Consolidation of power by an elite group who control and finance the Deep State has been the ultimate goal over the past decades as the federal government expanded to usurp the power of the states. A bureaucracy was formed with regulations outnumbering laws passed by congress.
Saul Alinsky (1909-1972) was Hillary’s mentor and spelled out the ten steps that this consolidation of power needed to follow to be successful:
Control health care and you control the people.
Increase the poverty level. Poor people are easier to control and will not fight back if you give them everything they need to live.
Increase the debt to an unsustainable level.
Remove the ability of the people to defend themselves. Take their guns so you can create a police state.
Welfare – Control every aspect of the people’s lives (food, housing, income)
Control the education system, what they read and listen to.
Remove the belief in God from the government and schools.
Divide the people into the wealthy and the poor. Tax the wealthy to support the poor. (social engineering)
Own and control all media to disallow opposing ideas.
Use all the different forms of media to control civilian thought.
Alinsky provided the blueprint, multi-billionaires like George Soros provided the money. Soros is well into his 90’s and has passed the reins to his son who has been brainwashed by his father to carry on the work. Soros must be in panic mode realizing he is not immortal and must do everything he can to achieve his documented goal: the total destruction of America.
Soros has also recruited other multi-billionaires and gave them a taste of power. An example is Bill Gates, friend and frequent visitor to Epstein’s island, to use his wealth to taste the power of God…mosquitoes bred to spread disease, blasting chemicals into the sky to alter the weather, financing medical experiments by funding degenerates like Fauci who has literally killed millions of people with his fixation on creating dangerous vaccines.
The elites were gathering momentum but had a brief detour when John Kennedy saw the danger and began programs to avoid the Alinsky rules…Voting Rights and Racial Equality led to both he and his brother being assassinated.
Back on track, Hillary was about to reach that pinnacle of power that her husband screwed up (literally). When she lost the election to Trump, the power elite did everything they could to stifle his return to the Ten Commandments and The Constitution.
Fauci unleashed the most destructive weapon the powerful had to keep Trump in check with the COVID pandemic. Knowing that Trump would devastate their plans, the 2020 election was blatantly rigged with obvious theft of votes. They used Stalin’s rule…”it’s not important who votes but who counts the votes”. The Soros infected judicial system kicked in and blocked any investigation.
With Biden sworn in, the power elite began throwing everything they could to achieve the Alinsky goals. Read them again…they haven’t missed any. I’m sure the elites are not very visible. They wield their power by controlling industries such as the media, pharma, technology and the consolidation of any corporate entity they can use to maintain control.
Congress critters were given a chance to “wet their beaks” in Mafia style and passed laws they didn’t read crafted by the elite though the army of lobbyists. Have you noticed how those critters come in as middle class and evolve into millionaires? Take that bartender elected to congress (AOC). She is now worth $29 million and no one has wondered how she did it. Her beak is wet. She’s and others are nervous because they know Trump isn’t afraid to ask that question.
The Trump Derangement Syndrome has hit full fever and they believe they have enough power for a blatant destruction of Trump through the Soros tainted judiciary. They truly believe they can create their view of what this country should be by destroying what it once was. They fear the Make America Great Again consolidation of patriots willing to fight back with what’s left of the government.
They know that a Trump assassination would spark a civil war. Their useful idiots in roles as judges and prosecutors have begun a judicial assassination while the media they control is praising their efforts. So far, so good.
They’re calling it lawfare. There are two sides in every war. It’s literally lawyer versus lawyer with the Supreme Court the Generals. There are Generals from both sides on the Supreme Court. The wheels of justice grind slowly. Let’s hope they’re still on track.
Ever wonder why license plates are made by prisoners?
Some of those prisoners are there because of nefarious actions on their part.
I’m beginning to think the politicians who make the license plate laws are their kindred spirits.
Here’s how it works using New York State as an example:
New York State will be paying $4 million to Avery Dennison for the plate materials after 3M lost the contract. The plates are made by prison labor at about a buck an hour. That cost of $4 million and the labor is recovered by charging NY taxpayers $75 million for the plates.
The initial cost of the machinery is amortized over decades…and is also sold by 3M….the largest seller of license plate machinery and materials. 3M has lots of lobbyists pushing the “need” for plates both front and back. Their main argument is that it helps law enforcement catch the bad guys. Maybe make the rear plates bigger since they are chasing bad guys and not being chased.
The logic for both plates sounds like the gun registration laws to keep guns away from criminals. The good guys, of course, pay for both.
Thirty-one states require their motorists to display front license plates and plates on the back of their vehicles. The nineteen states that require only one plate include Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, New Mexico.
Legislation (S.F. 2694/H.F. 1817) has been introduced in Minnesota to allow for the issuance of only a single, rear-mounted license plate for special interest vehicles. These bills are currently awaiting consideration in the House and Senate Transportation Finance and Policy Divisions.
Some of the legislation goes back decades with no action after legislative time spent on the issue. Makes you wonder if the 3M lobbyists were “assisting” the politicians in those efforts.
License plates are big revenue items for states. Special plates, personalized plates and replacement plates bring in big bucks. Then there are the “tabs” paid annually to “update” the license plates.
Here’s an argument that will pose a conundrum for those lobbyists. Politicians can maintain the cost of the plate tax but cut costs in half by eliminating the front plate. The cost but not revenue for the tabs is cut in half also. Won’t effect any LEO (law enforcement officer) who is chasing the bad guys and want to catch the plate ID.
Every state enjoys license plate revenue and has created laws as complex as Minnesota. It would appear that 19 states have realized that cost cut without losing revenue with their one plate law.
BTW: those aren’t “license” plates. You can have a drivers license without owning a car. The plates are proof of vehicle registration (and taxes paid).
So what put this bee in my bonnet?
I own a 1992 Mazda Miata. That front plate is inches off the ground. Any LEO checking on it would have to get on their hands and knees to read it. Note also it’s right in front of the air intake that keeps the engine cooled. It’s also a prime target for that car wash monster brush.
Here’s the back plate several feet off the ground and easy to read for any LEO chasing me. She’s 30 years old…running well (thanks to Impact Auto in Farmington) and MN collects just the minimum tax on the plates and tabs.
Another interesting fact…my insurance company gives me a discount for theft protection…yep…the standard transmission. I’m safe from the current crop of clueless car jackers.
For those wondering…yes, she loves winter. Special snow tires and she’s like a mountain goat over even big snow drifts…usually found in my driveway. This picture is from the mountains of Arizona where she ran naked in front. She has a collection of plates from five other states.
My thanks to MN State House (58B) Member Pat Garofalo for help in wading through the huge legislative information about the issue. Here’s hoping he’ll share this with the legislature next session.
Income tax filing date is mid-April… as far away (over 200 days) from an election date as possible. Maybe politicians figure you’ll forget about the taxes you paid this year. Maybe they also figure they can persuade you to donate your refund to their campaign. They already ask for a donation on the IRS forms. Them congress critters are sneaky!
I’ve been filling out tax forms for about 60 years now. I finally figured out a way to relieve the stress and mitigate the amount of cursing involved…get my kids to do it.
Few years ago, the result was interesting. One daughter is an English major so she could focus on the language of the tax codes. The other was a math major so she could do the number crunching. The math major missed some of the “fed-speak” language on a form and the English major found an error of several thousand dollars. Maybe the confusion was deliberate so the politicians could continue to rely on lobbying money from corporations like Turbo Tax?
it takes a minimum of 13 hours for the average person to fill out their taxes. That’s why sixty percent of Americans pay someone else to do their taxes. Lobbyists for those companies who do the taxes might be responsible for the complexity and size of the tax code. With 255,369,678 adults in United States, a 60% size of market is about 160 million customers who pay an average of $323.00. I was going to compute the total dollar market but my calculator hasn’t recovered from this year.
This year I figured none of my five kids would have the time to bypass Turbo Tax and try to fill out the forms. So…time to tap the smarts of my seven grandkids. I started with the youngest…that granddaughter has 15 (so far) years of education and is a math whiz. I was pleasantly surprised that she had been taught a fundamental course on taxes in high school here in Minnesota.
Florida is officially the largest state to mandate a financial literacy course for high school graduation. “What the bill is doing with financial literacy is really providing a foundation for students that’s going to be applicable in their lives regardless of what path they take,” said Gov DeSantis. “This will provide a foundation for the students to learn the basics of money management, understanding debt, understanding how to balance a checkbook, understanding the fundamentals of investing.”
The new law will apply to students entering ninth grade in the 2023-2024 school year and require that they take a half-credit course in personal finance before they graduate.
I’m guessing that having high school students learn how to prepare taxes using Turbo Tax would take a semester while understanding the entire tax code would add a year to the curriculum.
OK…time to have some fun with my granddaughter’s reaction to helping with my taxes.
I offered this short form I found on the internet to get it done quickly.
She just smiled at me and opened the calculator.
She then had to choose the forms to use. There is the standard 1040 or the 1040SR for seniors. Obvious choice is senior because she is helping her grandfather.
The four page 1040SR form starts simply with a choice of filing status. The puzzled look on her face is mitigated with the assurance that the 114 pages of instructions for that four page form should help us determine my filing status. I had the pdf instructions on my computer so she could track back and forth between the paper forms and the computer monitor.
While she crunched the numbers and looked for the forms to use…I mentioned that there are 73,954 total pages in the tax code, while only 1,281 pages in the Bible. There’s also 60,000 pages in case law defining the tax codes. She found that the regular 1040 form would work because that’s what form I used the past few years because I itemized my deductions…and then we searched for the Schedule A form…somewhere in those 73,954 pages on my computer.
A few hours later, she was all smiles and actually enjoyed filling out my federal tax forms.
And then I said…”Now for the Minnesota forms”.
I thought for sure she was going to pull this one out again.
Tax Foundation, a politically independent nonprofit devoted to analyzing tax policies, ranked Minnesota as the eighth-worst state in the U.S. for individual income tax… right up there with Washington D.C., Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, California, and Hawaii.
According to Tax Foundation, U.S. states that perform poorly on their individual income tax analysis “tend to have high tax rates and very progressive tax structures.” The report also makes a connection between individual income tax and the health of a state’s overall business climate.
A recent analysis from the nonpartisan Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center estimated that 57% of Americans paid no taxes last year. While that’s down slightly from last year’s 60%, it marks a significant increase from the 44% recorded before the pandemic began. Essentially, no household making less than $28,000 paid federal income tax last year, nor will a majority – about 75% – of those making between $28,000 and $55,000. Among middle-income households, about 43% paid no federal income tax. Nearly everyone paid the government in another form, whether through state and local sales taxes, excise taxes, property taxes or state income taxes.
With my tax forms in the mail…time to plan for next year.
Next in line to help grandpa is my grandson.
With the training he’s receiving, I don’t think he’d put up with the bull crap involved with the tax code nor with the politicians. He’s armed and dangerous and ready to handle idiots.
Next in line would be another math whiz recently graduated with a ton of scholastic honors…
She’s already assured me she’ll be available for the audit from this year…and keep grandpa out of jail.
The Lame Stream Media has visions of war correspondents winning numerous awards for their coverage of the Ukraine War…
… the war’s devastation is shown all over the news…OH WAIT!
That’s downtown Minneapolis after a peaceful protest by Black Lives Matter.
Back to Ukraine…
Russia seized territory from Ukraine in 2014, starting with the Crimean Peninsula. Now Putin is gaining the Russian speaking territories adjacent to Russia’s border (Russian parliament and the Kremlin are going to recognize Donetsk and Lugansk as independent states). Putin has also destroyed the dozen bio-weapon labs on Russia’s border sponsored in Ukraine by the US State Department.
President Zelensky is featured on the news as a defiant protector of Ukraine.
Remember when Alexander Vindman, a Ukrainian immigrant dressed up in his US Army uniform, best known for his award-winning role as the star witness in the first Trump impeachment trial, told BBC News that Ukrainian President Zelensky has been like “a man of steel” by avoiding giving Russia any pretext to attack his country?
Zelensky didn’t offer to help expose the obvious corruption with Biden and Hunter, he also went after President Trump during that impeachment fiasco. The actual transcripts of the Trump/Zelensky conversations totally discredited Vindman and the Democrats…but were ignored by the Lame Stream Media.
Zelensky could end the war immediately if he told Hunter Biden that the Russian tanks are smuggling crack cocaine into Ukraine. Hunter would capture every one of them single handed.
Remember when we went four years without a war but had to endure mean tweets?
Looks like we’re going to pay higher gas prices because President Zelensky employed Biden’s crack smoking son.
Hope I’ve piqued your interest in the Ukraine story. If you search the internet for further information about Ukraine, please note that Google says Ivermectin doesn’t work and men can get pregnant…just saying.
Maybe we should require anyone that wants to post opinion on Ukraine…to be required to find it on a map? They could borrow Sean Penn’s map as Hollyweird gears up to tell us “the truth”. He’s in Ukraine complete with Rambo costume for the cameras.
Oh, and don’t forget John Kerry’s fears that the Russia-Ukraine war will distract from the fight for climate “something”.
Meanwhile, the CDC Announces New Guidelines For Masks And Eases Restrictions In Accordance With Democratic Polling…and the Judge Sentencing The Guy Who Stole Pelosi’s Lectern Compares January 6th To the War In Ukraine.
Just a reminder of how we got to where we are.
BTW: that chicken Kiev recipe calls for herbs inside…with Hunter Biden involved…no telling what kind of herbs.
As of 2010, there have been 165 laws enacted by congress that have been declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. The amount of time and money spent in litigation must be considered to avoid this in the future. For that reason, I am proposing the CCAA as both remuneration of those costs and a warning to Congress Critters that frivolous, petty and ideological laws they pass will have consequences.
Here’s how it works:
If the law is declared unconstitutional, those Congress Critters who voted for the passage of the law shall be made responsible for the payment for the time and legal fees involved with the litigation. The sponsors of the unconstitutional law shall be held responsible at twice the fine. The payments are to be by the Critter and not their political party coffers.
Further, the names of the law schools involved in educating the Congress Critters who sponsored or voted for the rejected laws shall be named along with the fines. Should those law schools reach 50% of alumni of the failed laws, accreditation of the law schools shall be revoked for a period consistent with the term of office of any of their alumni.
Further, lobbyists for those entities that have benefitted from the unconstitutional law shall be barred from contacting any Congress Critter for the term of office of the Congress Critter. The IRS shall conduct a forensic review of the lobbyist’s expense reports.
Further, “journalists” who supported the unconstitutional law in both “news” and editorials shall be fined $1,000.00 for every adjective they have used in the articles. They will also be placed n a safe zone outside a fifty-mile radius of Congress or contact with the Critters. The names of any University associated with the journalist’s matriculation will also be identified.
Further, should the offending Congress Critters be unable or refuse to pay the fines, their pensions and current salaries shall be assigned to the fine. Congressional benefits will also be withheld with the exception of medical insurance with premiums paid personally by them in the same manner as their constituents.
Further, should the journalist be unable or refuse to pay the fines, his employer shall make available, at no cost, advertising space for those Congress Critters who voted against the unconstitutional law based on current ad rate cards and ad placement criteria based on those ad rates. Production costs of the ads shall be at the employer’s expense as well.
This draft will now be submitted for committee review and available at:
Janet Yellen, Secretary of the Treasurer, has proposed a tax on unrealized capital gains.
That means if you buy a stock for $1,000.00 and it rises in value to $5,000.00 but then drops back to a value of $1,000.00…you will pay taxes on the $4,000.00 you never “realized”.
I think I know where she got this counter intuitive idea that doesn’t make sense: the current property tax structure in most of the country.
Here’s how it works:
You buy a house for $100,000.00 and pay the annual property tax on the estimated market value of the house…proven by the purchase price.
In a few months after you purchased your house, real estate agents sell comparable houses for $20,000.00 more than you paid. The property taxes on those houses are based on their estimated market value…proven by the purchase price.
The local property tax assessor then looks at similar properties…yours included…and concludes that you should pay more tax on the new estimated market value…based on those similar houses. That seems to me to fit the description of a tax on unrealized capital gains.
The counter argument would be that the price of your house will never fall so your house will have more value when you sell it thus the logic for the higher property tax. That argument has merit since real estate agents will always push for the highest price when selling houses since they rely on a commission based on the selling price. Even if you give any merit to this argument, it is still nothing more than a tax on unrealized capital gains.
Here’s where the word obfuscation comes into play:
In my case, there is a homestead exclusion as well as “other excl/deferrals” noted on my property tax bill. Regardless, the property tax “estimated market value” is still more than $40,000.00 over the amount I paid for the house in the five years I’ve lived here.
The taxing authority uses what is called a mill rate to determine the tax on the “estimated market value”: Mill rate is a tax rate—the amount of tax payable per dollar of the assessed value of a property. Mill is derived from a Latin word meaning thousandth. As used in property tax, 1 mill is equal to $1 in property tax levied per $1,000 of a property’s assessed value…based on the estimated market value. It’s still a tax rate no matter what label that’s applied.
Now add in the additional obfuscation called classifications and the need for the tax assessors to search through the real estate records to determine prices of all the houses as well as factoring in new construction. In Dakota County MN, there are forty of these tax assessors with an annual budget of $4,550,000.00 to create the new “estimated market value” of all of the houses in the county.
Here are some of the numbers these 40 tax assessors work with:
There are 170,000 housing units in Dakota County with a median “estimated market value” of $291,000.00. That’s $49,470,000,000.00 in “estimated market value”. Using the mill rate (tax rate) of 1.08%, the tax should bring in $534,276,000.00 if all property was taxed equally using “estimated market value”. The Dakota County mill levy of 1.08% this year resulted in $144.6 million (property tax) income.
The average county budget during this time is about $450 million. State, Federal, Fees for Service make up the non-property tax income because the property tax brought in just $144 million. Property tax on the actual value of the houses in Dakota County could have brought in almost $100 million more than the entire budget. Population is 430,000 and a median income of about $88,000.00. Those numbers lend credibility to the “estimated market value” and number of houses in MN’s Dakota County.
Fixed income retirees are now faced with rising property tax based on the rising market value of their house…in some cases, triple the tax assessment than the price they paid for their homes. The Real Estate industry, enjoying commissions as high as 7% of the selling price of houses, are now offering reverse mortgages because seniors are being forced out of their homes because of the rising taxes. Though the median age of Dakota County residents is about 38 years, that still leaves hundreds of retired citizens with the problem.
A simple answer (anathema to politicians?) would be to freeze property tax assessment at the price paid rather than the “estimated market value”. Tax revenue would grow when the house sells again and the property tax then based on the new selling price. This could eliminate the entire arbitrary tax assessment process and the legal battles that retirees pay lawyers to fight. It would also streamline the governmental property tax process.
The $4.55 million budget (and expertise of the 40 assessors) for the tax assessment department could be better applied to finding out why current property tax revenue is well below the actual numbers and value of the housing units in Dakota County. Other departments, such as the information within building permits, could be incorporated into the process.
The tax assessors are the “boots on the ground”. If anyone can make sense of the system, these are the people our politicians should work with in fixing what is, in my opinion, a tax on unrealized capital gains.
My thanks to Mike Slavik for digging out some of the numbers. He is the Dakota County Commissioner for my district and was very prompt in responding to my inquiries and provided comments, suggestions and corrections. Any inaccuracies are mine though I encourage everyone to spend the time questioning, not only how taxes are collected, but what the government does with the money.
My calculator is exhausted so here’s a challenge for you:
State transportation revenues currently come from three sources: the gas tax, vehicle registration fees (tabs), and the Motor Vehicle Sales Tax. The average annual per capita use of gas in Minnesota is 528 gallons. The population of Minnesota is 5.7 million. The excise tax on gasoline in Minnesota is 28.6 cents per gallon not counting the additional 18.4 federal gas tax and 24.4 on diesel. That comes to $151.1 per capita annually raised in Minnesota from a Minnesota tax.
This figure does NOT include any federal funding for transportation. The 18.4 cents per gallon federal tax totals $98.00 per capita paid by MN drivers as a tax on gasoline.
Remember that obnoxious kid who threatened to tell your mom on you?
Now they threaten you with a lawyer.
Then another lawyer (a judge) tells you whether you’re guilty or not.
Doesn’t matter… you still have to pay a lawyer. The other lawyer gets paid too even if wrong.
Nice work if you can get it.
Here’s a deep dive into what is called the judicial process…invented by lawyers. Please have patience…there’s some good stuff in here. If you understand how the judicial system works, you’ll soon figure out what happened during the last election…and how to make sure it doesn’t happen again.
9 lawyers
Every year from 2012 to 2019, the Supreme court received an average of 7,000 to 8,000 petitions for a hearing. Each year, the court has agreed to hear only about 80 of those cases.
That’s 1%.
The Constitution limits original jurisdiction cases to those involving disputes between the states or disputes arising among ambassadors and other high-ranking ministers. Appellate jurisdiction means that the Court has the authority to review the decisions of lower courts. Most of the cases the Supreme Court hears are appeals from lower courts. The federal government currently has 94 district courts and 13 circuit courts, as well as Bankruptcy Court and the Court of International Trade.
Four of the nine Justices must vote to accept a case. one Justice may grant a stay pending review by the entire Court. Each Justice is permitted to have between three and four law clerks per Court term. These are individuals who, fairly recently, graduated from law school, typically, at the top of their class from the best schools. Often, they have served a year or more as a law clerk for a federal judge. Among other things, they do legal research that assists Justices in deciding what cases to accept; help to prepare questions that the Justice may ask during oral arguments; and assist with the drafting of opinions.
Total: 54 lawyers
Each state within the United States, plus the District of Columbia, has at least one supreme court, or court of last resort. There are 344 lawyers on these courts and have a limited time in office, unlike the lifetime appointment to the Fed supreme court.
Total: 407 lawyers
Now let’s drill down and use Minnesota to further understand the judicial process:
Currently, the MN Supreme Court reviews petitions in approximately 700 cases a year and accepts about 10-12 percent of cases from the Minnesota Court of Appeals. The court also resolves appeals from the Workers’ Compensation Court of Appeals and the Tax Court, two executive-branch agency courts, and petitions filed by the Lawyers Professional Responsibility Board, and the Board on Judicial Standards. Certain election-related disputes and appeals in first-degree murder cases are automatically heard by the MN Supreme Court.
The Minnesota Court of Appeals provides review of all final decisions of the trial courts, state agencies, and local governments. As the error-correcting court, the Court of Appeals handles most of the appeals, which allows the Minnesota Supreme Court to spend time resolving difficult constitutional and public policy cases. There are 19 lawyers on the Minnesota Court of Appeals
Total: 426 lawyers
Digging deeper into this miasma…there are 19 judges in the Dakota County court system. To reach these judges, you must have a lawyer file a form from the 34 categories developed by the MN state administrator’s office. There is a state court administrator and a deputy state court administrator in charge of this piece of the puzzle. The State Court Administrator’s Office is organized into an Executive Office and six divisions.
Total: 428 lawyers plus an unknown number listed in six divisions of the state’s administrator’s office, control the system of review.
So that’s the legal hierarchy of the lawyers who will interpret laws created by other lawyers…and a few idiots elected to join the lawyers in the government bodies created to make the laws. Of course, I’m referring to our 535 congress critters and those law makers at the state levels. They have managed to create so many laws that it would destroy every tree on the planet if they were printed on paper.
Not content with creating laws, the Judicial system does have a major flaw. They allowed administrators to create bureaucracies who then began a competition creating rules and regulations to compete with the number of laws. The net effect was usurpation of the Judicial process by administrators who answer to the Executive branch…a clear merging of the two branches of government with conflicting rulings…bringing even more “need” for judges. Current egregious example is the vaccine mandate that allows bureaucrats from health departments to force citizens to accept foreign materials into their bodies. Quick check within the Constitution clearly makes this illegal but the administrators (like Lord Fauci) pay no heed to that now superfluous document.
Lawyers exist mainly to protect you from other lawyers.
Currently there are 1,352,027 lawyers in the US.
170 members of the House and 60 Senators are lawyers. Out of a total of 435 U.S. Representatives and 100 Senators, lawyers comprise the biggest voting block of one type, making up 43% of Congress. I’ll let you figure out how many members are idiots with or without legal training.
There are 81 Republicans in Congress who list “lawyer” as their profession. There are 123 Democrats in Congress that list “lawyer” as their profession.
MN has 25,369 lawyers for a population of 5,706,400 citizens. That’s 45 lawyers for every group of 10,000 citizens. MN lawyers must start at the state court administrator’s office to start the paperwork on any legal action on behalf of their clients who have run up against this tsunami of laws, rules and regulations.
The Minnesota Legislature has 67 senators and 134 representatives for a total of 201 members. The State of Minnesota is divided into 67 legislative districts, with about 79,163 people in each district. Voters elect one senator from each of these districts. Each senate district is divided into two sections. Voters elect one House member, or representative, from each section, making a total of 134 representatives. These districts, which are made up of about 39,582 people each, are identified with an “A” or a “B.”
The Nebraska legislature is simpler. It is a unicameral consisting of 49 senators. One of them was a member for half a century…Ernie Chambers…with a law degree from Creighton University but a barber by profession.
Ernie Chambers
I fondly remember many hours in the Student Center at Creighton University in the late 1950’s with Ernie where he gently questioned many of my opinions. At that age, I had many. He had a profound effect on my life as I decided to focus on learning rather than on grades. The Jesuits weren’t very happy but I got the education I wanted and paid for.
It’s worth the internet search on Ernie, specially the time he successfully sued God in that august body. The state actually passed a term limit law to get rid of him but he was re-elected again and is the longest serving state senator…because he serves his voters and not a political party.
What turned Ernie into one of the few politicians I know and admire is his sense of humor. You knew he was bringing you to a conclusion that was diametrically opposed to your opinion…by his infectious grin and soft voice. Ernie boiled everything down to common sense rather than ideology. If you disagreed with him you soon realized it didn’t matter because he was representing his constituents, not you.
I never got the chance to vote for Ernie. I left Nebraska for Vietnam and subsequently lived in ten states but never back to Nebraska. I did manage to follow Ernie’s career as a senator as he became the conscience of that lawyer filled body.
Ernie would have been the only non-Republican politician I ever voted for…until 2020 when I voted for DFLer Matt Little for reelection to the MN state senate.
Here’s what led me to that decision:
The Republican party ran lies about him during the campaign which led me to view his campaign video. Here was this politician running through large crowds with a staff person running behind him holding a huge sign with an arrow that pointed to Matt with just his name on it.
You couldn’t help but laugh while admiring his ridicule of politics while garnering name recognition.
I then viewed some videos of his presentations to various groups. He didn’t sound like a politician…common sense and logic backed his presentations…and even asked for opposing views.
The video on his campaign website of wife Coco fielding a phone call from the Republican party was the kicker. She was grinning throughout the video as the caller told lie after lie about her husband to get her to vote for the Republican…they didn’t know they had just called their opponents wife.
I invited him to stop by after he lost the election. He showed up and we shared an adult beverage and pondered the state of the world. We didn’t solve anything but confirmed a mutual admiration. I’m almost afraid to ask what he admires about me.
Matt has a difficult decision to make…fight the system from the inside or from the outside. He has the credentials to be drafted for the internal battle. It may boil down to how far into the battlefield he ventures.
Change is coming.
That change includes a complete rejection of the Lame Stream Media as a source of news. Social media is witnessing change as free rather than censored websites are growing exponentially. Potential voters are starting to embrace politicians who do not parrot any of the party approved cliches and are firmly based on principle and love of country that goes beyond party label.
The uniparty of RINOs and Democrats will see their voter base erode as candidates listen to their supporters rather than party officials.
Success for people like Matt will come from a position of strength where supporters will begin financing people campaigns rather than party campaigns.
The internet has given us the ability to find the politician who fully supports their political party…or the patriot who will ask the simple question: Does this proposed law benefit the people I represent?
We’re now in a battle about election fraud. Key state politicians jury rigged their state election laws without their legislature involved and now lawyers are arguing about whether it affected the outcome of the election.
One group of lawyers will say it did while the other group will say it didn’t.
We’ll be back to that top tier of lawyers (SCOTUS) who replaced your Mom when making a decision about what’s right or wrong.
Once the judicial process is complete…we’re back to politicians making new laws to replace the laws that were rejected.
If you don’t find the patriots among the politicians…that’s going to be your fault when you vehemently disagree with the laws. I urge you to take the time…and donate time and money directly to those patriots.
Or let your mother dry your tears.
While you cogitate on this information, here are a few memes with very succinct messages:
George Floyd had five kids (that we know of) with several women. Father’s Day must have been a really busy day for him unless all of the kids and their mothers would gather in one place for this special day.
George’s father was no help in teaching George what to do on Father’s Day since his father was no more to be seen after George was two years old.
George may have empathized with the anguish his father must have felt from missing Father’s Day as George was separated from his family between 1997 and 2005, while serving eight jail terms on various charges, including drug possession, theft, and trespass.
George must have had a close relationship with his mother because he called out to her as he was dying from a self-induced drug overdose discovered in his official autopsy.
George’s family gives new meaning to the adjective extended as they held three distinct memorial services to thank the people who donated over $13 million from GoFundMe to add to the $27 million from the Minneapolis City Council as reparations for a crime that was not yet established as the Chauvin trial was just getting underway.
George’s brother, Philonise, apparently is in charge of the money as he said it will cover expenses for “mental and grief counselling, lodging and travel for all court proceedings, and to assist our family in the days to come as we continue to seek justice for George,” as well as the ongoing “benefit and care of his children and their educational fund”.
Al Sharpton, in appearances wherever he noticed that a camera was present, apparently is ready and willing to provide the mental and grieve counseling for the extended family. How extended? George had five siblings. His family is known for being large going back to his great grandmother who had 22 children and his Aunt Angela who has nine sisters.
It may be prudent for the family to engage the services of Ancestry.com, a genealogy search service, to identify additional family members who may benefit from the mental and grieve counseling. Using DNA match, the company can scientifically identify and confirm all of George Floyd’s family members.
An anonymous source (see how that works?) suggested that Al Sharpton should take a DNA test from Ancestry to see if he could be related to the Floyd family and get some of that mental and grieve counseling.
To allay any concerns about the use of DNA results by law enforcement, the company states that “Ancestry does not voluntarily cooperate with law enforcement. To provide our Users with the greatest protection under the law, we require all government agencies seeking access to Ancestry customers’ data to follow valid legal process and do not allow law enforcement to use Ancestry’s services to investigate crimes or to identify human remains”.
The statement by Ancestry may have been in response to several claims that the George Floyd autopsy results were falsified and that George died because a police officer knelt on him and not because of the lethal drugs that were confirmed by an autopsy to be in his system during his arrest by four Minneapolis police officers.
Try as they may, the Lame Stream Media will never convince me that the death of George Floyd is a matter of race. Critical race theory and white supremacy are the latest permutations of that claim.
I can counter with examples of how racial hatred and division comes from lack of a father:
Maxine Waters is the fifth of 13 children. She was raised by a single mother after her father left the family when she was two.
“Rev” Al Sharpton told Oprah about his father leaving his family, taking Sharpton’s older, half sister with him and having a child with her.
“Rev” Jesse Jackson’s mother, Helen Burns, was 16; his father, Noah Louis Robinson was a married man. When Jesse was 2, Helen married Charles Jackson but Jesse lived with his grandmother Matilda until he was 13.
Martin Luther King Sr., a clergyman in Atlanta, taught his son not only to stand against the system of hate surrounding them, but also to forgive the people caught up in it. His father taught him to live as a man of character, love and courage. His father taught him never to let go of the dream of freedom.
See the connection?
I wish the Floyd family well…but do wonder what George’s life would have been like if his father had been around.
Maybe Father’s Day is important…to remind us that fathers are important?
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Sharon (Karen?) Friar, CEO of Nextdoor.com, has stepped over the woke line. Besides the hurtful “disabled” label she has pinned on me, a disabled Vietnam veteran, she has accused me of discriminating against my neighbors. Since I have equal disdain for idiocy on both sides of the woke spectrum, I am contemplating legal rather than suicidal action against her egregious and knee jerk reaction to my innocent dialogue with my neighbors on the Nextdoor.com website.
My initial post was a simple query about why politicians like Governor Timmy of MN always had a sign language person front and center. I guessed that it was for the deaf reporters since the FCC mandates closed caption be available for the deaf and hard of hearing obviating the need if no deaf reporters were present.
Now I admit I laughed out loud at some of the hilarious responses my innocent query elicited from my not so woke neighbors to the detriment of any logical explanation any politician would have for this obvious political theater. I’m also curious as to why my post created so many responses that it was tagged as a top post (whatever that designation means).
When I tried to log back on to Nextdoor.com after the three day disablement(?), I was confronted with a box to check signifying that I would adhere to the Nextdoor.com guidelines.
Apparently, Ben wasn’t having anything to do with the verbiage contained in the Nextdoor.com guidelines and I trust him more than the Nextdoor.com guidelines. I am now sure I won’t have to publish the following self-flagellation for the benefit of the aggrieved Nextdoor.com staff:
“The three day ban has made me realize the enormity of my actions which led to momentary suicidal thoughts but now agree with Nextdoor.com that the ban is probably sufficient. I am taking the more extreme action of cancelling my “account” with Nextdoor.com to atone for my sin(s). My neighbors on Nextdoor.com can be assured that I am now “woke” and will cower in my safe space in order to never never never commit such an egregious act as questioning the political theatre of a Democrat politician and the always present, virtue signaling, gyrating sign language lady”.
Given the location of the Nextdoor.com main office in Nancy Pelosi’s district, I should have realized the unspoken rules. I will follow Nancy’s leadership and symbolically tear up the latest invoice from my internet service provider.
BTW: Spend some time researching the various layers of the Nextdoor.com staff. Not surprising that their collective backgrounds would result in a business plan hell bent on gaining power rather than customers. How they explain that alienating and losing customers is valuable to the companies buying ad space on Nextdoor.com is a mystery.
There is the obvious modus operandi…spread hate and pit groups against each other and position yourself as the protector of the groups. I guess that beats hell out of creating a valuable business.
Don’t confuse time zones with daylight savings time.
The time zones were developed by the railroads in 1883 to resolve confusion and avoid train crashes caused by different local times…controlled by the Interstate Commerce Commission. The ICC introduced daylight savings time during WWI and abolished it after the war but allowed states to continue the practice. As a result, confusion and collisions caused by different local times once again became a transportation issue.
In 1966, the Department of Transportation was founded to serve as a “focal point of responsibility for transportation safety” and given regulatory power over time zones and DST was implemented uniformly across the Nation, with dates for the twice-yearly transitions set by law.
This still holds true today. With the exception of Arizona and Hawaii, every state must continue to observe DST between March and November, unless otherwise exempted by State law.
On the bright side…maybe your car clock is finally correct. If you’re not sure, maybe a quick note to your state legislature will get this twice annual exercise relegated to fun facts in the history books.
Given the politicians penchant for over reacting…they will probably get rid of the time zones too and we can watch the You Tube and GAB railroad collisions.
