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Lastly, you’ll be required to enter a phone number where you will receive an authentication code.
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I guess PSEG hasn’t gotten the message that codes via text is NOT secure.
Argh!
And, no where to complain.
BPU? Maybe!
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https://dailyreckoning.com/a-tribute-to-sgt-henry-gunther/
A Tribute to Sgt. Henry Gunther
Brian Maher
Posted November 11, 2022
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Recall the divisional chieftain who condemned 61 of his men to the grave that morning so that others might bathe — a certain William Mason Wright.
This human gem received promotion to Executive Assistant to the Chief of Staff of the Army after war’s end.
He could claim the distinction, after all, of capturing the final American objective of the war.
A less gaudy distinction fell to a young man under this man’s command that morning of Nov. 11, 1918. We refer here to Sgt. Henry Gunther, aged 23 years, of our former city of Baltimore.
This poor fellow was the last allied fatality of that fateful morning — and of the Great War itself. His time of death:
10:59 a.m.
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So anytime that a Gooferment politician or bureaucrat expresses concern for the troops, vets, KIA, WIA, or MIA, think of Sgt. Gunther and you’ll know what’s true.
Sadly, true.
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FROM NEXTDOOR
Ronald P. Society Hill • 2 Nov •
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The sneakiness of manufacturers!
One has to be so aware of how manufacturers dupe their customers.
We have been a big fan of Chock Full O’Nuts Coffee for many years. Always liked to wait for when the coffee went on sale for $1.99 per can. The new sale price at ShopRite reducing it from $5.69 a can is now $2.99. We put the coffee in a canister instead of using it out of the can. Suddenly the canister did not get filled. Apparently the amount of coffee that is now in the can is 10.3 ounces instead of 13 ounces! So now the sales price went up 50% and the quantity of coffee went down over 20%.
I have found that manufacturers slip in a new reduced package size when they put the item on sale and customers don’t pay attention to the quantity.
This is not unique to this company but seems to be practiced widely. It is always buyer beware.
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Let’s not ignore the Gooferment’s role in all of this.
It has inflated the number of dollars in circulation by several trillion.
Don’t you think that has some role in all this?
See my blog rants about penny candy, nickel cigars, and dime comics!
Shrinkflation is the manufactures’ response to a dollar devaluation.
“Dollar stores” are proliferating because that’s what people can afford.
I can’t imagine shopping for food in a dollar store, but I think we are going to see more of this. Not less.
Time to vote the clowns out and just resist.
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A Washington man is suing a hospital and two of its doctors for malpractice for allegedly removing the wrong organ during surgery, nearly costing him his life.
— Read on nypost.com/2023/11/09/lifestyle/man-
Sure glad that the Goofermentregulates “medical care”!!!!
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https://reason.com/volokh/2023/11/08/let-us-kill-your-dog-or-go-to-jail-for-a-year/
Animals
Let Us Kill Your Dog or Go to Jail for a Year
Eugene Volokh | 11.8.2023 8:01 AM
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The county code allows destruction of a dangerous dog under specific circumstances. It allows destruction when an owner does not redeem an impounded dog within 96 hours. And it allows immediate destruction when “a dog is suffering from a serious injury or disease, and destroying the dog is in the interest of public health and safety, or in the interest of the dog.” The code does not authorize destroying a dog in any other instance….
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I found this “in the interest of the dog” amusing. How is killing the dog in “its interest”?
Argh!
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5302918/
It tells the remarkable true story of athlete Diana Nyad who, at the age of 60 and with the help of her best friend and coach, commits to achieving her life-long dream: a 110-mile open ocean swim from Cuba to Florida.
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I’m not a big fan of movies that don’t make me laugh.
However every once in a while, one comes along that I feel is a “must see”.
I’d make it required watching for every student in the world.
Overcoming obstacles. Exponentiated.
Hard to say enough good things about this movie.
On a personal note, I didn’t recognize Annette Benning until I went to write this post.
I’d put this in my “Rudy” file of “motivational” musts.
Unlike the trash that Hollywood usually produces, there was a tasteful nod to sexual abuse and lesbianism. But didn’t detract from the message. If anything, it focuses on the hidden obstacles that one would never know about.
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Chuck Callesto and Libs of TikTok follow
Tom Fitton
@TomFitton
NJ election fraud: New charges brought against two Democrats over mail-in ballots, registrations
“Mendez’s campaign allegedly collected ballots that were not sealed by voters and examined them at the campaign headquarters to see if they were cast for Mendez. Ballots that were not cast for Mendez were allegedly destroyed and replaced with a ballot for him. The replacement ballots were allegedly stolen from voters’ mailboxes.”
via @JustTheNews
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What a farce!
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Mega-Jolt: The Costs and Logistics of Plugging In EVs Are About to Become Supercharged
By John Murawski, RealClearInvestigations
October 24, 2023
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To curb greenhouse gas emissions, California, New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Maryland, and other states have outlawed the sale of new gasoline cars starting in 2035, and similar EV mandates have been adopted by nearly 60 countries. The Biden administration is spending $7.5 billion on 500,000 EV charging ports as part of the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to boost EV sales targets to 50% of all new vehicle purchases by 2030.
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I expect that used cars are going to become the new “cars” in 2035.
We’ll probably begin to look like Cuba where cars ended in the 1950’s when the USA embargoed Castro.
Pity to poor and the renters, who won’t have access to a home charger. And, pity the poor homeowner who needs to retrofit their electrical service. That’s assuming that the local utility can provide such service.
BTW where is all this power generation capacity going to magically appear from.
In case you forgot, the extra taxes on gas pay for the roads.
DNF that EVs are hard on tires.
Argh!
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A cold-blooded killer who murdered a cop execution-style outside a Queens nightclub will be a free man by the end of November.
— Read on nypost.com/2023/11/04/metro/nypd-cop-killer-freed-after-execution-style-murder/
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Sorry. No parole EVER for murder!
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https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4192662/posts
A Texas farmer’s fight for justice could have major implications for property rights
By Jon Miltimore — October 26, 2023 09:44 AM
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In the 1930s, Richie DeVillier’s grandfather purchased a farm in Winnie, a little town in eastern Texas named after a railroad contractor who prospered.
For nearly a century, the DeVillier family raised cattle and grew crops on the 900-acre property without incident — until the Texas Department of Transportation started a highway project that had serious implications for DeVillier’s land.
In the early 2000s, the state renovated Interstate 10, elevating and broadening the highway and erecting concrete barriers. The construction trapped the DeVillier property, turning his farm into a lake whenever the region experienced heavy rains, as it did in 2017 during Hurricane Harvey.
“The water started to rise on August 28,” DeVillier recalled . “Our home was completely flooded by August 29.”
When DeVillier says his “home,” he’s not talking about just his house. Video footage shows his entire farm submerged, with cows standing chest-deep in water; fields where the family once grew rice and olives can be seen totally flooded.
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In November, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit punted on the matter, arguing that federal courts have no jurisdiction in takings cases against states. (A “taking” isn’t necessarily seizing the property; an action that substantially alters a property is legally defined as a taking in tort law.)
The court didn’t rule against DeVillier. It simply said that Congress never passed a law allowing Americans to sue states for taking their property, so the Fifth Amendment’s property protections do not apply to DeVillier or anyone else.
The court’s reasoning is strange. Not only does the Constitution explicitly state that no person shall be “deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law … [or] without just compensation,” but the high court weighed in on this issue as recently as 2019.
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“If there is one basic principle in property law, it’s the Pottery Barn Rule: You break it, you buy it,” said Robert McNamara, an attorney for the Institute for Justice who is representing the family. “The Fifth Circuit’s decision in this case amounts to ‘you pay if you feel like it.’”
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That the government, which was created to secure these rights, has become the single greatest transgressor of human rights is a sad irony, one that was not lost on the 19th-century economist Frederic Bastiat, who described it as a “perversion.”
Few know this better than Richie DeVillier, whom the state of Texas is trying to stiff after destroying his farm.
Fortunately, the Supreme Court has a chance to make amends. If it does, it will not just be a win for DeVillier. It will be a win for justice.
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I like that summation — the Pottery Barn Rule. In this case, the Gooferment “robbed this family blind”!
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