“We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert.” –J. Robert Oppenheimer
— LaughLoveLive, identifies as Deplorable Patriot (@LaughLoveLive1) October 19, 2020
And now that POTUS is in the saddle and we’re in the home stretch…wait for it…or skip ahead to 7:56, your choice.
Let’s hear it for the woodwinds taking the job of the strings in this one.
And a reminder to take the pledge:
“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.”
And now for the nitty gritty of the Q Tree 5 minute, stand up, Tuesday morning meeting version of the Daily Thread.
The discourse on this site is to be CIVIL – no name calling, baiting, or threatening others here is allowed. Those who are so inclined may visit Wolf’s other sanctuary, the U-Tree, to slog it out with anyone who happens to still be hanging out there.
This site is a celebration of the natural rights endowed to humans by our Creator as well as those enshrined in the Bill of Rights adopted in the founding documents of the United States of America. Within the limits of law, how we exercise these rights is part of the freedom of our discussion.
Fellow tree dweller Wheatie gave us some good reminders on the basics of civility in political discourse:
No food fights.
No running with scissors.
If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
And please, if you see something has not been posted, do us all a favor, and post it.
35“Let your loins be girded and your lamps burning, 36and be like men who are waiting for their master to come home from the marriage feast, so that they may open to him at once when he comes and knocks. 37Blessed are those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes; truly, I say to you, he will gird himself and have them sit at table, and he will come and serve them. 38If he comes in the second watch, or in the third, and finds them so, blessed are those servants!
As always, prayers for the fight against that which seeks to enslave us are welcome. Via con Dios.
Arizona Territorial Governor John Noble Goodwin selected the original site of Prescott following his first tour of the new territory. Goodwin replaced Governor John A. Gurley, appointed by Abraham Lincoln, who died before taking office. Downtown streets in Prescott are named in honor of each of them. Goodwin selected a site 20 miles (32 km) south of the temporary capital on the east side of Granite Creek near a number of mining camps. The territorial capital was later moved to the new site along with Fort Whipple, with the new town named in honor of historian William H. Prescott during a public meeting on May 30, 1864.[10] Robert W. Groom surveyed the new community, and an initial auction sold 73 lots on June 4, 1864. By July 4, 1864, a total of 232 lots had been sold within the new community.[13] Prescott was officially incorporated in 1881.[2]
Prescott served as capital of Arizona Territory until November 1, 1867, when the capital was moved to Tucson by act of the 4th Arizona Territorial Legislature.[14] The capital was returned to Prescott in 1877 by the 9th Arizona Territorial Legislature.[15] The capital was finally moved to Phoenix on February 4, 1889, by the 15th Arizona Territorial Legislature.[16] The three Arizona Territory capitals reflected the changes in political influence of different regions of the territory as they grew and developed.
Prescott also holds a place in the larger history of the American southwest. Both Virgil Earp (brother of Wyatt Earp) and Doc Holliday lived in Prescott before their now infamous gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Virgil Earp lived in Prescott starting in 1878 as a constable/watchman.[17] Doc Holliday was there for a while in the summer of 1880 and even appears in the 1880 census records.[18][19]
The Sharlot Hall Museum houses much of Prescott’s territorial history, and the Smoki and Phippen museums also maintain local collections. Whiskey Row in downtown Prescott boasts many historic buildings, including The Palace, Arizona’s oldest restaurant and bar is still the oldest frontier saloon in Arizona. Many other buildings that have been converted to boutiques, art galleries, bookstores, and restaurants. Prescott is home to the Arizona Pioneers’ Home. The Home opened during territorial days, February 1, 1911.
After several major fires in the early part of the century, downtown Prescott was rebuilt with brick. The central courthouse plaza, a lawn under huge old elm trees, is a gathering and meeting place. Cultural events and performances take place on many nights in the summer on the plaza.
The Tucson area was probably first visited by Paleo-Indians, who were known to have been in southern Arizona about 12,000 years ago. Recent archaeological excavations near the Santa Cruz River found a village site dating from 2100 BC.[12] The floodplain of the Santa Cruz River was extensively farmed during the Early Agricultural Period, circa 1200 BC to AD 150. These people constructed irrigation canals and grew corn, beans, and other crops, while also gathering wild plants and nuts, and hunting.[12]
The Early Ceramic period occupation of Tucson saw the first extensive use of pottery vessels for cooking and storage. The groups designated as the Hohokam lived in the area from AD 600 to 1450 and are known for their vast irrigation canal systems and their red-on-brown pottery.[13][14]
The Spanish Jesuit missionary Eusebio Francisco Kino first visited the Santa Cruz River valley in 1692. He founded the Mission San Xavier del Bac in 1700 about 7 mi (11 km) upstream from the site of the settlement of Tucson. A separate Convento settlement was founded downstream along the Santa Cruz River, near the base of what is now known as “A” mountain. Hugo O’Conor, the founding father of the city of Tucson, Arizona, authorized the construction of a military fort in that location, Presidio San Agustín del Tucsón, on August 20, 1775 (the present downtown Pima County Courthouse was built near this site). During the Spanish period of the presidio, attacks such as the Second Battle of Tucson were repeatedly mounted by the Apache. Eventually the town came to be called Tucsón, a Spanish version of the O’odham word for the area. It was included in the state of Sonora after Mexico gained independence from the Kingdom of Spain and its Spanish Empire in 1821.[citation needed]
During the Mexican–American War in 1846–1848, Tucsón was captured by Philip St. George Cooke with the Mormon Battalion, but it soon returned to Mexican control as Cooke proceeded to the west, establishing Cooke’s Wagon Road to California. Tucsón was not included in the Mexican Cession to the United States following the war. Cooke’s road through Tucsón became one of the important routes into California during the California Gold Rush of 1849.[citation needed]
The US acquired Arizona, south of the Gila River, via treaty from Mexico in the Gadsden Purchase on June 8, 1854. Under this treaty and purchase, Tucsón became a part of the United States of America. The American military did not formally take over control until March 1856. In time, the name of the town became standardized in English in its current form, where the stress is on the first syllable, the “u” is long, and the “c” is silent.
In 1857, Tucson was established as a stage station on the San Antonio-San Diego Mail Line. In 1858 it became 3rd division headquarters of the Butterfield Overland Mail and operated until the line was shut down in March 1861. The Overland Mail Corporation attempted to continue running; however, following the Bascom Affair, devastating Apache attacks on the stations and coaches ended operations in August 1861.
More at the links above.
I’ll add live links to this post during the late afternoon as they become available.
Hey Q-Tree family. We’ve all been missing Flep’s news roundups. Wolfmoon has reassured us a couple of times that Flep is hard at work in the fray on Twitter. He’s in the trenches on our behalf. So here’s a bit of what he’s doing on Twitter…Hope this encourages us all to stay engaged!
I’m just going down his twitter timeline as I see it…& maybe will add stuff from comments…
Sadly Twitter doesn’t exactly show stuff reverse chronologically & they likely hide the “biggies” that they don’t want to get traction…
On the Conservative Review Podcast, @RobertCahaly said he surveyed 200,000 new and infrequent voters. 58% of new and infrequent voters are voting for Trump.
— Team Trump (Text TRUMP to 88022) (@TeamTrump) October 18, 2020
Failed ObamaCare cost the average American family $5,000 more per year -over doubling our healthcare insurance costs AND canceled 35 Million American’s policies Obama’s 'Affordable' Care Act Greatly Increased Premiums & Lessened Choice See ObamaCare study: https://t.co/FGtuvUYTGK
Wow if you click on a POTUS tweet it’s pretty quick for the lefties to come out shrieking, truly unhinged & filled with rage, sadly…
The tears are of rage towards killers like Cuomo who tortured seniors like these in nursing homes. Many were separated needlessly for months or forced to be imprisoned with actively infected strangers and left to die alone. Meanwhile actual prisoners like Avenatti were freed. https://t.co/qZ1KAuy40u
Who are you voting for President? This is for my own research. Nobody's name is seen if you click on poll below. I can't even see it. The poll will get updated as people respond. RT and comment what state you live. (But only use poll for answer so as to be anonymous).
This one is John James, candidate for the Senate from Michigan. We hope & pray he beats Gary Peters (who used to be an R but changed to a D because that’s what everyone else was) by more than the margin of error & Democrat fraud–a Detroit specialty!
Fantastic video by Rudy Guliani. Summarizes 30 yrs of crimes by Hunter Biden representing his father, mob boss of Biden Crime Family Joe Biden. Clear from Hunter’s words he was Biden’s front man to extort millions, then had to kick back 50% to Joe. https://t.co/y73EaOQtVE
— Wayne Root – Wayne Allyn Root – TV & Radio Host (@RealWayneRoot) October 19, 2020
Here’s that video for those not on Twitter…
https://youtube.com/watch?v=9LuSpHJNPe0
from within the comments to the above tweet…another thread to explore…
I re-watched the video from the Chinese whistle blower and he says DOJ & Pelosi got copies of the hard drives and that Dems and Reps are implicated in shady dealings as well as Bloomberg. @realDonaldTrump got copies only because of another whistle blower. https://t.co/IuYNr4JKp7
22) I'm telling you, if they thought Cankles' campaign was a cluster you-know-what, the post-mortems on this one will see DemoKKKrat strategists exiled to horror spots . . .
1. Since the president is speaking in Nevada, and Fox is covering it Live (which is very important), my show — Life, Liberty & Levin — will air in progress as soon as the president is finished. My show will air for the entire hour at10 PM eastern!
BREAKING NEWS. My sources- as high up as it gets- watched videos on Hunter's laptops TODAY. Just told me point blank…no rumor…they saw Hunter raping & torturing little Chinese children…Chinese govt has the same videos…Biden is compromised. Blackmailed. Can NEVER be Prez.
— Wayne Root – Wayne Allyn Root – TV & Radio Host (@RealWayneRoot) October 19, 2020
Watch the @marklevinshow on @FoxNews at 10:00 P.M. He will importantly be talking about the corruption of Joe Biden. @SteveHiltonx and Larry Kudlow were great tonight!
This sounds impressive until you know the context: 1/ This youth vote is less than both their share of the electorate & less than what polls projected would be their share of the vote & total vote so far; 2/ Polls projected Dems would have a 50 point lead w/ new, young voters. https://t.co/8lsjy3PQSG
— Team Trump (Text TRUMP to 88022) (@TeamTrump) October 19, 2020
I like @CottoGottfried, but this reveals incredible naivety about how elections work. Early voting tells the other side how many votes you need on election day. This has always been a tactical problem w/ it. Those who think it can only be great don't know how elections can work. https://t.co/5ZoDLWSYbH
Here’s the truth, plain as day—Sen. Peters doesn’t want a debate. He wants to kill time while he directs his liberal allies & attack dogs to circulate a deceptively edited clip & continue to lie about me. We need the press to call a fair game, not roll over for internet gimmicks. pic.twitter.com/yTw1X3uVNi
Great polling news! Trump and Biden are tied in the three South Jersey congressional districts. Take out NJ01 which is heavily Democratic, and it looks like Trump has big leads in NJ02 and my district of #NJ03! Now let's all vote Republican and flip this district RED!!! https://t.co/slg4aZPNkA
Every. Single. Year. I hear this in North Carolina every single year. Registrations and EVs are very misleading, which caused Nate Cohen to do this.
GOP actually did better in EV in 2018, yet performed much worse vs. 2016. This year is not comparable to anything we've seen. pic.twitter.com/iGqgY1RPpM
— Rich Baris The People's Pundit (@Peoples_Pundit) October 18, 2020
"I tell people supporting Biden: Give me one accomplishment this man has given you in 47 years. They can't give me one. If you can't tell me what someone spent his 47 years in government doing, it means they have nothing to offer coming back to ask for 4 more years." pic.twitter.com/i4QQ7hT589
— Team Trump (Text TRUMP to 88022) (@TeamTrump) October 18, 2020
President @realDonaldTrump: When you vote for me, prosperity will surge, taxes will be cut and next year we will have the greatest economic year in the history of our country! pic.twitter.com/sHUcVMoofi
— Team Trump (Text TRUMP to 88022) (@TeamTrump) October 18, 2020
THREAD MN Early, VBM Statistics – 10/18 Evening Update. Thanks to all who have commented & said they like this analysis. RT & follow. Data from 10/18. @CottoGottfried@LarrySchweikart @TRElections@PollWatch2020 @quantuspolling@Politics_Polls@Barnes_Law @mattquigley4IL (1)
Also from "Freeper" bort on NC: "TargetSmart breaks down the “first time” voters in NC. They model the “1st time” voters as 44%/42% D/R which is quite a surprise. Probably a combination of Trump’s ground-game & student drop-off. Shockingly Republicans may win more 1st-time voters
Yet another reason why Trump will win: Kalifornia!! When was the last time Kalifornians lined up this way to greet a Republican? Enthusiasm matters. This is also the tip of the iceberg. No, Kal will stay blue, but difference will be seen in battleground states across USA. https://t.co/rWsVOmA97M
A couple seconds into the video below a woman on our left raises her hand to reach out while praying for President Trump. I saw some leftard meme claiming she was doing the Nazi salute. Forewarned. That style of prayer was pretty common in the Bible Belt when I lived there in the ’80’s.
President @realDonaldTrump in #Wisconsin lists his accomplishments for Black Americans: We got criminal justice reform done, opportunity zones done, and I funded HBCUs with more money than they were even looking for pic.twitter.com/6SsiEUtOBH
— Team Trump (Text TRUMP to 88022) (@TeamTrump) October 18, 2020
Not my Wall, which will soon be finished (and Mexico will pay for the Wall!). Totally unrelated, but I think Steve will be just fine. By the way, is this the same job hopping Tim O’Brien that headed Mini Mike Bloomberg’s humiliating 2 Billion Dollar Presidential run? Debate prep! https://t.co/cQfEtszRrB
Let’s make the Affordable Care Act affordable. By passing a legislative requirement to protect people with pre-existing conditions while expanding risk pools, allowing biz association plans and reforming the tort & regulatory hurdles that raise cost, we can get this done for MI. pic.twitter.com/T8v58tKo7l
Hunter Biden’s laptop is a disaster for the entire Biden family, but especially for his father, Joe. It is now a proven fact, and cannot be denied, that all of that info is the REAL DEAL. That makes it impossible for “50%, or 10%” Joe, to ever assume the office of the President!
Very proud of the @nypost, my former “hometown newspaper”. They have said and shown what everyone knows about Sleepy Joe Biden. He is a CORRUPT POLITICIAN!!!
Biden said in Detroit Friday that he’s going to build thousands of electric car charging stations across America That’d b the end of ethanol (and gasoline) Progressive policies like this & the green new deal would b crushing to Iowa agriculture
The United States shows more CASES than other countries, which the Lamestream Fake News Media pounces on daily, because it TESTS at such a high (and costly) level. No country in the world tests at this level. The more you TEST, the more CASES you will be reporting. Very simple!
Joe Biden is a corrupt politician, and everybody knows it. Now you have the proof, perhaps like never was had before on a major politician. Laptop plus. This is the second biggest political scandal in our history!
I don’t know this little guy’s story but that picture reminds me a lot of what Josiah was looking like after his first heart surgery. Given the cover on the chest it appears that this baby may have had some type of cardio-thoracic surgery & is in the post-op phase.
Three days ago, Fox News reported that Joe Biden was identified as a FINANCIAL BENEFICIARY in a deal worked out between Hunter and a Chinese energy company tied to the communist government.
On Saturday, President Donald Trump signed a law approving the use of 9-8-8 as the universal telephone number to reach the National Suicide Prevention Hotline!
#FL#EarlyVoting update. Dem Lead increase today is down to 9k only. Since no mail on Sunday, tomorrow's update will be even smaller, about 3k. And then we will see Rs bringing their VBM ballots to in-person locations starting tomorrow. So, Dems are unlikely to hit red line. pic.twitter.com/Lg4eYNhVtL
It appears that his media tweets are now from October 14 or earlier, so I’ll leave this cornucopia as is. This is a flavor of what Flep is engaged in online but it’s possible that some of his most powerful work is being hidden or buried or suppressed or deleted.
I was retweeting the ones I posted here to keep track as I was going back through Flep’s timeline. It seemed that that level of Twitter activity was/is being diminished based on the number of notifications I’ve gotten for the volume of retweets.
Jack remains a Chi-Com boot-licking election-interfering hack!
This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread is VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KMAG/KAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).
Yes, it’s Monday…again.
But it’s okay! We’ll get through it.
Free Speech is practiced here at the Q Tree. But please keep it civil.
Discussion of Q is not only allowed but encouraged. Imagine that! We can talk about Q here and not get banned.
Please also consider the Important Guidelines, outlined here. Let’s not give the odious Internet Censors a reason to shut down this precious haven that Wolf has created for us.
Our President is fighting for us night and day…please pray for him.
Wheatie’s Rules:
No food fights.
No running with scissors.
If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
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For your listening enjoyment, I offer this composition by Dos Brains, titled ‘Titan One’:
Today, after a couple of appearances in California, our very own Very Special Genius heads to the state capitol of Nevada.
The Washoe people have inhabited the valley and surrounding areas for about 6,000 years.[5]
The first European Americans to arrive in what is now known as Eagle Valley were John C. Frémont and his exploration party in January 1843.[6] Fremont named the river flowing through the valley Carson River in honor of Kit Carson, the mountain man and scout he had hired for his expedition. Later, settlers named the area Washoe in reference to the indigenous people.[7]
By 1851 the Eagle Station ranch along the Carson River was a trading post and stopover for travelers on the California Trail’s Carson Branch which ran through Eagle Valley. The valley and trading post received their name from a bald eagle that was hunted and killed by one of the early settlers and was featured on a wall inside the post.
As the area was part of the Utah Territory, it was governed from Salt Lake City, where the territorial government was headquartered. Early settlers bristled at the control by Mormon-influenced officials and desired the creation of the Nevada territory. A vigilante group of influential settlers, headed by Abraham Curry, sought a site for a capital city for the envisioned territory.[8] In 1858, Abraham Curry bought Eagle Station and the settlement was thereafter renamed Carson City.[9] Curry and several other partners had Eagle Valley surveyed for development. Curry decided Carson City would someday serve as the capital city and left a 10-acre (40,000 m2) plot in the center of town for a capitol building.
After gold and silver were discovered in 1859 on nearby Comstock Lode, Carson City’s population began to grow. Curry built the Warm Springs Hotel a mile to the east of the city center. When territorial governor James W. Nye traveled to Nevada, he chose Carson City as the territorial capital, influenced by Carson City lawyer William Stewart, who escorted him from San Francisco to Nevada.[10] As such, Carson City bested Virginia City and American Flat. Curry loaned the Warm Springs Hotel to the territorial Legislature as a meeting hall. The Legislature named Carson City to be the seat of Ormsby County and selected the hotel as the territorial prison with Curry serving as its first warden. Today the property is still part of the state prison.
When Nevada became a state in 1864 during the American Civil War, Carson City was confirmed as Nevada’s permanent capital. Carson City’s development was no longer dependent on the mining industry and instead became a thriving commercial center. The Virginia and Truckee Railroad was built between Virginia City and Carson City. A log flume was also built from the Sierra Nevadas into Carson City. The current capitol building was constructed from 1870 to 1871. The United States Mint operated the Carson City Mint between the years 1870 and 1893, which struck gold and silver coins. People came from China during that time, many to work on the railroad. Some of them owned businesses and taught school. By 1880, almost a thousand Chinese people, “one for every five Caucasians”, lived in Carson City.[11]
Carson City’s population and transportation traffic decreased when the Central Pacific Railroad built a line through Donner Pass, too far to the north to benefit Carson City. The city was slightly revitalized with the mining booms in Tonopah and Goldfield. The US federal building (now renamed the Paul Laxalt Building) was completed in 1890 as was the Stewart Indian School. Even these developments could not prevent the city’s population from dropping to just over 1,500 people by 1930. Carson City resigned itself to small city status, advertising itself as “America’s smallest capital”. The city slowly grew after World War II; by 1960 it had reached its 1880 boom-time population.
I’ll add live links to this post during the late afternoon as they become available.
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The Storm is upon us. Please remember to Pray for our President.
AND WHAT TIME IS IT? TIME TO DRAIN THE SWAMP!!!
It’s time to replace a failed and CORRUPT political establishment with a new government controlled by you, the American People. ~ Candidate Donald J. Trump
Also remember Wheatie’s Rules:
No food fights.
No running with scissors.
If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
And,
On this day and every day –
God is in Control . . . and His Grace is Sufficient, so . . . Keep Looking Up
Hopefully, every Sunday, you can find something here that will build you up a little . . . give you a smile . . . and add some joy or peace, very much needed in all our lives.
“This day is holy to the Lord your God; do not mourn nor weep.” . . . “Go your way, eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to those for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Do not sorrow, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”
Bad Days
Have you ever had a really bad day? Well, that’s probably kind of a dumb question, the answer being “Of course I have”!
Well then, have you had a number of bad days? Well, again, I think most of us would answer “Duh”! Recently? Well, yeah.
I think we all, some more, some less have bad days. Even really bad days. Maybe even lots of ’em.
Maybe something at work, or at home, or between us and God . . . we’ve had bad days, are having bad days, and will have bad days.
So, what’re we gonna do about that? Just wallow in the situation and let time, the great healer, eventually have its effect?
Well, we don’t have to do that. As Christians, when we are beset with a plague of bad days, we are in a position to look at those days with a perspective that will reduce them to, well, hopefully next to nothing at all.
When we’re having a bad day, it helps to be reminded that God is on our side and that we are one of God’s beloved children, officially adopted into His family.
So if we’re having a bad day today, let’s sit back and remind ourselves of just what our Heavenly Father promises us.
Deuteronomy 31:6: Be strong and of good courage, do not fear nor be afraid of them; for the Lord your God, He is the One who goes with you. He will not leave you nor forsake you.
Psalm 55:22: Cast your burden on the Lord, and He shall sustain you; He shall never permit the righteous to be shaken.
Zephaniah 3:17: The Lord your God in your midst, the Mighty One, will save; He will rejoice over you with gladness, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing.
1 John 5:4: For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world — our faith.
Romans 8:37-39: Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Well, that’s all good for holding a proper perspective, but the bad days don’t just get logically into our heads, they get deep into us at an emotional level, also.
John 16:33: I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me. Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows. But take heart, because I have overcome the world.
John 14:27: I am leaving you with a gift—peace of mind and heart. And the peace I give is a gift the world cannot give. So don’t be troubled or afraid.
When we get caught up in that “Oh, poor me!” trap, I think the Psalms are the place to go. We’ll have a really difficult time hanging on to our precious little bundle of self pity while and after we read a few of our favorite Psalms. Praise and Thanksgiving Psalms work the best in these situations.
Try one:
Psalm 16 1 Watch over me, O God, for in You I put my trust. 2 O my soul, you have said to the Lord, “You are my Lord, my goodness is nothing apart from You.” 3 As for the saints who are on the earth, “They are the excellent ones, in whom is all my delight.” 4 Their sorrows shall be multiplied who hasten after another god; Their drink offerings of blood I will not offer, Nor take up their names on my lips. 5 O Lord, You are the portion of my inheritance and my cup; You uphold my lot. 6 The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places; Yes, I have a good inheritance. 7 I will bless the Lord who has given me counsel; My heart also instructs me in the night seasons. 8 I have set the Lord always before me; Because He is at my right hand I shall not be moved. 9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices; My flesh also will dwell securely in hope. 10 For You will not leave my soul in the abode of the dead, Nor will You allow Your Holy One to undergo corruption. 11 You will show me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.
When we stop and think that we praise and thank God for a future eternity of Peace and Joy in His presence, that singular fact has the effect of reducing our transient bad days to just a nit.
Just think of it . . . an eternity of Joy and Peace with God of such a quality that “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”
We won’t let a bad day distract us from God’s blessings. We are loved. We are not alone. God delights in us. We are victorious. In fact, we are more than a conqueror through Christ Jesus. So we will be encouraged and have a good day because “This is the day the Lord has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.”
Human occupation of the Muskegon area goes back seven or eight thousand years to the nomadic Paleo-Indian hunters who occupied the area following the retreat of the Wisconsonian glaciations[citation needed]. The Paleo-Indians were superseded by several stages of Woodland Indian developments, the most notable of whom were the Hopewellian type-tradition, which occupied this area, perhaps two thousand years ago[citation needed].
During historic times, the Muskegon area was inhabited by various bands of the Odawa (Ottawa) and Pottawatomi Indian tribes, but by 1830 Muskegon was solely an Ottawa village.[9] Perhaps the best remembered of the area’s Indian inhabitants was the Ottawa Indian Chief, Pendalouan. A leading participant in the French-inspired annihilation of the Fox Indians of Illinois in the 1730s, Pendalouan and his people lived in the Muskegon vicinity during the 1730s and 1740s until the French induced them to move their settlement to the Traverse Bay area in 1742.[citation needed]
The name “Muskegon” is derived from the Ottawa tribe term “Masquigon,” meaning “marshy river or swamp”.[10]
European arrival
During the lumbering era of the late 1800s, lumber companies sent white pine logs down the Muskegon River from as far away as Houghton Lake in Northern Michigan to sawmills and processing facilities in Muskegon.[11][12]
The “Masquigon” River (Muskegon River) was identified on French maps dating from the late seventeenth century, suggesting French explorers had reached Michigan’s western coast by that time. Father Jacques Marquette traveled northward through the area on his fateful trip to St. Ignace in 1675 and a party of French soldiers under La Salle’s lieutenant, Henry de Tonty, passed through the area in 1679.[13]
The county’s earliest known Euro-American resident was Edward Fitzgerald, a fur trader and trapper who came to the Muskegon area in 1748 and who died there, reportedly being buried in the vicinity of White Lake. Sometime between 1790 and 1800, a French-Canadian trader named Joseph La Framboise established a fur trading post at the mouth of Duck Lake. Between 1810 and 1820, several French Canadian fur traders, including Lamar Andie, Jean Baptiste Recollect and Pierre Constant had established fur trading posts around Muskegon Lake[citation needed].
Euro-American settlement of Muskegon began in earnest in 1837, which coincided with the beginning of the exploitation of the area’s extensive timber resources. The commencement of the lumber industry in 1837 inaugurated what some regard as the most romantic era in the history of the region. Lumbering in the mid-nineteenth century brought many settlers, especially ones from Germany, Ireland, and Canada.[14]
Some neighborhoods of Muskegon began as separate villages. Bluffton was founded as a lumbering village in 1862 in Laketon Township. It had its own post office from 1868 until 1892. Muskegon annexed it in 1889.[15]
The Janesville area was home to many Native American tribes before the settlement of people from the East. With the Indian Removal Act of 1830, many Native American peoples were uprooted and forced out of their homelands to make room for the new settlers, with many Native peoples, including the Ho-Chunk and Potawatomi, being forced onto reservations.[7]
American settlers John Inman, George Follmer, Joshua Holmes, and William Holmes, Jr. built a crude log cabin in the region in 1835.[8] Later that year, one key settler named Henry F. Janes,[1] a native of Virginia who was a self-proclaimed woodsman and early city planner, arrived in what is now Rock County. Janes came to the area in the early 1830s, and initially wanted to name the budding village “Blackhawk,” after the famous Sauk leader, Chief Black Hawk, but was turned down by Post Office officials. After some discussion, it was settled that the town would be named after Janes himself and thus, in 1835, Janesville was founded.[9] Despite being named after a Virginian, Janesville was founded by immigrants from New England. These were old stock Yankee immigrants, descended from the EnglishPuritans who settled New England in the 1600s. The completion of the Erie Canal caused a surge in New Englander immigration to what was then the Northwest Territory. Some of them were from upstate New York, and had parents who had moved to that region from New England shortly after the Revolutionary War. New Englanders, and New England transplants from upstate New York, were the vast majority of Janesville’s inhabitants during the first several decades of its history.[10][11][12][13] Land surveys encouraged pioneers to settle in the area among the abundance of fertile farmland and woodlands. Many of these early settlers established farms and began cultivating wheat and other grains.
Some of the key settlers hailed from the burned-over district of western New York State, (an area notable for being a part of the Christian revival movement known as the Second Great Awakening). Some of those in that revival movement were also active in the abolitionist and women’s rights movements.[9] One of the settlers in Janesville was William Tallman, who hailed from Rome, New York. Tallman came to the area in 1850 and bought up large tracts of land in hopes of inspiring his fellow New Yorkers to settle in the fertile Rock County. He established himself as one of the most influential and affluent members of the budding Janesville populace. He was passionate about the call for abolition and became a supporter of the Republican Party. One of the crowning moments in Tallman’s life was when he convinced the up-and-coming Illinois Republican, Abraham Lincoln, to speak in Janesville in 1859. The Tallman house is now a historical landmark, and best known as “The place where Abraham Lincoln slept.”[9]
As the population grew in the Janesville area, several new industries began cropping up along the Rock River, including flour and lumber mills. The first dam was built in 1844.[9]
Janesville was very active during the Civil War. Local farms sold grains to the Union army, and Rock County was one of the counties in Wisconsin with the highest number of men enlisted.[9]Thomas H. Ruger, of Janesville, served in the war, along with his brothers, Edward, William, and Henry, and he rose to the rank of brigadier general. Ruger later served as military governor of Georgia, and commandant of West Point. He is memorialized at Fort Ruger in Diamond Head, Hawaii.[14]
After the Civil War, Janesville’s agriculture continued to surge and a greater demand for new farming technology led to the development of several foundries and farm machine manufacturers in the area, including the Janesville Machine Company, and the Rock River Iron Works. With the boom in the farm service sector and establishment of a rail system, Janesville soon began to ship goods to and from prominent eastern cities, including New York, Boston, and Philadelphia. After decades of rigorous grain farming, the soil quality around Janesville began to degrade. Farmers responded to this by planting tobacco, which became one of the most profitable and prolific crops grown in Wisconsin during the late 19th century.[9]
Another development during the mid-19th century was the establishment of a women’s rights movement in Janesville. The movement was founded in the 1850s and continued after the Civil War. One of the key focuses of the group during the 1870s was the Temperance movement.
In the late 1880s, German immigrants began to arrive in Janesville in large numbers (making up less than 5% of the town before this time). They were the largest non-English-speaking group to settle there. Unlike in some other areas, in Janesville, they experienced virtually no hostility or xenophobia. Janesville’s founding English-Puritan-descended Yankee population welcomed them with open arms, with many writing back to relatives in Germany enthusiastically. This led to chain migration which increased the German population of the town.[15] Only one German-language newspaper was founded in the town; it was known as The Janesville Journal, and began in 1889, printing for only a few years.[16]
More of course at the links above.
I’ll add live links to this post during the late afternoon as they become available.
Maybe, and that would be ironic, because this time I actually do have something to talk about that has nothing to do with justice for the Deep State.
Or maybe it does, in a way, because the war for liberty is a constant in our lives, and what I’m about to talk about is an earlier battle.
So I have filler on the week when I don’t need it, but I’ll use it anyway.
The Battle Of Saratoga
On this day, October 17th, in 1777, what we now know as the Battle of Saratoga came to an end.
The British held New York (and New York was actually largely loyalist). They came up with looked like a good plan, to send troops north from New York, and south from Canada, to meet in the middle near Albany and cut the United States in half. Britain commanded the seas, so there’d be no way for the two halves of the country to communicate.
There were a lot of horrible SNAFUs, fortunately. The force in New York City had left to seize Philadelphia before the orders arrived, and they did succeed at that.
The northern force of 8000 men under General John Burgoyne, by contrast, was trying to do the right thing but just ran into snag after snag, some of which the patriots engineered, some of which were just Murphy in action.
Even before leaving Quebec, Burgoyne ran into difficulties. They expected to travel mainly over water, and thus hadn’t brought too many wagons and draft animals for the land parts of the route. In June, the governor of Quebec finally issued orders to procure the land transport, but the carts were freshly made out of green wood, and driven by civilians who were more likely to desert. Finally on June 13 Burgoyne set out. Burgoyne’s forces, with the invaluable support of Indians, quickly sailed up the river and up Lake Champlain, capturing Fort Cown Point (undefended) by June 30th. The Indian screening forces prevented American scouts from learning of the true size of the invading force. A series of mistakes on our part made it easy for the British to capture Fort Ticonderoga–which we had considered impregnable–on July 6.
This was a big enough disaster that the French, on the verge of joining the war on our side, decided to hold off.
Burgoyne consolidated his position and then moved on to Fort Edward. Again the Indians preceded him, but this time they became impatient and started indiscriminately raiding frontier families, which simply caused more locals to turn to the Patriot cause. Most famous of these fatalities was Jane McCrea, who had been engaged to a Loyalist; ironically her martyrdom ended up helping the American cause.
But Burgoyne was now deep in hostile territory, and he was realizing he had supply difficulties. He tried raiding the surrounding area for supplies, and a regiment, plus some Brunswick dragoons, under the command of Friedrich Baum went into what is now Vermont to obtain (i.e., steal) supplies. This force ran into 2000 men under John Stark at Bennington, and was enveloped and captured on August 16. That deprived Burgoyne of almost 1000 men and, of course, he didn’t get the supplies.
Burgoyne blamed the Indians and the Canadians who had come with his forces, and most of the Indians and Canadians left his camp; Burgoyne now had fewer than 100 Indian scouts, and now had no protection from the American rangers.
Now Burgoyne was realizing he’d not be done before winter. He had the choice to either retreat or push on to Albany; he chose the latter. A month of maneuverings with only two pitched battles followed, but one was an attack on Ticonderoga, well to the rear of the main British forces.
To cut out a lot of complexity, Burgoyne was finally defeated at Saratoga on October 17th, 1777. The plan to cut America in two had failed.
It would be hard to overstate the importance of this. For one thing, the French, when they learned of this, finally came into the war on our side. By declaring war on Britain, they were risking their own necks, and they didn’t want to jump in until we had really shown that we were in it to win it. And Saratoga did just that.
It shook the British up enough that they tried to negotiate a peace the next year, and repealed many of the acts that had goaded us into fighting. They even offered us self rule and representation in Parliament. That might have worked as late as 1775. It wasn’t enough in 1778. (The self-government offer was basically the blueprint for the later British Commonwealth–the Brits had learned their lesson by then.) After we rejected the offer the British reassessed their strategy, and turned to the south.
And so…a direct line can be drawn between October 17, 1777 and another event exactly four years later, October 17th, 1781, in Virginia. General Cornwallis, commander of the last significant British army on US soil, on that day began negotiations for surrender at Yorktown. That surrender took place on the 19th (meaning we can celebrate another anniversary this coming Monday), and the war was effectively over. The British government fell (i.e., their Prime Minister had to resign), and that was that. We just had to sign a peace treaty with the country that was now forced to acknowledge our independence.
Betsy Ross Flags? Fly ’em if you’ve got ’em. I do and I will.
Justice Must Be done.
Our movement is about replacing a failed and corrupt political establishment with a new government controlled by you, the American People...Our campaign represents a true existential threat, like they’ve never seen before.
Then-Candidate Donald J. Trump
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OK now for the fine print.
This is the WQTH Daily Thread. You know the drill. There’s no Poltical correctness, but civility is a requirement. There are Important Guidelines, here, with an addendum on 20191110.
We have a new board – called The U Tree – where people can take each other to the woodshed without fear of censorship or moderation.
And remember Wheatie’s Rules:
1. No food fights 2. No running with scissors. 3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone. 4. Zeroth rule of gun safety: Don’t let the government get your guns. 5. Rule one of gun safety: The gun is always loaded. 5a. If you actually want the gun to be loaded, like because you’re checking out a bump in the night, then it’s empty. 6. Rule two of gun safety: Never point the gun at anything you’re not willing to destroy. 7. Rule three: Keep your finger off the trigger until ready to fire. 8. Rule the fourth: Be sure of your target and what is behind it.
(Hmm a few extras seem to have crept in.)
The Mandatory Coin
I’m going to skip this, this time; Saratoga is quite enough history to “chew on.”
Important Reminder
To conclude: My standard Public Service Announcement. We don’t want to forget this!!!
Remember Hong Kong!!!
https://youtube.com/watch?v=L3tnH4FGbd0%3F
I hope this guy isn’t rotting in the laogai somewhere!
中国是个混蛋 !!! Zhōngguò shì gè hùndàn !!! China is asshoe !!!
In the interest of being organized and not cluttering up things too badly, multiple events on one day will be on one thread. Today’s events are in Ocala, Florida, and Macon, Georgia.
Ocala is located near what is thought to have been the site of Ocale or Ocali, a major Timucua village and chiefdom recorded in the 16th century. The modern city takes its name from the historical village, the name of which is believed to mean “Big Hammock” in the Timucua language.[8] The Spaniard Hernando de Soto’s expedition recorded Ocale in 1539 during his exploration through what is today the southeastern United States. Ocale is not mentioned in later Spanish accounts; it appears to have been abandoned in the wake of de Soto’s attack.[citation needed]
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Creek people and other Native Americans, and free and fugitive African Americans sought refuge in Florida. The Seminole people formed. After foreign colonial rule shifted between Spain and Great Britain and back again, in 1821 the United States acquired the territory of Florida. After warfare to the north, in 1827 the U.S. Army built Fort King near the present site of Ocala as a buffer between the Seminole, who had long occupied the area, and white settlers moving into the region. The fort was an important base during the Second Seminole War and later served in 1844 as the first courthouse for Marion County.[citation needed]
The modern city of Ocala, which was established in 1849, developed around the fort site. Greater Ocala is known as the “Kingdom of the Sun”.[9] Plantations and other agricultural development dependent on slave labor were prevalent in the region. Ocala was an important center of citrus production until the Great Freeze of 1894–1895.[citation needed]
Rail service reached Ocala in June 1881, encouraging economic development with greater access to markets for produce. Two years later, much of the Ocala downtown area was destroyed by fire on Thanksgiving Day, 1883. The city encouraged rebuilding with brick, granite and steel rather than lumber. By 1888, Ocala was known statewide as “The Brick City”.
In December 1890, the Farmers’ Alliance and Industrial Union, a forerunner of the Populist Party, held its national convention in Ocala. At the convention, the Alliance adopted a platform that would become known as the “Ocala Demands”. This platform included abolition of national banks, promoting low-interest government loans, free and unlimited coinage of silver, reclamation of excess railroad lands by the government, a graduated income tax, and direct election of United States senators. Most of the “Ocala Demands” were to become part of the Populist Party platform.
And Macon:
Macon was founded on the site of the Ocmulgee Old Fields, where the Creek Indians lived in the 18th century. Their predecessors, the Mississippian culture, built a powerful chiefdom (950–1100 AD) based on the practice of agriculture. The Mississippian culture constructed earthwork mounds for ceremonial, burial, and religious purposes. The areas along the rivers in the Southeast had been inhabited by indigenous peoples for 13,000 years before Europeans arrived.[7]
Macon developed at the site of Fort Benjamin Hawkins, built in 1809 at the fall line of the Ocmulgee River to protect the community and to establish a trading post with Native Americans. The fort was named in honor of Benjamin Hawkins, Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the Southeast territory south of the Ohio River for more than 20 years. He lived among the Creek and was married to a Creek woman. This was the most inland point of navigation on the river from the Low Country. President Thomas Jefferson forced the Creek to cede their lands east of the Ocmulgee River and ordered the fort built. (Archeological excavations in the 21st century found evidence of two separate fortifications.)[8]
Fort Hawkins guarded the Lower Creek Pathway, an extensive and well-traveled American Indian network later improved by the United States as the Federal Road from Washington, D.C., to the ports of Mobile, Alabama and New Orleans, Louisiana.[8] A gathering point of the Creek and U.S. cultures for trading, it was also a center of state militia and federal troops. The fort served as a major military distribution point during the War of 1812 against Great Britain and also during the Creek War of 1813. Afterward, the fort was used as a trading post for several years and was garrisoned until 1821. It was decommissioned about 1828 and later burned to the ground. A replica of the southeast blockhouse was built in 1938 and still stands today on a hill in east Macon. Part of the fort site was occupied by the Fort Hawkins Grammar School. In the 21st century, archeological excavations have revealed more of the fort’s importance, and stimulated planning for additional reconstruction of this major historical site.[8]
As many Europeans had already begun to move into the area, Fort Hawkins was renamed “Newtown.” After the organization of Bibb County in 1822, the city was chartered as the county seat in 1823 and officially named Macon. This was in honor of the North Carolina statesman Nathaniel Macon,[9] because many of the early residents of Georgia hailed from North Carolina. The city planners envisioned “a city within a park” and created a city of spacious streets and parks. They designated 250 acres (1.0 km2) for Central City Park, and passed ordinances requiring residents to plant shade trees in their front yards.
The city thrived due to its location on the Ocmulgee River, which enabled shipping to markets. Cotton became the mainstay of Macon’s early economy,[10] based on the enslaved labor of African Americans. Macon was in the Black Belt of Georgia, where cotton was the commodity crop. Cotton steamboats, stage coaches, and later, in 1843, a railroad increased marketing opportunities and contributed to the economic prosperity of Macon. In 1836, the Georgia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church founded Wesleyan College in Macon. Wesleyan was the first college in the United States chartered to grant degrees to women.[11] In 1855, a referendum was held to determine a capital city for Georgia. Macon came in last with 3,802 votes.[12]
During the American Civil War, Macon served as the official arsenal of the Confederacy[10] manufacturing percussion caps, friction primers, and pressed bullets.[13] Camp Oglethorpe, in Macon, was used first as a prison for captured Union officers and enlisted men. Later it held officers only, up to 2,300 at one time. The camp was evacuated in 1864.[14]
Macon City Hall, which served as the temporary state capitol in 1864, was converted to a hospital for wounded Confederate soldiers. The Union General William Tecumseh Sherman spared Macon on his march to the sea. His troops had sacked the nearby state capital of Milledgeville, and Maconites prepared for an attack. Sherman, however, passed by without entering Macon.
The Macon Telegraph wrote that, of the 23 companies which the city had furnished the Confederacy, only enough men survived and were fit for duty to fill five companies by the end of the war. The human toll was very high.[15]
The city was taken by Union forces during Wilson’s Raid on April 20, 1865.[16]
In the twentieth century, Macon grew into a prospering town in Middle Georgia. It began to serve as a transportation hub for the entire state. In 1895, the New York Times dubbed Macon “The Central City,” in reference to the city’s emergence as a hub for railroad transportation and textile factories.[17] Terminal Station was built in 1916.[18]
More of course at the links above.
I’ll add live links to this post during the late afternoon as they become available.
Give them nothing but one more day to rue, and the wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Remain CIVIL and possibly even GENTEEL.
Today, in our VERY SPECIAL Three Babe Moon issue, dedicated to Tim Matheson who is not Chevy Chase, we have THREE SHORT LESSONS in politically incorrect WOLFTHINK.
It’s almost comical how utterly qualified Amy Coney Barrett is for SCOTUS.
When I read her short argument invoking – of all people – Ruth Bader Ginsburg – to not just answer the question of why she won’t promise to recuse herself on anything, but to also explain that (yes, I may be extrapolating just a bit)…..
any promise of recusal would deprive the OTHER justices of THEIR say in the matter
and thus, basically, it’s an unconstitutional request
the question should never have been asked
the question should never be answered in the affirmative
…..at which point I then realized…..
pressured recusals are all a bunch of Alinsky BS and Goebbels misdirection by accusation
we’re all [useful] idiots for having ever considered the question
the left’s failure to EVER recuse is THEIR ISSUE, not ours
there need to be CONSEQUENCES for the left’s failure to properly recuse
if such consequences don’t exist or are underutilized, THAT is an issue
SCOTUS is damn near like church elders, tribal elders, or a communist cell, take your pick
our Democrat communists, communist Democrats, or whatever they are, have therefore been trying to sabotage the only working communism
……OK, sorry, maybe that’s pushing it a bit, but no – AT THAT POINT – I realized that this chick is SO smart, it’s obviously a crime that she’s not ALREADY on SCOTUS.
Credit where it’s due: Amy Coney Barrett has been even more impressive under questioning than Kavanaugh (before the ambush) and Gorsuch were
…..so I can’t be as much of a fanboy as I want to, but that’s OK – she’ll be on SCOTUS for a LONG TIME, and every moment will be a VICTORY for Notorious RBG, who got replaced by a woman whose EVERY BREATH will remind the world that Trump FOOLED US ALL when he pretended to RESERVE the “Notorious Seat” for a woman, when what he was really doing was to appoint the smartest and best judge that he could – but he milked it for all it was worth in terms of the WOMEN’S VOTE.
Shrewd. Almost as smart as THAT CHICK with the blank piece of paper.
Or maybe SMARTER!
WHATEVER. We’ll just TAKE THOSE WINNAMINS!
OTOH, This One’s Smart Glasses Ain’t Workin’
This little tweet made me smile!
BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA!
Oh, that’s a good one.
YOU WILL RECALL…..
MS. S.E. Cupp is a CIA “fake conservative” used on CNN to “sweep up” the right edge of the Overton Window, which she has obviously been doing a piss-poor job of, since America decided to move the window in the other direction.
The press is not the enemy of the people. The press is the enemy of the powerful, unaccountable and corrupt. The unjust, unethical, and dishonest. The bully, the blowhard. The cover up, run around and false pretense. Let’s be clear: that’s made the press the enemy of one person.
An irredeemable Trump-hater, she was even used in a “debate” with Van Jones in the 2016 election.
AS IF!
The reality, however, is that Ms. Cupp helped reveal just how HORRIBLE and FAKE the media in the United States, and even the entire SUCKER WEST, really is.
And of course, just as she was for CANKLES in 2016…..
Oh REALLY.
SO – BREAK OUT THE POPCORN…..
…..cuz CORN POP is goin’ down, and “C CUP” with him!
The Wolf Who Cried “Boy!”
I’m sorry, but I simply cannot NOT troll the Democrats about “Muh Russia“, so here we go…..
I think people are still trying to figure out where the Democrat lies about Russia end, but leaving aside the easier treason of China, it’s safe to say that the Mueller Coupsters in DOJ wanted this lady GONE for some reason.
REALLY? WHATEVER.
If you want to hear the CRAZIEST story ever about an actual FBI informant and a Russian spy, at the periphery of The Hoax, you can read it all here:
I’m still trying to figure out what it all means. When I do, I’ll let you know.
All I DO know for sure is this.
WHATEVER is going on with Mary Butyne, the truth is BAD FOR THE COUPISTS AND THE COUP.
SO…..
We have a little over TWO WEEKS until the election.
This is the final stretch.
CALM. STEADY. TO VICTORY.
W
ADDENDUM: ACB Impact on Sessions Recusal
This is really part of the FIRST segment about Amy Coney Barrett, but it broke up the flow, so I am tacking it on at the end.
This gal Notorious ACB is SO SMART, that she “OH BY THE WAY” proved [to me at least] why Sessions’ recusal without consulting Trump, Mike Pence and others was a mistake.
By elucidating a fundamental principle – DUE PROCESS – Amy Coney Barrett is already fixing stuff.
And I repeat – it would be a CRIME not to vote to confirm this woman!
First of all, let us consider that the same RBG logic of ACB’s refusal to hastily recuse herself may likewise apply here – that the A.G. should not make the decision to recuse without discussions or at least prior notification of others OUTSIDE OF DOJ who are affected by the recusal, including POTUS, VP, CoS, head of FBI, Chief Justice.
NO SUCH discussion or notification PRECLUDES the A.G. from recusing in a proper and timely fashion if properly warranted.This is KEY. In fact, hasty [media-driven] recusal by the A.G. to CAST LESS SUSPICION ON SELF becomes a self-serving act (downside of all virtue signals) which may unfairly CAST MORE SUSPICION ON OTHERS, or in SEVERAL important ways deprive OTHERS of their guaranteed rights, particularly of DUE PROCESS. That is a complicated but absolutely powerful point, and it is clear to me that the LAWFARE GANG understood it, when they talked Sessions into a HASTY RECUSAL which DEPRIVED THE WHITE HOUSE OF PROPER REPRESENTATION.
It’s the SCALES, amigos.
This is an example of an “Alinsky WIN”, not by making the other side live up to its well-considered rules (which would be a DRAW), but rather by making the other side live up to its rules TOO MUCH. Owning the MEDIA allows this kind of trick to work.
Note that Comey saying “Trump was not being investigated” was not exactly true, but his lie and/or legal façade still mocks the basic TRUE principle of “innocent until proven guilty”. This has a huge effect on things, but before I get to that, consider more deeply the Comey grift.
We don’t know if redactions are hiding the fact that Comey’s statement to Trump that he was not under investigation was a LIE, and we further note that if Trump was being investigated as an INTELLIGENCE matter, that is not the same as a LEGAL matter. Likewise, any “investigation” of Trump was more likely being done as “incidental” to investigating others, and thus under greater “color of law”, if not actual “cover of law”.
IN ANY CASE, if Trump was DUE the respect of being “treated as innocent” by the Constitution, then there is absolutely no excuse for the A.G. not to share the still-open question of recusal with Trump, and to get his input or response. Any other POLICY of DOJ is likely to be an unconstitutional HOLDERISM. The MEDIA can insinuate whatever it wants – Trump was innocent until proven guilty, and was entitled to make an INNOCENT decision that he needed a FRESH and UNRECUSED A.G., and not an ACTING A.G. who might be corrupt, biased, or subject to inappropriate pressures (meaning Sally Yates or Rod Rosenstein). He could have then made this critical point to HIS subordinate, the Attorney General, to consider and possibly reject. Note that this is all about DUE PROCESS – the fact that we must not ASSUME guilt on the part of either Trump or Sessions, either in the past, or even more importantly IN THE FUTURE.
The fact that Jeff Sessions was TARGETED by DOJ staff to talk him into a hasty recusal and deprive President Trump of his rights may in fact be CRIMINAL. It was certainly LAWFARE, and thus I think it is very important to know if people OUTSIDE DOJ in the “lawfare” community had a hand in it.
Bottom line – somebody knew they could push Jeff Sessions into hasty recusal to create “The Hoax”, and do EVEN WORSE than to simply deprive President Trump of his Constitutional rights. Depriving Trump of his rights was THEN used for a political impeachment, likewise an abuse of power.