Month: March 2016

First Elko, then Alaska, and now the Idaho Panhandle.  What issue won in it for Cruz in each of those places by large margins?  What part of Trump’s ignorance and demagoguery was revealed?

In all the Far West, these just happen to contain the parts that hate the federal government most intensely, just like my Uncle Fritz did.  And for the same reason.  The people in Washington don’t trust the people who live there with their own land, and it pisses them off..  And that was Trump’s attitude.  They recognized it.  He even said it, the moron.

Ruby Ridge was an example of the federal government unleashing all its power against a people’s rebellion against it.  The Sagebrush Rebellion and Cliven Bundy are others.  I haven’t been keeping track of things in Alaska in fifteen years, but I believe there may be another such rebellion underway in Fairbanks.    Anchorage and its suburbs are similar to Vegas.  They are both politically dominating enclaves in the Far West, that both distort the political makeup of the state each of them happen to be located in.   Take Vegas out of Nevada, and Anchorage out of Alaska, and each is a typical state of the Far West.  To some extent, Boise is similar to Anchorage in that regard.  I’m not that familiar with it, but that’s what it looks like to me.

The results from Alaska, properly understood, are the final proof.  A quick read tells me that Trump won the Alaska Native vote overwhelmingly  These are Alaska Native communities, Indian, Aleut and Eskimo, many of them small and remote.  Carson won Bethel and surrounds, which is Yupik.  Trump won in the Inuit, Aleut, and Indian parts of Native Alaska.  The railbelt and Juneau, with small Native populations, went strongly for Cruz.

This proves, conclusively to me, that the Cruz message on land transfers was heard throughout the entire state.  The Alaska Native population does not want the state of Alaska to receive ownership of federal lands.  The political legacy of Ted Stevens has made these once proud and courageous people into wards of the federal government.  And he did it deliberately, because that’ts what they wanted.  They wanted to stay on their ancestral land.  He worked tirelessly,and sometimes corruptly, to do their bidding.

This was the biggest mistake in Alaska history.  The proof is the condition of the Native people of Alaska today  —  a sorry wreck, of a once great people.

Flamboyant lawyer Gerry Spence intervened in Ruby Ridge, and prevented that misjustice from reaching  its climax.  I believe it is my obligation, as an experienced criminal defense attorney, to do just what Gerry Spence did.  I’ll be calling my old friend Tom Pitaro in Vegas to discuss this. When I called Tom to see if he could make a bet on Cruz for me, he said he wanted to have me as co-counsel in Bundy’s defense.  I’ll appear for my Uncle.

The Task Force Troika are responsible for this.  Dave Biddulph tracked down Joseph Semprevivo, and arranged for him to listen to Bill “The Closer” Fruth, who made the sale. Then came the test. Would Ted Cruz see the merits of this?  We weren’t entirely sure, but he did.

I gradually figured out what to do with our latest convert.  I had to sell my idea to Semprevivo, and quickly.  Time was short.  I got his cell, and called early Saturday afternoon, when I thought he might pick up.  I identified myself as a fellow co-founder of the BBA Task Force, so I had some credibility.  I started to talk about the land transfer issue in a way that Semprevivo would appreciate.  It just so happens that New Mexico Economic Development Commissioner Joseph Semprevivo  didn’t need much convincing.  He asked for a backup email, which I was able to put together in an hour, and got it off to him. I may have followed up with another email.

I didn’t hear back until Thursday the 17th, in an email from Semprevivo. Cruz was running with it.   The following Monday, at a rally in Vegas, Trump gave me what I’d been waiting for.  An admission of ignorance.  Cruz had been running ads against him on the issue in Northern Nevada, apparently to some effect.  The Moron excused his earlier opposition to this idea by admitting that, on this issue, he didn’t know what he was talking about.  He tried to cover up this gaffe by threatening to punch a protester in the face.  He then called out the casino owner, and explained he actually did want that $5 million donation he’d been offering, and from now on he wanted to get “money, ,money, money”.  This crazy behavior was designed to distract attention from the dumb thing he’d just said.

The only reference to all this I could find on the internet was twitchy.com.  None of the MSM, including Fox News, which is part of it., would expose it.  The fix was in.  Don’t worry about Trump, we can take care of him later.  We’ve got to stop Cruz.  He’s a threat to all of us.

So I managed to get the word out in Alaska because, even after having been gone fifteen years, I still had enough contacts up there to help me get it out.  First of all there is David Cuddy, an altogether admirable man, in every respect.  He did everything I asked him to, immediately, because he could see what I was on to.  So did everyone else involved, starting with Frank Bickford, Tom Fink, Dick Randolph, Michael Chambers, John Coghill and Mike Porcaro.  And a special thanks to the men who actually made me understand all this to begin with.  The men who made Alaska, Dan Cuddy, Judge James Fitzgerald, George Sulivan, Jack Coghill and, yes, my Uncle Fritz.  A Cuddy, a Coghill, and a Pettyjohn, working as a team.  If I could have tracked down one of the Sullivan boys he would have joined  right in.  That was no coincidence.  I am convinced they groomed us all for this.  It’s quite a tale.

In the mean time there’s the real hero, my wife, Babbie.  When it was all over I went into a manic bipolar period.  Full blown. The first in in my life since I was 22 in California. I suffer from a bipolar disorder, as did my Uncle Fritz.. My son Brendan and sister Tony all suffer from this same disease.  Brendan had his latest episode in Denver about six years ago  — full blown.  It took him two years to recover.

This time, I didn’t go over the edge.  Babbie and Brendan knew exactly what was happening.  It was the same thing that happened to Brendan in Denver.  Babbie was terrified.  She’d never seen me like this.

Dave Biddulph helped put it to a stop, as did Bill Fruth.  My son Darren immediately recognized what was going on. So did  I.  I tried to calm down, and pull out of it, but couldn’t.  When I got that Xanex at the hospital I started to calm down.  I’m not quite there yet.   This will take time, and patience.  There is medication now which will allow me to control this.  I’m taking another Xanex in half an hour.

Babbie’s going to pull me through this. She always has.

The market opens in about an hour, so I’ve got to get set up.  Depending on the behavior of COP, people may be waking up to the Tundra Rebellion, as we call it in Alaska.

And don’t worry about me.   I’m now a patient, and I’ve got a pretty good nurse.

I’ve really spent my time on nothing but politics, but those days are over.  Cruz in a landslide, and we get our country back.  And the First Article V Convention in American history.  All those people, all across this entire country, hundreds, thousands, millions, who made this happen, can be pretty damn proud of themselves.

I quit working or even thinking about Article V in 1989, when my friend Robin Taylor and I introduced HJR 54, calling for an Article V Convention for the purpose of proposing an amendment to limit Congressional terms.

I saw great possibilities in Article V.  I wasn’t that interested in a balanced budget  amendment.  Those snakes in Congress would find a way around that.  What I wanted to do was get rid of Ted Stevens so I could get back to Washington to kick some butt.  I was really pissed off at those guys, and I wanted them to hear about it from me.

You see these Congressional term limit advocates were trying the wrong method.  They were relying on an uncertain ruling from the Supreme Court, and Kennedy was the swing vote.  If he went the wrong way, all their work would be for naught.

They were thinking Kennedy was a Supreme Court Justice interpreting the law, but he wasn’t.  He was the swing vote, in this case, to defend Washington from the mob. An  attack on Congress was an attack on the federal government itself, and Kennedy would not allow that to succeed.  And neither would that great and good man Antonin Scalia, and accounts for his hostility to Article V.

There’s only one way to attack the federal government, the tool that was designed for it — Article V.  It’s an all purpose tool.  I immediately spotted it as a way to get rid of Ted Stevens and get back to Washington.

So I go back  to Florida to some conference, ALEC they called themselves, where Lew was putting on a presentation on the Article V BBA.  They let me have ten minutes or so to make my case, and I thought I put on a pretty good show.  The thief Tim Kelly was there, I remember that.

At some function later Lew introduced me to his amazing wife, and we started talking about it, and he said he thought maybe I was right.  Looking back on it.

It’s been a long road.  And I never did get Ted Stevens.

My stock watching was interrupted by a visit to the emergency room.  The blood pressure got over 200 and I had to go.  I just couldn’t get my mind to stop racing.  They gave me some Xanex, and it seemed to help.  I’ve never had this stuff, and Babbie told me not to tell her girl friends about it or they’d want some of my stash.  I’m going to take another one tonight so I can get more than five hours sleep.

COP almost hit my stop price of 38.  On the way down I picked up another small buy, and my position is complete.  I thought I might get overnighted at the hospital and miss tomorrow’s opening, so I put one last buy in, a point above the stop order.  I’ll be watching this stock like a hawk from opening bell.  My theory makes perfect sense, like a lot of theories.  So we’ll see.

I’ll see Doctor Reina week after next week and come up with a plan.  I’m looking forward to seeing him, he’s a good guy.  With his name, and appearance, I thought he was East Indian.  Turns out he’s a Cuban, like our next President.

Only in America.

Everybody’s got today figured out.  If Kasich doesn’t at least come in second in Michigan, he’ll have to drop out before the winner take all in Ohio next week.  This makes it a two man race for the right to deliver the death blow to the Great Moron.  Idaho is also an unknown.  Do you remember, exactly, where Idaho is?  Isn’t it the one that’s shaped funny?

I’ll be watching the stock closely the rest of the day til closing at 1:00.  Then, hopefully a nap.  I doubt it will be warm enough to swim laps down at the health club.  Unless something happens, I’ll make the rest of the investment at opening bell tomorrow..  If Idaho comes in really big, my stock should start rising.  When people finally figure out what the hell’s going on, it might even get another pop.

This will be my routine until I’m fully invested.  Half of our money will be in my stock pick.  If we need money, it will come from profits.  The other half will be in four or five stocks in different sectors of the economy.  This will take me a while to do.  This is Babbie’s money I’m working with here, and I’m going to do it right this time.

The computer man is coming late this afternoon to fix my email account and everything else I’ve bolloxed up.  I’ve got something to do until Friday, at the earliest.  My stock has stabilized into a narrow trading range, so I’m just monitoring it now.

All’s well that ends well.

I put a stop order in on my big stock purchase. If it gets down to 38, it sells, automatically.  I will have preserved 2/3 of my gain, and have enough paper profit left that if we need money, we don’t have to touch principle.  It closed at 41.40, and what I’m trying to do is buy more on the dips.  So I put fairly small buy order in at 41.00, and within fifteen minutes it went below that, triggering the purchase.  Now I’m even more concentrated on one stock– normally a no no.  But this is a special situation.  I think I see something that only a few other people see.  It’s the impact of today’s primaries on the election, and of the election on the market, and the chance, specifically, that Cruz wins.

If you connect all the dots, my stock is a proxy for the Cruz campaign.  If it looks like he’ll win, it goes up.  If it looks like he might not win, it goes down.  That’s my theory, which I’m trying to find ways to test.  The best way would be see if there’s some event on the campaign that either hurts or helps Cruz. If something looks like it should help him, the stock price should reflect that.  So I’ll keep one eye on the news.

If I’m right, the key for today is Idaho.  I haven’t double checked, but it looks like the big question marks today are Michigan and Idaho.  I have no idea about Michigan.  This is Kasich’s last stand.  If he doesn’t at least come in second, he’ll have to go.  Idaho, who knows?  Who the hell knows anything about Idaho?

I’m doing this investment exactly as Jim Cramer says you’re supposed to.  I’m doing everything the way he says you should do it.  I’ve never done it before because it’s too much work.  I’d rather think about politics.  But Cruz is my man, and  I just can’t think of anything he should be doing that he isn’t.

I’ve got the full set up going.  Watching CNBC on mute, my computer set to Yahoo Finance where, for free, you can follow every move of your stock, minute by minute.  Amazing.  I can also shift screens to go to places I check the news.  I’ve got my blood pressure monitoring situation all set up.  When Babbie got out of bed at 4:00 to check on me, I was in the midst of planning our 45th wedding anniversary, and I was getting pretty excited.  My blood pressure had spiked.  She told me to read a book, but the one I’m going to read, Master and Commander, by Patrick O’Brian, I’ve already read it four or five times.  I’ve read the entire Aubrey-Maturin series several times over.  So instead I’m going to spend the morning investing the was Cramer says you’re supposed to invest.   It takes up quite a bit of time, which is a good thing.

Cruz should win Idaho in a landslide, big enough to make people wonder why.  The answer, of course, is the same reason he won Alaska  — federal lands.  I learned a hell of a lot from Speaker Bedke and Ways and Means  Chair Christy Perry.   Idaho will want its land in tranches.  They don’t want it all at once.  The transfer must be tailored to the needs of each individual state.  We’re not using a butcher knife.  We’re surgically removing the cancer of the Far West  —  absentee land ownership.  It just doesn’t work.  And for obvious reasons.

So as Idaho goes, so goes the nation.  If I can spot some Idaho news somewhere, my theory will be tested.