Month: November 2021

The Mainstream Media has apparently forgotten that President Joe Biden promised to “shut down the virus” during his 2020 presidential campaign. Recall that on 10/30/20 then candidate Joe Biden said, “I’m not going to shut down the country. I’m not going to shut down the economy. I’m going to shut down the virus.”

Well, oopsie! The economy is not doing very well as inflation is out of control, and shutting down the virus … well, err, not exactly!

Again on 11/1/20 from J.B:

“More than 230,000 Americans have died from COVID-19 –– and Donald Trump has given up on trying to get the virus under control.”

Oopsie! Yet again as J.B. has topped that 230,000 number and there is still a month to go in 2021!

From USA Today on 11/23/21:

“COVID-19 has killed more people in 2021 than 2020, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data shows.

The disease was reported as the underlying cause of death or a contributing cause of death for an estimated 377,883 people in 2020, accounting for 11.3% of deaths, according to the CDC. As of Monday, more than 770,000 people have died from the coronavirus, according to Johns Hopkins University data. That means over 15,000 more people have died in 2021 than last year from COVID-19 – and there’s still more than a month left.”

Oopsie!

Now here is my prognostication … it’s only a matter of time before the hapless Joe Biden reverts to his old strategy, namely “Blame Trump!” As the effectiveness of the vaccines continues to wane, President Biden will start to blame Trump for rushing into the vaccine. I can hear him now … “If President Trump was a little more patient instead of rushing into these vaccines, we would not be having this waning vaccine problem.”

As the continuing Biden-headlines are one disaster after another, do not be surprised when he reverts to his old trite “Blame Trump” standby.

It’s only a matter of time, and remember you heard it here first.

11/30/21

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At first glance on the same day two apparently contradictory things going on … or so it seems, but au contraire. Read on.

First off there is a new variant, B.1.1.529, that seems to have originated in South Africa, and has spread to neighboring countries in the southern part of the African continent.

From CNBC:

“[The] World Health Organization assigned the newly identified variant the Greek letter omicron and formally recognized the strain, previously referred to as lineage B.1.1.529, as a “variant of concern.”

Health experts are deeply concerned about the transmissibility of the omicron variant given that it has an unusual constellation of mutations and a profile that is different from other variants of concern. It is not clear how severe infections would be for vaccinated patients.

It is feared a sharp upswing of Covid cases in South Africa’s Gauteng province — where the heavily mutated strain of the virus was first identified — could mean it has greater potential to escape prior immunity than other variants.”

Then on the other hand last week from the A.P.:

“But there is something “mysterious” going on in Africa that is puzzling scientists, said Wafaa El-Sadr, chair of global health at Columbia University. “Africa doesn’t have the vaccines and the resources to fight COVID-19 that they have in Europe and the U.S., but somehow they seem to be doing better,” she said.

Fewer than 6% of people in Africa are vaccinated. For months, the WHO has described Africa as “one of the least affected regions in the world” in its weekly pandemic reports.”

So what do we have here? A continent with a generalized low incidence of Covid now experiencing an outbreak of a new, potentially more infectious strain. Is it possible that having a low overall incidence of Covid somehow induces new mutations? If so, then are we doomed? Low overall incidence of Covid … bad! High incidence of Covid … bad! OMG! 

However, do not despair as the continent of Africa is not uniform as far a few important things. The sub-Saharan section of Africa is different from the southern section that encompasses South Africa and the nearby  countries of Botswana, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Lesotho, Eswatini, Mozambique, and Malawi. How so? First off, the occurrence of malaria in the vast middle region of the African continent is not the same as in the southern parts of Africa. Consequently, could it be that the widespread usage of Hydroxychloroquine in these malaria prone areas be the difference maker?

Could it be that the usage of Ivermectin is different in the middle of Africa compared to the southern region?

From Tokyo Medical Association Chairman Haruo Ozaki, August 13 2021:

“In Africa, if we compare countries distributing ivermectin once a year with countries which do not give ivermectin … I mean, they don’t give ivermectin to prevent COVID, but to prevent parasitic diseases … but anyway, if we look at COVID numbers in countries that give ivermectin, the number of cases is 134.4 per 100,000, and the number of deaths is 2.2 in 100,000.”

“Now, African countries which do not distribute ivermectin: 950.6 cases per 100,000 and 29.3 deaths per 100,000,” Ozaki added.

“I believe the difference is clear.”

So perhaps the African dilemma is not as much of a dilemma as it first appears. Could it be that our old friends, Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin are the heroes here in sub-Saharan Africa? 

I have my opinion on this, but it is curious that we have not heard from President Biden’s advisor, Dr. Fauci, on this issue. Hmmm!

11/29/21

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Since I started trying to devote my Sunday essays to individuals with courage and fortitude, it seems like there are more and more candidates for this honor. 

This week I chose Norfolk Police Lt. William Kelly. My guess is that very few of you are familiar with Lt. Kelly as his story is a poster child for “wokeness” destroying the life of someone, and as we are all becoming more aware, Main Stream Media does not report on this sort of thing. It was the Guardian, Britain’s liberal newspaper that “ratted” on William Kelly even though Lt. Kelly had expressed his opinion anonymously. 

What dastardly abhorrent thing did Mr. Kelly do? It certainly must have been pretty despicable as this Virginia police officer lost his job and his retirement as a consequence.

In terminating Kelly, Norfolk city manager Chip Filer said, “His egregious comments erode the trust between the Norfolk Police Department and those they are sworn to serve.”

“Egregious,” of course means shocking and outrageous, and certainly “egregious comments” cannot be tolerated in a police officer! Fire the s.o.b.!

Meanwhile, Norfolk Police Chief Larry Boone suggested that Kelly’s comments eroded trust between police officers and the public. Wow! There you have it … two high ranking officials publicly  saying that Officer Kelly’s action was “eroding trust between the police and those they are sworn to serve.” Wow! It had to have been pretty bad!  Firing the nineteen year veteran and thus taking away his pension is much too lenient for what he said and did. String the bastard up!

But wait. What did Lt. Kelly actually do?

From the New York Daily News in April of this year:

Kelly reportedly donated $25 to the fund using his department email address, and wrote a message of encouragement to Rittenhouse that read, “God bless. Thank you for your courage. Keep your head up. You’ve done nothing wrong. Every rank and file police officer supports you. Don’t be discouraged by actions of the political class of law enforcement leadership.”

By donating to Rittenhouse’s defense fund, Kelly said he was promoting the foundational American ideal that everyone is innocent until proven guilty.

“I was interested in giving him the chance to defend himself in front of a jury. I know that lawyers are expensive, and it’s hard sometimes to get the message out there. I wanted to make sure that he had the means necessary to make his claim in court,” Kelly told the Daily Mail. “It mattered. The comments I made, my belief that he has a strong claim for self-defense was a personal opinion. I didn’t want my city or police department to be associated with it, so I chose to donate anonymously.”

Officer Kelly (or perhaps at this moment in time, I should say ‘ex-officer’ Kelly) continued:

“This is America. You can agree with your neighbors and other people in your community and you can disagree with them. Just because someone has a different opinion than you, it doesn’t mean you should destroy their lives, take their job away.”

“If I had a different opinion and I donated to a fund for the victims and made comments about how Mr. Rittenhouse was a murderer, nobody would have cared or tried to get me fired,” Kelly added.

So let me get this straight … A nineteen year police veteran was fired from his job and lost his pension, because he anonymously supported the concept of innocent until proven guilty.

Kelly has filed a grievance seeking to be reinstated.

In that grievance, Kelly accused Boone of hypocrisy for attending a Black Lives Matter protest in uniform last May after the murder of George Floyd.

Hmmm! Looks like another case ‘one-way wokeness’ which is especially interesting now the Kyle Rittenhouse has been found innocent.

11/28/21

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I find it very interesting, even beyond quirky, when on the same day,  I read things that appear to be diametrically opposed. Today I am going to look at the inane, insane way that Ivermectin is handled in the USA and compare that to recent common sense handling of Ivermectin in Japan.

First, as I have stated many times in the past, Ivermectin has been used in billions of people in Africa to treat River Blindness – used with an impressive safety record. Here we are not talking about an experimental drug, nor are we talking about a drug to only treat horses as those on the left would have you believe, but rather a remarkably safe drug that may be of benefit to treat Covid. 

The safety record of Ivermectin is not anecdotal, and obviously impressive … we’re talking about billions, not millions,of people treated!

First Ivermectin in the US; A story of a single individual from The Blaze:

Sun Ng, a contractor from Hong Kong, was visiting his grandchildren in October when he caught COVID-19. Ng was admitted to Edward Hospital in Naperville, Illinois, on Oct. 14 and was placed on a ventilator several days later. Like thousands of other patients, the hospital offered Ng no viable hope of survival but bitterly fought the use of ivermectin, even with the family’s own doctor, at their own cost, and with their own liability. Ng’s daughter, Man Kwan Ng, sued the hospital in DuPage County Circuit Court for the right to have Dr. Alan Bain administer a regimen of ivermectin.

According to a court affidavit, at the time Ng was “in the same state for many, many days … critically ill,” and a nurse suggested that Dr. Ng “stop all this aggressive care and let [her father] die naturally.” On November 5, after Ng was on a ventilator for three weeks, DuPage County Circuit Court Judge Paul Fullerton ruled in favor of the family and allowed Dr. Bain to administer 24mg doses of ivermectin from Nov. 8 through Nov. 12. The result? Within five days, he was able to breathe without the ventilator and on Nov. 16 walked out of the ICU. By this past Sunday, Ng was breathing without supplemental oxygen on a regular hospital floor.

Wow! Seems pretty convincing that Mr. Sun Ng is still alive because of Ivermectin. Anecdotal … obviously, but impressive nonetheless!

Now let’s look at Ivermectin in Japan.

First some background information. From 8/3/21 until 9/12/21, Japan had a dramatic spike in Covid cases. When one looks at the graphics, at the beginning, the increase in the number of cases was very dramatic. So dramatic, in fact that Dr. Haruo Ozaki, the Chairman of the Tokyo Medical Association, decided on 8/13/21 that he needed to do something. He stated that Ivermectin was going to be allowed to treat Covid. After 12 days there was a dramatic abrupt reversal of the slope depicting Covid cases in Japan, and I mean dramatic! 

Since mid August, continuing until now doctors in Japan can prescribe Ivermectin without restriction, and the Japanese people can buy legally buy Ivermectin from India. At present the number of Covid cases in Japan (with widespread availability of Ivermectin) remains close to zero! Compare this to an incidence of about 300/million and 600/million in the US and the UK respectively (in both Ivermectin is verboten.) Could this suddenly dramatically low incidence of Covid in Japan be due to a mishmash of different things? … certainly possible. However, the temporal relationship between the allowing of Ivermectin and the dramatic lowering of Covid cases in Japan is hard to ignore.

Anecdotal … obviously, but impressive nonetheless.

US vs. Japan on Ivermectin? To me a no-brainer.

11/27/21

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The inevitable string of consistently being on the low side of a teeter-totter is like the title of the 1984 recording by Phil Collins from a movie of the same name …. Against All Odds.

If anything or anybody was invariably a prototype for a bear market, that person or thing would not be around for long now, would they? Most would answer, “no,”  … but au contraire, there are actually two entities that continue to defy gravity, so to speak. And the winners are … the Mainstream Media and Public Education.

An interesting  recent quote by Andrew Sullivan from the Weekly Dish:

“2016 election. Rittenhouse. Covington. Russian collusion. Vaccines. Bounties on US soldiers. Lab-leak theory. Jussie Smollett. The Pulse shooting. The Atlanta shootings. Hunter Biden laptop. Inflation. Steele Dossier. The [Mainstream Media] got every single one wrong.”

This is indeed ‘Against All Odds,’ and yet MSM not only continues to survive but it is also like a Bible for liberal America. What will be the next faux pas for MSM? – Wait a day or two!

The other entity that is a consistent loser, but continues to survive is Public Education in America where a substantial portion of children “educated” in our large cities cannot do basic math or read and understand what’s in the newspaper. During the pandemic kids were kept out of schools at the behest of teacher’s unions, and the MSM backed these policies. How’s that turning out?

From the NY Post:

When teachers unions forced schools to close and the Biden administration allowed union leaders like Randi Weingarten to craft Centers for Disease Control and Prevention policy to make sure they stayed that way, some of us argued that treating schools as inconsequential would have consequences.

“Kids are resilient, we were told. They’ll be fine. So what if they sat at home for a year staring at a screen with no interaction with their peers? And so what if they were forced to do this when all the science said they should be in actual school? They’d bounce right back when Weingarten finally gave the OK for school to resume. It would be just that easy.

But it turns out the people who have been wrong about everything else were wrong about this too.

“The education Web site Chalkbeat reported in late September, ‘Schools across the country say they’re seeing an uptick in disruptive behaviors. Some are obvious and visible, like students trashing bathrooms, fighting over social-media posts or running out of classrooms. Others are quieter calls for help, like students putting their head down and refusing to talk.’

Where is the resilience we were promised?

We’ve treated kids like mini-robots who can be turned off for social settings and then on again, and they have sustained real damage from 20 months of being managed as an afterthought.

The stress kids are under is not because of the pandemic, it’s because of our response to the pandemic. Our leaders, doing the teachers unions’ bidding, disregarded all science showing kids were low risk.”

So they were wrong again, Against All Odds, but they are consistent, and they now want to add two years of universal preschool. How will that go?  In my estimation the chance for success is … Against All Odds!

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11/26/21

Albert Einstein supposedly said, “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” 

For sure Einstein does not live in California … yes, I  know that Einstein died in 1955. Furthermore, I know that Einstein does not live in Santa Cruz County, California … yes, I know that he is still dead.

Like Rip Van Winkle, only those who have been asleep for twenty years do not realize that California is very liberal and of the various places in California, Santa Cruz is extremely liberal. 

At present Santa Cruz is experiencing a Covid “surge,” and so in true Einsteinian fashion they went back to their hackneyed playbook

As of 11/21/21, both people who have been vaccinated against COVID-19 and those who have not are required to wear face coverings indoors. Business and governmental entities are being told to require their employees to wear masks and to post signage at points of entry for their indoor settings to alert the public of the mask requirement. (As I recall,we have done this before … where’s the twist?) It’s the same-o-same-o way of dealing with Covid, and this in a county that has among the highest COVID-19 vaccination rates of any county in California, with 70.8% of the population fully vaccinated, according to the CDC.

Hmmm. A place with a very high vaccination rate is now having a “surge.” As I recall we have been here and done this before. However for the holiday festivities, Santa Cruz County has added a twist.

“Unfortunately, a potential winter surge appears to be a significant threat to the health and safety of our community,” Santa Cruz County Health Officer Dr. Gaill Newel said in a statement.

“As we look forward to spending time with those we love during the holidays, it is important to protect vulnerable friends and family members by wearing a mask indoors,” Newel said.

From now on during the upcoming holiday season, in Santa Cruz, people in private settings — including their own homes — are required to wear masks if they are visited by anyone outside of their households. 

I can only imagine how much fun a family Thanksgiving dinner will be in Santa Cruz.

However, in fairness, Looney Tunes is not limited to Santa Cruz. Whereas 

 I initially thought the following was from the Babylon Bee, it was from the NYT. An “expert” in answer to a question about Thanksgiving safety when combining fully vaccinated adults (some triple vaxxed) and children younger than twelve (partially vaxxed) said … “You could have the kids wear masks, eat quickly and stay away from the older adults when eating.” Think about that “expert advice” for just a minute. No conversation. Just eat quickly! I am sure some other “experts” are advising that children eat in a separate room, perhaps even in the garage. Speaking of garages another “expert” recommended hors d’ oeuvres in the open garage combined with Covid testing before entering the house … “You could make a game of it!”

So when the aunts, uncles, and cousins come over, no one will recognize anybody and no one will be able to understand what anybody is saying because of the masks. That should be a real festive time!

In closing to those who live in Santa Cruz and to many who read the NYT, “Happy Mask-giving!”

11/25/21

On 11/19/21 Kyle Rittenhouse was found not guilty by a jury in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and on 11/22/21, Kyle Rittenhouse was interviewed on the Tucker Carlson Show on Fox. Right from the git-go, let’s set the record straight, I do not usually watch Tucker Carlson. I do not usually watch Fox News. In fact I do not watch much TV at all, but I wanted to watch the interview of Kyle Rittenhouse, because I knew next to nothing about him. Very sporadically I had watched parts of his trial, and this usually happened when I was at the gym, where I could not hear anything that was being said. More pertinent, I did not watch the trial when he was on the stand. A few days into the trial a basically conservative friend of mine commented that Kyle Rittenhouse was a white supremacist. When I asked him if he had he been following the case, he responded, “Only in the paper.” To me that accounted for nothing because our local “paper” does not even pretend to report unopinionated news. However, I could not adequately respond to any description of his character or defend or deny the accusation that he was or wasn’t a white supremacist because I did not know much about Kyle Rittenhouse.

On 11/22/21 we had company and so I could not watch the Tucker Carlson interview. Fortunately I was able to record it, and last night, after my wife had retired, I watched it. 

Wow! I was blown away by Kyle Rittenhouse. Intelligent, calm, well-spoken, not bitter, hard working, compassionate … we’re just a few of the adjectives I would now use to describe him. If you did not have the opportunity to watch this interview … watch it! I’ll bet that you also will be suitably impressed.

Most of us can recall a phrase that was spoken back on Mar 23, 2012 — “If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon.” President Obama said that when talking about Trayvon Martin. Irrespective of why he said it, and irrespective of who Trayvon Martin was, that phrase made me think. In general, what are the qualities that any he/she would like his/her children to have.

 From now on whenever anyone says anything about Kyle Rittenhouse, I will ask if they watched his interview on Tucker Carlson. If they say, ‘no,’ I will then respond, “If I had another son, he’d look like Kyle.”

Furthermore, if you are not buying what I’m selling, watch the interview. I guarantee that after you do that, you also will be in the checkout line seeing if you can buy two!

11/24/21

As all are probably aware Kyle Rittenhouse tried to raise money for his defense and was denied by gofundme, which quoted their “high and mighty” set of rules prohibiting any funding for a legal defense of a violet crime … “GoFundMe’s Terms of Service prohibit raising money for the legal defense of an alleged violent crime.”

However before further responses to that tweet could be completely prohibited and those already posted taken down very quickly, there were multiple responses pointing out gofundme’s hypocrisy:

From Andy Ngo:

“If this is true, why did you donate $500 to Riot Kitchen last year? The Seattle group was arrested by federal agents after being observed filling up multiple fuel cans with gasoline & driving into #Kenosha. Police said the Riot Kitchen group tried escaping in their minivan.”

From Ezra Levant:

Out of curiosity, I searched your site for legal defenses for alleged violent crimes. Here’s an example I found in less than 60 seconds: https://gofundme.com/f/legal-defense-for-carlton-naughton-jr?qid=226a53b5825fb44d23cd9b8cebc379ed…

Are you sure that’s your policy?

Again from Ezra Levant:

GoFundMe deleted the example I gave. Here are dozens more: https://gofundme.com/s?q=legal%20defense… It’s almost like they’re making it up.

(FYI, I tried to look up this first example … indeed it had been deleted! …Hmmm!)

After failing with the first reference, I tried to look up this last reference, and this time was successful. There are indeed multiple multiple examples. The following is the first one that I looked at randomly: 

“Hello my name is Lansana Saccoh host of The Hidden Truth on social media platforms, I am raising a legal defense fund for a 15 years old young girl in Sierra Leone by the name of Isha Conteh who fought off a 45 years old male aggressor who was attempting to rape her, but the man was found dead after she struggled to  free herself from his forceful sexual  penetration. Isha, the 15 years old girl in this traumatic situation, sustained physical bodily injuries because of his aggressive behavior that includes but not limited to biting her on her breast and her back. Isha is currently in police custody/cell awaiting court appearance or proceedings. It is befitting in this case considering she is a 15 years old minor to not only choose who she wants to be with in any capacity, but to also self defend herself when her life is in danger. Please help mount a vigorous legal defense on her behalf by donating to the GoFundMe account open in her name, as a legal defense fund.”

This certainly seems eerily similar to Kyle Rittenhouse’s situation … a minor (15 years old) who fought off an attacker in self defense, and in fighting off the attacker, killed the attacker. 

Hmmm, seems like flagrant hypocrisy to me.

Interestingly, Isha Conteh is a black female and Kyle Rittenhouse is a white male … pure coincidence I am sure!

11/23/21

One would think the men of the cloth would be familiar with the Bible, especially when it comes to the poor.

“The righteous care about justice for the poor, but the wicked have no such concern.” (Proverbs 29:7)

“Defend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.” (Psalm 82: 3-4)

“It is a sin to despise one’s neighbor, but blessed is the one who is kind to the needy.” (Proverbs: 14-21)

So how is it that the disciples of global warming sect find it okay to push for “green sources of energy” that inevitably will harm the poorest of the poor among us? How is it that those on the left can flippantly choose those green policies that will inevitably harm the poor?

Closing down a pipeline will assuredly and predictably cause energy prices to rise. This is not rocket science! Why do liberals cheer this when the poor will be harmed the most? 

If my house gets cold in the winter, I can merely turn up the thermostat. Granted, I do not like paying more for heat, but I can afford it. But what happens when the home of a poor person gets cold? I suppose that he or she can also just turn up the thermostat … that is, if he/she does not want to eat.

When the price of gas goes way up as it has done recently, I can merely drive less as I am retired. However what happens to that less fortunate person who has to work to eat, and has to drive to work? I suppose that he can stop driving to work … and consequently stop eating, or he can continue driving to work even though the gas prices are astronomical … and stop eating. With no viable alternative which Hobson’s choice should he take? 

Perhaps we should ask a liberal, and better yet ask a liberal of the cloth who should be familiar with what the Bible says on how we should treat the poor. Perhaps we should ask the Bishop of San Diego, Robert McElroy, who appears to be a big backer of the liberal green agenda. 

(FYI: You can ask all you wish, but do not expect a response. I have been emailing Bishop McElroy for the past ten months, and have never received a response from him … I swear on the Bible.)

Recently that same Bishop McElroy criticized a document draft by the U.S. bishops on social spending, saying that it was “weak” on fossil fuels and should have included language about divesting from oil in order to slow climate change. …”Damn the tragic consequences for the poor; full speed ahead!”

Feasibly, because he never has to drive anywhere, and he lives in San Diego where it doesn’t get very cold in the winter, he is unfamiliar with what is happening to the poor, because of the present liberal green energy policies.

Perhaps the honorable Bishop of San Diego is also not familiar with how the President of Uganda views the forcing of green energy upon the African continent and consequently on the African people. Uganda President Yoweri K. Museveni has rejected the Western push for dropping traditional fuels in the name of fighting climate change, arguing that the policies “force poverty on Africa” and tend to endanger the safety and wellbeing of the poorest of the poor.”

Here we are again  … “the poorest of the poor,” and the lack of a coherent response from liberals like Bishop McElroy, who we would expect to be familiar with how God expects all of us to act towards them … Hmmm! 

BTW: Best of luck to Bishop McElroy in his upcoming open heart surgery. Even though I do not agree with his politics, May God be with him.

11/22/21

“He has a reputation for having good days and bad days — I’ve heard the word ‘mercurial’ used to describe him,” said Dan Adams, a former prosecutor in Milwaukee County and now a defense attorney. “But he is old school, literally and figuratively.”

Mr. Adams is referring to Kenosha County Circuit Judge Bruce Schroeder,

as “old school?” As most of us are aware Judge Schroeder is the judge who presided over the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse. 

What is the background of Judge Bruce Schroeder?

He graduated from Marquette University as an undergraduate in 1967, and subsequently graduated from Marquette Law School in 1971. (As an aside, neither my wife nor myself recall meeting Bruce Schroeder even though his time at Marquette University overlapped with ours.)

After law school Judge Schroeder spent time as an Assistant D.A., a D.A. and then a private law practitioner before being appointed a judge by the then Democratic Wisconsin Governor, Anthony Earl, in 1983. 

He is the longest-serving circuit court judge in Wisconsin, and his present term expires in 2026. He has acknowledged that some topics raised in pretrial hearings were new to him, and said that until this case, he hadn’t heard of the Proud Boys, which had offered to support Rittenhouse.

Schroeder is known for his businesslike approach and was able to impanel a jury for the Rittenhouse trial in one day. He has a reputation as a no-nonsense judge who is not afraid to voice his displeasure to attorneys arguing their cases in his courtroom. Thus … “old school!”

What do some attorneys who have worked with him say about him?

“His word is final and he’s not afraid to make tough decisions,” Dan Adams, a Wisconsin criminal defense attorney and former prosecutor, told CNN.

Another attorney commented, “Judge Schroeder is not a pro-defense judge. He’s a very tough judge. … But he’s going to give you a fair trial.”

“I’d say he is more pro-defense than pro-prosecution in trial,” said Chris Rose, a second-generation criminal defense lawyer in Kenosha who has appeared before Schroeder ‘hundreds of times.’ “The rulings he has made so far in the Rittenhouse trial are consistent with what he has done in the past.”

Was Schroeder fair in this case?

Obviously the crybaby left will say, “no.”

Joy Reid of MSNBC commented, “In the Rittenhouse case, the 13th juror was the judge.”

However, as Cam Edwards pointed out … “if that was actually true, the case never would have gone to the jury to begin with. Judge Bruce Schroeder had every reason to grant a mistrial based on the prosecution’s behavior, but he didn’t do so. Instead, he handed the case over to the jurors, and even during deliberations let them view the drone footage that defense attorneys had objected to.”

Is Judge Schroeder being threatened?

From the Washington Examiner:

“The judge presiding over Kyle Rittenhouse’s homicide trial is receiving hundreds of emails threatening him and even his children.

The Kenosha County Courthouse received threatening emails, letters, postcards, and faxes accusing Wisconsin Judge Bruce Schroeder of racism and asking him to resign in addition to warnings about Rittenhouse’s safety if he is acquitted by a jury. There were also threats against the judge’s children, according to the Daily Mail .“

Still from the Washington Examiner … Schroeder noted that there have been “thousands of communications” that he and his staff have received in the course of the trial. He promised he would “deal with” the senders. “I wouldn’t want to be those people,” he said.

Again …”old school.”

11/21/21

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