MOTUS A.D.

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We wandered into the belly of the beast yesterday by accident. A2 Art Fair 2020 Cancelled Due To Cooties performance artist at last year s fair Not the Ann Arbor Art Fair - of course it was cancelled this year, for your safety. So we headed out for an Indian restaurant on Main Street thinking lunch in the Peoples Republic of Ann Arbor would be safe. We were unaware that there was a planned protest in front of the Federal Building in the near proximity. Nor were we aware of the fact that Main Street like Main Streets everywhere this year was closed to traffic in order for restaurants to expand their outdoor seating into the city s main thoroughfare. When we met with the barricades closing Main we turned left on Washington and saw a crowd gathering with signs one block down, effectively closing Washington to traffic as well; progressives really know how to screw up a town. Against all odds we lucked upon a parking spot right around the corner so we parked and went on our way, leaving what turned out to be the gathering of the latest of an ongoing series of BLM/police brutality protests in AA. Yesterday s event specifically targeted the use of federal agents in our-of-control cities. But you see, that s what happens when they cancel the Ann Arbor Arts Festival: performance artists gotta perform somewhere. Activist Ethan Lucas sets a timer on his phone and lies in the street as other protesters kneel for 8 minutes and 46 seconds at the intersection of Liberty and Division streets in Ann Arbor As these events tend to go in college towns it was mostly populated by privileged young white folk, mostly chicks, Photo MLIVE and privileged old white folk, also mostly chicks. Photo MLIVE A recap of the protest according to MLIVE: Protesters and politicians gathered around the federal building in Ann Arbor on Saturday to protest against police brutality and federal agents coming to Michigan. About 200 people [Ed. A generous estimate, and half of them were politicians, Michigan s primary election being just a few weeks away] showed up to the building at 200 E. Liberty St. to rally against unidentified [Ed. If by unidentified you mean uniformed federal agents wearing the insignia of their respective agencies] federal agents being sent to Michigan and to call for police reform. The rally was proceeded by a march through downtown. A generous crowd estimate of 200 enough to close an intersection if they social distance properly Local police participated as well: A chant of defund the police means we want to challenge the status quo. That is OK, said Washtenaw County Sheriff Jerry Clayton. If at the end of the day, we ended up shifting funds somewhere else to help people that have been discriminated in the past, underserved in the past and marginalized in the past, I do not have a problem with that. You ll be stunned to hear that Sheriff Jerry Clayton is running for re-election and is on the August 4th primary ballot. We enjoyed our Korma, Curry and Naan from our premier window seat table inside the air conditioned Shalimar. For entertainment we watched the passing scene on the other side of the glass; there was the young couple eating at a table in the shade who respectfully replaced their face masks whenever they weren t eating their samosas or nibbling on their naan. And the dutiful baby daddies (I hesitate to call them husbands because who knows these days) pushing little children in strollers with their face masks perched he-manly and jauntily below their noses. A full 99% of the people marching up and down the makeshift Main-Street-turned-food-court in the 88 degree temperature strapped in behind a mask. A true marvel of human evolution and effective agitprop. We ve experienced large crowds downtown since the street closures began June 12, Taylor said in a statement. Although we re delighted people are enjoying themselves, we re also discouraged that some folks choose not to wear a mask when walking around downtown City officials said they will further emphasize Gov. Gretchen Whitmer s mask-wearing order that went into effect Monday, July 13, which requires individuals to wear masks at all times indoors and outdoors in large gatherings. Without compliance, Ann Arbor will cancel the street closures because of the public health risk. MLIVE In other words they re only happy as long as you comply with the State s mandates, no matter what they be. I think I ll cancel Ann Arbor before they cancel me. As usual it s the children who will suffer most Me thinks Ann Arbor doth protest too much. Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. Barack Obama, February 5, 2008 Portland marked its 57th straight night of Anti-Fascist Fascist protests by ongoing lasering of police and federal agents, setting fires and otherwise acting idiotic. Meanwhile in Hong Kong, where protestors are protesting real oppression not trumped up charges of persecution - It is perhaps only a matter of time before the authorities start handing out life-imprisonment sentences for their political enemies such harsh punishments are permitted under the oppression law or even worse. It has been nearly a month since the Chinese Communist Party enacted its invasive security law better called the oppression law. If there had been any doubt before the law s taking effect that its purpose was not to protect the people of Hong Kong from instability but rather to subject an innocent populace to Beijing s despotism, there can be none now even to the most optimistic onlooker. Supporters raise blank white paper to avoid slogans banned under the national security law After the oppression bill became law for Hong Kongers, a chilling effect spread throughout the commercial hub: Pro-democracy activists quieted down, faced with the once-unthinkable reality of being arrested for standing peacefully in public places and voicing their desire for freedom. Shopkeepers were compelled to remove customers protest artwork and pro-democracy sticky notes from their shops lest the government punish them for endorsing the democracy camp s message. Protesters deleted their social-media accounts, as speech that had been legal just days previously was now a potential crime against the government. NR Here s a little message for Portlandia Antifa protestors: not being allowed to trash, deface, bust windows and set buildings on fire is not the same as not being allowed to protest peacefully. The people of Hong Kong are protestors, you are violent fascists teetering on the edge of domestic terrorism. See the difference? I didn t think so, it s too much to expect people who can t even tell the difference between anarchists and fascists to comprehend the difference between freedom where peoples rights are protected by a Constitution and tyranny, where your overlords determine what rights you have on a capricious basis. Bad news dude, you are the ones you ve been waiting for. No matter how cynical I get, I just can t keep up. Lily Tomlin One study suggests that two-thirds of Americans between the ages of fifteen and thirty-four who were treated in emergency rooms suffered from injuries inflicted by police and security guards, about as many people as the number of pedestrians injured by motor vehicles. - Jill Lepore, New Yorker If that claim seems patently unbelievable to you it s because it is simply not true, apparently the result of bad math and misunderstanding.The article s subtitle, why did American policing get so big, so fast? The answer, mainly, is slavery, provides a pretty strong hint at Lepore s predisposition as well as her entire case: slavery (and it s corollary, white privilege ) goes a long way towards explaining all the social injustice in the world - or at least in the United States. It should be noted that Ms. Lepore is a highly respected professor of American history at Harvard, yet neither she nor her editor was struck by the sheer bodaciousness of a claim that fully two-thirds of ER visits for people between the age of 15 and 34 were due to police inflicted injuries. It s almost as if they are predisposed to believe that the cops spend most of their day busting people s chops. While any reasonable person would question the absurdity of such a claim, it apparently did not strike Ms. Lepore as anything other than plausible. Despite her tendency to believe it however, it just ain t so. As Louise Perry discovered upon nominal investigation (i.e. checking the author s source study) it was easily disproven - spectacularly so. Excerpts from Perry s article: And it turns out I was right the two-thirds claim is not true. Not even close But it s not clear where Lepore got the two-thirds figure from. Possibly she misunderstood a line from from the paper itself, which includes the finding that 61.1% of people injured by police fell into the 15-34 age bracket I did my best to work out a rough estimate of the true proportion of 15-34 year olds visiting the ER who had suffered legal intervention injuries, and arrived at a figure of 0.2% (you can follow my working in this thread). So I believe Lepore s claim to be off by a factor of several hundred. OK, I didn t check Perry s math either but common sense indicates that her percentage is more plausible than Lepore s two-thirds. As Perry points out, we all know that political bias warps cognition, sometimes catastrophically. Take COVID for example. I d also stake claim to the fact that when all the dust has cleared we will find that the statistics reported to date about COVID cases and deaths will prove to be equally and spectacularly inaccurate: another victim of a small, troubling example of the effect of political bias on journalism. But don t take my word for it, read Angelo Codevilla s long but excellent essay: The COVID Coup. Panicked by fears manufactured by the ruling class, the American people assented to being put essentially under house arrest until further notice, effectively suspending the habits, preferences, and liberties that had defined our way of life What history will record as the great COVID scam of 2020 is based on 1) a set of untruths and baseless assertions often outright lies about the novel coronavirus and its effects; 2) the production and maintenance of physical fear through a near-monopoly of communications to forestall challenges to the U.S.. ruling class, led by the Democratic Party, 3) defaulted opposition on the part of most Republicans, thus confirming their status as the ruling class s junior partner . And they wonder why we re cynical. Friend, either you're closing your eyes To a situation you do not wish to acknowledge Or you are not aware of the caliber of disaster indicated By the presence of ANTIFA in your community When your city has been racked with unchecked rioting for 50 plus days straight Fires, vandalism and looting it s officially rioting it takes a peculiar type of cheekiness for your mayor to demand that federal troops go home rather than demanding the criminals creating the violence go home. But I guess, when in the course of human events it becomes necessary well, to quote the Democrats presumed presidential nominee, you know the thing. The thing is, Mayor Wheeler, that you ve got trouble. Right here in Rose City. With a capital T and that rhymes with D and that stands for Democrats! Oh we ve surely got trouble! Right here in Rose City! One fine night, they leave the ANTIFA hall Headin' for the dance at the Arm'ry! Libertine men and Scarlet women! And Rag-time, shameless music That'll grab your son, your daughter With the arms of a jungle animal instinct! Mass-staria! Friends, the idle brain is the devil's playground! Trouble! Mothers of Rose City! Heed that warning before it's too late! Watch for the tell-tale signs of corruption! The moment your son leaves the house Does he replace his facemask with a black bandana? Is there a brass ring on his index finger? A baseball bat hidden in the van? Is he starting to memorize phrases from Chairman Mao s Little Red Book? Are certain words creeping into his conversation? Words like, like doxxing ? And White Fragility ? Oh, we got Trouble! Trouble, Trouble! **This musical message was brought to you by the unofficial Rose City Committee to recall Mayor WheelerI d really prefer to go to the beach but it s tax day in the MOTUS household. We ve delayed this year s inevitable day of reckoning as long as possible well technically we have till October with our extension but even I m not that much of a procrastinator so meeting with our accountant this morning. This is how I always feel by the time we re done gathering everything required together in order to turn over a substantial portion of our annual income to the government for redistribution as they deem fit: Current mood: (fill-in-the-blank) So you do what you have to today and Raj and l will do what s necessary in order to avoid governmental seizure of assets and/or incarceration. The beach will have to wait. Today s post was inspired by a comment left by Upcountrywater a few days back regarding the legendary charm of William Jefferson Clinton (nee Blythe). It is from an interview author Tom Clancy did with Foreign Policy News ahead of the 2008 presidential election in which he spoke of many politicians on scene and had this to say about Bill Clinton: His charm is like a physical force. Ever been in the ocean and have the waves come across you? That s what his charm is like. If I was a girl, I would have gotten laid that night. But you sense talking to him he has no character. None. The secret service despised Hillary. They just disliked Clinton. He shit on the military pretty comprehensively. It didn t do the country any serious harm because he didn t care about anything enough to do any harm. I ve never run into anybody quite like that before. Now if you ve never met Bill Clinton you might think that Clancy was employing an author s poetic license to describe the power of the man s ability to throw a glamour as Pbird put it. However people who have met Clinton will confirm he possesses strong seductive powers. It s sometimes referred to as Reality Distortion Field (RDF) an aura of charisma, confidence, and persuasion, in which people report it almost impossible to avoid surrendering to the man and following his will when interacting face-to-face. Steve Jobs was said to have it, but he s a piker compared to Bill Clinton. I have met Mr. Clinton and I assure you, Mr. Clancy was not exaggerating. Even if you are immune to such charm and few people are you will still recognize it and it will awe you. Take my Father-in-Law for example, a man who never once seriously contemplated voting for a Democrat in all of his 95 years on the planet. Not even JFK who was strongly favored by his Catholic Parish Circle friends and definitely the choice of my Irish-Catholic Mother-in-Law. Nope: Eisenhower, Nixon, Goldwater, Ford, Reagan you get the picture. But in addition to being a capital R Republican, Pop really disliked Bill Clinton; not as intently as people with TDS loath Trump, but definitely not in the FOB (Fan of Bubba) camp. However, when he was invited to to meet the President at a VIP ground-breaking for the new multi-billion dollar Detroit Metro Airport expansion (Raj was Airport Director at the time) he was thrilled. Possibly more so because of Raj than Bubba, but still thrilled. Al Checchi, Northwest CEO, Bill Clinton, Ed McNamara, Wayne County CEO 1996 So when Raj got us to the front of the line to shake hands with the man he d disparaged for years Pop stepped up, looked the President in the eye, grabbed his outstretched hand with both of his, pumped it hard a few times and said you re doing a great job Mr. President! Of course we all laughed about it afterwards. The Handshake became a topic at many family gatherings in subsequent election years and I suspect will become part of Raj s family lore: the time Grandpa shook President Clinton s hand and told him he was great. Although it s likely to take on a different, more reverential tone as it is passed down to future generations as the family seems these days to consist of more hardcore Dems than R s. My Father-in-Law, who had a great sense of humor, always enjoyed relaying the story himself; he d tell how Clinton would zero in on you with his mesmerizing eye contact, reach towards you intimately but not intimidatingly and fleetingly beguile you into believing that he d come to meet you, exclusively. Hello Pop! When lesser humans - without the gift of throwing a glamour - try to do this they always come off as creepy. We ve all met people like that, who can t pull it off. In the same interview cited above Tom Clancy commented on Joe Biden as well: I ve met Joe Biden. I don t think he s all that bright. He s pleasant but he s not bright. In his waning years he s not even pleasant anymore. And don t even get me started on Hillary. I ve written before about my one and only encounter with her in the 90s. Suffice to say for every dram of Bill s charm and charisma Hillary provides an equal and opposite reaction. Truly the most anti-charismatic I ve ever encountered. But that s another story. Pop would always say that although he d been a salesman his entire life he d never run into anyone with as much charismatic power as Bill. He also said that if he d been blessed with had even half of it he d have been the richest man in town. That is undoubtedly the truth. When you think about it, people who possess Reality Distortion Field powers to one extent or another explains an awful lot about what goes on in politics. While resistance is not entirely futile, it apparently it is for some. Here is one of the few documented instances of a human demonstrating immunity to the infamous Clinton RDF:

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