Facebook, one of the mainstream social media platforms, went out of service today at 3:15 p.m. Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). Instagram and WhatsApp, two services that now belong to Facebook, went down at the same time. Seven hours later, all three have returned to service.
Obedience. Director: Stanley Milgram, Ph.D. With Stanley Milgram, John T. Williams, James J. McDonough, and many others who prefer to remain anonymous. University of Pennsylvania Films in the Behavioral Sciences, 1962.
The Tenth Level. Director: Charles S. Dubin. With William Shatner, Lynn Carlin, Ossie Davis, Viveca Lindfors, Estelle Parsons, Roy Poole, Mike Kellin, Richard McKenzie, et al. CBS Productions, 1976.
Obviously CNAV has had nothing to say about Texit directly since the day after Independence Day. On that day CNAV endorsed the candidacy of Lt. Col. Allen West USA (retired) for Governor of Texas. Since then, many other things have happened, chief among them: the crisis at the Del Rio International Bridge. That crisis, and President Joe Biden’s maladroit handling of it, have provoked Texas to taking certain actions. Those actions amount to taking border security into Texas hands, in fact as well as in law. They are also the sort of action Texas must take if Texit is to succeed militarily. Nor are they the only actions anyone in Texas is now taking.
Regular readers will recall that the Supreme Court of the United States refused to enjoin the Texas Heartbeat Act. They said in effect, “Call us when you have an actual case for us to judge.” Well, now they have, or soon will have. An inveterate abortion provider performed an abortion after the six-week “heartbeat time.” He then boasted about it, in a brazen opinion piece in The Washington Post. (For reasons of their own, the Post did not put this opinion piece behind a pay wall.) In his boast he says nothing about testing for a fetal heartbeat. So CNAV will assume he did not test for one. Which means he is liable under that law for civil action. And now someone has taken such action.
Many, on various social media, have speculated on what we who support Donald J. Trump, want to happen to society. And they typically do so in overwrought, petulant, and frankly paranoid terms. Two things one can discern from their rants. First, they like the program of Joe Biden (or his handlers). What’s more, they don’t care whether he stole an election to get where he is (or whether his handlers stole it to put him there). Second, they would just as soon kill as look at anyone who disagrees with them. So they speculate wildly on what a Trump Revolution would look like, and the goals it would set. They can’t afford to let the rest of us seem reasonable. But we need a manifesto, which I find sorely lacking. Herewith CNAV’s manifesto for the Patriotic Revolution.
Yesterday, “President” Joe Biden actually proposed a vaccine mandate for private citizens. The details don’t matter, because his mandate would affect most people who have so far refused the vaccine. When CNAV first heard the President’s speech, immediately we said to one another: “Lawsuits tee up in five. Four. Three. Two. One. Mark!” Well, the lawsuits, the State executive orders, and the proclamations did not wait for our “mark.” Remarkably, governors are objecting even if they believe the vaccine is good for your health. CNAV has reason to believe the vaccines are not good for anyone’s health. And the mandate alone gives reason enough to suspect that.
The narrative of the outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Corona-Virus No. 2 (SARS-CoV-2) out of China and Italy and to the world at large, has always featured logical inconsistency and out-and-out fantasy. Governments everywhere treated the Corona Virus Disease of 2019 (COVID-19) as if it were double-digit lethal. Yet the story they told of its origin made zero sense in light of the hype. And we now learn that SARS-CoV-2 did not originate in the wild. Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., directed gain-of-function research, then gave his prototypes to the Chinese. He then lied about it – twice – to a committee of the United States Senate. A fresh report on activities with which he connected himself, has definitively given him the lie. But a more careful examination of the facts reveals a dangerous mind-set that goes far beyond the sins of one misguided physician.
The howling, baying at the moon, and banshee screeches about the Texas Heartbeat Act, continue. As CNAV reported last week, too many commentators “get it wrong.” Whether from faulty reading comprehension or just plain laziness, they comment on this law without reading it. Or if they do read it, they clearly don’t understand it. But thus far, only one pro-life group has even put forward a program to enforce the law as it requires. CNAV cannot judge the full program, because CNAV does not have access to it. But CNAV does have comprehensive suggestions to make to take advantage to this seemingly novel approach to law enforcement.
The dust continues to fly from a recent action (or inaction) by the Supreme Court of the United States. Shortly before midnight on 1 September 2021, the Court declined to stop the Texas Heartbeat Act from going into force and effect. Five Justices carried the day against the other four. Since then, scarcely anyone, commenting on the ruling, has “gotten it right,” likely because they haven’t read the law itself. CNAV has read the law, and its text will likely surprise everyone.
Joe Biden’s latest cringe-worthy press conference has accelerated loose talk about Amendment XXV. CNAV says loose because the ones raising that issue, are ignoring two things. First, we have an opportunity to re-strengthen State governments. Second, if you do sideline the President, you replace a senile dotard with a power-hungry tyrant. And that, to quote an old proverb, is to leap from the frying pan into the fire.
