“So, beware, Biden supporters — you may not like what a Biden administration will bring.  It will very likely be a socialist drive toward communism, all in the name of the “great reset.”  That is exactly what the lockdowns are all about.  If A.G. Barr and the rest of those charged with upholding our Constitution, protecting the freedoms it guarantees, and using all the power they have to protect the sanctity of our elections do not do their appointed jobs with dedication and love of country, we are lost.” Patricia McCarthy, 11/2020

Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

As far as we know, Christina Laila’s story (below) in the Gateway Pundit blog was the first disclosure that the ‘widely acclaimed’ investigator, John Durham, after 16 months, was dropping his “investigation of “Spygate”.

Throughout those 16 months, respected reporters like John Solomon and Sara Carter, pundits like Sean Hannity, sober columnists like Byron York and Michael Goodwin, breathlessly reported that indictments of top former Obama officials in the national security and federal law enforcement apparatus seemed imminent.

Since Laila’s story, however,  little has been reported by the “mainstream” news sources. There have been some columnists who have written about Durham ‘throwing in the towel’… what should be a major story.. (one of those columnists is Patricia McCarthy, excerpts of  her column are shown below)…but little else.

Admittedly, there have been some very important stories in the past several days which merited extensive coverage and knocked this one off front pages…a major one concerning the possible, in our view probable, fraud surrounding the alleged election of “Sleepy Joe” Biden.

But we believe, call us ‘overreacting’, that the investigation of “Spygate”, the saga of the “Russia Hoax” which was created in order to destroy a presidential candidacy and undermine the administration of a duly elected United States President, was no small event in the history of this country! Besides AG Barr’s early statements that the Trump campaign had been spied on by the Obama administration, other evidence had been unearthed by responsible media sources that the highest officials in the FBI, CIA, and national security depts. had been involved in trying to, literally, overthrow the US government.

As Ms. McCarthy noted in her column,”It is with desperation that Trump-supporters — those of us who are faithful to the Constitution and expect our elected officials to be faithful to it as well — are distraught at the rumor that Durham is giving up on his investigation of the coup-plotters, who broke every law on the books in their attempt to derail the Trump presidency.”

We think McCarthy is accurate in her comments, but understates just how “desperate” and “distraught” we are!

Attorney General William Barr, upon his nomination to head the Justice Department was touted as THE guy to get to the bottom of what very likely was the most serious attempt to overthrow the government of the United States in all of its history.

We all remember the adulation and the deference paid to Mr. “Above Reproach”, a ‘standup guy’ with the courage of Achilles and wisdom, brilliance, and judgment rarely found on this planet…and never in Washington!

But then, to top it off, Mr. Barr goes out and hires the greatest investigator since Harry (“Make my day”) Callahan…the ‘bearded menace’, John Durham!

These two guys were going to ‘get to the bottom’ of the biggest political scandal in American history, identify the wrongdoers regardless of how high in government they had been, and bring them  to justice. Proof was abundant and all of it provided to Mr. Durham as he meticulously put his ‘case’ together.

To paraphrase another great American…”Justice at Last! Thank God Almighty! Justice At Last!”

But, now…?

What a build up to another colossal Washington D.C. scam!

‘What was that about “confidence in our government?)           dlh

ATTN. VERITASPAC READERS…YOU HAVE ANY COMMENT ON OUR NATION’S JUSTICE SYSTEM OR THE GREAT AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS WE ONCE REVERED ? ANYTHING?

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REPORT: John Durham Dropping His Investigations into Spygate, “Worried About Blowback From Joe Biden”

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Little punks regurgitate an AP journalistic putrification.  Here is their print edition headline yesterday:

Somehow we missed the same paper’s headline referencing a “sensational” Joe Biden statement :

Biden Admits Extensive Voter Fraud Organization

We missed it because of course it didn’t happen.  Here is a collection of their front page above the fold headlines, contemporaneous to Biden’s statement on or about October 23.

Yep, nothing about Ol’Joe saying that, which he did.  Wonder how and why that happened?

As to Trump’s comment as portrayed by the QCTimes indicating Trump said Biden  “won election”  Trump was exercising his Tweeter and did not put quotes around the word “won” because he went on to say it was rigged which means it really was not “won” other than rhetorically.  It has certainly not been “won” and Biden is not the President-elect at least as yet.  No official determination as to the winner has been made, the only declarations are by the media.

What we are finding out is that would have the QC Times issued such a Biden related headline as we searched for,  it would have reflected reality, as Biden heads the Democrat Party and the revelations of fraud are extensive, perpetrated by Democrat operatives and determinative of a hijacked election attempt.

Related reading:

Joe Biden Says Democrats Created ‘The Most Extensive And Inclusive Voter Fraud Organization’ In American History

and here

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• Our prediction for quite some time having lost any faith months ago, warnings messaged here

Is that Durham a ‘tough, courageous, above reproach, just plain wonderful amazing guy”… or what?

And, “c’mon man”…what does this say about “Billy the Kid” Barr?

Folks…we’ve been had, big time…and so has America!           dlh

Durham memes below

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REPORT: John Durham Dropping His Investigations into Spygate, “Worried About Blowback From Joe Biden”

By Cristina Laila Published November 15, 2020 at 12:04,

It appears the appointment of John Durham was another head fake.

US Attorney General Bill Barr appointed US Attorney from Connecticut John Durham to investigate the origins of Spygate in May of 2019

So far only one FBI lawyer has been charged with making a false statement in Durham’s investigation.

Former FBI Attorney Kevin Clinesmith plead guilty in August to one charge of making false statements 18 USC 1001 a(3) “makes or uses any false writing or document knowing the same to contain any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or entry.”

38-year-old Clinemsith altered an email from CIA investigators used to request a FISA warrant and renewals on Trump campaign advisor Carter Page.

Sunday Morning Futures host Maria Bartiromo reported in September that Durham would NOT release his Spygate report before the 2020 election.

According to Bartiromo, a debate has begun within the Department of Justice as the timing of John Durham’s criminal investigation conclusion. Sources said it is now too close to the election and could be viewed as politically motivated.

Now this…
According to The Federalist, “John Durham isn’t doing anything” and he is “dropping his investigations.”

“He’s worried about blowback from Biden.”

SEAN DAVIS: A separate source who has seen the evidence compiled during the course of Durham’s investigation told @FDRLST this afternoon that there’s “more than enough evidence to indict multiple” involved in the Russian collusion hoax operation to take down Trump.

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• Now this is a really Big Effing deal Biden, you crook
• Trump’s lawyer Sidney Powell issues bombshell charges
• Article below
• Dominion voting software manipulation if true, is as monumental a crime as ever perpetrated on innocent people
  
• The implications, if such criminality is true and successful, are egregious in so many ways

All of us are on pins and needles waiting for something definitive, evidence sufficient to  “stop the steal”that we feel in our bones is going on, or at least to be able to count the deck and examine the cards we have been dealt, so as to know whether to walk away or upend the table.

Is this it?  Is this something even the press would have a hard time ignoring as partisan nitpicking about Democrat voting fraud?

We think there is enough evidence as regards the old tried and true largely Democrat modus of stuffing ballot boxes, of inventing votes, of grave-yard voting,  of overwriting, of falsifying numbers, of destroying ballots and so on, to send a lot of people to jail. Such skulduggery is what they do, it is their trump card for any elections the powers that be decide they need.

But Donald Trump’s actual vote was shaping up to be so monumental the Democrats could not rely on their old techniques. According to Trump’s team the Democrats found it necessary to finagle a voting machine software process to insure at least an initial call by the media and subsequent capitulation, figuring on dealing with any charges and cover-up from the perspective of being in power, as in wudddayagointodoaboutit.

If Sidney Powel is blustering in this interview it would be the height of irresponsibility as it is the sort of thing that could lead to violence if exaggerated or untrue — but believed —

Democrats think they have sailed to victory, Trump Team to release the Kraken,

and likely to engender such if true and impartial justice not served. We think the opportunity for impartial justice is still present.  Readers are invited to send us your insights on this matter, what you are reading verifying or discounting Powell’s charges.  Epoch Times report below

Trump Lawyer Sidney Powell: ‘We’re Getting Ready to Overturn Election Results in Multiple States’

By Jack Phillips November 15, 2020 Updated: November 15, 2020

Former federal prosecutor Sidney Powell, a Trump campaign lawyer, suggested in a Sunday interview that there is still more evidence coming out in President Donald Trump’s claims of voter fraud and irregularities.

“We’re getting ready to overturn election results in multiple states,” Powell said, saying that she has enough evidence of election fraud to launch a widespread criminal investigation. “I don’t make comments without having the evidence to back it up,” she added, saying that elections software switched “millions of votes” from Trump to Democratic nominee Joe Biden.

Powell notably provided legal counsel to Gen. Michael Flynn in 2019. She was named to Trump’s legal team in the past several days.

Powell said a whistleblower came forward and said the elections software was designed to “rig elections,” saying that “he saw it happen in other countries,” referring to voting systems Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic, or perhaps other software and machines.

“We have so much evidence, I feel like it’s coming in through a fire hose,” Powell said, while noting that she won’t reveal the evidence that she has.

“They can stick a thumb drive in the [voting] machine, they can upload software to it even from the Internet … from Germany or Venezuela even,” she said, adding that operations “can watch votes in real-time” and “can shift votes in real-time,” or alleged bad actors can “remote access anything.”

“We’ve identified mathematically the exact algorithm they’ve used—and planned to use from the beginning” that allegedly switched votes to Biden, Powell remarked.

Powell also made reference to a 2019 investigation from Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), as well as other Democratic lawmakers into Dominion Voting Systems, Election Systems & Software, and Hart InterCivic. The senators had expressed concerns about the security of the voting systems.

“(W)e have concerns about the spread and effect of private equity investment in many sectors of the economy, including the election technology industry—an integral part of our nation’s democratic process,” wrote the lawmakers in their letters to the firms about a year ago. “These problems threaten the integrity of our elections and demonstrate the importance of election systems that are strong, durable, and not vulnerable to attack.”

Later in the Sunday morning interview, Powell said that her team has “detected voting irregularities that are inexplicable” in states where officials believe they have valid systems.

During the election, Republicans in the House were able to flip at least 11 seats while the GOP is poised to maintain control of the Senate. Some conservatives have questioned how such a voting pattern is possible for Biden to win the presidential election, let alone receive more votes than any other presidential candidate in American history, including President Barack Obama’s victory in 2008.

Companies Respond
The Department of Homeland Security’s cybersecurity agency issued a statement on Thursday calling the 2020 general election the “most secure in American history,” despite multiple legal challenges alleging a variety of alleged voting irregularities across a number of battleground states.

“The November 3rd election was the most secure in American history. Right now, across the country, election officials are reviewing and double-checking the entire election process prior to finalizing the result,” read the statement released by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).

Smartmatic, in a statement on Saturday, said that it has no ties with Dominion Voting Systems. Powell suggested that Smartmatic is operated by Dominion in the interview.

Dominion, over the past several weeks, has repeatedly denied its systems were compromised in some way.

“In the aftermath of the 2020 general election, there has been a great deal of misinformation being circulated about Smartmatic and other companies that provide election technology to voting jurisdictions in the US. We would like to dispel these incorrect statements with facts,” the firm wrote, adding that it “has never owned any shares or had any financial stake in Dominion Voting Systems.”

Dominion also refuted allegations that its machines changed votes from Trump to Biden on Election Day and beyond.

“Dominion Voting Systems categorically denies any claims about any vote switching or alleged software issues with our voting systems,” a company spokesperson said in a statement to The Denver Post. “Our systems continue to reliably and accurately count ballots, and state and local election authorities have publicly confirmed the integrity of the process.”

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AND WE THOUGHT…

At first we worried that Attorney General Barr’s investigation of the Russia hoax would not be completed in time for voters to consider criminal acts committed by President Trump’s political opponents in the 2016 election. As Barr”s appointed investigator, John Durham, plodded along , “meticulous” in his probe and fearful that a pebble might go unturned, the months turned into a year and soon it was announced there would be no revelations for the American people to take into account as they went to the polls in November.

It was then, we worried that ultimately, well- deserved justice for the wrongdoers would not be delivered at all. Their actions, which were factually aimed at overthrowing a duly elected president’s administration may have been the greatest threat to America and its freedoms and prosperity in all of its history.

And now, it appears certain that our concerns were legitimate. It now seems likely that the findings of the Durham investigation will not be provided on a timely basis to the American people… certainly not if any part of it reflects upon the putative newly elected president, the previous administration, or his party.

Even now, if the ‘investigation were concluded today, any charges arising out of it could not be brought very soon, given the current Justice dept.’s aversion to appropriate haste. And by the time anyone charged could be tried, the new administration would see that those charges were dismissed, and a “Judge Emmett Sullivan” would uncharacteristically and eagerly uphold a dismissal.

If you thought there was corruption throughout our government, at the highest levels, and especially in the Justice and National Security systems, you were right.

And if you thought one administration’s 4 year term efforts to clean it up and see that true justice could be achieved, you were wrong!        dlh

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First an instructive commentary from a favorite of ours, Kimberly Strassel, writing at the Wall Street Journal about the precursors to where we are today regarding voting integrity and fraud. It was forwarded to us via a simple Facebook posting and recommendation from our contact to read it. (We do not do Facebook normally so it came via email link)

But Facebook would have none of our contact’s speech rights without injecting their views. Of course with such editorializing, one has no free speech rights on their so called platform at all. Their “independent”  “fact” checkers objected to the veracity of the Strassel article and felt compelled to attach themselves to the post.  See the smarmy lying little limpet’s attachment below the article  and our response to  the sender, and since Facebook reads everything,  them as well.

POTOMAC WATCH. *****PLEASE READ*****

Harvesting the 2020 Election

Pelosi’s top priority was remaking the electoral system. The virus gave her a boost.
By Kimberley A. Strassel

The Trump campaign is pressing its case that last week’s ballot counting was off, and it will get its day in court. But if Republicans want a fuller accounting of the shenanigans, they’ll need to look much further back than Election Day. They’ll need to internalize Nancy Pelosi’s H.R. 1, and then do battle.

House Resolution 1 is the designation for the first bill unveiled in any new Congress. It’s designed to highlight the majority party’s top priority. In early 2017, the Republican-led House gave the title to Donald Trump’s tax reform. When Mrs. Pelosi retook the speaker’s gavel in 2019, her party had just campaigned on a slew of urgent Democratic priorities: health care, climate change, immigration, student debt. None of these rose to the honor of H.R.

Instead, Mrs. Pelosi unveiled a 600-plus page bill devoted to “election reform.” Some of the legislation was aimed at weaponizing campaign-finance law, giving Democrats more power to control political speech and to intimidate opponents. But the bill was equally focused on empowering the federal government to dictate how states conduct elections—with new rules designed to water down ballot integrity and to corral huge new tranches of Democratic voters.

The bill would require states to offer early voting. They also would have to allow Election Day and online voter registration, diluting the accuracy of voting rolls. H.R. 1 would make states register voters automatically from government databases, including federal welfare recipients. Colleges and universities were designated as voter-registration hubs, and 16-year-olds would be registered to vote two years in advance. The bill would require “no fault” absentee ballots, allowing anyone to vote by mail, for any reason. It envisioned prepaid postage for federal absentee ballots. It would cripple most state voter-ID laws. It left in place the “ballot harvesting” rules that let paid activists canvass neighborhoods to hoover up absentee votes.

Democrats grandly named their bill the For The People Act, but conservatives had better titles. This page called it the “Majority Preservation Act,” while the editors at National Review described it as an “Unconstitutional, Authoritarian Power Grab.” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell decried the bill as a “naked attempt to change the rules of American politics to benefit one party,” and dubbed it the “Democrat Politician Protection Act.”

Mrs. Pelosi’s bill didn’t become law, despite her attempts this year to jam some of its provisions into coronavirus bills. But it turns out she didn’t really need it. Using the virus as an excuse, Democratic and liberal groups brought scores of lawsuits to force states to adopt its provisions. Many Democratic politicians and courts happily agreed. States mailed out ballots to everyone. Judges disregarded statutory deadlines for receipt of votes. They scrapped absentee-ballot witness requirements. States set up curbside voting and drop-off boxes. They signed off on ballot harvesting.

Meaning, “the fix” (as it were) was in well before anyone started counting votes. Pollsters aside, political operatives understood this election would be close— potentially closer in key states than it was in 2016. The Democratic strategy from the start, as evidenced by that legal onslaught, was to get rules in place that would allow them to flood the zone with additional mail-in ballots.

And of course there was harvesting—as these pages warned. This isn’t a new practice; candidates and campaigns have been honing it for years. Three years ago, the Palm Beach Post ran an expose on the practice in Florida. A North Carolina congressional race in 2018 was roiled by a ballot-harvesting operation, and a new election was ordered. This year simply offered the perfect environment to roll it out at new levels, and throughout the fall conservative groups were documenting examples.

Yet the beauty of ballot harvesting is that it is nearly impossible to prove fraud. How many harvesters offered to deliver votes, only to throw away inconvenient ones? How many voters were pushed or cajoled, or even paid—or had a ballot filled and returned for them without their knowledge? And this is before questions of what other mischief went on amid millions of mailed ballots (which went to wrong addresses or deceased people) and reduced voter verification rules. As the Heritage Foundation’s election expert Hans von Spakovsky has explained, mail-in voting is the “single worst form of election possible” because “it moves the entire election beyond the oversight of election officials.”

Republicans fought the worst changes but were up against the virus excuse. The question is whether they now understand the stakes. This election was a mere glimpse of the system Mrs. Pelosi wants nationwide, and she has already suggested “election reform” might again be her first priority in 2021. The GOP’s job is to harness voters’ frustration about the murky mess that was this year’s vote into a movement that demands transparency and renewed integrity of the ballot. Or risk a lot of 2020 repeats.

Write to kim@wsj.com.

Major publication, well respected journalist, but Facebook editorialists know better:

Our response to sender (slightly altered here)

So Facebook gets to insert a comment (essentially hijack your post) with an assertion that does not stand up to objective analysis. If the Facebook fact shavers want to debate Kimberly Strassel they ought to send their comments to her paper and not abuse your free speech prerogatives by injecting themselves into it.

Would they allow you to inject your commentary /correctives into their assertions mandating all Facebook see it as a matter of fairness? They won’t, therefore they are in fact editorializing within your post mandating all who visit your post see their side of things on a politically loaded matter. They are “platforming” themselves within your post and to your contacts. Strassel’s comments were politically charged. Facebook’s effort to deny the implications is political commentary, Democrat spin, and ought to be subject to FEC  regulations.

It is ridiculous to say that fraud does not occur in every sizable election. Democrat operatives will admit to that*. The question is, is it sufficient to change honest results. Strassel’s article was about Democrat efforts to enhance the possibility of fraud by loosening integrity standards.

As regards presidential elections, in the last 100 years (call it modern times) there have been 25 presidential elections. It is widely held by historians that the election of 1960 was stolen by fraud, in Texas and Cook County Illinois. That is 1 in 25 or 4%. Does Facebook consider that extremely rare? Democrats won that election with good old fashioned ballot stuffing, graveyard voting or buying off of election officials and or partisan hacks doing their anointed jobs. The methods are still in place but additional sophisticated ones are available as well, all with the veneer of making voting easier. Yet voter turnout was as high or higher in the 60s and 70s than today, with very limited vote by mail, fewer cars and fewer precincts. Go figure.

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• This time it is Moloch using an Ezekiel and expanding his offerings
• First Do No Harm becomes Death Incentive

“But here is a simple truth that many of us seem to resist: living too long is also a loss. It renders many of us, if not disabled, then faltering and declining, a state that may not be worse than death but is nonetheless deprived. It robs us of our creativity and ability to contribute to work, society, the world. It transforms how people experience us, relate to us, and, most important, remember us. We are no longer remembered as vibrant and engaged but as feeble, ineffectual, even pathetic.”

As you read this, consider this:

In the lenghthy Atlantic essay, Ezekiel Emmanuel lays out, in detail, his beliefs regarding aging in America, to what extent, lifesaving medical procedures for people above a certain age should be employed, and suggests how his ideas might be incorporated into public health care policy. You are welcome to your own beliefs on these topics but what one should deeply reflect on is the fact that this is the man who will now exert major influence on potential President Joe Biden and his equally potential Vice President, Kamala Harris, on American healthcare policy (much as he did the former President Obama on Obamacare).

MOST AMERICANS HAVE heard of Ezekiel Emmanuel, Rahm’s brother, and a close advisor to Obama on Obamacare.

He is now a close advisor to Biden on the COVID ‘task force’.

• Zeke is also, its is being reported that the ‘vaccine’, when ready, should be distribute “globally”, and not in the US first!)
• In case you haven’t read it, however, I’m including it with this message. This, though, is the gist of it:

“At 75 and beyond, I will need a good reason to even visit the doctor and take any medical test or treatment, no matter how routine and painless. And that good reason is not “It will prolong your life.” I will stop getting any regular preventive tests, screenings, or interventions. I will accept only palliative—not curative—treatments if I am suffering pain or other disability.” (My note: I wonder if discussed his views with Ruthie Ginsburg. As you read more, imagine yourself as Justice Ruthie)

Good Old Zeke. Anybody 75 or older, according to him (he’s 63 (57 when he wrote this ), has no social value, and their medical expenses are nothing more than a useless burden to society.            dlh

Excerpts from Atlantic article:    Why I hope to die at 75

“But here is a simple truth that many of us seem to resist: living too long is also a loss. It renders many of us, if not disabled, then faltering and declining, a state that may not be worse than death but is nonetheless deprived. It robs us of our creativity and ability to contribute to work, society, the world. ” (As you know, Biden is 77, 78 on inauguration day…if he has one)

-“I am talking about how long I want to live and the kind and amount of health care I will consent to after 75. Americans seem to be obsessed with exercising, doing mental puzzles, consuming various juice and protein concoctions, sticking to strict diets, and popping vitamins and supplements, all in a valiant effort to cheat death and prolong life as long as possible. This has become so pervasive that it now defines a cultural type: what I call the American immortal.”

-“Since 1960, however, increases in longevity have been achieved mainly by extending the lives of people over 60. Rather than saving more young people, we are stretching out old age.”

-“Compression of morbidity…. It tells us exactly what we want to believe: that we will live longer lives and then abruptly die with hardly any aches, pains, or physical deterioration. It promises a kind of fountain of youth until the ever-receding time of death. It is this dream—or fantasy—that drives the American immortal and has fueled interest and investment in regenerative medicine and replacement organs.”

-“My father illustrates the situation well. About a decade ago, just shy of his 77th birthday, he began having pain in his abdomen. Like every good doctor, he kept denying that it was anything important. But after three weeks with no improvement, he was persuaded to see his physician. He had in fact had a heart attack, which led to a cardiac catheterization and ultimately a bypass. Since then, he has not been the same. Once the prototype of a hyperactive Emanuel, suddenly his walking, his talking, his humor got slower. Today he can swim, read the newspaper, needle his kids on the phone, and still live with my mother in their own house. But everything seems sluggish. Although he didn’t die from the heart attack, no one would say he is living a vibrant life. When he discussed it with me, my father said, “I have slowed down tremendously. That is a fact. I no longer make rounds at the hospital or teach.” Despite this, he also said he was happy.”

-“As Crimmins puts it, over the past 50 years, health care hasn’t slowed the aging process so much as it has slowed the dying process. And, as my father demonstrates, the contemporary dying process has been elongated.”

-“So American immortals may live longer than their parents, but they are likely to be more incapacitated. Does that sound very desirable? Not to me.”

-“Mentorship is hugely important. But it also illuminates a key issue with aging: the constricting of our ambitions and expectations.

Unless there has been terrible abuse, no child wants his or her parents to die. It is a huge loss at any age. It creates a tremendous, unfillable hole. But parents also cast a big shadow for most children. Whether estranged, disengaged, or deeply loving, they set expectations, render judgments, impose their opinions, interfere, and are generally a looming presence for even adult children. This can be wonderful. It can be annoying. It can be destructive. But it is inescapable as long as the parent is alive.”

-“When parents routinely live to 95, children must caretake into their own retirement. That doesn’t leave them much time on their own—and it is all old age. When parents live to 75, children have had the joys of a rich relationship with their parents, but also have enough time for their own lives, out of their parents’ shadows.”

-“My view does have important practical implications. One is personal and two involve policy. “
To me, this is the ‘clincher’. His beliefs are his own…and he is welcome to them. But, recall, this guy now has (as he did with Obama) tremendous impact on national health care policy:
-“Once I have lived to 75, my approach to my health care will completely change. I won’t actively end my life. But I won’t try to prolong it, either.

This means colonoscopies and other cancer-screening tests are out—and before 75. If I were diagnosed with cancer now, at 57, I would probably be treated, unless the prognosis was very poor. But 65 will be my last colonoscopy. No screening for prostate cancer at any age. (When a urologist gave me a PSA test even after I said I wasn’t interested and called me with the results, I hung up before he could tell me. He ordered the test for himself, I told him, not for me.) After 75, if I develop cancer, I will refuse treatment. Similarly, no cardiac stress test. No pacemaker and certainly no implantable defibrillator. No heart-valve replacement or bypass surgery. If I develop emphysema or some similar disease that involves frequent exacerbations that would, normally, land me in the hospital, I will accept treatment to ameliorate the discomfort caused by the feeling of suffocation, but will refuse to be hauled off.

-“What about simple stuff? Flu shots are out. Certainly if there were to be a flu pandemic, a younger person who has yet to live a complete life ought to get the vaccine or any antiviral drugs. A big challenge is antibiotics for pneumonia or skin and urinary infections. Antibiotics are cheap and largely effective in curing infections. It is really hard for us to say no. Indeed, even people who are sure they don’t want life-extending treatments find it hard to refuse antibiotics. But, as Osler reminds us, unlike the decays associated with chronic conditions, death from these infections is quick and relatively painless. So, no to antibiotics.

-“Obviously, a do-not-resuscitate order and a complete advance directive indicating no ventilators, dialysis, surgery, antibiotics, or any other medication—nothing except palliative care even if I am conscious but not mentally competent—have been written and recorded. In short, no life-sustaining interventions. I will die when whatever comes first takes me.”

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This gives a big picture visual to start from.  Thanks to KK’s Facebook page for graphic and her sources.

Biden is being called “president-elect” because of MEDIA projections of him winning sufficient electoral numbers in the states still uncounted or in dispute (grey) to give him the 270 Constitutionally necessary.  This is media manipulation because properly the term should not be applied until the the electors vote on December 14th.  Sufficient count challenges and lawsuits have already been filed to make media presumptions premature, unprofessional, manipulative.

Projections are that of the grey states North Carolina has been called for Trump and Alaska will undoubtedly be as well. Pennsylvania is an absolute mess as is Michigan and frankly the rest, with corruption rampant. In 2000 Gore took many weeks to concede.  This is not over.

Other aspects to keep in mind: tate legislatures are in charge of elections. An electoral vote tie sends the presidential election to the US House of Representatives but each state is offered only one vote according to its delegation.  Republicans by the numbers hold the edge in that respect as they have the majority of representatives in the majority of states. Democrat numbers in the regular operation of the House, where individual House members count rather than delegations, are the result of their current overwhelming majorities in a fewer number of states.

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This is one week after the election, look  at Republican Party of Iowa web and social media presence.  One oblique reference to controversy ,while they allow feeds embedded that refer to “President-elect Biden”  

Screen grabs from this morning of Republican Party of Iowa web page, Facebook and Twitter.

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“BARR AUTHORIZES PROBE OF ALLEGATIONS OF VOTING IRREGULARITIES IN ELECTION”

Well…I’m really assured by this.

Another “Barr Investigation”..I wonder who will he assign to this. Can’t be John Durham, he’s still ‘working a “case” from 2016’. Can’t be John Huber…he just kind of disappeared (but Barr ‘eventually’ told us. See the May, 2019 story below. An excerpt, “Barr said that Huber is currently wrapping up an investigation related to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and has not been involved for months in anything related to the Russia probe.“The other issues he’s been working on relate to Hillary Clinton. Those are winding down and hopefully we’ll be in a position to bring those to fruition,” said Barr…”) Note: Do you recall hearing about Huber’s report on his “exhausting investigation”? Did Hillary go to jail as a result?

Mr. Barr must be busy bringing everything to “fruition”.

To me, it’s becoming somewhat clear that what we need is an “investigation” of William Barr!        dlh

BARR AUTHORIZES PROBE OF ALLEGATIONS OF VOTING IRREGULARITIES IN ELECTION

Attorney General Bill Barr has authorized a Justice Department probe of allegations of “voting irregularities” — despite little evidence of voting fraud in the 2020 presidential election, a report said Monday.

The Associated Press reported the move by Barr Monday evening, but did not provide specifics on what the probe would focus on or what allegations they would investigate.
President Trump and his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani have repeatedly made broad allegations of voter fraud in a number of states, but have not provided evidence for their claims.

Trump has filed lawsuits in a number of states that he either lost to former Vice President Joe Biden or is trailing in the vote count as the final ballots are tallied.
Biden secured his electoral college victory over Trump in the 2020 election with his projected win in Pennsylvania and Nevada on Saturday.

Biden is leading Trump in Arizona and Georgia, states that he will have flipped Democratic if he’s ultimately victorious in them.

What Is John Huber Up To? William Barr Finally Tells Us

Attorney General William Barr has finally settled an enduring mystery: Where is John Huber?

Huber, the U.S. attorney in Utah, was appointed by Barr’s predecessor, Jeff Sessions, in March 2018 to investigate whether the FBI and Justice Department’s handling of the politically-charged Trump and Clinton investigations.

One focus of the probe was whether the FBI misled the federal surveillance court in applications for spy warrants against Carter Page.

But Huber has conducted his investigation largely out of public view, leading to widespread speculation about what he was actually doing. Even members of Congress have questioned what Huber was investigating, or if he was leading an investigation at all. House Republicans sent Huber a letter asking him about the status of his investigation in January.

“Your investigation has been ongoing for over nine months,” Republican Reps. Doug Collins, Jim Jordan and Mark Meadows wrote Huber on Jan. 7.

“During the course of our extensive investigation we have interviewed more than a dozen current and former DOJ and FBI personnel, and were surprised to hear none of these potentially informative witnesses testified to speaking with you.”

Barr answered many of those questions in an interview with CBS News.

Barr said that Huber is currently wrapping up an investigation related to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and has not been involved for months in anything related to the Russia probe.“The other issues he’s been working on relate to Hillary Clinton. Those are winding down and hopefully we’ll be in a position to bring those to fruition,” said Barr, who did not describe the Clinton probe.Huber was also initially tasked with reviewing the surveillance warrant applications taken out against Page, a former Trump campaign adviser. The investigation focused on whether the FBI misled the federal surveillance court by relying on the unverified Steele dossier to obtain spy warrants against Page.

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But Huber was sidelined while Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz investigated the surveillance issue, according to Barr.“And he was essentially on standby in case Mr. Horowitz referred a matter to him to be handled criminally,” Barr told CBS.Barr told Congress in April that he expected Horowitz’s investigation to wrap up this month or next.

Since then, Barr appointed another U.S. attorney, John Durham, to take over the investigation that was initially handled by Huber.

“So he has not been active on this front in recent months and so Durham is taking over that role,” Barr said of Huber.

Barr has said that he is investigating government agencies’ surveillance activities against the Trump campaign. As part of that effort, Barr asked Trump to grant him the authority to declassify documents related to those surveillance activities. He also asked Trump to direct various government agencies, including the CIA and FBI, to provide documents as part of the investigation.

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