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Jefferson's Tree of Liberty Drinks the Blood of Patriots & Tyrants

7/29/2020

I woke up at 4am with this Jefferson quote on my mind...
Jefferson was evidently trying to calm some fellow delegates to the Constitutional convention, in the wake of Shay's rebellion.
The rebellion is perhaps most responsible for our nation having a ban on debtor's prisons, and even the constitutional right to bankruptcy and debt forgiveness by act of federal magistrates.
Jefferson believed rebellion may have virtue. Later in life he became a college president and youthful rebellion consumed his ability to provide a systematic educational process.

"We have had 13. states independent 11. years. there has been one rebellion. that comes to one rebellion in a century & a half for each state. what country before ever existed a century & half without a rebellion? & what country can preserve it's liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?
Let them take arms. the remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon & pacify them. what signify a few lives lost in a century or two?
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants. it is it's natural manure. our Convention has been too much impressed by. . ."

KRMG's Dan Potter Declares Mandate Resisters As "Moronic Knuckle Draggers"

7/27/2020

Oklahoma state lawmakers have been very apprehensive about giving constitutional powers to the bureaucratic state. But Tulsa mayor, GT Bynum seem to want the agency bureaucrats to have even more authority to make our health choices for us.
Gary Branz is outraged at the hostile insults coming from talk radio. Dan Potter of KRMG Radio is especially intolerant & outspoken. Here's Gary's account account.

Gary Branz - Broken Arrow, OK

" So Dan Potter on KRMG this morning while talking to the little man mayor of Tulsa, (you know the guy that is scared of his own shadow and had the residents of Tulsa footing the bill for TPD to sit out side his home for 3 months around the clock because someone said mean things to him) referred to us no wearing mask folks as and I quote;

"moronic knuckle draggers"

Well Dan, I would much rather be a knuckle dragger then a mindless sheep, and I would much rather die standing on my own two feet than on my knees!!
Lets make sure KRMG AND Dan knows that we will be sure and pass along his thoughts to the thousands of "knuckle Draggers" that USED to listen to them and support them that we will now pick someone else to listen to in the mornings." - Gary Branz

Mayor Bynum was silent while the pompous tirade commenced. He made no attempt to correct the insensitivity of Potter. But to Bynum's credit, he has previously explained that the city officials will not seek private medical data from those who face health obstacles which prohibit safe mask usage, in some or all scenarios.
Mr. Potter seems blissly oblivious to the health complexities which make some or all mask-usage dangerous for some, because these ailments have thus far not visited his life. But karma is not something we need to pray for. It happens as a law of nature.

Trump Admits To Tweeting Mistakes - "Too Often"

7/26/2020

Barstool Sports founder & 'el presidente', Dave Portnoy, was offered an interview with President Donald Trump, on the opening day of Major League Baseball.
Portnoy claimed to be non-political, and the interview appears to back up his claim.
But more importantly, it shows that real journalism still exists in the US, even though it's becoming very rare.
Trump met the honesty of Portnoy with a very genuine & honest self-assessment of his own presidential performance. He talked candidly about his many twitter mistakes.
The takeaway for the press corp is simple. Report the news fairly and objectively, and Trump will open up more about his challenges.

Allison Schuster did a great recap of the interview. She's a rising star on the campus of Hillsdale College. She's also an intern at The Federalist. Here's her journal.
The embedded video in this article is currently on YouTube. In the event we lose access to it, there is another copy posted on UGEtube.

Barron Trump Gets Looked Up To..

7/26/2020

A Giant Youth On the 3rd Floor of the White House -

A friendlier press just couldn't get enough of the sweet Obama girls. The Bush Girls and even Chelsea Clinton were often the subject of many "Oh aren't they adorable" media narratives.
But a boy hasn't lived at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. since 1963. That's when John Kennedy jr. (long since deceased), was born to parents occupying the residency quarters.
Perhaps it's journalists who don't want to write anything humane or polite? Perhaps they don't know how to write about presidents' boys, as much as girls?
But Barron Trump has been with the public scene for 4 years and he's not the same youth he used to be.

At last estimate (circa his March 20th birthday) he was estimated to be about 6'5". He's not known to be competing in school sports. His school is the current varsity conference champion in basketball. He'll be a freshman, as best we know.
He's usually seen in some very impressive 'New Balance' athletic shoes. They're made in the USA, of Course.
He's fluent in Slavic languages. His Slovenian mother is a big reason for that. His Twitter acct. is @BARRONTRUMP. He has no posted tweets, but several fake accts. post vicious remarks in his name.
His parents broke from the Tradition of Sidwell Friends Academy, and enrolled him at St. Andrew Episcopal School.
He was born in 2006. His father was 59. His mother was 35.

Near his 14th Birthday, Barron was already taller than his parents.

Guest Editorial: 'Covering Up A Botched Police Carjacking'

7/23/2020

Note: there are many disturbing revelations surrounding the Ware case. The Public Defenders Office had to recuse, due to what could be illicit affairs and claims of felony adultery. An independent defense attorney will handle the case and reveal much more than the contents of this editorial, penned by David Oldham.

by David Oldham, of ConstitutionalGounds.com

Tulsa Police Chief and Tulsa County DA caught lying to community
In the early morning hours of June 29, 2020 two Tulsa police officers were shot during a traffic stop. One died a day or so later, and the other remains in hospital. The shooter fled the scene. The shooter was identified as David Ware.
The same day, city officials, Tulsa Mayor GT Bynum, Tulsa PD chief Wendell Franklin, Tulsa County DA Steve Kunzweiler, and the US Attorney for NE Oklahoma Trent Shores held a press conference to inform the public about the incident and gain the public's help to locate Ware. The immediate narrative was that this was a cold-blooded shooting by a former felon who should have submitted to lawful orders, and that the police were heroes defending the community. They warned that if Ware would do this to police, that he was a danger to all of society. They expressed their contempt for Ware, and their near reverence for the police officers, in no uncertain terms. They called on the public to turn Ware in.
The police chief said in the press conference that the stop had been for an expired temporary paper tag, and that the officers decided to tow Ware's car. Ware, who had cooperated with police, disagreed with their claim of authority to take his car.

At this hastily-assembled press conference, the municipal & state officials hid the alleged illegal seizure of property, and created the narrative of a cold-blooded murderer. Now they are blocking the release of the brutal beating of the driver, and the felony crimes of the police.

Facebook Now Censors Medical Questions They Don't Like Us Asking

7/21/2020

Today the Facebook censoring dept. just disparaged a medical professional who openly asked; "What if the quarantining the healthy doesn't save lives?".
In basic high school logic, that statement is called a hypothesis. It's not a statement of fact, but a hypothetical. Politifact, the anointed bearer of all things truthful, decided that hypotheticals like the one stated by the medical professional are not allowed. The public is not supposed to ask; "what if". We are supposed to believe as fact, whatever the govt. decides is truth.
Another question posed by the physician..
‘What if wearing a mask in public is not effective?’
Politifact also said; "This is inaccurate. Official guidance from public health experts says wearing a mask in public can prevent the spread of the coronavirus."
This is a ramping up of academic censorship by facebook. It's an environment where some 'what if' questions will be punished. Not only will the person posting the questions be punished, but Facebook says that if the group doesn't step in and punish the group member, then Facebook will punish the whole group.

In short... Questions are not claims. Questions are essential in higher ed learning. It's how we challenge each other to become better thinkers and avoid intellectual laziness. We must never let others do our thinking for us, but that exactly what Facebook says we must do, especially if our politics is not in line with the orthodoxy that Facebook demands of all discourse on their website.
Youtube is doing similar censorship, but they are taking a different route in controlling content. A recent Oklahoma political rally to defend monuments was put on by a citizen group. Youtube shut down the live feed because a white mother had an open carry firearm in the video frame. Youtube said that their policy is now banning any live content with people bearing firearms.
Nevermind that the same videographer ran a 2 hour live feed of a Black Panther Open Carry rally in the same city. Hundreds were carrying arms and they were predominantly black. It's evidently just the white folk who are the problem with guns, in youtube's political agenda?

Advancing Toward Herd Immunity Thru Saturation Among the Strong

7/15/2020

The spread of the newest virus, Covid-19, has captivated and traumatized many who stay glued to network news accounts. But rather than relying on a magic vaccine to save humanity, we're finding our way through the 'gauntlet' by protecting our elders and infirmed, while our young & healthy are taking the brunt of the viral attack. Most are surviving the illness with little harm. Some experience no symptoms at all.
By all accounts, Oklahoma is handling the illness far better than our 'more enlightened' coastal states. One could say that Gov. Stitt's goal of Top Ten may be occuring in a category which truly means life or death for each of us.
It may be very advantageous for individuals to face the inevitability of a covid exposure in the months when the annual flu isn't already taxing our bodies as well as the communal healthcare resources.
But Dennis Thompson of Healthday believes that our illusive herd immunity threshold far sooner than what vaccine innoculations required. He've pasted part of that article for your review...

Is 43% a legitimate threshold for community resistance to the Covid-19 virus?

Tulsa Mask Mandate Ignores Prostitution & 'Hook ups'

7/15/2020

Claiming a health emergency, Mayor GT Bynum is presenting for immediate emergency action, a law which has no sunset clause. Unlike the statewide emergency declaration which has a constitutional 30 day sunset. Bynum wants this unprecedented restriction to remain in effect until he deems it no longer helpful to our health.
While the covid virus does transmit via air, the more dangerous concern is physical contact. Even more risky is the exchange of bodily fluids. Yet Bynum's order does nothing to slow down the casual sexual contact at known prostitution shops around town. the last big publicized prostitution sting was done nearly a year ago, and those female prostitutes were not arrested. Instead, DA Steve Kunsweiler says they were offered career counseling opportunities. Hair salons and dental offices face stricter enforcement of health rules than sexual services proprietors.

'Kanye West 2020' Presidential Campaign Ends

7/15/2020

The Kanye West presidential campaign was real. He'd hired a competent team of organizers and legal staff. But the clock had already run out. Even the expert, Steve Kramer, could not turn back the clock to meet the deadlines which passed many weeks ago.
Just 10 days ago, the energy was high and the 180 or so who were tapped to mobilize a national movement, are gone home.
And then there's the real concern about the psyche of Kanye's motivation. The brilliant mind of this artist & businessman has a history of transcending into the manic realm. He's been through many efforts to manage and stabilize his mental energy and keep it productive and sensible. If this was a manifestation of mania, no one is going on the record to impugn West's motivation.
West is, by all accounts, a cultural icon and global influencer. He just didn't understand the complexity of the political mess. He's not the first independent candidate to get hit by the immovable wall of resistance to populist insurgencies.
West can and probably will be a force in 2024 political discussions. But the only way he will be a candidate in 2020, is if the Democrats or Republicans draft him as their own nominee.

Covid Infections Becoming Less Fatal

7/14/2020

Good news vs Bad news

The latest state health dept numbers are affirming to everyone, depending on what you choose to obsess about. While the alarmists and other advocates for an Orwellian society are putting on a show of terror about the population actually catching a virus which we were all told would eventually go through the whole population; Others are celebrating the lessening threat of that virus causing grave illness.
In mid April, Oklahomans were dying at a daily rate near or exceeding 10 people per day.
Now the certified cases are running a daily count which is perhaps 10 times as many at once, but the death count per day is about what it was when Oklahoma went into shutdown.
Tens of thousands are certified to be fully recovered and immune to the virus, but some Oklahomans want to force harmful masks on to those in full recovery.
With the legislature in adjournment, leftist mayors and councils are having their way and criminalizing the failure to wear masks when the oligarchs demand compliance.

The Summer rate of death from The Wuhan strain of Corona Virus is currently a small fraction of the danger it posed last April.

Newhouse & Pugh Lead Senate Lawmakers In 2020 Freedom Index

7/7/2020

The 2020 Senate Freedom Index is now published, to compare the lawmakers' commitment to restoring and protecting individual liberties in their powers to create and rescind laws.
This year a pair of freshmen who are also former military officers, are tied for the top spot in the senate. Adam Pugh & Joe Newhouse both voted to restore & protect citizen freedoms in 9 of 10 floor votes. They also gained bonus points for authoring bills the Sooner Politics selection committee deemed essential and/or scored in the index.
The young Republicans from OKC & Tulsa metro districts, led all scores with a +85, on a spectrum of 100 to +100.
A person scoring a zero on this index is deemed to vote against freedom in half the scored floor votes. A score of +50 on this index is equivalent to a +75 on many other indices that do not issue negative index scores.
8 Republicans were close behind with scores of 80. they were:

Mark Allen
Michael Bergstrom
Larry Boggs
Julie Daniels

James Leewright
Casey Murdock
Paul Rosino
Gary Stanislawski

Joe Newhouse & Adam Pugh led all senate scores

The Majority of Next Year's Legislature Is Already Chosen

7/1/2020

When the governor presents his State of the State address to the 58th Oklahoma legislature, many new faces will be in the room, but we already know who about 2/3 of them are. 35 of the 48 senators are selected, and 62 of the 101 Representatives are already chosen.
The Republicans already have majorities locked up in both houses, and could reach 2/3 super majorities again.
But four incumbents have been given 'pink slips' by their own party's voters, in last night's election.
Senator Wayne Shaw was rejected by his eastern Oklahoma District. Many attribute that backlash to his refusal, as chairman of the public safety committee, to hear bills restoring 2nd Amendment self defense rights. Senators Larry Boggs & Ron Sharp will have to face tough odds in a runoff in order to make it to the General election Senator Paul Scott also faces a runoff hurdle.

The House elections saw incumbents from both parties rejected by their own party base. Jason Dunnington was an effective ally of Majority Floor Leader Jon Echols when bipartisan solutions were possible. But a far left candidate, Mauree Turner; unseated Dunnington. The not-so-conservative Lundy Kiger was unseated by the returning Rick West, who stepped out of legislative service 2 years ago. Derrel Fincher of Bartlesville was also defeated by Wendi Stearman.
The Oklahoma Democrats are no longer a viable party outside the metropolitan and state university areas. But within the 4 stronghold counties, they are targeting certain seats and reclaiming some of them.

Massive Voting Irregularities - Call For FBI Criminal Investigation

7/1/2020

SQ802 is under a cloud of criminal suspicion during the overnight hours following the close of primary night voting.
The mailed in ballots far exceeded previous norms, but more important to the Attorney General's office, should be the vast contrast between the 80% support for Medicaid expansion claimed in these faceless ballots, and the election day rejection of taxpayer-funded health benefits by a 10% margin of deficit.

The Governor is expected to call on AG Mike Hunter to seek a court injunction for a stay of the certification, until an investigation can be completed.

How Does Voter Fraud Happen In Oklahoma?

While strict policies protect the casting of in-person voting, there are not sufficient safeguards for Registering to vote. Individuals and groups can conspire to commit massive voter fraud of the state's elections by filling out tens of thousands of fake voter registrations and mailing them in or having political operatives collect them and drop the fake individual's cards at an election office in any county.

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