Nom de plume: Rivrdog

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.

You read it here first.

Will the Swamp ever REALLY get Drained?

Knowing now that Obama likely started the "Resistance" vs Trump before anyone else knew about it, makes for VERY strong evidence to sue the Democratic Party into oblivion and RICO their $$$ FOREVER!

 

How about it, Judicial Watch? You have the people and YOU, ALONE, are still actively Draining The Swamp.

 

The usual drill in political lawsuits would have JW waiting until Barr and his DOJ give them the word, but there is a significant chance that "word" will never come down, that @POTUS will not order Barr to indict anyone, and Barr won't do it of his own volition, even though that's within his purview as USAG.

 

@POTUS seems satisfied with hammering out Tweets and using acerbic language at his tub-thumper rally-speeches.

 

As I've said before in these spaces, the "Resistance" including the phony "''peaching", will not stop unless and until one or more major (D)-players are booked on their indictiments. There is enough evidence for indictments, especially HRC, and now Obama himself, not to mention Holder and company, Bubba and Miss Lynn.

 

I am afraid that now there will be no accountablity for the worst cases of Treason in our 242-year history UNLESS JW steps up to the plate with a Civil lawsuit, and that will MAYBE springboard the conflict-adverse President into taking CRIMINAL action against this cabal of Traitors known as the Democratic Party.

The Swamp is everywhere...

The "Swamp" is everywhere.

 

Scratch most "conservative" broadcasters, and you will find at least a little bit of Swamp.

 

Case in point, Fox-Business' Maria Bartiromo. She just finished a long, glowingly-fawning interview with a guy named Chandra, who is CEO of a new-ish company called Poshmark.

 

Poshmark is in the retail fashion business, and their Business Plan involves selling their customer's fashion lines for them. Consider the very name here: posh-MARK. Chandra sells stuff HE says are luxury goods, whether they are or are not. HE, Chandra, MARKS them as "posh". His plan is succeeding, and he has five MILLION fashion-line clients he is repping to fifty MILLION online customers.

 

Okay, the guy took an idea, made it work. Bully for him, right? If you say so, but Chandra knew that not all the goods he would market ACTUALLY were "posh" (a Brit slang term for luxurious). He markets just enough actually-posh lines to make all his end-users, middle-class women, BELIEVE that everything they buy from him is the very best quality and they are also getting a good deal on the price.

 

Bottom line on Poshmark is Buyer Beware. Back to Maria Bartiromo. She has a reputation for being Mizz Savvy Business Analyst. I did MY due dilligence researching Poshmark for this post, and guess what JUMPED off the page at ME?

 

Poshmark, currently privately held by Chandra, is planning an Initial Public Offering of stock this Fall. Maria Bartiromo never mentioned that, but asking the IPO question on googe brought me that answer.

 

Getting a little "insider" help from Chandra, are you, Maria Bartiromo? Remember what happened to Martha Stewart, in almost the same position as you are in?

 

The Commie Prosecutors in the Southern District of NY would LOVE to indict your pro-Trump tushie, Maria, and cover it with an orange jumpsuit.

 

My advice? Everyone, stay out of the Swamp. Yeah, you will get rich, but the money ain't worth it.

Chase Bank

JP Morgan Chase bank acct-holders: Chase is trying to remove your right to sue for disputes, force you into Binding Arbitration, which YOU MIGHT HAVE TO PAY FOR! Last time I was involved in Binding Arbitration, the arbitrator charged over $4K!

 

According to Chase's "bedsheet notice" (28.5" X 10.5"), single-spaced, two sides, I CAN opt out of Binding Arbitration, but I have to do it in writing (I'm good at that!) and they have to get it by 8/22/19. They give a PO Box, which could mean I can't send it Certified to get a Return Receipt, grrrr...

 

The notice also SEEMS to refer to a reduction in the Grace Period for interest-free use of their credit cards. They've either cut it by 4 days or nine, I'm not sure which...

 

Chase is introducing something to further confound account holders, the "My Plan" and "My Loan", which have to be addressed in very exacting ways, and the interest rate for credit cards now zooms to 19.9%! I have a 800 credit rating, and both USAA Fed Svgs Bank AND B of A have given me cards at far less interest rate, with $20K+ credit lines on them.

 

BTW, my entire account set-up is referred to by Chase as a MILITARY account, so this is how that firm now treats known Veterans. Grrrr!

 

BTW-2, JPM-C USED to have a New Yawk address, but this notice is addressed out of Wilmington, DE. In case you don't know, this is Joe Biden's greatest perfidy: he set up Delaware as a "no-rules" banking state back in the early '80s. If you need one reason to NEVER vote for Creepy Joe, this is it: he has screwed over more banking customers with "no-rules DE banking" than anyone else ever did. JMHO, but Delaware banks should rightly be considered in the same class as those in Belize or the Cayman Islands.

 

I just moved ALL my banking from a Credit Union to Chase in the past year. I'm definitely considering moving it again. I'm also considering the dumping of my Chase mortgage, esp. since mortgage rates have dropped almost a full point now since I re-floated my home-loan with Chase.

The Devil in those Details - "Globalism"

After watching more UniParty spin on Fox news this bright, sunny morning in Stumptown, I felt compelled to point out something that I and a few other more astute political observers have known for a long time - there is a HUGE difference between those who favor the expansion of Global Trade from our shores and those who favor the expansion of Global Government, both here and overseas.

I will put this as simply as I can, because the One-World-Order types, the "Globalists", usually attempt to cloak their support of Global Government in the fog of international trade.

Today, I listened to a "Cloaker", Laura Ingraham, discuss "Global Strategy" with the Fox News Sunday guest anchor, James Rosen. The political subject at hand was the de-certification of Iran's compliance with the idiotarian deal that the then-appeaser-in-chief, Barack Obama, made with the Mad Mullahs. President Trump's world-view on this deal includes ALL the global perfidy of Islamist Iran, not just their bob-and-weave stance on nuclear inspection. The European Government has not changed THEIR world-view on Iran since they agreed with Obama's appeasement of the mullahs and they are horrified that Trump seems to be dismantling the Neville-Chamberlain-ish appeasement treaty right before their shit-in-their-own-messkit leaders' eyes. Europe threw Israel under their double-decker bus-wheels years ago, in fact, I was there when, in 1956, the Brits failed to defeat militant Egypt and the Suez Crisis resulted, a scant eight years into the life of the Jewish State's existence. Europe is afraid of Iran. Yes, a few Iranian missiles COULD reach Europe, but both France and England have nuclear missile subs and could easily destroy Iran five times over. Iran may or may not have nukes to tip those missiles yet, depends on who you listen to. I listen to Israel, and they don't seem to be too worried just yet. There really is NO basis for the present EU worry and defiance of Trump, they ought to be jumping aboard his de-certification bandwagon, but instead, they oppose it.

Hmmmm. It makes NO sense for Europe to oppose de-cert, so why are they doing it?

The only answer for the Europeans' Iran de-cert reticence which makes sense is Trump's opposition to Globalism, and his expansion of US Global Trade. The EU (Common Market), far from being the trading powerhouse it claimed it was going to build some forty years ago, is a paper tiger. EU goods are not competitive, for the most part, because of taxes the EU imposes to support their member-state's socialist money-hunger. The Chinese have beaten the Europeans in their own market, likewise the Japanese, the Thais, etc, etc. We don't do too badly over there, either (see Ford cars).

The lesson for today, then, is just this: whenever you see the word "Global" in front of anything, start parsing the words of the speaker, but first, think for a few seconds about their motives. Are they the One-World-Order type? If they are, a complete line of horse-puckey follows. If they talk Global Trade, but are really boosting globalISM, they are NOT, repeat, NOT a conservative. Write them out of your life.

Thugball takes the Field AND the Court.

Racial Divide in the USA? Maybe.

Racial Divide in Professional Sports? Guaranteed

• In the NBA, 74.4% of the players are black.
• In the NFL, 70% are black. (Stat is in the title, disregard the HuffPo article, it's racist).
• Commissioner of the NFL says that the "Take a Knee" (cute-speak for Disrespect our National Flag and all it Stands for) is encouraged as an expression of "Free Speech".
• That's not how/why Colin Kaepernick started this movement. He started it as a Statement of Black Racism. His ladyfriend is a Marxist who started Black Lives Matter.
• When Stephan Curry, an NBA star player, said that he would carry this racist message to the White House because he was a member of the championship team that is traditionally invited, the President ordered that the invitation of his team be rescinded. The President was and is fighting Racism.

Here's the nub of it: Just because you are in a racial minority, you don't get a pass when you act racist. The Black Lives Matter Movement is racist and was founded to be racist as an adjunct of world Marxist revolution. Take that to the bank, I have.

I have fought Marxism, both here with this pen and in 'Nam from a B-52. Not about to let them win now....

Cue the Lee Greenwood. "Stand Up"!

Portland Transit Attack

During rush hour on Friday, on a busy Max train platform, a whacko who considers himself Christian (he isn't, follows ZERO Christian principles), targeted two women, one wearing a Hijab (Islamic clothing article) and began to rant at them. Two transit customers immediately gave a heated verbal response while others watched. The crazy pulled a knife and started slashing. Before it was over, the two loudest Social Justice Warriors lay dead, throats cut, and another bystander, her role not clear, was wounded as well (she will survive). The perp ran off, but was quickly apprehended by the police.

Now the fallout begins. Today, another Social Justice Warrior who also happens to be a newspaper Editor, Samantha Swindler, writes an editorial WHICH IS PUBLISHED ON PAGE TWO AS NEWS!!! If you get the Oregonian, you will note that she is NOT identified as an Editor, and in fact, her editorial is in the news section. That's a HUGE mistake, but it shows what the mass media is all about these days: claiming to inform us while actually propagandizing us.

Ms. Swindler leads her article:

A white Christian extremist is accused of murdering two men who stood up to defend a pair of teenage girls being harassed for their religion on a MAX train.

This is where unchecked hate can lead.

She ends it:

No one can turn away. The brave must stand up.

We cannot let fear silence us.

The Editor said NOTHING about the obvious bad choice of the slasher's victims to face a crazy man down. When the facts of this event are stacked up, the SJWs' bad choices are what led directly to their wounds. It has "bad optics" to say this, but the fact that these 2 people loudly opposed the perp's crazy, and also FREE speech got them killed.

The newspaper won't have the guts to put that out there, so I will.

Folks, it's sometimes called the "New York System", but when in the public, ESPECIALLY when riding transit with it's confined spaces and crowds limiting your freedom of defensive movement, you simply DO NOT GET VERBAL, no matter the provocation. Once that man pulled his knife, someone HAD to get cut unless a better actual (not social justice) Warrior was there to do proper battle with him. Even a gun-bearer would have had a hard time in that crowd. There would have been a large chance of a bullet striking an innocent. The bottom line there is that once the crazy felt challenged enough to get his knife out, de-escalation had no chance.

As for Editor Swindler, YOUR bad choices in your article may just get more people killed. The Publisher should have known better than to let you pull this stunt.

TrumpScam One - UPDATED

TrumpScam. Did #POTUS45 just pull a fast one, telling nobody?

On my Facebook page, I get targeted ads. Since I gave money to Trump's campaign 3X, I've constantly gotten requests for more. Nothing wrong with that.

Then Trump swears in, and the ads should stop, right? They didn't. Now I hear an explanation from a usually-reliable source with insider connections. If I klic, I will be redirected to the GOPe to donate $$$ to them.

Excuuuuse ME? 

If Trump made that "deal" with the GOPe, it is the WORST deal the Great Deal-maker hisself has ever made.

If Trump didn't make that deal, he is being played. 

Now we have to ask: who holds Trump's marionette-strings?

UPDATE: 032717 - It isn't trump, it's Zuckerbugger's algorithm. He has been doing this to everyone ever since he joined forces with Googe-Spooge. I finally had enough of it today and exited Facebook Stage Right. Of course, Zuckerbugger runs the place from Stage Left...

Assorted Sunday growls

That was the Week that Was:

Politics, two growls:

1. The PopeScams. His Hollowness, Pope Francis, comes to the US of A to spread Catholicism Socialism. He says nothing against our enemy, radical Islam (the same as ordinary Islam). He is all re-distribution of income, all the time. He is also all greenscam PopeScam all the time.

2. The GOPe political season. The news here is that Fox News has turned unabashedly RINO. They are all Dump Trump, all the time. Their only salvation is that they don't seem to be pushing any RINO very hard, just railing against the three non-insiders, Trump, Carson and Fiorina. The lack of Fox enthusiasm for RINOs seems to be more about waiting for a clear front-running RINO to emerge. What Fox is too stupid to realize is that Trump IS the RINO they are looking for. They would be all for Trump if he would just agree to play with the RNC's ball and not keep tossing that one over the fence.

Sports, several growls:

1. The Ducks suck, but I have already written about that.

2. The Eagles suck. I thought that decent talent plus a superb coach would be the magic formula for success, but I may have missed that train, boat, whatever...

3. The Seahawks suck. The vaunted Defense is no more. The offense doesn't dazzle anyone. No Championship for them.

4. I played soccer before it was popular, in the Fifties. I know the game, and I know that the MLS Portland Timbers suck.

Let's find something to cheer about.

1. My wife's old High School, Roosevelt, had an alumni dinner event, and we were graciously hosted by a local sportsman of note. The alumni have a Pep Band, and it was GOOD, albeit a bit much for the confines of the banquet room we were in. This fine evening was capped off with your blogger winning a raffled $50 gift cert to a fine local restaurant!

Also at this event, I was advised of a fine program the school and alums are putting on to steer some citizenship towards the students: it's called "Youth and the Law", and it gives the kids the lowdown on what's legal activity and what isn't. Yes, the parents ought to be teaching their kids this, but sadly, in many cases at RHS, the parents never learned those lessons either.

2. Fall is here! Aside from the leaf messes, it's my favorite season. It was a delicious 34 degrees at 0700 when I went out to get my Sunday blatt. Hottest Summer on record, you are HISTORY!

Enough growling. Now that my throat is clear enough to cheer, I will watch the Titans kick some Colt butt, and sip a Hot Honey, Lemon and Bourbon to ward off whatever attacked me last night.

 

Cabin Fever...

...does not translate into more blogging, only the blaaahs. Four days of winter storm now....

In other news, my favorite squish, Bill O'Reilly, just got taken to the woodshed, here. O'Reilly is an unabashed Christie-hugger, and has adopted the Christie-squishy Obama bromance as his own. No one knows whether O'Reilly is actually a Republican, so it may not be accurate to call him a RINO, but it's certainly accurate to call him a CYSTO - Conservative Yankee, Self Titled Only. In other words, an ass-loving boil on the posterior.

The music is starting: the drip-sounds of the thaw. Here's the visual prospect:

I'll just listen to the winter sounds of my yesteryears....