Well, let me explain it for you. The ExpressVote XL, if hacked, can add, delete, or change votes on individual ballots — and no voting machine is immune from hacking. That’s why optical-scan voting machines are the way to go, because they can’t change what’s printed on the ballot. And let me explain some more: The ExpressVote XL, if adopted, will deteriorate our security and our ability to have confidence in our elections, and indeed it is a bad voting machine. And expensive, too!

ESS voting machine company sends threats

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Seems very simple to me that we need more checks and balances. It’s not a “Conspiracy Theory”, but a realization that the “methods & procedures” REQUIRE one system to mark and different system to count.

Argh!

(IMHO both parties want an insecure system so they can cheat.)

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(Don Boudreaux) Tweet George Will rightly condemns Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz for playing leading roles in unleashing Wednesday’s mob on Capitol Hill . A slice: The Trump-Hawley-Cruz insurrection against constitutional government will be an indelible stain on the nation.

Source: Some Non-Covid Links

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My intrepid Mercatus Center colleague Veronique de Rugy has some wishes for the New Year. A slice:

The negative consequences of this unchecked spending will be huge. The Congressional Budget Office, for instance, warned that an extension of unemployment bonuses and benefits creates disincentives to work and a slowdown of the economy. This extra spending also produces an ungodly level of debt, which academic research shows will ultimately slow economic growth. This means that future generations will both live in a slower-growth environment and face higher taxes to pay for today’s obscene spending. And this doesn’t even address the cultural distortions created by programs designed to pay people not to work.

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So get ready for more disincentives, higher taxes, and higher inflation.

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Originally published on The Liberty Block , the following is a guest post by Alu Axleman, which represents the personal opinions of the author, and not necessarily that of the Foundation. If New Hampshire were to leave the union and no longer be one of the ‘ Divided States ‘ of America, would our state be better off?

Source: Twelve Benefits to New Hampshire Independence

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This is a nice list of the benefits of secession!

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So long Alex.  I’ll miss you.

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Government bureaucrats were caught flat-footed, and the flood of money being rushed out the door in the name of emergency meant more vulnerabilities than ever. It took many states more than six months to add verification requirements and partially stem the flow. Just to use one state as an example, Washington state usually identifies a few dozen fraudsters in a year—now, it has identified more than 122,000 since March.

‘It’s Easy Money’: Nigerian Scammer Laughs about Huge Sums Stolen from COVID Welfare Programs in Bombshell Interview – Foundation for Economic Education

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So besides it being a “bad” policy (i.e., sets up a counter productive incentive), it was “wasteful” (i.e., more went to fraud then went to real people).

Gooferment is immoral, ineffective, and inefficient. As well as untrustworthy.

So this result shouldn’t surprise anyone.

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Titled “The Art of the Steal,” the report is the sequel to a prior report of Navarro’s on election irregularities that alleged outright voter fraud, ballot mishandling, contestable process fouls, equal protection clause violations, voting machine irregularities, and significant statistical anomalies.

Peter Navarro Releases “Art of the Steal” Report | Dan Bongino

Guess this is like the autopsy of the American Republic. I doubt we will ever have a “fair” election ever again. If we have ever had one? Why won’t politicians and bureaucrats cheat anyway they can now since there is no penalty.

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Taxpayers provide pensions, generous pensions, to many millionaires who once worked in government. Not JUST those who were in Congress. (From Forbes) As the longest-serving member of Congress, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) would qualify for a yearly pension of $167,040 if he retired today.

Source: Why Are U.S. Taxpayers Providing Public Pensions To Millionaire Members Of Congress?

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Critics question the necessity of such a system. Why are U.S. taxpayers providing public pensions to millionaire members of Congress on top of a 401(k)-style plan? (The median net worth for a member recently exceeded $1.1 million.)

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Why indeed?

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A large majority of U.S. adults (86%) say there is some kind of lesson or set of lessons for mankind to learn from the coronavirus outbreak, and about a third (35%) say these lessons were sent by God. In open-ended survey responses collected by the Center in the summer, Americans pointed to practical lessons, such as wearing a mask; personal lessons, such as remembering the importance of spending time with family and loved ones; and societal lessons, such as the need for universal health care. Other responses were political in nature, including criticisms of both major parties and concerns about the politicization of the pandemic.

20 striking findings from 2020 | Pew Research Center

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I agree about the “politicization of the pandemic”.

I, for one, am not sure that there is a “pandemic”, or an “epidemic”.

Evidence is that: (1) adjusting the number of “cycles” in PCR testing seems to dial up whatever result you want; and (2) no one has identified the “corona virus” yet.

Hell, there’s even a Conspiracy Theory” that “corona 19 virus” may be a vitamin defiiency. I have a lot of sympathy for this question about the #wuflu.

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A bank official said red flags have been issued on claims filed in the names of infants, children and centenarians, as well as people living in states not contiguous to California.

California COVID-19 unemployment fraud may total $2 billion – Los Angeles Times

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The Gooferment is immoral, ineffective, and inefficient. As well as untrustworthy.

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At no time did the framers even raise the possibility that governors, attorneys general, secretaries of state, election boards, administrators, etc., would play any significant role in the electoral process. Indeed, certain of those offices did not even exist. Moreover, as I said, the courts were rejected out of hand. Thus, such an important power was to be exercised exclusively by the state legislatures.

Levin: On Jan. 6, we learn whether our Constitution will hold – TheBlaze

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Great point!

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Biden transition team disables Zoom chat for journalists: Reporter Reporters, editors complained that they were not able to ask questions in the video conferences By David Rutz | Fox News

President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team disabled the chat function for reporters on conference Zoom calls, where journalists had been pressing officials to take more questions.

Biden transition team disables Zoom chat for journalists: Reporter | Fox News

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Don’t need any questions from the “reporters”!

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“The very night of the election many people saw something that they had never seen before in the history of our elections. They saw votes being changed on the screen in front of them, going from President Donald Trump to Joe Biden. On top of that, the morning after the election, even that night, the voting stopped. They stopped counting in multiple districts at the same time before the vote got to 270 electors for President Trump. That’s never happened before. The only time votes have ever stopped being counted in this country on election night was when the Broward County problem developed over Hanging Chad’s in one county in FL. So for FIVE states to stop counting on election night is absolutely UNPRECEDENTED. And they did it because the vote count for the electoral college was about to hit [+ go over] 270 for President Donald Trump, because of the massive outpouring of votes for him that night. By the next morning, multiple mathematicians had contacted me and told me they knew the algorithm that had been run to change the votes. It was that obvious to people with mathematical expertise. It is a mathematical impossibility for 100’s of thousands of votes to show up for VP Biden alone and to have been injected into the system the way that they were. We have eye-witness testimony of countless people who saw votes coming in, in unsecured containers and improper means and looking different the night of the election. These people have come forward at great personal risk to themselves & their families to provide thousands of affidavits of voting abnormalities and actual crimes that they witnessed happen on election night. The very fact that the other side is working so hard to hide all of this. Federal law requires transparency in our electoral process and our elections.” There is a federal statute that requires all the documents pertaining to the election to be maintained for 22 months following an election, for the very reason that it has to be completely auditable. A Federal Judge in October [in ATL] found all kinds of problems w/ the Dominion system that GA bought and crammed down for everybody across the state to use. That’s where the most problems have been, is in GA. Witnesses have come forward, there was supposedly a water leak that they shut down voting for. That was an abject lie. We have video of witnesses pulling suspect ballots out from under a table after they ran off all the observers. Somebody told me that one of the people that did that has told gov’t officials how it happened and what happened. But has that information been provided to the public? No. There is rampant voter fraud of all kinds. Federal violations of 5 years + more across the country by virtue of all the misconduct on election night. The flipping of votes by Dominion is even advertised, on their ability to do that, to run a fraction, to make a Biden vote count 1.26% and a Trump vote to only count 0.74%. They’ve done it before. They’ve done it in Venezuela. They done it in other foreign countries. They’ve done it in THIS country. We have evidence even that it was done in 2016 in CA to benefit Hillary or Bernie Sanders, and it’s been done in other local elections and smaller elections in different places. This is the only time it’s been this widespread, and the reason it didn’t work this time, they’ve been able to shave these votes for a long time, but the reason it didn’t work completely this time and they had to shut down in so many places was because so many Trump supporters poured out on the day of the election to vote for President Donald Trump in what was a LANDSLIDE victory, a historic victory, is because it BROKE the algorithm. That’s why they had to stop counting that night. That’s why they had to bring in ballots and try to back-fill. And it still doesn’t work, because there are still 100’s of thousands of more votes than there were voters to vote them. The math simply doesn’t add up. And if they had nothing to hide, why aren’t they providing transparency into the voting systems of the United States of America, the country that is founded upon the Rule of Law and is supposed to be above all this? It is absolutely the most appalling criminal operation in the history of our country.”

Sidney Powell interview on Rush Limbaugh show…”Absolutely Unprecedented” | Populist Press 2021 ©

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Don’t skip reading this!!!

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12 NJ Bars, Restaurants Broke COVID Rules, Attorney General Says Twelve bars and restaurants in New Jersey accused of violating coronavirus restrictions may be in trouble. Russ Crespolini, Patch Staff Posted Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 3:20 pm ET | Updated Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 3:45 pm ET Replies (29) There are actions against more than 200 establishments in response to breaking COVID-19 rules, according to authorities. (Shutterstock) NEW JERSEY – The state wants to suspend the liquor licenses of 12 New Jersey bars and restaurants for violating executive orders related to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal.

12 NJ Bars, Restaurants Broke COVID Rules, Attorney General Says | Parsippany, NJ Patch

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If one accepts the current Federal Constitutional interpretation of “subordination”, isn’t this a “taking” under the Fifth Amendment.

I think “subordination” is an incorrect interpretation but as long as the Gooferment believes it, it should be used against them!

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Nashville bomber’s girlfriend told police in 2019 he was making explosives inside RV

Nashville bomber’s girlfriend told police in 2019 he was making explosives inside RV: report | Fox News

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So much for “see something; say something”!

Argh!

Gooferment is immoral, ineffective, and inefficient. As well as untrustworthy.

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Source: Please, No Shooting Into The Air On New Year’s Eve

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Seems like common sense!

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The goal, then, is breaking out of this cycle, or preventing it altogether. Here the benefits of sleep extend throughout the body. “Sleep is important for effective immune function, and it also helps to regulate metabolism, including glucose and mechanisms controlling appetite and weight gain,” Miller says. All of these bear directly on COVID-19, as risk factors for severe cases include diabetes, obesity, and sleep apnea. Even in the short term, getting enough deep, slow-wave sleep will optimize your metabolism and make you maximally prepared should you fall ill. These effects may even bear on vaccination. Flu shots appear to be more effective among people who have slept well in the days preceding getting one.

How COVID-19 Changes Our Sleep – The Atlantic

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Get your Z’s. Take your vitamins (even if you’re making some “expensive urine”)! And, drink your water.

Then, relax and hand on for the ride.

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A case being brought directly to the Supreme Court will likely have some far-reaching effects for state governments. Recently the state of New Hampshire filed a petition with SCOTUS to curtail neighboring Massachusetts from taxing its residents. The issue is that a large amount of the citizens commute to nearby Boston, and other areas inside the Baked Bean state, and in the days now of office closures and remote working those citizens are now working from home. That is, they are working inside New Hampshire.

In This Season of Giving, States Are Exploring New Extremes of Tax-Taking

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Sounds like we need a Constitutional amendment limiting the total taxation that may be imposed.

Let’s start with 10% and then we can pursue the little L libertarian dream of ZERO.

Taxation is theft.

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I remember the 1970’s driving around New York City with my family during the holidays like they were yesterday. Back then the talk in the front seat of the car between my parents was New York City’s bankruptcy. My dad, NYPD at the time, was as much a part of this as anyone since the Police pension fund helped bail out the city government back then.

Source: End the Great American Myth: We Want Secession, Not Revolution

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And that is that secession, not revolution, is always the better option rather than the pre-packaged violent one which the oligarchs always seem to prepare for us.

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Let’s hope that we can have a peaceful “collapse” of the American empire.  Just like the USSR!

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A friend had inquired why this was the case. “As I thought about it, I realized my anger and fear were not narrowly focused on votes,” Gingrich wrote. “My unwillingness to relax and accept that the election was over grew out of a level of outrage and alienation unlike anything I had experienced in more than 60 years involvement in public affairs.” In the piece Gingrich brought up various issues: “When Twitter and Facebook censored the oldest and fourth largest newspaper (founded by Alexander Hamilton) because it accurately reported news that could hurt Mr. Biden’s chances — where were The New York Times and The Washington Post?” he wrote.

Newt Gingrich discusses why he is not recognizing Biden as the winner in 2020 presidential election | Just The News

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I think there a lot of people who feel the same way.

Outraged!

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Trump attorney Jesse Binnall’s CENSORED Senate testimony on election fraud in Nevada | Sharyl Attkisson

A summary of what Binnall testified to is:

* Aug. 3, 2020 after the legislative session, Nevada legislatures made changes to election law that included universal mail voting without sufficient safeguards to authenticate voters or ensure only one ballot was sent to each legally qualified voter.

*The number of such ballots rocketed from 70,000 in 2016 to 690,000 in 2020.

* 42,000 people voted more than once, as determined by reviewing list of voters and comparing it to other voters with the same name, address and date of birth.

* At least 1,500 dead people are recorded has having voted.

* 19,000 people who didn’t live in Nevada voted, not counting military or students.

* 1,000 people voted using nonexistent addresses.

* 15,000 people cast votes from disallowed commercial addresses.

* Almost 4,000 noncitizens illegally voted.

* Two technical experts came forward independently and reported that the number of votes changed overnight while the voting machines were stored.

* The Trump team was denied examination of the relevant USB drives.

* Officials with more evidence obstructed and stonewalled.

Trump attorney Jesse Binnall’s CENSORED Senate testimony on election fraud in Nevada | Sharyl Attkisson

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PRETTY DAMNING!

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(From RedState) “The 2020 presidential election witnessed an unprecedented and coordinated public-private partnership to improperly influence the 2020 presidential election on behalf of one particular candidate and party. “Funded by hundreds of millions of dollars from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and other high-tech interests, activist organizations created a two-tiered election system that treated voters differently depending on whether they lived in Democrat or Republican strongholds.”

Source: Did Mark Zuckerberg’s $350M Contribution to ‘Safe Elections’ Project ‘Improperly Influence 2020 Presidential Election’?

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Sure sounds like it does!

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No evidence has been offered that Dominion or Smartmatic used software or reprogrammed software that manipulated votes in the 2020 election.

Facts About Dominion, Smartmatic You Should Know | Newsmax.com

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Something still stinks about it. Why have that “fudge feature” at all if not to cheat.

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We’ll likely have to carry around papers to show we were vaccinated in order to live, even unfreely with masks, in this society, but illegal aliens can vote. That is the upshot of the latest insidious Supreme Court decision to allow lower courts to shred all voter verification processes in election law.

For the past few weeks, we’ve been told “states’ rights” force us to pursue a “live and let live” policy toward state governors who violate the state’s election law to weaken voter integrity laws. However, this principle is evidently a one-way street and doesn’t apply to governors who want to follow, not break, state voter integrity laws. Then, the federal courts have every right to get involved and nullify those laws, and the Supreme Court doesn’t seem to be concerned about the 10th Amendment and Art. I Sec. 4, which dictate that state legislatures prescribe the “Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections.”

Horowitz: So much for state election powers: SCOTUS blocks Kansas from requiring proof of citizenship to vote – TheBlaze

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How can this be possible?

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Even the Washington Post, in an article last week called “We Are Over-Cleaning in Response to COVID-19,” wrote: “We don’t have a single documented case of COVID-19 transmission from surfaces. Not one. So why, then, are we spending a small fortune to deep-clean our offices, schools, subways, and buses?”

You can knock off all the sanitizing

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More silliness.

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METRO Cuomo signs bill banning sale of Confederate flags By Bernadette Hogan and Carl Campanile December 15, 2020

Cuomo signs bill banning sale of Confederate flags

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Isn’t this a First Amendment issue?

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