City Completes Process of Installing Paul Robeson Blvd. Signs | TAPinto

Thursday, June 13, 2019

Residents, business owners and leaders of houses of worship on the street are encouraged to begin the process of changing their addresses.

As of June 1, they will have up to 18 months to inform all agencies and businesses that the address on file and let them know of the change.

All addresses on the street will see a change in the street name, but the numerical part of the address will stay the same. For example, 1 Commercial Ave. will now be 1 Paul Robeson Blvd.

Source: City Completes Process of Installing Paul Robeson Blvd. Signs | TAPinto

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The signs are the cheap part of this change.

I’m imagining all the costs, inconveniences, and errors that imposed on “We, The Sheeple” to do this.  It’s a “tax” on living.

I’m not disputing that it could or should be done.  I am objecting to the costs being imposed by the Gooferment on others.

Gooferment is force and here is just one tiny example of it.

Argh!

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Woman jumps through car window to stop would-be thief (VIDEO) | WSB-TV

Wednesday, June 12, 2019

A tip for everyone: Lock your doors while pumping gas.

Source: Woman jumps through car window to stop would-be thief (VIDEO) | WSB-TV

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Obviously!

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3 Rivers Communications terminating TV services by end of October – KRTV.com

Wednesday, June 12, 2019

A telecommunications service provider in north-central Montana will stop providing television services to customers this fall.

Source: 3 Rivers Communications terminating TV services by end of October – KRTV.com

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Is this a sign of things to come?

Yes, streaming works well with fiber optic to the home, but who has that?

And certainly no one is investing in that.  Google tried and seems to have failed.

Maybe there is a place for municipal or “community” broadband?  After all that’s how cable TV got started!

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The Day the Music Burned

Tuesday, June 11, 2019

The fire made news around the world, and the destruction of the video vault featured prominently in the coverage. But nearly all news outlets characterized the vault fire as a close call, in which worst cases were averted. The New York Times reported that “a vault full of video and television images” had burned up, but added that “in no case was the destroyed material the only copy of a work,” a claim attributed to Universal Studios officials. Subsequent articles focused on the fire’s impact on film festivals, which relied on prints from Universal’s library. But journalists moved on from the story, and there has never been a full accounting of film and video losses in the fire.

Source: The Day the Music Burned

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Hard to believe that something wasn’t lost.

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Russian airport on alert after huge brown bear wanders through security – World News – Mirror Online

Tuesday, June 11, 2019

Yelizovo airport, a key hub on the Pacific coast, was packed with passengers when the bear made his way to security

Source: Russian airport on alert after huge brown bear wanders through security – World News – Mirror Online

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Boarding pass or not, who’s going to stop it?

Interesting that it got away.

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Letters to the Editor

Monday, June 10, 2019

I’m 65 so it doesn’t affect me directly but I find this trend upsetting. I remember when 18 year olds gained the right to vote in 1971. at that time the age to make many decisions for oneself was lowered from age 21 to 18. Apparently they forgot how to stand up for themselves since then.

They have become a bunch of sheep, doing what the media tells them, standing up to spread socialism at the command of their masters. “If God didn’t want them sheared, He would not have made them sheep.”

Sometimes it looks as if the youth of America are being bamboozled into adopting an ovine state. The problem is that a libertarian society is meant for adults who are not domestic sheep and these youngster are not learning to be either wild or adults.

Source: Letters to the Editor

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If you’re old enough to sign up for the military, then you’re old enough to make decisions about smoking, drinking, drugs, etc. etc.

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Driver Arrested, Charged After Repossession of Officer’s Car

Monday, June 10, 2019

When he appeared in court, the felony charge disappeared, replaced by misdemeanor charges of falsifying documents and possession of police scanners, allegations he denies.

Source: Driver Arrested, Charged After Repossession of Officer’s Car

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Want to bet that nothing happens to these “police officers”?

Seems “laws” are for the common folk; not the “Praetorian Guard”!

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Knowledge is a stone-age concept, we’re better off without it | Aeon Essays

Sunday, June 9, 2019

For those philosophers who work in epistemology (the ‘theory of knowledge’), the holy grail is to pin down the nature of knowledge and explain why it matters. But despite thousands upon thousands of articles devoted to the topic, the philosophers haven’t been able to come up with a good story. I say that’s because they’re barking up the wrong tree. The notion of knowledge doesn’t in fact pick out anything important. It’s a crude concept we have inherited from our prehistoric ancestors, and it positively handicaps us in our dealings with the modern world.

Source: Knowledge is a stone-age concept, we’re better off without it | Aeon Essays

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I’ve always worked on a paradigm of dikw (i.e., data, information, knowledge, wisdom).  Never could fit “skill” into my meme.  Now “knowledge” may be on shaky ground?

Guess I’ll have to add: “direct observation, sensory perception, hearsay, or inference”.  Seems ugly.  Maybe it should be “knowledge with provenance”?

Still doesn’t account for “skills”, “system of ‘evidential’ constructions”, or “knowledge provides the norm for assertion”, but that’s for another time.

To much heavy thinking for one fat old white guy injineer.

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Keep Democrats in office if you want to protect illegal immigrants.

Sunday, June 9, 2019

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The Headline

Latest iteration of DREAM Act offers citizenship status to 2.7 million illegals

The Grind

House lawmakers on Tuesday voted 237-187 in favor of a bill that would cancel deportations and grant citizenship rights to millions of illegal immigrants.

The proposal offers “Dreamers” conditional permanent residency for 10 years if they meet the following criteria:

— Arrive in the US before age 18

— Live in the US for four years before proposal is enacted

— Have a GED or high school diploma

— Pass a background check

To obtain full citizenship, “Dreamers” must fulfill one of four requirements:

— Earn a college degree

— Complete a two-year program in technical school or other institution of higher learning

— Serve in the military

— Work in the US for at least three years

The bill offers permanent residency to TPS and DED recipients if they meet the following criteria:

— Live in the US for more than three years before proposal is enacted

— Do not have felony convictions or multiple misdemeanors

The Details

The Dream and Promise Act is the latest version of a sweeping legalization proposal introduced in 2001. As estimated by the Migration Policy Institute, it could grant legal protections to 2.7 million people.

“This is a day that glorifies what America is to the world,” said House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD). “A place of refuge, a place of safety, a place of opportunity.”

Republican critics who supported previous efforts to grant citizenship to “Dreamers” oppose this bill because it fails to address the emergency at the southern border and provides no strategy to reduce illegal immigration.

If passed, the Dream and Promise Act would produce even greater numbers of illegal immigration. Another sticking point for Republicans: the bill does not exclude immigrants with gang ties or DUI convictions.

The Takeaway

Democrats know the Dream and Promise Act will never make it through the Senate. What we are seeing here is a policy statement to voters ahead of the 2020 election: keep Democrats in office if you want to protect illegal immigrants.

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I think that this captures the essence of the issue.  The D’s want more “illegals” voting; look at Wisconsin with the Muslim importation.  Swung the state.  And, it’s happening elsewhere.  End welfare and see how many stay?  And, it seem that most of the “immigrants” both here and in Europe are healthy young men with name brand sneakers and cell phones. I don’t see the “yearning to be free”.  End the deceptions  welfare / warfare D’s and the warfare / welfare R’s!

Let’s bring all the girls, boys, women, and men home now! We have so many politicians and bureaucrats to send in their place if it’s really needed!

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EconomicPolicyJournal.com: Tucker Carlson Endorses Elizabeth Warren’s Economic Central Planning Program and Then Disses Austrian School Economics

Saturday, June 8, 2019

As part of her plan, she attacked Levi’s for making most of their jeans overseas. She also mentioned, as a problem because of overseas manufacturing, other firms including Dixon Ticonderoga — maker of the famous №2 pencil. Carlson cheered all this. He said firms that manufacture products overseas cost “millions of good jobs lost” here in America.

Of course, this view is a call for economic protectionism.

Source: EconomicPolicyJournal.com: Tucker Carlson Endorses Elizabeth Warren’s Economic Central Planning Program and Then Disses Austrian School Economics

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I thought Tucker Carlson had “it”, but this shows he doesn’t get “it”.

“It” being that truly free trade makes everyone richer and peaceful.

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