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<\/a><\/p>\nToday was devoured by computers: the D Drive, which is the data drive for Alien Artifact, my older but very reliable main machine, Windows 10 now but Windows until not long ago, seems to have failed. It seems no longer to exist. Alien Artifact is behaving wildly. The C drive remains, with all the programs; and of course I have backups of all the important files, and a several days old backup of outlook.pst and all the mail I have received on other machines. It\u2019s not a huge disaster, but it\u2019s going to be a pain. <\/p>\n I\u2019m doing this on Swan, a Windows 10 system in the back room. Swan is fast, but will stay here. I\u2019ll convert to Eugene, the newest system in the house, as my main machine, and probably start construction on a new barn burner. And I may have later backups of outlook.pst; if not I\u2019ll import all the Input files from another system, probably this one, and use rules to deal with that big food. It\u2019s about time for all that anyway. I\u2019ll report as I do it. <\/p>\n Dentist again today. Took the same route getting there as I did Monday, passing all the public works sites, and I have to say, at every site all the people were working; moreover, in the place where I saw 19 people doing nothing, today they were distributed among a good half dozen sites and digging holes at each, so I probably did see a planning session. I have to apologize for my remarks Monday. Not entirely; the local TV stations have been finding a number of public workers napping, or drinking, on the job and delight in publishing the incidents, so some do go on, but I obviously caught a statistical anomaly Monday. On the way back, they were just closing up for the day on the yearlong work site, and once again I saw no one goofing off. Good work, guys. <\/p>\n Cruz, and now Kasich have withdrawn; Trump will be the Republican candidate. When he started as one of a group of seventeen, no one I know thought he had a chance. I myself thought he was in in for a lark: he could afford it, he\u2019d learn something, and he could obviously influence the direction of the debates; but everyone thought he wasn\u2019t serious and hadn\u2019t a chance even if he were. <\/p>\n A year later he\u2019s the last man standing. Cruz, who ran him a hard campaign, was also anti Republican Establishment, a bona fide candidate, US Senator, serious, not thought of as a clown. Now he retires, defeated. If you add their votes together it comes to well over half of the Republicans voting in this year\u2019s primary election going against the Republican leadership and establishment. Even the Stupid Party ought to get that message. They\u2019ve had the purse strings yet the budget grows; bunny inspectors and other needless government workers remain; the size of government grows exponentially; there are more regulations all the time; 20% of American families now do not have one employed person in them; real unemployment as opposed to the artificial \u201cofficial unemployment rate\u201d is over 20%; the Depression continues; and nothing whatever has been done about unemployment. Jobs go overseas never to return, cheap goods flow in to be paid for with borrowed money, corporate profits and the Dow go up as employment stagnated; the public school system is in ruins \u2013 and the Republican Establishment wonders why no one trusts them. <\/p>\n And now there are mutters from otherwise intelligent people that they might have to vote for Hillary \u2013first time I ever voted for a Democrat, and a left wing Democrat at that, but at least she\u2019s not Trump. And yes I actually heard an intelligent friend say that. <\/p>\n My answer was simple. With Hillary you know it will be more of the same as we\u2019ve had for the last 8 years. More Depression, and with it you will get a Liberal majority on the Supreme Court. Obama has already nominate the first one. Do you think the rest will be better? <\/p>\n \u201cNo, but\u2014\u201c <\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m not through,\u201d I said. \u201cTrump has already said \u2013 said within hours of Scalia\u2019s death \u2013 that he would appoint someone as much like Scalia as he could find: a scholar, original intention, literal black letter constitutionalist. He has already said he wants to make America great again. Maybe he can\u2019t. Maybe he can\u2019t build a wall and control the borders. But at least he wants to and will try. Hillary and Obama don\u2019t even want to. Like Jimmy Carter and his national malaise, Hillary and Obama don\u2019t think America will ever be great, doesn\u2019t even deserve to be great. I don\u2019t know what Trump can do, but at least I know he wants the same things you and I want, and I damn well know Hillary doesn\u2019t want them.\u201d <\/p>\n \u201cI think I\u2019ve been listening to the media too much.\u201d <\/p>\n \u201cMaybe you have. I repeat: Trump wants what you want. He may be able to do it. He doesn\u2019t know how to build a wall, but then he doesn\u2019t know how to build the Trump Towers. I\u2019d rather have someone who at least wants what I want that Hillary who says she wants what I don\u2019t want.\u201d <\/p>\n \u201cOk, OK, OKAY. Enough\u201d <\/p>\n And I suppose it is enough. <\/p>\n What would I have done if I\u2019d been running Cruz\u2019s campaign? First, I note, he\u2019s anti District of Columbia Beltway Establishment. He says so. Of course he doesn\u2019t attack them much. He attacks Trump, to the delight of the Establishment. <\/p>\n \u201cWhoa,\u201d says my friend the Cruz supporter. \u201cHe attacks them plenty\u201d <\/p>\n \u201cHow do you know.\u201d <\/p>\n \u201cCome on, I read his web site.\u201d <\/p>\n \u201cSure, I have so much Free Time. Do you think you become President by having a great web site? I learn what the candidates say by watching the news.\u201d <\/p>\n \u201cYeah, but the media aren\u2019t going to report anything but his attacks on Trump. They won\u2019t be fair to Cruz!\u201d <\/p>\n \u201cOh, you know that do you.\u2019 <\/p>\n \u201cSure, don\u2019t you?\u201d <\/p>\n \u201cOh, I know it all right. Why doesn\u2019t Cruz?\u201d <\/p>\n And that\u2019s the point. If I know that the media are going to report the most vicious things I say about Mr. Trump, then I intend to be known for saying them or I am so stupid that I shouldn\u2019t be running for office, It\u2019s no accident I\u2019m all over the TVB saying bad things about Mr. Trump <\/p>\n I also ought to know that he\u2019s going to strike back, and he\u2019s a lot better at that than I am. So my first rule for Cruz would have been, avoid going negative, and hope that Trump won\u2019t start the billingsgate. He says he won\u2019t. I can think he\u2019s just being cynical hoping that I\u2019ll start it, but I have better reasons not to start the mudslinging than he has. <\/p>\n So what do I do? I agree with nearly everything he is for, but I\u2019m better qualified to make it happen. I avoid some issues, but I go for his most popular ones and say, yeah! Want that! And I can make it happen better than he can. I\u2019ve got the experience of working in government, but I\u2019m not the establishment any more than Mr. Trump is. Heck, I\u2019ll offer him a cabinet post. I could use his energy in my administration. <\/p>\n And other words to that effect. <\/p>\n Election 2016 <\/p>\n Jerry, <\/p>\n We now know who the Republican Presidential Candidate will be. <\/p>\n We know that the Democrat Candidate will likely be either Clinton or Sanders. <\/p>\n (Likely because Clinton may be under indictment before the Election and the Democrats may choose someone else.) <\/p>\n It really doesn’t make much difference who the Democrat Candidate is. The real issue in this Election is getting the Federal Government out of the way of the Economy. The onerous un-legislated Regulatory State will continue under a Democrat President. While it is not completely clear where Trump stands on this there is hope that some of this might be rolled back if he wins. <\/p>\n The choice is clear for those who love and cherish our Country. <\/p>\n Bob Holmes<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n I completely agree. A majority on USSVC is at stake. Suppose that goes to Hillary? <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Freedom is not free. Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free. <\/p>\n The View From Chaos Manos, Wednesday, May 4, 2016 Today was devoured by computers: the D Drive, which is the data drive for Alien Artifact, my older but very reliable main machine, Windows 10 now but Windows until not long ago, seems to have failed. It seems no longer to \u2026 Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/a> <\/p>\n\n
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