Nom de plume: Rivrdog

Library porn & how to fight it

We have two Library Boards here in the small City of Coeur D'Alene, Idaho. The CdA Public Library and the Community Library Network. We also have a "Constitutional Sheriff", Bob Norris, and the usual assortment of Marxist trash seeking to control all aspects of education. The Marxists have less success here than most other places, one of the big reasons I settled here after Oregon went Full Commie.

One of the usual ways the Marxists establish their beach-head of force used to destroy American Values is via taking over Library Boards, and they have done that here. Americans gained back some ground last election when we removed two Marxists from the Community Library Network's Board, but that's only slowed down the Marxists, not defeated them utterly. At a Town Hall meeting, which the Sheriff holds quarterly, a citizen asked about children's access to books with inappropriate sexual context. Sheriff Norris said he'd look into that, and he did. He visited the Post Falls Community Library and found two inappropriate books there.

Enter the "Yellow" press, or cdapress.com to be exact. They publish this guy's guest op-ed. He outright accuses the Sheriff of theft. I have decided to reply and submitted this letter, not published yet:

Please accept my reply to My Turn writer Lockwood, who writes to accuse Sheriff Norris of theft as he took a pair of books from the library for the purposes of investigation.

 

Mr Lockwood, these books were accessible to children and their express purpose is to TEACH varied sexual practices. I suspect that you believe that expertise in carnal knowlege must be extended to children as soon as they can read.

 

Religion has nothing to do with it, Mr Lockwood. This is about a case which could easily cross the line into child pornography, and it is certainly the Duty of a Sheriff to conduct an investigation to determine if probable cause exists to prosecute for those charges.

 

Indeed, Sheriff Norris would be remiss in his duty by NOT making this investigation. As to you, sir, your zeal in promoting this possible child pornography is very, very telling.

 

Sheriff, wouldn't it be appropriate to issue the Library a Property Inventory Receipt in this case?

 

Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom.

 

Verizon violates the Fair Credit Collections Act

Verizon Wireless has a bad problem of their in-house network connections. Example: I get an email saying I'm "past due" on a payment. I call the robot and it says I have until 20 October to pay.

The term "past due" has a precise definition in the Fair Credit Collection Act. My late wife did these collections for a living. "Past Due" means the account is 30 days past the posted "due" date. The FCCA says that putting the wrong terminology into a collection communication makes that communication into an "Improper Dun", a legal term for the tort of Harassment, or improper threatening communications.

If I were to drop a dime on VZW, the USAG would be BOUND BY LAW to accept my complaint and open a case vs VZW, and the usual Civil fine is $1500 for the first offense. I'm willing to bet this isn't the first offense VZW had made under the FCCA. The matter then bumps up and individuals within the accused corporation may be charged with a Federal Crime, and treble damages come in, and six-figure judgments were common in Blanche's day.

The FCCA is likely in the USAG's Dead File now though, in the present corrupt Administration.

New month, new prediction

Rabbit-Rabbit.

New month, new hopes, need more work on getting ready. End of first-of-the-month platitudes.

The GOPers backed down, passed a 45-day CR, so no default until the middle of November. GOPer hopefuls are having a good time pretending Trump doesn't matter. There's never been a massive write-in campaign in the history of our Presidential elections, but there might be one next year.

If that campaign were to actually ELECT Trump, but the Dem/Commies denied him his seat, THAT would start Civil War. Bright line there, yes. Time for blather over then, you're going to fight for Trump and your Constitution or you're going to fight for a tyrant to replace that document. I don't see a middle ground, do YOU?

In the meanwhile, look for Blue States to try to lock Trump out by refusing to accept write-in ballots. This will PROVE intent to have Tyranny replace the Constitution.

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Veteran suicide

As a combat veteran, well and truly shot at a fair amount in the unfriendly skies of the Vietnam war, I am amazed at the non-veteran, catch-all campaign against veteran suicide.

Please consider this ONE salient point here: The vast majority of combat veterans are NOT afraid of death. Their training removed that worry, and successful combat operations reinforced it. In fact, dying heroically has been glorified in all military structures since the beginning of organized warfare. Dying in combat IS the ultimate expression of a soldier's duty performed. Why then, are these non-combat REMFs (look that slang up) so insistent that a veteran CHOOSING death over life are so puzzled by veterans who make that ultimate choice?

American commerce and shoddy goods

There was a time in this Nation's history when we could produce quality goods in any desired quantities, and we had the logistics to get them to global markets.

That time has passed, and due mostly to the "woke" banks, all subservient to the Communist Chinese, our industries produce quality goods only in small amounts, usually only for local distribution.

 

Here are two examples from MY house: Example one: I usually buy Vanity Fair brand paper table napkins. Last week, while marketing, I noticed some in HIGHLY similar packaging, picked up the two different brands and selected the "Everyday" brand, it was a dollar cheaper for the same 200-count package. I get them home and load the napkin holder on my table. The new napkins are useful only as four-folded. Doubled, they don't work, they tear when wiping the mouth.

Example two: Activia Yogurt: I've used it for years, it keeps the gut-flora on an even keel. I still use it, but I will probably change now, since the makers ultra-cheapened the packaging. The company which used to make it, Dannon, is now called "Danone US" Here's the Wiki. The serving size is the same, 113 grams, but it's now packaged in a cheaper plastic tub which cracks open easily, and the foil top of the tub can't be removed in one piece to access the contents, it is very light material now, shreds as it's being removed. The contents seem to be the same as before the package-cheapening.

Okay, a third example. Passenger cars. There is so much plastic in the bodies of them now that a minor under-hood fire, which previously could be extinguished with a small dry-powder extinguisher, now requires a fire company, and if one isn't almost on top of you when your car catches fire, your car is only a pavement scorch 5 minutes later. The auto manufacturers will tell us they have to use the flammable plastic now, it's the only way to get the weight down enough that the smaller motors can propel the cars like we want them to. I conclude that the so-called "CAFE-standards" are killing cars and some people. Those folks are dying because of a myth, that higher gas mileage in cars will save the planet from a horrible (un-specified) fate. Of course, there are those Elites (spit!) who don't want us to drive at all...

Dem/Commies eating their own

New Jersey Senior Senator, Bob Menendez (D), and his wife, Nadine, have been indicted on a five-count New York Federal indictment of bribery and corruption, apparently stemming from him becoming an agent of the Islamic Egyptian Republic.

No tears here. Menendez is a rabid anti-rights pol known for attacking and subverting the Second Amendment. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Now we get to see how the Democrats react, especially how swiftly they act to remove him from the Senate foreign Relations committee, where he is now Chair.

This is a bad one for the Dem/Commies, and it will call for a prompt distraction. That could be some sort of attack on Russia, I notice that their Black Sea Navy HQ was severely damaged in a fire...

Military slang, and attempts to devalue it

On my Facebook sidebar, Sugar Mountain* wants me to open a story of how CRUDE slang used by WW2 military people was(no links to the enemy) Not going to the story, it's clickbait and social-credit fodder, but I WILL say this:

In WW2, soldiers, sailors and Marines were trusted to take the initiative, engage and kill their Axis enemies. In battle, and I've been there, when you HAVE time to speak, you use your time to communicate with your fellow troops. You develop a patois of acronyms, and the verbiage to support those. These words are not polite, they are short-cuts to another military person's experience. To apply today's TWISTED morality and political correctness to such battlefield slang is pointless, but it's also revealing:

It reveals the histrical ignorance of those who engage in this form of chicanery.

*Sugar Mountain = Mark Zuckerberg

A coat turns

Liberty Safe co. Read about it here.

Definition of a Sacred Cow in Oregon

The cow has a name: The Oregon Innocence Project. It was the operative push to get the Marion County DA to pronounce the death of Trust in effective jurisprudence in Oregon. I just posted about this case here.

Here is a partial list of supporters of the OIP.

Dire warning: How Criminals go free

Andrew Selsky, an ancient progressive journalist, now writing for AssPress, pens a column about an old black man who got out of prison, never admitting his guilt.

My warning is about the reasoning involved in the decision, and how easy it will be now for Soros-bought Prosecutors to cite this concept, revealed in the money-quote:

"Prosecutors asked the Marion County Circuit Court to dismiss the case, saying the state no longer believes it can prove guilt based on how much time has passed since the murder of Harriet Thompson."

All those polital DAs have to do now is say the testimony available is too weak or indistinct, then they don't have to prosecute. Victims get no day in court.

The way Justice worked before now was on TRUST. The citizenry TRUSTED that the testimony offered in a case was the best available, and when sentence was pronounced after the guilty verdict, the TRUST remained and the perp remained in prison.

Not any more. The Marion County DA's remark signals the death of Trust, and it will never be retrieved in Oregon.

 

 

First word on a badnasty

Here in this Instagram post. Will have to authenticate it, but since this government is SOOO good at accepting badnasties, I'll put it in the file. If true, it's aimed right between the eyes of the fishing industry AND recrecreational boaters. Fit's right into the Gates-plan for depopulation.

BTW, this will self-authenticate if it turns out that this compound has been granted exempt status from lawsuits like the mNRA jabs were...

China, another insider view Pt 1

I just viewed a China video, heavily edited with many pixeled-out parts. It is by the Chinese You-Tubero "Yin's Travels"

In the video, he travels from an interior area, Chongquing, to Shanghai. The interesting part for me was the start of the trip, in a modern railway station. He's filming as he walks about the station, first to get his travel snacks, very modern, then he goes to a kiosk and buys a little dongle, which give him limited access to a (censored) Internet, but only while in the station, he has to turn the dongle back in via a receptor slot at the turnstile to access his departure platform. He puts the properly-cased dongle into the slot and the turnstile opens for him. I presume the equipment had already accepted his boarding pass.

He has selected a third-class sleeper, an open bay affair with triple-stacked bunks and benches at the aisle. Each car holds around 75 bunks, which share two toilets, no shower. Russia uses this third-class system too, they call it "Platzkartny". Meals are available for purchase and are delivered to the bunk. They don't look too bad, steamed veggies, some sort of curry or ragout and a monster bowl of rice.

It's a slow train, makes a lot of stops, but runs right along, usually no slower than 111 kmh, or about 75 mph. On some sections, it runs at 90mph. Not bad for a third-class train which has to wait for faster trains often. He's on the train for 24 hours.

When he gets off in Shanghai South Station, we get to see THAT bustling place. Quite a few cops on electric transports in there.

The way I look at it, it behooves me to watch these sort of things, to be prepared for what we will face shortly if we can't change this government back to a Constitutional mode.

Pump Trump or Dump Trump, you decide

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China, an Insider's View

This essay, long and complex, details the advantages President-for-Life Xi Jinping uses in his control of the People's Republic of China, and at the same time, it details where his ironclad control has led the PROC in the wrong directions.

Missing from this curiously strong introspection is mention of exterior relations. The only part of THAT mentioned is the undying thirst of Xi to annex Taiwan. Also not well-mentioned is the fate of the PROC's money supply, alluded to a couple of times but not really germane to this discussion.

All in all, though, this is a valuable look at the PROC, the Chinese Communist Party and how the people of China live, work and think.

Read it, you might have to come back a couple of times, it's not an easy, breezy read, but neither is the subject matter.

The bloom is off the EV rose

Look at these stats from car-conscious Germany: when the Federal government withdrew the huge subsidies for EVs, sales of them dropped by almost 40%.

That stat might have prompted Forbes,  a spokes-mouth for Elites, to put up this prognostication.

The skeletons are coming out of the closet for the EV industry. Lying about range, lying about recharge times, lying about battery safety, the shortage of Level 3 charge points, all those contribute to doubts. then there are EV fires to worry about.

A nail in the coffin for EVs will be the fact that the Government can sent a digital signal to make your EV refuse to charge. Can't recharge, you're grounded. If you are one of the few patriots who bought/leased an EV, that will be your fate when the balloon goes up, although to be fair, ALL vehicles built in the last 5 years or so are capable of being stopped via their satellite links to "Mother Maintenance".