More Fraud Convictions

5/14/26 CBS News:

A woman who earned a West Michigan Woman of the Year award will serve over five years in federal prison for a $1.4 million fraud scheme that misdirected money meant for preschool services, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Michigan said.

Nkechy Ezeh, 61, of Kent County, was sentenced on Wednesday in U.S. District Court to 70 months on fraud and a concurrent 60 months for evading income taxes, the district attorney's office said. She was ordered to start serving the prison time immediately.

Ezeh was also ordered to pay a total of $1.4 million in restitution to the victims of the scheme, along with $390,174 to the Internal Revenue Service.

Her nonprofit organization, Early Learning Neighborhood Collaborative, shuttered in 2023, with 35 people laid off as a result, the district attorney's office said.

A million here, a billion there, to paraphrase Sen. Bayh, after a while, it adds up to real money. If all this welfare state funding was making poor people better off, you might excuse the good intentions.

Someone Did Not Read the Last Page of the Book

Marc Elias, Democrat attorney, is so upset that the Virginia Suoreme Court told them their gerrymandering was unconstitutional that he is quoting the Virginia Constitution's right to revolution clause. Is he proposing the people of Virginia abolish the state government which is entirely controlled by Democrats.  Sedition! Very J6, if you ask me. 

Democrats are fast losing the plot. As the meme says: Democrats have not been this upset at Republicans since they took away their slaves, prosecuted the KKK, and integrated public schools. 

Maybe the Blue Wave Will Not Happen

The Court ruled last week that the Voting Rights Act violated the Constitution.  Remember: "The only way to stop discrimination is to stop discriminating " 

5/11/26 SCOTUSBlog: Alabama adopted new non-racially discriminatory district lines in 2013, which of course infuriated the party which caused Congress to pass the Voting Rights Acts in 1965. which The courts blocked the new maps because Democrats are dependent on racist districts.

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The Court just applied last week's decision to Alabama.  Thry are now allowed to use the 2013 map.

Too Horrifying to Quote

5/12/26 Daily Mail describes the report of what was done to the October 7th victims. Useful for your friends who insist that the Israelis a

Dow 50K

The Dow Industrials are above 50K  i remember when Abby Cohen Goldman was hyping that it was going to break 20K just before the dot-com bust in 2000. I am not seeing the same sort of absurd overconfidence.  I am seeing a lot of doom and gloom sorts claiming the market is bubbillicous. Some have saying thus for many months. 

I wonder how much of this seeing the Democrats getting ready to fail to retake the House, and how much is an endorsement of Trump’s policies  

Not a Small Fraud Problem

 Over on X, I have been seeing TDS sufferers complaining that allegations of Medicare fraud are overblown and are just a small number of bad actors. The scale of bad actors matters.

5/14/26 CBS News:

The owner of a healthcare software company was convicted of massive Medicare fraud on Thursday, the Department of Justice said, ending what Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche called "one of the most egregious fraud schemes in Florida history." ...

Blackman and his co-conspirators billed Medicare and other federal healthcare benefit programs over $1 billion throughout the course of the scheme, the Department of Justice said. Medicare and the other programs paid out more than $450 million.

How in the Heck Did This Happen?

My wife wanted to reduce the mass of ammo to move, so we pulled it out and stacked it up.

And there are several thousand rounds of .223 below the table. If you are local and need .223,  308, 9mm, .380, .45; or  22LR, let me know. I need to pull some aside. If I can sell most of this at current prices, I can replace it in Tennessee. A few hundred rounds can move with us by car. But several thousand rounds takes up a lot of space and may make it harder to camouflage its nature in the car.

Another reason not to move it is that there is a small possibility that we might sell our house and need to move without a new house bought there so shipping it would be hard.