VETERANS: Lawrence Brooks, the country’s oldest-known World War II veteran … …

Monday, October 12, 2020

https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/acts_of_kindness/article_1577e026-05bb-11eb-a7d8-03d066f206a6.html

Oldest World War II veteran gets new roof in New Orleans, thanks to phone call, volunteers
BY KATY RECKDAHL | CONTRIBUTING WRITER
PUBLISHED OCT 3, 2020 AT 3:57 PM | UPDATED OCT 3, 2020 AT 8:56 PM

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When Lawrence Brooks, the country’s oldest-known World War II veteran, turned 111 in September, he received more than 10,000 cards, a salute from a squadron of aircraft and a happy birthday call from Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards.

His daughter, Vanessa Brooks, 60, heard her father’s end of the conversation, as the governor thanked him for his Army service and chatted with him about his big birthday. As the call concluded, it seems, the governor told Mr. Brooks to reach out if he needed anything.

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I don’t know if the Governor did anything or there was publicity that made it happen.

And, I’m very pleased with what happened!

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POLITICAL: Latest revelations show Team Obama invented RussiaGate scandal

Sunday, October 11, 2020

The US intel community found it was authentic Russian analysis, though it couldn’t judge the veracity of the claim. And President Barack Obama was briefed on it, per his CIA director, John Brennan. In notes also released last week, Brennan describes telling Obama about the “alleged approval by Hillary Clinton on July 28 of a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisers to villify [sic] Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by Russian security services.”

Source: Latest revelations show Team Obama invented RussiaGate scandal

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So everyone is going to get off scottfree.

And Biden, as part of Team Obama, gets a pass too!

Argh!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: EVERY overpriced, monopolistic government “service” can be … …

Sunday, October 11, 2020

https://ncc-1776.org/tle2020/tle1087-20201004-04.html

Voting is Immoral
by stormy MON stormy@stormy.org
Special to L. Neil Smith’s The Libertarian Enterprise

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EVERY overpriced, monopolistic government “service” can be competitively privatized. Education, social services, arbitration and space travel, for example. BLM grazing lands should be sold to pay government debt. We’ve had free market health care for hundreds of years… for livestock and pets. Video streaming and Kindle are private libraries. Railroads are private roads, cars electronically billed.

Governments don’t collect taxes to provide services, they attempt “services” to gouge taxes: a protection racket. Instead, YOU can decide how to allocate your resources = consumer financial voting. In a democracy, if 51% want vanilla, all get vanilla. With freedom, you can have chocolate, strawberry or dozens of choices.

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I certainly would like to start paring Gooferment at all levels down.

Not that that will happen until the Gooferment go broke!

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ECONOMICS: Low value routine work is the easiest target for robots

Saturday, October 10, 2020

https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/say-goodbye-millions-jobs-events-unfold

Say Goodbye To Millions Of Jobs As Events Unfold
by Tyler Durden
Sun, 10/04/2020 – 13:30
Authored by Bruce Wilds via Advancing Time blog

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Many jobs will not be coming back after the covid-19 crisis ends. We can say goodbye to millions of jobs as events unfold and markets evolve. Millions of small businesses being decimated by Fed policies that favor huge companies coupled with a surge in automation bodes poorly for those looking for work. Over the last three decades, robots have become far more common in factories. In many manufacturing facilities, robots do most of the work. A typical factory may contain hundreds of robots working on fully automated production lines, as it rolls by on a conveyor, a product can be welded, glued, painted, and finally assembled at a sequence of robot stations.

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Unfortunately, the current and next generation are not prepared to move up the “value chain”.

That doesn’t necessarily mean more college degrees will save you.

The world will always value “poor plumbers”, good doctors and car mechanics, and entrepreneurial people who satisfy the needs of their fellow human beings.

The essential skill to have is to recognize that “the rules” are always changing and one has to be ready to ride the “wave”.

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INTERESTING: “Unwritten Rules”! What are they?

Friday, October 9, 2020

https://reason.com/2020/10/04/unassailable-ideas-how-unwritten-rules-and-social-media-shape-discourse-in-american-higher-education/

FREE SPEECH

“Unassailable Ideas: How Unwritten Rules and Social Media Shape Discourse in American Higher Education”
Profs. Ilana Redstone and John Villasenor are guest-blogging this week about their new book.
EUGENE VOLOKH |THE VOLOKH CONSPIRACY | 10.4.2020 12:40 PM

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Redstone and Villasenor further identify and explain how three well-intentioned unwritten rules regarding identity define the current campus climate. They present myriad case studies illustrating the resulting impact on education, knowledge creation-and, increasingly the world beyond campus. They also provide a set of recommendations to build a new campus climate that would be more tolerant toward diverse perspectives and open inquiry.

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“multiculturalism, discrimination, and identity”

Isn’t “multiculturalism” merely a Gooferment fiction?  When I grew up I was “watched” by a variety of “family” members (i.e., neighbors) who were Irish, Italian, Jewish, Puerto Rican, and Black.  By Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Atheists, and Pagans.  By old and young.  And it just seemed normal.  Neighbors looking out for neighbors. “I know who you are and I know your Mother” were a frequent refrain. 

Isn’t discrimination an important skill?  One must discriminate between good and evil people.  Between things that are toxic and not.  Of course, we learned that “you can’t judge a book by its cover” applied to everyone and everything.

Isn’t “identity” another tool that Gooferment, politicians, and bureaucrats use to divide humanity into factions that they can pit against one another.  Life is NOT a zero sum game.  Don’t argue about dividing a fixed pie when together we can make the pie bigger.

Can’t wait to read this book and see if we align.

Argh!

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POLITICAL: Get Ready for Chaos – The Daily Reckoning

Thursday, October 8, 2020

And if Biden does win, it’s entirely possible he won’t be president for more than a few months. His cognitive decline, probably the result of Alzheimer’s Disease or some other form of dementia, is already apparent to observers. I realize he performed well during his debate with Trump, but Alzheimer’s does not progress in a straight line.

The type of cognitive decline Biden is suffering is not a continuous downhill slide. It’s what’s called a “step function.” That means the mental ability drops suddenly, then stabilizes or plateaus for a while, then drops again. It never improves, but it can appear stable for a time until the next sudden drop comes.

It will be relatively simple to remove Biden from office under the 25th Amendment and install Kamala Harris as Acting President. This could be followed by a formal resignation by Biden, at which point Harris would become President.This was hinted at on September 12 when Kamala Harris made reference to a coming “Harris Administration,” and again on September 15 when Joe Biden referred to the “Harris-Biden administration” at a campaign event.

These are not mere slips of the tongue, but rather a preview of the fact that a vote for Biden is really a vote for President Harris. Kamala Harris does not have the cognitive challenges of Joe Biden, but she is a malleable blank slate who will be easily handled by the radicals whom she supports.

Source: Get Ready for Chaos – The Daily Reckoning

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I hope “We, The Sheeple” are paying attention.

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GUNS: The “incorporation doctrine” is the camel’s nose

Thursday, October 8, 2020

https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2020/10/04/federal-courts-fail-again-in-washington-gun-case/

Federal Courts Fail Again in Washington Gun Case
By: Mike Maharrey|Published on: Oct 4, 2020|Categories: 2nd Amendment, Court Cases, Incorporation Doctrine

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The judge’s opinion notwithstanding, the federal government has no constitutional authority to place any restrictions on firearms. The Constitution does not delegate any firearm regulating authority to the feds, and the Second Amendment slams the door on any regulation on firearms within the scope of other constitutionally delegated powers such as regulation of commerce. “Shall not infringe” does not come with an asterisk. No terms and conditions apply. The Second Amendment absolutely prohibits any federal infringement on the right to keep and bear arms.

But this should have never been a federal case to begin with. It should have been decided in state court under the Washington state constitution. Section 24 of the state constitution restricts state regulation of firearms.

“SECTION 24 RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS. The right of the individual citizen to bear arms in defense of himself, or the state, shall not be impaired, but nothing in this section shall be construed as authorizing individuals or corporations to organize, maintain or employ an armed body of men.”

So why did it end up in federal court? Because of the bastardization of the 14th Amendment known as the “incorporation doctrine.”

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Everything becomes a Federal case.

Both the Section 24 of the state constitution and the Second Amendment should have protected the citizens’ right to “keep and bear arms”.

But it’s unfashionable today to have an armed citizenry.

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? . . .” — Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: New York Governor Cuomo Announces Jewish Redlining Policy (Updated) – Reason.com

Wednesday, October 7, 2020

New York Governor Cuomo Announces Jewish Redlining Policy (Updated)
Rather than imposing restrictions on high-density zip codes, New York will draw red lines (literally) around “clusters” in Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods.
JOSH BLACKMAN |THE VOLOKH CONSPIRACY | 10.6.2020 11:24 PM

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During the New Deal, the Roosevelt administration rated communities based on whether they were desirable for lending. The government color-coded the maps to give banks a helpful guide. More desirable areas were outlined in green. Declining areas were outlined in yellow. And risk neighborhoods were outlined in red. Unsurprisingly, the “redlined” neighborhoods tended to be poor, black communities. And, in turn, banks denied loans to these redlined communities. To this day, the legacy of redlining is still felt, especially in urban areas.

Did anyone in Governor Cuomo’s office reflect on this history? Today, the New York Governor announced a new policy to contain COVID-19. His administration will color-code neighborhoods based on the COVID-19 infection rate. Yellow neighborhoods will have light restrictions. Orange neighborhoods will have heavy restrictions. And red neighborhoods will have stringent restrictions. All schools will be closed in red and orange neighborhoods. In red zones, houses of worship will have strict 10 person caps, regardless of capacity.

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Source: New York Governor Cuomo Announces Jewish Redlining Policy (Updated) – Reason.com

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Stunning that Cuomo and team could be so insensitive!

Not only that BUT what about the First Amendment issue?

Argh!

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HEALTH: Being “plant based” is hard!

Wednesday, October 7, 2020

https://nutritionfacts.org/video/flashback-friday-whats-the-natural-human-diet

Flashback Friday: What’s the “Natural” Human Diet?
Michael Greger M.D. FACLM October 2nd, 2020
What can our nutrient requirements, metabolism, and physiology tell us about what we should be eating?

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If there’s one takeaway from our studies of ancestral diets, perhaps it’s that diets based largely on plant foods promote health and longevity.

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Wish it was easier to be “plant based”.  After SEVEN DECADES of eating the “Standard American Diet”, it’s hard to change habits.

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JUSTWRONG: No one should be making threats

Tuesday, October 6, 2020

https://www.ac2news.com/2020/10/censorship-concerns-senate-panel-moves-to-compel-facebook-twitter-google-ceos-to-testify/

Censorship Concerns: Senate panel moves to compel Facebook, Twitter, Google CEOs to testify
Posted on October 4, 2020 by Editor

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The former CEO of Twitter just said that ‘capitalists’ will be “shot in the revolution’. Hmm. This particular billionaire is not a capitalist?

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I think this is a “threat”.  In today’s climate, it’s yelling “fire” in a crowded theater.

“Revolutionaries” may be surprised at the return “fire”.

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