It pains me to write this rant and I hope I am wrong. I like Dershowitz because he has been a straight shooter on the law. He voted for Hillary but supported Trump through the impeachment nonsense. I disagree with some of his opinions but they are always well reasoned.

I don’t know if you recall, but a few months back allegations came out that he was one of abusers of underage girls as part of the Epstein ring. At the time he came out with a vigorous defense and supposedly had proof to show he wasn’t where he was alleged to be and things seemed to go away.

Unfortunately, yesterday a lot of discovery material from the Epstein case in I believe 2005 and the Ghislaine Maxwell case in 2018 was released. It appears that there are several witnesses who corroborate the allegations against him. Now it could be true that this is a smear campaign, but if it is, it goes back a long way.

Here’s the thing that made me write this rant. It turns out, which I previously knew, that Dershowitz was one of the attorneys representing Epstein in the early case. Now here’s what I didn’t know until today. Dershowitz negotiated the Deferred Prosecution Agreement or DPA that got Epstein off with pretty much just a hand slap. Ok that’s a great job by an attorney. However, what I learned today is that part of that DPA contained a provision granting immunity from prosecution for any un-named co- conspirators. Thus he negotiated a get out of jail free card for himself and others. Maxwell’s attorneys are all ready saying that they will use it in her defense.

From what I can tell that provision was unprecedented and hidden from the victims who were supposed to be informed. This stinks and it appears that Dershowitz may have real problems ahead.

I’m linking to the Redstate article that lays it all out.

Alan Dershowitz, Prince Andrew, Bill Richardson and … Bill Clinton: All Named in Epstein Court Documents as Involved With Underage Girls

PS: Dershowitz made the same defense tonight that he did months ago. And it sounds plausible except for his statement that he wasn’t a close friend of Epstein and that he had no idea about Epstein’s proclivities. I wish I had casual acquaintances that would lend me their mansions and islands and fly me around in their private 727 jet. Hopefully this time there will be a thorough investigation and I truly hope he’s innocent. Time will tell.

PPS: I don’t believe for one second that he didn’t know what was in the DPA. If he didn’t then he wasn’t doing his job. Now I have never been anything but the lead counsel on a case and I don’t know what Dershowitz position on the team was but I have never negotiated a deal that wasn’t known and vetted by my other attorneys.

Saw this article today that points out that 15 years ago Fauci’s own organization put out a report saying chloroquine was very effective as both a prophylactic and a therapeutic for SARS viruses. So why is he questioning it now. He’s blatantly political but always ducks behind the I’m just a public health official whenever someone calls out his hypocrisy as happened at today’s hearing when he was being grilled by Jim Jordan. I’m sure you’ve seen or heard the clips.

Enjoy:

https://onenewsnow.com/perspectives/bryan-fischer/2020/04/27/fauci-knew-about-hcq-in-2005-nobody-needed-to-die#.XyOFSYQ-SvB.twitter

Forgive me but this rant is personal to me. Now I believe you know that I have been in all 50 states and I’m not sure how many people can actually say that.

The purpose of this rant is to express my personal despair about what’s happening to our great cities. I have spent and truly enjoyed significant time in Atlanta, DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Minneapolis, Chicago, Seattle, Portland, and San Francisco, where I was born, and it truly pains me to see them destroyed. And that is particularly true for San Francisco which I used to consider the most beautiful and desirable city in America. Now they are all being rendered unlivable by the Dems and the leftists. There are several other cities that I have spent considerable time in and enjoyed like Anchorage where I went to high school and Las Vegas where you can’t help but have fun, and pretty much all of Florida where I grew up and went to college and vacation now, but they aren’t being destroyed. The point of this rant is that I am truly sad about the destruction of great cities that I truly enjoyed.

This will be short. I have always been a fan of Herman Cain and considered him a truly great American. His life story is the embodiment of the American dream. I am only putting up this rant because in all the coverage of his death there is one impressive thing that is always left out. He was a member of the Federal Reserve in Kansas City. That’s an accomplishment that few have and very few if any black Americans have ever accomplished.

Today there was a hearing on the Hill with the tech titans to supposedly discuss their regulation of speech on their respective platforms.

Now I am not going to rant at length about the nonsense that occurred. Most congressmen had no clue what they were talking about. Quell surprise! My rant is about a subject I have hammered before, especially with respect to Hannity. If you’re going to ask a question, you should anticipate the answer and be prepared to follow up and destroy the bogus answer. (This is for you Mary.)

Today a Republican congressman asked Facebook CEO Zuckerberg that if they weren’t censoring speech why did they take down Trump Jr. account for putting up the video of the actual physicians talking about their success in using hydroxychloroquine. And his utterly predictable and incompetent response was that there are some studies that claim that it is not effective and could be dangerous and so they had to do it. Now if the questioner had his shit together he would have said. Ok but these are actual physicians with actual data and the question of the effectiveness of this drug is anything but settled and by deleting their speech isn’t it possible that many people might die because they didn’t know about what could be an effective treatment. Aren’t you just censoring people who support hydroxychloroquine because Trump endorsed it?

Update. It appears that the congressman asked Zuckerberg about something that happened on Twitter. However Zuckerberg answered the question as reported above.

Further update: it turns out the republican congressman who fumbled the question received campaign contributors from google and Facebook

I naively looked forward to today’s hearing with AG Barr because he was ready to go on the offensive against their nonsense. I should have realized that the Dems would never permit Barr to get the truth out. It started out with Nadler, the dim witted bowling ball who has never been the sharpest marble in the drawer, making totally false unsubstantiated allegations against Barr and continuing his lie that the violent protests are a myth. (As an aside, I don’t know if you saw the video from I think yesterday where he was asked about the violence and said it was a myth. But the video showed him leanIng against a fence like a boxer on the ropes and then he waddled into his car. Like Biden he has never been bright but unlike Biden he looks seriously ill, and I don’t mean mentally like Biden’s dementia, I mean physically not well.)

Then Jim Jordan got to make his opening and after pointing out all of Nadler’s bs put up three minutes of all the ‘mythical’ looting, arson and physical violence, and I thought finally the fake news has to show what it claims doesn’t exist. I should have known better. The fake news cut off coverage after Lou Costello’s opening. I don’t know when they rejoined.

The rest of the‘hearing’ consisted of unknown Dems grandstanding with bogus points and then cutting off Barr by reclaiming their time when Barr’s response proved the lie of their talking point. Major kudos to Barr for putting up with the bullshit and keeping his cool. When the dem woman said she was starting to lose her temper because he wasn’t playing along with her nonsense, I would have had to say,” Oh my god I’m scared now “, but to his credit he kept his cool. The whole day looked like King Kong swatting down airplanes on the Empire State Building.

Now one last point. There was something that happened today that was really telling, and no one else seems to have connected the dots, so you once again to benefit from my insight. For the past week or so there have been articles written by left leaning outlets saying the Dems were starting to think that the riots they are supporting may actually be working in Trump’s favor as the law and order candidate. So what did they do today, they claimed that Barr sent in troops to create video clips for the Trump campaign to exploit. The left is starting to understand that they overplayed the anarchy riots and so now want to blame Trump for their actions.. These folks, like their supposed brain dead leader Biden, are always two steps behind Trump.

I heard this morning that Fauci said he has never misled the public and I immediately called bullshit. Just last week I ranted about Fauci’s interview with NPR in which he said that he said we don’t need to wear a mask early on because he wanted to make sure that his colleagues would have them. Maybe in his world that wasn’t misleading us, but maybe what it really tells you is that he has no integrity.

I ranted previously that the shutdown had serious health costs in terms of increased deaths from suicides and drug overdoses and alcoholism. As reported today in an article in Redstate, two weeks ago the director of the CDC made the following admissions:

“We’re seeing, sadly, far greater suicides now than we are deaths from Covid. We’re seeing far greater deaths from drug overdose, that are above excess, than we had as background, than we are seeing deaths from Covid.”

I don’t recall that being reported previously, but consider what he said. More and now dying from suicide than from Covid, and more people are dying from drug overdose than from Covid. Why isn’t it being covered. Trump needs to point this out at one of his briefings and have the CDC Director there to answer questions.

AFFH as it’s known came up on the Levin show last night and one of you said that he hadn’t heard about it before and I told him that in fact I had ranted about this a few years back and I would see if I could find the document that became the rant. I did and it’s printed below.

First, AFFH is a regulation the Obama administration put through to basically give them the power to control suburbs and force high density, subsidized low income housing into the burbs. Fortunately, last week Trump and Ben Carson repealed it, but it’s important to keep in mind that if Biden is elected, he will reinstate it in an even more egregious form.

So here’s the old rant:

OBAMA ADMINISTRATION’S MISUSE USE OF DISPARATE IMPACT ANALYSIS AS COVER FOR ITS RACE BASED SOCIAL POLICIES

Obama, Holder and others in his administration have been misusing disparate impact analysis to foist various of their racist policies on the American public.  

What is disparate impact analysis and how is it being misused you ask?  To begin with, under the original Civil Rights Act of 1964 there was only one type of discrimination outlawed.  It was disparate treatment, meaning you didn’t hire or promote or serve someone because of their race, plain and simple.  Then the Supremes created a second category in a case arising in these parts called Griggs v. Duke Power.  In that case the issue concerned a black man who was denied a custodial type job because he didn’t have a high school diploma, and Duke Power had a requirement that all employees have a high school diploma.  The issue raised was if a racially neutral requirement [high school diploma] had a disproportionate impact on blacks because statistically blacks had a lower graduation rate than whites, was that legal.  The Court decided that when a facially neutral requirement has a disparate impact on the employment possibilities for a protected group the employer would have to demonstrate that the requirement was necessary for the job at issue.  In that case Duke couldn’t demonstrate the connection between having a high school diploma and pushing a broom, so the Court said that the requirement had a “disparate impact” on blacks and was therefore discriminatory.

It was a good decision and led to a lot of unnecessary criteria being eliminated from job descriptions.  I used to do training on this stuff.  (I once was lead counsel defending against an EEO class action.)  And there were all kinds of crazy cases out there.  One of my favorites was a case I believe out of Ohio where there was a height requirement for state troopers, which of course disadvantages women, Asians and Hispanics.  One of the stated business necessities for the requirement was that you supposedly had to be tall enough to shoot over the roof of your car in case of a gunfight.  Now I don’t know about you but if I’m in a gunfight, I want the engine between me and the other guy – not the windows.  Obviously that requirement was invalidated.  Likewise most gender requirements were thrown out and feminists used to say that the only legitimate gender requirements would be for sperm donors and wet nurses.

When the Civil Right Act of 1991 was enacted it specifically recognized disparate impact as a prohibited form of discrimination.  And it should have.  The problem with Obama, Holder et al is that they are completely misusing the concept to enforce their racist view of equality.  Take for example Holder’s racist investigation in Ferguson.  Unable to prove the false narrative of “hands up don’t shoot” because it never happened and the Officer involved was not at fault as the evidence clearly demonstrated the individual had attacked the Officer and tried to get his gun to shoot him.  Holder’s troops then proceeded to write a racist report denigrating the Ferguson Police Department by totally misusing disparate impact analysis.  Disparate impact analysis is not applicable to arrests or crimes committed.  These are the result of individuals engaging in act against the law and there is no basis to believe that if one race is 20% of the population, then only 20% of the crimes will be committed by this race.  It may be less or it may be more, but it is what it is!  Disparate impact analysis is totally irrelevant.  Now you could have disparate treatment if for example you could prove that the police department had a specific order to only arrest blacks for certain crimes.  That would be intentional discrimination plain and simple, but you can’t make the case based on racial composition in a given jurisdiction.

To give a specific example of the fallacy of this kind of reasoning, all NCAA men’s basketball teams should have the same racial makeup as their schools.  Let’s see Obama and Holder try to run that one through another stupid mandate from the Department of reEducation.  Never going to happen.

The reason that I bring this up is that the Obama administration has a stealth program going to misuse disparate impact analysis to fundamentally transform the nation. 

“Unbeknown to most Americans, Obama’s racial bean counters are furiously mining data on their health, home loans, credit cards, places of work, neighborhoods, even how their kids are disciplined in school — all to document “inequalities” between minorities and whites.

This Orwellian-style stockpile of statistics includes a vast and permanent network of discrimination databases, which Obama already is using to make “disparate impact” cases against: banks that don’t make enough prime loans to minorities; schools that suspend too many blacks; cities that don’t offer enough Section 8 and other low-income housing for minorities; and employers who turn down African-Americans for jobs due to criminal backgrounds.

Big Brother Barack wants the databases operational before he leaves office, and much of the data in them will be posted online. 

So civil-rights attorneys and urban activist groups will be able to exploit them to show patterns of “racial disparities” and “segregation,” even if no other evidence of discrimination exists.”

http://nypost.com/2015/07/18/obama-has-been-collecting-personal-data-for-a-secret-race-database/

If you read it, it should scare you to death.  Obama may only be President for another 16 months or so but this “legacy” will haunt us forever.  HUD has already announced its plans to “desegregate” the country zip code by zip code, so don’t believe this is conspiracy theory speculation.  It’s reality and it’s coming to your neighborhood soon.  Please read the link above.

Next rant may cover the Bill, Hill and Chill slush fund masquerading as a “charity”.

You know that I have said Biden will never debate Trump. The reason for this rant is that last week Trump said on the Chris Wallace show that Biden would never agree to sit down with Wallace for a similar interview. Wallace said at the end of his program which I caught tonight because I was tuning in for Levin that they had contacted the Biden campaign and had received no response. Biden is senile and will never debate Trump. It would instantly end his campaign.