JOBFINDING: You should ALWAYS be adding to your skill set

Tuesday, October 5, 2021

https://www.reviewgeek.com/98288/you-can-and-should-learn-almost-anything-for-free/

You Can (and Should) Learn Almost Anything for Free
DAVE MCQUILLING @daveymaccy
OCT 1, 2021, 2:00 PM EDT 

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Picking up a second language can lead to a salary increase of around 2%. It also opens up a range of new careers and could easily make a difference in a job interview. Apps like Duolingo and Memrise are free, fun, and provide a solid base for picking up an additional language. Admittedly, they can only take you so far. But it is still totally possible to achieve fluency for free if you hop on to something like Reddit’s Language Exchange and find a native speaker to help practice your skills.

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When I think of all the time in my life I wasted do Quadrant 4 activities (i.e., not important and not urgent), I have an eternal regret.

If I had learned Chinese or Japanese, then how much easier would it have been to get ANOTHER job on Wall Street?

Don’t waste your time like I did.  You only have so much!

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VETERANS: Only vets should vote!

Monday, October 4, 2021

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/pz46fl/what_is_something_that_a_fictional_chacter_said/

r/AskReddit 
•Posted byu/ThomasTheGreatGenius 
17 hours ago
 
What is something that a fictional chacter said that stuck with you ? [SERIOUS]

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“A soldier accepts personal responsibility for the safety of the body politic of which he is a member, defending it, if need be, with his life. The civilian does not.” — Lt. Col. Jean V. Dubois (Ret.) and student, p. 26 Starship Troopers (1959) by Robert A. Heinlein 

This resonated with me. As a VietNam era vet, I realized that only vets should vote. I lost friends in the Republic of, had friends and relatives come back “different”, and even lost my best friend who went underground to avoid the draft.

Only vets should vote, because they UNDERSTAND (I’d use the Heinlein word ‘grok’) what it means to send young women and men in “harm’s way”. When politicians and bureaucrats vote for war, I’d hand them a rifle and say “OK, Pops, you go first!”

Dona Nobis Pacem

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GOVERNACIDE: The Gooferment doesn’t want to cure the WuFlu

Sunday, October 3, 2021

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2021/10/01/medical-mafia-vaccine-mandates.aspx?ui=f9839516412491bb1e06c9e47058c6fb81b9b9b6acedf03e65e93dfdb263c1b9&sd=20210317&cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1HL&cid=20211001_HL2&mid=DM1007395&rid=1280293820

Medical Mafia Is Sinking the Health Care System
Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola
October 01, 2021

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Ivermectin, meanwhile, which has virtually no side effects and has been shown to effectively treat COVID-19, is prohibited within the DHHS. When O’Malley asks Gayle Lundberg, a DHHS pharmacist, if ivermectin can be given to a patient if the doctor is willing to prescribe it, Lundberg responds:

“I am stuck. I am told you are absolutely not to use [ivermectin] under any circumstances whatsoever for somebody with COVID, unless you don’t want to have a job. I’m not going to lose my job over this.”

“This is evil at the highest level,” O’Malley says. “You have the FDA, the CDC, that are both supposed to be protecting us, but they are under the government, and everything we’ve done so far is unscientific.”

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Sorry but the Gooferment is immoral, ineffective, and inefficient. As well as untrustworthy.

This could have all been over once India demonstrated how a poor country cures the “scamdemic”.

I hope there’s a special place in Hell for these people.

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Eric Rudolph: 1998 Hide and Seek Champion

Saturday, October 2, 2021

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/jim-bovard-he-thought-i-was-undercover-fed?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+zerohedge%2Ffeed+%28zero+hedge+-+on+a+long+enough+timeline%2C+the+survival+rate+for+everyone+drops+to+zero%29

Jim Bovard: He Thought I Was An Undercover Fed
BY TYLER DURDEN
TUESDAY, SEP 28, 2021 – 11:25 PM
Authored by Jim Bovard via The Libertarian Institute,

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From the early 1990s onward, I was exposing FBI crimes, lies, and cover-ups. FBI director Louis Freeh publicly denounced me after I wrote a Wall Street Journal piece on the FBI’s killing of an innocent mother holding her baby at Ruby Ridge, Idaho. I continued hammering FBI abuses in the Journal, Playboy, American Spectator, and other publications.

One of the FBI’s biggest blunders occurred when it falsely accused a hapless security guard of masterminding an explosion at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. Richard Jewell heroically saved lives by detecting and removing a pipe bomb before it exploded. But the FBI decided that Jewell had actually planted the bomb and leaked that charge to the media, which proceeded to drag Jewell’s life through the dirt for eighty-eight days. The FBI did nothing to curb the media harassment long after it recognized Jewell was innocent. I flogged the FBI’s vilification of Jewell in my 2000 book, Feeling Your Pain: The Explosion and Abuse of Government Power in the Clinton-Gore Years.

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Eric Rudolph was finally captured in 2003 by a local policeman in a small town about an hour from that hardware store. He pleaded guilty to the Atlanta bombing as well as bombings of abortion clinics and a lesbian nightclub. Shortly after Rudolph was apprehended after more than four years in the mountains, a British newspaper pointed out that the FBI’s failure to catch him illustrated “all the shortcomings of a hi-tech, militarized federal force unable to negotiate such alien, not to say hostile, territory.” 

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Beyond the nation’s big cities and the coastlines, federal authority hinges largely on the consent of local citizens. Once that consent vanishes, FBI agents are left to sit in their cars eating their lunches all by themselves.

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Maybe that’s how the Federal Gooferment fails, quiet peaceful non-cooperation?

I’ve been help rain a now four year old boy; he is  great example of why you can’t force a human being to do anything they really don’t want to do! You just ignore any demands made upon you and dare the “authority” to use force against you.  It works fine.  As long as you don’t mind a little pain along the way.  Ghandi demonstrated it on a large scale in India.

“Yes. In the end, you will walk out. Because 100,000 Englishmen simply cannot control 350 million Indians, if those Indians refuse to cooperate.” — movie Gandhi (1983)

So just refuse to cooperate.

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RANT: Where are these folks getting dollars from?

Friday, October 1, 2021

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3999881/posts

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Influx of Haitian migrants pushing locals out of housing in Colombia beach town
10/1/2021, 9:42:21 PM · by blueplum · 4 repliesReuters via msn ^ | 01 October 2021 | Henry Esquivel
NECOCLI, Colombia (Reuters) – An influx of thousands of mostly Haitian migrants seeking transport northward toward the United States is pushing locals in the Colombian beach town of Necocli out of housing, residents said, as landlords favor migrants able to pay in dollars. The backlog of migrants waiting in the town for scarce places on boat transport toward the jungles of the Darien Gap in Panama, where smugglers guide groups northward on foot, has swelled to up to 19,000 after the lifting of COVID-19 border closures…. Even commercial properties are being re-purposed….

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Something is rotten in Denmark?

I smell a Soros involvement.

Who’s paying for this?

Argh!

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Friday, October 1, 2021

Watching something important … And a Yankee game. So sad. GB GBA.


HARDWARE: Apple spits in the face of “right to repair”!

Friday, October 1, 2021

https://www.reviewgeek.com/98982/ifixit-calls-the-iphone-13-a-new-low-for-repairability/

iFixit Calls the iPhone 13 “a New Low” for Repairability
ANDREW HEINZMAN @andrew_andrew__
SEP 27, 2021, 5:48 PM EDT | 1 min read

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As Right to Repair legislation garners support from both sides of the political aisle, Apple is doubling down on its anti-consumer practices. A now-complete teardown from iFixit shows that the iPhone 13 reaches “a new low” for repairability, as it’s effectively impossible to repair at home without losing key features like Face ID.

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Way to lock in the consumer.

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