Nom de plume: Rivrdog

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?

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...

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".

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.

Writing down the History of Civil War Two

Yes, yes, I know it hasn't started yet, but it will and within the next 400 days, too.

It's interesting. The Democrats are using the same failed playbook for "Impeachment" as they did to try to stop the confirmation of SCOTUS Associate Justice Kavanaugh: when no dirt can actually be dug up, make up some.

The "whistleblowers" have a valuable role for the GOPe. They all point out the fallacy of letting the enemy remain within your ranks after you assume command.

I see a WORSE threat to this Nation than a House Impeachment of President Trump now.

The same gaggle of commie gabbling-geese Obama left-overs that has ruined Trump's ability to control the State Department, the Office of Attorney General, and several other Federal fiefdoms, is still there, lurking in our Nation's military branches.

That cabal is collectively known as the Obama Generals and Admirals. Obama knew that he would never have complete control of the Federal Government until he got complete control of the Military, so he very quickly fired our best war-fighter Flag officers and replaced them with his own "yes-men". Over 200 perfectly patriotic and judgmentally-sound General Officers were retired and younger, less-experienced Obama-faithful officers were given their duties. You iknow the results: Social Engineering to the max; Rules of Engagement which don't allow combat-engaged soldiers to return fire; "arresting" radical Islamists instead of just killing them in combat, etc, ad nauseam. All from Obama's mind on "how to do war".

All those Obama Generals and Admirals are still there, and when the proverbial feces hits the rotating blades of the ventilation machine (in the approaching Civil War), then President Trump tries to restore order using the military, he will not be able to. Some of those Obama Generals and Admirals will work effectively at blunting and disreagarding those lawful Orders of the Commander-in-Chief.

Every GOPe President since Eisenhower made this same mistake: assuming that simply being elected and sworn in as the Chief Executive meant that they actually RAN the Nation.

None of those GOPe CEOs actually have RUN the country in detail, and the lurking, backstabbing Democrats have refined their "Resistance" to where their words in directing it sound just like a dictator's orders to his minions. Rep Tlaib of MI wants the US Marshal's Service to plan on how they are going to arrest Trump supporters when the Democrats steal the election win. She has already declared supporting Trump to be a Federal Crime, evidently without a Statute of Limitations. No such law exists, of course, but she indicates that will happen.

This Nation will see Civil War within one year and one month, and the historians chronicling it (I hope to be one of those) will note that the Democrats' power to open that War stemmed directly from the GOPe's failure to actually CONTROL the vast Federal bureaucracy politically when it had the chance to do so.

What a waste! Millions will die, the Nation will be fractured for the next 150 years, and all because the GOPes were simple dreamers, unable to accept the true level of Democrat perfidy. What a waste!

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.

Is it time for this?

 

Dissolution of and separation from the Former State of Oregon

 

We, the People known formerly as Citizens of the State of Oregon, solemnly declare that our fealty shall no longer be given to the tyrannical conglomeration previously known as the Government of the State of Oregon.

We, the People formerly known as Citizens of the State of Oregon, declare that the Former State of Oregon Government has failed in many, if not all of it’s duties as a State capable of acceptance in the United States of America.

The Former State of Oregon Government has failed in the following major respects, all required for entry into the United States of America.

• The Former State of Oregon has failed to promulgate a Constitution it’s own Government can follow, and that Government failed it own Constitution by failing to recognize the power of the superior, Federal Government in regards to the subjects of Immigration and several Amendments to the Federal Constitution, namely the First, Second, Fifth and Tenth.

• The Former State of Oregon has failed to protect it’s own Citizens by allowing criminals from other Nations to circulate freely and prey on the Citizens.

• The Former State of Oregon preys on it’s own citizens by raising Laws which propose to fine and imprison Citizens for following their own Federal Constitution.

• The Former State of Oregon failed its Citizens by allowing a negotiating process over public lands to become a Kill Zone for those protesting improper land seizures.

• The Former State of Oregon rejected it’s role as a Government secondary to the Federal Government by allowing the election of persons to be Representatives and Senators who had no intention of following the Federal Constitution, as their Oaths of Office require.

• The Former State of Oregon rejected it’s proper duty to have a Judiciary which respects the Right of Citizens of the Republic to be governed in accordance with the laws of the Federal Republic, as the Former State’s original Constitution requires.

Since We the People of the Former State of Oregon have a right to live peacefully under the auspices and protection of both the Federal and State Constitutions, and since the Former State of Oregon has declared it’s intent to instead make war upon it’s citizens for Offenses it has trumped up to promote it’s illegal fealty to a Socialist process of Government, We the People of the Former State of Oregon declare that we now live only under the auspices of the Federal Constitution, and under laws which have been properly interpreted by the Supreme Court of The United States.

Since We the People of the Former State of Oregon now expect the Former State Government to make war upon we free People, we declare ourselves to be the Militia of the Oregon Territory, we pronounce our Militia to be well-regulated and prepared to use defensive force to maintain the peace and security of the People against the operatives of the Former State of Oregon as they try to overcome the Freedom and Rights of the Citizens of our Republic.

So help us, God.

 

Done in the City of ________________, Oregon, on the date of ______________.

MAJOR Gun Grab proposed in OR

This would be the most severe gun-grab in the Nation, if passed. A group calling itself "Interfaith Leaders" proposes to ban all semi-automatic, or magazine-fed firearms. The article says just "Assault Rifles", but the boasting out of the Commissar Knutson's "Church" (bull. commies don't have churches) was to include all semi-autos fed by magazines.

The Initiative process, by which Commissar Knutson proposes to enact this law, is operated by the State of Oregon, so...(my Facebook Post)

My answer to the "Inter-Faith Group" seeking to ban all semi-automatic firearms in Oregon - Here is YOUR future:

1. You have ALREADY conspired to restrict or remove an enumerated Right of the Bill of Rights. You have done that just by MEETING to discuss your ill-conceived Initiative. Legally, that means that Probable Cause might already exist for your arrest on 18 USC 242, Denial of Civil Rights under Color of Authority.

2. "Under Color of Authority" will probably have to be decided in a courtroom, but this 25-year Officer of the Circuit Court of Multnomah County believes that the "Authority" of the State of Oregon is extended willingly down to reside in those following the Initiative Process. The fact that this Initiative IS a de-jure Denial of Civil Rights cannot even be challenged.

3. Prior to the Finding that the Initiative Process DEPENDS on the Color of Authority of the State of Oregon, there is another legal facet to be perfected. That facet is the Racketeer-Influenced Corrupt Organization designation which will apply to the organizers, from the Chief Petitioner on down to the signature-collectors. Under any declaration that a criminal conspiracy exists (a simple True Bill from a Federal Grand Jury or a USAG's Information) the RICO process may be initiated. That process will freeze ALL the assets of the named conspirators, the financial supporters and yes, perhaps even the signers of the Petition (the instrumentality of the criminal conspiracy). A VERY wide swath can be cut by the RICO process, and it might indeed ensnare all governmental officials who had provable Notice of the Petition, were in a position to stop the approval of the Petition but didn't, and maybe even the Judge who approved the ballot title. BTW, for the uninformed, once a judgment of RICO has been rendered, the defendants may be assessed as much as treble damages, in addition to Court Costs, Attorney Fees and all such expense.

4. The final Sword of Damocles hanging over this entire legal proceeding would be Class Action. I believe that there are over two million gun owners in Oregon, and each would be entitled to join in a Class as Plaintiffs, seeking common damages. I should think that those damages would be at least $10K/Plaintiff, which would put the erstwhile gun-grabbers on the legal hook for $20 Billion dollars. Considering the VERY deep pockets of the likes of Soros, Steyer, Bloomberg and other Limousine Liberals who can be expected to empower this conspiracy via their wealth, they probably DO HAVE $20B amongst them.

Your essayist begs for many, many Shares, so someone at the top of this anti-Civil Rights cabal will get my notice. Pass this word, please!

Thank you.

The Tax Bill

(Cross-posted from my Facebook page).

 

The Tax Bill is on my mind. It's really TWO tax bills, welded into one. This is a strange turn of events, historically. Read on.

 

The Tax bill has two major parts, Corporate Tax Relief and Personal Income Tax Reform. Those two parts are widely separated in their economic details, yet both are being written into one bill. Why is that?

 

The answer lies in the leftward surge of the Democratic Party. As of now (at least until HRC is jailed), the Democratic Party is more Marxist than American. We see that every day, where the primary purpose of Democrats seems to be to tear down this Nation rather than see to it's excellence. Consider the (D) view of the two parts of this Tax Bill: they might be able to swallow their bile and accept "Tax Relief for the Middle Class" (as long as it doesn't make the Free Shit Army have to pay taxes), but they will NEVER accept Corporate Tax Relief. The Ds are anti-capitalist to the max. Well, except for their own limousine liberals, that is.

 

By attaching despised Corporate Tax Relief to the acceptable Middle Class Tax Relief, the GOPe hopes that they can eke both by the Ds. That's the game plan.

 

It's a losing game plan, and the dollars prove it. Corporate Tax Relief is a huge negative to the Treasury, some say as much as $US1.25T/year. No way that passes muster. How to deal with that Deficit Hog? The easy answer is to increase taxes on the personal side, and THAT.WILL.BE.DONE.

 

The "Bracket Adjustments", the loss of the un-reimbursed Medical Deductions, the loss of the State/Local Tax Deduction and the loss of at least half the Mortgage Interest Deduction will RAISE taxes for the average middle class family, about $4K/yr in my case. This Tax Bill, as proposed, will HAMMER the middle class, probably kill off the current growth surge in the GDP.

 

It's a Bad Deal for us. Send this bill to the dustbin of Deep State FUBARS, quickly, my friends.

Three dreaded words

Watching the morning news in the 10am Eastern time segment on Fox. I like Maria Bartiromo, she spiels it out in plain English. Her interviews are clean and crisp and she doesn't talk over her guests like the big evening names do.

Maria was passing along some news out of Vegas. It seems that the MVPD is getting tired of their investigation into the mass-murders, and we know this because they are using a standard, but tried and true Homicide Detective's ploy to segue towards the end of their work. Problem is, they haven't established motive, so now I hear the three ugliest, most dreaded words:

"Undiagnosed mental illness"

Okay, I can hear you say it now, my peeps: "If all the leads turn up nothing, then undiagnosed mental illness must explain it, sir."

Two problems: that gives HUGE new hope to the mavens of Gun-Grabbing that they can maybe pass a bill that further restricts the rights our 2A gives us to keep and bear arms, AND it's a false statement to begin with. If you Vegas gumshoes haven't found the motive yet, could it possibly be because you haven't thought hard enough about the case, and you haven't thought hard enough because your world outlook is too restricted?

In my first instance above, I refer you to the Virginia Tech murders of a few years back. Out of that case, our ever-protective (NOT!) NRA spun their Rolodexes, made their calls and sold us the idea that OMG, un-documented Mental Illness had to be cause to restrict gun rights. We bought off on that and lost some gun rights (mostly for veterans and who gives a rip about veterans, right?) but we also lost some medical privacy, and nobody talks about that. Now comes Vegas, so we are about to be led further down the garden path into that thicket of gun-grabbing thorn-bushes. Now it's un-diagnosed Mental Illness. Think about that for a moment.

Is writing a gun law dealing with un-diagnosed Mental Illness a gun-grabber's blank check, or WHAT! How far from that Bill would it be to "2A only applies if you pass a mental-health examination"? If you said that is a small gap that can easily be overcome, take the rest of this class period off, you've passed the test.