Family of 5 killed during head-on, wrong-way crash in Georgia

Monday, February 24, 2020

Family of 5 killed by head-on, wrong-way crash in GeorgiaBy Joshua Rhett MillerFebruary 24, 2020 | 1:45pm | Updated

Source: Family of 5 killed during head-on, wrong-way crash in Georgia

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I don’t understand how there are “wrong-way crashes” on Interstates?

Why can’t there be those parking lot barriers that are deployed to keep people from driving out without paying?

Argh!

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US aircraft shot down during WWII discovered in the Pacific

Monday, February 24, 2020

“Project Recover is honored to play our part in keeping our nation’s promise of returning our fallen service members home and we remain committed to locating more Americans missing in action in Chuuk and around the world,” says retired US marine aviator and Project Recover CEO Derek Abbey.

Source: US aircraft shot down during WWII discovered in the Pacific

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So sad that these men lost their lives.

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No surprise there

Monday, February 24, 2020

www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/28773196/vanessa-bryant-sues-helicopter-company-deaths

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Gopher: When Adversarial Interoperability Burrowed Under the Gatekeepers’ Fortresses

Monday, February 24, 2020

When Apple’s App Store launched in 2008, it was widely hailed as a breakthrough in computing, a “curated experience” that would transform the chaos of locating and assessing software and replace it with a reliable one-stop-shop where every app would come pre-tested and with a trusted seal of approval.

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Legislation to stem the tide of Big Tech companies’ abuses, and laws—such as a national consumer privacy bill, an interoperability bill, or a bill making firms liable for data-breaches—would go a long way toward improving the lives of the Internet users held hostage inside the companies’ walled gardens.

But far more important than fixing Big Tech is fixing the Internet: restoring the kind of dynamism that made tech firms responsive to their users for fear of losing them, restoring the dynamic that let tinkerers, co-ops, and nonprofits give every person the power of technological self-determination.

Source: Gopher: When Adversarial Interoperability Burrowed Under the Gatekeepers’ Fortresses

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Since the Gooferment has stuck its “camel like” nose into the tent, it screwed up the emerging internet with invisible legal lines.

Until the politicians and bureaucrats fix their “mistake”, innovation will be controlled by Big Tech.

Argh!

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HEALTH: How Aluminum Damages Your Brain – LewRockwell

Sunday, February 23, 2020

Exley’s conclusion deserves repeating: “No aluminum, no AD.” Without aluminum, Alzheimer’s doesn’t develop. That’s not fake news. This research provides conclusive evidence for concern, which means it would be foolish in the extreme to pretend that injecting infants and young children with aluminum-containing vaccines is harmless.

Source: How Aluminum Damages Your Brain – LewRockwell

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I always seem to be drawn into the vax / anti-vax controversy.

I understand that there is a non-scientific debate about vaccines.  Some “celebrities” take a position and I scoff at them.  (How does being the modern equivalent of the “Court Jester” entitle you to make pseudo scientific pronouncements?)

That being said the very existence of the Federal National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program puts the “vaccines are harmless” pronouncements in doubt.  (Remember Christie Todd Witman’s pronouncement that 9/11 air was safe?)

I have seen the ravages of polio that turned a happy healthy child into a virtual helpless babbling idiot who struggled to make himself understood. (I remember his post-illness goal of someday being a milkman. Yes, they still had such things. And it makes me sad to remember him so many years after his death.) That being said, my family liked up all the children for shots as soon as the vaccine was available. I understand that.

So today, when parents have good-faith concerns, I am sympathetic to their plight. I’d still vaccinate, but I would not have to pick up the “collateral damage” that could result. It may well be playing the odds, but as I always say, “someone wins the Lotto!”. In this case, it’s no prize to win.

I’m blogging about this again in hopes that “we” “We, The Sheeple” can have a reasonable discussion about the “safety issue”. I’d like to see the Gooferment reveal its dikw (i.e., data, information, knowledge, wisdom) about vaccines in a very public manner. Then we’d know once and for all what the true odds of harm are. Is it 1/100, 1/10,000, or 1/1,000,000? Remember with 350M people in the USA, that means somewhere between 3½ million and 350 cases of harm. That’s too wide a variance for my comfort. Then, one has to drill down into some of the differentiating factors (i.e., sex, race, age, region, diet, left-handed versus right-handed). OK, maybe not the “handed-ness that I inserted to lighten up the rant.

I hope that this generates some light; not heat.

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POLITICAL: Eric Holder tells Paul Sperry to ‘shut the hell up’ about prosecutor in Andrew McCabe probe

Sunday, February 23, 2020

Former Attorney General Eric Holder lashed out at journalist and author Paul Sperry on Twitter Wednesday, telling Sperry that he should “shut the hell up” about federal prosecutor Molly Gaston’s donations to former President Barack Obama.

Source: Eric Holder tells Paul Sperry to ‘shut the hell up’ about prosecutor in Andrew McCabe probe

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Yeah, we wouldn’t want “We, The Sheeple” to know how corrupt and deeply embedded the Deep State agents are!

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TINFOILHAT: Murdered JFK lover Mary Pinchot Meyer is revived in two new books

Saturday, February 22, 2020

Pinchot Meyer was killed on October 12, 1964, a few weeks after the release of the Warren Commission report on the JFK assassination. The man accused of her murder was acquitted in 1965; the murder remains unsolved. Her diary was found and allegedly burned.

Source: Murdered JFK lover Mary Pinchot Meyer is revived in two new books

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When it happened, I wondered if there was a connection.

We KNOW now that the Warren Commission was <pick your favorite adjective> wrong, biases, cover up, the final act in the coup by LBJ, an adjunct of the deep state?

I am still hopeful that the truth will still come out.

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INSPIRATIONAL: Inside Japan’s Highly Effective Lost and Found System | Mental Floss

Saturday, February 22, 2020

What prompts the Japanese to be so diligent in handing over items? Respect. Children are taught in school that returning belongings to police is part of their civic duty. It’s also law. The Amended Lost Property Act of 2007 mandates that lost items be turned over to authorities if the owner can’t be located. The same law also enforces a reward that’s a percentage of the value of the item if it’s reunited with its owner.

Source: Inside Japan’s Highly Effective Lost and Found System | Mental Floss

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WOW!  This is something that “we” should import to the USA.

“Finders keepers; losers weepers” is the paradigm for the USA.

(Wonder why this was never addressed in Catholic grammar school that I attended?  I remember other moral lessons.)

“Catholic school taught them that it was their obligation, and could even be a mortal sin, if you didn’t use all your talents to the greater glory of God.” — “Chapter Fifty — Samaritans going to Jericho / Monday November 5, 1962 – Church Day + 17 (continues)” CHURCH 10●19●62 Volume 1 Page 296

Perhaps it’s not to late to change that to Finders returners; losers grateful”?

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‘Bureaucrats were in charge’: Japanese doctor blasts ship …

Friday, February 21, 2020

A Japanese infectious disease specialist has castigated his government’s handling of quarantine on a coronavirus-stricken cruise ship, saying it was run by “bureaucrats” who stoked the crisis by failing to follow basic protocols.

Source: ‘Bureaucrats were in charge’: Japanese doctor blasts ship …

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When I read the original pointer on Against Crony Capitalism, I had to laugh at their comment: “When the system takes over, things tend to go badly.”

As readers of this blog know, I am firmly convinced that their is no bad situation that can not be made EXPONENTIALLY worse by the involvement of of Gooferment politicians and bureaucrats!

The “(pseudo) War on (some) Drugs” is the best example of this.  Followed by Gooferment Skrules.

Just example after example, yet we still allow them to do it over and over.

Argh!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Did coronavirus originate in Chinese government laboratory? | Daily Mail Online

Thursday, February 20, 2020

The report says: ‘Genome sequences from patients were 96% or 89% identical to the Bat CoV ZC45 coronavirus originally found in Rhinolophus affinis (intermediate horseshoe bat).’

Source: Did coronavirus originate in Chinese government laboratory? | Daily Mail Online

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Certainly seems plausible.  One wonders what their Gooferment politicians and bureaucrats were thinking.  And, where are our politicians and bureaucrats in all of this?

Seems like the CDC is demonstrating its uselessness!

Argh!

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