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Anonymous call to the White House to help find cocaine!

OPERATOR: Good evening. White House switchboard.

JR: Hi. I want to talk with whoever is investigating

the “white powder” found in the West Wing.

O: May I have your name please?

JR: I know this number. That should narrow the field.

O: Sir, I...

JR: You don’t know who I am? I can spell it out,

if that helps.

O: I think I have your name, but it helps if you spell

the last part.

JR: Huh?

O: The first, middle & last names…

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Added by Mark Small on July 5, 2023 at 8:20pm — No Comments

100 years ago on this date was an ugly event in Hoosier history

100 years ago on this date, D.C. Stephenson was formally inducted “as Indiana Grand Dragon” of Indiana’s KKK. Madison, “The Ku Klux Klan in the Heartland,” 2020, p. 129. In “My Indiana,” Irving Leibowitz, a reporter for The Indianapolis Times, wrote: Stephenson promoted 1/5

himself to Grand Dragon of the Klan in Indiana. [H]e arranged at Kokomo’s Malfalfa Park on July 4, 1923 the greatest gathering of the Klan ever held in the state” 200K kluxers assembled for the konklave...” (p.…

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Added by Mark Small on July 4, 2023 at 8:25pm — 1 Comment

Hillsdale's course on The Constitution does not qualify Micah Beckwith as anything

Dateline: Twitmo, 06/25/23] Tues, 06/19, Hamilton Co, IN, preacher Micah Beckwith, running in 2024 for IN Lt Gov from the GOP, was a guest on “Mouthwash,” John Schmitz’s FB podcast. (Beckwith doesn’t have to worry about swaying primary voters. GOP State Convention 1/8

delegates pick the Lt Gov.) Beckwith says he’s completed course work w/Hillsdale College & is a “constitutionalist.” Hillsdale’s downloads are free. Its SEO ppl are good because the only items that appear on the 1st…

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Added by Mark Small on June 25, 2023 at 9:41pm — No Comments

History repeats itself: the KKK 100 years ago & MAGA today

Fr U.S. Holocaust Mem Museum: “...Supreme Allied Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower had studied his WW II enemy, he was unprepared for the Nazi brutality he witnessed at Ohrdruf concentration camp in April 1945. Bodies [] piled like wood [] living skeletons struggled 1/8

to survive.[] Eisenhower foresaw a day when the horrors of the Holocaust might be denied. He invited [] media to document the scene. He compelled Germans in [] surrounding towns & any soldier not fighting at the front…

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Added by Mark Small on June 24, 2023 at 10:01pm — No Comments

Six GOP-nominated SCOTUS justices make up the most corrupt SCOTUS ever

6 SCOTUS justices, all GOP nominees, were given gifts, trips, $ & other bennies by ppl w/cases before the Court. The urge to vomit is great when “justice” is associated w/the names Thomas, Roberts, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh & Barrett. Roberts compared a judge’s role w/that of 1/4

a baseball umpire. Okay, Shoeless Joe Jackson sinned far less than these 6, yet Jackson, one of the greatest hitters to play the game, was banned for life. These 6 have lifetime appointments to the…

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Added by Mark Small on June 23, 2023 at 2:59pm — No Comments

Car competitions, Micah Beckwith & his ignorance

God sayeth: “Film ‘smalltalk’ for ‘Mouthwash’ in your car.” She knew Hamilton Co preacher Micah Beckwith would be John Schmitz’s guest on last evening’s podcast. A few minutes later Lo! So it was! Beckwith has run for political office almost as often as me, but I’ve won 1/8

(Precinct Comm 2020, Marion County, Wash. Twp 21-01). Beckwith was “secretly appointed to the [Hamilton Eastern Pub Library Bd] at a mtg where voting 4 the new appointee was not on the agenda or made aware to the…

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Added by Mark Small on June 21, 2023 at 3:24pm — No Comments

Indictment Day for the gutless pig

In 1973 Richard Nixon was fresh off a landslide victory for a 2nd term. As summer began, we heard about a break-in at Watergate, a “mixed use facility” in the parlance of people today who run Indy for the benefit of builders and developers. The 1973 iteration of the GOP was 1/6

progressive. Nixon was proud of achievements that occurred during his first 4 years in office. EPA was created & oversaw workings of the Clean Air & Clean Water acts. Schools were made to integrate. He…

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Added by Mark Small on June 13, 2023 at 10:40am — No Comments

We were right

In Febr, 2017, I represented women in Blumstein, et al v. Pence, et al, 16-907, before the U.S. Supreme Court. We sought an order to nullify the 2016 election & argued Russian interference violated Art. IV, sec. 4, of the Constitution, the Invasion Clause. 1/5

That case was dismissed. We filed Bailey, et al v. U.S., 16-1464 & argued broader grounds w/petitioners from both parties in several swing States. That case, in October 2017, was dismissed. Our central focus in both…

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Added by Mark Small on June 9, 2023 at 4:16pm — No Comments

In Memorium: Pat Robertson, who is looking up at us now...

Hours ago Pat Robertson felt incredibly light & full of an energy he’d lacked for years. A voice said, “Come this way.” He saw his 93-year-old body, supine, in bed. “I’ve passed,” he said to himself & began to walk into a bank clouds that soon enveloped him. He wasn’t surprised 1/6

when the path turned upward. The surface, under his bare feet, became more smooth He glanced down. “The streets of heaven are paved with gold.” He saw he was naked, but strode more righteously. The…

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Added by Mark Small on June 8, 2023 at 11:52am — No Comments

Anyone w/any sense will vote No on a $625 million bond issue tonight

Tonight’s big vote at the City-County Council meeting is on a $625 million bond issue to finish & run a hotel after banks passed on a golden opportunity to take the risk. There are several fine reasons why anyone w/any sense should vote against this proposal to authorize the city to 1/6

borrow up to $625 million for an 800-room, 4-star hotel on Pan Am Plaza. The Downtown Hotel Owners Association, in a letter to the Council & to Mayor Hogsett, described this as a “proposed…

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Added by Mark Small on June 5, 2023 at 3:41pm — No Comments

Mass shooters are far more than any other categories

Last Tuesday, during “smalltalk,” a 2-minute segment that appears on John Schmitz’s Facebook podcast “Mouthwash,” that also airs on Mondays on WHMB, Ch 40, at 9:30 pm. The topic was “hatred.” I said we should address hatred as carried out in shootings, and said majority of 1/6

shooters in mass killings are from right-wing groups. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) tracks mass shootings. In “Murder & Extremism in the United States, 2021" (ADL report) validates my statements on…

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Added by Mark Small on June 2, 2023 at 9:34pm — No Comments

Change how we celebrate Memorial Day

Change how we celebrate Memorial Day, a day of remembrance for those who died in service of the USA. 1) Drop policies that only create more veterans. Absent surprise attack, military can be deployed only after declaration of war. (Const. Art. I, sec 8.) 1/5

Administrations, GOP & Dem, more easily order attacks when the Constitution is shoved aside. Less military use = fewer veterans, living & dead. 2) Cut the defense budget by 50%. It doesn’t take a genius to realize you…

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Added by Mark Small on May 27, 2023 at 10:00am — No Comments

City could tank $1 billion in "running" a hotel

Remember: June 5 at 7 p.m., the City-County Council will vote on a $625 million bond issue to finish & run a hotel after the group that started it couldn’t find a bank to take the risk. I’m not a fan of big banks. A bank that can loan high nine figures is “big.” Also, they want profits. 1/7

Loans provide profits in the interest borrowers pay. Borrowers usually pay interest when their business succeeds. If a bank declines an opportunity to invest, one may infer the risk of…

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Added by Mark Small on May 23, 2023 at 5:58am — No Comments

City-run hotel can screw tax revenues from businesses to which we already gave subsidies

June 5: Indy’s City-County Council votes on a $625 million bond issue to finish & run a hotel. A group started it, but (apparently) could not find a bank to loan on a bad risk. In our “free market” economy, businesses, increasingly not local, squeeze every penny out of States & cities. 1/4

Their threat is to build in a different city to which all those tax revenues & jobs will go. There’s no magic. Cost-benefit analysis tells businesses, including banks, a project’s odds…

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Added by Mark Small on May 21, 2023 at 2:49pm — No Comments

Cities shouldn't build hotels

In the waning hours of the legislative session and w/o public debate, Indiana’s General Assembly passed, and Governor Holcomb signed, a measure that creates a new tax district w/in the original one-mile square platted for the City of Indianapolis in 1821. Money is needed downtown. 1/5

Fewer jobs exist downtown. Of course, when the new Criminal Justice Center was built a couple of miles away, quite a few jobs were sucked out of downtown. At least none of the money from the new tax…

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Added by Mark Small on May 20, 2023 at 2:42pm — No Comments

Cities shouldn't build hotels

In the waning hours of the legislative session and w/o public debate, Indiana’s General Assembly passed, and Governor Holcomb signed, a measure that creates a new tax district w/in the original one-mile square platted for the City of Indianapolis in 1821. Money is needed downtown. 1/5

Fewer jobs exist downtown. Of course, when the new Criminal Justice Center was built a couple of miles away, quite a few jobs were sucked out of downtown. At least none of the money from the new tax…

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Added by Mark Small on May 20, 2023 at 2:41pm — No Comments

Gun violence deaths: we need a coefficient of deterrence

Gun violence shouldn’t bore America. Three dead like yesterday in New Mexico, 30 years ago, merited a few thoughts & a dozen prayers, but now 3 dead (in a State w/5 elector votes) can’t get either heads-up-the-orifice trumpers or any deities to expend a furrowed brow or a Hail Mary.1/4

God takes my calls. She said those who help themselves means State legislatures are on the hook. God, however, overlooks a salient feature of gun violence. Gun nuts say more guns = less crime. Gun…

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Added by Mark Small on May 16, 2023 at 3:17pm — No Comments

If you think U.S. overthrowing gov'ts is okay, be proud of migrants at our southern border!

We pause blog/tweets about The Constitution & ignorance (of Hamilton County preacher Micah Beckwith) to discuss people fr south of the Rio Grande who seek to cross the U.S. border. Too often ppl ask only: how do we keep them out? We should ask: why do they want in? 1/8

First, many cross Mexico fr other countries to get here. Axios reported 4/6/23 as “recently as FY 2019, 92% of all Border Patrol apprehensions [] migrants fr Mexico or [] the Northern Triangle Guatemala, Honduras…

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Added by Mark Small on May 12, 2023 at 9:48am — No Comments

The Constitution, Micah Beckwith & ignorance

I’m honored: Tuesday on “Mouthwash,” John Schmitz’s podcast, Hamilton County preacher Micah Beckwith called me an idiot. Beckwith says: “America was absolutely founded on Christian values. You have to be ignorant to think otherwise. The writings of our 1/7

Framers and the founding documents are very clear on that.” Beckwith does not identify values or how they are uniquely Christian. 1) In a 10/24/19 video, “The Church’s role in politics,” Beckwith says you can’t be moral if you are a…

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Added by Mark Small on May 10, 2023 at 5:21pm — No Comments

Remove Beckwith...

Kids who are “different” or speak out can be/often are ostracized. Example: voluntary group prayer isn’t voluntary if kids who choose not to participate are made fun of. The younger the kids, the less they understand impact of their actions. Micah Beckwith is a Hamilton 1/5

County preacher spirited onto Ham East Public Library Board (HEPLB) by Ham Co Council w/o public notice or listing on agenda & w/little notice before a vote. 15 other candidates werent considered. This is…

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Added by Mark Small on May 9, 2023 at 9:18pm — No Comments

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