Note that the flag beside President Biden does not have gold trim at the summit with Putin. See below for Biden standing in front of flag WITH gold-trim and the meaning. Whereas, when the president speaks to U.S. citizens, who are the people of Guam, PR and other territories, he speaks beside a gold-trimmed flag […]
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Nantucket is an island. Do people live on it or in it?
Real world or fiction – There are two things happening, which is thou agreeing to?
There are two things happening when dealing with a government: real world and fiction. A baby is born. That is real world. A persona is birthed. That’s fiction. A man is traveling in a conveyance not for hire. That is real world. A person is driving for hire and is stopped for traffic (commerce) violation. […]
The word ‘suspect’ replaced by ‘person of interest’ to commercialize police activity
[ Update – A friend pointed out that the word ‘suspect’ implies guilt and should be replaced. I’d still like something better than a phrase that uses the word ‘person’ as that means persona and a corporation.] More proof that the powers-that-be change the language to trick us is apparent in that the word ‘suspect‘ […]
Supreme Court affirms that BOTH states and USA are sovereign, separately
The United States Supreme Court recently affirmed the theory that “federal and state governments are separate constitutional actors with their own sovereign authority,” wrote Robert Barnes for the Washington Post. This involved a case where the court ruled that people can be tried for the same crime by both federal and state governments. A man […]
The film is called ‘The Accused’ not ‘The Defendants’
The ‘accused’ is the man or woman charged with a crime. It’s not the defendant. Something I read recently made me realize this distinction. I don’t know etymology of the word ‘defendant’ or why it’s something to be avoided, but I do know the ‘accused’ seems like the more appropriate label. And the old movie […]
Banks on a river, not for money
Nautical or maritime words are everywhere. Even the word ‘bank’ literally means a river bank. Ships pull up to the bank. They assume I’m a master/mister of a vessel and banked at the river. I expect I need to find a ‘savings and loan’ or a ‘safe deposit’ company, though even the word deposit/depose is […]
Traffic means movement of goods, as in the movie Traffic, about drug trafficking
The movie Traffic tells me that ‘traffic’ means to trade or deal in a commodity or service (definition). Did the police man make a ‘traffic’ stop? Not if I’m not trading or dealing in goods. They call it a traffic stop to convert traveling into a commercial activity, called trafficking, they can then regulate. Trafficking […]
An odd part of the tax code and how Alaska and Texas were states before they were states
Before Alaska and Texas were States in the Union, they were considered states in the area under the exclusive jurisdiction of the federal government. That the word ‘state’ can mean two different things shows how the federal tax code can be confusing. When people read the word ‘state’, they think of the 50 states in […]
Dockets, Master, Bar – Administrative courts are vessels in dry-dock
The article said, “The online court docket noted that Judge Leonard Hanser will be ‘out of session’ on that date.” Docket is a maritime term.A docket can be defined as “a piece of paper accompanying or referring to a package or other delivery, stating contents, delivery instructions, etc, sometimes serving as a receipt.” Why are […]