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A great Australian group The Seekers singing in happier times..... Democrats, Republicans and President Trump all supporting the enabling legislation telling the states to declare "states of emergency" so they could link up with federal financial support. The Republicans in Idaho who control the legislature arresting Ammon Bundy and others who came to the State Capitol to challenge their legislation in the emergency situation. Ammon Bundy posted this video last Wednesday that gets to the heart of many issues including the election, the raging political conflict and the notion of whether politics is worth anything.... Fauci Says Normality Not Coming...

"My appeal is to be heard in September at some point and I pray that justice is served in the 9th Circuit's decision at that time" That message from Jerry DeLemus one of the men still imprisoned for the 2014 Bunkerville Standoff near Bundy Ranch in Nevada..... Two teenage girls in a shopping center in Australia's Queensland state got a rude awakening to what their nation has become today when they were detained by police in the country's continuing coronavirus crackdown.... Standing up for his rights today Ammon Bundy of People's Rights not wearing a mask or muzzle when confronted...

Well welcome to Stalag Covid 19 for this weekend's adventure..... Hey the one and only "Rnaround Sue" Dion with a song he recorded in the days when he was part of the Contemporary Christian Music scene in the early 1980's. I was around and saw him beret and all in person. Idols and idolatry right out of the Good Book but what about today..... Resistance In Idaho: The Latest This week a woman arrested for asking too many questions, Sara Brady, as a group of mothers and children entered a closed down park in Meridian, Idaho engaging in civil disobedience....

"Hello Goodbye" by the Beatles, a number one song from early 1968 here in the USA. That's around the time my father left the factory to higher paying and longer lasting government employment as inflation kicked in here in the USA. Lyndon Johnson was ramping up government with Medicare and Medicaid and the cost of medical care was beginning to skyrocket, debt was beginning to accumulate and wow here we are 23 trillion dollars plus later. The 2021 federal budget proposed by President Trump adds another 966 billion to that. Well the currency is devalued and its easy to tell...

"Before the breathin' air is gone...." "Before the sun is just a bright spot in the night-time" The song with those lyrics by Three Dog Night "A Walk In The Country" moving up the Top 40 chart 49 years ago today. I was young back then with fear of nuclear catastrophe being put into me among other things but also the fear of environmental catastrophe.... Fear when I was young expressed into the cassette recorder microphone. It of course reminds me of Greta Thunberg's rage this week: "You stole my childhood" Wow! I was young, I was bullied and sexually...

President Trump and the First Lady taking phone calls from children as part of the "Santa Tracker" program of NORAD on Christmas Eve as Santa made his way to the USA to deliver presents. Early elections have been called in Israel. April 9th is the date. Elections could have been delayed until November of next year, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made the call saying it was difficult to pass laws.... Turbulence on Wall Street in the shortened Christmas Eve session...... A federal judge ruled Monday that North Korea should be paying over 501 million dollars to the family of...

With a week to go before Christmas here are some stories from Washington to think about? Who will President Trump pardon?..... Will President Trump get a bill on his desk to let a lot of people out of federal prison? Criminal Justice Reform passed the House and now before the Senate.... For now the President wants to review the case of a former Green Beret charged with murder for shooting a man in Afghanistan in 2010.... No evidence of President Trump colluding with Russia. That's what Ken Starr...... Saudi Arabia has condemned the US Senate for passing resolutions..... North Korea...

"Will be giving a Full Pardon to Dinesh D'Souza today. He was treated very unfairly by our government" President Donald J. Trump-Twitter 5/31/2018 President Trump's announcement of a pardon for Dinesh D'Souza, prosecuted and persecuted by the Obama Justice Department, brings me back to yesterday's post about Jerry DeLemus and the other two defendants in the Bunkerville Standoff case who remain in jail even though there was a mistrial of key defendants in the case based on the rigging of evidence by the federal government. It reminded me also of the pardon of Joe Arpaio, the former Maricopa County, Arizona...

President Trump has met with Kim Kardashian at White House to discuss "prison reform" in general and the case of a mother sent to prison on drug charges in particular. It reminds me of a man Donald J. Trump met during the 2016 New Hampshire Primary campaign. Marine Jerry DeLemus was co-chair of the New Hampshire Veterans Coalition for Trump. After the primary US Marshals showed up at Jerry's home early one morning to haul him off to jail. DeLemus was accused for using his Second Amendment right to defend the First Amendment rights of the protesters at Bundy Ranch...

"Well you know when I came back from Vietnam I just had the greatest brainwashing that anybody can get...." Governor George Romney-"Lou Gordon Show"-September 1967 "@Mitt Romney has announced he is running for Senate from the wonderful state of Utah. He will make a great successor and worthy successor to @Orrin Hatch and has my full support and endorsement" President Donald J. Trump endorsement of Mitt Romney on Twitter-2/19/2018 ".....There may want to be a lot of people out there that want, want to drink the Trump Kool Aid and to be honest with you I want to drink it,...

(Susan DeLemus at :31) "I'm a little incredulous right now.....I have to internalize it.....and get over the shock..... (at :59)...I'm a little shocked....we may appeal, I don't know what we're gonna do right now... (at 2:05)...they've allowed me to go out to Pahrump to go and visit my husband, uh video, via video, that's how they visit out there...... (at 2:25)...Well, we love each other...yeah, its I think its a pretty big travesty of justice but you know other people have other opinions and obviously the judge has a different opinion. I think we're just going to be irreconcilibly different.......

Jerry DeLemus of Rochester, who pleaded guilty in connection with Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy's armed standoff in 2014, was given a more harsh federal prison sentence Wednesday than prosecutors asked for after the judge called him a "bully vigilante." DeLemus, the 62-year old co-chairman of President Trump's 2016 New Hampshire campaign veterans' coalition was sentenced to 87 months in federal prison on two charges--conspiracy to commit an offense against the U.S. and interstate travel in aid of extortion. Since his arrest, De Lemus has been in a federal prison for nearly 15 months. DeLemus was the first prison sentence in...

A new poll released on Thursday found Donald Trump with a big lead in Oregon, a state not necessarily expected to be favorable to the Manhattan billionaire. The poll, conducted by the Portland-based Hoffman Research Group, found Trump leading Ted Cruz, a Texas senator, by 17 points. Trump, the GOP frontrunner, was the choice of 43% of respondents.

Nevada Assemblywoman Michele Fiore, who went in to witness the end of the protest at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge and defends those arrested there as part of the Coalition of Western States is an upfront supporter of Senator Ted Cruz for the GOP presidential nomination. "The Guardian" from the United Kingdom has published a story noting Assemblywoman Fiore is part of the Cruz leadership team in Nevada. They quote her as saying: "Ted Cruz is the only candidate talking about giving lands back to the state where they belong." Also on Cruz's Nevada leadership team, Assemblyman John Moore, who...

Federal authorities on Thursday arrested a New Hampshire man for his role in a standoff by Nevada ranchers opposed to federal control of public lands. Gerald DeLemus, of Rochester, was named in an indictment in Nevada as a “mid-level leader” and organizer of a conspiracy to recruit, organize, train and provide support to armed men and other followers of rancher Cliven Bundy. DeLemus, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran and tea party activist, last year signed on as a member of presidential candidate Donald Trump’s New Hampshire veterans coalition. A July news release posted on Trump’s website listed DeLemus as a...

Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz on Monday called for armed protesters who occupied a federal building in Oregon to "stand down peaceably." "Every one of us has a constitutional right to protest, to speak our minds," Cruz told reporters in Iowa. "But we don‘t have a constitutional right to use force and violence and to threaten force and violence against others. So it is our hope that the protesters there will stand down peaceably, that there will not be a violent confrontation."

Republican presidential hopeful Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas.) on Monday slammed the protesters who have taken over a federal building in rural Oregon, urging them to lay down their arms. “Every one of us has a constitutional right to protest, to speak our minds,” Cruz told reporters at campaign event in Iowa, according to NBC News. “But we don't have a constitutional right to use force and violence and to threaten force and violence on others,” he said. “And so it is our hope that the protesters there will stand down peaceably, that there will not be a violent confrontation.” Cruz...

Jerry DeLemus, a Trump campaign official and the husband of New Hampshire state Rep. Susan DeLemus, has arrived in Burns, Oregon — where some of his associates have taken over a visitors center at Malheur National Wildlife Reserve. DeLemus met many of the participants, including ringleader Ammon Bundy, when he traveled cross-country to take part in the armed standoff with federal agents at the Bundy ranch in Nevada, and social media posts show he has maintained ties to the militants who took over the federal building.