Another day with good intentions gone awry
I’ve been researching a bunch of seemingly pressing topics today, mostly having to do with the Biden administration’s current campaign against the right and in particular about the new sedition charges against eleven participants in January 6th.
It turns out I’ll need more time.
That happens now and then. Some of these topics practically require taking a mini-course in a certain area of law, and reading long indictments or other material. For example, here’s the document for the Oathkeeper Elmer Rhodes and it’s 48 pages long. But without taking a good look at it, I can’t tell exactly what he’s actually alleged to have done, and whether I think it fits the charge of seditious conspiracy.
Luckily, it’s really really really cold here today. Luckily? Well, I mean that I didn’t miss doing something outside on a day when I could have spent much time out there. I did try; I suited up with down jacket, scarf, hat, and very warm mittens. But although it was sunny it just wasn’t pleasant to be outside for more than a few minutes.
So after three minutes I came back, none the worse for wear. It’s nice and cozy inside.
There is no try, only do or do not..
And in news from Vashon Island, WA the tsunami wave from the Tonga volcano/earthquake event was observed but did not overwhelm the health care system. King Jay chalks up another sucess!
Climate change is surely the cause. 🙂
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Well I believe King Jay has a waterfront home on Bainbridge Island and I have heard stories of him walking on the beach with his mask on (not being sarcastic I have been told that) so maybe he was caught in it.
It was windy almost all day in East Texas with temps in the 30s by afternoon. I worked outside most all of the afternoon. I realize that is a warm day for people up north, but it certainly seems that Texas MAY have another real winter this year. I just hope it does not get to 8 below again this year. The tree cutters have been busy this year cutting down trees that froze. These trees survive triple digit temps regularly, but 8 below was just too much for many. We had to have cut down part of a live oak that was hanging over the roof that froze during the Texas snowmegedon last year.
Who else read ‘The Oathkeeper Elmer Rhodes’ and thought of ‘The Outlaw Josie Wales’?
And that led me off into ruminations about whatever might have possessed Clint Eastwood to marry that blonde psycho with the crazy eyes.
*That’s* how you fritter time away.
A Pitchfork-armed Army of Elmer Rhodes characters must feature strongly in the fever dreams of the Beltway folks. Real bummer that it’s futile to pray for Deliverance.
Neo: take all the time you need to get it right. Your posts are quality stuff. We’ll wait. Thanks.
Be grateful it’s only cold. Or is this storm coming your way on Monday? Ice storm headed towards us. Generator tested and ready.
“One good deed is worth a thousand grand intentions” is an aphorism I fail to heed all too often.
Turley, FWIW:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/oath-keepers-what-indictment-says-and-does-not-say-about-jan-6
Key graf:
“…However, the indictment does not offer the long-sought proof of an insurrection to fulfill the narrative of many commentators and politicians….”
I imagine Neo will read that Jonathan Turley assessment of these indictments as she prepares her own. Direct link to Turley:
https://jonathanturley.org/2022/01/14/the-oath-keepers-what-the-indictment-says-and-does-not-say-about-the-january-6-riot/
And then there are those with less than good…intentions…
Dr. Zelenko is back with some eye-openers, both personal (cancer-related) and general (Covid-related):
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2022/01/16/new-world-order-slave-system.aspx
Key grafs, but read the whole thing… (Needless to say, “Caveat emptor”)—
‘…When the pandemic started, Zelenko was practicing in New York. He has since moved to Florida, where he’s been giving interviews for several hours a day, trying to spread the word about early treatment and prevention. As noted by Zelenko:
“It’s a very treatable infection — or should I say bioweapon? — if done within the first few days, because COVID is two diseases. It’s the infectious stage of the virus, and then a week later, you have the pathogenic inflammatory reaction that does all the damage to the lungs and causes blood clots.
“So, it’s all about timing. And the data is very clear. There are dozens of peer-reviewed studies that prove if you treat COVID within the first few days, you have an 85% reduction in hospitalization and death. It’s a no-brainer. You could have saved 700,000 people from going to the hospital out of 800,000.”
‘While licensed to practice medicine in Florida, Zelenko now spends most of his time educating the public and other doctors…but his passion has become researching and developing simple, natural approaches to complex health problems — including his own….[which is, pulmonary artery sarcoma]….’
…
…’ “In 1999, Ralph Baric, funded by the U.S. government, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, figured out how to take an animal virus and have it be able to infect other species, different animals, in other words, cross-species infection.
“In 2015, the same Dr. Ralph Baric, and Dr. Zhengli [at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China], funded by the National Institutes of Health, figured out how to make a corona bat virus infect human beings, and augmented its lethality to human lives. That was in 2015. But in 2010, Baric published that paper that I’m referring to.
“So, the development of the weapon happened in stages, but before it was unleashed onto the human population, or the development of it being able to infect human beings, an antidote was made. Research paid for by the government was published.
“The same people that made the bomb, let’s say, also created the antidote to diffuse the bomb. And then, when the pandemic arrived, doctors like myself, out of necessity, came up with creative solutions, based — in my case, unknowingly — on this work. And immediately, that information was marginalized and suppressed, and doctors were deplatformed for advocating for it.
“So, the government who made the bomb also knew about the solution. And the reason why is they didn’t want to die. The stakeholders here don’t want their families to die. But for you and for me, they have a different agenda. So, they had that information.
“I have knowledge that the Google executives are all taking hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin for prophylaxis, as is half of Congress. And so, the people that have orchestrated this knew the answer, and use it for themselves. Even doctors know the answer for themselves.
“They prescribe [these drugs] for themselves, or they call me. But when patients come, they say there’s no treatment, go home, take Tylenol. So, this is mass murder.”….’
Once again, “caveat emptor”.
No doubt…
There’s also Andrew McCarthy’s latest contribution on the topic (though I often dearly wish he’d open his eyes regarding the overall picture….)
(Am awaiting updates from Dershowitz, whose last post on the topic is, I believe, from a week ago)
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Kate:
Thanks. I already had read that a little while ago, and it conforms to preliminary impressions I’d already formed.
@RFT
“One good deed is worth a thousand grand intentions”
Please tell me you’ve got a reference for this, so that I may attempt to smite the legions of the smug with the words of a V.I.P.
Not to say that you’re not a V.I.P… Phew, just snuck under the edit deadline with that.
Just starting my 4th book on the election, Julie Kelly’s January 6
Lived it like everyone but still hard to believe it happened.
Good luck on the article, I’ll read it when it’s put up.
Here is another article worth reading.
In those weeks, I became exhausted and scared. I felt as if I was living a different person’s life. During that period, I would do things I had never done before: acquire a burner phone, hold clandestine meetings, keep difficult secrets. I would have surreal conversations with my wife, Christiane, who persuaded me we should let the people closest to us know what was going on. I phoned my brother and best friend to give them my temporary number. In hushed conversations, I sketched out the possibility of a looming global health crisis that had the potential to be read as bioterrorism.
From one person who knew the real truth. He and Tony Fauci.
The coverup followed.
Sonny Wayz @1:00pm,
Well, I just did a little research and it turns out attribution is trickier than I presumed: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2020/05/08/intention/
Definitely don’t attribute it to me.
I’m pretty sure I saw it in my early 20s and it may have literally been in a Hallmark store, or on a teacher’s desk or in a cheap frame on someone’s particle board bookshelf. Until looking it up, just now, I always assumed it was someone famous. When I did encounter it all those years ago it hit me immediately as I recognized it was a huge, personal problem. I was a legend in my own mind, always concocting long lists of wonderful things I was going to do for others. But somehow I never got around to them. After reading that I began repeating it to myself often, and still do (my kids know it by heart as they’ve heard me say it many times) as a reminder to not wait to help. Yes, grand, wonderful gestures are good, and I still sometimes do those, also, but do the little thing. Now.
“One good deed is worth a thousand grand intentions”…
But then we all know that “the road to hell is paved with good [grand?] intentions”….
(especially when those “best of intentions” are vindictive, destructive and/or even murderous, or in short meant to cover up huge scandals…for the sake of humanity!)…
Speaking of “grand intentions”, here’s (just) another government-sanctioned attempt at murder, performed with the best—the grandest!—of intentions!
(And—to boot!—it’s all LEGAL!!)—
“After 28 Days On Ventilator, Family Loses Legal Battle To Try Ivermectin, Other Alternative Treatments, For Dying Father”
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/after-28-days-ventilator-family-loses-legal-battle-try-ivermectin-other-alternative
File under: Insanity on stilts…(Murderous insanity…)
^— Best Practices.
You may not be interested in Best Practices…. However Best Practices are interested in You.
Probably most illuminating to focus on the one member of the “fast response team” or whatever it was called that never did a thing. Never engaged with anyone, never entered the capitol. Hard to imagine how that person was instrumental in “seditious conspiracy” for the 4 hour velvet rope insurrection.