I spoke at the December 2024 Norman Public Schools meeting. Their yearly budget exceeds $200 million. The next day, NPS sent police to the place of my residence to ban me from a board meeting venue and a high school where I volunteered at a debate tournament. This is a misdemeanor per Oklahoma Open Meeting Act §314, and violates the First Amendment. It was protected speech. Police arrived when I was showering. I stepped out in a towel. They did not initially permit me back inside to get dressed. I went anyway. Police talked about whether I would return with a firearm. They had false information about my actions the day before. I said that banning me from the meeting venue violates the Oklahoma Open Meeting Act.
Ryan Walters is investigated by Attorney General Gentner Drummond at the OSDE. I spoke to them about Revelation 9 describing a star of David descending at Alma oilfield, Abadan north of the Persian Gulf.
Drummond runs for Governor and investigates the state school board. He did not respond when I reported school board crime to him. I downloaded a complaint form from his website, filled it out with specific references to statute, and delivered it to Drummond’s offices in a suit and tie with evidence: a USPS certified letter from NPS. I was not allowed indoors; a patrolman came to the door to collect the criminal complaint and the evidence; I handed them to him. He said he would take them to the appropriate place.
I never heard back from Gentner regarding NPS using police to commit crime under color of law. A man with a $20 name stomps the yard when Ryan Walters is gone and claims to enforce the Oklahoma Open Meeting Act.
Drummond did not police Norman PD and weeks later, I was attacked on Good Friday while praying by myself in a room with a locked door. The attacker called 911 and when Norman PD arrived, I was peeing in a bathroom. Police did not observe me commit any crimes, yet they kicked in the bathroom door. I saw a weapon drawn. They handcuffed me and did not charge me with a crime or question me. They did not take me to a police facility at all. Norman PD, about whom I had filed a criminal complaint to Drummond, took me in custody to a mental hospital where I was injected repeatedly and held against my will for weeks without shoes and without being taken before a judge. That is a violation of habeas corpus.
Gentner is a wickedness in a state crossed by a dark railroad to unlikely reality: for all his un-Christian hardheartedness toward Catholic immigrant kids, Ryan Walters respected a lawfulness in rendering law “flexible enough” as Alfred P. Murrah might say, not simply ignoring legal responsibility as the Attorney General has. Law is not justice. Good judgment establishes justice contrary to law, in accordance with the law, in truth and by the natural power of fact.
When I regained my senses after being knocked out by the first injection, I went to an employee in the mental hospital and could barely move my face. I was given a crayon.
Over the course of weeks, I was not taken before a judge. I was injected without receiving documentation detailing the substances injected. They said I was court-ordered but they never took me before a judge or showed me a court order. I saw multiple patients in the mental hospital have seizures and be treated by other patients and a janitor. I was not medically evaluated for about two weeks, and my first comments to a doctor lasted seconds before he accused me of having grandiosity when I told him about me being on television. He did not medically evaluate me at any point at the mental hospital. He stayed in the back, away from patients. I called 911 repeatedly and said that I was being held against my will yet not being medically evaluated by a doctor nor taken before a judge. You might determine my precise words based on recordings.
A state AG did not enforce law where a school district and police force willfully broke state and federal law.
Holy Week might have been an occasion, but the sentiment is not so much about the Senate version that was introduced as it is about Oklahoma deliberating the wrong things the wrong way for the wrong reasons.
See below for excerpts of law in the United States.
The Supreme Court of the United States has opined that a letter that Thomas Jefferson wrote to three men who were Baptists is a basis for American jurisprudence. Use of the letter describing a "separation of church and state" is case law in the United States. That phrase is not written in the Constitution. Oklahoman legislators who style themselves as Christians in society could try to set up honeyed cases that hook the loops of existing jurisprudence in court cases that explore the logical and moral constraint propagation of American courts. As a body of two bodies, they don't seek such a path to freeing America from the extant tyranny of Thomas Jefferson's Danbury letter over the mind of man. Instead of fighting consequential cases like McGirt by using the state legislature to bulwark the statehood of Oklahoma, the legally ineffective legislature rebels against the law in the United States as applied by the incorporation of the First Amendment. Lawyers in Oklahoma are generally inept and frequently accustomed to courts that are bad for trust in government. Oklahoma has become pricey makeup densely applied to deep boils upon an erstwhile sonship of liberty. Other states give their peoples better government. Thomas Jefferson wrote about Jesus in a way that was malformed in reason and incoherent in its essential nature in a letter to William Short dated August 4, 1820, but the Supreme Court does not appear to have applied that letter explicitly in its interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment. The state lets the federal government inhibit its lawful ability to enforce laws against child sexual abuse, and the legos in the legislature insult God by being unholy and setting aside Matthew 5:17 as a guideline for how the Son of God was as a Jew with the Jews: a fulfiller of law and prophecy. O, redness! How you desecrate your food!
The legislature of Oklahoma does not adequately consider law as its primary area of professional responsibility. Breaking the law in the United States by passing an intellectually underformed resolution about elves or Jesus or turkey is not a religious honor toward God. It is better to destroy the bad religions, and set ablaze the good one, too, in the public forum that is the Oklahoma legislature, than to burn incense for God and Mammon equally. If the legislature were to break the law in a better way, one that sets the state up to win battles in the Supreme Court, perhaps they could honor God by breaking the law in a way that establishes precedent: litigation of contested action. Oklahoma is a fat cat state. The cat sits around and waits for financial inflows based on petroleum, mineral resources, government injection of monies from tax revenue, and inflow of business competency from non-Oklahoma-based companies. We have Hobby Lobby, too, and that is not a bad thing. The problem is that the legislature principally serves nobody and then high-fives itself for wisps of bicameral nothing. That is their practice in general and in truth.
Mardel is nice, too.
Article I, Section 9, Clause 8:
No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.
Amendment I:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;
Everson v. Board of Education, 330 U.S. 1 (1947):
The "establishment of religion" clause of the First Amendment means at least this: neither a state nor the Federal Government can set up a church. Neither can pass laws which aid one religion, aid all religions, or prefer one religion over another. Neither can force nor influence a person to go to or to remain away from church against his will or force him to profess a belief or disbelief in any religion. No person can be punished for entertaining or professing religious beliefs or disbeliefs, for church attendance or non-attendance. No tax in any amount, large or small, can be levied to support any religious activities or institutions, whatever they may be called, or whatever form they may adopt to teach or practice religion. Neither a state nor the Federal Government can, openly or secretly, participate in the affairs of any religious organizations or groups, and vice versa. In the words of Jefferson, the clause against establishment of religion by law was intended to erect "a wall of separation between church and State." Reynolds v. United States, supra, at 98 U. S. 164.
My experience: Even if you pay Google, they don't offer adequate phone support and they don't take customer support seriously.
Google Ads sent me an email saying my ad was rejected, then billed me anyway. No idea if the ad ever ran, but they attempted to charge me and suspended my account when the charge didn't go through. It was difficult to get in touch with a support person because they do not offer phone support for accounts that are suspended, and I ended up paying for the ad without ever talking to someone over the phone to figure out why the ad was run after it was rejected. I filed a web form request after payment asking that they reinstate the Google Ads account, but they rejected the request.
I was billed twice for a certain month of Google One, and I had to file a web ticket and send emails with screenshots in order to get one of the charges reversed. There was no option to talk to a person.
More explanation:
Provenance comes from the Latin "pro" (from) and "venire" (come), so that's where an item comes from, while Providence (capital P) is "the care and control of God or of a force that is not human in origin" (Cambridge dictionary).
Wait, that's completely false ! Provenance comes from the Latin "pro" (from) and "venire" (come), so that's where an item comes from, while Providence (capital P) is "the care and control of God or of a force that is not human in origin" according to Cambridge dictionary.
Apologies I didn't mean to suggest I was sharing the actual etymologies, it was only intended as an mnemonic for the commenter above! Thanks for sharing the actual roots though, no pun intended ;)
How do you propose that we maintain an all-volunteer military without recruitment?
Returning veterans are going to carry military culture back into civilian life. That's just the reality of the situation after so many years in Iraq and Afghanistan.
China is a real threat to American primacy and this time the battle is economic, but there are major military risks and we can't carry a big stick unless we keep the military in shape.
I don't know, fix the current active retention problems ranging from straight up moldy barracks to various issues with access to food and DFAC quality to toxic leadership at every level of the chain of command across the organization?
Isn’t the idea that America needs to retain its “primacy” Jingoism as well? It’s as if you are answering someone being upset (well, or don’t-like-much) about Jingoism with well, how America No. 1 if not with Jingoism?
> How do you propose that we maintain an all-volunteer military without recruitment?
Did I miss where the poster you are responding to called for maintaining an all-volunteer military, a thing that was created to allow the government to engage in military adventurism that the public would not support with the cadre + universal militia model that the US relied on for its first ~200 years?
If that's a fear worth courting WWIII over, shouldn't we have been considering the strategic importance of manufacturing stuff domestically for... IDK, the last forty years?
TBH, I wonder if it would be worth tossing off a few political flashpoints in the name of greater global stability. Hand over Taiwan on a silver platter in exchange for long-term friendship and economic concessions. Could we get to a place where the relationships between major powers is more of "a loose partnership of equals with broad leeway for dissent" rather than "the US surrounded by imminent threats to US hegemony"?
We're going to need China on our side for the next 50-100-200 years. In fact, the China that's currently being villianized is a more valuable partner than some fantasy "one day they wake up and switch to Western democracy" China, because they expand the tools available to respond to the next grand crisis.
When it comes to light manufacturing, sure, but they’ve struggled to just get to a point where they can do sophisticated heavy manufacturing at any kind of quality and this has been the result of US policy helping them out here. It wasn’t until Trump that this process ended and it became policy to not allow China to build a competitive heavy manufacturing industry. We will see if they pull through and become a rival in that regard as well; but I’m betting that now we’ve cut off their military from our tech and are pushing our companies out of China that they stagnate.
Their “miracle” was a US creation, a policy to build them up to create a counterbalance to Russia. It’s gonna take ten years to tell, but China is already feeling these effects and feeling them hard.
This was situation 10+ years ago. PRC's been phasing out low value add light industry for years. US export controls tried to limit PRC modernization even pre-Trump (see 5axis CNC bans, trying to cripple PRC compute under Obama). US didn't help - they were outplayed despite efforts to contain PRC progress. Yet PRC inidgenous heavy industries now basically competitive in nearly every sector hence trade wars since PRC indigenous efforts are increasingly displacing western products. Exception being aerospace and semi both of which are closable gaps. Everywhere else PRC has more or less caught up. By most metrics, PRC's already pulled through and still rapidly climbing up value chain, innovation indexes etc. The "effects" is PRC increasingly entrenched in supply chains everywhere, including friendshore destinations that's basically reassembling PRC components - see PRC trade with said destinations increasing proportional to US imports from said countries. It's how PRC went from capturing $8 in assembling fees from each iphone 3G to 25% of value add since iPhoneX. Or how PRC become largest car exporter.
That linked comment is also cherry picked stupid. PRC exports to US/west near record levels, WHILE exports to global south has officially surpassed western bloc, i.e. PRC is MORE factory of the world than at any point in the past. The drop in exports is due recent to global economic downturn that saps demand everywhere, but it's sapping from hilariously record high exports during covid. Meanwhile PRC export:GDP is like 20% down from 35% high in 00s, i.e. it's one of the less export dependant major economies in the world responsible for substantial global exports (including heavy industry) but it's not even an export driven economy anymore.
On demographic front, the reality is PRC is minting OECD combined in skilled talent every year and last 5 years of PRC topping citation (controlled for quality), innovation index is just lag affect of PRC growing with fraction of that talent. The PRC miracle is basically doing all that with ~20% skilled workforce, because at PRC scale that's enough to be globally competitive. Now it's in process to grow that competitive workforce to 50-70% skilled in next 30 years, which is adding anohter couple US worth of talent into the mix.
Journals operate in an information brokerage business and they are compensated to ensure reasonable review of what they publish. What you wrote would be applicable to something like reddit but you can't accept funds for a job that you don't carry out.
The problem here is that journals are relying on an open source peer review process for which they pay nothing, and then trying to cash in on the fruits of that. Blaming the reviewers is like blaming the medieval serfs for the fact that their landlords sold you rotten grain.
Even if they were paid, it would not check for this. Peer review checks formalities, obvious methodological problems, citations, that sort of stuff. It is not an independent study meant to validate data themselves.
I don't agree with you. Comprise is a directional word, similar in that sense to surjective. If someone were to write injective when they mean surjective, I might be able to correctly interpret the intended meaning based on context, but that doesn't make the language consistent and it serves as a hurdle to understanding the text.
Ryan Walters is investigated by Attorney General Gentner Drummond at the OSDE. I spoke to them about Revelation 9 describing a star of David descending at Alma oilfield, Abadan north of the Persian Gulf.
Drummond runs for Governor and investigates the state school board. He did not respond when I reported school board crime to him. I downloaded a complaint form from his website, filled it out with specific references to statute, and delivered it to Drummond’s offices in a suit and tie with evidence: a USPS certified letter from NPS. I was not allowed indoors; a patrolman came to the door to collect the criminal complaint and the evidence; I handed them to him. He said he would take them to the appropriate place.
I never heard back from Gentner regarding NPS using police to commit crime under color of law. A man with a $20 name stomps the yard when Ryan Walters is gone and claims to enforce the Oklahoma Open Meeting Act.
Drummond did not police Norman PD and weeks later, I was attacked on Good Friday while praying by myself in a room with a locked door. The attacker called 911 and when Norman PD arrived, I was peeing in a bathroom. Police did not observe me commit any crimes, yet they kicked in the bathroom door. I saw a weapon drawn. They handcuffed me and did not charge me with a crime or question me. They did not take me to a police facility at all. Norman PD, about whom I had filed a criminal complaint to Drummond, took me in custody to a mental hospital where I was injected repeatedly and held against my will for weeks without shoes and without being taken before a judge. That is a violation of habeas corpus.
Gentner is a wickedness in a state crossed by a dark railroad to unlikely reality: for all his un-Christian hardheartedness toward Catholic immigrant kids, Ryan Walters respected a lawfulness in rendering law “flexible enough” as Alfred P. Murrah might say, not simply ignoring legal responsibility as the Attorney General has. Law is not justice. Good judgment establishes justice contrary to law, in accordance with the law, in truth and by the natural power of fact.
When I regained my senses after being knocked out by the first injection, I went to an employee in the mental hospital and could barely move my face. I was given a crayon.
Over the course of weeks, I was not taken before a judge. I was injected without receiving documentation detailing the substances injected. They said I was court-ordered but they never took me before a judge or showed me a court order. I saw multiple patients in the mental hospital have seizures and be treated by other patients and a janitor. I was not medically evaluated for about two weeks, and my first comments to a doctor lasted seconds before he accused me of having grandiosity when I told him about me being on television. He did not medically evaluate me at any point at the mental hospital. He stayed in the back, away from patients. I called 911 repeatedly and said that I was being held against my will yet not being medically evaluated by a doctor nor taken before a judge. You might determine my precise words based on recordings.
A state AG did not enforce law where a school district and police force willfully broke state and federal law.
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