Info for my Primary Care Physician:

 Info for my Primary Care Physician:

Metforman Short video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozbNW8-ZLm4 

Why Metformin is only a short-term solution: https://youtu.be/a5gBFCVYmgI?t=890

Jardiance & Farxiga video: https://youtu.be/R8w3RDesJ9k?t=188 (acute kidney failure, BP issues)

GLP 1 RA video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fF_3FsGbH6I (vomiting, dehydration, kidney failure, starvation ketosis, brain damage, muscle wasting, depression, gastro porisis)

How to cure type 2 diabetes, lifestyle vs Drugs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO6TZFk3_EY sites studies, and is more medically oriented. (use  tallow, butter, gee and low carbs and no seed oils)

That last one makes a lot of sense to me in that when I spent 2 months in Cayman curing my diabetes, I had absolutely NO OILs for 2 months.  I think it allowed my cells to clean out the seed oils from my receptors.  After that, I could eat a gallon of Ice Cream in one sitting, and my blood sugar didn't budge.

This same Dr. mentions Hydrogen Water, and that could help me as well - a very cool help for diabetics.

Also a good video on the causes of insulin resistance.

This is the book that got me into fasting.

I am tempted to try this again while on my parasite cleanse.

It was hard when I was stuck on an island away from my wife - it is a lot harder when I am with my new wife, who is a gourmet cook.

Also, here is a link to a documentary on CDS if you don't know what that is.

My other blogs

 Just a quick note, here are links to my other blogs (one of whch has now been censored by the search engines Google and Duck Duck Go: (I have no idea why nor was I informed)

Musings of a Rascal (Censored)

Meditations of Sanford Staab

Techno Dweeb Times

Lifewater Ranch

Sandys Music

Principles In Liberty

Comments on Anna Von Reitz

 

A good friend of mine has gotten out of "the system" and is encouraging me to do the same in order to add to members of a local Jural Society that can clean up the mess we are in with massive fraud and theft.

He gave me this pdf article from Anna Von Reitz which I read and would like to critique here.

I still don't trust her because of the incomplete way she presents her case.  Her articles are usually pretty long and she leans a lot on logic, rarely sites her evidence and sources in a way that is easy to verify yet her style and arguments on the surface are quite compelling.

For Example:

"We have assessed damages of $279 Trillion dollars against the American Bar Association..."

How did you come across that number?  How do you hold that sum against the Bar Association?  Is that the sum total of what they have charged for their services?  If not, how do you tie the national debt to the lawyers?  Did they conceive of the system we have or were they just tools used by others to construct it?  Are all memebers of the Bar Association(s) even aware of what they are doing?  How can they be held to such a respnsibility with justice?

Almost all her articles are really about one thing, attempting to show and prove that there is a massive conspiracy of fraud being perpetrated on the US and global public that has turned a free nation into a slave state and is enslaving the world.

There is no denying this fact.  We can clearly see, if we look, that UPPERCASE NAMES are being used on all our official documents such as birth certificates, deeds, licenses, IRS forms, etc. and many of these are different from each other, likely representing different secret trusts that are named in a way to make one think that the trust is us.  The legal definition of "person" adds to the obvious deception and one can look on any bank printed check to see the micro print of the signature line that says "authorized agent" over and over - meaning clearly that our signature is NOT  the UPPER CASE name in the upper right corner.

The fraud can easily be proved.

The problem is, who committed this fraud with willful and cogent intent is a very hard thing to prove.  The people that do this evil are very clever and always have plausable denyability in place to protect themselves. The criminals we face that have perpitrated and continued this obvious fraud are not lawful and will not comply with any legal or logical or moral argument that would rob them of their booty or stop them from continuing to steal from all of us.  Even when congress passes a law, do they even understand or have time to read and digest and research it?  All laws they pass are written by lawyers who know how to keep themselves safe from the laws they craft and then present, usually in a rush, to the congressional member who is ill-equiped to fully comprehend what they are voting on and are almost universally in bondage to blackmail or bribes to stay in office.  The corruption goes completely down to the comman person that has no clue what voting is and most don't even bother to research who they are voting for much less understand that voting is different than being a lawful elector.

Anna's arguments go clear back to King Henry the 8th and she asserts that there are convicting documents in the Vatican that can prove the complicity of the Popes of the past - yet she can't get those documents into court or reproduce them for the public.

The sheer volume of her long articles (3800 she says in the referenced pdf) are not only long, and highly repetitive but also lack coherence and cross references.  To have an effective argument, Anna needs to take every issue that needs proof and create a concise and focused breif on that one point and then link to it from her higher level arguments.  It may be easier to do such a fix by starting all over and using what she has already published as a reference.  The more words one uses in an argument the more likely one is to lose their audience.

Anna argues that the common law is where the true law is, and this is undeniably true.  Yet the common law is based on the Bible and she rarely if ever presents arguments from this true and authoritative source.

The Bible does not say we as men will solve the problem of sin which is the root cause of all crime.  Consider these verses:

Matt 5:10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake....

Romans 5: 3-4: ... but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope.

1 Cor 14: 11-13: Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling place; And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it: Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.

2 Sam 23 : 6-8 : But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands: But the man that shall touch them must be fenced with iron and the staff of a spear; and they shall be utterly burned with fire in the same place.

Rev 19:15: And out of his [God's] mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.

Rev 2:10-11: Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.

There is nothing in the Bible that indicates that we men will overcome the sin of the world.  This is God's job and to His Glory.

I am not saying here that we shouldn't try to fix the world but that it is not possible to eradicate the true cause, sin, from this earth.  We will suffer in this life, that is a promise in the Bible. 

The Common Law is the best we have to approach heaven on earth but it is not the solution to the problem, Christ is.

The image of the golden statue of Nebachadnezar in Daniel ends with a rock from the sky blowing the entire Babylonian system to bits - this is not a man-sourced thing.

The time of the millenium in Revelation happens when God comes to rule man personally on the earth with a rod of iron.  It is not by a self-repenting world that finally comes to its senses and begins to do things lawfully.

Anna asks us to abandon all ties to the fictious entities that we were born into and leaves us as men without a country in the hopes of winning a war against corruption that has never been fully accomplished in history.  If that war is not won, where does it leave the man without a country?  Better or worse off?

Anna claims to be a supreme court justice but does not disclose to us how many people elected her and the distinction between the state which she works for and the State of Alaska - which she doesn't work for.  She has reduced her use of this position to add to her own credibility but basically, she is not what at first she would appear to be.

Yes we generate all the true wealth but if a thief comes into your home and steals something and you don't know where that property is or who took it, can you ever recover that property without yourself comitting a crime?  You could yell that somebody owes you relief - but who exactly?  If the gold that was stolen from us in 1933 is all melted down and changes hands - how do we ever identify OUR gold that was stolen from us?  We weren't all robbed of the same amount of gold and silver. Some are owed more than others - how can this ever be determined?

Anna - make your arguments as concise and complete as you can. Prove every point beyond a shadow of a doubt and make it super easy to verify.  Identify who the criminals are by name and then present it to the authorities and the public.

Stop just saying the same arguments over and over and over.  They will not change anything till an audience can fully comprehend and prove you are correct.

Perhaps God may raise an army to accomplish this massive correction and perhaps He will use the works of men to accomplish this, but I doubt it because:

Deut 4:24: For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.

How your votes are counted

 

Counting votes is one of the most difficult tasks to do considering the amount of incentive there is to manipulate and control the count.

A very interesting movie titled "The Battle of Athens" documents a true story that took place in 1946 where local vets had to resort to violence to uncover the truth of how the votes were really counted in their county in Tennessee.  

In the wake of the 2020 presidential election and all the controversy over counting votes in that election and considering my experience as a election judge way back in the early 90s, I became curious as to how our votes are counted here in Idaho County.

Title 34 of the Idaho Code covers the process of elections.  It is long and complex and I could not easily find anything in it that requires rechecking or proving the correctness of vote counts by either machine or by manual counting.  This very much bothers me.

Title 34-304 gives the guidelines for observers of an election.  An observer must have a letter sent from either a candidate or the Republican or Democratic party 12 days before the election to be allowed to observe the counting of ballots.  Thus, by law, the observation of ballot counting is a closed affair.

Magicians do much of their magic by distraction.  This is what I am seeing in our elections.  My experience in King County, Washington back in the early 90s was a perfect example of this.  As an election judge I sat at the polls all day watching the ballot box get stuffed with ballots by voters.  All was in order.  At the end of the day the ballots were locked up in a box with a soldier carrying an assault rifle to guard the box.  I was allowed to travel with the box and the soldier in an armored car to the county HQ where the ballots would be counted.  I was allowed to watch the ballot box unlocked and the ballots placed into a bag.  All was in order.  Then came the trick. The bag of ballots was then thrown over a Plexiglas wall to be counted by some mysterious process.

That was it.  I was done.  "You can go home now."

WAIT A MINUTE!

How do I know they were counted correctly?  How is this verifying ANYTHING?

I felt that the process up to that point was all just a distraction!

So I was wondering how I could witness the vote counting in Idaho County.  Finally, during this primary in 2022 I had the opportunity through Priscilla Giddings’s campaign to be allowed to watch what happens behind that Plexiglas wall I hit back in the 1990s.

The day before the polls were to open (Monday, May 16th, 2022) I went to a demonstration of the counting machine, by the county clerk, Miss Kathy Ackerman.  The machine was an ESS Model DS450.

The machine is computer controlled and resembles a fancy copying machine.  An uninterruptable power supply is used to prevent loss during counting.  Access to all ports is locked during counting and there is only a power connection to the wall.  The ballots are counted and sorted into different trays depending on the scan.  Problem ballots can be re-inserted to try again.  Write-ins are separated out for manual counting on those particular votes.

The machine is certified by the Secretary of State and the manufacturer.  

Hey, isn't the Secretary of State on the ballot this election?  Is there a conflict of interest here?  I would say so.  Trusting the wolves to guard the henhouse does not sound like a smart business practice to me.

20-40 years ago it was unimaginable that a simple ballot scanner or voting machine could be externally tampered with or rigged to count votes wrong.  That was before the internet, WiFi, 5g, 1000s of satellites in low orbit, smart-dust, computer viruses, rogue chips, and all the other plagues we now face from technology gone crazy.

The County Clerk seemed to me to be unappreciative of today's technology and how powerful it has become.  For example, in the Intel CPU family there is an interesting feature known as WiDi where the CPU chip, all by itself, can transmit display and sound information wirelessly and all a user needs to do is purchase the appropriate radio receiving equipment to display the screen and hear the audio remotely without wires.

This is public information.  Could there be a secret receiver on the chip or hardware somewhere that could receive information as well?  It simply is impossible to know for sure.  Unless you put the entire counting machine in a faraday cage and monitor the entire frequency spectrum with an RF spectrometer during counting, there simply is no way to prove the machine could not be tampered with or monitored.

The documentation that the clerk gave me assured me that the machine had no modems.  Modems are basically a D/A converter used to transmit data over phone lines.  This does not guarantee that there aren't wireless circuits that could do the same thing without a modem, unknown to even the designer of the hardware.  Heck the government makes RFID and nano-bots with 5G capabilities that are smaller than the thickness of a human hair and can talk to satellites in orbit.  This is not Kansas anymore Dorothy!

Normally they test the machine with a test deck supplied by the manufacturer but I said, how do we know that the test deck isn't rigged in order to program the machine to make an un-hacked count?  So, in response to this point, the clerk made up a random test deck of her own.  They counted the deck by hand and by machine and they came up differently.  

They came up differently.   Hmmm.

Upon further investigation the clerk found that two ballots were marked in such a way that the machine would interpret the votes one way while a manual count would reveal that the voter intent was different than the machine thought.  This results when a voter doesn't follow the instructions on the ballot properly, which the clerk admitted, happens a lot.  

There was no look of shock or surprise on her face.  Mystery solved.

She also discovered that if you draw vertical lines through the bubbles on the ballot you get a hit-or-miss situation depending on how close to the center of the bubble the vertical line is.  The counting machine doesn't seem to care what kind of mark is in the bubbles and will not flag ballots marked with Xs or lines.

I really have no problem with electronic counting of ballots IF there are ways to validate the counts or to recheck them easily.  But this is not how it is done.  Ballots that are counted by hand at the precinct are then sealed and thrown into a vault, never to be seen unless an official recount is needed.  There is no machine check on hand counts.  Ballots that are counted by machine at the county HQ are not also counted by hand either.  There is no hand check on the machine counts.  They are then sealed and thrown into the same vault.  There are a few test checks here and there before the counting begins but no second count is done, even on a subset of the ballots, to verify the machine or hand counts.  Even just shuffling the deck of ballots and doing a second machine count or having a second counting machine from a different manufacturer to verify the first machine would be an improvement

There are some accounting procedures done to ensure that ballots don't appear or disappear but the ballots are all identical for each precinct.  They are not numbered or distinguishable in any way.

I asked the clerk to make a Xerox copy of a ballot and try running it through the machine.  It was accepted as real by the machine even though it wasn't on the same kind of paper as the real ballots were.  Thus, counterfeiting ballots is quite easy to do.

The next day I watched the polls all day and then went to the county HQ to watch the actual counting.  At last, I will learn the mysteries of ballot counting!

I must say here that the clerk and her crew were very professional and efficient and let me see just about anything I wanted to see.  I could not see anything that resembled any kind of bias or attempts to change the results in any way.  I think we are lucky to live in a rural area and, though every county is corrupt in my experience, Idaho County seems to have been spared the crazy issues found in more dense areas and counties.

If a ballot can't be machine scanned, a duplicate ballot is created which is done using a standard voting machine.  The ballot that the voting machine creates is then fed into the DS450 and is added to the total count.

I noticed that the ballot created by the voting machine has the ballot printed in two parts.  One part is human readable and the other is machine readable.  There was no check done to ensure that the machine readable part matched the human readable.  Without detailed technical knowledge about the voting machine, there simply is no easy way to know that what the counter reads is what the human readable part says unless you run an entire count on just that one ballot - a situation where fancy code to manipulate the result would not likely show up.

The absentee ballots were counted first and were more difficult for the DS450 to count due to folds and bits of tape occasionally put onto the ballots that prevented the reader from accepting the ballot.  If you want to completely screw up the counting process just tear, fold, and gum up your ballot and add a write-in and the DS450 will prove to be useless.

But please don't do this as the county clerk’s job will be made ridiculously difficult and it might be days before the election results appear!

I also learned that even write-in candidates must get their names on a list of approved write-ins (IC-34-702A).  This is so that Mickey Mouse won't win every seat - it's a conspiracy I tell you!!!  If you write in a name that is not on the list, your vote will not be counted on that race.

The clerk informed me that the ESS Model DS450 cost around $50,000 and was paid for by the state.

Suggested Improvements and ideas:

Technology should be used to improve transparency and accuracy but not necessarily for convenience or efficiency.  The more convenience we add, the less vigilant we become.

In general, it would be good to make it so that every record from the ballot to final report is done in a single form that is both human and computer readable.  This way, human confirmation can easily be done as well as easy and error free transmission to other systems.

This is why I am against absentee ballots and early voting - it just introduces a huge problem that requires a lot of work to keep the process integrity intact.  It is very sad to me that we add complications to the election process for convenience but won't add complications to guarantee the integrity of the process.

Ballots for machine counting are not designed for easy manual counting.  For example, here is a portion of a sample ballot I found online:

Here is how I would modify it:

In fact, I would get rid of a middle column and have all the boxes along the edges for easier counting.  I would make the tally sheets line up with the boxes on the edges with the same numbers as are in the boxes so that one could see the number in the box and easily tally the correct row of the tally sheet.

How it is done now is one person reads the ballot out loud and two others simultaniously tally the votes.  Each tallyer calls out when they hit a 5th vote.  This is a pretty good method but with the modifications I propose, a single person could do the count and that would gain the time needed for 1 or 2 re-counts to be done in the same amount of time as the old method.  Adding redundancy to the counting process like this helps spot errors and brings more eyes to the process.

The counting machines are a powerful computer in their own right and should be utilized to the maximum extent to automate processes that support verification and integrity. 

The DS450 can only output results with a printer.  This forces a manual process to transfer the results from the counting machine to other computer systems.  The clerk pointed out to me that the larger ESS models do have electronic ways to transfer the results.  I do not know, however, if those formats are human readable.

Here is a sample of the DS450’s printed output:

Note that there is no running count or details that could be used to prove that the addition of the votes is correct or to check if a single ballot was read correctly or not. 

If the clerk accidently re-fed a pile of ballots into the DS450 it would double count those votes and not notice a thing wrong.  Only an adept clerk might catch this later when reconciling ballot counts and then an entire recount of the precinct ballots, which are all identical, would be needed.  It would be impossible to discover which ballots were counted twice.

By designing an area of a ballot for the counting machine to print on, a simple string that shows exactly the count for that ballot that is human readable could be constructed:

000000000011111111112222222...
012345678901234567890123456...
..1..1...1..1.11.1..1.11.11...

Above we see two lines to show which box (with my proposed changes to the ballot format) the mark was associated with and the bottom line shows whether or not the bubble was counted as filled in. 

Another, more easy way to do it for human checking would be for the counting machine to circle each bubble in a special color.  However, the method used must clearly show that the ballot was scanned only once.

This information could also be used to more easily count the ballots manually and to check a subset of ballots to make sure the machine is scanning the ballots correctly.

The counting machine could note this printing and avoid double counting a ballot, but the more you trust the machine to do the right thing, the more a hack can skew the election.  Human, manual checking of the machine is absolutely necessary to eliminate the possibility of hacking the counting machine.  Multiptle humans must also be used cuz you can't trust them either.

If the ballots could be numbered, a lot of good things could be done like:

• Follow the ballot from printing to archiving.
• Make counterfeiting of ballots more difficult.
• Allow for detailed ballot-by-ballot counting data that references the ballot number to ensure the counts and additions are correct.
• The numbeed ballots could even be used to allow voters the ability to check their own ballots after the election online.

The one big downside of numbered ballots is the possibility that they could be used to know who voted how.  I have been trying to come up with a way to print the ballots with a concealed number and at some point the voter and/or the counting machines could reveal the number long after the ballot left the hands of the voter.  It could be done but I have not come up with a process that wouldn't introduce other problems.  Scratch-n-sniff is cool till you have to scratch thousands of ballots.  However, I think solving this will really improve election integrity.

We could have the counting machine number the ballots but adding a number at this point removes a lot of the benefits of having the number.  It would, however solve the double counting problem I mentioned above.

Since the counting machine must scan each ballot, why not include the scan of each ballot and the counting machine’s printed interpretation of the ballot into image files which can then be offloaded onto a thumb drive and published on the internet?  The counting machine could also generate tally sheets.  Imagine ANYBODY being able to count any of the ballots themselves and check the counting machine online without having to compromise the integrity of the archived ballots?  Now that's transparency!

I discussed this idea with the clerk and she made a good point that this creates a way for almost anybody to raise doubts and challenge the election process.  Even though a voter could check that their ballot was counted correctly and the ballot was not tampered with, there is no way that this kind of discovery could be used to question the count unless many voters complained of tampering.  It could create a mountain of work to accept voter feedback like this.  Yet still, this would let voters know that something was wrong or not wrong with the process and a simple website could automate the feedback process.  It would force a certain level of integrity on the system due to its transparency.  The media could not simply declare that "this was the most secure election in history" without some blowback.

All this doesn't even consider the issues involved with early voting and absentee ballots.

If every 10th voter at the precinct had to come in for a couple of hours to count ballots or a kind of counting jury duty were created, we would have plenty of people to hand count the ballots and check each other's work.  Ballots could be broken down in to packs of say 25-100 ballots each and counted multiple times by multiple people, each signing and certifying their counts.  Ballots, tally sheets and summary spreadsheets could then be sent electronically to the next level up and published online both locally and centrally.  Heck, election judges could take a copy of all the data on a thumb drive home for safe keeping, just in case there was a fire or some other disaster that caused the archives to be lost or come into question. 

I mentioned this idea to the clerk as well and she has considered it.  The downside is that the clerk has trained a crack crew of assistants that do this well.  We wouldn't want people that don't want to do counting doing that job nor would we want to have some bum off the street doing it that didn't know or care about what they were doing or worse, was out to throw things off.

However, we need a system that doesn't need highly trained and high integrety volunteers to work.  We need a system where even a 4th grader could count the votes and any errors are caught regardless of their skill level or intentions.  Rudundancy, transparentcy and cross-checking are simply required to make such a system work.

The clerk pointed out to me that Idaho County has enough volunteers right now so that the current system of counting is working well.  Other counties, however, may have problems getting enough people to participate in the election process to get sufficient oversight and help.

Incidentally, I discovered that the Kooskia precinct has the most voters voting of all the precincts in Idaho County!  Interesting.

Precinct hand counts would rapidly add up the counts to come up with results probably faster than we get with all this machine counting.  The community comes together as more people get involved and see the integrity of the system which would encourage more people to vote and remove the need for early voting and absentee ballots.

It amazes me that the photo at the top of this article is NOT the way we count our votes.  Idaho County is actually a relatively safe county for vote counting.  Several precincts still count the ballots by hand.

The clerk mentioned that decades ago, when everybody knew everybody, doing a public count with a pot-luck was cool and fun but those days are gone and there are just too many strangers around that we can't trust at that level.  

But such thinking admits that trust in the people that do the process is necessary.  I say, if you have a good, redundant, transparent, cross-checked, accountable and machine assisted count, you don't need highly skilled or trusted people to do this extremely important job.  

I think it would be great to see Miss Betsy’s 4^th grade class be able to count the ballots.  Counting ballots is not easy but impressing on our children the importance of doing such a job to protect our democratic system is very important.

It amazes me how little people seem to care about who and how the votes are counted.  This is the core of representative government and it must be kept sacred and secure and transparent at all times for our freedoms to survive.

I hope this article has demystified the issue a bit for the average Joe and that it will spur improvements to the system.  The best thing you can do to help here is to contact your county clerk and offer to become a volunteer election judge and counter.  Get yourself trained and step up to be a part of the solution.  That's what I did and it was a real eye-opener and made me feel good about doing what I could to help.

A Union can be dangerous

 

I wanted to respond to Dave Manley's letter to the editor last week.  Dave makes the excellent point that the founders had "criminal minds" that decided to, instead of fighting one another for power, worked together to give us the Constitution and protect our rights for future generations.  By "criminal minds" Dave meant that they understood human nature.  

Unlike the common view expressed these days that men are basically good, the Deists (being students of natural law) and the Christians alike believed that men, especially if given too much power, were basically evil.

What troubled me in Dave's letter was this common perception that our founders, like Thomas Jefferson, gave us the bill of rights and invented the idea of a constitution.  This is not true.

Patrick Henry, Mr. "give me liberty or give me death", was a delegate to the Continental Congress from Pennsylvania which had just created their own new constitution that I believe introduced the idea of enumerating what rights the government was created to protect.  Mr. Henry and his fellow delegates were given very specific instructions from their state not to allow the precious rights their new constitution protected to be compromised by a federal constitution.

Mr. Henry and his fellow delegates did NOT sign the Constitution that came out of the convention.  What they DID do was to create The Pennsylvania Minority Report (PMR) which listed 14 flaws that they saw that threatened the rights they had secured by their new state constitution.

The Bill of Rights was created by the dissenters not by the Convention.

So this brings me to a pattern I see in history and that is the pattern of forced union.  We saw in the Civil war how hard it was for the southern states to remove themselves from the union and we saw in Brexit how hard it was for Great Britain to remove themselves from the European Union and we see the natural glue that holds nations into the United Nations because if they leave they have no defense against possible sanctions the union may impose on outsiders.

This trend seems to now be pushing for a global new world order that all nations will be forced into eventually.

The PMR points out that no delegate to the Continental Congress was allowed to make amendments or alter anything in the proposed constitution.  Things were fixed before the delegates ever got there. It was Yay, Nay.  Henry and others smelled a rat and if you can find the full text of the PMR you will see there were many questionable shenanigans going on before, during, and after the Constitutional Convention pushing delegates to "take it or leave it".

Our pathetic government schools don't make our kids read the founding documents, much less the Federalist and Anti-Federalist papers and much much less the constitutions of the original 13 colonies under the Articles of Confederation.  

Very few people these days have any clue that there were many good constitutions before the federal one.  The US Constitution didn't introduce this idea, it created a UNION.  There are merits to a union of course but ours was to be federated which means that the federal government deals with other nations and the states, NOT the people or counties/cities directly.  It would never have been ratified if this weren't the perception of the people at that time.

Now our federal government is a corporate socialist empire that constantly meddles with the affairs of individual citizens more so than it does with the states creating huge bureaucracies to manage dealing with millions of individuals and businesses and dictating what they can and cannot do from a central hub.  The federal government holds our medical and financial records and monitors our every phone call and email - for national security reasons creating clear vulnerabilities to our privacy and rights.

This all came out of the union.

The good things that are now happening at the state level all over this union are because the states are beginning to realize that this union is way out of line and that push-back is a good thing.  I for one hope we will see some states put in place some checks and balances needed to offset the totalitarian power of our federal government that is now so dysfunctional as to have no resemblance to the original ideas that created it.

BTW Why hasn't Biden even given a state of the Union address yet like every other president in our history has?  And why hasn't our "watch-dog" media even noticed this fact?

Why vote in person?

 

Mail in ballots seem to be the rage these days.  Such convenience!  Such efficiency?

It baffles me how naïve the public appears to be in this area. 

First of all it is impossible to have an anonymous submission of a ballot by mail.

Second, even if the secret ballot is sacrificed, there are still too many ways to commit fraud in the process.

But let's ask this question.  Why?  Why do we want a secret ballot?

Imagine a corrupt local government that is hiring goons to go ruff up anybody that doesn't support their power.  Would you vote your conscience if they could find out how you voted?  Probably not.

Voting in person at the precinct level all at one time really cuts down the opportunity for a central power to manipulate the vote, especially if the votes are counted at the precinct level and in public all at the same time.

Remember how the Bush-Gore election count was held up for months while people debated how to count chads on a computer punch card?  Technology doesn't really solve the basic problem.  What is needed is local people that care enough to participate, not just to vote but to help monitor the voting and counting of those votes.  If we can't find enough people to do that, then they clearly don't care about their own freedoms and the election should be canceled in that precinct.

Why is it so important for people to be able to vote absentee?  What value does that put on your vote?  What value does it put on voting?  What value does it put on our freedoms?  There are other ways to get shut-ins or the handicapped to be able to vote - it's called a limited power of attorney.

This year, if you have already voted absentee, just think of it like placing your ballot at the polls into a self-addressed stamped envelope before inserting your ballot into the box.  Let's hope we don't need a secret ballot in the future to stop a truly tyrannical government.

Vote in person, or don't vote at all.

Things we can do to help

I got this list of things one can do to save our republic from the impeccable state representative for Idaho, Miss Heather Scott.  I so appreciate her hard work to keep us free!

It takes everybody doing their little parts to keep government from encroaching on everything we do.  Every time you avoid court, pay your own bills, don't steal from others (including the state), do something for someone or just help others understand what freedom is, you do yourself a great favor by taking some of the load that would otherwise fall on the state or the church or your neighbor.

Representative Heather Scott

110 Things You Can Do Now by Rep. Heather Scott

1. Understand where your rights come from, what they are, and what unalienable means and be able to explain this to another person.

2. Stop supporting any and all biased media or social networks that distort the truth, censor facts, and stifle free speech.

3. Support local businesses who provide local jobs, help local communities, and respect your rights.

4. Work to change the political campaign finance laws by pressuring your legislators for change and exposing special interest groups and lobbyists who use their influence money to promote increased government regulations, stifle competition, breed crony capitalism, and buy elections.

5. Understand and believe that our Constitution works because all power is in the people, not government.

6. Remind your elected officials regularly that they are there to serve you, the people. You are their boss, and when necessary use your vote to remove them from office.

7. Stop worrying about what others are not doing, or what you think they should do, and take action and responsibility for yourself.

8. Host or be a catalyst for regular gatherings to discuss current issues and solutions with friends and neighbors and develop a plan of action for uncertain times.

9. Turn off your TV and consider opening your Bible.

10. Understand the jurisdictional boundary of every government entity that collects tax or fee money from you to run government programs. Start by looking at your property tax statement.

11. Be educated about your local politics because these issues impact your life much more than national issues.

12. Take a state or federal Constitution class.

13. Respect, and demand respect from your elected officials and unelected bureaucrats, even if they don’t agree with you.

14. Take a civics class.

15. Donate to a candidate who shares your values.

16. Learn what legislative district you live in, who makes the decisions on your behalf at that state level and study their voting records.

17. Learn who your federal congressional representatives and senators are and what congressional district you live in.

18. Meet an elected official for coffee and begin developing a relationship.

19. Attend a school board meeting, observe if and how they respond to public input, and check out their school policies.

20. Take the lead on an issue that needs fixing.

21. Understand regional government and be able to identify regional governing bodies that are making decisions for you.

22. Share your knowledge and skills with others.

23. Know where your line in the sand is when it comes to defending your rights.

24. Build a network of likeminded neighbors and friends so there is strength in numbers when issues arise.

25. Learn how to communicate with elected officials.

26. Learn the state process of making law.

27. Understand state sovereignty and why it is critical to the future of our Republic.

28. Meet your sheriff, understand his authority, and make sure he understands it.

29. Understand the role of your county prosecuting attorney and how they prosecute or defend the current laws.

30. Attend your county commissioners’ regular budget hearings.

31. Help a home school parent with knowledge or a skill you have.

32. Get out of debt and stay out of debt. Live within your means.

33. Attend a town hall meeting.

34. Read your state constitution.

35. Attend a rally, protest, or event to fight for a cause you believe in.

36. Organize an event to educate.

37. Know what precinct you are in, who your committeeman is, and where you vote.

38. Educate your elected officials on your concerns through the sharing of concise facts and real experiences.

39. Run for an elected office or serve on a committee.

40. Support good elected officials that share your values with your time and resources. Recruit people who you trust to represent you at all levels of government.

41. Apply to be a poll watcher or poll worker.

42. Look at your county, city, school, and state budgets and provide input.

43. Look at the state executive budgets and provide input on spending.

44. Treat everyone as an individual, don’t stereotype or group people.

45. Help a candidate that shares your values through the use of a special skill set you may have.

46. Register to vote.

47. Vote.

48. Stop complaining about politicians that are outside of your jurisdiction.

49. Help an elderly or handicapped person get to the polls.

50. Spend a few hours a week with someone under the age of 25 and mentor them.

51. Research your current local elected officials and understand their voting record on all issues.

52. Do a records request to get information on government actions, government contracts or memorandums of understanding for regional agreements.

53. Understand the importance and difference between primary and general elections and share that information with two other people.

54. Understand how long the terms of the elected officials in your area are and when they meet.

55. Join a special interest group or political party that promotes a policy or cause you care about.

56. Home school your children.

57. Read the Declaration of Independence.

58. Work on talking about politics or religion in a respectful way.

59. Attend local meetings: city council, county commissioners, library taxing districts, etc.

60. Volunteer at a local charity and meet new people.

61. Rely on various legitimate media sources to inform yourself on the issues and performance of elected officials.

62. Read a book on history or civics. History will repeat itself so know and understand it.

63. Respect others thoughts and decisions, even if you do not agree.

64. Write a letter to the editor about an issue that concerns you or a candidate you support.

65. Sign wave for a candidate.

66. Help register a new voter.

67. Trade, barter, or share your skills.

68. Put a political sign in your yard.

69. Learn the structure and role of a state agency. There are plenty to pick from in Idaho! 

70. Try to help yourself with an issue before running to an elected official (government) to fix your problem.

71. Attend a planning and zoning meeting and look at your county zoning maps.

72. Compare an elected official’s or bureaucrat’s words with his actions and demand an explanation if they conflict.

73. Speak the truth.

74. Stand up to bureaucratic bullying.

75. Encourage your church leaders to teach the whole Bible and address civic, cultural, and political issues.

76. Don’t be afraid to question comments, actions, or policies from elected officials or bureaucrats.

77. Understand “Critical Race Theory”, how it is destroying our country’s foundation and why it is being taught in most of our law schools and government run schools.

78. Educate yourself on who is influencing a candidate’s platform or voting record by looking at their campaign finance reports at the Secretary of State’s website.

79. Publicly expose corruption and crony capitalism any time you encounter it.

80. Put a bumper sticker on your car to promote an issue or candidate.

81. Strengthen your local neighborhood by focusing on issues you agree on, not disagree.

82. Don’t be discouraged when you realize how upside-down government is. Be patient and learn the process.

83. Try to focus on the system of government as much as you focus on the issues in government. The system needs maintenance!

84. Learn to navigate the legislative website to email or call your legislators to let them know how you want them to vote.

85. Build a relationship with a veteran and share their stories with others.

86. Help organize a homeschool co-op or alternative leaning center or donate your location for use.

87. Don’t get bullied by a bureaucrat. Stand up. #EndBureocraticBullying

88. Don’t ignore the little battles, stand up for what is right.

89. Push back on government overreach and do not submit to tyranny.

90. Remain vigilant.

91. Learn to be self-sufficient and provide for others.

92. End your support for businesses who don’t share American values

93. Understand what administrative rules are and how you can change them.

94. Understand how to influence your elected official.

95. Start being the leader you have waited for.

96. Simplify your message to bullet points.

97. Promote healthy conversations and debate.

98. Offer solutions, not problems.

99. Donate a book of stamps to a candidate or help them stuff envelopes.

100. Write a bill to change or eliminate a law.

101. Know what the law says and where to find it.

102. Understand the limitations and the authority of the elected official you are asking help from.

103.  Visit your courthouse and sit in on a few trials to better understand the judicial system.

104.  Establish your credibility by offering good, truthful information.

105.  Defend our country.

106.  Report disrespectful treatment by government workers to their supervisors.

107.  Let government officials and bureaucrats know when they are doing a good job.

108.  Don’t complain about things you are not willing to work hard to change.

109.  Stop waiting for someone else to tell you what you should be doing, take initiative, and lead.

110.  Pray for our country and state and our elected leaders daily.