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07/26/20 02:37 AM #18575    

 

Janalu Jeanes (Parchman)

I wanted to post some notes I've gathered from reading Jason Chaffetz's book about what he had to deal with before he decided to exit Washington DC, as a Representative.  He had become thoroughly frustrated by all the ridiculous and criminal misdeeds he had had to endure.  What he had to say was "eye-opening" and scary.

The Deep State is very REAL, and is not, as the Democrats will say, "a conspiracy theme of the Republicans."

Deep State employees are actually civil servants working continuously, without ever answering to voters or being elected by voters, who do the biggest bulk of paperwork in every administration.  Deep State is the term coined by Congress members who had to deal with bureaucrats who don't get elected every few years, but continue from Congress to Congress, and Presidency to Presidency to really run the government, and they could care less about 'you' the voter.  Chaffetz tells of career civil service workers who just wait out the next 8 years for whoever is in office, and continue to do their thing their own way because they've been at their desk for the past 20 yrs., or 30 yrs., and they enjoy the nice salaries they receive, while no one truly checks on what they actually produce.

The basic strategy of the Deep State is to shield bureaucratic institutions (their operations within) from Congressional control and thus from voter control as well.  They exist to CONTROL INFORMATION, but they don't like exposure, accountability, or responsibility of what they do, or how.  Despite checks and balancs in Congress, they are not being utilized---So, for many of us, our faith in government is waning badly.  We need to put transparency back in our government immediately.

Some of you may have watched C-SPAN on TV, and you likely have seen first-hand the day to day dealings of the Deep State wranglings that go on between the "civil service workers" and the Congress men and women who try to get the documents they need for their investigations and confirmations, but are often met with obstinence and disobedience, since many in the "Deep State," don't want to assist a particular Congress of a particular president they despise.

The Deep State continues to impede progress and efficiency within the government daily, at will, with little oversight from superiors, who are "in on the scheme."

At the time of the Benghazi scandal, the Deep State blocked, distorted and manipulated the truth recorded in State Dept. documents, from the Representatives who were investigating & trying to discover what had transpired, since it was found out that Susan Rice had lied about what had happened the night of the tragic murder of our ambassador.

At the moment, the Deep State is resisting Trump's agenda, as they are(most of them) loyal Democrats who prefer Obama's agenda, therfore, they do their best to scuttle Trump's preferences, if at all possible.

Some of these employees make higher salaries that our Representatives, and they receive sterling health benefits, similar to our Congress members, which can not be taken from them, unless they are fired, which is extremely rare.  Even Lois Lerner, who was found to have lied to Congress about her scheme fo denying many non-profit applications their ability to obtain 501c-3 status, simply because she didn't want them to exist to gather money against Obama.  She "swore the 5th," so she didn't have to testify against herself, then she promptly retired, so now she still receives a nice pension and retains her great health insurance.  She will receive no punishment for the disservice she did to American citizens, and gets away scot free.  She is only one of many who have done the same.  And the Deep State protected her all the way, since she worked as one of them.  They protect their own always.

The Deep State is so extensive, our Congress is too small to deal with it.  Rep. Chaffetz saw all of the abuse first-hand, and received no help from AG Sessions who refused to take on any issues concerning what had happened under Obama, for reasons unknown to Chaffetz, who was extremely angry, to say the least.  Chaffetz suspects Sessions has some secret he is trying to keep covered up, like many other folks who have worked for the government.

Essentially, the Deep State is trying to 'take down' Trump any possible way they can, while doing so on the 'QT,' yet they are fooling no one, except the public.

All of these civil service employees work throughout the government in all of the various agencies, doing their deeds quietly, undercover of what the citizens are aware of, and they are destroying the US from within, by their maneuvers and manipulations.

John Koskinen was the supervisor over Lois Lerner, but he declared that he had no info about how Ms. Lerner could have done what she was accused of.  He made sure that her emails and the documents she worked on never met the light of day.  He lied to Congress, but got off scot free.

Another agency, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau...created by Elizabeth Warren under Obama, was purposely designed to bypass Congress and the checks and balances, and also oversight.  It is funded by the Federal Reserve, which means Congress can't cut its purse strings.  What do they (CFPB) spend their money on?  No one knows, but they are a very large agency which is accountable to no one.  "They need to be shut down," according to Chaffetz and many others who have knowledge of it all.

The DOJ is a department which refuses to accept cases of contempt issued by Congress, unless they happen to agree with the charge.  They refused to investigate and charge Hillary, Eric Holder, Lois Lerner, and quite a few others.  These dishonest, accused people got off scot free with pensions and no punishment for crimes committed.  The lady AG at the time, Loretta Lynch, was doing the bidding of Obama who wanted to sweep these crimes under the rug, so she dutifully complied.

The Deep State benefits from NOT having the WALL/BARRIER built because they personally benefit from illegals entering our country, since all of the entries require a larger government to handle the masses of people, masses of paperwork and expanding social services.  It all means more of them are hired constantly.  Plus, they know that these immigrants will eventually become Democrat voters, in time.

The Deep State prints thousands of pages of irrelevant materials when a demand is made to turn over documents on some subject to Congress---a normal operational procedure for them---They hold back important documents that incriminate the person in question, or the issue at hand.  They publicly claim they have turned over tens of thousands of pages of documents, but most of them are copies of websites, copies of magazine articles, and other irrelevant material that has very little (or nothing) to do with the original demand.

The Deep State uses the media to subvert the truth to Americans, and they routinely disregard subpoenas.  They also defame/undermine potential whistle-blowers who try to expose their actions.

The Fast and Furious program was found out by Sharyl Attkisson, who identified the corruption as a massive and deadly disinformation plot, designed by the Obama Admin. to support their push for more restrictive gun controls, by precipitating violence and death with guns illegally sold to 'gun-runners'.  Hundreds of Mexicans were killed and even some US citizens, by guns trafficked by Holder and Obama.  It was a huge scandal but was never prosecuted because it was largely covered up with the help of Deep State manipulation of information asked for by Congress and the press.  Ultimately, Holder resigned to escape possible prosecution charges he saw brewing on the horizon, by savvy investigators learning the truth of the matter.

Chaffetz found out the there was undeniable info that the campaign to discredit Gen. Flynn was well underway before Inauguration Day 2017.  The Deep State was working with the FBI to provide documents the FBI wanted to 'frame" Flynn, by digging into the agencies that could provide info that was needed.

Americans need to take a stand and fight back against the Socialist Deep State.  Even though there is no office in our governmental buildings with door signs reading "Deep State," there is definitely a Deep State bureaucracy in our government that most Americans are unaware of.  It's time to fight their guile, their mischief, their malicious lies, and their goal of tearing down the sovereignty of the United States.

 

Please forgive the way I have typed this post, as I was using my written notes, which were not well organized, as I have been typing hurriedly tonight, with limited time to work.  Also, I have not totally finished the book by Jason Chaffetz, written after he resigned.  I urge everyone to read the book (which contains exact, verified examples of criminal acts, should you wish to see those examples) for more info that is very, very important for everyone to know before the upcoming election, in my opinion.  Republicans are trying to pass a bill to put a "freeze" on the hiring of more of the Deep State employees, and reign them in as much as possible.  Democrats deny that there is anything wrong at all.

 

Did you know that Google, Amazon, and other big high tech firms "rent" workers from foreign countries, paying them very little.  These workers are people on H1B visas.  This is all while the tech leaders are calling for higher minimum wages, etc.  The #1 employer of H1B employer is JP Morgan Chase.

 

 


07/26/20 03:34 AM #18576    

 

Janalu Jeanes (Parchman)

Happy Birthday Bob Davidson!

 

Ditto to Judy Soelter Spiva!  I remember going to your house for a sleepover and having so much fun with you, Virginia Hooter and Cindy Turner, when we were in the fourth grade together!  


07/26/20 10:11 AM #18577    

 

Steve Keene

Ron,

I editied #19565 to give the owner of La Bare in the early 1980's, Willie Sears.  Sometimes it takes me a day to recollect things in my old age.

Bob Davidson,

Have a great day and take solace in the fact that you are not as old as Cordell.

 


07/26/20 03:26 PM #18578    

 

Wayne Gary

David and others.

Great interview link

Code talkers, here are links to more info.

Cherokee and Choctaw had "Code talkers in WWI. 

https://www.ncdcr.gov/blog/2016/08/21/cherokee-code-talkers-and-allied-success-in-wwi

In WWII there were more than just Navaho "code talkers" in bothe Europe and Pacfic theators.  @@ diferent tribes had members doing "Code Talking"

https://www.history.com/news/world-war-is-native-american-code-talkers. 

Here is a short documentary about the Comanches "code talkers in WWII . The first message from the US beach on D-Day was in Comanche




07/26/20 04:35 PM #18579    

 

Wayne Gary

Here is a 26 min documentary about the Commanche "Code Talkers"

If you search "Code Talkers"  n You tube you can find a lot of short documentaries and interviews




07/26/20 05:23 PM #18580    

 

Ron Knight

Janalu

I saw Judy Soelter at the reunion and we talked a bit.  She said she had a crush on me. She was in my sixth grade class at Heights and I was smitten with her and by Beltline Junior High I asked her to go steady. I don't know what happened after that. I didn't call or write and didn't know WHAT to do or say after she accepted. So my BIG chance just "poof" went up in smoke. My older brother wasn't very good at instructions for me after the going steady part!!!

Tell her hi for me again and Happy Birthday!!!

Ron

PS - I'm on a reading binge right now and I will check out The Deep State. Also, Judy's younger sister, Gerry is best friends with my  former sister-in-law Shauna Taylor Kaufman. I've talked many times over the years with Gerry.


07/26/20 05:40 PM #18581    

 

David Cordell

Ron,

Sometimes my eyes move faster than my brain. Well, lots of times. Anyway, I was reading your post quickly and the way I read it was "I was smitten by her belt line." I know that's not what you meant or wrote. Still, it caused me to think -- in my recollections, such as they are, of being smitten, the focus of my attention was never the belt line.


07/26/20 05:42 PM #18582    

 

Ron Knight

DAVID

TOO FUNNY!!!!!!! 

And perhaps my focus was not on the belt line as well!!


07/27/20 12:59 AM #18583    

 

Steve Keene

Ron,

I think we both might have been hem line guys.


07/27/20 11:13 AM #18584    

 

Hollis Carolyn Heyn

Diane Soelter was in class of 71. I know we were in at least one Heights class together but can't remember which one.

07/27/20 11:20 AM #18585    

 

Hollis Carolyn Heyn

So many of you 69ers have younger siblings I knew at Heights or at least by West and RHS time: Nancy Mize, Bitsy Shannon, Wes Jeanes, Jeff Woodward, Fred Hawes, Linda Kirklen, Karin Anderson's bro Dane, Jane Wallace, Mike Bedwell to name a few.

07/27/20 02:39 PM #18586    

 

Hollis Carolyn Heyn

Kevyn Jones, Jane Dixon, Kathy Foster.

07/27/20 03:11 PM #18587    

 

David Cordell

Kathy Griffin was honored by the Los Angeles Democratic Party as a "Profile in Courage," recalling the title of the JFK book. Biden spoke (by recording of course) at the event. Here's the link.

https://www.lacdp.org/jfk2020

A reminder of what some people think of as courage.

 


07/27/20 03:28 PM #18588    

 

Bob Davidson

To the 69th organizers:

Thank you for the postponement.  I am frankly still a little nervous about being too much in public right now.


07/27/20 03:46 PM #18589    

 

Janalu Jeanes (Parchman)

Hollis,

It's true that there were many older and younger brothers and sisters that I knew too, and I'm sure many in the class of '69 had the same experience.  Since my parents had lived in Richardson from early 1951, our family had become acquainted with so many familes, that when I was planning my wedding with my Mom, she insisted that we plan a big wedding, when I would have preferred a small one.  She told me, "But Janalu, we have many people we should invite, since we have so many friends here," so-o-o-o, as you might guess, we had a fairly big wedding.  It turned out very nice and was all a lot of fun, therefore I have no complaints about it all, but Charles and I laugh when we think back to the night we originally told my parents that we just wanted a little celebration that wouldn't cost an-arm-and-a-leg!  BUT, we should have known that my Mom would have the last word, as she usually always did!  HA!

My parents had friends from church from the early days, like the Addington family, the Meyer family, the Warringtons, the Huffines, the Verys, the Millicans, the Rookers, the Arnold Barnes family, the George family, the Bynums,  (Mrs. Bynum was our RISD Spanish teacher) the sausage-making folks--the Owen's family too, etc., plus my Dad was on the board of directors at Citizen's State Bank, and knew all of those people as well, like the owner of Sun Rexall Drugs, etc., so it is true that our family was very familiar with lots of great folks in good ol' Richardson! 

One Sunday morning, at church, when my good buddy Barbara Campbell and I were about to go to our Sunday class of fifth graders, as we did every Sunday morning, Barbara had the brilliant idea to skip the class, & go over to Sun Rexall to read movie magazines, etc.  Then, she explained, "We will be back in time to go to the sanctuary for the usual sermon service, with our parents, like we always did."  I tried to tell her that "Too many people know us around here, and we will get caught!".... But she laughed at me and called me "Chicken!"  So, I gave in and went with her, against my better judgment....

Well, you can guess what happened, right?

Yep!  Someone saw us, and told on us, (we never found out who it was!) -----but we silly girls ended up 'grounded' for a couple of weeks for our naughtiness.  I KNEW it would turn out that way, but my goofy "friend" twisted my arm, and I caved!


07/27/20 03:50 PM #18590    

 

Bob Davidson

Ron,

Our Boy Scout troop 897 received the Historic Trails award for mapping and hiking the Old Preston Trail from Dallas to Lake Texoma in the summer of 1966.  Steve Bryant, Keith Kendall, Jeff Latimer, and I (all RHS alums) with a great deal of help from Mr. Levy (Joel's dad), one of our assistant scoutmasters, looked over the old maps, documents, and photos and found that there were still wagon grooves, trail marks, ruined bridges over creeks, and other indicators of the route.  All of the over twelve guys started the hike and it took us about a week to complete. The adult leaders hiked with us for a day or two, then swapped off with other adults who brought fresh food -- and took home the kids who couldn't take the heat, blisters, or exertion.  Most of us lasted the whole way.  The modern highway was a straight line; the old trail meandered with the contours of the land, mostly within a mile or so of the highway.

One memory: when we went by the Frisco municipal pool, we took a swimming break.  A couple of cute girls Jeff and I were talking to thought we were incredible liars about hiking that far in the summer heat. 

We had to get permission from the landowners to cross their properties and to camp.  Everyone we talked to was incredibly nice. Some of them told us family stories about the Preston Trail or their family history.  Most nights, they would come and visit us at our campsite.

It was one of the highlights of my teen years.

 

 

 

 

 


07/27/20 04:38 PM #18591    

 

David Cordell

Bob, when going through Frisco, did you happen to come across (or remember) land owned by the Box family? Don Box was a classmate at St. Mark's and his father Cloyce, the landowner, had been a wide receiver on the Detroit Lions. They owned lots of land in Frisco. 


07/27/20 04:53 PM #18592    

 

Hollis Carolyn Heyn

Janalu, my parents banked at Citizens. Wish I could remember the employee's name who helped them with several loans, one for two office units down on Cedar Springs, one for my dad's practice and the other he rented to a young architect. Do you remember that toy store around the back of the Citizens building?

07/27/20 05:41 PM #18593    

 

Ron Knight

Bob

That must have been a feat to walk all that way (feet - pun to Steve K) back in the 60's - maybe more so today. I doubt a scout troop would attempt it today.


07/27/20 06:30 PM #18594    

Jean Beal

Thanks for the update on the Party! Do we need to cancel our hotel reservations, or will the whole block of rooms be cancelled? Look forward to a better time and even more to celebrate!!

07/27/20 07:01 PM #18595    

 

Ron Knight

More from Kirk Dooley's Book - Hidden Dallas

This next excerpt I find interesting due to the number of RHS Class of 69 folks that got into the restaurant business!

... There have been other firsts, which are tangible, even today. The Steak and Ale restaurant on Lemmon Avenue is the first Steak and Ale ever built, ...

The originator of the concept is Dallasite Norman Brinker, who came to this area from San Diego. He had been a member of the U.S. Olympic Equestrian Team and married Maureen Connolly, the internationally famous tennis star of the 1950's. Brinker was working with a man who was developing the concept of drive-thru windows for fast food eateries. The man had less than a dozen Jack-in-the-Box restaurants when he asked Brinker if he wanted to take charge of the southwest expansion of this new concept. Brinker jumped at the chance and moved his wife and two small daughters to Dallas.

While business was booming for Brinker he lost his wife, "Little Mo", to cancer. A movie "Little Mo"  was made about the popular former Wimbledon champion. Their daughter, Cindy Brinker, launched what has become one of the largest cancer fundraisers in the country, "A Weekend to Wipeout Cancer," at The Norman Brinker's Willow Bend Polo and Hunt Club.

Brinker sold his interest in Steak and Ale to Pillsbury, making him the largest individual stockholder of the giant corporation. He later accepted the presidency of Pilllsbury's Burger King division.

Cashing out of Chili's was its creator, Larry Lavine. A Highland Park native, Lavine owned and operated one of North Dallas' top teenage dance clubs of all time - The Studio Club in Preston Center, which had it's heyday in the early '60s.

He then opened a restaurant at the corner of Lovers Lane and Greenville, calling it Kitty Hawk. The concept was good, but not great. ( The interior featured a real airplane in the middle of the room.)

Always wanting to enter the burger market, he opened the first Chili's at the corner of Greenville and Meadow. That concept appeared to offer more promise, so when the decision came to expand Kitty Hawk or Chili's, he went with Chili's.

The concept has spawned many imitators but grew to a healthy size before Brinker bought out Lavine, making him a multi-millionaire.

Stay safe and healthy and read a book!

 


07/27/20 07:29 PM #18596    

 

Janalu Jeanes (Parchman)

Yes, Hollis!

That toy store was run by Ruth and Cleon Thomasson, who lived behind us when we lived on a short street in East Richardson, called Hillcrest Ave., which was always funny to me because it was no avenue, but rather an ordinary street with no curbs.

The Thomassons were good friends of my parents, and actually were friends to us 4 kids too, because they watched us all grow up for years, as we watched their two sons, Gary and Larry.  Their family went to our church like many others in our neighborhood, so we saw them practically every day.  Ruth was one of the sweetest ladies I have ever known.  She talked to my mother all the time over the fence, when the two of them were hanging clothes out to dry.  She called my mother "Ruthie," since the two of them had the same name.  That nickname always made my mother laugh---no one else ever called her that!


07/27/20 07:43 PM #18597    

 

Hollis Carolyn Heyn

Wow Janalu! I would say a toy store owner would be fun and imaginative - a person of whimsy. The store was relatively short lived. Why didn't it last long?
I think RHS English Her Majesty Mrs. Gant lived over on Hillcrest, didn't she? Loved her.

07/27/20 07:51 PM #18598    

 

David Cordell

Jean, the note below is from the Hyatt Sales Manager, but I would be inclined to cancel on my own, anyway.

-------------------

I am sorry to hear you need to cancel, but we completely understand. We will cancel this in our system and all reservations will be automatically cancelled as well.

I look forward to working with you once this all passes!

Warm Regards,

Trevor Boshers

Sales Manager

HYATT REGENCY DALLAS

300 Reunion Boulevard, Dallas, TX 75207, USA

T +1.214.712.7264  E Trevor.Boshers@hyatt.com

dallasregency.hyatt.com


07/27/20 10:25 PM #18599    

 

Janalu Jeanes (Parchman)

I got a message that Bill Brown has died.  So sorry to hear this news, and I'm wondering if this is the same Bill Brown who played piano so very well, one of the students of Ida Kaufman, who taught many of us youngsters our piano lessons?

Mrs. Kaufman organized a recital, once upon a time, at the First Methodist Church on Belt Line Rd., with Bill Brown and Janalu Jeanes, playing some selected piano tunes as well as they could despite nervousness and scrutiny from many audience spectators, while she featured a vocal student she thought was very talented: a young lady whose name escapes me right now, but a very sweet and lovely young lassie, about the same age as Bill and Janalu at the time, (about fifth grade level) who sang like an angel.  She had a fantastic voice, was SO pretty too, but she moved away somewhere, shortly after that date.  Don't know what became of her, but I'm sure she continued to sing beautifully, and probably became somewhat famous, perhaps!

Carol was her first name.....I remember now.

My grandmother from Grapevine TX came to the recital to hear this vocalist, who was known to have such a lovely voice, being so very young ( she was amazing.)   My grandmother wanted to hear me play too, of course! (cough, cough!)

 

 

 

 

 


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