regardless of the outcome I hope that it is clear one way or the other why a particular decision is made.

So it seems that the PPP money has run out and my wife and I were unable to get any benefit from this as we are both self-employed. Speaker Pelosi and her ilk disgust me! I would love to have a freezer full of designer ice cream in a refrigerator/freezer worth thousands of dollars. But alas, no, I cannot even receive a portion of the PPP because it seems Speaker Pelosi and her Congress need a recess for several weeks. Speaker Pelosi just agree to Senator McConnell’s bill to fund the PPP and read the details later!!!

So, California municiplaties are filling skateboard parks up with sand to prevent skaters from using these. The one park, in particular, that I saw was on San Clemente Beach. So, let me do some quick math. About 1,000 deaths in a state of 40,000,000 people with the majority of deaths in the 50 year and older population. So that is roughly one quarter of one percent of the population that based on the recent Stanford survey may actually have way more exposure to the virus that known. But back to the cold hard statistics. One quarter of one percent of the population with the majority of deaths over 50 years old. Something tells me that we are not going to see too many senior citizens at a skateboard park. As a person who is solidly into their fifties, I can tell you that you will not see me in a skateboard park! This despite wanting to harken back to my skating days. The magnitude of the government reaction to the cold hard numbers just does not add up. Is it just me who is seeing this?

To summarize and sort of encapsulate my musings I am getting uneasy with the shutdown. Something is not adding up in my mind because of the numbers. Call it cynicism or what ever but my mind has shifted from this being a reasonable draconian response because we did not know exactly what we were dealing with. Now that there has been several months to look at the numbers and it appears the numbers do not support the continued level and magnitude of the reaction. I have to ask why are we continuing with full on shelter in place? Why is the majority of the governors who do not want to ease restrictions belong to the democratic party? Is this becoming more of a political reaction now? I ask myself who benefits from not having restaurants, casinos, sporting events, beaches, parks and etc not be open? I ask this in light that as a veteran I was asked to put my life on the line knowing that I might die to defend the constitution and the United States. At what point do we have to ask the populace as a whole to perhaps put their lives on the line to support the United States economy which is vital to our independence and freedom? I also ask at what point is Washington going to start looking at themselves in the mirror and hold themselves accountable?

Another Look at the First Amendment

Looking at Amendment I of the United States Constitution is specifically reads as such:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

So much is guaranteed in just this one amendment to the United States Constitution that I feel it is time to revisit and address some issues that I believe we as a society need to consider and link bank to this first amendment. Specifically, I would like to discuss the separation of church and state and the right to peaceably assemble.

On the first matter the more I study and listen to progressive socialist leftist fascist movement in this country I think that we must start to consider it a religion. I say this because much like the existing religions they operate based on faith and not necessarily using a logic-based cause and effect reasoning for their faith. Let me state that I am ok with this and that I have my own Christian based faith background but I openly welcome the fact that in this county our founders sought to keep this from becoming an official state sponsored and supported religion as existed in England and elsewhere throughout Europe at the time of the American Revolution. This due to the outright abuses that were perpetuated by the collusion of these two pillars in society. Abuses that were not based in natural law but rather in the arbitrary application of abuses to further their power bases at the expense of their constituents and flocks. It was for this reason that the founders sought to ensure that there would never be a state sponsored religion in this country.

Moving forward into the times we live in I have to say that I believe we have a pseudo political religious  movement active in our society that is to become a pollical religious power in the same vain as Islamic Fundamentalists seek to implement Sharia Law in the territories that they control. Of course, the leftist socialist communist movement will never openly admit that they are a religion as they actively seek to destroy all religions that opposes it. Destroy the others much as the Protestant and Catholic kings in Europe sought to destroy each other and institute their “religion” on the people and similar to current Islamic fundamentalists who seek to impose their religion on conquered people and in so doing destroy the religion of the conquered.

It is for this reason that I propose we begin to label the leftist socialist progressive movement a religion and as such I vehemently and strongly advocate the idea that any of their proposals and currently enacted laws (i.e. Green New Deal, Affordable Care Act, any remnant of the original New Deal and etc.) be deemed unconstitutional under the Amendment I of The United States Constitution.

Mea Culpa 4.7.20

I must admit a whole hardy and heartfelt mea culpa this early Tuesday evening of April 7, 2020 somewhere in the Pacific Time Zone. Somewhere in the Pacific Time Zone not too far away from the cold soulless digital capital of Silicon Valley yet far enough away that I can still enjoy a somewhat if fleeting analog existence. I say that I have to admit a Mea Culpa is that my site has been down for months now and though I would like to admit it is the fault of some three letter government agency, the fault of some digital robber baron or the fault of some international leftist organization I cannot. I would love to be able to, but I must remember that I was truly at fault for my sabbatical, absence, vacation, dropping off the face of the earth or whatever you may choose to call it. Yes, as I have said and keep making a point of bringing to my readers attention it was my fault for the site dropping off and not returning in a timely manner. Most of all it was my fault for not updating my credit card with the hosting service that hosts this site of self-pontification, drivel, and indulgence. Additionally, I learned after my site was lost that I could have saved all my site in one easy and convenient file instead of saving each individual post. That and my being extremely busy doing my “day jobs” so to speak as this site by no means pays for itself. Perhaps someday, at least a day in my dreams that someday may become true, this site will pay for itself but that is certainly not the case now nor will it be for the immediate and foreseeable future as I write this as sort of therapeutic release which is far more valuable that any form of currency exchange.  

So, for now, if any readers that I may have had in the past manage to find my site again or for those who are just finding this site I will publish and reestablish my past posts in some way or another. However, I am not quite sure of the format that I will do this nor when I will get a chance to do so. I say this because despite my having been absent from the digital opinionosphere for the last four months or so. So much has happened and trust me when I say that I have quite a few opinions on the events. To punctualize, in a way all that has happened, I type this while sitting at a desk while under a shelter in place order from my state’s governor. So much has happened that at times it makes my head spin and, trust me, it spins not from the beer that I consumed earlier from a growler of beer that I had saved from one of my local brew pubs from before the shelter in place order went into effect.