Florida man arrested after refusing to remove obscene sticker from window

Wednesday, May 8, 2019

Webb said he wasn’t even aware of the state’s obscenity law, but after reviewing it since his arrest, he said it needs to be changed. He acknowledged that his sticker could be considered vulgar by some, but the law doesn’t really define what that is.

Source: Florida man arrested after refusing to remove obscene sticker from window

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“We, The Sheeple”shouldn’t have to fight for their First Amendment rights.

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Thomas Midgley, Jr. may have been the most environmentally disastrous person of all time | Popular Science

Monday, May 6, 2019

In just over a decade, tetraethyl lead gasoline—under the brand name Ethyl, cunningly not mentioning the “lead” bit—had actually captured 80 per cent of the US market. All the way, General Motors and Midgley insisted it was safe, despite plenty of what you might call “warning signs.” Huge flashing neon warning signs. Like the fact that in February 1923, when Ethyl first went on sale, Midgley himself had to take the whole month off work due to ill-health caused by the lead fumes. Or like the fact that workers at the factories that made the fuel kept on dying a lot. Five workers died from lead poisoning at the Bayway plant in New Jersey, and 35 were hospitalized, many of them driven insane by the neurological effects of lead—”the patient becomes violently maniacal, shouting, leaping from the bed, smashing furniture and acting as if in delirium tremens” one report recorded.

Source: Thomas Midgley, Jr. may have been the most environmentally disastrous person of all time | Popular Science

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Poor fellow made a “mistake”, but note the impact of the Gooferment’s “patent system” at the root of this and many other problems.

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What to do when US law enforcement asks for your password

Monday, May 6, 2019

Whether or not these tactics are lawful or Constitutional is a matter that has yet to be fully settled in the courts. This leaves a lot of gray area for travelers to worry about when it comes to privacy.

Source: What to do when US law enforcement asks for your password

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Personally, I’d say “hell no” and be prepared to buy a new phone.

YMMV

Clearly, it’s unconstitutional.

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‘Deep Sleep’: How an Amateur Porn Film Set Off A Massive Federal Witch Hunt

Sunday, May 5, 2019

“But Deep Sleep did have its consequences. I realized it was going to make my legitimate acting career virtually impossible. There had just been too much publicity and too much prejudice, and I was too well known at that point. Which is kind of sad. But you can’t turn back the clock. And I have no regrets because I think it was important that we fought. I’m glad that they picked on us, because we didn’t cave in. You can’t have regrets about anything you’ve done—only about the things you didn’t do.”

Source: ‘Deep Sleep’: How an Amateur Porn Film Set Off A Massive Federal Witch Hunt

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Interesting story about an “adult topic”.

All the time I was reading it, I kept asking “were was i?” because I don’t remember it at all.

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Toilets & Skyscrapers: How Chicagoland’s Elite Push Property Tax Bills Onto Average Joes

Saturday, May 4, 2019

Authored by Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner via Wirepoints.org, Many of Chicagoland’s elite know exactly how to pass the property-tax buck onto other residents. For decades they’ve used their powerful connections to cut their own property tax bills and push the costs onto other unsuspecting residents.

Source: Toilets & Skyscrapers: How Chicagoland’s Elite Push Property Tax Bills Onto Average Joes

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“Assessed value” has always been a scam.  Taxes are theft.  If we have to be “robbed”, then let’s use the purchase price of the property whenever that last sale was.  There’s no “opinion” or way to fudge that fact.

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Call Anti-Abortion Lies What They Are: Incitements to Violence | The Mary Sue

Friday, May 3, 2019

It gets tiring being forced to explain, over and over, what later abortion is at this point, yet incessant right-wing obsession with it as a salient political talking point have made it clear that this isn’t a topic that’s going away any time soon. There is far more extensive, accurate, and thorough reading about later abortion, but all in all, it’s a normal, safe, legal, and often medically necessary procedure, often to protect the woman’s health, or safely address extreme fetal anomalies. Yes, it’s rare, but that doesn’t make it any less normal or medically necessary.

Source: Call Anti-Abortion Lies What They Are: Incitements to Violence | The Mary Sue

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As a pro-life little L libertarian, I think “abortion” is a national disaster. With its Margaret Sanger Nazi-like eugenics, it is contra-species-survival and on that basis the current Gooferment policy is immoral, ineffective, and inefficient. As well as untrustworthy. Clearly, we need to have a more rational less-heated discussion about the principles and policies. Any true “pro-life advocate can no more advocate violence or killing without betraying their principles.

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Inside Sanders’ Soviet ‘honeymoon’ – GreenwichTime

Friday, May 3, 2019

The trip garnered brief mention in the 2016 presidential campaign, but earlier this year, a video from a Vermont community television station was posted online that showed a few minutes of Sanders’ unlikely celebration with the Soviets. Right-leaning websites suggested Sanders was cozying up to communists, underscoring how the trip might be used against the senator if he becomes the Democratic nominee.

Until now, however, relatively few details about the trip have emerged, and most accounts have relied heavily on Sanders’s recollection. An examination by The Washington Post of the trip – based on interviews with five people who accompanied Sanders, as well as audio and video of it – provides a fresh look at this formative time for Sanders, foreshadowing much of what animates his presidential bid.

Source: Inside Sanders’ Soviet ‘honeymoon’ – GreenwichTime

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Interesting that they called Trump a “manchurian candidate” for “Russian collusion”.

Here’s a “manchurian candidate” running in plain sight.

I don’t understand?

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Can Walnuts Help Prevent Inflammation And Brain Decline? | Worldhealth.net Anti-Aging News

Thursday, May 2, 2019

An earlier study published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease revealed walnuts help to provide protections against the brain wasting disease; animals studies showed adhering to a walnut rich diet lead to significant improvements in learning skills, memory, motor development, and reduced anxiety.

Source: Can Walnuts Help Prevent Inflammation And Brain Decline? | Worldhealth.net Anti-Aging News

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Eat your walnuts to stay out of “the (old age) home”!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: the Gooferment is immoral, ineffective, and inefficient. As well as untrustworthy.

Thursday, May 2, 2019

2019-May-02

FROM DGiT Daily 

How NASA’s two failed rocket launches came from fraudulent metals

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An incredible story of deception emerged in full yesterday, as NASA revealed the details of a decade-long investigation into two launch failures.

The cause? A metal manufacturer, which produced poor quality materials and then deliberately faked the test results to make sure they got paid.

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What NASA and the DoJ said:

“For nearly 20 years, Sapa Profiles and Sapa Extrusions falsified critical tests on the aluminum they sold—tests that their customers, including the U.S. government, depended on to ensure the reliability of the aluminum they purchased,” said Assistant Attorney General Brian Benczkowski in a DoJ statement.

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So you mean to tell me that for TWENTY YEARS no one thought to verify what was being presented as true?

Didn’t  Regan say: “Trust; but verify!”?

Argh!

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Time to End All Foreign Aid – The Future of Freedom Foundation

Wednesday, May 1, 2019

Yes, foreign aid should be cut to Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador, and cut completely and permanently. But foreign aid should also be cut to Israel ($3.3 billion requested for 2019), Egypt ($1.38 billion requested for 2019), Jordan ($1.275 billion requested for 2019), Afghanistan ($632.8 million requested for 2019), and Kenya ($624.3 requested for 2019). Even the $100,000 earmarked for Suriname in 2019 should be withheld.

That is because not one penny should be taken from a single American taxpayer and given to foreign governments, U.S. contractors, NGOs, relief organizations, or individual foreigners.

If it is not the proper role of the U.S. government to provide charity, fight poverty, provide job training, undertake disaster relief, fight disease, feed the hungry, increase literacy, build infrastructure, and drill wells for Americans, then it is certainly inappropriate to do those things for foreigners.

Doling out foreign aid is one of the most blatantly unconstitutional things that Congress does. The list of powers granted to the federal government in Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution includes nothing remotely related to foreign assistance. And there are no exceptions for natural disasters, humanitarian concerns, national interest, or political objectives.

Source: Time to End All Foreign Aid – The Future of Freedom Foundation

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Yup.  End it all.  “We” — “We, The Sheeple” — are broke and in debt!

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