Yep, that be true....

Anyone who has paid the slightest attention to several other cultures, including Great Britain's, knows that many men have hyphenated last names and have for centuries.

I did a project in Mexico. New manufacturing line. Went there once to see things, but the equipment supplier was in Detroit so I did all the reviews there or virtually with the Mexico project manager traveling here. Then as we got to the runoff in Detroit and install in Mexico I worked with more of his people.

Once I was told to talk to "Javier Rivas". I could not find any Javier Rivas in the email or instant messaging system.

Then I found out he was "Francisco J. Rivas Gutierrez". Well that's intuitive! Should have been in the system as F. Javier...

Lot of names were like this - my understanding is that Francisco is the father's name, Javier is given name, Rivas is father's last name, and Gutierrez is mother's last name.

And if it's a woman it's often "Maria" first, and if you add a "de" it just gets even longer.

Just wish the IT people would do something smart when putting it in the system. They never get Asian names right either - some American style, some Chinese style.

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
The hyphenated last name is quite common is many Hispanic cultures. Has nothing to do with feminist, woke nonsense.

Yep

No different than the "O'" or "vich" in other cultures in naming customs.

The woke feminist crowd hijacked it.

https://www.breitbart.com/poli...tion-integrity-bill/

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) has signed an election bill that would strengthen voting rules in the Peach State by limiting the number of ballot drop boxes and establishing photo ID requirements for absentee voters, among other things.

The legislation, Senate Bill 202, was passed along party lines by Georgia’s General Assembly with votes of 100-75 in the House and 34-20 in the Senate. It aims to enhance voting rules to ensure more fair and safe elections.

As reported by the Hill, the bill will “require voters to provide a driver’s license or state-issued ID card number to request and submit absentee ballots , and it would curtail the use of ballot drop boxes, limiting their placement to early-voting locations and making them accessible only while the precinct is open.”

The bill also gives the Georgia State Elections Board the ability to take over county election boards in areas that may require oversight. Georgia’s Secretary of State, currently held by Brad Raffensperger, would also be removed as chair of the State Elections Board .

In addition, the bill, which has now been signed into law, shortens the runoff election span, taking it from nine weeks after the general election to four weeks and prevents food or beverages from being given to voters who are waiting in line to vote.

Kudos to Gov. Kemp, but unfortunately the horse is already outta the barn, eh??

Color me skeptical re: this new GA 'Election Integrity' legislation....Seems they didn't care to / were unwilling to enforce existing GA Election Laws during the last election!
This is nothing but RINO Theater! Look at me, I did something...

Well, you can be skeptical, but it seems like a pretty damn good bill. I wish every state had something similar.

^^^Well, it all sounds good, but will any of it actually be enforced. The are plenty of good laws on the books, more than enough actually....All we need to do is enforce them equally, regardless who does the law breaking.

Again, they didn't enforce the Election Laws last time around, so why would the next election be any different!

If this wasn't so tragic it'd be hilarious. The videos and commentaries from Australia on the Biden / demonrat situation are spot on.

https://generaldispatch.whatfi...e-weekend-at-bidens/
https://rumble.com/vf2byf-aust...ekend-at-bidens.html




Figured out how to embed RUMBLE. Use this iFrame spec with the sigforum video option.

It’s a shame that everyone else can see so clearly what half the population of the US can’t.

These are the kind of changes we need to push for.

DEMs are going nuts over photo ID

Rep Issa: President Biden is wrong. Republicans don’t want to make it hard to vote. We want to make it hard to cheat

Just finished reading The Deep Rig by Patrick Byrne.

It goes into great detail about the shenanigans that went on in the 6 key counties in the 2020 election. We all know that. There was a coordinated and well-done effort to manipulate votes. By the hundreds of thousands. And he presents clear evidence of fraud. Ballots in Georgia that were printed in China. And then shredder trucks paid for by Dominion showing up the day after the ballots were subpoenaed. And much more.

The fascinating and sad part was how this great group of people - Patrick Byrne, General Michael Flynn and Sidney Powell had the info of a stolen election and actually bullshitted their way into the Oval Office one night and presented their info to President Trump.

They had a simple solution - use an executive order signed by both Obama and Trump to say that foreign influence was suspected and order a manual, live-streamed recount of the paper ballots in 6 (only 6) counties in the country. If there were no discrepancies, OK. Concede and move on. But if there WERE (which they knew there would be based on all of the geeks they had looking at the data) then order a recount or even redo the election. The first part could be done in 48 hours.

They presented all of this to Trump in the Oval office. He asked - "Why have I not heard this before?" An hour later he was exasperated with his staff and said "OK, that's it. Sidney Powell is my Special Counsel."

When she showed up at the White House the next day she was denied access.

Trump was talked out of the plan by his grifter lawyers who were looking for their next job. Not looking out for him or the country.

Also - I love Rudy Giuliani but he was the wrong man for this job. Trump's loyalism to friends might have cost him. The author, who is a CEO (he started Overstock.com) walked into the HQ Rudy had set up and called it a "shit-show".

Byrne and Flynn were both scheduled to speak on Jan 6th, along with several of their "geeks" who were going to very simply explain the fraud that took place at the Trump rally. But when they all showed up they found that their speaking slots were cancelled. About that same time they started seeing results from their "geeks" on the Georgia runoff elections. Byrne and Flynn had the same reaction - "They are not even hiding it now!" It was blindingly obvious that the votes had been manipulated, but the Deep Rig, confident after doing the same for the Presidential election did not even try to hide it.

And just FYI, the author of this book is a Libertarian and has never voted for a Republican. But he cares about election integrity. He is convinced that the 2020 US Presidential election is the biggest electoral fraud in history and it was not by accident, and it will get worse.

If you can, get the book (it might be only digital because it has a ton of links to videos and websites.) And push through the technical chapters and get to the last third where he talks about actually presenting data to Rudy and finally President Trump. If you are like me, it will make you both angry and sad.

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Originally posted by furlough:


Also - I love Rudy Giuliani but he was the wrong man for this job. Trump's loyalism to friends might have cost him. The author, who is a CEO (he started Overstock.com) walked into the HQ Rudy had set up and called it a "shit-show".

That may be, but seriously, would it have really mattered? It seems clear to me now that even if Trump had Johnnie Cochran himself leading his team, there was no way that election was going to go any other way once it was stolen on election night. And the no good lying, cheating democrats knew it.

Just to prove how people can be vastly different from general perceptions Lin Wood and Sydney Powell both turned out to be pretty much bat shit crazies. Rudy was pretty much in the same league. Imagine being Trump and trying to decide who can be a trusted loyalist and who's bat shit crazy and having to do it on the fly.

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:

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Originally posted by furlough:


Also - I love Rudy Giuliani but he was the wrong man for this job. Trump's loyalism to friends might have cost him. The author, who is a CEO (he started Overstock.com) walked into the HQ Rudy had set up and called it a "shit-show".

That may be, but seriously, would it have really mattered? It seems clear to me now that even if Trump had Johnnie Cochran himself leading his team, there was no way that election was going to go any other way once it was stolen on election night. And the no good lying, cheating democrats knew it.

That's the part that made me genuinely sad. The way it was laid out was simple. I know the media would have screamed bloody murder - but they were doing that every day already. He specifically said a hand recount of the paper ballots live-streamed so no more chicanery. The fix was in, but maybe it would have awakened more people. The what-ifs had me thinking the rest of the day.

President Trump website for people to communicate with the President

https://www.45office.com/

seen at CTH

President Trump calls out the frauds Fauci and Birx

https://www.powerlineblog.com/...ent-strikes-back.php

President Trump:

Based on their interviews, I felt it was time to speak up about Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx, two self-promoters trying to reinvent history to cover for their bad instincts and faulty recommendations, which I fortunately almost always overturned. They had bad policy decisions that would have left our country open to China and others, closed to reopening our economy, and years away from an approved vaccine—putting millions of lives at risk.

We developed American vaccines by an American President in record time, nine months, which is saving the entire world. We bought billions of dollars of these vaccines on a calculated bet that they would work, perhaps the most important bet in the history of the world. Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx moved far too slowly, and if it were up to them we’d currently be locked in our basements as our country suffered through a financial depression. Families, and children in particular, would be suffering the mental strains of this disaster like never before.

In a fake interview last night on CNN, Dr. Fauci, who said he was an athlete in college but couldn’t throw a baseball even close to home plate, it was a “roller,” tried to take credit for the vaccine, when in fact he said it would take three to five years, and probably longer, to have it approved. Dr. Fauci was incapable of pressing the FDA to move it through faster. I was the one to get it done, and even the fake news media knows and reports this.

Dr. Fauci is also the king of “flip-flops” and moving the goalposts to make himself look as good as possible. He fought me so hard because he wanted to keep our country open to countries like China. I closed it against his strong recommendation, which saved many lives. Dr. Fauci also said we didn’t need to wear masks, then a few months later he said we needed to wear masks, and now, two or three of them. Fauci spent U.S. money on the Wuhan lab in China—and we now know how that worked out.

Dr. Birx is a proven liar with very little credibility left. Many of her recommendations were viewed as “pseudo-science,” and Dr. Fauci would always talk negatively about her and, in fact, would ask not to be in the same room with her. The States who followed her lead, like California, had worse outcomes on Covid, and ruined the lives of countless children because they couldn’t go to school, ruined many businesses, and an untold number of Americans who were killed by the lockdowns themselves. Dr. Birx was a terrible medical advisor, which is why I seldom followed her advice. Her motto should be “Do as I say, not as I do.” Who can forget when Dr. Birx gave a huge mandate to the people of our Nation to not travel, and then traveled a great distance to see her family for Thanksgiving—only to have them call the police and turn her in? She then, embarrassingly for her, resigned.

Finally, Dr. Birx says she can’t hear very well, but I can. There was no “very difficult” phone call, other than Dr. Birx’s policies that would have led us directly into a COVID caused depression. She was a very negative voice who didn’t have the right answers. Time has proven me correct. I only kept Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx on because they worked for the U.S. government for so long—they are like a bad habit!

Joey D
3/30/21

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Iowa 2 House race finally resolved

https://hotair.com/archives/jo...allenge-iowa-2-race/

Democrat Rita Hart Withdraws Challenge In Iowa-2 Race

Last December, Democrat Rita Hart decided she would skip the courts in Iowa and appeal her 6-vote loss in the Iowa-2 congressional district directly to Congress. Speaker Pelosi wound up seating the certified winner of that race, Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks but this month it seemed Democrats were serious about relitigating the outcome and possible handing the seat over to Rita Hart.

Today Hart suddenly withdrew her appeal but she didn’t exactly concede the election

As recently as Monday, lawyers for Hart were arguing for overturning the certified results of the election, but some Democrats were increasingly worried about the optics this would create.

So the final contested race of the 2020 election is over on the final day of March 2021. Initially, Rita Hart claimed she bypassed the courts because resolving the race there would take too long. But as it turned out another contested race that did go through the courts (NY-22) was settled nearly two months ago. This race could have also been settle weeks ago if Hart had simply appealed the outcome instead of trying to hand the decision over to Nancy Pelosi.