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VORNADO Room Heater Fails To Turn On. Not True.

VORNADO Room Heater Fails To Turn On. Not True.

02/16/2022 Score Card Comments 0 Comment

VORNADO Room Heater Fails To Turn On. Not True.

 

There is NOTHING wrong with this heater.  The problem was user error.

This is the product Information found at the bottom of the box which the heater comes in:

  • EN1-0097-85
  • DODEL AWRH
  • ITM./ART.  1415862

I purchased this room heater February 15, 2022.  After unpacking the unit out of the box it came in, I plugged it in but the heater would not come on.  I tried the heater in three different AC outlets and still the heater would NOT come on.  Just by chance I found the reason.  There is a safety on/off switch at the bottom of the unit.  If you turn the unit upside down, you will find what looks like a small post leg.  It is actually a switch.  You can easily rotate this protrusion.   This device moves slightly in and out of the heater body.  If this device is out from the bottom just a little from the normal bottom of the heater it will shut off.  Thus, if the unit tips over the unit will turn off because this spring loaded plunger type device will extend and shut off the switch it is connected. 

But, I found that the surface that the heater rests on must be flat and level so the safety switch is moved upward into the unit to turn the unit on.   I had made the mistake of placing the heater down upon a desk where a thin plastic ID card was under the heater.  This thin card was enough to lift the heater up and shut the safety switch off.

So far, I do like this heater.

 

 

Posted February 16, 2022
Improved H1:  July 11, 2022


Home Improvement, Portable Room Heater, Repair
portable room heater, small room heater will not turn on, Vornado, VORNADO Room Heater Fails To Turn On. Not True.
Single Incident Of Alleged US Law Corruption

Single Incident Of Alleged US Law Corruption

02/02/2022 Score Card Comments 0 Comment

OPINION

This blogger is not a lawyer.

Thousands of people have filed lawsuits against a specific manufacturer, the maker of a popular weed killer, claiming the weed killer caused non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a form of cancer. Massive amounts of monetary verdicts have been awarded, in the United States courts of law, because the manufacturer lost in the courts. The problem is that the money that the individuals, who came down with cancer, actually received is a way lower dollar amounts that is stated in the gross settlement allocation, due to these factors:

The manufacturer does not pay for the following items but the person who came down with cancer does have to pay these items (allegedly being injured again):

  • Legal fees.  Roughly 40 % of the total award is taken out for legal fees.  This amount may vary.
  • Medical reimbursements to the companies who treated each cancer patient.  This item is called “medical liens”.   This can vary greatly depending upon how the liens are completed.   
  • Admin and case expenses.  This is usually a very small amount, less than one thousand dollars and does vary with each case.

One case we viewed, shows the gross settlement was about $125,000.  The individual received a net settlement of only about $35,000 but might get more money later after the medical liens are resolved.

The individuals who came down with cancer has to pay for most all the legal fees which can, in some cases, drain the gross settlement amount near half.  

Lawyer input:  “Unfortunately, American law does not, in tort cases, provide that attorneys fees are paid by the loser.  As a result most cases, like this, are paid by a percentage of the recovery from to be Plaintiffs.    Unfortunately, there is nothing you can do on this issue.  It’s simply the way law works in the US.”

Question:  Why not require the criminal element to pay all fees associated with case and give a larger financial award to the person(s) who were injured?

The legal corruption factor is that the legal system is failing to make the victim whole again.  The corruption factor is to take a big amount of award money fees out of the settlement and not give it to the person who was injured but to people who worked on the case.  Why not make the perpetrator pay for all court related fees?  The victim now gets way less money (for alleged corrupt reasons) and be thankful for getting any restitution.

 

 

 

 

Posted February 2, 2022


Health, Humane, Legal & Law, Opinion, United States of America, US Government
corruption factor, legal system, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, United States courts of law, US Law Corruption
The New Republican Party

The New Republican Party

01/22/2022 Score Card Comments 0 Comment

Here is the truth as to what is going on with the Republican Party.  And, it does not look very good.

The Republican Party for years was made up with white conservatives.  Over time the United States is less white and less conservative.  The Republicans had two choices to make recently so the party could survive.   One choice is to widen their party ideals to include minorities and become a bit more liberal.  The second choice is to still retain their current values but cheat to retain power.  They decided to cheat.  They are thus transforming their approach at the local and state level to embrace one party rule using white Christian nationalism as their vision for the future for the United States.  This means you are not included in the efforts of the Republican Party if you are not Christian, white, and conservative.  So why would minority voters such as black, hispanics, asians, etc vote Republican?  The answer is, if they are smart, they will not.  

CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM

“Christian nationalism has its own version of the “elect,” those chosen by God. They are “people like us,” meaning conservative Christian, but also white, natural-born citizens. Moreover, in a prosperous nation, only “the elect” should control the political process while others must be closely scrutinized, discouraged, or even denied access. This ideology is fundamentally a threat to a pluralistic, democratic society.”

 

BLACKS

“Republicans have been demeaning African Americans to attract the white working class for decades. Fixed worldview whites perceive African Americans and immigrant groups as threats. But African Americans and immigrant groups don’t view themselves as threats. Republicans are the threat to them.”

“… legislation over the years has advanced the voting opportunities, educational and social rights of African Americans, little has been done to improve their general treatment and perception by the legal system.”

LATINO

“Overwhelmingly, Latino voters remain angry, frustrated and feel disrespected by Trump and the Republican Party as a whole.”

ASIANS

“Several Asian American members of Congress implored Republicans on Thursday to tone down their rhetoric in the wake of attacks on the Asian American community, with one Democratic lawmaker accusing a Republican of placing a “bull’s-eye” on them with his comments about China.”

“Asian Americans of all ages are likely to be critical of Republicans.”

So then how can the Republican Party overcome a significant drop in people who will vote for their party?  The answer is to change the voting rules so minority voters are discouraged or removed from voting.  The Republican Party is currently changing the local and state voting rules to limit minority voters.  The GOP is thus cheating rather than competing.

VOTER DISCRIMINATION TACTICS BEING USED BY THE GOP:

  Reference for the items listed below:
https://www.aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/block-the-vote-voter-suppression-in-2020/

  • “In Georgia, lawmakers have made it a crime to provide food and water to voters standing in line at the polls.”
  • “In Texas, people have been arrested and given outrageous sentences for what amount at most to innocent mistakes made during the voting process.”
  • “Due to racial bias in the criminal justice system, felony disenfranchisement laws disproportionately affect Black and Brown people, who often face harsher sentences than white people for the same offenses.”
  • “purging eligible voters from rolls for illegitimate reasons or based on inaccurate data, and often without adequate notice to the voters.”
  • “…too often, states use redistricting as a political tool to manipulate the outcome of elections. That’s called gerrymandering”.
  • “…strict ID laws are part of an ongoing strategy to suppress the vote.”
  • “Over 21 million U.S. citizens do not have qualifying government-issued photo identification, and these individuals are disproportionately voters of color. That’s because ID cards aren’t always accessible for everyone.”

PLUTOCRACY

Another factor that enters this mix is the power of the plutocracy class.  Large business owners do not want to see any of the issues listed below expanded because it might curb their freedom to do as they want.

  • Raise taxes on the wealthy.  It is reported that a lot of very wealthy individuals pay little or no income tax.
  • Raise corporate taxes.
  • Unions are considered a threat to business management because it adds a separate level of accountability to be fair to their workers.
  • Government regulations.

Reference for above item list: 
https://www.salon.com/2020/09/05/plutocrats-control-the-us-political-system-but-they-can-still-be-defeated_partner/

MAKE DEMOCRATS FAIL

Another tactic that the Republicans are using to increase their position among the electorate is to do everything in their power to make the Democratic president Biden fail.  The Congressional Republicans will not support anything that Biden wants.  Republicans are now the party without any agenda except to achieve power.  They thus fail to work for the electorate but for their own self centered interests and the interests of the plutocracy.  The idea here is to paint President Biden as a looser, a failure in the minds of the voters so the voters pick Republicans in the next election.  Joseph Manchin III and Kyrsten Sinema, both Democrats, just might be part of this plot.

 

 

This country needs to pass the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act

to save our form of government, a true free DEMOCRACY!

 

 

 

 

POSTED: JANUARY 22, 2022


Politics, United States of America, US Government
ASIANS, Biden, BLACKS, Christian nationalism, Democrats, GOP, Joseph Manchin III, Kyrsten Sinema, LATINO, Plutocracy, Republican Party, Voter discrimination
Some Possible Reasons Why The Supreme Court Blocked Biden’s Virus Mandate For Large Employers?

Some Possible Reasons Why The Supreme Court Blocked Biden’s Virus Mandate For Large Employers?

01/17/2022 Score Card Comments 0 Comment

The Supreme Court  blocked the Biden administration from enforcing a testing mandate for large employers, dealing a blow to a key element of the White House’s plan to address the pandemic as coronavirus cases resulting from the Omicron variant are on the rise.

Let us look at how each supreme court justice was put in office to see if there are any issues of apparent bias.  A scoring method will be used to reveal to the reader apparent hidden issues that a Supreme Court member might bring to his or her deliberations and rulings.

Please note that one factor shown below is Catholic.  The intent here is to only show the number of Catholic Supreme Court justices beyond what is normal for the US population and does that then signify any bias.

  • Chief Justice John Roberts.  (-3 score)
      • Catholic & Opus Dei. (-1)
      • Federalist Society.  (-1)
      • Republican appointment (-1)
  • Justice Clarence Thomas.  (-3 score)
      • Catholic & Opus Dei. (-1)
      • Federalist Society. (-1)
      • Republican appointment(-1)
  • Justice Stephen Breyer. (No negatives)
      • Democrat appointment
  • Justice Samuel Alito.  (-3 score)
      • Catholic & Opus Dei. (-1)
      • Federalist Society. (-1)
      • Republican appointment (-1)
  • Justice Sonia Sotomayor. (-1 +1 = even score)
      • One of two women.  (+1)
      • Catholic. (-1)
      • Democrat appointment. 
  • Justice Elena Kagan. (No negatives)
      • Democrat appointment
  • Justice Neil Gorsuch. (-2.5 score)
      • Federalist Society. (-1)
      • Republican appointment (-1)
      • Trump appointment (-.5)
  • Justice Brett Kavanaugh.  (-3.5 score)
      • Catholic. (-1)
      • Federalist Society. (-1)
      • Republican appointment  (-1)
      • Trump appointment  (-.5)
  • Justice Amy Coney Barrett (+1-2-.5= score -2.5)
      • One of two women.  (+1)
      • Catholic. (-1)
      • Republican appointment. (-1)
      • Trump appointment (-.5)

 

Overall Fairness, Or Not, Score for the Supreme Court Justices:  -17.5 negative issues appears to reveal alleged bias.

Sex

Only two women are currently serving in the Supreme Court.  The number of women in the United States according to the US Census is 50.8%.  Ideally, half the US Supreme Court justices should be women.  Each women holding office is given one positive point.

Religion

“Roughly 48.9% of Americans are Protestants, 23.0% are Catholics”. So why is the Supreme Court made up with almost all catholics?”

Because there are so many Catholics sitting as judges it stands that this might be a problem.

This is the reason we give this a negative value of -1.

Party Appointment Bias

“As of October 26, 2020, of the 9 justices of the Supreme Court, 6 were appointed by a Republican president, and 3 were appointed by a Democratic president.”  

  The Republican Party, it can be said, stacked the court with judges that should aid the Republican Party agenda.

“The party has a set of unwavering transactional commitments (to reactionary billionaires, provincial capitalists, and the Christian right”.

“… conservative business leaders and reactionary billionaires who’ve focused not just on winning elections, but on rewriting the rules of our economy and our democracy. The growing power of these forces has encouraged the GOP to embrace a retrograde economic program”

This is the reason we give being appointed by the Republican Party a negative vote, -1.

Trump Appointment is a consideration.

President Donald Trump was one of the worst presidents in the history of the United States with a score of 312 out of 897 (Abraham Lincoln having best score).  It might/should thus follow that his Supreme Court appointments were made for questionable reasons.

“President Trump has said he would ‘protect’ and ‘fight for’ workers. Instead, his administration has systematically done the opposite.”

Summary:

It appears that the United States Supreme Court is possibly flawed because members may not represent the whole country but probably, large business owners, the plutocracy class.  A very common fear expressed in news, opinion, research, history and web sites is that the United States is now being controlled by a plutocracy.  This may help explain why President Biden’s attempt to fight the massive spread of the Covid and Omicron virus was halted by the Supreme Court members for their alleged special interest motivations.

References:

Opus Dei:   

“It’s widely known that Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia, Samuel Alito, and Clarence Thomas belong to Opus Dei – and that Chief Justice John Roberts may also be a member,”

 

Federalist Society

“Leo has for many years been the executive vice-president of the Federalist Society, a nationwide organization of conservative lawyers, based in Washington.”

“The Federalist Society has for years been singularly focussed on building a farm team of judicial nominees who subscribe to a philosophy that is hostile to the advancement of social and economic progress in the country. Behind the scenes, during Republican Administrations, they are very engaged in identifying and recruiting for judges candidates who are ultra-conservatives—who are opposed to our rights and liberties across the board, whether it’s women, the environment, consumer protections, worker protections.” 

“No one has been more dedicated to the enterprise of building a Supreme Court that will overturn Roe v. Wade than the Federalist Society’s Leonard Leo.”

“You now have a five-justice majority on the Supreme Court, all of whom are [connected to] the Federalist Society: Chief Justice John Roberts, Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas — who has been called by Federalist Society members the closest thing to a pure Federalist Society judge — and, of course, Trump’s appointments, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh.”

 

Donald Trump

“One of the greatest cons of the 21st century was the idea, invented whole cloth by the producers of The Apprentice, that Donald Trump was a genius businessman. Indeed, his time in the White House revealed that not only was he neither a genius businessman nor a genius period, but he was, in fact, in layman’s terms, a big fuckin’ moron.”

 

 

 

 

 

Posted January 16, 2022
Updated: January 18, 2022


Countries, Health, Humane, Illness, Legal & Law, Politics, United States of America, US Government
Chief Justice John Roberts, Donald Trump, Federalist Society, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Justice Clarence Thomas, Justice Elena Kagan, Justice Neil Gorsuch, Justice Samuel Alito, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Justice Stephen Breyer, Party Appointment Bias
WAS ANY PART OF THE JANUARY 6, 2021 ATTACK A REBELLION OR INSURRECTION?

WAS ANY PART OF THE JANUARY 6, 2021 ATTACK A REBELLION OR INSURRECTION?

01/12/2022 Score Card Comments 0 Comment

Was any of what took place January 6 2021, illegal?

Question:  Was January 6, 2021 a rebellion or insurrection?

18 U.S. Code § 2383 – Rebellion or insurrection

“Whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.”

Following is a rewording of this code to lay it out for more easy analysis.

Whoever:

  • incites in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof.
  • sets on foot in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof.
  • assists in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof.
  • engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof.

In any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof.

Or gives aid or comfort thereto shall receive the following penalties: 

Penalties:  shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.

 OPINION:  “not one defendant is charged with insurrection under 18 U.S.C. 2383. That’s because insurrection is a legal term with specific elements”.

 “Trump was impeached by the House and charged with “incitement of insurrection,” but he was acquitted by the Senate in February”.

“Thompson and Rep. Liz Cheney, vice chair of the Jan. 6 select committee, said they still believe there is a chance they will be able to conclude that the actions of former President Trump and some of his associates constitute a crime.”

Note of importance:  Donald Trump may have violated this law because he seems to have incited the move upon the Capitol.  The last penalty that is listed is “… shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.”  If it is proven that Donald Trump has violated this law, it is probable that he can no longer run for future political office.

 

 

This blog article used this web site for reference:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2383

 

The author of this blog is NOT a lawyer.

Posted January 12, 2022
Updated January 13, 2022


Legal & Law, News, Politics, United States of America, US Government
18 U.S. Code § 2383 - Rebellion or insurrection, Donald Trump, insurrection, rebellion
Was Any Part Of The January 6, 2021 Attack Sedition?

Was Any Part Of The January 6, 2021 Attack Sedition?

01/12/2022 Score Card Comments 0 Comment

Question:  Was January 6, 2021, An Act Of Seditious Conspiracy?

Citation for this post:  18 U.S. Code § 2384 – Seditious conspiracy

If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to do any of the following.  (I have separated each legal item for easy reading.)

  • to overthrow the government. 
  • put down the government of the United States.
  • destroy by force the Government of the United States, 
  • levy war against the Untied States.
  • oppose by force the authority thereof.
  • by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States.
  • by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof. 

“They shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.”

“The supporters of President Donald Trump who breached the U.S. Capitol building on Wednesday may face charges of sedition…”

“A federal prosecutor who had been working on the Capitol cases told 60 Minutes in late March that he personally believed “the facts do support” sedition charges against some suspects.” 

What particular item listed within the legal code did the rioters violate?  It appears three items:

  • oppose by force the authority thereof.
  • by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States.
  • by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof.

The US Government has taken legal action against some participants of the riot.

January 13, 2022:  “Stewart Rhodes, the founder and leader of the far-right Oath Keepers militia group, and 10 other members or associates have been charged with seditious conspiracy in the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol …”

 

 

 

 

This blog article used this web site for reference:

18 U.S. Code § 2384 – Seditious conspiracy

 

 

 

 

Posted January 12, 2022
Updated January 13, 2022


Legal & Law, News, Politics, United States of America, US Government
18 U.S. Code § 2384 - Seditious conspiracy, Donald Trump, Oath Keepers, Sedition, Seditious conspiracy, Stewart Rhodes

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