Monthly Archives: August 2019

Humor

sunbeam August 31, 2019 Comments Off

A little humor to start the weekend. Enjoy!

Beto Bans The Press

sunbeam August 30, 2019 Comments Off

“If we don’t have a free press, if we cannot make informed decisions at the ballot box, if we can’t hold people like me accountable, and make sure that we’re held honest to the promises that we made, to the job that we’re performing in these positions of public trust, we’ll lose the essence of our democracy.”

This is really good stuff. That is, if the person who made this proclamation really meant it. Who said this? Beto O’Rourke, the Mexican Irishman running for President, at an MSNBC town hall forum last year. ...

Why Is Biden Running?

sunbeam August 29, 2019 Comments Off

Joe Biden criticizes Trump’s Iran strategy as a self-inflicted disaster while his opponents take advantage of Biden’s own gaffes.

As we all know, Joe Biden is running for President. Why? The Democrats appear to be pinning their hopes on someone whose mental acuity appears to be substantially diminished from what it was just a few years ago. And Biden had problems then. Biden actually appears to be less mentally agile than Robert Mueller when Mueller appeared before Congress recently. And Mueller appeared lost at times during those hearings. What the Democrats accomplished during those hearings was to disgrace a man in front of the whole country. What are they trying to accomplish with Biden? ...

Democracy Needs Religion

sunbeam August 28, 2019 Comments Off

This is very thought provoking.

Our democracy / society needs to believe in rules and order that is beyond the laws of the government to survive as a republic and a democracy.

When the common sense of right and wrong is lost so is our future.

The Panda Mask

sunbeam August 27, 2019 Comments Off

Over the weekend Chinese “lead” negotiator Liu He said China sought “calm” negotiations and opposed any escalation in the ongoing trade war..

“We are willing to solve the problem through consultation and cooperation with a calm attitude. We firmly oppose the escalation of the trade war.”

Liu He noted that the trade war is not conducive to China, the U.S. and the interests of people all over the world.

A Level Playing Field

sunbeam August 26, 2019 Comments Off

The Little League World Series is over for this year. On Saturday, Curacao defeated Japan 5-4 for the International championship. This was followed by Eastbank Little League from River Ridge, Louisiana surviving a late rally by Central East Maui Little League from Hawaii to win the United States championship 9-5.

Special Weekend Edition

sunbeam August 24, 2019 Comments Off

More details have become available about the actions of Patrick Byrne, the CEO of Overstock who resigned yesterday. Byrne resigned for a number of reasons, not the least of which appears to be concerns for his personal safety after the “suicide” of Jeffrey Epstein.

In all Byrne gave four interviews regarding his involvement on behalf of the FBI in what he is calling “political espionage”. His story is consistent across all four interviews.

In 2015, Patrick Byrne was approached by FBI officials. They wanted him to cultivate a relationship with one Maria Butina, a Russian national who is an accused Russian agent. This had occurred after he had picked up the phone and reported a contact with Butina as he was required to do so by law. Why? Because Byrne has a low-level security clearance.

Bombshell!

sunbeam August 23, 2019 Comments Off

Yesterday Patrick Byrne, CEO of Overstock.com, resigned his position. Now CEO’s do leave their companies from time to time. However, few if any CEO’s have done so for the reasons Byrne put forth.

Byrne has led the company for 20 years. In 1999, Byrne was approached by the founder of D2-Discounts Direct with a request for operating capital. Byrne found the idea of online closeouts intriguing, and invested $7 million for a 60 percent equity stake in the company in the spring of 1999. In September the same year he took over as CEO, and the following month the company was renamed Overstock.com.

According to Patrick Byrne, due to earlier relationships with federal law enforcement (17 years ago…helped to snare the murderer of a friend and 12 years ago…helped with a Wall Street investigation), he was approached in/around 2015 to help out the FBI with another operation.

As he indicates, he felt there was something fishy about the operation. However, the people who approached him he felt were honorable. It was only several years later that he figured out where the orders had come from.

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