Major Russian Espionage Involving Obama’s DOJ

The  following is a repost of a discussion about what the Russian hackers were really doing in 2016.

Robert Mueller and his staff may be covering up the biggest act of espionage in the United States since the acquisition of atomic secrets by the Russians at the start of the Cold War.  Mueller is supposed to be investigating what the Russian hackers called “Fancy Bear” did during the 2016 election.  However, he continues to ignore an Associated Press expose indicating Fancy Bear focused on non-partisan email users including defense industry employees and those in the intelligence community.  According to the AP,   Department of Justice employees were aware of  what Fancy Bear was doing, but didn’t warn those whose emails were being hacked.  .  Fancy Bear used access to the Democrats national committee emails as a cover story to hide what may have been the real reason for the operation from the meatheads at the Department of Justice (DOJ)..

The popular myth is that Fancy Bear was accessing the Democratic Party’s emails to help Russia influence the 2016 presidential election.  Russia couldn’t have used the Democratic national committee emails to influence the presidential election because the candidates’ organizations run the presidential campaigns — not the national party organizations.    It is unlikely Russia needed hackers to get the Democratic emails.   Russia almost certainly had an agent planted in the Democratic national organization who would have used a zip drive to copy emails along with general information  about party personnel and supporters. An agent in the organization can use conversations to obtain information that is never placed in the computer.  China and Israel also probably had agents in the Democrats organization.

It may come as a surprise to some politicians and journalists, but Americans and Russians and their allies have been spying on each other and attempting to influence political opinions in each other’s countries for 70 years.

It is time to recognize that Fancy Bear was conducting a major espionage operation rather than attempting to play politics.   I don’t know if the Justice Department’s Fancy Bear  collaborators  were just stupid or  the Russians paid them for their services.   Nor, do I know if Mueller and his staff are taking money from the Russians or they’re just trying to protect “dirty” DOJ employees and possibly former President Barack Obama.     Obama’s cybersecurity coordinator Michael Daniel has indicated Obama told DOJ employees not to stop the Russians.

It’s time for President Donald Trump to replace Mueller and his band of incompetents with investigators who  have never worked for the Department of Justice.   Their mission should be to identify and prosecute those who collaborated with the Russian hackers and to determine if the Russians were able to use the knowledge they obtained to access classified information or infiltrate corporate or government computers.

Even if personal emails didn’t contain classified information, they could have helped identify people who could be black mailed or be willing to accept bribes.   Emails could  have identified disgruntled employees who might welcome help to get even with an “unfair” employer.   A covert agent could get acquainted with the employee and then  tell the employee how he or someone he knew got even.

No, Rev. Graham, Jesus Wouldn’t Do It This Way

Rev.Franklin Graham and more than 300 other religious leaders want “assurance they won’t be sued if a congregant contracts the coronavirus” during a religious service . Christians should eliminate any reason for the courts to become involved by establishing an insurance program to assist church goers who believe they have contracted the coronavirus during a religious service

Jesus would have healed anyone who caught a virus while He was preaching. Although preachers cannot heal the way Jesus did, they can raise money charge pay doctors who can heal. . During the current pandemic, religious organizations could combine their resources to assist such patients. Organizations that operate hospitals could treat such patients at no charge to them. Most other organizations would help raise funds.

The degree of risk of being infected during a religious service is unimportant. Congress should exempt religious organizations that help COVID-19 patients from court interference.

An Approved Abortion Alternative

The people debating the abortion issue falsely assume that there are only two possibilities for ending a pregnancy.  Wait for the baby to be born or kill it and remove it.

There is a third option which would be acceptable under Roe v. Wade.   When the baby is sufficiently developed to survive outside the mother with appropriate medical care  any doctor attempting to end the pregnancy could  be required  to attempt to remove the baby alive.   The baby would become a ward of the government which would pay  for the operation and subsequent medical care until  the baby is  adopted.   The government would also pay for follow up care for the mother including treating mental health problems such as postpartum depression.

Abortion supporters  could not claim  cost would prevent women from ending pregnancies early because government would pay all  costs.

There are numerous complications from abortions that can adversely affect a woman’s physical and  mental health, including fatal bleeding that can be caused by an extremely primitive procedure which  involves pulling the baby out a piece at a time.  The baby’s blood can prevent the abortionist from seeing if the mother is bleeding

Removing the baby using a cesarean section allows the doctor to easily monitor the situation and catch any source of bleeding.  Requiring use of this procedure for premature ending of a pregnancy  would have the benefit  of the child being removed alive.  This approach to ending a late term pregnancy  should  give both sides what they want.  The woman would be allowed to end her pregnancy early and the child would be born alive.

Roe v. Wade allows “In the third trimester, the state could prohibit abortion to protect a fetus that could survive on its own outside the womb, except when a woman’s health was in danger.”

A baby shouldn’t have to die because the mother doesn’t want it.  A right to end a pregnancy prematurely shouldn’t include a right to end the life of a helpless baby .

We Need March Madness [rev.]

The  NCAA should attempt the difficult task of conducting its  basketball tournaments in empty  arenas.  We need the positive energy of  March Madness to offset  the negative  energy connected to the COVID-19 virus.  March Madness can provide something to cheer about.

The entertainment industry has a long history of  entertaining military troops on the front lines to help the  morale of the troops.  Television has made it possible for troops on the front lines of  distant battle fields to watch major entertainment events like the Super Bowl.

.We  are all “troops” on a battle field a killer virus has invaded.  We need entertainers to boost our morale.   Unfortunately we tend to have widely different entertainment preferences.  March Madness and the Super Bowl  have a relatively broad appeal.

March Madness can bring us together socially even if we are physically separate.  Physical separation can lead to social isolation and depression which can increase susceptibility to illness.  March Madness can give people something to talk about on their phones when many places are closed.

The NCAA could reduce the field to 32 teams and spread the opening round  over four days so people could watch all opening round games.

The military  could transport the teams to reduce the risk of  virus contact.

Participants in a March Madness tournament potentially could be safer than in the general population.  All games  could be played in the same arena.   Participants would all stay in the same hotel(s) along with hotel and arena employees to reduce contact with the general population.   People with hotel reservations could be given rooms in other hotels. Military personnel could help disinfect the buildings. Medical  personnel would monitor health  of participants  and   employees.

Placing  big screen televisions around the arena about  basket high would remind players that millions of  people  are watching even though the arena is empty.   The screens would show  groups  of   fans  of  the teams  in that game sent  over the internet.   The  volume would be at the normal crowd noise level.

Will the Supreme Court Allow Louisiana to Protect Women?

[Conservatives need to recognize that liberals over time tend to morph into ultraconservatives.  In the 19th Century,   Friedrich Nietzsche noticed that:    “Liberal institutions straightway cease from being liberal the moment they are soundly established: once this is attained no more grievous and more thorough enemies of freedom exist than liberal institutions.” ]

The 14th Amendment requires states to guarantee “the equal protection of the laws.” Unfortunately ultraconservative Supreme Court justices such as Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg don’t believe states should be allowed to protect women from unsafely operated abortion clinics. Supreme Court justices are considering Louisiana’s Unsafe Abortion Protection Act, which requires that abortionists in the state have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of the facility

Yes, I said “ultraconservative”. I know people such as Ginsburg like to call themselves “liberals”, but their attitude to abortion regulations is closer to “ultraconservative” than to “liberal”. During the last century “liberals” have attempted to enact regulations to protect individuals from unsafe, unfair, etc. business practices. “Ultraconservatives” have attempted to prevent such regulations or ask the Supreme Court to overturn them.

The ultraconservatives who oppose abortion regulations are like the ultraconservatives who opposed regulations to protect employees from unsafe working conditions a century ago. The probusiness ultraconservative justices oppose any attempt to regulate abortions like probusiness ultraconservative justices a century ago opposed any attempt to regulate working conditions

The liberal mindset believes changes will help.  The ultraconservative mindset cannot conceive of doing anything differently.

Ultraconservatives like abortions because abortions reduce the surplus population: The deaths of women from abortions also reduce the surplus population

How many more women will have to die from carelessly performed abortions before heartless probusiness ultraconservative justices allow states to strictly regulate this  potentially fatal surgery.

The Senate Should Investigate What Pastor Clenard Childress, Jr., Calls “Black Genocide”?

The Senate  should  investigate the  practices of  Planned Parenthood  that Pastor Clenard Childress, Jr., justifiably calls “black genocide”?

Article 2 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide defines genocide as

… “any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group;

(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;”

Pastor Childress charges Planned Parenthood because “Planned Parenthood is the largest abortion provider in America. 78% of their clinics are in minority communities. Blacks make up 12% of the population, but 35% of the abortions in America. Are we being targeted? Isn’t that genocide? We are the only minority in America that is on the decline in population. If the current trend continues, by 2038 the black vote will be insignificant. Did you know that the founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, was a devout racist who created the Negro Project designed to sterilize unknowing black women and others she deemed as undesirables of society? The founder of Planned Parenthood said, ‘Colored people are like human weeds and are to be exterminated.’ Is her vision being fulfilled today?”  Childress wgarns “the most dangerous place for an African-American is in the womb”

Dr. Martin Luther King’s niece, Dr. Alveda King,  condemns   Democratic Party supported Planned Parenthood’s  abortion practices. King points out  “The leading cause of death in the African-American community is not gang-violence, gun violence, heart attack, stroke, HIV, high blood pressure, diabetes. People will name all these. No, it’s abortion. And the reason we have come to that conclusion, statistically, you’ve got 60 million plus abortions legal in America since 1973. About a third of those occur in the African-American community. That means dead babies. And, with us being 13 percent or less of America’s population that means we are having more abortions’.”

King says ” the number of abortions don’t mean that African-Americans are more immoral or don’t care.”  Instead  she states:  “We are just regular, everyday people like everyone else. But Planned Parenthood moved into our community with the abortion killing centers and said, ‘We’re here to help you. Let’s kill your baby, so you can have a better life.’ Well, killing our babies doesn’t give us a better life. I have had my own abortions in the 1970s. They were secret then, and after I became born again in 1983 and became a pro-life voice, I began to talk about how those abortions hurt me and my family.”

Dr. Day Gardner points out that  Planned Parenthood is worse than  the Ku Klux Klan.  “The KKK brutally killed about 3,500 black people since it began in 1865, Sanger’s Planned Parenthood is responsible for 19 million black deaths since 1973.”

Gardner quotes Margaret Sanger’s letter to Dr. Clarence Gamble which explained Sanger’s  evil plot.

“We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the negroes is through religious appeal. We don’t want word to go out that we want to exterminate the negro population. The minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.”

Gardner points out that  Planned Parenthood has continued  to follow Sanger’s playbook.

“Today, black ministers, politicians, and community organizers are still ‘hired’ to support Margaret Sanger’s form of ethnic cleansing. With full knowledge of how abortion is decimating the black community, they, like Judas, have sold their souls for ’30 pieces of silver’.”.

Clearly Planned Parenthood’s targeting of black women to stop them  from having babies  is a form of  genocide under the   Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide  

“any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group;

(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;”

If you believe the Senate  should  investigate the  practices of  Planned Parenthood please write your Senators in your own words or send them a copy of this post.

Hire the People on the Border to Build the Wall

When is  President Donald Trump going to recognize that the  best way to deal with the border people is to hire them to build the wall?

Hiring the border people to build the wall  would create a win  / win  situation.  The border people would win by getting jobs.

People living in the United States would win because people entering  the country from the south in the future would have to pass though check points where they could be screened for contagious diseases.   The recent measles outbreaks demonstrate the potential danger of open  borders.     Dangerous diseases like tuberculosis  that are largely controlled in the United States can  be common in countries some “illegals” come from.   There are more HIV/AIDS deaths per million south of our border than in our country.

A century ago a judge might have agreed to punish illegal immigrants by forcing them to build a wall.  Judges no longer order such forced labor, but the government can hire immigrants to build a wall.

The large number of unemployed people on the border provide a golden opportunity to build a wall that was first needed in the 19th Century when raiders would cross the border to attack settlers.  We need to take advantage of the opportunity to build the wall now.    Having the border people construct the wall would produce a work force that could be used to construct the infrastructure projects we also need. Trump’s economic program is creating so many jobs that we may not otherwise have enough extra workers for essential infrastructure projects.

Abortion Supporters Are on the Wrong Side of Alice’s Looking Glass

Alice’s looking glass had an odd  property.  It not only reversed the appearance of objects, it reversed logic..

When Alice entered the world behind the  mirror ‘she discovered that if she tried to run she remained in place.   If she wanted to go toward something she had to try to move away from it.

The claim that abortion “empowers” women uses such reverse logic.  The most powerful action a woman can take is to make a new human being.   Abortion shuts down that powerful activity.

Making babies allows women to have a huge impact on the world. .   Two of the most important people of the last 70 years didn’t hold high government office themselves. Rose Kennedy and Barbara Bush impacted the world by producing sons who held various high offices.

The Kennedy and Bush sons received a boost because the mothers were in politically prominent families.   However,  a woman can produce a powerful child without being part of  such  a family.

We would never have heard of Virginia  Clinton Kelley or Stanley Ann Dunham if they had not been powerful enough to produce sons Bill Clinton and Barack Obama who achieved the office of President of the United States.

Powerful women make babies.   Powerless  women get abortions.

Put Immigrants in Democratic Districts

If President Donald Trump can’t keep the caravan from entering the country, he should try to transport the participants to congressional districts whose voters elected a Democrat to Congress. Many Democrats want to encourage immigration so we should expect voters in those districts to welcome immigrants and be willing to share local resources including jobs with immigrants.

Voters who don’t want more immigrants in their districts shouldn’t elect politicians who want to increase immigration.. Voters in higher income districts shouldn’t vote to encourage immigration unless they are willing to have new immigrants for neighbors

What Was Ford Doing at a Party with 4 Boys?

Has anyone asked  Christine Blasey Ford   why she attended a party with four boys — if there was a party?

Most of us would suspect that a girl  at a party with four boys  was the “entertainment”.  Considering the way teenage peer pressure works, it is likely she would have been drinking along with the boys, if there was a party.  If  she had been drinking, then her memory of the event would be  unreliable.  She might not remember exactly what happened or even who was at the party.

I say “if there was a party” because  of how she supposedly “remembered” the alleged attack in a therapy session.  “Remembering” alleged childhood sexual incidents in therapy sessions is a characteristic of “false memories”.

There is no good reason to delay the confirmation process for  Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh .   If Ford wanted her allegation investigated she should have come forward at the start of the process.