Nom de plume: Rivrdog

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.

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...

Blue-State Governors are Tyrants

This post deals with Oregon's Governor, Kate Brown, a democrat/socialist.

Copied from my Facebook post of just now.

Re: Oregon Constitution, Article X, Section 6:

Sorry, Oregonians, court precedent says when Government sets rules of "Sunshine", they must be followed or else all actions taken in the illegal sessions must be considered invalid.

The Governor's Emergency Declaration, which went into effect at midnight March 7th, expired 30 days later. Gauleiter Kate will, of course, claim that the Legislative Emergency Board action to approve an "Extension" gives her authority to continue her Nazi-style lockdown and suspension of personal liberty, but by the clear language of the Article and Section, it does NOT. How the HELL can secret phone "sessions" qualify as "Convening the Legislature", or, for THAT matter, how can a "meeting" of the E-Board qualify for this Constitutional mandate to actually HAVE a REAL SESSION? The Constitution means what it says. This Article & Section can ONLY be met by proper Notice to Speaker & Senate President, who then MUST make the duly-constituted Public announcement, then the Legislators arrive at the place to convene PHYSICALLY, then the Session is called to order. A proper extension of the Governor's Emergency Declaration also involves drafting a Bill for an Act, having it read in the appropriate Committee, voted out of that Committee to the Floor, debated, etc. There is PROCESS, and no amount of "danger" from the disease allows it to be circumvented. If you believe so, YOU may also properly be considered a Tyrant and usurper/destroyer of the Oregon Constitution.

Then there is the matter of the Primacy of the Federal over the State Constitution. The State Constitution clearly says when there is a conflict of Primacy, the Constitution guaranteeing the highest condition of Liberty takes precedence. See Article 1, Section 33.

Is #KillerKate going to argue that she has the power to suspend personal liberties when the Feds interpret THEIR Constitution to say those liberties MUST be preserved? When President Trump says, as he already had, that the States may resume commerce and life, liberty and etc, then Section 33 comes into effect.

If you believe the Governor, you: (1) Haven't READ the Constitutions, and/or (2) do not possess the reasoning power called Logic which is REQUIRED in order to make such interpretations.

That is all. You ARE free to pursue a normal life in Oregon now, and have been for over 21 days. If you decide, as I have, to continue your medical isolation, (I am properly considered "medically fragile") that is now and always was your choice. If you decide to END your medical isolation, THAT is also your choice.

Yes, YOU are FREE to make this choice, and the State is NOT FREE to restrict your right to do so.

BTW, true statistics show that the State's first claim that a "calamity" existed, a claim necessary for perfecting the Emergency Declaration (Article X, Sections (2) & (3), was NEVER TRUE. It just never even slightly approached that level that she claimed after Trump's "Epidemiologist" lied through HIS teeth, and constinues to at this hour. Proper investigation WILL show that high-level objections to "calamity" status were buried on orders of #KorruptKate, I will put $$$ on that...

BTW2: In Oregon, the civil Tort of False Imprisonment usually bring the falsely imprisoned compensation of about $3,000 per day. Multiply that by 4.2 million Oregonians and then by 21 days. My calculator gags on that number, but I believe it is $264.60 times ten to the tenth power. That's how much the State owes it citizens, and I'm going to bet that a class-action claim for this WILL be filed soon. The State's credit rating from Moody's dies on the filing date, and the State goes bankrupt shortly thereafter.

New point to ponder: If all the Blue States have to declare insolvency, how does President Trump deal with that? My guess? He fights their declarations of insolvency by accusing them all of conspiring via the Democratic Party to overthrow the US Government via #ScamDemic. If he can make THAT stick, then RICO the Democratic Party, and they accept blame, THEN he will allow bankruptcy, with conditions. The first condition: No more Democratic Party USA.

The long good-byes

I wouldn't wish my situation on my worst enemy.

In the past two weeks, the medical wallahs have decided that after she heals and rehabs from her bad ulcer, my wife is in too bad a shape to come home. Ever. She has to finish out her days in a nursing facility.

I have another family member almost into end-stage cancer.

Two "long good-byes" running at the same time. We warriors understand death. Deaths happen, it's part of life and war. This, to have the two in my family I've loved the most,  taking months more to die from incurable disease is VERY hard to take.

Today, I have family and and friends coming over to this big lonely house to begin the process of emptying it out so it can be sold. Seems straightforward enough, it's just logistics, right?

Everything that must be discarded or sold has some history, some significance to me and the almost-departed ones. It's like ripping out a small piece of me with every kitchen gew-gaw I toss out. I can remember when my dear wife WORE these clothes I'm putting aside to donate, and she WAS a clothes-horse, so there is a lot of clothing. Shoes, I can't imagine having that many shoes.

A man might get by with five or six pairs, a dozen, tops, but a woman feels under-dressed if she can't select from fifty or sixty pair.

To make matters worse, my wife has a wasting disease, has had it for 25 years. She has slowly shrunken from a Size 12 down to now a Size TWO! I guess this disease led her to some anguish, because she never threw out many of the oversize clothes, and there are three walk-in closets full of them. Formal dresses for evening. We used to do a lot of that. She was a big wheel in the Officers' Wives Club at my last permanent station, KI Sawyer AFB, MI. The base closed out 25 years ago, and now she is closing out her life.

This wouldn't be so bad if I could just call some service to do it all for me, but I can't afford that, since I will probably have to pay for her nursing home life, and around here, that will be north of $6K/month.

Selling the house and spending down the proceeds will get me by for about 40 months.

I guess my dreams of moving somewhere warm and living in a villa with servants will have to wait for MY next life, but in the meanwhile, I have to take time to say another good-bye to one of my children who isn't going to out-live me now.

WTH, if Life was (a) fair, some barker would be selling tickets to see it, but it isn't fair, and now I have to see this through by myself.

I'll manage. Facebook helps with that, except they just put me in "Jail" because I used a common Spanish slang expression to describe two ugly male cross-dressers...

UPDATE: 041420 2334 PDT:

 My wife of 43 years, Blanche, passed across the Rainbow Bridge on March 30th.

It was a helluva fight...

...for this hero to stay in the military.

I had my own such fight, but mangaged it to eventually retire.

Read about this amazing soldier here.

H/T to Ty Raddue.

Invasion solutions

The UniParty in Congress is working VERY hard to facilitate the illegal invasion across our southern border. I have a solution.

 

A military solution. If MX Pres. Obrador fails the "agreement", we CLOSE the border, evacuate all US tourists and ex-pats who will use their brains and accept ending their vacations, then counter-invade Mexico.

 

Mexico has NO jet fighters, just some prop-jet COIN aircraft hardly suitable for attacking a hardened mechanized force like our Army and Marines. Our troops would be there for ONE purpose, to guide and guard trucks full of Invaders back into Mexico where they came from. We would establish supply depots of humanitarian aid out in the Mexican hinterlands, up to 100-150 miles inside Mexico, and the trucks unload there. Railcars could also be used for this if we can secure their railroad for that job. This process continues indefinitely.

 

Next, we apply economic pressure. No, not puny 5% tariffs, a complete commercial EMBARGO, both ways. No dollars get to Mexico, in any form, in this plan.

 

Next, we ask for REGIME CHANGE. We tell Mexico to boot their President and replace him with someone selected SPECIFICALLY to honor the integrity of the US border, and who will accept the return to Mexico of up to 5 million illegals per year until we have no more to return. Dollars might be given to Mexico to facilitate that.

 

Believe it or not, these are only medium-grade sanctions. Mexico HAS declared WAR on us by facilitating this Invasion, and we are entitled, both by the Treaty of Hidalgo (1848) and by the UN Charter, Article 51, to defend ourselves, AND take measures to ensure relief from additional Mexican war moves. Those measures could and SHOULD include permanent incursions into Mexican territory to strategically deny them the ability to mass such invasion forces in the future.

 

This isssue lends itself to such plain and simple solutions. It has only become complex because the Left has decided to use the full force of politics to defeat common sense and US self-protection.

 

You will notice that my plan does NOT include taking any action against the Democrats. They have already committed crimes against this country, we have the evidence in hand, and are waiting for who-knows-what signal to begin to imprison them, so that's a separate set of circumstances and must be kept separate.

 

Let's git 'er done, but station one battalion of MPs in Washington, DC, to move in and remove the Congress, should their Treason become any more obvious than it already is.

Children Crusaders or Children as Human Shields?

I haven't written directly on this subject before, but it has been raising it's ugly head in American Politics ever since the Columbine (CO) school shooting. Since that time, there have been a number of other school shootings, most, if not all, perpetrated by teen boys with horrible parents, with most of those parents being Liberals. The Liberals have seized upon these shootings (note that I do NOT subscribe to any theory that Liberals planned and executed them) to further their forever goal of removing the Second Amendment of the US Constitution, so as to disarm the populace and prevent the ONE method of keeping the Constitution alive which the Founders all agreed upon, the use of citizens' arms to remove tyrants from power.

The method the Liberal (New World Order) Establishment has focused on to achieve this treasonable Liberal end is to use the victims of the school shootings, the child-victims, as martyrs for their Constitution-wrecking agenda. Invariably, within minutes to a few hours of each shooting, the Liberal Establishment "dances in the blood" of the child victims by using them as martyrs even before their parents were properly notificed in some instances. Of course, those aggrieved parents are NEVER given a prior right of refusal to have their child's life and now death used in this manner for this brand of Treason.

The Liberal Establishment may have realized that after 10 years, and especially after the Parkland, FL shooting last year, a shooting in which most, if not all the victims should still be alive were it not for the cowardice of first-responding officers and their commanders, a new strategy has arisen in Liberal-run States.

That strategy is to use high-school kids to carry the Liberals' anti-2A message. That's right, the Liberals have adopted the ancient practice of using kids for Human Shields, so now they have kids "writing" various 2A-infringing laws.

My response to this? I wrote it on Facebook, and it's re-published here:

I'll accept the gun-banning teens' enthusiasm for this subject in SB-501 (Oregon Legislation) when and if: (1) The teens take a comprehensive test on our Constitution, including the Bill of Rights, and pass it. (2) Show me PREVIOUS writings and/or dissertations and discussions of THEIRS (not plagiarized or ghost-written) suggesting that they do, in fact, understand how History shows that ALL new dictatorships begin their evils by arising from a disarmed populace. (3) They list ALL their adult influencers from age 10 onwards.

We all know that the gun-banning teens are not only simple tools of those adult politicians who would ban a Natural human and ALSO Federal Enumerated Right, but do so in a completely DISHONORABLE way, acting knowingly as Human Shields for adult politicians of the socialist/communist stripe who would overthrow this constitutional Republic. Excuse me, ARE NOW overthrowing this constitutional Republic.

Using children as human shields is not new, but up to now in THIS society, it has ALWAYS been held to be an extreme moral failing. Isn't it time we defenders of the 2A (and next, the rest of the B.O.R.) stand as one and correctly call out the EVIL adults who hide behind these children and their previous PRESUMPTION of innocence in order to achieve an immoral AND treasonous end?

State Senator Laurie Monnes-Anderson (D - 25), YOU are an immoral and Treason-wielding politician, as you hide not only behind the presumed innocence of Children in order to wreck the Constitution you have SWORN an Oath to uphold, but you hide also behind the credentials and good works of the Nursing profession as you do your grisly work to begin the worst Civil War the world will have seen since Red China was formed. Shame on you, Senator! /end of post

Yes, in the paragraph above, I accuse a State Senator (MY State Senator, btw) of extreme immorality and Treason. I also accuse her and all of those Liberals working hard to end our right to Keep and Bear Arms of Treason. Of course, on the way to that Treason, they have ALL committed a violation of 18 USC 241 and 18 USC 242, relating to taking substantial steps to prevent use of or remove a guaranteed Civil Right.

Yes, there is going to be a Civil War fought over this. It might be a short war, resulting only in a few victims, politicians mostly. It could also be a VERY bloody and long Civil War, perhaps in the end being fought to eliminate the entire class of people who support this Liberal agenda. One thing I know about war after having served during three of them: once one gets started, very few of them actually stay within the boundaries of the reasons under which they started.

The Left arms up, learns to shoot?

I read a semi-viral article which reports that the Left is taking up shooting guns to prepare for war with the Right.

This doesn't bother me. First, I'm okay with it because the 2A says that's what the R2KBA is for: to prepare for war with the Government (I and the article's author both presume they are only making war preps because of Trump in office). There's another reason I'm for it though, and this reason should scare the HELL out of the leaders of the Left: If/When the Left shoots first, the Civil War to follow will show the Socialist movement no mercy at all. The article gets it wrong here: the author claims a DEFENSIVE use of guns is what motivates the left.

So, mox nix to me: when the Left shoots first, they die in the millions, then they will only have themselves to blame for it.

When History looks at a war, the History Book opens to the event during which that war started. For example, History notes that WW1 started in Sarajevo, Bosnia when a Socialist assassinated the Grand Duke of Bosnia-Herzegovina. The fact that the entire rest of Europe was already prepared for war and was just waiting for some sort of excuse to start that fight has become just a footnote.

I have favored this scenario of the start of Civil War Two for some time. The Right will win that war, then restore ALL the original meaning of the Founders' plans for this Nation. As the Nation resumes more normalcy after Civil War Two, it will do so without any traces of collectivism-leadership in the government of the Second Republic.

Yep, the Left WILL start Civil War Two, then lose it quickly, after which the Left ceases to exist in this nation.

#TenMillionRifles

Hiatus over! Revolution coming!

My Sunday Blather:

Today's subject, the Second American Revolution.

This article is long, a five-minute read for most, and it is written for Free People, who will shortly have to take up War to restore Freedom in this Nation.

Yes, most Patriots believe that there WILL be a second armed revolution fought to resist, then remove Communist Government. Why do I use the word "Communist"? By definition, Communism is nothing more than Socialism enforced at the point of guns. Colorado (the town of Boulder, anyway), is Communist, and we know why: they have just accused thousands of their citizens of Felonies for possessing a common rifle. So, yes, Virgina, there IS Communism afoot. The examples of Communism brought by political Administrators is too long to completely post here.

Look at other, less-obvious Communist efforts: stone-hearted killers are illegally IMPORTED in their thousands and turned loose to terrorize. "Sanctuary"? My rosy-red patootie! That's a common and well-known Communist trick, using an indigenous group to terrorize the citizens with. The original Red October Revolution in Russia used the Cossacks.

If Trump loses his re-election bid in 22 months, we WILL see even more Communism, and it will be dumped on us all at once, not gradually as has been the case up to now.

So, there will be revolution. There HAS to be. The Left has the blood-lust of evil in their veins now and will accept nothing less than the total installation of Socialism (by force, making it Communism).

The revolution will proceed to kick Communists out of places where they aren't well established. The USA then splits into Communist vs Free City-States, and if both the Communists and the Free peoples can establish survival commerce, that situation could last for some time, long enough time for a new Free Constitution to be promulgated and agreed on by all the Free Peoples.

How bloody will this war be? Look at all the guns available to both sides, and there is your answer. Look at the Communist-run cities we have now: They are full of ARMED GANGS which the City Fathers and Mothers never seem to suppress. Clue, they don't WANT to suppress them, those gangs will all be Communist Irregulars the day the Revolution kicks off.

The strategy of the Free peoples will be to let the big Communist Cities rot in place. This will be a Logistical war. Whoever can control or deny Logistics wins. On the Communist Coasts, the Free troops will have little success other than distractions: the Commies will be likely to keep all their ports open. What the Commies will NOT be able to do though, is keep the railroads and Interstate Highways open. Some of the big Communist-controlled Cities will fall to the Free because they will get starved out. You can't keep a place like St Louis or Kansas City going by air logistics only.

What is the key area for the Free to hold? The answer is Texas. With Texas, the Free have ports to communicate and trade with the rest of the world (although that World will quickly devolve into more communist States being declared: i.e.: most of Europe). If Texas holds as Free, it will probably become the Capital of the Free States Confederation.

How many might die in this war? A few thousands to many tens of millions in direct fighting, but multiples of those numbers to starvation and disease. After the inevitable stalemate leads to a cessation of hostilities (probably in the third year), I would expect that the population of both sides won't exceet 200 million.

Is it possible to avoid this war? Not really. It COULD be avoided if the communists suffered some sudden and dramatic setback, enough to make them give up THEIR blood-quest. That setback would have to be the arrest, trial, conviction and imprisonment (or execution) of enough major Traitors to convince the slightly-less traitorous to abandon their political dreams of communist hegemony.

If I were placed in charge, my start on preventing Civil War Two would be to indict, arrest and imprison (no bail) EVERY political administrator/administratrix or candidate who has EVER made substantial Acts to operate a municipal corporation as a "Sanctuary" for illegal invaders. That list would include the bulk of the Federal Judiciary and most of the City Administrations in the major "democratic party" (communist) run cities.

That purge (yes, it would be called and IS a Purge) could very well be done when and IF Associate Justices in failing health were replaced (they are all "liberals").

Think on this, my friends. You will all be involved soon enough.

The Why of Kavanaugh

Guest post from Mr. Tim Schlabach, great Oregon Patriot. Read on...

"This is worth reading every word. It explains why liberal democrats are beyond angry and reason... About a 3 minute read.

The fury of Democrats has nothing to do with missing pages or hurried timetables. It has everything to do with being sore losers. They still cannot accept that Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton in 2016.

Doing so would demand coming to terms with why, under President Obama, the party lost not only the presidential election but also an unprecedented number of seats in the Senate, the House, in state legislatures and governors’ mansions across the country.

It would mean admitting that President Obama was a disaster for his party.

During that agonizing descent into impotence – as Democrats lost the House in 2010, the Senate in 2012 and the White House in 2016 – not once did the party veer from policies that clearly were unpopular with voters.

Not once did Democrats loosen their grip on the progressive juggernaut that propelled them forward. They embraced environmental laws that could cripple the country’s energy base, health-care mandates that were affordable only to those subsidized by the government, restrictions on law enforcement agencies that compromised our safety on our streets, regulations on small and big businesses that made them uncompetitive. They made it harder for entrepreneurs to succeed and create jobs, and they supported immigration programs that mocked the rule of law.

Because Democrats lost their majorities in Congress, President Obama took it upon himself to create laws and to implement them. In many instances, such as with Obama’s Clean Power Plan – which would have upended our country’s energy industries – the Supreme Court slammed on the brakes, so egregious was the executive overreach. Ditto the effort to fundamentally change our immigration and labor laws.

In 2014, the Supreme Court ruled 9-0 against President Obama’s use of recess appointments in the case of National Labor Relations Board vs. Noel Canning. At the time, Bob Goodlatte, a Republican representative from Virginia, said that the "9-0 decision last week was the 13th time the Supreme Court has voted 9-0 that the president has exceeded his constitutional authority."

In the 2016 Supreme Court session, the White House lost 10 cases on unanimous decisions. That was a humiliating outcome that included votes from two Obama-appointed justices.

In fact, the Supreme Court ended up being the referee-in-chief, handing down an unprecedented number of unfavorable rulings to the Obama White House. Over time, most presidents score a “win” rate of about two-thirds; for Obama it was about half

This history brings the flap over Kavanaugh into perspective. If you are pushing an unpopular agenda, legislating from the White House is the last resort. But in that scenario, the makeup of the Supreme Court becomes vitally important.

The addition of Kavanaugh will almost certainly tilt the Supreme Court to the right, although over time judges can gravitate one way or another. Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, for instance, who was appointed by President Reagan, was initially a reliable conservative voter on the court but over the years become ever more liberal.

For the moment, however, Kavanaugh is solidly conservative; he is, in particular, no fan of the endless spread and intrusion of Big Government. For instance, he declared unconstitutional the structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an agency uniquely unaccountable to Congress or the president.

Kavanaugh’s dislike of an overreaching government is catnip to conservatives, but anathema to liberals, who increasingly embrace a soft form of socialism, encouraging ever more federal control of our industries and our lives.

The Supreme Court with Kavanaugh aboard would become a serious speedbump for progressives. The next Democratic president would be less able to legislate from the White House. Instead, Democrats would have to promote their programs the old-fashioned way; they would have to win some elections.

And that, for sure, is why Democrats are so angry."

 

Thank you, Tim. You can find more of his work on his FB page.