VIDEO: 2020 election update from Roman Balmakov

One video is worth 1000 words... or 10,000. Here's the latest from Roman Balmakov of The Epoch Times. Here's what's included: 

•   A judge ordered the release of half the inmates inside Orange County jails. But the local sheriff will not comply. 
•  In Nevada, the Appeals Court ruled in favor of religious freedom, and struck down rules which limited church attendance. 
•  In Pennsylvania, a Republican group is again asking the Supreme Court to take up their case.
•  A new report shows that, on average, any county which adopted the Dominion Voting Systems moved 2 to 3 percentage points towards Democrat presidential candidates.

   

What can I say except... once again... the fat lady hasn't sung yet. [What about the fat ladies on The View? Ed.] Stay tuned!

Note to Ed.: Haven't you heard of the latest form of political incorrectness -- fatphobia? Seriously. Accusations of "body shaming" apparently weren't specific enough. 

Keep your mind alive! Free online courses from Hillsdale College

The slug-fest between Sleepy Joe Biden and Still-President Trump drags on. We're now in the 14th round (see yesterday's post about Sidney Powell's suit in the Supreme Court), with President Wannabe ahead on points. While we wait for the champion to rise on the count of 8, there are other, completely different things worth noting and passing on to you, dear reader.

One such, of which Walt is reminded by Agent 35 (thanks!) is the existence of Hillsdale College, an educational institution separate and apart from the liberal mainstream, dedicated to learning, character, faith, and freedom. For more than 170 years, Hillsdale has promoted “the diffusion of sound learning” as the best way to preserve the blessings of civil and religious liberty.

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An excellent example, and very relevant to the current unpleasantness, is "Introduction to the Constitution". If you follow the course, you may be able to form your own opinion -- not that of the lamestream media -- as to the correctness... or otherwise... of the SCOTUS decision on the Texas challenge. If that doesn't work, try "Congress: How It Worked and Why It Doesn't"!

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First published in 1972, Imprimis is one of the most widely circulated opinion publications in America, with over 5.6 million subscribers. Check out these very timely articles: "A Sensible and Compassionate Anti-COVID Strategy", by Jay Bhattacharya, of Stanford University, and/or "Facing Up to the China Threat", by Brian T. Kennedy, of the American Strategy Group. Read and learn, folks; read and learn.

Back to SCOTUS! Sidney Powell launches voter fraud challenge

Some folks just won't give up... and a good thing too! The Supreme Court of the United States refused to hear the Texas challenge to the results of the rigged 2020 election, effectively ruling against the argument that states could not change the voting rules by executive order or judicial fiat. So much for Pennsylvania.

That brings us back to the question of whether Sleepy Joe Biden will be made 46th President of the Excited States of America as the result of massive, massive voter fraud in (at least) Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona, Nevada and... wait for it... [Why wait? Ed.]... Georgia.

That's what Sidney Powell has been alleging for weeks now, and she has said for nearly as long that she has proof. She calls it the Kraken*. Ms Powell's Kraken contains details of the forensic audit done in Michigan that proves systemic voter fraud occurred through the Dominion Voting System tabulation. It also has proof of at least 200,000 fraudulent votes cast nationwide. 

But wait (as Vince Offer used to say), there's more! The Kraken contains official Georgia elections records that prove the Dominion Voting Systems program's "inability to repeatably duplicate creditable election results." In other words, official Georgia election canvassers could not rely on Dominion Voting Systems software to count the vote because it couldn't repeat the same vote totals twice. Here's part of Ms Powell's 42-page submission to SCOTUS. 

15. The Interim Report shows multiple grave problems with the accuracy and vulnerability to hacking and evidence destruction of the Dominion Voting Systems (“Dominion”) machines used in Antrim County, Michigan. The report is relevant to each of the Related Cases because each of the states in question uses Dominion equipment. The Interim Report vindicates the lengthy opinion and order of Judge Amy Totenberg in Curling v. Raffensperger, 2020 WL 5994029 (N.D. Ga. 10/11/20), which found “extreme” and unacceptable security risks in the Dominion system. Compelling evidence and expert analyses show convincingly that the results of the Dominion system cannot be trusted and should not have been certified.

16. The findings in the Interim Report are consistent with the expert testimony provided by Mr. Ramsland regarding Dominion’s vote manipulation in the Petitioners’ November 25, 2020 complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia (the “District Court”) (R 450; 2438), and with his testimony in the Related Cases. Mr. Ramsland concluded in the Georgia case that, for the State of Georgia, “at least 96,000 mail-in ballots were fraudulently cast,” and “136,098 ballots were illegally counted as result of improper manipulation of the Dominion software,” id., each of which is several times larger than former VicePresident [sic] Biden’s margin of victory in Georgia (10,457 votes). Similar anomalies exist in the Related Cases. Among other things, the Complaints in the trial courts and the Petitions to this Court in each of the Related Cases all seek prospective injunctive relief requiring a similar forensic audit of Dominion voting machines.

17. The Coffee County, Georgia Board of Registration and Elections refused to certify the machine recount election returns on their Dominion systems “given its inability to repeatably duplicate creditable election results.”6 The results of the machine recount report were internally inconsistent and could not be reconciled and were inconsistent with both the election night count and the hand audit.7 The Coffee County BRE analysis confirms the findings of the Interim Report, cited above, that ballots going to adjudication can be changed on a wholesale basis by the operator with no oversight, controls or accountability, an extremely serious vulnerability.

Any scientist will tell you that the results of any test or experiment must be replicable to be credible. The same applies... or should apply... to the counting of votes in the most important presidential election since the Civil War. Let's hear SCOTUS disagree with that one!

Trivial footnote from Ed.: The kraken is a legendary sea monster of gigantic size and cephalopod-like appearance in Scandinavian folklore. According to the Norse sagas, the kraken dwells off the coasts of Norway and Greenland and terrorizes nearby sailors by its sheer size and fearsome appearance. "Kraken" also happens to be the name of the new Seattle franchise in the National Hockey League. And that explains the image. Got it?

VIDEO: "The Birth of a Nation" (full) - a lesson for our times?

Just about 100% of the reviews you'll read for D.W. Griffiths' masterpiece, The Birth of a Nation focus on the racism, pro-South bias, "glorification" of the Ku Klux Klan, yada yada yada. There is no dbout about the bias, but there is also no doubt that the events depicted are real, a cautionary tale about what happens when you turn society on its head.

In another masterpiece, The Civil War, film-maker Ken Burns quotes a freed slave as telling his master "Bottom rail on top now!" As the film shows, the aim of many radical abolitionists before, during and after the Civil War was nothing less than to make downtrodden black Americans rulers over the privileged whites. To do so, they used rigged elections (in which whites were disenfranchised), mob violence, and occupation of southern cities and states by the federal army.

Sounds familiar, doesn't it? The KKK was undeniably racist, but would not have come into being were it not for the necessity of defending southern society and, dare we say it, civilization, in a country which had descended into chaos. Watching The Birth of a Nation may make some people uncomfortable, but it would be foolish to let the political incorrectness blind us to the realities of the culture war which America experienced then... and now.

 

President Woodrow Wilson is famously rumored to have responded to the film with the remark: "It is like writing history with lightning. And my only regret is that it is all so terribly true." His published works as a historian are closely aligned with the film's negative portrayal of Reconstruction. Some of his writings are even quoted onscreen in certain prints of the film.

Also worth watching (and free of bias!) Mississippi's War: Slavery and Secession, a production of Mississippi Public Broadcasting, 2014.

Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it. (George Santayana)

SCOTUS lets Trump... and America... down

Let it not be said that Walt ignores or tries to cover up bad news. 

The Supreme Court dismissed a prominent legal challenge Friday to the 2020 election results filed Monday by the State of Texas. "The State of Texas’s motion for leave to file a bill of complaint is denied for lack of standing under Article III of the Constitution," said SCOTUS. "Texas has not demonstrated a judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another State conducts its elections." 

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a case directly to the Supreme Court, challenging the election results from Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin. The suit argued that the four states illegally made changes to the voting rules through the courts instead of through state legislatures, violating the Electors Clause.

It also argues the differences in voting rules in different counties violated the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause and cites claims of voting irregularities in the states. Seventeen states joined the lawsuit as well as over 120 House Republicans.

Justice Samuel Alito issued a statement with the dismissal that was joined by Justice Clarence Thomas, arguing that the Supreme Court should take up the case. "In my view," he wrote, "we do not have the discretion to deny the filing of a bill of complaint in a case that falls within our original jurisdiction," saying that he would grant the motion to file the bill of complaint. 

But Justice Alito signalled he would not have granted the state of Texas the ability to halt the election certification as the challenge requested. "I would therefore grant the motion to file the bill of complaint but would not grant other relief, and I express no view on any other issue." 

It seemed to me that a good argument could be made that the court had a duty to consider inconsistencies between the voting rules in different states. If one state, like Texas, has strict rules, and another, like Pennsylvania, has loosey-goosey that allow anyone to vote, early or late (and often too!), doesn't that diminish the value of a Texan's vote? Where's the equal protection promised by the Constitution if you can vote once by mail and once in person, and I can only vote once? 

President Trump described the Texas case, on Wednesday, as "The big one" and repeatedly urged the Supreme Court justices to have the "wisdom" and the "courage" take up the case. He must be mightily disappointed -- and angry too -- that SCOTUS refused to do so. Me too.

Fundraiser for Kathy Shaidle

Regular readers know that Blazing Cat Fur is one of Walt's favourite blogs, and the source of many good memes and photos reposted here. The mover and shaker behind BCF is Kathy Shaidle. She is one of the most incisive, witty, and fearless writers on the scene today, never shrinking back from standing up for freedom, even when the Left-fascist lynch mobs tear after her. Here's a photo of Kathy, taken some months ago in New York City, when she was in better health. 

Kathy doesn't look like that now. She is suffering ovarian cancer and is now in palliative care. She is still fighting hard and we hope she will be with us for as long as God allows. She is doing well and has homecare nurses and a doctor attending. 

This comes at great cost, only partially covered under Canada's socialized health care scheme. If you can help with a donation, Kathy and those who care for her would be greatly appreciative. Please click here to go to the "Kathy's Fundraiser" page on Blazing Cat Fur, and make this part of your Christmas giving. 

And please join us in prayer for Kathy and all the others -- including one near and dear to Walt -- battling cancer. Some will recover, some not, according to God's will. But God always hears the petitions of the faithful. The power of prayer is great, sometime miraculous.

UPDATE ADDED 11/12/20: Walt is pleased to note that this post has had more click-throughs in one day than any we've put up in the past couple of months. I hope all those who go to BCF will feed the kitty! And if you're sending a message, please tell Kathy that Walt sent ya!

VIDEOS: Still-President Trump & 17 states join TX appeal to SCOTUS

Still-President Donald J. Trump asked the United State Supreme Court today to allow him to join a suit brought by the Great State of Texas seeking to overturn the tainted results of the 2020 election by throwing out the voting results in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wiscons.

In a separate brief, lawyers for 17 (count `em - 17!!!) states led by Missouri’s Republican Attorney General Eric Schmitt also urged the nine justices to hear the case. 

As I said yesterday, this is important, because this case is not about voter fraud -- not to say that there hasn't been any! -- but about the constitutionality of decisions taken in Pennsylvania, Georgia and other states to allow mail-in ballots and/or extend the time in which ballots could be received. That's the issue that could well upset the Democrats' cart of poisoned apples! 

And what does the anti-Trump lamestream media have to say? Check out this screen grab from Ed.'s search on Google.

Listen carefully to the American controlled media tonight. That sound you hear is liberals' whistling past the graveyard! Well might they worry. Check out this analysis by Roman Balmakov of The Epoch Times, posted to YouTube yesterday.

 

And here's an update, posted just an hour ago. Watch it now before YouTube takes it down, for the reason that posts alleging "voter fraud" or anything like that are no longer to be permitted! Only "authoritative news sources" will be permitted to talk about the election. The rest of us, including Mr Balmakov, are to be silenced.

 

YouTube and the rest of the controlled media should bear in mind an old adage: Just because you have silenced someone doesn't mean that you have converted him! But they're going to try to keep you from reading and hearing the truth. Follow Walt and follow the links in our posts. As Roman says, stay informed and stay free!