RANT: Norfolk Southern should be ashamed if not penalized for this inexcusible behavior

Sunday, April 30, 2023

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12018269/Shocking-video-shows-kids-crawling-Norfolk-Southern-freight-train-starts-moving.html

Shocking video shows kids crawling under a Norfolk Southern freight train as carriages continually block their route to school – and start moving WITHOUT warning

  •     Norfolk Southern trains have frequently blocked crossings in Hammond, Indiana, for hours 
  •     Schoolchildren are often late to class and have to crawl over and under stopped trains to get to school 
  •     Indiana is in the top five states with the most complaints about blocked rail crossing. Texas tops the list, followed by Ohio, Illinois, Indiana and Tennessee 

By Alyssa Guzman For Dailymail.Com
Published: 22:30 EDT, 26 April 2023 | Updated: 07:28 EDT, 27 April 2023 

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Seems like a lawsuit waiting to happen.  And, if I was on the jury, I’d make sure that an “eye watering” judgement would get everyone’s attention.

I read recently in Japan that the Railway Company there put “turtle conduits” under their tracks so that turtles could migrate safely.  I bet Norfolk Southern would not survive in Japan with their careless lack of regard for human life. 

I can’t believe that the political parasite class can’t get this “fixed”!  Why else do we tolerate them?

I’m going to put on my citizen journalist hat on and ask Norfolk Southern for comment.  Any wager about response time?

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BITCOIN: Bulgaria’s Golden Ticket = Seized Bitcoin

Saturday, April 29, 2023

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/the-future-for-bulgaria-seized-bitcoin?utm_source=Bitcoin%20Magazine&utm_campaign=67e3e40384-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_04_24_09_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f7d45fbb67-67e3e40384-357073741&mc_cid=67e3e40384

A Seized Bitcoin Stack Could Be Bulgaria’s Golden Ticket

  • After seizing 213,000 bitcoin in 2017, Bulgaria now has an opportunity to become one of the wealthiest countries on earth.

Ahmed Botan  —  Apr 24, 2023

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The reason for this is its possession of 213,000 bitcoin, which its authorities seized from a group they labeled as criminals in 2017. According to the South East European Law Enforcement Center (SELC), the group hacked the Bulgarian customs agency’s computers and made changes to the system so that their partner companies could import goods while avoiding paying taxes on them.

Immediately following the crackdown, the bitcoin seized was worth about $500,000, however, it would now be worth closer to $6 billion dollars, as of April 2023. While the details around the BTC seizure are unclear, and it is not totally clear whether the country still holds that bitcoin or what it plans to do with the stack if it does, the potential of a nation like Bulgaria holding this much BTC is worth exploring.

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Well, one can only hope they held on to it.  That’s a neat nest egg for the people and Taxpayers of Bulgaria.

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VOCABULARY: The gravestone emoji is used for zombies IRL

Friday, April 28, 2023

https://nypost.com/2023/04/26/getting-zombied-is-new-dating-trend-worse-than-ghosting/

Getting ‘zombied’ is the new dating trend — and it’s worse than ‘ghosting’
By Brooke Steinberg 
April 26, 2023 11:41am 

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“Girl, you’re being ghosted? I’m being zombied,” she shared with her 255,900 followers on the platform.

“It’s like ghosting, but he comes back from the dead after a couple months and hits you up,” she explained in the video with 1.5 million views and 151,100 likes.

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“I saw someone say she puts gravestone emojis on their name in contacts so she knows not to deal with them anymore,” a user wrote.

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I really like this “productivity suggestion”.  

Use the 🪦 to remind yourself to ignore people, places, phone numbers, and email addresses.

I guess it’s polite to send the emoji to let folks know that they are dead to me.

Laugh!

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DISCOURAGING: The roads would be a disgrace in Mogadishu.

Thursday, April 27, 2023

FROM FACEBOOK

Bill Whittle

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Crime levels are soaring. The roads would be a disgrace in Mogadishu. Drug overdoses are killing thousands. The tax base is fleeing the state in record numbers. But thank God, California has managed to address the one really critical issue plaguing the state; namely, can you own your own gas heater in Berkeley? Scott Ott goes where no man had gone before. 

Help keep speech free while you still can by becoming a Citizen Producer right here: billwhittle.com/register/

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Yes, the roads are a mess and the taxes keep going up.  I saw that Arnold was filling potholes.  What happened to Dominos fixing roads?

Sigh!

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RANT: Why aren’t contributions limited to a politician’s district?

Wednesday, April 26, 2023

IDK but why are contributions allowed from external sources?

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BITCOIN: What is really fake money?

Wednesday, April 26, 2023

FROM BITCOIN MAGAZINE

Fakemoney

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Many a true word is said in a joke.

Here we have an interesting meme about what really is fake money!

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MONEY: Remember penny candy?

Tuesday, April 25, 2023

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/apr/20/uncle-sam-loses-money-making-money-producing-penni/

No money to spare: Uncle Sam pays more than face value to mint pennies, nickels
By Stephen Dinan – The Washington Times – Thursday, April 20, 2023

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Inflation may make a penny worth less — but it also makes that penny cost more.

The rising prices of raw materials have sent the costs of manufacturing coins soaring over the past two years, adding nearly a full cent to the cost of producing each penny. It now costs more than 2.5 cents to mint and distribute each penny coin, the federal government said in a report to Congress.

Making a nickel now costs more than 10 cents.

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“It’s absolute non-cents that American taxpayers spend 10 cents to make just one nickel,” said Sen. Joni Ernst, Iowa Republican. “Only Washington could lose money making money.”

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Anyone realize that the FED’s inflation and the “spend and borrow” Congress has made money worth less?

Penny candy, Nickel Newspapers, Dime comic books are all casualties of the parasitic class extracting more and more of the Taxpayers’ Wealth.

Get out the pitchforks and light up the torches, it’s time change the discussion.

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CONSPIRACYTHEORY: John Lennon’s murder may not completely understood — Category 4. Plausible?

Monday, April 24, 2023

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11995191/The-man-jailed-John-Lennons-murder-INNOCENT-claims-bombsehll-documentary.html

Could the man jailed for John Lennon’s murder be INNOCENT? Bombshell new documentary poses serious questions about whether Mark David Chapman fired the fatal bullet

  •     EXCLUSIVE: Research throws doubt on the murder of John Lennon in New York
  •     British author David Whelan has examined fatal shooting on December 8, 1980
  •     He has unearthed many documents that suggest cops misunderstood murder 

By Nick Craven
Published: 08:32 EDT, 22 April 2023 | Updated: 08:37 EDT, 22 April 2023

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A three-year investigation into the murder of John Lennon has unearthed a series of extraordinary inconsistencies – including the suggestion that detectives may have fundamentally misunderstood how the shooting happened.

British author and TV producer David Whelan has exhaustively examined Lennon’s fatal shooting on December 8, 1980, as he and his wife Yoko Ono returned to their home in the Dakota Building overlooking New York’s Central Park.

Whelan has unearthed a trove of documents relating to the killing, including gunman Mark Chapman’s ‘hit list’ – published for the first time here – which as well as the former Beatle also featured Marlon Brando and former First Lady Jackie Kennedy Onassis.

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This is interesting.  Without going down this particular rabbit hole, it’s hard to believe.

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POLITICAL: Is Bill Maher an undercover libertairan?

Sunday, April 23, 2023

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12002059/Bill-Maher-unveils-Cojones-Awards-fought-against-cancel-culture-mobs.html

Bill Maher unveils his ‘Cojones Awards’ for those who fought against cancel culture mobs – and hands out prizes to Netflix for not canning Dave Chappelle over trans controversy and Ben Stiller for standing by Tropic Thunder

  •     Liberal comedian Bill Maher unveiled his new Cojones Awards on Friday’s edition of his HBO talk show
  •     The trophies honored ‘outstanding achievement in growing a pair’ in standing up to cancel culture
  •     Recipients included Netflix, Ben Stiller, Trader Joe’s and Cornell University  

By Paul Farrell For Dailymail.Com
Published: 08:50 EDT, 22 April 2023 | Updated: 09:36 EDT, 22 April 2023

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Liberal comedian Bill Maher launched the Cojones Awards, a new trophy for those who stand up to cancel culture mobs, on Friday’s edition of his long running HBO talk show. The award honors ‘outstanding achievement in growing a pair.’

Maher, 67, handed out a gold trophy of dangling testicles to Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos for his refusal to apologize over the controversy created by Dave Chappelle’s 2021 comedy special The Closer, which was criticized over jokes about the transgender community. 

The host congratulated Sarandos for standing firm as Netflix employees walked out of their jobs over the controversy. He joked that if staff didn’t like the content then maybe ‘Netflix may not be the best place for you.’ 

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While I don’t agree with his liberal slant, but with these awards he seems to doing the right thing.

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Maher: Dems Have ‘to Answer’ for Education Failures and More Money Won’t Fix the Problem
4/22/2023, 10:44:32 AM · 15 of 17

Gary from Dayton to tomkat

“Is this guy beginning to pull his head out ?”

Maybe, but he can’t pull it out completely because he will lose his audience and gig.

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Maybe he’s is either a concealed libertarian or just a liberal coming to his senses.

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RANT: TV remote batteries are dangerous

Saturday, April 22, 2023

Kids toys have the battery cover screwed in. Why not TV remotes.

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