Miscellaneous Thoughts in the Middle of July 2022

I'm busy with other things:

• Preparing for an out-of-town conference (Physics Teachers). It involves clearing up paperwork, paying bills, arranging for my dog to be boarded with family, and packing.
• Slogging away at the dreaded annual re-certification for selling Medicare insurance. Some years, the test is (relatively) easy. Other years, it's a bear. I have to prepare for the worst, as I have only 3 chances to pass.
• Getting some exercise in before I spend a lot of time sitting - in a car, in seminars, dealing with that test prep in my spare hours.
• Getting ready for a birthday party for a dear relative. We have the base gift, but need a card, wrapping paper, and maybe some extra treats.
• Cleaning the house, weeding, and finishing off food before we leave for a week.

I read this post in The LawDog Files, and knew I had to bring it to people's attention. It's the Go-To Move for Non-Leftists, whether individuals, states, or the federal government.

"the current Fed response in Portland is not the way I would have handled it.

What should have been done is that all Federal assets in Portland should have been yanked out and re-located somewhere else. Boise, maybe. All Federal business needed to be conducted, drive to Boise.

You’ve got business in Federal court? Boise.

Your boo gets snatched up on a Federal warrant? He’s in Boise. You bonded him out? He’s been released. In Boise.

I would house all Federal personnel in hotels in Boise, and send an itemized bill to Portland every week for their housing. And when Portland refused to pay, I’d have a press conference on the courthouse steps, explain the issue, and gently explain that because Portland wasn’t paying their bill, we would be deducting the costs from Federal monies going to Portland.

And when Portland started refusing to pay taxes, I’d get my best legal minds to write the arrest warrants, crossing every ‘t’, and dotting every ‘i’, and they’d be incarcerated in Boise.

Portland should be left to burn. They voted the idiots into office who are allowing this to happen, the citizens are tolerating this stupidity, and they should be left to wallow in it until the citizens decide to fix their issues."

Withdrawal. Just complete refusal to deal with the offenders, unless they stop their lawless approval of illegal acts.

Face it, many of these urban communities have essentially been taken over by revolutionaries, who are being treated by the Feds as though they were still a legitmate governing body.

They need to be treated like what they are - a Rebel-Captured Area, that must not be given financial support from the central government. We don't need to take special action to starve them, but the copious federal subsidies need to stop:

• No transfers of money - grants, subsidies, or other support - to the current government.
• Move all Federal employees - whether civilian or military (and their families) out of the city. This will severely impact the restaurants and groceries, other retailers, landlords & mortgage companies (Call for a federal emergency action - ALL financial obligations related to property/rent are suspended without penalty. When - and if - the local governments get back in normal operation - and AFTER they kick out the dissidents - payments can resume. No late charges/fees will accrue to anyone moved under this action). Mortgages so suspended because the Feds were forced to move operations will NOT go into default, be assessed penalties, nor be adversely reported to credit companies. The banks, alone, will go nuts.
• Any damage incurred by the departing employees as a result of the cities' allowing vandals to roam without arrest/charges will be deducted from withheld payments to the cities. Any money held longer than 6 months or so will be returned to the Treasury to reduce the Federal debt.

And, while I'm promoting LawDog, here's another gem for you to read.

Update: Tuesday, 7/12 - I'm at that conference, and am taking the day off, during to gastric issues (I'm actually feeling a little better already).

Here's a new revelation from the informant that was spying on the OK Proud Boys for the FBI - there was NO conspiracy, there were efforts to get the trespassers to clean up the mess and leave peacefully.

What a surprise! WHO would EVAH have thought that the Fed Deep State would lie? And, in the process, frame innocent people for felonies?

Boy, not ME!

I'm going back to bed. Maybe when I wake up, I'll find out this has all been a dream (remember that sequence from Dallas?).