The real function of the Democratic Party

The following comment is from “Allen” and posted at Moon of Alabama. I noticed it because it was reprinted in whole at Reptile Dysfunction. I have not paid much attention to impeachment because I don’t know the script, I don’t know what surprises they have in store. Whatever it is, it does not affect our constitutional republic, since we don’t have one anyway.

The Democratic Party plays an indispensable role in society’s political machinery. This doesn’t mean it has any power, in terms of controlling the state or setting policy. It means that without the existence of the Dem Party, the US could no longer maintain the pretense that it’s a “democracy.” If the Dem Party disintegrated, the US would be revealed for what it really is — a one-party state ruled by a narrow alliance of business interests. …

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Temperature proxies

Oxygen is the third most abundant element in the universe, behind hydrogen and helium, it is one of the most important and abundant elements on Earth.

Molecular oxygen O₂ is produced from water by cyanobacteria, algae, and plants during photosynthesis and is part of cellular respiration for all living organisms. Green algae and cyanobacteria in marine environments produce ~70% of the free oxygen produced on Earth and the rest is produced by terrestrial plants. …

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Look over here…. Impeachment, bla, bla, bla.

While most Americans were following the fake impeachment hearings Congress was quietly reauthorizing the 2001 Patriot Act.  Without action it would have expired in December.  Yes, enough House Democrats joined Republicans to keep it in play at least until March, 2020. 

There was no appetite to eliminate Section 215 of the 2001 Patriot Act, probably one of the most controversial elements of the Act.  Section 215 authorizes mass phone – including text messages – records collection by the NSA. 

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More Fancy Weapons

Captain Beyond

http://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/capabilities/directed-energy.html

“Laser weapons systems have tracked and detected targets including small rockets, boats, UAVs, and trucks.”  Laser weapons are also capable of taking down buildings, igniting forest fires and incinerating whole towns. 

Since commoners are the enemy of the power elite, we could be in for a very bumpy ride.  I suppose this is a backup plan if the various methods now being employed to reduce the population cannot deliver fast enough.  Drugs, chemicals, bioweapons, psyops, and any number of bazaar killing techniques we’ve never heard of; are are never enough.

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Some movements should go extinct

Bjorkland

If you are like me, you read and ingest scientific papers by the bushel. I kid. Generally, I read the abstract if it draws my interest, and occasionally delve into one with the idea that I will keep at it until I am overwhelmed. I am not good at math, and generally the papers are based in mathematics, and so lose me.

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Judge Lance Ito and martial … law

 

Some of the best fun I had back when Straight and I were unearthing zombies and twins was the intriguing resemblance between Bruce Lee and Judge Lance Ito. Looking back I see I’ve collected and organized and sized the photos, but either left it at that or deleted the post. Since I have long thought this was some of our best work, I doubt that I deleted the post, but I have indeed gotten rid of many, so it is possible.

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Circular travels

I was listening to a talk by Andrew Klavan, the crime and suspense writer, given at Hillsdale College. I liked the entire talk, as I think I have come half-circle. Twenty-nine years ago I dropped my then twenty-years-running subscription to National Review, the magazine founded by Bill Buckley. I just renewed it. I hope this time around I am a better thinker. There is much I like about conservatism, and much I find to be less well reasoned. (Their attitude about the supposed “free market” and health care along with opposition to “socialized” medicine has led us to a dystopia called Obamacare, making us prisoners of AHIP, though they are not aware of this.)

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