Posts Made By: James Brown

Hi Rod - it is the quote button that is broken, not the link, your quote buttons are off to the right and not active.  I've seen that before.  Might be my computer, but I can quote Jim M.  See if you can reply and quote your own post.   

Anyway, Al Nagler was awarded several eyepiece patents in the 1980s.  Some first pages are shown in the image below.   You can see the genesis of his Nagler eyepiece design (and I think Ethos etc.) where there is a Barlow type doublet at the objective end, followed by exotic internal and upper eye-side lenses.   He is a great innovator.   I don't know if he ever tried to enforce any of these patents before they expired.  Patent enforcement is very expensive.     Jim

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

Hi Jim B,
Thanks for the info on the Nagler patents. It's interesting and informative.
PS: You're right about the quote button being off; I can quote others in my replies but not my own. 

This time quotes worked.   You can download the whole patent at "google patents" if you like, just type in the patent numbers.


https://patents.google.com/

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

I'm going to go out on a limb here and make a prediction as to what the one RINO apologist for the left will say.  It'll be something like this.

"We have a ROBUST system of checks and balances in the United States and so there is no reason to worry about it".  

What I highlighted above is true.  Thank goodness.  Otherwise the nation would not survive the incompetence of Trump and Biden, yet here we are surviving, although with some economic pain.

You are wrong about my views about the subject of the Durham report.  Intentionally wrong?  You tell us.  I have posted many times that the press and Ds lied to the public about the whole Russian collusion story.   In comments to Rod, I compared the Russian collusion myth to the Big Lie of a stolen 2020 election.   These two huge lies foisted by the media were the centerpiece of my argument that at least on political matters that the editorial staff of CNN, NYT, WaPo and the like is no better than Fox.   They all have run with extraordinary lies that advance an agenda.   

I will admit that James, Rod and the Dominion trial have gotten me to soften that stance a bit.  CNN, NYT, WaPo are not qualitatively as brash with their favored lie as Fox was.   Still, these outlets' endorsement of the Russian collusion myth from 2016 to the release of the Mueller report should live in infamy and shame forever.

I have also posted my disdain for the politicization of the FBI at the time.  If and when justice is served to the likes of Peter Strzok, I will be pleased.   But only if justice is served after due process, in other words only if the check and balances of our beautiful system are observed.

You surely knew all of this from my many posts, unless you are suffering from memory loss?  Jim

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

Jim,
Here are the EIGHT CONVICTIONS/GUILTY PLEAS resulting from the Mueller Probe:
Manafort(influence peddling Ukraine/Russia))
Cohen (lying for Trump,etc)
Papadopoulos (lying about Russian contacts)
Pinedo (Selling bank account numbers to Russians)
van der Zwaan (lying to investigators)
Stone (lying,witness tampering)
Gates (lying, conspiracy)
Flynn (lying to FBI)
https://www.axios.com/2019/11/15/trump-associates-convicted-mueller-investigations
Here are the convictions from the Durham probe, claimed by Trump to reveal the "crimes of the century!:
ZERO
Oh, one low level guy plead guilty to submitting one bogus email(wow!)
Jim, being a lawyer, one would think you, of all people, can appreciate the differences...

Trump surrounded himself with unsavory characters.  No doubt about it.  

None of these Mueller convictions related to collusion between the Trump camp and the Russians to sway the outcome of the election.  The Mueller report found no collusion.   So you are mixing apples and oranges. 

Even so, the press ran with breathless collusion stories for three years.  I can provide 100s of examples without even trying.  The press was either incompetent, or in on the lie.   I think they were incompetent and did absolutely no diligence to vet the Steele Dossier and other collusion foundations.  On the other hand, Fox was in on the Big Lie in 2020.  That is one significant difference, but hardly an excuse for supposedly the best journalistic staffs of the free world to blindly run with a fabricated story.  Subsequent convictions for unrelated crimes do not change that conclusion. 

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

Then it was all turned upside down, when these people decided it was OK to throw out Due Process and that it was OK to have 2 tiers of Justice.

As Alan Dershowitz stated "there are 2 systems of justice in this nation, one for Donald Trump and one for the rest of society".  

Whatever happened to the adage "better that 50 guilty people go free than to have 1 innocent person go to jail"?

That is a sentiment I can support, but since half the nation including the RINOs here developed TDS, that sentiment exists no longer.

Pretty sad.  

And the corrupt leftist media made sure that a good number of people on the right and the entirety of the left went insane and lost their minds and developed what became a real syndrome, that being Trump Derangement Syndrome.

Those who had it deluded themselves into believing Trump was literally on a par with Hitler.  

One RINO in California stated that thought at one time here, early on, and so he voted for Hillary Clinton.  

He still has TDS running hard through his psyche. 

At this point, I don't think its curable.   

Richard, is there one example you can point to where Trump is being denied due process?  Anything?

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

The press was either incompetent, or in on the lie.  I think they were incompetent


LOL.  I can only surmise that birds of a feather flock together.  

So they didn't LIE, they were just incompetent.  

But Fox somehow put forth a BIG Lie about the election? 

Can you give some specific examples?  Yes Fox LIED but CNN and the other 50 outlets were just INCOMPETENT.

And E. Jean Carroll IS believable in her accusations of RAPE against Trump, but Tara Reid is NOT credible in her accusations against Joe Biden.  

A jury in a trial found that E. Jean Carroll was not raped by Trump.  

Got it!  

TDS sure is rampant.... still.  

You realize that you and I are basically arguing the same thing right?  We both think the Russian collusion myth and the agencies, people, and press who propagated that lie are incompetent at best?  Do you suffer from TDS too?

Anyway, the Dominion lawsuit and evidence and testimony that came out in that lawsuit proved that Fox actively lied about voter fraud.  In other words they published those stories with full knowledge that they were publishing lies.

To my knowledge, the NYT, CNN, WaPo, etc. have not lost a lawsuit where evidence was presented showing that they pushed the collusion myth for years knowing it was a lie.   Doesn't Trump have an army of lawyers?  Why hasn't he brought CNN to justice, Dominion v. Fox style?  

So, for now at least, I conclude that the left leaning press that ran with the collusion myth did so out of politically induced incompetence, not actual in-on-it lies.   This is not a pretty picture for the NYT, CNN etc. no matter how you slice it.  

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

Care to comment on General Michael Flynn and his disparate treatment compared to Andrew McCabe an employee of the FBI.

His gov't pension was reinstated fully and he was then given a job with CNN?

Care to comment on how Peter Strzok was fired, then received a cush job at CNN and Georgetown University?

Did the FBI award their corrupt individuals?  Do you think the FBI helped him get that job at Georgetown?

Is he corrupt and should he have gone to jail?

CNN hires scum and Strzok and McCabe can go to jail, if due process is followed and after they lose after a proper trial.  If they are never prosecuted, then I assume there is not probably cause.  I do trust the system.  It is not like there are not scads of conservative federal prosecutors (like Durham) who would bring the cases if probable cause exists.   We'll see.  

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

The bipartisan congressional committee that evaluated Russian interference in the 2016 election concluded:
"the committee concludes that Russia conducted a sophisticated and aggressive campaign to influence the U.S. election to help Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton and that folks on Team Trump were more than happy to accept help from the Russians. But what's really important about that conclusion is that it is a bipartisan one. It is endorsed by both Democrats and Republicans."
"This report is, to a large extent, something that reaches the same conclusion that Mueller did on the question of Russia's interference. And the committee didn't draw a conclusion on whether the Trump campaign conspired or colluded with Russia. What the committee did instead was lay out the facts that they found and then kind of leave it to the reader to make up their own mind. Some committee Republicans, in an annex to the report, declared that there was no evidence that the Trump campaign colluded. Democratic members, in contrast, called Russia's actions and the Trump team's openness to them, quote, "one of the single most grave counterintelligence threats in modern American history." So there was a bit of a bipartisan divide on that matter."
https://www.npr.org/2020/08/18/903616315/senate-releases-final-report-on-russias-interference-in-2016-election
So, I believe the Democrats take on this is correct and you evidently believe the Republicans on this one.

I know that the Russians, Chinese, and everyone else buys clandestine Facebook ads and the like.  I think their goal is to seed dissention, not to favor one candidate or the other.   But literal collusion with the Trump team?  No way.   This is the age-old Trump as a buffoon v. Trump as an evil tactical mastermind dichotomy.  I am firmly in the Trump is a buffoon camp.  

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

Could this be true? 

IF It is, then that is pretty explosive, but we'll have to see what pans out.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/irs-fires-whistleblower-hunter

According to the New York Post, the IRS responded by firing the group that included the whistleblower on Monday.

“Today the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Criminal Supervisory Special Agent we represent was informed that he and his entire investigative team are being removed from the ongoing and sensitive investigation of the high-profile, controversial subject about which our client sought to make whistleblower disclosures to Congress," said attorneys to the whistleblower to Congress.

Nice post.  I particularly appreciate the "we'll have to see what pans out."  I suppose you are being sarcastic, but if not, waiting to see what pans out is always a good idea.

For what it is worth, I am reasonably well convinced that Hunter Biden is scum and he possibly has flaunted the tax and other laws.   Maybe the IRS will take him down.  Maybe someone in the IRS is trying to shield him.  Maybe this alleged whistleblower is legit... We will know eventually.   

By the way, the possibility that this could be the one that ends up being legitimate does not change the fact that your sources are crap.  I personally doubt that James will even reply, since you started out with, "Could this be true?  IF It is, then that is pretty explosive, but we'll have to see what pans out."  If on the other hand, you had started out with the guaranteed assertion that this is all true and that the deep state was protecting the Bidens and that there are two systems of justice (one protecting the Bidens and one harassing Trump)...  Well, if you had started out that way, I would expect James to point out, as a public service, that your sources are crap.   Jim

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

there are two systems of justice.

That was stated by Alan Dershowitz, professor emeritus of Constitutional law at Harvard University.  

Feel free to tell him that he's "Crap"

Then again, I'll take his analysis of the justice system as it is operating today, over the forum "Lawyer".

Although he's a lefty by admission, voted for Hillary Clinton, and didn't vote for Donald Trump, he's a crap source. 

Let me analyze the situation for a second..... Hmm.... I have Alan Dershowitz.... or the forum Water Boy for the left.....

Its tough.... let me assure you of that...  it is a tough choice whose analysis I'll go with..... but having thought about it....

Yeah, I'm going with Dershowitz when he states we live in 2 systems of justice, 1 for Trump and 1 for everyone else.  

If this was a football game, you would have just been flagged 15 yards for intentionally moving the goalposts.   I like Dershowitz in general by the way.   As you and anyone else unfortunate enough to stumble into this thread knows, we were talking about an article in the Blaze that alleges wholesale reassignment of the investigative team looking into Hunter Biden's misdeeds.  Dershowitz had nothing to do with it.

Also, I was obviously riffing off of your projection of James Lacey's likely take: "The blaze along with the NY Post are known right wing conspiracy peddlers who simply feed raw meat propaganda to their readers.  The NY Post is on a par with the tabloids out there like the Weekly World News, and National Enquirer."

No denying it Rich, Dershowitz has nothing to do with your post or my reply.   He sure as hell was not the source of the Blaze article, unless I missed something.  Please try to stay on track amigo.  J