Nom de plume: Rivrdog

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...

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.

 

 

Dealing with the Lockdowns - Oregon version

There are two ways for the State Government of Oregon to make a Disaster Declaration. One is in the Oregon Constitution, in Article X, Section A. the other is an ordinary State Law, ORS 401.165, Declaring States of Emergency, referring to COUNTIES asking for this help, but they MUST provide details.

 

Have any of my readers seen those County Requests for Declaration? I haven't.

 

The ORS also says the Governor may declare such an Emergency, but it alludes to there being a requirement for details. I haven't seen Kate's details. Of interest to me would be which "models" or guesses she relied upon to declare the ENTIRE state was in mortal danger from Covid-19.

 

Hindsight is ALWAYS 20/20, and now we know that the original models and predictions were HIGHLY inaccurate, as they predicted death at the rate of 3% of population when, in fact, the actual death rate has been TWO-TEN-THOUSANDTHS OF ONE PERCENT.

 

Why will NO ONE of SUBSTANCE front up Governor Brown and ask for or DEMAND the answers to these "pesky details"?

 

Basing a major societal change which tosses constitutions out the window on inaccurate data has been done before, says my History Book.

 

For example, Hitler did it on 9/1/1939 when he invaded Poland and started World War Two in Europe, after declaring that Germans living in the section of Poland known as the Sudetenland were in mortal danger from racist Poles trying to kill them. Now the Democratic Party USA has done it right here, when our gullible President went along with inaccurate data (deliberately inaccurate or just sloppily inaccurate is still to be determined), so our Nation's economy lies in ruins after the two-month shut-down which was not required.

 

My take on all this is that it has now happened to the good old USA and can't be UN-DONE, so we need to bend our backs now, get back to work, rebuild our economic structures and above all, DON'T LET THE SAME CREW COCK IT UP AGAIN!

 

America, put on your working clothes, pick up your lunch pails, and head for your work-place. If the Management is too afraid of the government to re-open, first, tell those caviling wimps that you have their backs, and if they still won't open, kick them to the curb, go into the factory floor and start the production lines YOURSELVES!.

 

We are either the victims of the stupidest move by our governance ever, or we are the victims of a cruel political move to kill freedom. In both cases, the solution is GET BACK TO WORK, AMERICA!

Re-open the USA NOW!

You won't see such analysis on the MSM, but all over the country, protests against the lockdowns are ramping up.

 

This might indeed, be out of frustration at President Trump, who has vacillated badly twice now on re-opening commerce.

 

It's this way, Mr. President. The WORLD now knows that this virus is not going to end life as we know it, as it was projected to do just 3 weeks ago. What we DO know is that the Democrats are trying to make their meager political position into a political juggernaut via the suspensions of personal liberty in the States which they control.

 

I don't see this issue in terms of the disease at all, even though I'm one of the "high-risk" folks myself, with 3 major risk factors, not just one.

 

I see this issue as a stark attempted subversion of the Constitution which I am FOREVER sworn to protect and defend.

 

If Covid-19 HAD been the killer virus it was hyped up to be by WHO and the Left, TEMPORARY suspensions of civil liberty would have been appropriate. Since those projections have all failed, and the disease is hardly a threat to healthy people, only a threat to the unhealthy, continued violations of our Constitutional guarantees of Liberty are intolerable.

 

Re-open the USA, Mr. Trump. Your continued refusal to do that begins to give the impression that you, too, have no particular passion for our Constitution.

 

Order some sort of re-opening plan, and prepare to use whatever force is necessary to overcome the objections of China's allies, the Democratic Party.

 

If your present waffling continues, Mr. President, I believe that today's gathering protest-storm will quickly devolve into Civil War, and that war will be raging before Independence Day.

 

Take charge, Mr. President. That's YOUR job. You have all the authority you need to re-open the USA.

 

Use it!

SCOTUS puts itself on trial

News: SCOTUS to decide DACA, which was ONLY an Obama Executive Order, NOT a Federal Law.

 

Options for the Supremes:

 

1. SCOTUS decides to strictly interpret the Constitution and decide that the President (yes, DACA supporters, Mr Trump IS President) DOES have the authority to end an Obama EO.

 

2. SCOTUS decides that Obama's DACA EO somehow has Majik Powers in it, and has morphed somehow into a Federal Law? That process thereby states a new Federal Civil Right not mentioned in our Constitution nor even imagined by the Founders, and yes, they COULD have given immigrants permanent rights BEFORE naturalization, but didn't.

 

3. SCOTUS decides to remove Immigration Authority from the President by granting a DACA "right" permanent status AND granting RELATIVES of the DACA immigrants permanent status also. The Liberal Justices WOULD agree with that, because it fits "It's for the Children", which is a Liberal HOLY WRIT (political Liberalism being a Belief system, an ESTABLISHED RELIGION to the Liberal Justices), superceding the Constitution (just like Chief Justice Robert's infamous granting of Holy Writ status to the Obamacare penalty as a "tax" granted extra-legal power to the Liberals).

 

No, the SCOTUS itself is on trial here, and that Branch is on trial while a "soft Civil War" is in progress, with the House of Representatives having suspended Constitutional Due Process with it's "Impeachment Inquiry" and SCOTUS having ignored that usurpation of our Constitution. In this DACA case, SCOTUS itself MUST get involved to save our Constitution, and rule that the #1 option above is the ONLY possible outcome.

 

If SCOTUS takes option 2 or 3 above, it has JOINED IN the Communist destruction of our Constitution that IS this "soft Civil War", and perhaps then, Patriots will FINALLY decide that yes, we ARE at war internally, and act to remove these threats to our Republic and our Constitution.

 

Remove, as in terminate with extreme prejudice. We're going to have to physically fight the communists. It's mass delusion on a fatal scale to say we won't.

No Obama peeps will ever see Prison

Don't make too big a deal out of USAG Barr announcing that he has a "criminal" investigation going vs. the Obama/NWO collaborators.

 

It won't mean a thing if it ain't got that ZING! For there to be justice served, President Trump has to harden his heart.

 

There's a Trump-wall there now, just like President Jerry Ford faced with Tricky Dick Nixon, and Trump will do the same thing as Ford did...pardon Obummer almost as soon as an indictment comes down or even before it when it becomes obvious that he WILL be indicted.

 

Of course, that would collapse the cases against the other major players. The end result will be that NOT ONE of the Obama/NWO collaborators does a day in prison.

 

Sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings here, but your President has already showed this tendency, with the last few mass shootings, by saying that he felt gun ownership restrictions were okay to prevent further carnage, that AFTER he had stood on stage with Wayne LaPierre at NRA-Con and declared solidarity to protect the 2A against further Infringements.

 

He will be all about "Healing the Nation's divide" when it's Obama's turn to be indicted. Not only that, I don't think he will even ask/require Obama to apologize publicly, so Obama will walk, head high, and nothing will change, the "Resistance" will go forward, even as Trump wins re-election.

 

I hope my readers can see this. Hit pause on your "Trump-tightness" for a moment, and consider the REALPOLITIK involved. How often has Trump actually swung his Hammer except on Trade, and even with that, he's ready to wuss out with USMCA, a NWO Trade plan if there ever was one.

 

Nope, we elected Mister Nice Guy. WE can appreciate him for this quality, but the Left sure won't.

Wapato Jail, the end

Twenty-plus years ago, a $58 million bond was floated to built a new jail for Multnomah county, which I worked for as a Deputy Sheriff at the time. The big jail was built, on industrial land out on the North Peninsula of Portland, but it never opened. Instead, the anti-police (communist) County Government started restricting the Sheriff's number of jail beds.

The Wapato jail became a surplus property, and was eventually sold, and all 13 acres of industrial land it sat on, to the scrap-steel baron of Portland, Jordan Schnitzer, for only $5 million. During the political fooferaw over selling the perfectly-good facility, it was suggested that for a resonable sum, that Jail could be converted into a "homeless shelter". Of course it could! It has a huge kitchen to feed the Homeless Horde, rooms to give them classes in and many dormitories easily converted to sleeping areas. It had a sizeable Infirmary for medical treatment, too. The perfect Homeless shelter, so why wasn't it done?

Enter the emotions the liberloons are well-noted for. We began to hear passionate speeches about hurting the FEELINGS of the Homeless Horde, about how ISOLATED the facility was...

WAIT! Isolated, IS the key this facility wasn't re-pourposed. Read on, my liberty-loving friends...

Those fine folks of PDX don't understand the political motivation of Madam Deborah Kafoury, or they wouldn't be puzzled. Multnomah County Commission leader Kafoury is politically VERY far left. Too far left to be called a traditional liberal, even.

Madam Kafoury is a Socialist, and since she wields her power by fiat, not consent, that makes her a communist. Not a "big-C" communist, she's a snake and won't admit her actual leanings, but a communist nevertheless.

What class of people do communists HAVE to convert to their thinking if communism is to succeed?

Right, the proletariat, the middle class. How do you control the middle class if you are a communist? By taking things away from them: you take away their money by over-taxation, you take away their guns, their property rights, but above all, you must take away their SENSE OF SECURITY! Deborah Kafoury has been at the forefront of Multnomah County's efforts to remove all these middle-class values.

Have you figured out WHY there are so many "homeless" on the street? Over 80% of them have serious mental deficiencies, need STRUCTURE in their lives, but the commies refuse that service to these unfortunates. Why?

Because the Homeless Hordes are communist SOLDIERS, that's why. Their very disorderly existance among the orderly middle class creates that INSECURITY that Madam Kafoury needs to perfect her plan to put the liberty-minded middle class under her commie thumb. Have you ever asked yourself WHY the government tolerates the whacko disorder of the "homeless" in the first place? WHY that government, which has no problem projecting all manner of CONTROL onto the middle class, can't seem to project ANY control onto the "homeless"?

It's because these thousands of crazies infesting our otherwise quiet and stable neighborhoods in Portland are there for a REASON, and that reason is to constantly conflict with we, the residents of those neighborhoods. That constant conflict we are forced into destroys our sense of security, and that is exactly what Madam Kafoury wants. With our security destroyed, Madam Kafoury can then exert control over us to "give us back our security".

No, had Wapato been converted to a homeless shelter/treatment center, it would have taken in up to 2,000 of these crazies and started giving them a normal life, guiding them on their path to a middle-class existance. That's a sizeable fraction of the homeless horde in our area. That would be the very antithesis of what Madam Kafoury wants, so it won't be done, and instead, the junk-baron Jordan Schnitzer will soon have his warehouse to make money with.

You might wonder why that jail was built in the first place. That's a story for another day, but meanwhile, look up the "broken window theory". More on this later.

News item: Trump to GTFO the 'Stan

Cue the Paul-bots cheering.

Cue the NWO wallahs and Soros popping corks.

Cue Trump losing the 2020 election!

Trump: US will GTFO 'Stan! Sir you just lost the election and doomed the USA! Read on!

The "plan", a NWO creation, hinges on the Taliban promising they won't launch terror in other countries! Guess what, you dipshidiots, they already do. See: Waziristan. See Chechnya.

The War on Terror now becomes just another Vietnam. Never Again? My ass! Here's what your "plan" will do, my fine NWO President: millions of Veterans, expressing disgust, will not vote next year. Trump then loses a perfectly winnable election, and the USA becomes a 'Stan itself, not under Islam just yet, but quickly under Marxism.

All you effwads who kept telling me that Trump has this magic, his personal "I can out-deal anyone" schtick? Well Trump's "diplomacy" has worked just WHERE? You claim it worked with 'Lil Kimmy. He's laughing at you, shooting missiles every day. You claim it worked with the PROC's Chairman Xi: he's killing us with Fentanyl, which he promised YOU that he would ban the export of.

You now say you can "deal" with the Taliban? You just doomed thousands of Afghans who fought on our side. You just doomed the sane people in Pakistan, who control their NUKES, and will now be forced to give a few to the Islamists, to use on Israel, which causes them to use theirs and the Middle East will glow for milennia. I'm beginning to believe the entire "DTS" rubric is a NWO "maskirovka", a deception move. Trump is THEIR man, looks like to me.

Now it ALL makes sense that he didn't boot very many "Obama Generals" from the Pentagon: he needs their surrendering "expertise" to get us out of yet another war we had previously won. Remember back after 9-11-01, when we sent the 10th Mountain Division there, with NO ROE's, and they kicked ass and cleaned house in less than a year? I remember that. Then we removed the 10th Mountain and sent in the Lawyers, who started arresting our OWN troops for violating suicidal ROEs. Me? No, I was retired in '95, but I went to SE Asia to fight for the USA FIFTY years ago, was there 3 years, then we just quit THAT war.

BTW, I was personally involved in an aborted bombing mission that was the first example of that quitting. I was Wave Lead Navigator on that mission guiding 18 BUFFs into Laos, when Nixon allowed Kissinger to rat out our target to NVA General Giap. My target was the entire POL supply for the NVA armored push through Laos into the Parrot's Beak and South Vietnam. We could have killed all that NVA armor when it ran out of fuel, just like in the Battle of the Bulge in WW2, but Kissinger sold out the target to the NVA just for a PROMISE of "peace talks", which the NVA reneged on just hours later, but by the time a second attack on the POL supply was organized, the enemy had dispersed most of it (it was on 30,000-gallon fuel lighters in an arm of the Ton Le Sap Lake). Over a dozen steel barges I had under the crosshairs on my bombing radar. At 120 seconds to bomb release, we got the coded abort message and went to our secondary target, some truck parks on the Trail. Nope, that's MY 'Nam PTSD, knowing that I, PERSONALLY, might have helped to WIN the damn war and they wouldn't let me. We now will do that again, so I'm angry.

How angry? Well, I know lots of Veterans, and if my 'suasion is still any good, NONE of them will vote for Trump if he pulls this shit.

File this "plan" under "How to kill the morale of the entire military in one fell swoop".

JPFO strikes out on gun control

It's Thursday, and a usual ally in the gun-control fight just tripped on their Richard, and since you HAVE and WILL hear this wrongful message elsewhere, I present it now.

In this article, JPFO fails by falling into a gun-controller's trap, even while trying to beat down that trap. BTW, Jews for Protection of Firearms Ownership is a FAR better advocate for the freedom to K&BA than the NRA. Let's look at their FUBAR, though.

Sorry JPFO, in YOUR dreams, it might be enough to say gun control of AR-15s fails because it doesn't accurately describe "assault rifles", and you are TECHNICALLY correct, but that doesn't get it in this fight, does it? It's a sound-bite fight, isn't it, JPFO?

 

Want to knock out the "assault rifle" canard with one punch, JPFO?

 

Simply point out that "bearing arms" was meant by the Founders as a general statement. In that day, "bearing arms" meant bringing the same weapons to the fight as the enemy did.

 

The "enemy" in the Founders' day wasn't street punks on dope, it was GOVERNMENT, which could and did buy all the latest MILITARY weapons, just as they do today. Smarter thinkers than you, JPFO, have suggested that if there was ANY limit on "arms" in "bearing arms", it would be that the arms mentioned were INFANTRY weapons.

 

Yes, Infantry Weapons of today include select-fire (full-auto capable) rifles, mortars, belt-fed full-auto machine guns and grenades, so the NFA-34 is un-Constitutional on it's face, as I'm sure was pointed out back when FDR rammed it through Congress, dancing in the blood of the victims of tommy-gun armed gangsters such as John Dillinger and Ma Barker, Pretty Boy Floyd and Al Capone.

 

Yes, blood-dancing for Gun Control isn't a new tactic, either.

 

On average, JPFO, you do a good job, but getting sucked into the Kamel-Toe's gun-hate belies that. Get smarter on this issue, unless you want to be the NRA, and God help you if you DO want that, Jehovah won't help you.

LGBTQ,etc, a Religion of our time

LGBTQ,etc is a BELIEF SYSTEM (aka, a RELIGION). It's "Establishment" as such is prohibited by our Constitution in it's First Amendment, as an exception to Freedom of Expression, so why do our Ambassadors and Police Chiefs get away with trotting out the LGBTQ,etc Icon/Idol (the rainbow flag) by their OFFICIAL Orders? Every single one of those Officials has sworn an Oath to Uphold the Constitution, so as they display this religious icon/idol, they are ALL guilty of SWORN FALSIFICATION, an Impeachable offense if a Federal appointee, or Official Misconduct if a State official.

 

The LGBTQ,etc belief system is a DIRECT attack on our Constitution, and all those supporting it MUST be declared, AS A GROUP, to be advocating our Constitution's dissolution.

 

There's a word for what LGBTQ,etc followers do: it's REBELLION. Rebellions may be properly put down with force unless they immediately desist upon being informed of their status.

 

The LGBTQ,etc religion DOES NOT REFLECT that sexual preferences or acts, IN PRIVATE, between CONSENTING adults, are permissible expressions. This tiny percentage of our population wants to CONTROL the non-believing majority, and FORCE acceptance of their religion on that majority.

 

Tyranny of a minority as the LGBTQ,etc religion works it amounts to HATE, and now we see the PROJECTION (truth-reversal) of that hate by that religious minority, who refer to all such as myself who dare to challenge their beliefs as the haters. Where else do we see this level of Projection?

 

Oh, yes, the Democratic Party uses Projection every day to sell their Useful Idiots the dogma necessary to keep them voting the Progressive ticket.

 

Do I follow a religion? Yes, I do, and that's MY business, and I NEVER try to force my choice of belief system on others. I am, therefor, properly following my Constitution, as I have sworn Oaths to do. President Trump, YOU, too, have sworn an Oath to protect the Constitution. Please do so and REMOVE these Ambassadors and other Officials who flout the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.

 

This embiggernates. It's a photo of a US Embassy, don't know which one.

 

https://www.facebook.com/65391820903/photos/10155807719905904/

 

This one comes up with the "Rainbow Badge" of the Portland Police Bureau.