Monday, 5/9/2016 A Mixed Bag of Nonsense

Geek Wire - BioViva’s Liz Parrish makes progress in controversial gene quest to reverse aging.  A women took an experimental gene therapy in Columbia, because it is illegal in the United States. If you think this technology is decades away, you are foolish. If you think it will be available to you, you are stupid. How much do you think the wealthy would pay to live forever? A lot more than you or me.

L.A. Daily News - America’s trucking industry faces a shortage. Meet the immigrants helping fill the gap.  The trucking industry refuses to pay truckers enough to keep up with inflation, their solution is to hire recent immigrants at low wages for that industry. Their next solution will be to buy self-driving trucks. Watch and see.

The Hill - Trump warns against ‘false song of globalism’. Isn't globalism worth discussing, the young people think it is and the middle class wants to know how it has benefitted them. How does anyone benefit from outsourcing jobs to China other than China and those who want to dodge taxes?

Yahoo - Reuters - Exclusive: Half of Americans think presidential nominating system 'rigged' - poll.  That is because it is rigged, the leaders of the parties have told you how they are rigged. Neither party has a truly democratic process, the wealthy and powerful vote is worth more than other members of the party. That is just a fact.

New York Post - Bloomberg turning to robots to deliver the news.  Yes, the media is seriously looking at automating reporting. I actually wrote about this years ago. I guess you just program it to automatically generate propaganda.

Bloomberg - Inside the Secret Meeting Where Wall Street Tested Digital Cash.  This "revolutionary" technology is basically a new version of Bitcoin. Here is where the problem begins, you can instantly move money out of the country instantaneously and thereby avoid taxes. That is the primary reason behind it. The question becomes who will control it and how can new digital currency be created, by the government or by the financial industries? Rothchild once said that he didn't care who ran a country as long as he controlled the currency.

Yahoo - Associated Press - Puerto Rico skips bond payments, says Congress must help.  Puerto Rico is an American territory, it doesn't get representation and is prohibited by the U.S. from declaring bankruptcy, a right that apparently Detroit and New York have. Will it become America's Greece where we impose unlivable austerity to pay back hedge funds?

Reuters - Japan ambassador takes veiled swipe at Trump's 'America First' stance.  This is great, the Japanese Ambassador basically said that they need America to have nuclear weapons so that South Korea and Japan don't need to pay to make their own. Great, Trump said they need to pay more for us to be the military for them.

American Manufacturing and the Election

I have been reading articles that ridicule the idea of bringing back manufacturing. They all basically say that jobs coming back will go to robots. Okay; but, the revenue from manufacturing would return to the United States which would help take care of this country. The wealthy do not want that but the middle class and working class do, that is what the Sanders and Trump campaigns are about.

The wealthy's hate of Democracy and a strong middle class became fervent in the late 1960s and one indication of it was a memo written by Lewis Powell, who became a Supreme Court justice when he pleaded with the Chamber of Commerce to help change public opinion so that the power could be taken away from the majority.

The Powell Memorandum

He basically claimed that business could not tolerate the democratic process being used to fight against big business or for consumers. He called for using the educational system and the media to propagandize the middle class. Nothing has changed. Oh, that memo was issued in 1971, that is when the attacks on the middle class were began in earnest.

Trump and Debt

Huffington Post - Great, Donald Trump Threatened To Default On The National Debt.  I want to tell you something and expose a hypocrisy. Donald Trump has said that he would borrow money to fix our infrastructure and would consider re-negotiating the rates if we couldn't pay them. This has driven the left and the right crazy. Both sides say they have never heard of such a thing and that it is outrageous.

You may or may not remember what the Federal Reserve Chairman said during the economic crisis. He said he wasn't worried because we could always just print more dollars to pay our debts. Guess what, it is the exact same thing. Here is the difference. When we print more money, the money you have is worth less. If he offers 90 cents on the dollar for government debt, the money you have is worth the same amount. I know this is sort of technical but I want to explain it a little more.

By the way, the people that buy U.S. debt, tends to be the same banks that we bailed out during the economic crisis. In my humble opinion, we should have nationalized those banks and then bailed them out. I also believe that the heads of the banks that rigged the Libor and commodities markets should have gone to jail and we should have seized all of their assets.

I will go one step further. While at dinner with my conservative friends tonight we were discussing politics and the issue of companies sending jobs overseas came up. I gave a suggestion, I would nationalize Apple and Carrier. Sounds really communistic except I would then sell the stock to Americans who would then be the new stock holders. That is capitalism and nationalism at work. Anyone who works against the best interest of America and Americans is my enemy. My friends liked the idea.

One more story. I am working with a realtor who is from South Africa, he has been here for like 40 years. He supports Trump. I have had the opportunity to get to know the guy a bit and he sees what is happening here. In case you are wondering, he was against apartheid and worked with blacks in South Africa even though it was frowned on at the time.

The fact of the matter is that our friends who are middle class and live in foreign countries, like England, want to see us get our jobs back and secure our borders. The battle we are seeing is not between different cultures, it is between globalist, elitists and nationalist, middle and working class citizens.

The friends I went to dinner with tonight are the most conservative people I know. Old school, cold war Republicans who hate socialism. They are also loving, caring, gentle and giving. They don't read the blog so I can say this. I know they want to lend me the money to buy my mobile home, I know this, they have hinted at it enough. I also know that they give a lot to charity. Look, I have the best friends in the world and they have been with me through some pretty ugly times. None of my readers ever have to worry about me, ever. I can pretty much have anything I want and that is the problem because there isn't anything I want that I don't have. I want to read the news, write and pretty much be left alone other than family and friends. I have those things.

I don't want my friends help because I am a prideful old man. I earned what I have and I have enough. If I absolutely needed help, it is there and I would take it. The hardest lessen and I wrote about this, was learning that if we help others, we have to be willing to be helped if we need it and I don't need it. My choices are not based on need or force, I don't respond to those things and walk my own path.

I have had people say that they like my blog; but, don't like the spiritual stuff. Well, if I didn't say the spiritual stuff than they would not know me. I would not be open and honest to hide those things. I have absolute faith that God will take care of me. If my friends have to help me than I am concerned that it will appear that I do not have that faith. It might be easier to take help; but, I have faith in God.

The Republican Pledge as Worthless As Them

Do you remember the first Republican debate? That is the one that began with moderator asking all the candidates if they would commit to supporting whoever the eventual nominee would be. They all said yes except Trump. Well, now that Trump has won, turns out many of them lied. Jeb Bush lied, he now says he will not support Trump. The Republicans that made such a big deal about Trump not making the pledge at the debate (though he later signed the pledge), haven't kept their pledges.

I want you to think about that. How can you possibly trust any of the people who made that pledge and/or insisted on it? This has relevance to another issue. The Republican establishment is now saying that it is up to Trump to make up with them by letting them tell Trump what his policies should be. Guess what, that is going to backfire. The Trump supporters will vote against the people who reject Trump. We might actually see Paul Ryan lose his speakership. To think that people will vote for a Republican that votes for Hillary is insanity.

The fact that Trump has won more votes than any other Republican in the history of the primaries should scare these idiots. While you may or may not like Trump, he has struck a cord with the middle and working class and if they go against Trump, they are going against their base. Whether Trump wins or not, those who are Republicans and go against him will lose a lot of votes.

Clinton's Server and National Security

I have to admit that I did not much care that Hillary Clinton used her personal e-mail to receive government e-mails. I am changing my mind about that. It turns out that she did receive top secret information to that account and that the account was on a personal server. That is a problem; but, the bigger problem is that it now appears that the account was hacked. A jailed hacker named "Gucifer" has said that he hacked the server and read what was on it. He is now being sent here to testify from an Eastern European prison. Now we can debate how important what she did was or not; but, the government is taking it seriously.

Here is what this comes down to. If she is indicted, her campaign cannot possibly win. If she is pardoned, her political career is OVER. If any of that happens there is no way for her to continue running for President and Sanders becomes the only candidate left. The party will not support Sanders and neither will the establishment donors. You may actually see the Democratic party freak out even more than the Republican party did over Trump winning. I personally do not believe the Democrats would allow Sanders to be their candidate and their super-delegates and Hillary's delegates will pick another candidate to represent them. 

If Hillary is charged then we could see a Trump Sanders general election. I did not consider this to be a real threat to Hillary; but, now I think it just might be. I did not really spend anytime discussing it before; but, I will be keeping a better eye on it from now on. This is the most fascinating race ever.

You Need To Watch This, the Former President of Mexico Apoligizes to Trump.

Breitbart - President Fox Apologizes, Invites Trump to Mexico. WTF.

Now here is the funny part, they will build the fence, they are afraid of Trump stopping companies from moving to Mexico. Read the article, watch the video. China will reach out to him next. The last stage is always acceptance. Trump is going to win the Presidency. We still have power and Trump is willing to use it, they know that. It is why globalists are afraid of him.

Donald Trump Wins the Republican Party Nomination

This has been the most fascinating election in my lifetime. I am clearly a news junkie and follow this stuff intensely. While I personally am a social Democrat, I cannot help but look at the media manipulation and spin that they put out to lead us to vote as they would want. Lets start with how this race began, it began with the media saying that nobody would vote for Trump and that he was a joke candidate. The Huffington Post actually put reporting on Trump in the Entertainment section.

In Indiana 92% of the people said the issue was jobs and the economy. Trump has won more votes than any other Republican in the history of the primaries. Trumps number one issue is American jobs and how illegal immigration and outsourcing to China effects those jobs. Here is what you need to understand, the people do not wish to be told how to vote by the media. They do not trust the media. This is a fact and their shrill attacks on Trump and even more importantly against people who voted for him has made the media even less trusted.

The Trump and Sanders candidacies are a slap in the face of the "business as usual" establishment. Neither Trump nor Sanders wants to see American jobs continue being sent overseas. Why didn't anyone else address this issue. Most of the Republicans said the way to create jobs was to give tax breaks to the wealthy; but, ignored that those jobs would be in China and not here. When Carrier decided to move their business it helped Trump win and that was the news story. That was the story because the media knows that the real issue is American jobs and the economy. The problem is that the media supports outsourcing because their owners support it. The 6 companies that own 90% of all the media are globalist companies.

When this election is over, there will be a lot that the media and the establishment will have to pay for. The media spin will no longer work and they will be trying to figure out what their future approach will be.

The media has constantly said that Cruz, Kasich and everyone other than Trump has a better chance of beating Hilly. Who could possibly believe such nonsense. Kasich got less than 10% of the vote in Indiana. Trump has locked up the nomination faster than any recent Republican candidates, has brought in millions of Democrats and Independents and has a greater turnout than anyone else. Trump has secured the nomination quicker than Clinton who lost tonight in Indiana. Combined Sanders and Clinton got just about the same amount of votes as Trump by himself. Trump had more votes in Indiana than ANYONE else. We had been told that Trump is hated by 2/3rds of the Republican likely voters; but, he has won more than half the delegates to date. Those numbers don't jive with what we are being told.

Trump has had over 10,000,000 votes cast for him. He has had more people vote for him than have voted for Clinton. People who voted for Cruz would NEVER vote for Clinton. People who voted for Sanders will vote for Trump. 92% of the voters identified jobs and the economy as the most important issue. The Republican party has seen the most votes in their history and those votes have been for Trump. These are just facts, personal feelings only deny us the ability to objectively view the facts. Hey, I would have preferred Sanders; but, I don't think he has a chance because of the Super Delegates and that annoys a lot of Democrats, like me. I am registered as a Democrat. In the primary, I will vote for Sanders because I cannot vote for Trump. It is not allowed in my state. If Sanders dropped out, I would not vote at all. I would not and have never voted for a Clinton. I have consistently said that I dislike the Clintons and Bushes. I do not trust them.

I have traditionally voted Republican, with a few Democrats in between. I voted as soon as I turned 18, knew the candidates and knew the issues. I stopped voting with Clinton and Bush. I mean I stopped voting. I stopped voting for Republicans because of the Bushes and Schwarzenegger and for Democrats because of the Clintons. I haven't seen anyone worth voting for in years. I didn't even see a viable protest vote to make, so I stopped. I lost hope that people would wake up and actually vote for someone who cared about this nation and the middle and working classes. Sanders and Trump, I believe, actually care about the people of this country and not just the wealthy.

I don't care if someone is Liberal or Conservative, as they used to say in the 60s, "Some of my best friends are conservatives (they used to say black)". Truth is, most of my friends are conservatives, not all, most. Hardworking, working and middle class, backbone of this country, self-reliant people. Everyone of them is voting for Trump. Everyone of my friends gives to charity, everyone of my friends would give someone in need the shirt off their back. I personally have taken in the homeless to live with me. My conservative friends know about that, they knew it when I was doing it. Most of my friends are Christians who I did not meet in church, I don't have any close friends from churches that I attended. While the people who I preached to may have liked me a lot, they were poor gay Hispanics most of which did not speak English. We didn't have a lot in common and I don't speak Spanish so we didn't talk about politics.

I should point something out. The church I preached at was not just gay and Hispanic, most of them were illegal aliens at some point. Yep, they were Christians who came here to avoid being killed in their own countries because they were gay. Most were given asylum for that reason. I am going to make a guess about something. Trump has said that he is against illegal immigration; but, he has also said that we should take in more Christian immigrants from Arab nations because there are threats against their lives. I bet he would allow in more gay Christian Hispanics if they lived in countries where their lives were at risk too. I would love to ask him that question because I would. I would take in any Christian whose life was threatened and any gay. I am as straight and square as a Saltine cracker; but, what I have in common with my conservative friends is that I am Christian and love others. Those are the Trump supporters I know.

Look, my friends and my world is as diverse as is possible. I have friends that are multi-millionaires and friends that don't have a dime to their name and need my help sometimes. I have as many young friends as old friends. I have friends of every color, creed, sex and sexual preference. I have friends from private industry and government and interest group. All my friends know my position on issues. I have the best friends in the world and they know my heart and I know theirs. I do not have friends that do not care about others or this country. That is the only thing we all have in common. We disagree on so many things, the people I go out to dinner with the most often, they are as old school conservative, working class, Republican as they come. They are also some of the most loving people I have ever had the pleasure to be around.

I would have to say that my heart is for Sanders and the pragmatist in me is for Trump. I think Trump is more like my friends than any of the others. I believe I could sit down with Trump, ask him hard private questions and I think I know how he would answer. Trump said something really important to me, he said that if he were president no American would die on the street because he couldn't get healthcare. He said that to the Republican party. A party that voted in congress 100% against Obamacare (the Affordable Healthcare Act, it's real name).

Trump is not a conservative and he is not a liberal, he is a pragmatist, nationalist and capitalist, just not crony capitalism. Trump has a middle class attitude and his children are the best example of this, they are not just some trust fund children, they have to work and work hard. I would love to meet his kids, especially, Ivanka and Eric (sorry Donald Jr., you are also impressive; but, I would rather ask them questions - test them). I know the question I would ask all of his children. If your father is the Republican nominee and he could not own any corporation and had to sell Trump Industries to go into the general election, would you tell him too. Now remember, his kids all work for that company. I think his kids would all tell him to sell the company and continue the race. I asked my kids once if they thought I should have taken jobs in the private industry that paid a lot more and were offered to me, they all said no, we had enough. That is what my kids told me and that is what his kids would say. I believe that and your kids don't learn that if they are lazy, greedy people.

There is no way that anything I say on this blog will effect the election. I have a very limited readership. I will probably never meet any of the Trumps and I am a social democrat. Socialism just means taking care of your neighbors, that is all it means. If Trump is alive when the final Presidential election is held, I will vote for Trump rather than Clinton. That will mean that in the past 20 years or so, I will voted for one Democrat (Sanders) and one Republican (Trump). I think that makes me an Independent. Have a great day.