Author: Californiacontrarian

Throughout this entire “get Trump” ordeal, I have often thought, “can it get any worse?” … multiple indictments – all frivolous at best. However, today the answer to “can it get any worse?” suddenly became more clear for Fani Willis, Fulton County D.A. after an expose from the Atlanta Journal Constitution (AJC).

It appears that Ms. Willis picked a “romantic partner” with little experience in high profile cases to lead her office’s prosecution of former President Donald Trump for his actions following the 2020 presidential election. Can it get any worse?

Err … yes it can!

From Townhall:

“At issue is private attorney-turned-special prosecutor Nathan Wade, who is alleged to have “paid for lavish vacations he took with Willis using the Fulton County funds his law firm received” for his work on the Trump case, according to the Journal-Constitution.”

Can it get any worse?

Err … yes it can!

“County records show that Wade, who has played a prominent role in the election interference case, has been paid nearly $654,000 in legal fees since January 2022,” some significant compensation which was authorized supposedly only by Willis.

The AJC reported that the DA and her special prosecutor were ‘involved in a romantic relationship that began before Wade was appointed special prosecutor’ and ‘traveled together to Napa Valley and Florida’ in addition to a cruise in the Caribbean, per the AJC’s report. The alleged behavior ‘could amount to honest services fraud, a federal crime in which a vendor gives kickbacks to an employer’ and it’s ‘also possible this could be prosecuted under the federal racketeering statute.’”

Can it get any worse?

Err … yes, it can!

From BlazeMedia:

“Willis and her alleged lover, special prosecutor Nathan Wade, apparently met with elements of the Biden White House before and after their recommendation of charges against Trump, giving greater weight to congressional lawmakers’ previous concerns that the Georgia case against the Republican front-runner was ‘coordinated’ with Democratic partisans and politically motivated from the start.”

Can it get any worse?

Err … yes it can!

“An invoice sent from Wade to the Fulton County DA’s office in May 2022 — ostensibly paid for by Georgia taxpayers — requested $2,000 for an eight-hour meeting on May 23 labeled ‘travel to Athens: Conf[erence] with White House Counsel.’

Another invoice to Willis’ office in January 2023 requested a payment of $2,000 for an eight-hour White House meeting on Nov. 11, 2022, three days after Trump announced his bid for re-election.”

Can it get any worse?

Err … yes, it can!

Still from BlaseMedia:

“In addition to these supposed meetings with elements of the Biden White House, Wade’s invoices indicated he met with elements of the Jan. 6 committee on at least four occasions in 2022 — April 18-21; on May 31; Sept. 7-9; and on Nov. 16.”

Can it get any worse?

Err … yes, it can!

“Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project noted that Willis visited the Biden White House for roughly five hours on Feb. 28, 2023, months ahead of Trump’s Georgia indictment. It appears that Willis met with Vice President Kamala Harris.

A grand jury in Fulton County recommended indictments in the Trump election probe just weeks prior, on Feb. 16.”

Can it get any worse?

Errr … I suspect that things will continue to just get worse, and I can hardly wait!

1/12/24

If you do nothing else today or tomorrow go to Twitter or YouTube and watch and listen to Tucker Carlson’s interview of Rep. Clay Higgins (R,LA) on 1/6/24. It was no mistake that this interview was done on 1/6/24, as the crux of the entire interview has to do with what actually happened on January 4,5,&6 2021 concerning the “insurrection.”

Congressman Higgins sits on the House Oversight Committee and thus has inside knowledge of a lot of things that have not yet been made known to the public. His recent pointed question to the FBI Director, “How many FBI agents were inside the Capitol on 1/6/21 dressed as Trump supporters?” suggests that he knows much more than the FBI Director is willing to admit to. During the Carlson interview Rep. Higgins said that he already knew the answer prior to asking that pointed question to FBI Director Christopher Wray. BTW: the FBI Director refused to answer that question because of some nonsensical mambo-jumbo.

To summarize the 30+ minute interview in a few sentences would be doing the truth a great disservice. Suffice it to say that the interview revealed what Rep. Higgins considers Jan 4,5. &6 to have been a well planned scheme that involved conservatively over 200 FBI agents on the scene. These undercover agents as well as Capitol Police were already  inside the Capitol building, waiting to escort and direct the crowd to where they specifically wanted them to go. In addition the FBI was also outside the Capitol, having infiltrated the crowd – encouraging and entrapping many to go into the Capitol building. To emphasize that Jan 4,5&6 was a preplanned event, Rep Higgins stated that the FBI had already infiltrated many of the known MAGA support groups months prior, thus setting the stage.

Rep.Higgins  also addressed the murder of Ashli Babbitt. Again to summarize his thoughts … “that shooting should have never happened” Arrest her, yes, but shoot an unarmed woman climbing through a broken window, never!

As I implied, listening to this entire interview should be a must for anyone who actually wants to learn more as to what really happened on Jan 4,5&6 2012.

There are too many conflicts to the truth about Jan 4,5,&6 to just dismiss it. However, if the Dems were to regain control of the House in the 2024 election, all of these conflicts will summarily be ignored.

1/11/24

I, like most non-Progressives, want a presidential nominee and next president who will restore integrity to our borders (i.e. finish the wall), expel illegal immigrants, support enforcement of the law, fight for fair elections, exercise leadership in international affairs (e.g. warming hoax, Iran nuke deal), combat the social rot of CRT, DEI, ESG, cancel culture and the woke nonsense, push for a stronger education system and military, insist on a significant cut in federal spending and reduce the size and power of our bloated federal government. That’s all. Who is this person?

It will take an unusual person to do all of that and I want a nominee who can be expected to accomplish it all as president or at least make a good run at most of it. It would be someone who has some character traits and attributes not found in sufficient strength in most candidates: 

•         PASSION. For the sake of this discussion, this is not just typical, patriotic, love-of-country type passion, but the kind of unabashed passion that causes one to spontaneously bear hug the American flag in public or fly unannounced in darkness into a war zone to greet our troops. It is a beautiful melding of love and determination. This passion is contagious and produces passionate proponents. It is a passion for the Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, and the rule of law and it carries The Candidate through the hard times with no thought of giving up the fight. It is a passion that also supports policies of tough diplomacy over military force but with the promise that our strong military will be used if necessary to defend our country and its citizens. Passion resides deep inside The Candidate and provides the energy needed to accomplish the most difficult and dangerous endeavors over the long haul.

•         AUTHENTICITY. The Candidate with authenticity espouses what is truly believed and therefore doesn’t need note cards. The Candidate’s sense of purpose to save this country from the tyranny of Marxism is one of those beliefs. Others want to be president but that same sense of purpose is not an integral part of them and they are therefore more likely to rely on scripts. If they go off-script or are caught with an unexpected question, they stumble – not a sign of authenticity. Authenticity gives The Candidate credibility with the voter. If it is real, it shows and says, “You can trust me.” 

•         COURAGE. This is necessary to win battles. We need a warrior president with the courage to battle against the pervasive, dark, tyrannical forces that are challenging our republic as founded. Courage is demonstrated in many ways – like taking the initiative to build a border wall against all odds, concurrently fighting multiple lawsuits, or bucking the deep state – David vs. Goliath. Courage such as this can’t exist unless The Candidate is totally free of indebtedness to other foreign leaders, uncompromised, and fearless of reprisal from power structures like a corrupted legal system. Not having to worry about an election for another term of office is a great gift here. That makes it even easier for The Candidate to do what is right while in office, not just what is expedient.

•         EXPERIENCE. With experience comes knowledge. Having been a very successful private business entrepreneur, and having gone successfully through a steep learning curve in presidential office for four years plus another four out of office while under constant, targeted, bogus legal assault is the unique experience of The Candidate. With the current bad state in which we are, that experience is crucial and has provided The Candidate with essential knowledge. As Sun Tzu said, “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.” The Candidate knows the country’s enemies – both foreign and domestic. A less experienced resident in the White House would need time to catch up at best. We can’t risk it. There is no time left. 

Put it all together – PASSION, AUTHENTICITY, COURAGE, and EXPERIENCE in sufficient strength, and The Candidate is the one for the job.  

TRIUMPH OVER TYRANNY

1/10/24

Because I believe that the future of EVs is going to be highly dependent on charging stations, perhaps now is the time to take an EV-pause.

There was a recent Wall Street Journal article that addressed this issue.

It was titled:

“Investors Sour on EV Charging Companies”

It pointed out that EV charging companies have fallen from lofty valuations as concerns mount about their profitability.

Meanwhile from Jalopnik:

“Investors Are Bailing On EV Charging Companies Because They Might Not Make Any Money.”

“Right now, the reality for electric vehicles is pretty grim. People are buying EVs, but the growth in sales is cooling. That’s having a ripple effect, from rising EV inventory at dealers to automakers rethinkingtheir EV investments and production plans. Even EV charging companies are taking a hit.

EV charging companies that were once the apple of investors’ eyes have seen their valuations drop and investors turn away as The Wall Street Journal reports. Several factors, including more automakers pivoting to use Tesla’s NACS (North American Charging Standard), have seen shares of companies like EVGo and ChargePoint tumble. 

ChargePoint Holdings have tumbled 74% this year, and the company missed initial revenue projections for the third quarter. Blink Charging shares have dropped 67%, while EVgo is down 21%, and both project annual losses.

From the Washington Examiner:

“The drop in shares comes as the nationwide adoption of EVs faces several obstacles, including a slowing demand, high costs, and a lack of charging stations. A recent survey by S&P Global Mobility found that 44% of respondents were concerned about the availability of charging stations.”

From Politico:

“Congress at the urging of the Biden administration agreed in 2021 to spend $7.5 billion to build tens of thousands of electric vehicle chargers across the country, aiming to appease anxious drivers while tackling climate change.

Two years later, the program has yet to install a single charger!!

While federal officials have authorized more than $2 billion of the funds to be sent to states, fewer than half of states have even started to take bids from contractors to build the chargers — let alone begin construction.”

Note that most stock is bought because the buyer anticipates the stock to rise in value in the future. If the stock price is dropping, then the outlook is not good, and this seems to be what has happened to the stock of EV charging companies.

1/9/24

As a point of interest, how many Covid vaccines/boosters are presently recommended? … the primary two shots as initial doses, then a booster (a third shot), a second booster (a fourth shot), etc., etc. ad infinitum?

And is there any data that confirms that continued boosters are beneficial?

From Epoch Health:

“A fourth dose of the COVID-19 vaccine may not be as effective as expected, according to a recent peer-reviewed study.

The retrospective population-based observational study published in the European Journal of Clinical Investigation used national health data from the Austrian epidemiological reporting system, individual all-cause mortality data from Statistics Austria, and the national COVID-19 vaccine registry. Researchers calculated COVID-19 deaths and SARS-CoV-2 infections from Nov. 1 to Dec. 31, 2022,

“Relative vaccine efficacy for four doses was negative 24 percent compared with those who received three vaccine doses. Additionally, researchers found more COVID-19 deaths among individuals who received four vaccine doses than among those who received fewer vaccine doses or no vaccinations. Negative efficacy basically means [there were] more deaths (or illnesses) in the vaccinated group compared to the unvaccinated group. 

“An extended observation period was added through June 30 to increase statistical power. The Extended Study Period Shows Negative Effects of 4th Vaccine Dose.

Likewise another recent study did not demonstrate any further benefit from the fourth dose.

From Epoch Times:

“An Israeli study found that antibody levels after a fourth dose of the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine returned to similar levels as after the 3rd dose after about four months.

The study, conducted among health care workers at the Sheba Medical Center, the largest hospital in Israel, found that the immunological protection of the 4th dose “was much smaller and had waned completely by 13 weeks after vaccination.”

It found “no substantial additional effectiveness over a third dose at 15 to 26 weeks after vaccination.”

Me?? … I am done with any additional Covid shots.

1/8/

Trump/Schools  

On 11/18/20 Nicholas Kristof wrote an op-ed in the New York Times titled “When Trump Was Right and Many Democrats Wrong.” 

It is interesting that this was printed in the NYT two weeks after the election. Although I do not know Mr. Kristof, I do know how the NYT operates. Could it be that it was “suggested” to Mr. Kristof that perhaps it would not be a good idea to pen this op-ed until the election was over. After all it is close to heresy for the NYT to say anything complimentary of President Trump . . . but before the election . . . No way! 

I would guess that the NYT will maintain that the timing of this op-ed after the election was coincidental . . . just like the announcing of successful vaccines within the two weeks after the election was also coincidental . . . “if you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you.”

Anyway the op-ed by Mr. Kristof had to do with schools and the wisdom of school closures.

The subtitle read:

“Children have suffered because many mayors and governors were too willing to close public schools.”

Despite the fact that it is a NYT op-ed, it is actually pretty good. Here are some excerpt from that op-ed:

• Trump has been demanding for months that schools reopen, and on that he seems to have been largely right. Schools, especially elementary schools, do not appear to have been major sources of coronavirus transmission, and remote learning is proving to be a catastrophe for many low-income children.
• “I have taught at the same low-income school for the last 25 years, and, truly, I can attest that remote schooling is failing our children,” said LaShondra Taylor, an English teacher in Broward County, Fla. Some students don’t have a computer or don’t have Wi-Fi, Taylor said. Kids regularly miss classes because they have to babysit, or run errands, or earn money for their struggling families.
• Adeola Whitney, chief executive of Reading Partners, an outstanding early literacy program, referred to the traditional “summer slide” in which low-income students lose ground during the summer months and told me: “The ‘summer slide’ is now being dwarfed by ‘Covid slide’ projections.”
• I’ve been writing since May about the importance of keeping schools open, and initially the debate wasn’t so politicized. But after Trump, trying to project normalcy, blustered in July about schools needing to open, Republicans backed him and too many Democrats instinctively lined up on the other side. Joe Biden echoed their extreme caution, as did many Democratic mayors and governors.
• So Democrats helped preside over school closures that have devastated millions of families and damaged children’s futures. Cities such as Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, D.C., have closed schools while allowing restaurants to operate.
• In both Europe and the United States, schools have not been linked to substantial transmission, and teachers and family members have not been shown to be at extra risk (this is more clear of elementary schools than of high schools). Meanwhile, the evidence has mounted of the human cost of school closures.
• Children learn best when physically present in the classroom,” notes the American Academy of Pediatrics. “But children get much more than academics at school. They also learn social and emotional skills at school, get healthy meals and exercise, mental health support and other services that cannot be easily replicated online.”

Kristof’s op-ed continues for many more paragraphs, but for the sake of brevity, I will stop here. The message continues to be the same, namely that the closure of schools appears to have been a mistake. (BTW: With the risk of sounding conceited I would say to both Mr. Kristof and the NYT . . . “Check many of my prior blogs about schools, etc. . . . I told you so!”)

Similarly, the way the “know-it-alls” have handled the return, or perhaps better said, “the non-return” of students to colleges across the country, has been inept to say the least. Would it have been better if colleges had followed the regimen as outlined in my book, now on Amazon, “The Keneally Chronicles?”

Perhaps now that the election is over, Mr. Kristof should next be writing an op-ed on that topic.

11/21/20

On Sundays I write about someone who deserves our praise and respect. Andrew Papp is such a person. His reason for his heroic actions that day? “It’s just the right thing to do,”

This 15-year-old ROTC student sprinted across a Florida supermarket parking lot earlier this month and tackled a wannabe carjacker who was assaulting a 65-year-old woman.

Billie Richert, the victim of the Dec. 4 attack outside a Publix supermarket in Riverview, FL said, “He told me to give him my keys, and I said no and turned away from him, and he was still all over me,” 

A video showed the suspect throwing Richert to the ground — and that’s when Andrew jumped into action.

“I started chasing after him, and he turned around and tried to fight me,” Andrew, a sophomore at Riverview High School, recounted to WTVT, adding that the suspect “was trying to grab my neck and grab my chain, and so I just kind of held him on the ground.”

“I mean that could be someone’s mom, someone’s aunt,” Andrew added to WTVT. “Like, if that was my mom, and someone did that to my mom, and he got away, that’s just, like, that’s terrible.”

Robert Moore, 42, was arrested in connection with the incident, and comparing the photos of the two men, Robert Moore is obviously bigger, obviously older, and likely stronger. Surely Andrew Papp would have been serious underdog, but the teenager just went and did what needed to be done. I’m certain that we would all hope that our sons would act like Andrew Papp, if the situation warranted it.

1/7/24

As I have said multiple times, “There is no way that Joe Biden legitimately won the 2020 Presidential election.”

From VNN:

“Presidential frontrunner Donald Trump issued a summary of the election fraud that he says took place in five different states during the 2020 presidential election.

‘I am pleased to share a Report that is fully verified, most of the information was gotten from Government Sources, Tapes, and other Public Records, and compiled by the most highly qualified Election Experts in the Country,’ Trump wrote on Truth Social this week.”

If you think that Joe Biden is our legally elected President, I suggest that you read the 32 page summary of swing state skullduggery in cdnnucleusfiles.com

From cdnnucleusfiles.com, I have selected only a few of the multiple examples of outright cheating that occurred in these five swing states. For the sake of brevity I have quoted only short snippets about what occurred in each of these states. FYI: There are 97 footnotes documenting the official sources from which the piece was written.

Arizona was “won” by 10,457 votes. Maricopa County accepted 20,500 mail in ballots after Election Day. Included  in these were 18,000 ballots picked up from the USPS on 11/4. By law these ballots must have arrived by 7 pm on Election Day, 11/3.

Michigan was “won” by 154,288 votes.As of Michigan had 271,566 more votes than voters for the Nov 2020 election.

Pennsylvania was called by 80,555 votes. There was 121,240 more votes than voters. By law this state cannot certify an election with this type of discrepancy.

Wisconsin was called by 20,682 votes. In 6/2022 the WisconsinSupreme Court ruled that drop boxes were illegal. Wisconsin Election Commissioner, Meagan  Wolfe unilaterally declared that  drop boxes could be used.

There was also a surge of “indefinitely confined” voters in Wisconsin,resulting in 220,404 votes – these individuals were exempted from showing voter ID.and they were physically unable to go to the polls.

Georgia was called by 11,779. 

Fulton County voting and vote tabulating was a mess with multiple fraudulent irregularities. For instance, 90% of the 144,000 ballots cast in Fulton County ( the Atlanta area) could not be authenticated.

235,000 absentee ballots were requested or counted prior to the six month prior cutoff date, and should not have been counted in the 2020 election.

For those who still say that the 2020 election was on the up-and-up, I would suggest that you read this entire 32 page article. I was convinced before I read this entire piece, and now I am “over-the-top super convinced!”

1/6/24

Last week Donald Trump said that there was an outside chance that he could win in New York State during next November’s election. Even though I like Trump, I shrugged this off as merely wishful thinking by DJT. 

However I then read the following from the Epoch Times:

“5 NY Democrat Politicians Urge State Elections Board to Bar Trump From 2024 Ballot”

“State senators Brad Hoylman-Sigal (D-Manhattan) and Liz Krueger (D-Manhattan) are among the five New York Democrat politicians who want the bi-partisan New York State Board of Elections (NYSBOE) to exclude former President Donald Trump from the 2024 presidential primary and general election ballot.

Other politicians who signed the letter included New York state Sens. Timothy M. Kennedy (D-Buffalo), Gustavo Rivera (D-Bronx), and Shelly B. Mayer (D-Mamoroneck).

Even though I just said DJT has little, if no, chance to win New York, I have to wonder why these NY Dems are trying to keep Trump off of the ballot. Could it be that they actually fear that Trump could indeed win in New York? If they thought that DJT had no chance, why would they go through all of the hoopla to keep him off the ballot?

At present perhaps they feel uneasy because of the surge of Biden’s illegals that have overrun their state and especially New York City. This, in addition to Biden’s inflation, cannot make these NY Dems feel comfortable. If Biden were to falter somewhat in New York City this could affect their re-election chances, and the best way to avoid this is to keep DJT off the ballot.

Hmmm! I wonder!

1/5/24

At first you all may think that the following is mindless chitchat.  But keep in mind that the presidential election is now less than a year away, and Joe Biden has to do something to reverse the present trend, as his  approval numbers are disastrous.

What are his choices? What are those who are really in charge telling him to do? He has a number of issues to improve upon if he wishes to get “elected” again. He has tried bribery … forgiving student loans and just recently by considerably raising the salaries of government workers. Very likely these bribes will get him the votes of these small groups, but will that be enough? He has tried lying, but despite how wonderful he insists that Bidenomics is, anybody who is living in the real world knows that Bidenomics is just JB’s BS.

One of the other issues is Biden’s support for the war in Ukraine, which is now usurped by headlines about Israel and our southern border’s invisibility. As pointed out by Jeff Childers in C&C a 12/27/23 headline from far left Politico strongly hinted that something is on the horizon.

From Politico:

“The Biden Administration Is Quietly Shifting Its Strategy in Ukraine.”

Biden has shifted from promising the U.S. would back Ukraine for “as long as it takes,” to saying the U.S. will provide support “as long as we can.” Is this the first chink in Biden’s Ukrainian armor? Certainly some resolution of this prolonged Ukraine-Russia conflict has to be achieved before the upcoming November presidential election, and there is no way that Biden can pull an “Afghanistan 2” approach here. Furthermore if Trump gets elected and then quickly resolves the situation, Biden’s legacy will take another huge hit, and Sleepy Joe cannot allow this to happen.

1/3/23