Monday, September 4, 2017

Trump is Not a Bad Person Even if I Disagree With His Economic Policies in Part

My longtime readers know that I supported the Occupy Movement and Bernie Sanders. Nothing has changed. Antifa was not part of the occupy movement, they are scum. People in the corporate media and academia talk about white privilege, yet fail to notice where it really is. People that join the Klan don't come from white privilege, they come from poor and rural. 500 or so white nationalists marched in Charlottesville, a bunch of poor dumb hicks. They tend to be the poorest and dumbest amongst us. They know they are hated, they know they can't win and can't get ahead. I knew some people who wanted to be Klansmen when I was younger. I confronted their beliefs in a direct and non-confrontational manner. I figured every challenge I changed over was worth the effort. Hate is evil. It is our job to love our neighbor as we loves ourselves. Not left, not right, Christian. Real Christianity, the words Jesus used.

For my longtime readers, you know I always referred to President Obama as President Obama. I thought he was a mediocre President as best. I detest President Clinton and the Bushes, yet, I always referred to them as President. There are people who claim Trump is not their President; but, he is and deny reality is insanity by definition. President Trump has all the authority of the office whether you like him or not. It is insanity to claim Trump is not your president because you believe he is a bigot, Jefferson was our President and owned slaves as did Washington. Beyond that, Trump is not a bigot.

Lets start with some simple stuff. Trump treated women better in his organization than anyone else in the same industries. He is not a misogynist. He promoted minorities and gave them more authority than others in his industries, he is not a bigot. He married eastern Europeans, he is not a xenophobe. He was one of the first to congratulate Elton John when he married his longtime lover, he is not a homophobe. His daughter converted to Judaism and married a Jew, he is not an anti-Semite and Israel actually likes him a lot. Those are facts, not opinions. He is also apparently a very nice person and the people that have worked for him haven't had bad things to say about him, not the women, not the gays, not the blacks, not the Hispanics.

President Trump visited the Houston area where the flooding occurred and the media chose to belittle his wife Melania for wearing high heels while walking to the plane taking them to Texas.

Yahoo - Melania Trump mocked for her 'storm stilettos' as she heads to Texas for Hurricane Harvey relief.  I said a day would not go buy where the corporate mainstream media did not find something to say negatively about Trump.

While the corporate mainstream media blames everything on Trump, the fact is people know better. Even true progressives can see how manipulative and deceitful the media is being. They don't think people can see it because they don't respect the average person and to a degree they are correct. The average person does not have the time, training or intelligence to look beyond all the lies. I want my readers to focus on the lies so that they can see beyond them.

I think the establishment misses what President Lincoln said, "You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time; but, you cannot fool all of the people all of the time". That should be real close to what he said if not exact. The problem with the corporate media is that they are attempting just that and failing. Every week the media grabs on to some nonsense attack on President Trump and has to drop it the following week because they are made up stories. People see that, even the ones that hate Trump.

We have been told that fewer blacks voted for Trump than Hillary. How would we know that as fact? You do not say you are black or white when you vote and your vote is anonymous. Not even the people getting your ballot know how you voted. I had that job once. We do not know the race or the sex of who voted for Trump, it is based on polling. What the polling does say is that more blacks admitted to voting for Trump than for McCain. It is possible that not a lot of blacks were willing to say publicly that they voted against the first black president; but, felt freer to say they voted against Hillary.

Texas is very much a Republican state and I watched the video of Trump helping out by handing out food at one of the shelters. There was whole bunch of blacks in those shelters who seemed gleeful to take their picture with him. They understood that they were meeting the President of the United States of America, their President, and they know that means. They still this country cares about it citizens; but, are coming to realize that neither party cares about this country. They can see that it only benefits the in crowd. They get that. It is why they voted for Trump and would have voted for Bernie.

Consider this. Trump supporters saw him saying that he was with the working and middle class while Hillary's motto for her followers was to say that they were with her, that she was what mattered. For Hillary to have a motto that said, "I'm with her" is the most narcissistic statement ever. While campaigning, Hillary actually failed to make appearances in some of the most important mid-west states. She lost those states and they didn't have large numbers of Russians in them either. They were states losing jobs overseas and she had nothing to offer them except more of the same and they knew it. These are the same states that had voted for Obama twice and she called them racists and the media agreed. Detroit has an 82% black population and Trump won Michigan.

Here is what the establishment no longer understands, we are all upset with what is going on. Not Trump, with our establishment abandoning this nation in favor of their own personal interest. President Trump's support within the military and with veterans is higher than I have seen for any other president, except perhaps Reagan. The people that die so that we can have freedom of speech support President Trump. I would bet that he has more support from Black veterans than Obama did. If he didn't believe me the media would be talking about it.

I support the working class and middle class. I support border control and requiring people to apply for citizenship. I support killing international trade agreements that deny us our constitutional rights or turn over the judicial power to corporate entities, like the TPP did until Trump killed it. Trump has NOT moved against gay marriage, abortion or sought to increase the regulation of people in any way.

I'm a frickin socialist and have proudly stated such for decades. My readers are pretty much evenly split between the left and right, my friends are mostly conservatives. I was a preacher in a church of gay Hispanics, many of who were seeking asylum from their own countries where they would be killed for being gay. I have known two gay nuns, one who left Mexico and another that is still there and hiding her homosexuality.

IF President Trump does something truly racist or anti-gay or anti-black, I will be the first to call him out and I will shred him for it. Nobody gets a pass from me, not even me. What upsets me is that the constant negative and deceitful messaging from the corporate mainstream media will drown out when Trump actually does evil, if he does.

Does anyone really believe that the same corporate media that failed to inform the public about the outsourcing while it was happening now cares about them? This is the same corporate media that said the economy was great right up until the crash and then said it would be a "soft landing", I wrote about that at the time. It is simple, the corporate is media owned by six companies IS the establishment and they are looking out for themselves. That is what is being exposed. As George Carlin said, there is a big club and you and I are not members. Trump is not a member and neither is Bernie. It is Members Only and Trump is not a member. That is the problem they have with him. He is more concerned about the middle and working class then he is about the establishment and they know that.

Friday, September 1, 2017

99 Degrees in My Home

I have to correct my last post which I ended up deleting. Turns out my air conditioner broke or at least it looks that way now. I have now been without air for 4 days or so. In fact, it is about 112 degrees outside and 99 degrees inside my home.

I literally called 10 different air conditioner repairmen and they were basically all booked for the next week. Fortunately, it seems I found one that can come out tonight. That's the good news. The bad news is that if I need a new air conditioner it will cost a few thousand dollars and they will probably have to order it.

While I can deal fairly well with high heat being an old desert rat, my little dog does not handle it as well. My solution was to take him for a ride in the car with the air conditioner on max. After our ride I put a wet thin shirt in front of a box fan to create a makeshift swamp cooler. He is laying in front of it and barely moving.

I believe the only thing to do is buy a portable air conditioner until my central air is fixed. This is going to get expensive. Oh well. Wish me luck.

UPDATE:

Well, I got very lucky, the technician came out and fixed the air conditioner. $500 and my dog can relax in peace. I called multiple Home Depots and Lowe's to purchase a portable air conditioner and not one had any available. I was actually considering renting a hotel room until the air conditioner was repaired because I honestly was getting really worried that it was too much for my little dog. My dog is not well behaved and has mental issues. He was abandoned by his owner because of his temperament and given to me because the people that took him in couldn't deal with him. When I first got him he literally barked at everyone and hated men. The first month I had him he would eat, poop on my floor and hide under the bed. It took a bit of time; but, I gained his trust. There is nothing better than being able to help a dog to reconnect with people. They are the only animal I know that loves us more than they love their own species. It is important to respect that.

Monday, August 28, 2017

Homelessness, Housing and the Future

Breitbart - Los Angeles County to Pay Private Homeowners to House Homeless. While you might think this is just being discussed in Los Angeles, it is not.

KFVE - Could homeowners be the answer to Hawaii's homeless crisis?

Los Angeles Daily News - On LA County’s remote north end, the homeless are stuck. Is hope on the horizon?

Some simple little facts to consider. During the housing boom (2003 - 2007) people began building bigger and bigger houses even though families were getting smaller and smaller. While touring new developments at that time I began to say that they looked like boarding houses and that is what they will become.

Imagine paying people $75,000 to build a small home in the back of their property, what is the effect? Well, first and foremost it means that the idea of zoning for single family residences is destroyed. Once destroyed, people will be allowed to rent out rooms, again, a violation of the zoning regarding single family residences. Trust me, this "pilot program" is intended to fail and instead people will get paid to rent out rooms and it will start in the Antelope Valley and Moreno Valley.

If you want to see what is coming, start by looking at the infrastructure that is being built.

Thursday, August 24, 2017

Who is Killing This Country? Nazi's or the Wealthy and Powerful?

Lets look at some really basic facts. There are Neo-Nazis and White Supremacists and Klansmen still left in America. There are still also communists; but, you know what, they all had or have political parties of their own. The largest non Democrat or Republican party is independents. The membership of the Communist Party (established 1919) is 5,000. The Nationalist Socialist Party shows not one person elected to federal or state leadership or even representation. Their numbers are too low to even count.

Neither Communists nor white supremacists can manage to get elected to any federal or state legislature. Neither the Democrats nor Republicans have racist or supremacist policies on their party platforms and haven't for a very long time. The media is focusing on groups that have zero political influence and couldn't get someone elected if they had to. They smeared Bernie Sanders as a Communist and Donald Trump as a Nazi.

I'm retired; but, I remember when Democrats in the southern states passed laws called Jim Crowe laws. I lived when that was going on, I remember when blacks were not allowed in certain restaurants and people were not allowed to sell their houses to blacks. I had a relative, a New England Democrat who told me that he thought the blacks were getting too uppity and he worked on getting Democrats to support Kennedy for President in Massachusetts. Declared Neo-Nazis and Klansmen couldn't get elected dog catcher. If there was a Neo-Nazi mayor the media would be all around it. Think about that.

Please show me ONE congressman currently in office who has openly stated that they support the Klan, the Nazi party or the communists. Wait, you might be able to find one that supported communism; but, it wasn't Bernie Sanders. There are more Libertarian Party and Green Party members than Nazis, Klansmen and Communist Party members combined.

Why is the corporate media telling you these groups are growing when they are not? Why are they saying that they saying these people present a clear and present danger requiring the elimination of the first amendment right to free speech when there is not. More people attend Furry conventions (people who like to dress up as small woodland creatures and have sex) than attend Nazicon if there even is such a thing. There are more Wiccans than there are Neo Nazis. There are more Satanists than there are Klansmen and to tell the truth, the Satanists are less reviled.

There are 85 people that own as much as the lower half 3.5 Billion of people in this world. Please, tell me which of them are Nazis supporting the Nazi party or the Klan. Those 85 people see the rest of us as scum regardless of what we believe in. You know what you have to fear? What you need to fear is what those 85 people think and thy think that you should be muzzled and that Democracy is evil.

Did you know that most of the Confederate soldiers that fought in the south never owned a slave in their lives? Rich men owned slaves, not the poor. The civil war was not fought over slavery, it was fought over economic independence. It was fought over which wealthy group would rule America. It was a fight over farming versus the industrial revolution.

We like to think that it was a war over slavery and that the north was against it; but, even Lincoln did not go into that war planning on freeing the slaves. You can look that up and comment. Remember when the billionaire said that they thought the wealthy were being treated like the Jews in Germany? No, here is a link.

YouTube - The Young Turks - Rich Asshole Tries To Apologize And Makes Things Much Worse.

The traditional enemy of the communists was the wealthy, now it is 3,000 to 8,000 Klansmen. What useful idiots Antifa have become. Communist, Socialist and Progressive agendas were always focused on economic issues and now the Neo-Communists and Neo-Socialists and Neo-Progressives seem to be focused on social issues. At least according to the corporate media.

Lets see. The Occupy Movement comes along to go after income inequality and is violently put down and removed from public spaces and later the media refocuses their attention to social issues, like how many Nazi's does it take to screw in a light bulb. The Occupy Movement came about in 2007 and the Democratic party has sought to direct all their attention to the threat of far right national supremacist wack jobs. There is just one problem, most people on the left get this and the progressives certainly do.

How effective has this been? Well not one of the corporate Democrats has one a seat since Trump got elected. They have lost control of national and state offices. Most amusingly they are failing to get any donations. The Republican party has raised $85 million for the coming elections and the Democrats have raised about $35 million.

YouTube - Shocker: Republicans Now Dominate Democrats In Small $ Donations.

Back 60 years ago the Democratic Party was the southern bigots. It was southern Democrats that made the Jim Crow laws and enforced segregation. Parties change; but, money doesn't. The one thing the Democratic party will not let go of is it's political donors. Corporate Democrats offer transgender bathrooms in exchange for open borders. Corporate Democrats offer gay marriage in exchange for NAFTA and the TPP. They offer fascism (corporate control over the government) in exchange for protecting you from Nazis.

Point of note, the guy who said that the wealthy were being treated like the Jews in Germany (the Young Turks video in the link above) contributed to Hillary Clinton's 2008 campaign and also said that the wealthy's votes should count more than the poor or working class. There are more gays in the United States than Neo-Nazis and Klansmen combined. There are more millionaires in the United States than there are Neo-Nazi's, White Supremacists and Klansmen combined. Here lets simplify even more. How many millionaires and billionaires attended the right wing rally in Charlottesville in support of the far right? That would probably be zero.

It is estimated that there are 10.4 million millionaires in the United States and perhaps 200,000 white supremacists of all types. Which group do you think controls the corporations and government? Yeah, it's pretty obvious.

Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Elitism is anti-democratic.

TTIIY - The Continuing Failure of the Establishment to Get Rid of Trump. On December 9, 2015 I wrote the linked post. At that time I wrote the following, "There are a lot of pundits writing about why they believe people support Trump and none of them seem to get it. Now the media has gone as far as to compare Trump to Hitler, that is irrational hysteria and demonstrates their fear of Trump; but, more importantly their fear of American opinion." Nothing has changed

For the past two years I have been pointing out how the media lies and manipulates in order to achieve political goals and those goals are anti-democratic, authoritarian and pro-globalism. In 2016 the corporate mainstream media began saying that if Trump were elected they should immediately impeach him for basically any reason and nothing has changed except for the excuse, which changes every week based on each new claim they make.

The truth is that I didn't vote for Trump. In fact, back in 2015 I pointed out that because of superdelegates and rigged primaries, Sanders, my preferred candidate, would lose. For the past two years I have pointed out that no matter what Trump says or does, the media will call for his impeachment and they have. The attacks are not really about Trump, the attacks are on the idea of people choosing to change the establishment. The real fear is that people will stop going along with the media and the establishments controlling public opinion.

Over the past two years I have written numerous articles about corporate mainstream media saying that democracy was bad. Over the past two years I have pointed out numerous articles that said that the people were too dumb and evil to pick their leaders. The calls for Trump's impeachment for using Twitter to get around the media and for his liking his steaks well done as proof that he is unfit for office and the desperate cries of the media to make sure that populism does not rise any more. Remember the opposite of populism is elitism.

Here is a prediction, I bet next week they find a new reason to impeach Trump and they will continue doing that every week until the next Presidential election. Who wants to bet that I am wrong?

Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Things worth noting

The Telegraph - Legal robots deployed in China to help decide thousands of cases.  The last thing to be automated will be the law. It is being tested in China. This already being looked upon favorably by the west. Lets automate society, will be deciding the programming or living under it?

YouTube - KOIN 6 - Portland ‘overwhelmed’ with abandoned RVs.  Liberal Portland which is busy fighting Nazis who don't exist in meaningful numbers are also fighting people living in their vehicles. Do you really believe there are more Nazis in Portland than the homeless? When I was young people were fighting to make the lives of blacks and the poor better and get out of war. Now alt left people are fighting to stop free speech and bad people from existing. Why are they not fighting against war and to help the poor? Where were the riots when welfare was cut, where were the riots when we went into Iraq? What are they fighting for if anything or only against things?

San Francisco Chronicle - Rich SF residents get a shock: Someone bought their street.  Here is the real question rather than the amusing aspects of the story, It takes five years of non-payment of taxes in California to have a tax sale. They knew it was going to be sold and still didn't pay their taxes. It used to be and may still be that even after a property has been sold for taxes, you still had a year to buy it back. Why didn't that happen. And by the way, I stopped more than one tax sale by paying the taxes when I was working in title insurance.

Yahoo - Why I will not pay $1,100 to attend a bachelorette party.  They attempt to prove that the reason millennials can't buy homes is because they spent $1,100 on a bachelorette party. Not long ago they blamed it on the fact that millennials like avocados. The median house price in Los Angeles is $640,000, how many avocados would I have to avoid eating to buy that house and how many bachelorette parties do you think people attend in a year?

Yahoo - Huffington Post - Congressman Moves To Impeach Donald Trump, Says No Such Thing As 'Good Nazis'.  Watch the video and see how dishonest the media and the establishment have proven themselves to be. You cannot impeach a president for not being nice enough or saying things in a way that you wish they had not.

Yahoo - Trump looks at sun during eclipse — with and without protective glasses.  Yes, I read in multiple articles from the corporate mainstream media how Trump didn't use protective lenses when looking at the sun. Well, simple answer is, he did. I'm pretty sure he will not be blind tomorrow; but, what is more interesting is that this was considered news as important as the fact that he likes ice cream or his steaks well done and yet these things are used as proof that he is Nazi or something equally bad.

Friday, August 18, 2017

Pastor Carol Daniels, a Grand Jury and Someone Watching the Case

A few months ago a grand jury was asked to look into the Pastor Carol Daniels case. Previously they had put a retired detective on the case as basically a help you out type of consulting job. Putting a retired guy on the case is what you do when you have a retired friend that needs a couple of bucks and need someone to babysit a cold case that you think you cannot solve. My dad was a cop before I was even born. My dad was a famous law enforcement officer my whole life and is even famous today and he taught me this garbage since I was elementary school. I know the law to, I have a doctorate in it. That grand jury was supposed to kill this case and blame it on the dead dealer; but, they didn't. They didn't because it wasn't that drug dealer, if that is in fact what she was. They wanted to blame the dead girl and I wrote that on this blog at that time.

Here is a stone cold fact, the murderer entered through the back door. The police had video of the front door. The police removed and saved to evidence the back door. That is a fact. There are other facts that I have recited over the years and things that can actually be proven. I personally have stated that I have told the OSBI who I am and unless they are the worst police unit in the United States, they have checked me out.

This is an ugly case for the OSBI and they still have missed the obvious. If they had found tire marks behind the church, they would know what the killer drove; but, the killer did not drive there, they walked there. It was dirt behind the church, they knew the killer entered and left through the back, they should have print mark casts from the back of the church and I don't think they do. I think the local cops screwed up the crime scene and that is understandable. Small town cops are not trained in complicated and rare murders. The Kansas City police royally messed up and screwed up the BTK investigation for 40 years.

The grand jury didn't end up blaming the supposed drug dealer because they knew they were going to get called out. I have told people to NOT speculate on specific people being involved in this murder to anyone other than the police. Online speculation is horrifically stupid. You don't ever publicly announce who you suspect until they arrest them or you are warning them.

I recently came across a blog that is really interested in crime.

The Works of KD Burr - UPDATE: The Pastor Carol Daniels Case. 

There is a line in the post that I believe is referencing me, it says, "One online crime enthusiast, who has religiously followed the case, quipped: "blaming the murder on a dead woman would wrap this up nicely for them [OSBI]." Just to be clear, I am not a "crime enthusiast" if you are referencing me. I detest criminal behavior. In fact, I have requested that someone much more viewed than my pitiful blog investigate and write about just so the family would know that people still cared. I have told the family that I am not a wonderful person and deserve no credit for anything other than my selfish interest in talking about the world I witness. It was nothing personal from me.

The person attached to the linked blog claims to be a writer of crime stories based on true events. If they can show me that they care about the family and if the family approves, I would talk to this person just to get the story heard by more and push the OSBI to take a more serious look even after all of these years.

This case was not closed by the grand jury. If I have done anything that played a role in that then I am glad and my writing was not in vain. I have said this before and I will say it again. I have done nothing other than talk about things I see. That is the only point of my blog at this time. My prayers and thoughts always go out to the family and this case has effected me though I never intended it to. I feel a connection to the family and if and when the murderer is ever caught, I will drive to Oklahoma to meet the family and tell them that she and God would expect all to forgive all sins. I believe they would and do.

K.D., hi honey. You are a pretty young woman who wants to write crime novels. Yeah, I checked you out. You tell me what you have to offer to the family and I will tell you what I have to offer to you, even things I did not publish; but, you first prove you actually care about the family and not about the crime. I have gone after Pastor Daniels church for wanting to outlaw homosexuality. I am not that nice, you better be able to prove that you are nice or you get nothing from me, ever.