The frustration level in this nation is rising and there will always be some who cannot think rationally. This puts us at risk of a dangerous outcome. Today we talk about how our founders designed a system for peaceful revolution and why we must take action toward reason now to prevent violence later.
The democrats are lying to you about everything and in this episode I show you how they are hiding their slave loving predisposition under the name of a crisis.
CategoriesEunice Ray & "The End Game"Recently my friend Dominique and I motored to Evansville to say good-bye to Ray Vescovi who died at age 91. I never met Ray, but I knew Ray’s daughter. I say I didn’t know Ray, but I’ve known so many like Ray.
Upon Ray’s graduation in 1951, I learned from his obit that he signed with the Boston Red Sox. Ray was quite an athlete, one of the boys of summer, who played for the love of the game. The Korean War interrupted his early life and like so many of the “greatest generation,” he simply went to serve his nation for two years as a First Lieutenant with the 101st Airborne.
Before media giants, baseball businesses and the big bucks, Ray retired from baseball after three years of play and settled in Evansville, Indiana. He married his beautiful Mary Suzann, raised 5 children, four girls and one son. Ray and his bride lived to celebrate their 65th wedding anniversary.
I suspected without knowing that I would appreciate being in the mourner’s ranks for Ray Vescovi, because I appreciate this self-sacrificing generation. Not all of them were givers, but, overall, there was a quiet acceptance of the patterns of living that are unalterable in any time and age. At 72, I now keenly understand the foibles of human nature and the finite nature of time. Today mourning Ray serves to clarify reflections on my own life.
When Ray’s accomplished eldest daughter rose to bravely deliver her eulogy, I was happy to learn more as she recalled her father’s life for all of us. In Ray’s 41 years as a teacher, he touched many lives accounting for the great number of student comments on the funeral home’s obit page. The 2020 pandemic has changed so many things, including how we say goodbye to our family and friends. Former students clicked their remembrances of Mr. Vescovi expressing their digital thanks to him. Teachers, who are called to the profession like Ray would have so valued the students’ comments because he obviously wasn’t teaching for the money.
Then, his daughter said something that made the trip for me. She thought it important to mention that her father always ate the chicken neck. Like my family and so many other families of that time, we all sat down together at the table for dinner and there was one chicken no matter how many there were to feed. Ray’s wife Mary Suzann no doubt prepared the chicken for her family along with vegetable side dishes which probably included mashed potatoes, but Ray always ate the neck. The children spent years thinking the neck was his favorite piece of chicken.
I thought back through Ray’s history. He was the child of Depression-era parents and certainly learned from them about want. Then during his growing up years WWII rationing surely taught him frugality. His military training taught him that his men ate first and, if there wasn’t enough, officers went without or with what was left. It follows that Ray’s family got the best pieces of the chicken and never suspected anything other than he really liked the chicken’s neck. As the eldest of 7, I became a connoisseur of the chicken’s gizzard, back and neck. Trust me, a neck is no wing so popular now. The truth is much more likely that Ray chose the neck because he preferred a life of duty marked by sacrifice, and certainly not because he liked the neck.
Dominique and I left Evansville as Ray’s family motored off in the slow processional to the cemetery for their father’s burial with full military honors. I found myself reassured with a peaceful satisfaction in now being acquainted with Ray Vescovi. I am part of the Vescovis’ collective memory of a time when families were led by a sacrificing father, who had honorably served his nation, married one woman, raised his children while working to support them, and for Ray that meant teaching and pouring into others his entire life.
Ray represents an American era I will always cherish. Good-bye Ray and thank you for your last lesson to me this day as your life’s impact continues to ripple out beyond time into eternity.
CategoriesSpeaking Freely with Todd McMurtryBillionaire Chamath Palihapitiya recently tweeted that we “may be one defamation lawsuit away from canceling cancel culture.” Palihapitiya was suggesting a person defamed by a comment made by a New York Times reporter should sue. The reporter falsely alleged on Twitter that this person had made the R-slur during a session on the social media app Clubhouse. His point is that the only way to hold corporatist-media to account for profit-driven, non-stop misrepresentations and false reporting is through defamation lawsuits.
Most people attacked by corporatist-media are known as a “public figure” or a “limited purpose public figure.” For one of these people to hold the media to account for misrepresentations and false reporting, they must prove that the reporter made a statement that was defamatory and that it was made with “actual malice.” This is generally defined as “an evil intent or motive arising from spite or ill will; or culpable recklessness or willful and wanton disregard of the rights and interests of the person defamed.” This is hard to prove, because reporters often do just enough work to pretend they acted in good faith. There are, however, ways to attack corporatist-media when the reporters write hit pieces instead of news.
When a reporter relies on biased or anonymous sources, issues threats or other negative statements, demonstrates ill will or hostility, or is a rival, such conduct may support a claim of actual malice. A reporter’s bias might also support an allegation of actual malice. For example, if a reporter has a business relationship with one party and then writes a hit piece on that party’s business competitor, the business competitor can point to the reporter’s bias to prove actual malice. By these standards, many hit pieces may be actionable.
So, what is to be done? We need more suits against corporatist-media that engages in writing hit-pieces. These efforts might expand the law to make the chances of success in such litigation more likely. Justice Clarence Thomas has suggested that the law is ripe for change. As well, if they know they will be sued for their actions, they might be more careful about what they write. The problem is the time and expense of pursuing litigation. Most people cannot afford to pay an attorney by the hour and most attorneys can only handle so many contingency fee cases, especially ones that present the unique challenges of defamation litigation.
What is needed is a public interest law firm. Such a firm is a private firm, like any other, but it is focused on representing a particular cause. It is not profit oriented but is instead issue oriented. Such a firm would rely upon outside funding to operate, as its cases would not necessarily make money. Perhaps billionaires such as Palihapitiya can spare a little change to empower a public interest law firm dedicated to taking on the corporatist media. This effort could rebalance the relationship between corporatist-media and those it attacks.
After 41 years of practicing law I’ve learned that the truth is often hidden on purpose. The hardest part of any crime is getting away with it and covering your tracks. In this episode we look at the Covid vaccine and how it’s possible project warp speed was part of the plan to cover up a bigger crime, who might be involved and how we should start paying closer attention.
One year ago we heard about Covid-19, flattening the curve and the world changed before our eyes. I’ve had over 60 years of behind the scenes experience in politics and I am here to tell you that the rise of Covid-19 which triggered the fraud potential from mail in voting was not an accident. Somebody planned the whole thing. Who?
