Opinion: The following text was submitted by Stuart Oliver, a portion of his comments from the last Eastville Town Council Meeting.

Good afternoon, at the last town meeting Mr. Stubbs accused me of being a member of the defund the police movement or something of that nature. I was not being critical of the honest, hardworking members of an underappreciated profession… I was referring to the management of the Eastville Police Department. I find it a tad disingenuous that the second in command of a five-member force, getting paid more than the Sheriff of Northampton, is offended by a peon questioning his compensation.

I have obtained Calls For Service records from the Sheriff’s department relevant to the Incorporated Town of Eastville. Between January 2018 and August of 2021. The Sheriff’s Department answered 88% of Eastville’s calls between the hours of 10pm and 7am. The dangerous times when drunk drivers, domestic disputes, and break-ins are likely to occur.

There are few speeding tickets to profit from at these hours, so Mr.Eder and Mr.Stubbs are glad to let The Sheriff’s department handle their trash. On February 8th 2019 a young woman tragically hanged herself by the parking lot at Yuks. This is the same year Mr. Stubbs made $43,775 in overtime. No Eastville officers were available. They had to be called in.

Less than a year ago, an armed individual attempted to enter Yuks, and also attempted to enter an occupied private residence adjacent to Yuks. No Eastville officers were available. On January 22nd of this year, the motorcycle gang shooting started at this same location at about 10 pm. No Eastville Police were present. The shooting itself occurred approximately 125 yards away from the Eastville police station. No Eastville police were present. The Sheriff’s department had to respond. It took about 30 minutes to even locate Mr.Stubbs.

The Town of Eastville annexed Yuks to profit on food and beverage tax yet provides almost nothing in police service.

On the night of January 14, 2019, the same year Mr. Stubbs made $43K in overtime, one of my cars was totaled in my front yard in a felony hit and run incident approximately 250 yards from the Eastville police station. If I were to commit a serious crime I would do it on the steps of the Eastville police department at midnight… I would never be caught.

The Eastville police are extremely proud of their new rifles. They like to show them off to other cops. I filed a FOIA request to obtain the cost and models of these weapons. I was denied this request with the town citing a strained interpretation of a FOIA exemption. This is rubbish. I filed FOIA requests for weapon inventories from The Sheriff’s department, Exmore, and Cape Charles, and received complete, unredacted, reports from all… very modest expenditures.

But Eastville doesn’t want you to know what they paid for their rifles… it’s OK… other cops filled me in. You have suppressed, gas piston-operated, Sig Sauer assault rifles with high-end optics of SWAT team quality. Far exceeding the price that the Sheriff’s department uses. The suppressors alone cost more than the other departments’ rifles. It is worth noting that in the event of a school shooting Eastville will only play a supporting role. These high-dollar rifles will be used instead as protection from the speeding, sunburned, soccer moms heading home from the Outer Banks.

 I was able to observe the removal of the Confederate Monument the other day. Two county cops had Courthouse road blocked. What a perfect job for the Eastville town police. They were out on route 13, leaving the dirty work to the sheriff’s office.

It is worth noting that my interactions with the other police departments on the shore were transparent, honest, and efficient. I perceived a feeling of animosity and contempt from most of the officers from other departments towards the Eastville department.

Virginia state code is clear. Police officers must be paid a fixed salary, and “shall have no interest in nor be permitted by law to accept the benefit of any fine or fee” S 46.2-102 with the exception of Mr.Eder, ALL officers are paid an hourly wage with liberal overtime provisions. If you track the increasing revenue from fines it will parallel the pay raises of all officers. If you have not crossed the line you are walking it. 

Special Opinion to the Mirror by Paul Plante

By way of introduction to this thread, which is a rational and critical analysis based on science and fact, not hype, or hysteria or emotion, of the toxic and poisonous political speech Joe Biden made to the people of this nation concerning COVID on 9 September 2021, never before in all my time on the globe which spans back to a simpler time in a much different America than exists today in a different century and a different millennium, back when Democrat Harry S. “The Buck Stops Here” Truman was in the White House, never before have I heard an American president spew such poison as Joe Biden did that night, and never before in my lifetime as an American citizen born here and raised here and educated in American values such as honesty, truthfulness, forthrightness and integrity have I heard such a toxic and poisonous political speech laced with falsehoods by an American president that reminded me so much of speeches by the rug-chewing, vitriol-spewing madman Adolph Hitler ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ3N_2r6R-o ), and with that said, and without further ado, let’s go straight to Joe’s own words in the transcript of his speech, as follows:

THE WHITE HOUSE

Remarks by President Biden on Fighting the COVID-⁠19 Pandemic

SEPTEMBER 09, 2021

5:02 P.M. EDT

THE PRESIDENT: Good evening, my fellow Americans.

I want to talk to you about where we are in the battle against COVID-19, the progress we’ve made, and the work we have left to do.

And it starts with understanding this: Even as the Delta variant 19 [sic] has — COVID-19 — has been hitting this country hard, we have the tools to combat the virus, if we can come together as a country and use those tools.

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And there we are only three sentences in and there we have classic Joe Biden feeding us outright lies because the truth is that there are no “tools” that a mediocre, career politician of limited intelligence and no public health credentials or experience or expertise like Joe Biden can use to “combat” the virus, and for the truth of that statement, let’s go to a real medical expert for some facts on the matter in a CNBC article entitled “WHO says Covid will mutate like the flu and is likely here to stay” by Rich Mendez on September 7, 2021, just two days before Joe’s toxic COVID speech on 9 September 2021, to wit:

“I think this virus is here to stay with us and it will evolve like influenza pandemic viruses, it will evolve to become one of the other viruses that affects us,” Dr. Mike Ryan, executive director of the World Health Organization’s Health Emergencies Program, said at a press briefing.

Must watch video. Credit to Dr. Sanjay Gupta for asking Dr. Fauci why 100 million people who already had covid and recovered from it, which studies show provides better protection than the vaccine, should have to get the vaccine: pic.twitter.com/B1NsHneUvE

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) September 10, 2021

Several leading health experts, including White House chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci and Stephane Bancel, CEO of Covid vaccine maker Moderna, have warned that the world will have to live with Covid forever, much like influenza.

“People have said we’re going to eliminate or eradicate the virus,” Ryan said.

“No we’re not, very, very unlikely.”

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So, people, since it your life, you have to be the judge as to who is lying to us here.

Is it Dr. Mike Ryan, executive director of the World Health Organization’s Health Emergencies Program, along with White House chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci and Stephane Bancel, CEO of Covid vaccine maker Moderna, all of whom have warned that the world will have to live with Covid forever, much like influenza?

Or is it Joe Biden?

Getting back to the transcript:

THE PRESIDENT: If we raise our vaccination rate, protect ourselves and others with masking and expanded testing, and identify people who are infected, we can and we will turn the tide on COVID-19.

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Identify people who are “infected?”

How so, Joe?

But let’s move along, because that is a minor issue right now, to wit:

THE PRESIDENT: Many of us are frustrated with the nearly 80 million Americans who are still not vaccinated, even though the vaccine is safe, effective, and free.

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HUH?

Frustrated?

The president of the United States of America, whose job pursuant to OUR Constitution is to take care that OUR laws are faithfully enforced is frustrated (feeling or expressing distress and annoyance) with American citizens?

How so?

Where does Joe Biden get any authority, jurisdiction or discretion to divide up the population and to then single out a portion of it for him to be frustrated with in the first place?

Who is Joe Biden to be calling out ANYBODY in America for special treatment because he happens to be frustrated with them?

Does he not know what country he is in?

Does he think in his mind that he is another Hitler to decide who is in his favor and who is not?

And what of his statement that the vaccine is safe and effective?

Is that true?

Or is that hype?

And let’s go to an expert for that answer, as follows:

Press Briefing by White House COVID-⁠19 Response Team and Public Health Officials

AUGUST 18, 2021

11:10 A.M. EDT

MR. ZIENTS: Next question, please.

MODERATOR: Weijia, at CBS.

Q Hi, thanks so much for taking my question.

If — it sounds like effectiveness begins to wane sooner than eight months.

And please correct me if I’m wrong.

So, if the supply is not an issue, can you walk us through the science of how you landed on eight months, please?

Thanks.

DR. MURTHY: Sure.

So, thank you, Weijia, for that — for that question.

So, let me talk you through how we were looking at this.

We did see that around the six-month mark in the data, you start to see increases in mild-to-moderate infection.

But our anticipation is that if the trajectory that we are seeing continues, then we will likely see, in the future, an increase in breakthrough hospitalizations and breakthrough deaths.

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So, people, again, you must all decide for yourselves as to who is trying to mislead us here for political reasons!

When the esteemed Surgeon General of the United States of America, put in that office by Joe Biden himself, tells us on August 18, 2021, twenty-two (22) days before Joe Biden’s poisonous and toxic COVID speech on 9 September 2021, that the anticipation of the medical experts is that if the trajectory of waning effectiveness they are seeing continues, then we will likely see, in the future, an increase in breakthrough hospitalizations and breakthrough deaths of those who got the vaccines Joe Biden is telling us twenty-two days later on September 9, 2021 are safe and effective, is he trying to scare us?

Is he feeding us hysterical hype?

Is he lying to us?

Or is that the truth?

And if so, what’s this horsecrap Joe is peddling on 9 September 2021 about these vaccines being safe and effective?

If they instill a false sense of confidence and security, when all the time their effectiveness is waning, are they really “safe?”

Think about it and we are barely into the speech so stay tuned for more poison from Joe Biden courtesy of the Cape Charles Mirror when we return.

Special Opinion to the Mirror by Paul Plante

In his then-contemporary world history of what is known to history as the Interwar Period (1918–1939), the period between the end of the First World War and the beginning of the Second World War, also called the interbellum, titled “World Wars And Revolutions” copyrighted 1943, at p.152, the author, Walter Phelps Hall, PhD, of Princeton, informs us follows concerning “fascism,” to wit:

Fascism is an all-embracing doctrine which demands a one hundred percent surrender of the individual will in the name of mystical nationalism – with ends not clearly defined.

This nationalism is beyond good and evil, and thus is deified.

Therefore, fascism properly should be classed as a kind of religion like communism, the latter based on class-consciousness, the former on nationalism.

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Focus on those words, fascism properly should be classed as a kind of religion, and then focus in on these words from our own times here in the United States of America today, to wit:

It is very, very difficult to put into words what has transpired today.

This temple to democracy was desecrated.

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Those are words that were uttered on 6 January 2021 in Democrat Charley “Chuck” Schumer’s Statement to the Senate on the Storming of the Capitol, where Schumer laid the blame for the rioting squarely on President Donald Trump, which is another subject for another thread, because my focus in here is on this dangerous “TEMPLE TO DEMOCRACY” horse****, which would imply that democracy is now a state religion in the United States of America the way fascism was a state religion in Nazi Germany, Charley “Chuck” Schumer was peddling to the members of the United States Senate at 10:06 P.M. on 6 January 2021 and again in a TWEET to the TWITTERATI on TWITTER, as follows:

Chuck Schumer @SenSchumer

Aug 3

The Senate passed the bill to award the Congressional Gold Medal to Capitol Police and those who protected the Capitol against the January 6th insurrection.

I can’t imagine more worthy recipients than those who put their lives on the line to defend our temple of democracy.

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Now, first of all, there was no insurrection on 6 January 2021, but again, that is another subject for another day, because the focus in here is on this dangerous “TEMPLE OF DEMOCRACY” horse**** Charley “Chuck” is peddling, as if he were a religious leader here in America similar to an Ayatollah in Iraq or Iran, because the word “temple,” at least as us common Americans would understand it, means a building devoted to the worship, or regarded as the dwelling place, of a god or gods or other objects of religious reverence.

So why then is Democrat Charley “Chuck” Schumer referring to the United States Capitol as a “temple,” meaning a building devoted to the worship, or regarded as the dwelling place, of a god or gods or other objects of religious reverence?

So, what is it we are supposed to worship in the United States Capitol?

Democracy?

But how does one worship democracy?

On our knees?

Prostate (stretched out with face on the ground in adoration or submission) on the floor with our foreheads touching the floor?

Do we need a priest present?

Getting back to the word “temple,” Merriam-Webster defines “temple” as “a building for religious practice,” while Wikipedia has it as “(A) temple (from the Latin templum) is a building reserved for spiritual rituals and activities such as prayer and sacrifice,” so if the United States Capitol is now a “TEMPLE OF DEMOCRACY,” does that mean that democracy is now our state religion here in the United States of America that we are now required to worship?

And for more disturbing religious overtones, we have Charley “Chuck” telling us on 6 January 2021 that “(T)his temple to democracy was desecrated,” where the word “desecrated” means “treat a sacred place with violent disrespect; violate.”

So when and how did the United States Capitol become a sacred place?

And what kind of trouble will we get into with the “RELIGIOUS POLICE” if we do not buy into Charley “Chuck” Schumer’s poisonous horse**** about the United States Capitol being a “TEMPLE OF DEMOCRACY?”

Special Opinion by Paul Plante

I was thinking of calling this thread “fact-checking” Joe Biden based on his Full transcript from President Joe Biden’s address to a joint session of Congress on 28 April 2021, but as I read through that document, it came to me that based some of the bizarre statements in there, Joe Biden is in fact a real piece of work, and we are stuck with him in the White House now, God help the nation, which raises the question of who in their right mind would want as the nation’s chief executive somebody who is clearly not all there?

Case in point is this following from that Transcript, to wit:

Talk to most responsible gun owners, most hunters – they’ll tell you there’s no possible justification for having 100 rounds – 100 bullets – in a weapon.

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Yes, people, Joe Biden actually said those very words, and all the responsible gun owners and hunters I know would come back to goofy old Joe and ask him how he is sticking 100 bullets into a magazine that only holds 20, or maybe 30?

Or 6 if you are talking about a Model 94 Winchester.

So let’s chalk that up as a stupid, ridiculous statement.

And since we are now two months further along since Joe made that speech to the Democrats in Congress, let’s start at the beginning, where we have Joe saying to the candid world as follows:

And today, that’s what we’re doing: America is rising anew.

Choosing hope over fear.

Truth over lies.

Light over darkness.

After 100 Days of rescue and renewal, America is ready for takeoff.

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Truth over lies?

Light over darkness?

America is ready for “takeoff?”

To where?

The moon?

Jupiter?

Uranus?

And are we going on one of Richard Brasnson’s rockets?

Or one from Elon Musk?

And while we are on that subject, let’s go back to the Transcript, where we have Joe saying as follows:

We’re making one of the largest one-time investments ever in improving health care for veterans.

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Which has me laughing right out loud in mocking tones because on the Friday of Memorial Day weekend, our goofy old Joe closed down the VA Clinic where I was to get my healthcare, leaving me out in the cold, because he wanted to save the rent so he can pay for his beloved illegals he has swarming the southern border.

So much for truth over lies, and light over darkness.

Going back to the Transcript, we have Joe talking about his infrastructure plan, as follows:

I’ve made clear that we can do it without increasing deficits.

Let’s start with what I will not do.

I will not impose any tax increases on people making less than $400,000 a year.

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Said as our Joe jacks the nation’s massive deficit even higher, and imposes a tax on people making less than $400,000 through price inflation, which is indeed a tax on those making less than $400,000, along with his tariff on lumber, which is yet another tax that impacts directly on those making less than $400,000, as we see by going to an article from The (Raleigh) News & Observer entitled “Lumber prices still sky-high amid COVID-19 shortage. What’s being done to get costs down?” by Bailey Aldridge on June 6, 2021, where we have as follows, to wit:

RALEIGH — Lumber prices have continued surging in response to supply shortages spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The lumber scarcity matched with increased demand during the pandemic drove costs sky-high, which in turn has increased construction and housing costs and left government officials and those within the industry grappling with how to rebound supply and bring costs down.

Between April 2020 and April 2021, the National Association of Home Builders said the “price per thousand board feet” increased by nearly 250% — from $350 to $1,200.

Prices then soared past $1,400 in early May and have continued increasing since.

The high lumber costs have increased the price of a single-family home by about $36,000, the NAHB says.

That’s priced “millions of middle-class households out of the market at a level they previously could afford.”

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Which takes us back to the Transcript, where we have Joe making the following statement, to wit:

It’s time to grow the economy from the bottom up and middle-out.

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Bottom up and middle out?

Is that the same as saying that high lumber costs have increased the price of a single-family home by about $36,000, pricing “millions of middle-class households out of the market at a level they previously could afford?”

As in middle class being forced out of the housing market?

Is that what “middle out,” really means, as in “middle class” forced out of the game?

Going back to that story, we have:

It’s also added nearly $13,000 to the cost of an “average new multifamily” home — meaning rent for a new apartment has gone up by about $119 each month.

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How does that square with no tax increases on people making less than $400,000 a year?

Going back to the story, we have:

What’s being done to bring lumber prices down?

The NAHB said it has called for “prompt action” from President Joe Biden’s administration and other officials and in late May discussed the soaring lumber prices with U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo.

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For those who don’t know her, which is likely just about all of is, Gina Marie Raimondo, (born May 17, 1971), is an American politician and venture capitalist serving since 2021 as the 40th and current United States Secretary of Commerce.

A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served as the 75th and first female Governor of Rhode Island from 2015 to 2021.

Raimondo graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree magna cum laude in economics from Harvard College in 1993, where she served on the staff of The Harvard Crimson, and then she attended New College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, where she received a Master of Arts (MA) degree and Doctor of Philosophy in 2002 in sociology, with her thesis being on single motherhood, and Raimondo received her Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School in 1998.

Following her graduation from Yale Law School, Raimondo acted as senior vice president for fund development at the Manhattan offices of Village Ventures, a venture capital firm based in Williamstown, Massachusetts, and backed by Bain Capital and Highland Capital Groups, and she returned to Rhode Island in 2000 to co-found the state’s first venture capital firm, Point Judith Capital, with Point Judith subsequently relocating its offices to Boston, Massachusetts.

At Point Judith, Raimondo served as a general partner covering health care investments; she retains some executive duties with the firm.

Between assuming office and the end of 2019, Raimondo consistently ranked towards the bottom of approval ratings for all governors in the United States, which is quite likely why goofy old old Joe picker her, as she would be no political threat to him by being too popular.

As to her competence, we have thusly:

A widely-criticized rollout of a new computer network system for the Rhode Island Executive Office of Health and Human Services dubbed the “Unified Health Infrastructure Project” (UHIP) in September 2016 saw scores of people without access to government programs such as food stamps and child care due to glitches in the software, designed by Deloitte.

This computer crash created a backlog of more than 20,000 cases.

In March 2017, Rhode Island Monthly reported that the U.S. Department of Justice opened an investigation into UHIP, specifically false claims and statements made about the Health and Human Services computer network rollout.

The investigation was still underway as of summer 2017.

In an interview, House Oversight Chair Rep. Patricia Serpa (D-West Warwick) said, “There’s plenty of blame to go around.”

“The auditor’s report found that [the contract with Deloitte] was poorly written, poorly overseen and poorly executed.”

“They were warned against the implementation because the system was not ready.”

“Not only did they implement it, they displaced all of the most senior workers with the wealth of experience.”

“We pulled all the plugs to make sure this was a failure.”

According to documents submitted to the federal government, the cost estimate for UHIP through 2021 is $656 million.

State taxpayers will pay $154 million of this amount while the federal government will pay the remainder.

In January 2020, State Senator Sam Bell said a Rhode Island Senate Fiscal Report on Raimondo’s budget proved that “a single UHIP update kicked 5,500 Rhode Islanders off their Medicaid” in November 2019 without due process and the decisions were based on a computer update.

Bell went on: “Medicaid terminations need to be done with some due process.”

“They should not come from a notoriously glitchy computer system.”

“You should have a chance to fight the decision to rip away your health insurance.”

“When you lose your Medicaid with no warning and no effort to transition you onto the exchange, the consequences can be deadly.”

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Obviously, Joe Biden found a way to avoid looking at any of that incompetence when he selected her to be his commerce secretary, which raises the question of why?

Which takes us back to the (Raleigh) News & Observer story, to wit:

NAHB Chairman Chuck Fowke said in a news release that Raimondo acknowledged she and Biden are concerned about the effect of high lumber prices on the country’s economy.

“We take these issues seriously, and my staff and I are committed to continuing to work with all stakeholders, including reviewing relevant data and conducting analysis to identify targeted actions the government or industry can take to address supply chain constraints,” Raimondo said, according to the NAHB.

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What rubbish!

Just a bunch of hobble-gobble and political BULL****.

And there for the moment I will rest.

Special Opinion to the Mirror by Paul Plante

Now, first of all, is there anybody out there in America today over the age of say, twelve, who is surprised that Joe Biden, who says he wants to unite this nation, which is empty blather because Joe is a divider, would discriminate against some Americans who he calls “Dregs of Society” who belong in a “Basket of Deplorables,” in favor of other Americans who are precious to him as part of his agenda to divide America into those who drink the KOOL-AID of the CULT OF JOE, and thus, are precious to Joe, and everybody else, who because they are not members of the CULT OF JOE, are instead outsiders entitled to none of the bounty Joe offers to his followers and acolytes as their reward for giving Joe their love, which spurs his love and largesse in return to those who love him?

Truly, people, is anybody at all surprised by any of that?

Which takes us to a story in The Hill entitled “Federal judge says Biden restaurant fund discriminated against white male” by John Kruzel 20 May 2021, where we had as follows in that matter, to wit:

A federal judge in Texas issued a preliminary ruling Tuesday which found that the Biden administration’s nearly $29 billion restaurant relief fund discriminated against a white male restaurateur.

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And my goodness, people, of course it did.

White males, especially heteronormative white males, are the root cause of all the problems everybody else in America are experiencing, so it is time somebody like Joe Biden stepped up to the plate to cut them off at the knees to teach them a much-needed lesson in humility, and if Joe has to discriminate against them to teach them that lesson, well, by damn, it will be done, and so it was, which resulted in Joe’s administration getting sued in court and losing, which is quite an accomplishment for Joe in his first one hundred days in office.

Getting back to The Hill, the story continues as follows:

In an 18-page ruling, the judge ordered the Small Business Administration (SBA) relief program to temporarily stop prioritizing funding applications from businesses owned by women and racial minorities, over that of the plaintiff.

U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, found that the plaintiff is “experiencing race and sex discrimination at the hand of government officials.”

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And again, people, of course he is, by intent of Joe Biden.

That is not accidental discrimination, that is intentional discrimination, as Joe Biden sets himself up as the arbiter of who is going to win and who is going to be made the loser in the Biden Miracle Economy, which takes us back to that story, as follows:

“The evidence submitted by plaintiffs indicates that the entire $28.6 billion in the Restaurant Revitalization Fund may be depleted before plaintiffs’ application can be considered for relief under the program,” O’Connor wrote.

The dispute arose after Philip Greer, a white male restaurant owner, brought a lawsuit on Sunday against the SBA over alleged violations of the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause.

Greer had sought to apply for the federal relief program after his restaurant, Greer’s Ranch Café, lost nearly $100,000 in revenue during the coronavirus pandemic.

But the program, which is part of the $1.9 trillion economic stimulus bill passed in March, aims to give priority to groups that Greer does not fall under – namely women, veterans and “socially and economically disadvantaged” people – for an initial period of May 3 to May 24.

The judge concluded that Greer was at risk of “irreparable harm” because the entire fund could run out by the time the prioritized groups’ claims were processed.

An attorney for the Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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Way to go, Joe!

Getting sued for discrimination in your first 100 days and then losing is quite an accomplishment!

Special to the Mirror by Paul Plante

Every day, it seems, we hear about this group or that group, or this “community,” or that “community” screeching and hollering about “police reform,” without ever really saying what “police reform” is, or what it would look like once enacted or implemented, and in his speech to the Democrats on 28 April 2021 to celebrate Joe Biden making it through one hundred days of what is a four-year term, which is like celebrating someone making it through the first quarter mile of a marathon, Joe brought the subject up himself, as follows:

We have all seen the knee of injustice on the neck of Black America.

Now is our opportunity to make real progress.

Most men and women in uniform wear their badge and serve their communities honorably.

I know them.

I know they want to help meet this moment as well.

My fellow Americans, we have to come together.

To rebuild trust between law enforcement and the people they serve.

To root out systemic racism in our criminal justice system.

And to enact police reform in George Floyd’s name that passed the House already.

I know the Republicans have their own ideas and are engaged in productive discussions with Democrats.

We need to work together to find a consensus.

Let’s get it done next month, by the first anniversary of George Floyd’s death.

The country supports this reform.

Congress should act.

We have a giant opportunity to bend to the arc of the moral universe toward justice.

Real justice.

And with the plans I outlined tonight, we have a real chance to root out systemic racism that plagues American life in many other ways.

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Now, as we try to do what Joe said to do in his speech to the Democrats on 28 April 2021 where he told us that we have a giant opportunity to bend the arc of the moral universe toward justice, real justice, not some cheap fake or imitation justice, but the real deal, before we can actually do any of that actual bending of the arc of the moral universe towards real justice, not the horse**** version of “justice” Joe Biden is pushing, we first have to consider just what the word “justice” even means anymore, and to do that, we need to go back to August 10, 2020, just so many months before the farce of presidential elections in November of 2020, and the Washington Examiner article entitled “Biden now claims that Michael Brown was a victim of systemic racism” by Becket Adams, Commentary Writer, as follows:

Joe Biden this weekend tied the 2014 shooting death of Ferguson, Missouri, resident Michael Brown to the need to tackle “systemic racism” and corrupt law enforcement.

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Now, that is some very heavy-duty pure horse**** there, and it is right there that Joe Biden lost me with respect to any bending of any moral arcs, because Joe Biden, a “Willie Horton Democrat,” is trying to bend them the wrong way to benefit the law breakers and scoffers at rule of law and order who are his base to the detriment of civilized society who would be the victims of Joe Biden’s so-called “police reforms,” which reforms are not the province of a United States president in the first place, as we will see as I develop this topic further by making reference to a document submitted to The Urban League a bit ago entitled NATIONAL COPS EVALUATION ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE CASE STUDY: Albany, New York by David Thacher, Research Associate, Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University – Case Study Prepared for the Urban Institute, which is a very thorough report on the history of the Albany Police, which agency is now under serious political attack by the Common Council of Albany and the so-called “police review board,” and reforms over the years, and the fact that meddling by ignorant politicians just like Joe Biden into matters they know nothing about, but only have their feelings and emotions about, like Willie Horton and the fact that he couldn’t get out of prison on weekends so he could mingle with polite society is a big part of what is wrong with policing in America today, which argues for keeping Joe Biden totally out of the process after his stupid remarks in 2020 about Michael Brown, which takes us back to the Washington Examiner, as follows:

It is puzzling that he would link the one to the others, considering the Department of Justice under his boss, former President Barack Obama, concluded that Brown was no victim.

Rather, the 18-year-old black man was killed in the act of attacking a police officer and trying to take away his gun.

“It’s been six years since Michael Brown’s life was taken in Ferguson — reigniting a movement,” said the former vice president on the sixth anniversary of Brown’s death.

“We must continue the work of tackling systemic racism and reforming policing.”

It’s been six years since Michael Brown’s life was taken in Ferguson — reigniting a movement. We must continue the work of tackling systemic racism and reforming policing.
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) August 9, 2020

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There is Joe on TWITTER, a social media site for morons and idiots who can’t read or understand more than a handful of words or pure gibberish at a time, proving that TWITTER is for morons and idiots by posting the stupid TWEET, which is why I am against Joe Biden bending the arc of the moral universe in his direction, which will be to the benefit of other Michael Browns who like Willie Horton, are a threat to civilized society, not a benefit to it, which again takes us back to the Washington Examiner, to wit:

Again, Obama’s Justice Department found that there was no credible evidence to support the claim that the white officer, Darren Wilson, had done anything illegal when he shot and killed Brown.

Rather, its independent investigation found Wilson had acted in self-defense.

So, why release a statement on the sixth anniversary of the justifiable shooting death of Brown and tie it to “systemic racism and reforming policing?”

What is Biden doing, if not deliberately inflaming passions and whipping up resentment?

The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee seems to be playing footsie with the popular and false assertion that led to the torching of Ferguson at the time — that Wilson had “murdered” Brown.

It is a lie, and a persistent one at that.

Other top-tier Democratic officials, including Sens. Kamala Harris of California and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, have helped spread this bit of fake news, too.

And they know what they are doing when they spread it.

Harris said in August 2019, “Michael Brown’s murder forever changed Ferguson and America.”

“His tragic death sparked a desperately needed conversation and a nationwide movement.”

“We must fight for stronger accountability and racial equity in our justice system.”

Warren tweeted 35 minutes later, “5 years ago Michael Brown was murdered by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.”

“Michael was unarmed yet he was shot 6 times.”

“I stand with activists and organizers who continue the fight for justice for Michael.”

“We must confront systemic racism and police violence head on.”

But Brown was not “murdered,” as the Obama Justice Department made abundantly clear in its investigation of the matter.

The false story that Brown put his hands up and said, “Don’t shoot!” has been debunked thoroughly, and Biden and his campaign team really should know better.

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Sides are being taken, people, and lines are being drawn.

Which side will you be on?

The following Op-Ed excerpt from the Brennan Center for Justice submitted by Hazel Thomas                                                      

SUMMARY: Bold legislation introduced in the House (H.R. 1) and Senate (S. 1) would ensure that our democracy works for everyone.

Introduction

American democracy urgently needs repair. We now have a historic opportunity to bring about transformative change. In both houses of Congress, the For the People Act — H.R. 1 in the House and S. 1 in the Senate — was designated as the first bill, a top priority this session.

This historic legislation responds to twin crises facing our country: the ongoing attack on democracy — reflected in the assault on the Capitol on January 6 and the subsequent flood of vote suppression bills across the country — and the urgent demand for racial justice. It is based on the key insight that the best way to defend democracy is to strengthen democracy. If enacted, it would be the most significant voting rights and democracy reform in more than half a century.

The 2020 election, like the 2018 midterms, featured historic levels of voter turnout — the highest in over a century, even in the face of a deadly pandemic. But there were also unprecedented efforts to thwart the electoral process and disenfranchise voters, primarily in Black and brown communities, based on lies about “voter fraud.” Those efforts continue through restrictive voting bills in states across the country. Extreme partisan gerrymandering continued to distort far too many races for the House — a plot that is poised to be repeated in the upcoming redistricting cycle unless Congress steps in to prevent it. And despite increased engagement by small campaign donors last year, the most expensive campaigns in American history were still largely bankrolled by a small coterie of individual megadonors and entrenched interests, many of whom were able to keep their identities secret from voters.

These problems were more extreme this cycle, but they are certainly not new. For decades, citizens’ voices have been silenced through voter suppression, gerrymandering, and deceptive tactics. Wealthy campaign donors maintain outsized sway over policy. And the guardrails against discrimination, corruption, and manipulation of the system for personal gain have all been cast aside or eroded. The virulent coronavirus, whose worst effects in terms of both health and the economy have fallen disproportionately on communities of color, underscores the urgent need for a functioning democracy that serves all the people.

The current assault on voting rights across the country underscores the urgency of reform. Even though our democratic institutions survived an attempt to overturn the result of the 2020 election, unscrupulous state legislators have seized on the disinformation that fueled this attempt to introduce an alarming number of regressive bills aimed at restricting access to the ballot, including by sharply restricting access to mail ballots, cutting back on early voting, and slashing voter registration opportunities. To date, more than 250 bills to restrict voting access have been proposed in 43 states, more than seven times the number introduced by this same time last year. These measures target and will disproportionately harm voters of color, young voters, and voters with disabilities. In Georgia, for instance, a recent Brennan Center analysis found that proposed bills to cut Sunday early voting and mail-voting access would burden Black voters most. footnote1_5hw0z9j1

But here is the good news: we know what we need to do to address these problems and strengthen American democracy. It starts with passing the For the People Act. The Act incorporates key measures that are urgently needed, including automatic voter registration and other steps to modernize our elections; a national guarantee of free and fair elections without voter suppression, coupled with a commitment to restore the full protections of the Voting Rights Act; small donor public financing to empower ordinary Americans instead of big donors (at no cost to taxpayers) and other critical campaign finance reforms; an end to partisan gerrymandering; and a much-needed overhaul of federal ethics rules. Critically, the Act would thwart virtually every vote suppression bill currently pending in the states.

These reforms respond directly to Americans’ desire for real solutions that ensure that each of us can have a voice in the decisions that govern our lives, as evidenced by their passage in many states, often by lopsided bipartisan margins. They are especially critical for communities of color. Racial justice cannot be fully achieved without a system in which all Americans have the means to advocate for themselves and exercise political power.

As President Biden remarked in his inaugural address: democracy is precious, but democracy is also fragile. The 2020 election revealed a passionate commitment to democracy on the part of tens of millions of Americans who braved a deadly pandemic, voter suppression, and a concerted campaign of presidential lies to make their voices heard. On March 3, the House of Representatives honored that commitment by passing the Act in its entirety. Now, the Senate and the president must also fulfill their promise to secure representative democracy in America now and for future generations.

Voting Rights

The right to vote is at the heart of effective self-government. In the Federalist Papers, Alexander Hamilton and James Madison laid down a standard for our democracy: “Who are to be the electors of the federal representatives? Not the rich, more than the poor; not the learned, more than the ignorant; not the haughty heirs of distinguished names, more than the humble sons of obscurity and unpropitious fortune. The electors are to be the great body of the people of the United States.” footnote1_xrpdsgu2 For over two centuries, we have worked to live up to that ideal, but have consistently fallen short. Many have struggled, and continue to struggle, for the franchise. The For the People Act would expand and protect this most fundamental right and bring voting into the 21st century.

• Modernize Voter Registration
  • Automatic Voter Registration
  • Same-Day and Online Registration
  • Protect Against Flawed Purges

• Restore the Voting Rights Act
• Restore Voting Rights to People with Prior Convictions
• Strengthen Mail Voting Systems
• Institute Nationwide Early Voting
• Preventing Unreasonable Wait Times at the Polls
• Protect Against Deceptive Practices

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Special Opinion to the Mirror by Charles Landis: HR 1, the For the People Act, a reveal of the conceal and steal. A clear and imminent threat.

The 2016 and 2020 presidential elections portend to be the most consequential since the Civil War and indeed since the beginning of the great experiment. Half of the country refuse to accept the result of these elections and believe nefarious forces were responsible. Half of the country embraces the populist movement of Trump.  Half of the country sub-scribes to the notional progressivism of identity politics and cancel culture procreated by Biden/Sanders/Warren et al. of left.

 Hatred of Trump by Democrats and demand that he be removed from office began the moment he assumed office and has endured  both as to Trump and the 75 million who support and identify. It must be understood and recognized that Trump is leading a populist movement,  sharing the belief that  the elitist Left  will  relentlessly continue its assault on the values  and institutions that made American great and exceptional.  

With the election of Biden, and  Harris as Vice President  deciding majority in the Senate, HR 1 became the  quintessential legislative goal of the Socialist Democrat Party. Euphemistically titled the “For The People Act “, the intention is to federalize the election process; a blatant refutation of Art.2 Sec. 1 of the Constitution mandating state legislatures as sole authority in establishing election processes. The Act embraces all the corruption that divides and enabled  the Bidenharris election .HR 1 federalizes and micro manages the election process which was decentralized as fundamental since our founding and as has  been administered by the states. It takes away the decentralization of the American election process believed necessary by our founders  in protecting our liberty and freedom.

Heritage Foundation succinctly concludes “HR 1 would usurp the role of the states, wipe out  basic safety protocols, and mandates a set of rules that would severely damage the integrity of elections.” In part, with particularity, same day registration, third party ballot harvesting, and elimination of voter identification and verification as to both in person and write in ballots.

 Perhaps, the most concerning dictate of HR 1 is that it reduces the Federal Election Commission to 5 members appointed by the President, 2 Democrats, 2 Republicans, .and 1 independent as determined by sole discretion of the President. Thus, the historical  prerogative of state legislatures in deciding rules is usurped  and an unelected partisan bureaucracy in Washington mandates. Also, false or misleading statements are forbidden to be published  within 50 days of an election. The First amendment is shredded. Imagine a ministry of truth or a truth tsar  appointed by Biden and handlers.

It should be noted HR1 was passed in  the House without any Republican support and, as with 10 of 12 other resolutions ,there were no hearings. The fate of HR 1 in the Senate is yet to be determined  but we know  the agenda of the left and the  priority of the socialist Democrats. This is why the Democrats want to eliminate the Senate filibuster rule; thus they would be able to pass any legislation by vote of VP Harris. Thus is established a tyranny of the majority. There will be Constitutional challenges and perhaps that will initiate their  court packing scheme.