‘The opaque nature of the circumstances is the perfect breeding ground for stories to take on a life of their own.’
— Read on www.westernjournal.com/op-ed-search-giulianis-home-may-broken-law/
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Argh!
If he offered, then why a raid?
Political theater.
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‘Mom And Pop’ Landlords Dying On The Vine As Un-Evictable Tenants Enjoy Pandemic Protections
Zero Hedge by Tyler Durden
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As millions of renters across America continue to benefit from sweeping protections against eviction during the COVID-19 pandemic, their landlords haven’t been so fortunate.
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Why isn’t this considered a “taking” under the Fifth Amendment?
Is it because it is so BIG a theft?
Argh!
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https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2021/04/28/unconstitutional-debt-and-future-generations/
Unconstitutional Debt and Future Generations
Tenth Amendment Center
by Judge Andrew Napolitano
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Who will pay for all this?
If Biden’s proposed corporate and capital gains tax increases pass, fewer Americans will be employed as corporations will have less money for new hiring, and investments will suffer as the cost of their fruits will increase. And the post-pandemic economic recovery, once anticipated at the end of the government’s unlawful lockdowns, will not materialize.
Add to this the near-certainty of inflation, and you will have Biden misery visited upon all. Inflation will also raise the cost of government borrowing. That means Biden’s not yet born great-grandchildren, and their unhappy generation, will be paying for Old Joe’s profligate and unconstitutional spending.
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This is a “bi-partisan” outrage.
Both the D’s and the R’s are to blame.
For the life of me, I don’t understand where this train wreck ends.
Where is a “straight shooter” who will stop the hemorage of red ink?
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https://www.brionmcclanahan.com/contact/
Listen often to his podcast and made this comment to him.
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I know you like “listener suggestions. (I hope you’ll consider this.)
The 17th Amendment to directly elect senators, imho, after the Income Tax Amendment, was the single most destructive Amendment to the “American Experiment”. It destroyed the ability of the States to resist “unfunded mandates” and allowed “carpet baggers” like Hillary Clinton an easy path to high elective office.
Personally, I’d love to see it repealed but doubt it’ll ever happen in my lifetime. Those, who want to get the money out of politics, could do it quickly by its repeal.
As a retired fat old white guy injineer that studied a lot of “systems”, I think it merely duplicates the House of Representative while “neutering” the State legislatures. If the 17th can NOT be repealed, then I’d just eliminate the House completely and save all that money.
I’d be interested in hearing your thoughts on this topic.
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https://www.reviewgeek.com/79942/amazon-expands-in-garage-grocery-delivery-to-curb-porch-pirates/
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Amazon said Tuesday that its in-garage grocery delivery service is expanding from just five cities to over 5,000. This is an extension of Key by Amazon, and those with Prime can have Amazon Fresh or Whole Foods grocery orders left directly in their garage.
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I signed up for the “garage key” and it works.
BUT, (and there is always a BIG butt), it can add a day to the delivery time. I don’t understand why, but for high value items it’s seems an easy choice.
Now they need a “car trunk” system.
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LPT: Yelp replaces restaurant phone numbers with a special number that charges that business a marketing fee. If you find a good restaurant on Yelp Google their phone number instead so they don’t lose any money.
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Time to Separate Money and State
BRIAN MAHER — POSTED APRIL 22, 2021
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Governments cannot print gold. They cannot print silver. Thus their hands are bound.
The titan Austrian school economist, Ludwig von Mises:
It is impossible to grasp the meaning of the idea of sound money if one does not realize that it was devised as an instrument for the protection of civil liberties against despotic inroads on the part of governments. Ideologically it belongs in the same class with political constitutions and bills of rights.
Church and state are famously separate in these United States. We would separate money and state with equal ruthlessness.
For a state minding money is a fox minding the henhouse.
Deny it the privilege, and you deny it its natural rascality.
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Until “We, The Sheeple” limit the Gooferment from “printing money”, then it can never be put back in the box.
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https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2021/04/23/the-national-debt-is-worse-than-advertised/
The National Debt Is Worse Than Advertised
By: Mike Maharrey|Published on: Apr 23, 2021|Categories: Federal Funding
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Here’s a breakdown of Uncle Sam’s liabilities in broad categories.
Medicare benefits – $55.12 trillion
Social Security obligations – $41.2 trillion
Publicly held debt – $21.08 trillion.
Military and civilian retirement benefits $9.41 trillion
Other liabilities – $2.25 trillion
According to Truth in Accounting’s analysis, the US government’s financial situation has deteriorated over the last year. Based on the latest available audited financial reports, its financial condition worsened by $9.84 trillion in 2020.
Interestingly, the Treasury Department only includes $175.30 billion of Social Security and Medicare liabilities on the federal balance sheet; according to government documents, recipients do not have the right to benefits beyond the benefits currently being paid and laws to reduce or stop future benefits can be passed at any time. Truth in Accounting assumes no changes in the current Social Security or Medicare schemes. This is a pretty safe assumption considering these programs are generally considered the “third rail” of politics. In other words, politicians dare not touch them.
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Isn’t “We, The Sheeple” have a right to “honest accounting”?
Maybe if the numbers were really understood, then the seriousness of the situation might be recognized!
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Jim Bovard: The Feds Are Coming For Libertarians
BY TYLER DURDEN
SATURDAY, APR 24, 2021 – 07:20 PM
Authored by Jim Bovard via The Libertarian Institute
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Libertarians are in the federal crosshairs. Six or seven years ago, there was a lot of prattle about how “the libertarian moment has arrived.” I always knew that was hokum. Since then, there has been a huge increase in hostility to libertarians in Washington DC and elsewhere around the country.
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Guess they’ll be rounding us up for the trains to the camps?
Like what they did to Ian Freeman, Nobody, and the rest of the Crypto6? https://youtu.be/Ded_HrjZU2Y
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10 Friday AM Reads
April 23, 2021 6:55am by Barry Ritholtz
My end of week morning train WFH reads:
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The cost of a single tulip bulb surged to the same price as a mansion 400 years ago: are NFTs the ‘tulipmania’ of the 21st century? Similarities between the new digital technology craze in the art world and the surge in value of tulips in 17th-century Holland suggest that it could all end in (real) tears (Art Newspaper)
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Certainly seems that way to me.
I keep wondering how to cash in. Maybe take a public domain work and NFT it?
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