“If true...these golf carts, infamously driven by now-indicted insurrections on the day the Capitol was violently attacked—were arranged by Trump and his team” AND 'how many members of the Secret Service deserve to be indicted for the events of January 6"

"The Trump-era Secret Service used special golf carts to protect the president during the significant percentage of his presidency he spent on golf courses. According to Golf News Net, the Trump Secret Service golf carts went '19 mph instead of the more common 14 mph”, and “ha[d] specific features [that] golf carts at Trump-owned golf clubs cannot accommodate.”

By May 2020, the minimum amount spent by the Secret Service on golf carts alone—in the forty months since Trump’s inauguration—was $765,425. Golf cart rental vendors used by the Secret Service included Maddox Joines (d.b.a. Sunshine Golf Cars) for Trump’s trips to Mar-a-Lago; Associates Golf Car Service, for his trips to his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey; and West Virginia-based Capitol Golf Cars and Utility Vehicles for the former president’s trips to Trump National in northern Virginia.

Those last 3 sentences by Seth Abramson:

“If true—and so far the evidence points in that direction—these golf carts, infamously driven by now-indicted insurrections on the day the Capitol was violently attacked—were arranged by Trump and his team, and as such are evidence of their criminal intent in the most seditious attack on America’s seat of government since the War of 1812.

The question now: did those golf carts drive 19 mph on Insurrection Day, or 14 mph?

The answer to that question may determine how many members of the Secret Service deserve to be indicted for the events of January 6 before the FBI’s investigation is over.”

Why the Golf Carts Matter Now

Many Americans don’t realize that the Stop the Steal event on January 6—and possibly the one on January 5 as well—were notcoordinated by the organizations that signed up for the permits for those events. 

As Proof has detailed, in mid- to late December of 2020, all of these organizations were commandeered—behind the scenes—by the Trump political team, including men and women inside the White House and others connected to the Trump 2020 presidential campaign. Indeed, key figures who coordinated the Stop the Steal event of January 6 in particular were people on Trump’s payroll, including the follow: 

• Kimberly Guilfoyle, presidential adviser and girlfriend of Donald Trump Jr.; 

• Katrina Pierson, 2016 Trump campaign spokeswoman and 2020 Trump campaign adviser, assigned by Trump pre-insurrection to be a liaison between the White House and grassroots organizations; 

• Brian Jack, the White House political director; 

• Anthony Ornato, former presidential detail head at the Secret Service and White House Chief of Operations on January 6; 

• Tim Unes, 2016 Trump campaign Deputy Director of Advance and founder of Event Strategies (the production vendor for the March to Save America); 

• Paul Manafort, 2016 Trump campaign manager and executive with Tim Unes’s Event Strategies);

• Caroline Wren, National Finance Consultant for the 2020 Trump campaign, “VIP advisor” on the Women for America First rally permit, political aide to Kimberly Guilfoyle, and employee of Trump Victory, a Trump-RNC partnership; 

• Maggie Mulvaney, Director of Finance Operations for the 2020 Trump campaign, niece of former Trump chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, and “VIP lead” on the Women for America First rally permit; 

• Justin Caporale, 2020 Trump campaign aide, former top aide to First Lady Melania Trump, and Project Manager for the March to Save America; 

• Hannah Salem, Director of Press Advance for the 2020 Trump campaign, former Special Assistant to the President, and Operations Manager for the March to Save America; and 

• Arina Grossu, Outreach Coordinator for the Trump administration Department of Health and Human Services’ “Religious Freedom Office.”

These 11 individuals, per the pro-Trump grassroots activists they often acrimoniously supplanted, like Cindy Chafian, handled not just planning and logistics but—wait for it—all budgeting, which was the exclusive province of Guilfoyle aide Caroline Wren.

And if there’s one thing we know about golf carts from news coverage of them during the Trump era, it’s that golf carts can be expensive.

And if there’s a second thing we know about golf carts in the Trump era, it’s that the Secret Service had gotten very good at figuring out how to get them on short notice.

And if there’s a third thing we know—in this case, about the January 6 insurrection—it’s that both Alex Jones and Ali Alexander are on video saying that they were working with the Secret Service before the Stop the Steal event at which the Service’s protectee Trump was going to speak, and were still working with the Service in the VIP area of Trump’s January 6 speech (the same area Oath Keeper Jessica Watkins was waiting for Roger Stone in, with Stone having been transported by golf cart by Watkins’ fellow Oath Keepers fifteen hours earlier) to coordinate the start of the march on the Capitol.

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BREAKING: New Revelation on January 6 Golf Cart Use Points to White House Coordination of Insurrectionists' Transport

George Washington grew hemp & whisky was the recreational drug. “Here’s a doctor of 30 years who had not so much as a speeding ticket, and then his whole life is ruined for giving his wife medicine that’s now legal in Pennsylvania,” Lt. Gov. John Fetterman

"Marijuana has been intertwined with race and ethnicity in America since well before the word 'marijuana' was coined. The drug, my colleague Gene Demby recently wrote, has a disturbing case of multiple personality disorder: It's a go-to pop culture punch line. It's the foundation of a growing recreational and medicinal industry. Yet according to the ACLU, it's also the reason for more than half of the drug arrests in the U.S. A deeply disproportionate number of marijuana arrests (the vast majority of which are for possession) befall African-Americans, despite similar rates of usage among whites and blacks, the ACLU says..

Throughout the 19th century, news reports and medical journal articles almost always use the plant's formal name, cannabis. Numerous accounts say that "marijuana" came into popular usage in the U.S. in the early 20th century because anti-cannabis factions wanted to underscore the drug's "Mexican-ness." It was meant to play off of anti-immigrant sentiments.

But this version of the story starts to prompt more questions than answers when you take a close look at the history of the drug in the U.S.: What role did race actually play in the perception of the drug? Are historical accounts of pot usage — including references to Mexican "locoweed" — even talking about the same drug we know as marijuana today? How did the plant and its offshoots get so many darn names (reefer, pot, weed, hashish, dope, ganja, bud, and on and on and on) anyway? And while we're on the subject, how did it come to be called "marijuana"

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The Mysterious History Of 'Marijuana'

Matt Thompson July 22, 201311:46 AM ET

“Here’s a doctor of 30 years who had not so much as a speeding ticket, and then his whole life is ruined for giving his wife medicine that’s now legal in Pennsylvania,' said Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, who chairs the state Board of Pardons and who is a fervent advocate for legalizing marijuana for recreational use.

The pardon could allow Ezell to return to medicine, according to the lieutenant governor’s office, which made the announcement."

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Pa. Gov. Tom Wolf pardons eye doctor who grew marijuana for sick wife

Spicy Oatmeal Stew

 My morning oatmeal has evolved into an oatmeal stew. 

Ingredients

2 large spoonfuls of Oatmeal 

Fresh ginger chopped 

Chopped fresh carrot

Salt

Sugar 

2 teaspoons of cooked chopped kale 

A few drops of balsamic vinegar 

Water to right consistency  (I've made oatmeal so long that I feel the correct water to oatmeal ratio when I stir it.)

Microwave 

Add

1/2 banana sliced

Teaspoon olive oil

One drop of ghost pepper stirred into 2 ounces of milk 

One tablespoon organic peanut butter. 

The only ingredient is peanuts. You need to stir peanut butter that's only made with peanuts. Palm oil is added to regular peanut butter to halt oil separation. Regular peanut butter is Crisco, palm oil, peanut butter, sugar and a ton of other stuff.

Tiny amount of fresh garlic. 

I haven't needed statins for cholesterol since I began having a breakfast of oatmeal every day decades ago.

***

"Flavor

Zero. Zilch. Nada. Palm oil is specifically chosen by nut butter manufacturers for its neutral flavor. It is simply added as a low-cost way to halt natural oil separation and as a filler to boost margins. From the FDA: “Where peanut butter must be at least 90% peanuts, peanut spread is less than 90% peanuts (usually around 60%).” That leaves a lot of percentage points for hydrogenated oils and/or palm oil.

History

Palm oil is an edible vegetable oil derived from the palm fruit, which grows on the African oil palm tree. Oil palms originated in West Africa and they tend to flourish wherever it’s hot and humid. They were brought to Southeast Asia at the beginning of the 20th century, and production expanded with the British industrial revolution, which created more demand for the cheap, edible oil. In 1910, 250,000 tons of palm oil were exported annually from Southeast Asia. Today, it’s close to 70,000,000 tons, and 85% of the world’s palm oil is produced and exported from Indonesia and Malaysia. Thanks in large part to a growing demand for “no stir” nut butters, worldwide demand for palm oil is expected to double again by 2050 to 240 million tons. New plantations are being developed and existing ones are being expanded in Indonesia, Malaysia, and other Asian countries, as well as in Africa and Latin America.

Unfortunately, little regard is being given to sustainability in palm oil production, and this expansion comes at the expense of tropical forest – which forms critical habitat for a large number of endangered species.

Production = Environmental Tragedy

Conditions around palm oil production are far from pretty. In fact, the situation is ugly and getting worse. The palm oil industry is linked to major issues such as deforestation, habitat degradation, climate change, animal cruelty, and indigenous rights abuses in the countries where it is produced, as the land and forests must be cleared for the development of the oil palm plantations. According to the World Wildlife Fund, an area the equivalent size of 300 football fields of rainforest is cleared each hour to make way for palm oil production. This large-scale deforestation is pushing many species to extinction, and findings show that if nothing changes species like the orangutan could become extinct in the wild within the next 5-10 years, and Sumatran tigers in less than 3 years. Currently, a third of all mammal species in Indonesia are considered critically endangered because of this unsustainable development rapidly encroaching on their habitat."

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June 10, 2016

Republicans are the same beast. There’s an overlap between ALEC, the Koch Network American Legislative Exchange Council and the Christian ACTION Network. SEE, former Chester County Gwenne Alexander's ACTION OF PA VIDEO with Ryan Costello

Ryan Costello in Christian Action Network VIDEO BELOW. 

There’s an overlap between Action of Pennsylvania and ALEC.

All Democrats should know that former PA legislator and Chester County Republican Committeeperson Gwenne Alexander is President and Executive Director of ACTION of PA. 

Gwenne Alexander President and Executive Director, ACTION of PA

Christian Action Network or CAN is a Christian activist organization founded by Martin Mawyer in 1990. The organization states that its "primary goals are to protect America’s religious and moral heritage through educational efforts.”^[1]

The group has advocated on a number of issues, including actions against the National Endowment for the Arts,^[2] battles regarding First Amendment to the United States Constitution issues,^[3] and the Islamic community center to be built near the World Trade Center site in New York. The group has been identified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as an anti-Muslim hate group.^[4]

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Candidates speak at the Action Breakfast in January 2014:

Legislation to prohibit racist & sexist concepts in PA schools was likely written Koch American Legislative Exchange Council "ALEC"

 

"ALEC’s model legislation reflects parts of the Kochs’ agenda that have little to do with oil profits. Long before ALEC started pushing taxpayer-subsidized school vouchers, for example, the Koch fortune was already underwriting attacks on public education. David Koch helped inject the idea of privatizing public schools into the national debate as a candidate for vice president in 1980. A cornerstone of the Libertarian Party platform, which he bankrolled, was the call for “educational tax credits to encourage alternatives to public education,” a plan to the right of Ronald Reagan. Several pieces of ALEC’s model legislation echo this plan.

The Kochs’ mistrust of public education can be traced to their father, Fred, who ranted and raved that the National Education Association was a communist group and public-school books were filled with “communist propaganda,” paranoia that extended to all unions, President Eisenhower and the “pro-communist” Supreme Court. Such redbaiting might be ancient history if fifty years later David were not calling President Obama a “hard-core socialist” who is “scary.”

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ALEC Exposed: The Koch Connection

Untold sums of cash poured into ALEC by Charles and David Koch have been an effective investment in advancing their worldview.

By Lisa Graves July 12, 2011

SEE:

Stephen Caruso @StephenJ_Caruso

Recovering cub reporter

CHESTER COUNTY DEMOCRATS Get a palm card from a Democratic Committee volunteer for who to vote for today. Common Pleas Court judges are complicated. Republicans are also on the Democratic ballot. NO, NO, YES, YES on ballot questions.

 Excerpt from Dick Bingham’s letter:

“The main risk we face this year is in those races that permit cross-filing: Court of Common Pleas, Magisterial District Judges and School Boards.  In each of those races there may be Republicans who have cross-filed onto the Democratic ballot.  We need to make sure our Democratic voters know who those cross-filled Republicans are and to discourage any vote for them.

 

The simplest, most effective way to show who the cross-filed Republicans are is on our sample ballots.  We need to use our sample ballots to show who we recommend, who our endorsed candidates are, and we need to show who does not deserve a single vote from a Democrat.

 

I will use the Court of Common Pleas race as an example.  There are two Republicans on our ballot – PJ Redmond in ballot position #1 and Lou Mincarelli in ballot position #5.  Despite what their campaign literature has attempted to say, both are long term, hard core Republicans.  Please make sure our voters are not fooled.

 

The Court of Common Pleas is a ‘vote for up to two’ race.  Our endorsed candidate is Alita Rovito in ballot position #3.  The two other Democrats in the race to choose from are Tony Verwey and Carlos Barraza.

 

Similarly, the races for Magisterial District Judge and School Board Director may have cross-filed Republicans on our ballot.  Make sure your voters know who the non-Democrats are.

Finally, you should be reminding people to vote on the questions on the back of the ballot.  There are three constitutional amendment questions and one referendum.  Our recommendations are NO, NO, YES, YES.  We recommend a NO on the two constitutional amendments aimed at limiting a governor's authority to declare states of emergency, YES on the constitutional amendment declaring equal rights for all and YES on the referendum on the funding of emergency services

Sincerely,

Dick Bingham

Chair, Chester County Democratic Committee"

Alita Rovito for Common Pleas Court is endorsed by the Chester County Democratic Committee

I know & worked with Tony Verwey. Carlos Barraza is good too. 

FROM Chester County Democratic Committee

Alita Rovito (endorsed by CCDC)   

Alita Rovito believes that a good judge must possess impeccable personal integrity, a love of service, and the experience and compassion to apply the law with fairness and respect. Alita has 33 years legal expertise serving the citizens of Chester County. She is the only candidate for Judge on the Court of Common Pleas with 15 years of judicial experience as a hearing officer in the Family Court Masters Unit. She has served as an educator for other attorneys through continuing legal education, as a Mock Trial coach for high school and college students, as a Moot Court judge for college students, as a leader for the Girl Scouts, as a board member for the Crime Victims Center, and as a volunteer for the Access to Justice Program. Alita is a graduate of Penn State University and Dickinson School of Law. She served as an Assistant District Attorney in Chester County and was the first managing attorney of the Chester County’s Child Abuse Unit. She is the founding member of Rovito Law LLC, where she represents men and women in all aspects of family law. She has served as an advocate, mediator, and private arbitrator. Alita’s experience, both personal and professional, makes her uniquely qualified to be a compassionate and fair Judge on the Court of Common Pleas.

Alita Rovito’s web site, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter. See her 5:01-minute video here.

Carlos Barraza   

 

Carlos is a career public servant who will bring to the Court of Common Pleas his dedication, experience, and integrity, and his unique perspective for protecting the most vulnerable members of our society, fighting for those who have no champion and bringing justice to those who have been denied it. His experience as a prosecutor over the past 18 years includes handling cases from DUI cases to domestic violence to sexual assault to murder. He has prosecuted over 20 homicide cases and served as lead counsel in over 80 jury trials, 15 bench trials and thousands of other matters. He has been recognized with such prestigious awards as the Prosecutor of the Year and earned promotions from Assistant District Attorney to Deputy District Attorney to now Senior Deputy District Attorney. Since 2013, he has trained all new Assistant District Attorneys. He also has extensive experience using computer forensic techniques to retrieve, analyze and utilize electronic data in investigations and prosecutions. He graduated from the University of Connecticut and University of Wisconsin Law School. A native Spanish speaker born in Mexico, he became a US citizen in 2011 and lives in Kennett Square.

Carlos Barraza’s Web site, Facebook. See his 5:42-minute video here.

 

Tony Verwey 

Tony has over 30 years of diverse legal experience and a proven track record of public service. Since 2017 at Gawthrop Greenwood in West Chester, he has worked with elected officials at the county and municipal level, appointed boards and commissions, and private clients on a wide range of legal matters including government, ethics, taxation, prevailing wage, education law, real estate development, zoning and land use. In 2006-2017 he was at Unruh, Turner, Burke and Frees, and in 2004-2006 was sole proprietor of a law practice representing clients in a variety of matters including legal ethics, professional discipline defense, litigation and wills and estates. In 1993-2004, for the Office of Disciplinary Counsel of the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, District II, he directed investigations of alleged attorney misconduct. He received his J.D., 1989, from Widener University School of Law after graduating in 1986 from Penn State University. He has made many professional presentations and most recently earned recognition as a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer – 2020 (Land Use/Zoning) and as a Main Line Today – 2020 Top Lawyer (Municipal Law).

Tony Verwey’s Facebook. See his 5:41-minute video here.

 

Constitutional Questions on Tuesday May 18, 2021 Ballot - "I’m going to focus on just two: the harebrained attempt by the legislature to subvert the power of the governor to call and maintain an emergency."

Note:

If the Republicans had transferred Governor Rendell's executive power to declare emergency to the Republican controlled state house & Senate, Governor Rendell might not have called then Coatesville City Manager Harry Walker on a Sunday morning and said “You will ask me to declare an emergency,” 

Governor Rendell might not have brought the PA Fire Commissioner & State Police to Coatesville. 

Coatesville might still be burning. 

Thursday, February 5, 2009

Rendell provides $500,000 to Coatesville arson investigation, victim's aid

 

"If you are one of the few Chester County residents who did not vote by mail, I’m going to remind you that everyone — including independent voters can vote on the four constitutional revision questions, Tuesday.

I’m going to focus on just two: the harebrained attempt by the legislature to subvert the power of the governor to call and maintain an emergency.

These two referendums would make it much easier for the largely ineffective legislature to end emergency declarations — essentially for political reasons.

Right now, as it stands, a 2/3rd vote by both houses of the General Assembly can end an emergency declaration — a sound option for when a governor goes off the rails and one that requires the agreement of members in both parties. 

But what legislative Republicans want is the option to end an emergency when the legislature goes off the rails, as happened in 2020, when too many GOP members acted like toddlers (and by the way, hurt both the businesses and people of their districts — see who still has growing COVID rates and who doesn’t).

In short, this is entirely unnecessary and would give power to a body that has shown it is only capable of using it to do harm. 

Vote No on both.

The other two referendums, one securing rights on the basis of race or ethnicity, the other allowing local fire departments and EMS to qualify for loans seem like an easy “Yes” vote."

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We’re winning the war on COVD — but we haven’t won yet

May 16th, 2021 · 0 Comment

By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times @mikemcgannpa

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"All Pennsylvania voters — yes, that includes independents and minor-party members — will be asked to consider four ballot questions on May 18. Two of them are widely considered non-controversial. The other two? A different story. Below, Spotlight PA breaks down the basics of what they would do, who is in favor, and who is opposed.

What would it do? Currently, only Pennsylvania’s governor can end a disaster declaration, like the one the state is currently under to deal with the coronavirus pandemic. State law gives the General Assembly the option to pass a resolution to terminate the declaration, though the state Supreme Court ruled last year the governor still gets the final say. The legislature can overturn a governor’s veto with support from two-thirds of members.

This proposed constitutional amendment would allow a majority of lawmakers to terminate the declaration at any time, without the governor’s consent. What happens after that is the matter of some debate.

Who is in favor? This proposal, borne out of a contentious response to the Wolf administration’s approach to the pandemic, has been championed by the House and Senate Republican caucuses, with support from a few Democrats.

The Pennsylvania chapter of the conservative political group Americans for Prosperity has also launched a campaign to urge a “yes” vote on the question.

Who is opposed? Most Democrats including Gov. Tom Wolf are urging Pennsylvanians to vote “no,” as is the grassroots Democratic group Turn PA Blue.

What would it do? This question asks voters to amend the Pennsylvania Constitution to limit a disaster declaration to 21 days. It could only then be continued with the consent of the legislature.

At the moment, a disaster declaration lasts 90 days and can be renewed as many times as deemed necessary by the governor. The measure would also prevent the governor from issuing a new disaster declaration based on the same or similar facts.

Who is in favor? Who is opposed? The same parties as question

What would it do? This proposal amends the Pennsylvania Constitution to enshrine discrimination protections to Pennsylvanians based on race and ethnicity.

Who is in favor? This amendment is supported by Democratic and Republican lawmakers. “Discrimination based on race is cooked into the DNA of this nation and we must take action to explicitly prohibit racial and ethnic discrimination in Pennsylvania’s Constitution,” said Sen. Vincent Hughes (D., Philadelphia), the amendment’s sponsor.

The ACLU of Pennsylvania is also in favor: “The proposed equality amendment to Pennsylvania’s constitution has the potential to expand protections against racial and ethnic discrimination, protect against unintentional but still disproportionate impacts on people of color, challenge discriminatory actions by non-governmental entities, while still permitting race-conscious programs that increase equality.”

Who is opposed? While not opposed, the League of Women Voters cautioned in its ballot guide there could be potential downsides.

“If passed, this law could add opportunity to bring ‘reverse discrimination’ cases,” the league wrote. “Thus, if a Caucasian person felt they were discriminated against by a State-run operation or agency in hiring, admissions, or denied opportunities, they could sue under this new law.”

What would it do? This is a statewide referendum (as opposed to a constitutional amendment) that would allow municipal fire departments or companies with paid personnel, as well as EMS companies, to apply for a loan through an existing state-run program for volunteer companies. The money can be used to modernize or purchase equipment.

Who is in favor? The measure passed the legislature with unanimous support from Democrats and Republicans. The Pennsylvania Fire Emergency Services Institute is urging a “yes” vote, as is the Pennsylvania Career Fire Chiefs Association.

Who is opposed? Spotlight PA could not identify any opponents."

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Your guide to Pa.’s 2021 primary ballot questions
by Sarah Anne Hughes, Posted: April 19, 2021

Fascism is being jump started in Europe. American fascism/white supremacy was PG -13 until Trump. Now the GOP is pushing Hitler Youth type “Christian” home school & charter schools.

This article reads fluently if you substitute USA organizations & names:

" A recent open letter to French president, Emmanuel Macron, signed by almost 50 retired army generals so far and more than 24,000 (predominantly former) servicemen, was occasion for many on the French left to raise the alarm, believing a coup d’état was either in the making or a future possibility. The top-brass signatories, led by generals Antoine Martinez and Christian Piquemal, say the country is on the verge of collapse because of immigration and crime, as well as Islamism and the support it gets from some on the left. They are angry at “cancel culture” and at any intellectual attempt to criticise the country’s colonial past. These generals warn that if the situation worsens, their fellow soldiers on active duty may choose to intervene and take control.

Marine Le Pen, the leader of the far-right Rassemblement National party, endorsed the generals’ call. A survey by Harris Interactive, which found that 58% of respondents agreed with the open letter’s statements, stoked further fear. This gives the impression that the far right is stronger than ever. Some political pundits go as far as to say that while Macron is predicted to win another term in 2022 against Le Pen, there’s a very real possibility that Le Pen will win by a small margin, sending a thunderstrike across the world."

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Fears of a coup in France are exaggerated, but a far-right president is a real possibility

Many people support an open letter raising the spectre of a military coup. Marine Le Pen is one of them 

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Private schools' curriculum downplays slavery, says humans and dinosaurs lived together

By Leslie Postal, Beth Kassab and Annie Martin

Orlando Sentinel |

Jun 01, 2018 at 5:00 AM

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I knew a man who wore lashing scars on his back from his time in the Hitler Youth. The Nazis had a profound effect on him when as a 6 year old he was forced to watch a synagogue burn. 

Othmar Carli devoted his life to restoring places of worship. He is a true hero.

Othmar Carli made a series of lithographs of Konrad Adenauer as a grotesque monster like man. I always wanted to know why. In “Learning From The Germans Race and the Memory of Evil” I am learning that Konrad Adenauer wanted to bring a sanitized form of the Nazi Party & autocratic dictatorship back in West Germany. 

Germany is just beginning Vergangenheitsaufarbeitung and the acceptance that all Germans, not just the ones who were hanged at Nuremberg & later Eichmann in Israel, share blame and shame from the horrible 12 years. Some want to go back. 

It’s more interesting that Americans have not yet accepted the genocide of Native Americans, that the United States was founded as a white supremacist nation and  physically built by slave labor. 

Othmar Carli Obituary (2020) - York, PA - York Dispatch

"Othmar Carli

Celebrated world-wide for his artwork, sculptures, and restoration work, Othmar Carli left a magnificent legacy. His tremendous talents can be seen in his restoration of the Union League in Philadelphia, the Ceremonial Courtroom in the Adams County Courthouse in Gettysburg, Radio City Music Hall and Grand Central Terminal in NY, Hall of Mirrors in Graz, Austria, and the Shobhabazaar Palace in Calcutta, India, among many others. His artwork and sculptures are included in prestigious collections around the world. Locally, in a lobby at York College is a large Sgraffito relief entitled "The World of Learning" which showcases some of the unique techniques that he used to create visual interest and to better interpret the deep meaning of much of his original artwork.

Born in Graz, Austria in 1933, he survived the ravages of World War II and the numerous bombings that left him homeless several times resulting in him seeking refuge in museums and schools. It was here that he felt at home because as a child he spent days and evenings watching and learning from artists working on objects of art. While creating theater designs in Europe, he met a young American opera singer, Margaret Moul, fell in love, married, and moved to the U.S. His international art career expanded as he received awards from the United Nations, as well as several nations, states, and art organizations. He shared his knowledge and skills by teaching in Europe, Japan, India, Korea, and several colleges and universities in PA. He was the founder of the Carli International Institute for the Arts in Elizabethtown, PA where he shared techniques and the use of products that he formulated to safely clean and restore historic treasures. He trained artists from across the globe. In the field of restoration, his films and writings are still used and studied by professionals around the world.

Othmar leaves behind his wife of 59 years, Margaret Moul Carli and two children: Peter Carli and his wife Kelly, and Marianne Hanford and her husband Keith. Grandchildren Amanda Coldiron and husband."

WATCH "Exterminate all the Brutes" on HBO. It's a game changing mind opener: 

We need a gihugic sanatorium for the insane to put Republican Party committee members in so they cannot continue to drag the USA into the garbage dump of failed nations. “It’s time to let the Republican Party die.”

 

Nearly all U.S. billionares inherited their wealth & can be idiots. They can also be batshit insane. I knew a man who in the 1970s had to see DuPont. He went strapped & had a shotgun in his trunk, just in case. 

SEE: 

John DuPont

I’ve known people with a huge hard on for Jesus to return and burn up all Jews, atheists, Muslims, brown or black people & Democrats .

Evangelical Christians waiting for the Rapture and God in a cloud over Jerusalem & QAnon freaks and a handful of billionaires are the Republican Party. 

SEE:

NYT

The Rapture and the Real World: Mike Pompeo Blends Beliefs and Policy

March 30, 2019

ALSO SEE:

(CNN) — Republican Rep. Peter Meijer has a warning for his party: He fears baseless conspiracy theories like QAnon will destroy the GOP from within if Republicans don't decisively and unequivocally condemn the false and dangerous beliefs and take action to stop their spread.

"The fact that a significant plurality, if not potentially a majority, of our voters have been deceived into this creation of an alternate reality could very well be an existential threat to the party," Meijer, who was one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump for inciting the deadly attack at the US Capitol, told CNN in an interview...

"When we say QAnon, you have the sort of extreme forms, but you also just have this softer, gradual undermining of any shared, collective sense of truth," Meijer said. The Michigan freshman believes conspiracy theories fuel "incredibly unrealistic and unachievable expectations" and "a cycle of disillusionment and alienation" that could lead conservative voters to sit out elections or, in a worst-case scenario, turn to political violence, like what happened on January 6.

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'An existential threat': The Republicans calling for their party to reject QAnon conspiracy theories

Republicans like Bob Dole are all dead and gone. 

A machine gunner and two riflemen of Co K, 87th Mountain Infantry, 
10th Mountain Division, cover an assault squad routing Germans out of a building
 in the background. Sassomolare Area, Italy. Porretta Moderna Highway. 4 March 1945

“In his 1988 autobiography he wrote, ‘I could see my platoon's radioman go down … After pulling his lifeless form into the foxhole, I scrambled back out again. As I did, I felt a sharp sting in my upper right back."

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Army Colonel Bob Dole

Bethanne Kelly Patrick

Orange County once a big John Wayne GOP hat wearing County is now Democratic.

I follow Kevin Drum on Twitter.

Kevin Drum

Politics, charts, and cats from the newly blue enclave of Orange County, California

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