Go with us on this post and simply choose to play along by completing a simple exercise to get us started. Take a quick peek at this picture and answer this question as quickly as you can. How many “m”s are there in this photo?
Did you have to blink a lot? An untrained eye will have a little trouble seeing the subtle difference between an “M” and two “Ns” side by side especially when printed in the lower case “m” and “nn.” What is the point? Try comparing an “m” to an “r” and an “n” close together.
The written words Dotcom and Dotcorn almost look identical, don’t they? Even a technologically advanced machine scanner might miss this (.com or .corn) slight print variation, don’t you think? The difference is like a dot or hairline of ink.
So what exactly is all this talk about corn and #cornwatch on Twitter, most of which has been published by Senator Chuck Grassley for almost 5 years now? Senator Grassley’s Twitter/X account has an ear of corn on full display.
Does a US Senator really need to be doing videos showing that the corn is almost ready for harvest in Iowa as of September 13, 2020? A video like this would nearly be ignored by almost every person in Iowa, corn field country.
Or is Senator Grassley relaying a little different message, prepping the American people for some sort of bountiful harvest? His latest message looked like this. It looks like a clean house is a good thing? We report, your translate.
One thing people may quickly forget about Chuck Grassley is his involvement in the Hillary Clinton email scandal.
Senator Chuck Grassley: Newly released Clinton email “disturbing” (1/9/16)
The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee released a scathing statement Friday, calling on Hillary Clinton to “come clean” after the State Department released an email in which she asked an aide to send information on a non-secure system after attempts to send the document securely failed.
Sen. Chuck Grassley said the email, released at about 1:30 am Friday morning along with about 3,000 other emails from Clinton’s State Department tenure, is “disturbing,” and “appears to show the former Secretary of State instructing a subordinate to remove the headings from a classified document and send it to her in an unsecure manner.”
On June 16, 2011, top Clinton aide Jake Sullivan wrote to Clinton to say she would get “tps” – presumably short for “talking points” that evening. The subject of the email is redacted so it’s not clear what topic these points covered.
We found this story (The 15 must-read Clinton emails (11/30/15) so we could take a peek at some of the emails and quickly discovered that all links to each email result in a “404 – File not found” error.
Allow us to digress for a minute? When did Al Gore claim to have invented the internet? It looks like he made this claim / statement in a CNN interview in 1999.
During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the internet.
Al Gore later stated that “the internet (Arpanet) was born in the defense department in the 1960s.” Here is a map showing Arpanet in the 1970s.
The Defense Department commissioned the ARPANET in 1969, when Gore was a 21-year-old student at Vanderbilt.
Once established in Washington, however, Gore created the High-Performance Computing and Communications Act of 1991 (Gore Bill). The bill allocated $600 million for high performance computing, helped create the National Research and Educational Network and created the "Information Superhighway," according to the Internet Hall of Fame website. While he primarily works as chairman of The Climate Reality Project, he remains a member of the board of directors of Apple and senior advisor to Google.
In 2012, Al Gore was inducted into the Internet Society’s Hall of Fame for being a “global connector.”
Former Vice President Al Gore named Internet Society’s Hall of Fame inductee (4/24/12)
Other inductees into the Internet Society's Hall of Fame included the "Fathers of the Internet," Vint Cerf (Google's vice president) and Robert Kahn. Cerf and Kahn are categorized by the Hall of Fame as "Pioneers" for co-inventing the TCP/IP protocols.
These are quite high honors, wouldn’t you say? Inventor of the internet, founding father of the information super highway, a close associate of the “pioneers” responsible for co-inventing TCP/IP protocols establishing the very base/foundation for the worldwide web.
It is almost like a partnership between Big Tech and government.
At the very least, Al Gore would have had access to the resources and business acumen that would be required to create a dot.com or even a dot.corn world.
So back to the Clinton email scandal that Grassley was investigating. Our team found this link entitled Hillary Clinton Email Archive. We did a test and ran a search of all emails with “.com” in them. What would you expect that total to be? Well, all of them right? Every email address should have .com attached, right? The results showed 29866 for .com.
The interesting part is that we ran another search for “.corn.” This search resulted in 329 emails so we searched these emails to find .corn in the text or header.
The weird part is that we weren’t always able to locate .corn. Do you think this detail may be located in the metadata only, or extracted from the email text or headers? This is one email sample from the .corn list.
Setting aside the Hillary Clinton email scandal, what other mundane news is Senator Chuck Grassley involved with lately?
As a direct result of the senators’ oversight, Credit Suisse, which was recently acquired by UBS Group AG, committed to further investigate its apparent role in supporting Nazis fleeing from justice after WWII via “ratlines” and to provide more detailed data about the value of accounts held during the post-1945 period.
So whether Grassley is shooting #cornwatch videos, offering house cleaning tips, or simply taking down Nazi linked bank accounts, one thing is clear. POTUS Donald J Trump and his legal team, working in concert with Space Force, are about to bring forth a bountiful harvest.
Get your popcorn ready as it looks like the corn is ready for harvest! Will this expose the vast and wide world of dotcorn? And is there a link to Twitter/X in all of this cryptic chatter? Mean tweets may soon take on a whole new meaning.
And don’t forget the point of all of this talk about a hairline of ink here and a dot of ink there. Is it that big of a deal? Don’t ask us…..ask an electronic voting machine (EVM) how it sees a dot of ink. It looks like Fani Willis may clearly know how important a precious dot of ink can be.
A happy Labor day weekend to each of you as we all enjoy the fruits of our labors!