No Bias Here

Says the monkey with hand clasped tight over his eyes.

Years ago I used to love listening to NPR while on long trips. 

Friday mornings were my favorite, with regular guests like the cowboy poet Baxter Black and the venerable Red Barber reminiscing baseball past and describing his camellia bushes.

That was more than 25 years ago, Red has been gone for 28 years.

NPR holds itself in high esteem, but they rely on the achievement of people and principles long since departed.

The soft tones are still there, but the bias has made them blind to possibility of an alternative explanation.

Today there is significant evidence circulating, about New York Post articles that NPR has prejudged to be "not really stories". An ironic position considering their support articles casting the President in a bad light and now proven falsely accusations leading to impeachment.

I would accept an investigation and reasoned conclusions, but this is an irrational rejection of evidence that the FBI possesses. On this topic, which parallel support of anarchy, NPR deserves to have its Federal funding removed.

The self describing comment "waste our time", would be better replaced with the "waste your money", and by your, the taxes money spent on NPR.

Rumble Test

The Rumble video site is becoming more popular, certainly not yet a rival to YouTube, but I'll help in any way I can. Currently attempting to learn how to embed Rumble videos and not having much success  other than a simple hyperlink.

Here is today's podcast by Dan Bongino, who earlier this week learned that he has a serious health issue to surmount. Best wishes to a patriot.

Bye Bye Twitter

 Have not been what you would call an active Twitter user.

I have followed leads to the platform by way of links found on the web and embedded within  emails.

We joined Parler a couple of months ago. While the content at this point seems to be mostly conservative, a balance is evolving. Parler's main principle is the protection of freedom of speech.

You can find me at Parler with the handle @JohnOtis.

Facebook is another matter. The founder has been erratic in application of policies, Facebook is suppressing speech and an unfairly favoring liberal policies and candidates. Facebook has been acting as a publisher by restricting content and should loose its protection from libel suits. Frankly it pisses me off that these assholes make money off of my use of their platform.  Unfortunately I consider that platform to be a collection of my friends and  keeping that in mind, try to treat friends as I wish to be treated, kindly. Not everyone recognizes that, so I use the snooze control often.

YouTube is a component part to platform upon which this blog rests. They have been censoring expression, reporting, and speech. Have kept my account open, using YouTube for technical research and such.  Social video viewing has, for me, been replaced by Rumble. As soon as that platform contains the bulk of the information I want, I will quit usage.

Mueller Team Corruption Contaminates Justice

The FBI , DOJ, and CIA were all involved in, at minimum, unethical use of law enforcement tools. Looking back, it is evident that the Mueller investigation was an extension of this soft coup.

Mueller Team Corruption Contaminates Justice:

Mueller may have been chosen to lead this investigation with knowing intent. His faculties are clearly diminished, so he was not likely capable of guiding a lawful investigation, leaving it prone to mission creep. Mueller's reputation  provided cover for lawyers with lawless intent. This article suggests that Mueller was essentially a beard, a face for the public. Unethical behavior abounded in this investigation.

The Presidential candidate for the Democratic party displays similar characteristics, slurred speech, failure to recall primary information, topic changes within the same sentence. The President describes his opponent with unkind characterizations, which is unfortunate, but necessary to drive the point home. If Mr. Biden is elected, he will an unwitting foil, not be capable of restraining people who have no regard for the Constitution

Black Appraisals of Black Lives Matter

Black Appraisals of Black Lives Matter – Part I:

"While it might not be popular to say in the wake of the recent social disorder, the true plight of black people has little or nothing to do with the police or what has been called 'systemic racism.' Instead, we need to look at the responsibilities of those running our big cities.

"Some of the most dangerous big cities are: St. Louis, Detroit, Baltimore, Oakland, Chicago, Memphis, Atlanta, Birmingham, Newark, Buffalo and Philadelphia. The most common characteristic of these cities is that for decades, all of them have been run by liberal Democrats. Some cities — such as Detroit, Buffalo, Newark and Philadelphia — haven't elected a Republican mayor for more than a half-century. On top of this, in many of these cities, blacks are mayors, often they dominate city councils, and they are chiefs of police and superintendents of schools....

"Democratic-controlled cities have the poorest-quality public education despite their large, and growing, school budgets. Consider Baltimore. In 2016, in 13 of Baltimore's 39 high schools, not a single student scored proficient on the state's math exam. In six other high schools, only 1% tested proficient in math. Only 15% of Baltimore students passed the state's English test. That same year in Philadelphia, only 19% of eighth-graders scored proficient in math, and 16% were proficient in reading. In Detroit, only 4% of its eighth-graders scored proficient in math, and 7% were proficient in reading. It's the same story of academic disaster in other cities run by Democrats.

"Violent crime and poor education is not the only problem for Democratic-controlled cities. Because of high crime, poor schools and a less pleasant environment, cities are losing their economic base and their most productive people in droves....

"Academic liberals, civil rights advocates and others blamed the exodus on racism — 'white flight' to the suburbs to avoid blacks. But blacks have been fleeing some cities at higher rates than whites. The five cities whose suburbs have the fastest-growing black populations are Miami, Dallas, Washington, Houston and Atlanta. It turns out that blacks, like whites, want better and safer schools for their kids and don't like to be mugged or have their property vandalized. And like white people, if they have the means, black people cannot wait to leave troubled cities.

"White liberals and black politicians focus most of their attention on what the police do, but how relevant is that to the overall tragedy? According to Statista, this year, 172 whites and 88 blacks [nationwide] have died at the hands of police. To put police shootings in a bit of perspective, in Chicago alone in 2020 there have been 1,260 shootings and 256 homicides with blacks being the primary victims. That comes to one shooting victim every three hours and one homicide victim every 15 hours. Three people in Chicago have been killed by police. If one is truly concerned about black deaths, shootings by police should figure way down on one's list — which is not to excuse bad behavior by some police officers."

Walter E. Williams 

Confiscating Books in Sweden

You might find it interesting, another story of how the best intentions of a government always means that some party or group is going to be injured. The government of Sweden seeks to promote diversity, an in that vein of good will, suppresses the free speech and reports bad behavior of the recipients of that largesse.

A government's first responsibility it to its citizens. When governments place global objectives above national responsibilities, they risk becoming something other than a government of the people. In no small part tyrannical.

Confiscating Books in Sweden:

The confiscation of books and the upcoming case against author and comedian Aron Flam has ignited a debate in Sweden about the value of freedom of speech.

Never Give Up

This is what a free press should be measured against.


"We Will Never Give Up"


France is starting to reflect on the dramatic decline in its freedom of expression.

— Richard Malka, attorney for Charlie Hebdo, Le Point, August 13, 2020

Ben Stein's View of Looters

Copied verbatim from an email .

Now for a few words about the criminal looters, arsonists, and murderers — and the good people — of today: 

1. Yes, of course black lives matter. But 99.9 percent of the blacks killed violently in this country are killed by other blacks. Very few are killed by the police. Let’s see the college boys and sexy upper-class white girls in their shorts demonstrate against the Crips and the Bloods. Let’s see the absolute idiot commentators on the news shows lambaste the gang-bangers. Of course they don’t because they’re chickens–t. They only march against people they know won’t harm them. 
2. If black lives matter, let’s shut down the abortion mills, where the great plurality of human beings killed are black babies. Of course no one does that, because the abortionists and the Democrat party and the judges are all in bed with each other. No one hates black life more than the Democrat leadership, in my humble opinion, if we are to judge honestly by the numbers. Why isn’t anyone protesting against them and their abortuary pals? 
3. Isn’t it interesting that the first stores the looters went after were super-high-end clothing and jewelry stores, shops far too expensive for me or my wife to go to, except for presents for close friends? Aren’t the looters supposed to be with the working class? Why didn’t they loot JCPenney or stores that sold work boots? Of course they want to look rich. They aspire to do that by stealing. 
4. Have you noticed that the overwhelming mass of the looters shown on TV are black? The overwhelming mass of the protesters against “racial injustice” are white prosperous-looking young people. Who is missing? Asians. They don’t loot. They don’t riot. They study and they work. And they get ahead, and they live in nice houses and buy at the stores the looters steal from. Why is that? Could there be some Asian mystery gene that does that? If so, when the Asians take over here, as my late pal Bob Bartley told me, they will not show the kindness to looters and killers of other races that we guilty, stupid whites do. They will crack down like Lee Kuan Yew and like the South Koreans. 
5. My favorite TV commentator is Tucker Carlson. He’s a genius. But even he got it wrong recently when he, a brilliant man, talked about “the system” trying to hoodwink the people by stirring up race hatred. That way, said Tucker, “the people” won’t notice how much the bosses are stealing from them. He’s partly right. The top bosses of public companies are wildly overpaid by us pitiful small stockholders. But that’s a tiny sum in the context of this economy. And who is stirring up race hatred? Not the bosses. The media commentators, Tucker. I have never seen or heard of a CEO stirring up race hatred. It’s the media that’s in the race hatred derby. 
6. There is nothing systemically wrong with the USA. Not racial injustice. That was gone long ago. Not class warfare. That’s ancient history. This is a super great country. It’s good to anyone who is willing to acquire human capital in the form of education as lawyer, doctor, plumber, or electrician. If there is a problem, it’s the looters, murderers, and arsonists, and their pals in the media. 

This is a great, great country, and if the media tells you different, they are lying. And the cops, 99 percent of them, are great people. Let’s thank them — not kick them for protecting us. 

I’m not kneeling for the flag…

Over at Hot Air, found and article about Alejandro Villanueva, the Pittsburg Steeler who made news three years ago for refusing to kneel with teammates in their protest. Villanueva is a graduate of West Point and served in the Army Rangers, his pedigree completely explains his values and choices. Under social and team pressure the Ranger did apologize for appearing to stand apart from the rest of the team.

In that article there was a strange reference to another player, Stephon Tuitt.

We now have another member of the Steelers, defensive lineman Stephon Tuitt, refusing to join the sheep that is now the NFL. The Hot Air article said...

Stephon Tuitt has decided to dispense with the whole apology approach up front. In fact, Tuitt invites anyone who objects to perform an unnatural act on themselves

Naturally, this got my attention, so I did a little hunting and found the following Tweet.

Also I'm not kneeling for the flag and screw anybody who have a problem with that. My grandmother was a immigrant from the Carribean and age worked her ass off to bring 20 people over the right way. She had no money and educated herself to be a nurse. She living good now.

Have never been a big fan of Stephon Tuitt, since he reneged on his commitment to play football at Georgia Tech. That said, I do respect him for recognizing the work and difficulty undertaken by his family, and proudly standing by their side. The spelling and punctuation are Stephon's. 

Never Trumpers Out of the Closet as Liberal Democrats in Drag

Amusing article by Brian C. Joondeph over at American Thinker.
NeverTrumpers Out of the Closet as Liberal Democrats in Drag:

NeverTrumpers are like gnats in the summer, annoying but largely irrelevant as they don’t sting or bite.

Regarding the President

He has walked the conservative walk better than any elected Republican since Ronald Reagan, certainly better than most current elected Republicans. Yet NeverTrumpers oppose him in favor of a Democratic Party further left than at any time in its history.

It has been evident that the Republican leadership has been disconnected with the middle class since the day of Reagan. During both Bush administrations, the tenor placed more emphasis on getting along than following conservative principle. To them being conservative meant being cooperative, being the first to reach across the aisle. This blog has said before that W was a better Democrat than Clinton. It seemed that they were unwilling to accept that no matter how good they acted, they were going to be pilloried for being racist meanies by the Democrats and their sycophantic press corp. They never got it.

When President Obama took office, they were unapologetic and forceful. They saw an opening of ACA and they rammed it through. Since then the Republicans have had the power to end the ACA and never did so, not matter how many promises were made to do so. They were afraid to be seen as hurting poorer voters. 

When the public reacted and gelled as the Tea Party movement, the Congressional Republicans followed the Democrats, reusing to embrace the populist movement. They did their best to co-opt the votes and do nothing.

The rage of the middle class voter grew. This led to the election of a man called Trump, loud a profane man. This President has tried to keep his word, and been rebuffed by the part that should be supporting him.