summer patriot, winter soldier

just curious as to the fate of those demos who hitched their wagons to the "impeachment star" ....

when all that impeachment bullshit finally turns to dust, what do politicians who have hitched their fates to ousting trump from office turn to, to show their political accomplishment?   i suspect most of them are rather one trick ponies, and haven't much to show for their terms in office.

do they get night shift jobs at the post office to keep the wolves from the door?  god forbid that they actually have to turn to real work to pay room and board.   just wondering.

john jay @ 09.11.2019

p.s.   no, i haven't much to say on this day, given that we have radical muslims in congress, the military, and working for the federal government.  it doesn't seem that we have learned very much at all, from bitterly won experience.   kind of mind boggling, in its own little way, isn't it?   and, 157 reported cases of leprosy in los angeles, california.

please, get out and vote in 2020, and vote, please, for trump and the g.o.p.   maybe they are not exactly perfect, but they are light years ahead of what the left has to offer.  (keep in mind who runs california, and minnesota, ... , both bastions of leftist idiocy, and champions of shitting on sidewalks.)

how has the "trump trade war" with china impacted the u.s. economy .... well, sad to say for the democrats, libtards and the media, not much much at all ....

this from the front page of the walla walla union bulletin, september 6, 2019, from an article entitled "u.s. hiring slow but steady amid trade war, global weakness" by christopher rugaber of the associated press.

"washington. --  u.s. employers added a modest 130,000 jobs in august, a sign that hiring has slowed but remains durable in the face of global economic weakness and president donald trump's trade war with china.

"the unemployment rate remained 3.7% for a third straight month, the labor department said today, near the lowest level in five decades.  and more americans entered the workforce in august, a positive development that increased the proportion of adults who are either working or seeking work to its highest level since february.

"august's job gain was boosted by temporary of 25,000 government workers for the 2020 census.  excluding all government hiring, the economy added just 96,000 jobs in august, the fewest since may.

"yet the monthly jobs report provided some positive signals: average hourly pay, for example, rose 11 cents in august to $28.11, up 3.2% from a year earlier.  that is easily ahead of inflation and increased american's spending power.

"the slower pace of hiring does suggest that trump's trade war with china might be discouraging some companies from hiring.  still, even with more moderate job growth, rising employment and paychecks are expected to continue to fuel consumer spending, the primary driver of growth.  [emphasis added.]

and for now, americans are still spending.  consumer spending rose in the april-june quarter by the most in five years.  it had also increased at a healthy clip in july.

........  [and now, the rest of the story.]

 

"one reason hiring is slipping is that with the unemployment rate so low, companies are having a harder time finding qualified workers.  the solid wage gain in august suggests that more businesses are deciding that they need to offer higher pay to attract and keep employees.

"'that's a sign we're in pretty good shape here,'" said drew matus, an economist at metlife investment management.

"a report by the federal reserve this week based on interviews with business executives found that companies and staffing firms think a lack of available workers is restraining growth.

"mike bitar, managing director of the recruiting firm protis global, said the businesses he works with--mostly beverage companies, consumer goods makers and restaurants--are still pushing to hire more people.

"'we have not seen any slowdown at all,'" he said.

........

"in friday's jobs report for august, the unemployment rate for african-americans fell to 5.5%, a record low.  trump has repeatedly highlighted that decline,m which has been steady since the great recession ended in 2009."

 

so, as it turns out, "trump's" trade war seems not to have impacted the overall economy much at all, and it would appear that a more likely reason that new job hiring has slacked is the shortage of people in the work force qualified to meet the demand for employees needed in the work force.

this is hardly a sign of a declining economy.

it is also bad news for the democrats and their sycophants in the media, who need bad economic news if they harbor any ambition of defeating president trump and the republicans in 2020.  you will not, therefore, see much about this in the news, save for an occasional report on the bare facts of the matter.  this "good news" for the rest of us, is not good news for the dems and libtards.

john jay @ 09.06.2019

p.s.   for a look at how obama created jobs (hint: he hired governmental workers at a rate of app. 4 to 5 times the number hired by trump, while trump's economy has added manufacturing jobs at a rate roughly 5 to 6 times faster than obama), please see the following article.  https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckdevore/2019/01/04/312000-jobs-added-in-december-manufacturing-growing-714-faster-under-trump-than-obama/#2e43495d5b50.  

sorry, dems, you get no credit for this economy, other than creating the unemployed labor pool hired by the economy burgeoning under trump.  just the facts, ma'am.  

how do you hide murderers in the employ of the government .... time does it all ....

lavoy finicum was killed illegally, by an oregon state patrol swat time acting in conjunction with and at the behest of the f.i.b.   he was stopped on a public road, by the use of a illegal road block disfavored under the law, to be used only in the apprehension of dangerous felons engaged in felonious activities.  (somewhat poetically, it is called the "deadman's road block," or some such.)  at the time of his death no felony warrants had been issued for his arrest, and certainly nothing that justified the use of the road block.  period.

in the end, he was gunned down, the fatal wounds inflicted at point blank range, and from behind, with his hands in the air.   the oregon state police and the f.i.b. lied about the incident, and tried to hide material evidence at the scene of the shooting, to the extent of picking up empty brass casings from weapons illegally discharged at finicum's vehicle, trying to obscure the fact that two to three bullets struck the cab of the pickup he was driving before he abandoned it, only to meet his death on a bare hillside surrounded by armed police.

(those in the pickup w/ finicum recorded these facts with phones who filmed the acts of the police, and, then, of course, there were the holes in the windshield and head liner of the pickup.  these facts, not dwelt upon by the lick-spittle press who served their masters well.)

persons tried in a federal court in portland, oregon for those engaged in the same activities that got finicum killed, resulted in acquittals for all who went to trial.  no convictions of a felony level were ever returned for any involved in the "occupation" of an abandoned school house on the federal reservation, a sanctuary for birds, at the state or federal level.

several f.i.b. agents have been indicted for lying under oath and obstructing justice for their evidence tampering.

president trump has pardoned the hammonds, whose kangeroo court convictions for damaging federal property started the whole phony land grab operations (culminating in the sale of uranium bearing ground to a canadian front for russian interests) that led to the occupation of federal grounds, the whole mess leading up to finicum's death.

what has happened to those whose connivance led to finicum's death?  well, absolutely nothing.   how much is it now discussed?  well, not at all.   and, for those who have been charged in connection with covering up their activities in the shooting, and who fired the first shots at finicum before he exited his vehicle?   well, not much.

time has insured that it has passed from the public consciousness, almost entirely.   those who killed finicum, and those higher ups who plotted it for various reasons, to include the current governor of the state of oregon (and most probably hillary clinton) are as unscathed now as they were the instance a .308 caliber rifle bullet passed through his heart, from behind, as he lay on the ground.   shot by cowards, his death decreed by cowards.

time has passed.  people forget, and have forgotten.

time favors the miscreant, and the criminal.   those who seek sanctuary in the short attention span of the public usually fare well.  and, so they have in this instance.  which is a crying shame.

john jay @ 09.06.2019

 

jeff epstein .... some basics on hanging ....

when an amateur kills himself by hanging the cause of death is usually by asphyxiation, and it is a protracted and unpleasant way to die.  when a person is killed by hanging at the hands of a professional executioner the method and cause of death is by a broken neck and damage to the spinal chord, which leads to death more or less right now.

i live about 10 miles from the washington state penitentiary, where hanging was a time honored form of state execution for many years, and where the executioners were about as skilled at administering a quick death as anyone.  now, when you get hung on a gallows, they don't just stand you on a chair, tightened the noose and rope, and kick the chair out from underneath you, and let you dangle kicking your legs about and your eyes bulging until you die.  strictly amateur or psychopath stuff, that.

nope, to kill you quickly they use "the drop," and the wraps on the noose, which using energy generated by the drop through the gallows bangs you on the back and side of the head behind your ears, and snaps your head forward and down displacing your neck vertebrae and severely damaging your spinal chord.  as a practicable matter, you are dead right now.

even so, it takes some skill.   you gotta wrap the noose correctly, so it snaps the head far enough to sufficiently damage the spinal chord.   and, taking the weight of the soon-to-be-deceased, you have to consider his weight and calculate the length of the drop of the body before the rope comes tight, to ensure enough damage is done to the neck to inflict more or less instant death, so that the poor sod just doesn't dangle there for ten minutes kicking (though some of them probably richly deserved it.)

as an aside, all of this brings up the more or less famous fellow on death row who ate himself into obesity, and then sued the state of washington to prevent his execution by arguing that he was so heavy that the drop would rip his head off, thereby inflicting a prohibited cruel and unusual punishment.  you can look it up.

so, as pertains to epstein.-- 

to kill yourself by hanging you need: 1.)something from which to hang, 2.)something by which to hang, and 3.)sufficient time to die by asphyxiation, whilst thrashing about with you hands and legs to avoid dying.  (think about every photo you have ever seen of a hanging, whether administered by thugs from a tree limb, or a hangman from a gallows, and you will have noted the victim of that hanging with his hands restrained behind his back, to prevent him from using his hands to attack the rope round his neck.  think about it.  think about that, as you read the text below.) 

here it needs mentioning that the inspiration of oxygen is a basic physical drive, and one which when frustrated causes immediate physical reaction, and great physical stress.   epstein may very well have desired to kill himself (which i doubt), but his body sure as little green apples are sour did not want to die, and did not die voluntarily without struggle.  on that, i will bet the proverbial farm.

so, i have some basic questions.   1.  from what did he hang?  did the prison provide a convenient eye bolt in the ceiling, and a ladder to reach it?  2.)  by what did he hang himself?  the handy dandy coil of rope, complete with noose, left under the bed?  now, i have read this day that epstein's paper uniform was taken from him and he was provided with a cloth piece of clothing, which if ripped and braided might be sufficient to choke him were he resourceful enough to find a place from which to hang.

but, i am damned doubtful that he found any place or thing in his cell from which he might have suspended his body weight and from which he might have "dropped," which would have broken his neck or damaged his spinal chord:  as noted, professional executioners calculated the "drop" very carefully to insure death.

and, if he made a home-made knot to choke himself, he had to figure out a way to let the "rope" slip through the knot in order to tighten around his neck and cut off his air.  if the knot could not slip, the homemade noose would not tighten, and he could not readily be asphyxiated.  

for these reasons, i doubt that i will ever entirely believe that epstein killed himself by hanging.  put a .45 acp under your ear and summon the nerve to pull the trigger, and you've made a basically irreversible decision, whose finality is assured if you have placed the gun correctly.

the same is assured if you jump from a high place, with no obstructions to the ground.

but, hang yourself from a bed frame with your pajama bottoms, and with your hands and legs free, and your entire body struggling for oxygen, and you've a lot of time to regret your decision, and a lot of ways to try and change the outcome.

so, with these things in mind i am looking forward to the publication of the autopsy.   and, to a thorough discussion of the mechanics of his death.  and, however his death was accomplished, it was accomplished with a jail staff asleep at the switch, either from neglect or because they were paid to be idiots.  (i favor this last theory.  i doubt very damned much that a hit man walked in the facility, to epstein's cell, did the deed and walked out again.  i suspect very strongly, however, that people were either paid or influenced to be asleep at the switch, long enough to let someone kill himself in a way that is very hard to imagine.)

john jay @ 08.15.2019

 

p.s.  yes, i am very thoroughly "mugwumped" by all of this, finding it quite implausible that 3rd persons entered the jail and killed epstein, and finding it just about as implausible that he killed himself by hanging, ... , yet, as to the latter, people apparently find a way.

either way, however, required the incompetence of the prison staff and administration.  no way around that, in my view.

jeff epstein .... one other possibility, the "honey trap" ....

there is another very real possibility to consider with regard to jeff epstein's operation, that being he was running a "honey trap" for one or more intelligence agencies.  sex and intelligence gathering have always had an intimate relationship, you should forgive the expression.   lots of military and other secrets have been given up upon a pillow, and more than one person has been compromised and exploited because of sexual and behavioral peccadilloes.

were that the case, epstein's growing and continuity notoriety would have given any intelligence agency employing him ample reason to have killed him before the revealed his activities, and any such agency would have had the resources and means to have eliminated him with "extreme prejudice" in quick order.

do i have any evidence of this?   well, of course not.   can the chance of this being so be dismissed without consideration?   well, of course not.   would the f.i.b. disclose such a thing, if they managed to stumble across it?  well, of course not.  for the very simple reason that the f.i.b. or the cia or the deep state would be the most likely organization or organizations to have been running such a honey pot.

well, think about it.

john jay  08.16.2019 

 

jeff epstein .... two observations ....

first observation.  the u.s. department of justice, bureau of prisons (whatever they call it), dropped the ball, big time, with the death of epstein while in their custody.  being in their custody they had a legal duty to protect him, to preserve his person, while waiting trial.  they had the duty to protect him from his fellow prisoners, and to protect him from himself.   this is especially so, given that they had placed him on a suicide watch just days before.  they clearly violated that duty by leaving him alone in his cell, and by not checking in on him from time to time to make sure that he was not harming or attempting to harm himself.

it really is beyond argument.

this failure to perform a basic duty is aggravated by the loss of information that would have been gleaned from epstein about his clients, and "what" they purchased from him.   let us not forget that slick willy clinton took 26 rides on the "lolita express" with epstein.

second observation.  jeff epstein was a very expensive pimp.   just that, and not much more.   (maybe "thief" will also be an accurate descriptor.)  

he serviced very wealthy clients with very expensive appetites.   those clients paid him with the expectations that their appetites would be kept secret, and that their criminal behaviors would remain beyond the reach of the law, and of public notice.  (perverts shy from the light of day.)   in these regards epstein failed them.

and, for this, epstein paid a very predictable and expected*** price.   his fate was pretty much assured when the young women that he exploited and whose services he pandered came forward and revealed what had gone on, and with whom, and when this made the news.

i suspect that those persons associated with and comprising the "illuminati," to include the podesta brothers, beyonce and others in the entertainment industry, and those who promoted the illuminati will be implicated in epstein's activities, including the purveying of human flesh for perverted sexual pleasures, and that said persons will be sweating blood for some time until this blows over.

(gratuitous third observation.)  don't expect the mainstream press to do very much in searching for the truth of such maters.   collectively, they cannot find their own butt cheeks using both hands.

john jay @ 08.13.2019

 

***  it seems stretching credulity to argue that epstein was killed by a third party "hit."  such persons simply are not in jails free to wonder around in search of victims, nor capable of having access to them.   nor are such people readily accessible for hire.

but, it is not hard to imagine how a person or persons responsible for his safety could have been influenced to not take those measures necessary to protect him from his suicidal ideations and attempts at suicide.   and, such person or persons would have been readily accessible to those who wished epstein dead, and who had money to pay to insure a lack of zeal in epstein's protection.   were i the f.b.i., that is where i would look.

the f.i.b., of course, has shown that it is incapable of finding its butt cheeks with both hands, when looking to the actions of their own.  e.g., comey and mccabe.

where oh where did the deep state go .....

where of where did the deep state go

why oh why does it not thrive and grow

why or why does its fervor cease to glow

what happened to the barbs it used to throw

how can it be that the electoral college still exists,

still persists

and even yet resists being shuttered and shunted into the demise

predicted by the self proclaimed know it all and wise

thinly disguised, socialist commies who sought permanent rule.

(but let the truth slip, all too often for their own good.)

 

where oh where did the deep state go?

will we hear from it again?

let us hope and let us pray

it slumbers in hell, where it will stay.

 

john jay @ 08.02.2019

p.s.   with apologies to all practitioners of doggerel.  mongrels, all.

deep states? what deep state?

two years ago barack obama was going to use his vaunted internet connections and socialist loyalists within the state department, the cia, nasa and the other federal intelligence gathering apparatus to run the government in the stead of the newly elected president of the united states.   trump would perhaps be the de jure president, but obama and friends would be the de factor president, and he was openly treated as such, and feted by other heads of state who might have known better.

it was called the "deep state", openly admitted, not at all denied, and the contemplated vehicle of obama's dreams of continued governance.  socialism would have its day, and it would govern.

the democratic party would oppose trump at every turn, and impeachment was the cover of an open coup attempt.   that was then, heady days for those who thought they would wrest power from the duly elected president, not held legitimate to them.

today, where is it?  well,  it lies shattered, along with the dreams of power held by the likes of comey, mccabe and the big mouthed brennan, and countless lesser federal bureaucrats whose open contempt for president trump was flaunted at every public utterance was trumpeted by the media, and whose every act was an attempt to scuttle donald trump's governance.   every act pursued by trump was challenged in federal courts, and judges of lesser stripe were sought and cultivated because they openly advertised their willingness to thwart trump's exercise of power.

today, comey and mccabe are revealed as the venal rosencranz and gildenstern of the day.   john brennan has shut his mouth, his flapping gums stilled.   john kerry no longer visits the world's capital acting as the secretary of the deep state, making deals and foreign policy with leaders of state only too eager to indulge in his vainglory.

the military is solidly behind trump, not at all lured by the idiotic imprecations of the obama toadies in the "deep state."

the democrats tried every low life tactic imaginable to frustrate trump, and their strategies lie in ruin, and they are revealed as the champions only of their own self interests, with no agenda calculated to advance the interests of the united states as a body politic, no vision of the betterment of its citizens.   their party is in disarray, run by idiots, championed by chuch schumer and aoc ,.... , what more need be said.

trump's rule is secure.   even the mavens of the mass media have stilled their ridicule of melanie trump, a decent woman.

the "deep state" lies as a failed coup attempt, the stench of its illegality pervading socialist conceits.   it is consigned to the dust bins of history.  in two short years, trump has prevailed, and his policies dominate the public debate.  he has not won every fight, but, he defines the debate.

john jay @ 07.30.2019

p.s.   and, donald trump continues to appoint judges to the federal bench, and the republican controlled senate committee continues to steer those appointments to the bench in record numbers.   and, ruth bader ginsburg cannot live forever.

j. epstein the pedophile .... wheat harvest starts in the walla walla valley ....

what do these two topics have in common, you may ask.   well, the answer, insofar as known to me, is absolutely nothing.

suffice it to say evil seems to be endemic to human existence, and that there will always be assholes like epstein.  there is no cure for what ails him, ... , he is a pervert, and a politician consumed by uncontrollable ambition and appetite, and the resultant product is not pretty, except to democrats.

as to wheat harvest in the walla walla valley, it has flourished in our time due to a favorable combination of timely winds, weather and water.  my little valley doesn't get much rain, but what we do get is favorable to the cultivation of winter wheat, being just enough to germinate seeds planted after a slight fall rain, and just enough to carry the crop through after "the spring thaw."   our valley is verdant on very little water in the spring, and then dries in an orderly fashion to bring the wheat heads/berries to maturity.

wind carried our soil from the south in times past.   just eough water is carried to us from the pacific after most of the water is extracted on the heights of the cascade mountains to our west.   winter wheat seems almost to have been designed for our climate, and for the anti-"gmo" crowd, this is in the main entirely true, thanks to the agronomy programs at washington state and oregon state universities.  (most of you slicks, east coast and west coast, don't have the slightest notion of what "gaines shorty" is, and most of you lack sufficient curiosity to gain such knowledge, being, well, slicks.  ignorance becomes you.)

so, wind, weather and water provide for us.   it gives us sustenance and life.  as for the turd bird epstein, he gives nothing, and quite likely, never will be anything except an object of conjecture.   although i suspect, the dems will rehabilitate him again, and run him for office, if he can stay out of prison.

i'll take my bucolic existence amid the wheat fields, thank you very much.

john jay

07.16.2019

p.s.   i have been gone from these pages for a bit.--   on may 24th i suffered a coronary occlusion necessitating the placement of another stent (i am up to 6 of the things, plus 4 "cabbages"), plus 2 days after the operation to place a stent i had a bleeding stomach ulcer let go, requiring another operation to stem the leakage of blood.   even so, i was anemic enough to require the transfusion of a couple of bags of blood.   not to mention that i suffered an allergic reaction to the anesthetic used in the heart surgery, which rendered me a bit crazy for a couple days, to put the matter plainly.

and, as the icing on the cake, i also had a bit of stroke somewhere along the course of this whole adventure "in good health," which impacted memory, speech and other movement, for a blessedly brief period, and which seems to have resolved itself quite favorably in a remarkably short period of time.  so, i am back to "normal," more or less, insofar as i am capable to judge.

ah, 2020 and the re-election of the donald, and the defeat of the democrat lunatics.  i am gonna jump into that both feet, insofar as stamina mental and physical will allow.   why let little things such as heart attacks & such hold me back.

bring on the fight!!!  

well, our "vacation" from politics is pretty much over .... time to gear up for the next battle ....

just that.   the next fight will soon be upon us.  no holds barred, ear twisting and nose biting allowed, and we'll just have to wait and see what the demented demos have in store for this go-around.   it will get worse before it gets better.

john jay @ 05.22.2019