GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Gooferment ignores the obvious solution?

Tuesday, March 6, 2018

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/nutria-should-we-eat-invasive-species-swamp-rats-12726054.php

Giant swamp rats are poised to dig into California. Should we eat ’em?
By Filipa Ioannou Updated 5:12 am, Sunday, March 4, 2018

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It’s been about a month since California wildlife officials started sounding the alarm on nutria, invasive South American rodents that look like enormous, 20-pound rats and have the power to devastate wetlands. They’re making a comeback after being eradicated in the 1970s and have been spotted in Stanislaus, Fresno, Tuolumne and Merced counties so far.

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Turn the hunting community loose on them. 

Have the “Governor’s Prize” for the biggest, the most, and the last one shot in a “season”.

Instead of being against “guns”, put them to use.

Seems obvious to me.

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GUNS: Lawrence O’Donnell flubs on gun tactics

Monday, March 5, 2018

https://bearingarms.com/tom-k/2018/02/28/anti-gunners-think-bullets-rifles-fast-countered-handguns/

 

Anti-Gunners Think Bullets From Rifles Too Fast To Be Countered With Handguns
Posted at 4:00 pm on February 28, 2018 by Tom Knighton

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By now, we know that many of the people who will pontificate on matters of firearms tend to be clueless on actual firearms. They think they know all they need to know, so they opine on the topic and think people should just agree with them because they’re oh-so-very-smart.

However, these oh-so-very-smart people are usually kind of dumb. Or, at the very least, they say some really dumb stuff.

The latest example comes from the current gun debate, where many of us–myself included–are arguing that armed teachers could well counter mass shootings.

It seems that some think handguns simply aren’t enough to counter rifle-wielding madmen.

Every now and again I’m rendered speechless by the lengths the left will go to in order to scare people into compliance when it comes to their ideas about guns.

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell took the cake when he suggested that anyone wielding a handgun is no match for someone with a rifle because the bullet from rifle travels faster.

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Argh!

How stupid can you be? But you don’t know you’re being “dumb”, but you should be able to know that you don’t know a lot of stuff. No slam on anyone. No one could possible know everything, or even everything about one thing.

But when you’re a “leader in media” with a big megaphone, you have an obligation to be informed. With experts at their beck and call, why not let someone, who’s an expert on the topic, give their opinion.

It’s dogma that a mass shooter can be rushed when reloading. It’s not hard to envision that a “victim”, with a concealed carry weapon, can use that interval to put a few holes in mass shooter. Unless the mass shooter has trained reloading, there is a good chance it’ll take a few extra seconds and he may jam the weapon.

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INTERESTING: Have to update my “strategy” for final Jeopardy

Sunday, March 4, 2018

http://ew.com/tv/2018/03/02/jeopardy-tiebreaker/

Jeopardy! makes history with first-ever sudden death tiebreaker

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Jeopardy! history was made when two contestants competed during the final tournament of Thursday’s episode. While all three of the show’s competitors wrote in wrong submissions for the Channel Islands prompt, Laura and Sarah found themselves in a tie, which led to the first-ever Final Jeopardy! tiebreaker.

The tiebreaker rules were announced in 2016: “If there are two or three players tied for first place after each contestant unveils their Final Jeopardy! response, [host] Alex [Trebek] will present one more category and read the clue. The clue has no dollar value and does not increase the player’s winnings.”

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I didn’t know they changed the rules.

Personally, I don’t see any reason not to have c0-champions other that to save a few bucks.

Back when you could have them, I thought the leader should wager for a tie unless it was a blow out. This way, two folks would collect.

Now that it’s no longer a possibility, I guess the leader needs to play to win by a buck.

Sigh!

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SURVIVAL: Don’t think it could NEVER happen to you

Saturday, March 3, 2018

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2018/03/no_author/what-civil-unrest-is-really-like-we-survived-the-ferguson-riots/

What Civil Unrest Is Really Like: We Survived the Ferguson Riots
By Karen Morris — The Organic Prepper — March 1, 2018

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  • Don’t think it could NEVER happen to you.  
  • Being ready for the unexpected is a MUST! 
  • Learn to use social media to your advantage. 
  • Having items that you keep in your car all the time is VERY helpful in case you ever need to leave quickly. 
  • Watch for the effects that stressful situations may be having on your children. 

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“Normalcy bias” kills.

We see, that in a crisis, a large percentage of people “freeze” unable to take action.

Wonder how you develop that “bias to action” without always “running around with your hair on fire”?

Not sure how this helps but I’m going to get a go bag in my cars.

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HEALTH: Healthy eating has the potential to not only prevent, but reverse some of our leading causes of death

Friday, March 2, 2018

https://youtu.be/xnKaOL2IBPY

Food as Medicine | Michael Greger, M.D. | TEDxSedona
Published on Feb 28, 2018

According to the Global Burden of Disease study (the largest study of disease risk factors in history; funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation) the #1 cause of both death and disability in the United States is our diet. Cigarettes now only kill about a half million Americans every year, whereas our diet appears to kill hundreds of thousands more. The good news is that means we have tremendous power over our health destiny and longevity. Healthy eating has the potential to not only prevent, but reverse some of our leading causes of death including heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and high blood pressure. Why, then, is nutrition not the #1 thing taught in medical school? American physician, author, and speaker on public health issues, particularly the benefits of a whole foods, plant-based diet and the harms of eating animal products. He is a vegan and the creator of NutritionFacts.org. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community.

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I follow Doc Greger’s advice as best I can. It’s very hard to retain yourself after a lifetime of bad eating. Hopefully, the readers will save themselves a lot of pain and heartache (literally) and try it.

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FACT | FICTION: Loretta Lynch used an email alias to avoid the FOIA?

Thursday, March 1, 2018

2018-Mar-01

Today on Varney & Company, Fox News reported that Loretta Lynch used the alias “Elizabeth Carlisle” for email purposes while she was BHO44’s attorney general avoiding the FOI records retention. 

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LIBERTY: Freedom of religion is under attack?

Thursday, March 1, 2018

https://apnews.com/6872c40ed84f4ceb83d179d368fb00b5/Mennonite-investigator-jailed-after-refusing-to-testify

Mennonite investigator jailed after refusing to testify
By COLLEEN SLEVIN
42 minutes ago 

[NB: found on 2018-Feb-28 1031]

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DENVER (AP) — A defense investigator in a Colorado death penalty case is behind bars after refusing to testify for prosecutors, saying that helping their effort to execute a defendant would violate her religious beliefs.

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The report really doesn’t expose WHY this testimony is needed?

That being said, I am concerned about this intrusion on “religious liberty”.

Seems like this is an attack on religious liberty.

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