NEWJERSEY: Is NJ doomed to become more unaffordable?

Monday, March 11, 2024

https://savejersey.com/2024/02/10-not-so-fun-facts-about-phil-murphys-fy-2025-budget/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=10-not-so-fun-facts-about-phil-murphys-fy-2025-budget&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=10-not-so-fun-facts-about-phil-murphys-fy-2025-budget

10 not-so-fun facts about Phil Murphy’s FY 2025 budget

February 27, 2024 Matt Rooney state budget 

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  • Notwithstanding taxes rising again (see below), Murphy’s budget includes a $1.8 billion structural deficit and a $5 billion deficit over two years.
  • We were told that the corporate business tax surcharge had sunset, but Governor Murphy wants to retroactively tack a 2.5% tax (the “Corporate Transit Fee”) on state businesses effective January 1st. It’s a clear break with his Election 2021 promise to not raise taxes in his second term, and its purposed goal is to save NJ Transit from complete collapse. Good luck.

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  • The StayNJ program – Election 2023’s big gimmick – is getting a relatively paltry $200 million infusion.

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Not that it matters much who you vote for or against, the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee blunders along to be joke of the world in terms of affordability.  I can’t believe that ANYONE stays here if you have any other choices.

Sigh!

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DISCOURAGING: Are the detahs due to the Covis-19 “vaccine” being misrepresented?

Sunday, March 10, 2024

https://theethicalskeptic.substack.com/p/a-case-study-in-covid-19-vaccine

A Case Study in Covid-19 Vaccine Related Death Certificate Fraud

  • This is how fake science works. The answer you do not like must bring unassailable proof. The answer you prefer does not have to provide any evidence whatsoever, and is true until proven otherwise

Ethical Skeptic 
Feb 26, 2024

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When the death certificate arrived this week from the state, as crafted by the hospice palliative care physician (who had never even seen her – remember, these people determine the greatest preponderance of ’cause of death’ calls), the Immediate and Underlying (and a fortiori Multiple) Cause of Death only had one ICD code listed: “Alzheimer’s Disease”. The malady was not even titled correctly: G30 (Alzheimer disease). Apparently, for a cancer diagnosis one must bring definitive proof, but for an ad hoc explanation one does not need proof at all, nay even a hint. You just merely fabricate the answer your state medical board enforces.

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Now I realize that this is “anecdotal evidence” and that one User’s story is not dispositive, it certainly seems to corroborate the currently going round Conspiracy Theory that the Covid-19 Vaccine is setting off “turbo cancers” (i.e., quickly occurring or reoccurring cancers that kill faster than one would expect).

Is there a deliberate undercount of the situation?  

I have no idea but it seems plausible given the politics and money involved.

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INSPIRATIONAL: All senior residences should have child care included

Saturday, March 9, 2024

https://www.boredpanda.com/nursery-elderly-care-home-happiness/

Wholesome

Feb 28, 2024

All Heaven Broke Loose When Preschool Opened Inside Of Care Home

Margo Butautaite

BoredPanda staff

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Do you remember your childhood when the days seemed sunnier and longer? Perhaps now, the smell of pancakes with strawberry jam or a particular flower takes you back to your grandparents’ place. In those memories, your grandparents seem younger and healthier, which was definitely the case – the presence of children makes the elderly more active and reminds them of wonderful days gone by. So, it wasn’t surprising that when a nursery opened in an elderly care home, both age groups saw immense benefits.

Sadness and loneliness among elderly people at this care home are becoming a thing of the past thanks to new, innovative ideas

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Seems obvious and good for all involved.

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TECHNOLOGY: why can’t I … …

Friday, March 8, 2024

My knee hurts. I have a doctor’s appointment (first available and will take some else’s cancellation). I am sitting in my car and have my leg stuck out the door because my knee doesn’t hurt when stretch that way. My car insists that I close the door by an incessant unending annoying beeping. So even if put the accessories on, it keeps beeping.

Now here is the funny part. If I start the engine, it stops. Isn’t it more dangerous to have the door open with the car running than when it is off?

Hence to me this is a tech fail. And I hope the designer and the engineer who implemented it spend some time in Purgatory listening to this torture.

Argh!

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DISCOURAGING: Life Expectancy Continues to Plummet

Thursday, March 7, 2024

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2024/03/02/life-expectancy-continues-to-plummet.aspx?ui=f9839516412491bb1e06c9e47058c6fb81b9b9b6acedf03e65e93dfdb263c1b9&sd=20210317&cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1HL&cid=20240302_HL2&foDate=false&mid=DM1537831&rid=2059733501

Shocking Finding: Life Expectancy Continues to Plummet
Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola
March 02, 2024

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Story at-a-glance

  •     Provisional estimates and finalized reports reveal a significant decline in American life expectancy with young adults bearing the brunt of excess deaths
  •     The gender life expectancy gap in the U.S. has reached its widest point since 1996, primarily driven by COVID-19 and the opioid crisis, highlighting systemic issues in health care and societal structures
  •     Contrary to historical trends, the burden of death now falls disproportionately on young and working-aged Americans, prompting concerns about the underlying causes and the absence of a public health response
  •     Amidst censorship and controversy, there’s a growing call for a thorough investigation into pandemic management, including lockdowns, treatment protocols and vaccine deployment, to understand the root causes of excess deaths
  •     The need for a new approach to global health is underscored by the current crisis, with emphasis on addressing health disparities and reconnecting with consciousness, as advocated in my forthcoming book, “The Power of Choice”

As it turns out, one of the biggest news stories of 2023 never made the headlines, which is understandable considering its implications. The world is now grappling with the aftermath of a global crisis that, thanks to the sophisticated and meticulously engineered brainwashing strategies deployed by government and mass media, are unbeknownst to the masses.

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I wonder if the Life Insurance Industry has noticed and adjusted their tables?

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FUN: Lawyers’ ads that don’t take themselves too seriously

Wednesday, March 6, 2024

https://www.boredpanda.com/funny-attorney-ads-for-dogs-kensingtoncampbell/

 

Funny Personal Injury Ads For Dogs (11 Pics)

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Very funny. And, shows a fun side of advertising.

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Need a new form of id for children traveling?

Tuesday, March 5, 2024

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13106377/southwest-flight-accuses-mom-child-trafficking-son.html

Wild moment Florida mom is accused of CHILD TRAFFICKING at Ohio airport after traveling with her four-year-old son on Southwest flight

By Ruth Bashinsky For Dailymail.Com

Published: 07:24 EST, 2 March 2024 | Updated: 11:24 EST, 2 March 2024

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A ‘traumatized’ single mom has claimed Southwest Airlines accused her of child trafficking while she was traveling with her four-year-old son from Florida to Ohio.

Video footage shows the moment Mary Bridgetta Tomarchio, 45, was confronted by two armed police officers at at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport on February 17 after receiving a suspicious report from ‘a pilot’. 

Tomarchio told DailyMail.com she thought the officers were joking at first but quickly became terrified as they questioned her and asked for proof she was his mother.  

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While “child trafficking” is a terrible problem, there must be a better way of checking?

Argh!

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INTERESTING: Striped marlin chage their stripe’s shades

Monday, March 4, 2024

https://www.igb-berlin.de/en/news/colour-change-group-hunting?utm_placement=newsletter

> Researchers find striped marlin communicate with each other by changing the shade of their stripes during high-speed hunting; discovery sheds light on the evolution of predatory group behaviors in fish (More)

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Who knew?

Imagine if humans had that ability.  No more hand signals in a military ambush.  No more need to “remember” to use your turn signals when driving.  

Or, you can tell when a woman is going to get enraged at you.  But you can kinda know that already.  It would be nice to have a warning.

Laugh!

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GUNS: The Unintended Consequences of creating “protected species” of the two and four legged kind

Sunday, March 3, 2024

https://www.ammoland.com/2024/02/wolves-in-northern-wisconsin-a-reminder-to-stay-armed/#axzz8SqoCkVVb

Home » Conservation
Wolves in Northern Wisconsin a Reminder to Stay Armed
Ammoland Inc. Posted on February 22, 2024 by Dean Weingarten

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Wolves that hold their ground when confronted with a human and wolves that do not retreat when yelled at or bluff charged are a problem, as explained by Dr. Valerius Geist, the eminent biologist, and expert on wildlife management. The myth of the harmless wolf developed because people in North America were commonly armed and capable of dealing with wolf packs. The introduction of modern firearms, steel traps, snares, and poison made humans the uncontested apex predator. Wolves learned to avoid humans to survive. The myth of the harmless wolf was born.

Protect wolves from humans with punishing legislation, prevent them from being shot, trapped, snared, or poisoned, and they lose fear and respect for humans. They are subject to the immutable laws of physics. They have developed a healthy fear of cars, which have become their main “predator.”

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There is no way I’d go trapping around the countryside unarmed.  Reports are common about bears, coyotes, and other predators in non-urban areas.  And even some urban ones.

Of course, “protect nature” has led to complacent humans.

And not only do we have to blame the “protect the bears and wolves” people, but also the politicians, bureaucrats, and judges (but I repeat myself) who protect the urban version of “wolves and bears”.

If you can carry a firearm, you are at risk from all sorts af “animals” as well as tyrants who would disarm and shackle you into slavery.  (Figure out your “taxes” and you’ll know how much of a slave you are!)

“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 

“Victim disarmament is the view that it is somehow better to see a woman raped in an alley and strangled with her own pantyhose, than see her with a gun in her hand.” — T.D. Melrose

“§ 1890. The importance of this article will scarcely be doubted by any persons, who have duly reflected upon the subject. The militia is the natural defence of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpations of power by rulers. It is against sound policy for a free people to keep up large military establishments and standing armies in time of peace, both from the enormous expenses, with which they are attended, and the facile means, which they afford to ambitious and unprincipled rulers, to subvert the government, or trample upon the rights of the people. The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them. And yet, though this truth would seem so clear, and the importance of a well regulated militia would seem so undeniable, it cannot be disguised, that among the American people there is a growing indifference to any system of militia discipline, and a strong disposition, from a sense of its burthens, to be rid of all regulations. How it is practicable to keep the people duly armed without some organization, it is difficult to see. There is certainly no small danger, that indifference may lead to disgust, and disgust to contempt; and thus gradually undermine all the protection intended by this clause of our national bill of rights.”  — Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 3:§§ 1890–91 https://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/amendIIs10.html

Gun Rights are the palladium of rights  —  the God given right of self-defense!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: “Medicaid dollars have indirectly financed lobbying for more Medicaid dollars.”

Saturday, March 2, 2024

https://nypost.com/2024/02/25/opinion/hamas-hijacks-british-democracy-1199seius-money-grab-and-other-commentary/

Opinion editorial
Hamas hijacks British democracy, 1199SEIU’s money grab and other commentary
By Post Editorial Board 
Published Feb. 25, 2024, 4:24 p.m. ET

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Eye on Albany: 1199SEIU’s Money Grab

A review of health-care union 1199SEIU’s disclosures this last decade reveals that “a quarter-billion dollars in Medicaid funds earmarked to improve nursing home care have instead flowed to a pair of benefit funds providing health coverage for 1199 members,” grumbles the Empire Center’s Bill Hammond. And some of that cash was diverted to a union project “sponsoring a multi-million-dollar TV ad campaign in support of higher Medicaid funding for hospitals.” That is: “Medicaid dollars have indirectly financed lobbying for more Medicaid dollars.” Meanwhile, the union’s National Benefit Fund, which had “a pattern of negative cash flow” from 2018 to 2020, restored “fiscal balance by increasing the contribution rates from its member employers — and by securing continued subsidies from the state.”

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And, that is essentially the problem with Gooferment programs and Gooferment unions.

Of course, the “unions” provide “campaign” contributions and labor, so no conflict of interest there.

Can we say “self-licking ice cream cone”!

Argh!

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