DISCOURAGING: Recently John Oliver overstated how little “migrant crime” there is

Wednesday, July 31, 2024

https://sharylattkisson.com/2024/07/2-men-charged-in-horrific-rape-murder-of-12-year-old-houston-girl-are-illegal-immigrants/?vgo_ee=AIlxHOmQLFml4478dVXBXZGm2JHSZ7d3H5Bb26gTfJs%3D%3Ap4ixypWsJWLZpF%2BdyZkqyJVxXPgOZ2e9

2 men charged in horrific rape, murder of 12-year old Houston girl are illegal immigrants
By Sharyl Attkisson | July 24, 2024

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A horrific rape and strangulation death of a child is being linked to two illegal immigrants from Venezuela.

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I think John Oliver recently overstated how little “migrant crime” there is. Maybe, just maybe, the R’s are hyping it too much.

I’m not a fan of either the D’s or the R’s.

But I do think “crime” is a much bigger problem overall and “migrant crime” is a component of it. Native USA-ers at WalMart, shoplifting, and flash mobs are another significant component of the perception.

Until the police and “justice bureaucrats” get tough and back to work, it’ll continue to be a problem. Some more traffic tickets would be helpful too. Argh!

In the mean time, cracking down on illegal immigration is a prudent strategy to “migrant crime”.  You can’t be unconcerned at the military age Chinese and Middle Eastern men in the crowds at the border.

And, we really can’t have “open borders” when we have a “welfare state”.   Never mind that we can’t afford the “warfare state” either!

Don’t get me started on the corrupt state or the MIC (Military Industrial Congressional) complex.

Argh!

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ENGINEERING: Who does installs directly into production? Only incomptent sys admins and sys engineers!

Tuesday, July 30, 2024

https://www.fark.com/comments/13328522/171781856?f=FbVk9IcbaK0iiRpoC_GZuxx7kiD-pW7W485gx#c171781856

xrayspx [TotalFark]  

Smartest (114) Funniest (6)  

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No matter how hard I try, I can’t blame Crowdstrike for this being a “Global Outage”. I blame “Crappy Sysadmins”. The fact that 911 systems, hospitals and other “life & death” essential services chose to auto-install untested vendor updates with no internal vetting whatsoever makes me pretty mad. To say nothing of airlines, banks, schools, govt. and everyone else who should goddamn know better.

My company runs Crowdstrike and this didn’t impact us because of exactly that, we push updates in a controlled fashion through Test before releasing anything to Production which could take us down. We do this with MS Updates, Linux updates, Oracle, etc. etc., why would I ever allow Crowdstrike to auto-update on my systems?

/old man yells at cloud
//kids these days
///so over this nonsense 

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I swear to God that this is exactly what I thought when all these “production” environments went down from one update.  For heaven’s sake, didn’t anyone think that this could happen.  Disaster Recovery?  Information Security? Uninterruptible Service?  Life ’n’ safety critical?

If I was a CEO or CFO, them I’d fire the CIO and CTO in a heartbeat.

Argh!

Thanks FARK for making me think I am NOT the crazy one.

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INTERESTING: Can pets can sense when we’re in pain or dying? Seems possible

Monday, July 29, 2024

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13664877/pets-sense-pain-dying-hundreds-miles-away-ex-Cambridge-academic-dr-rupert-sheldrake.html

Our pets can sense when we’re in pain or dying – even from hundreds of miles away: I’m an ex-Cambridge academic and these startling, inexplicable stories convinced me..
By Dr Rupert Sheldrake
Published: 21:21 EDT, 23 July 2024 | Updated: 22:11 EDT, 23 July 2024 

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For more than 30 years I have been collecting case evidence of animals that appear to know by intuition or telepathy when the humans they love have suffered a serious, sometimes fatal, accident.

The existence of so many independent reports is persuasive, writes Dr Sheldrake, who has been collecting evidence of animal intuition or telepathy for more than 30 years 

The bond between owner and animal is indeed a real connection, linking them together invisibly, even over thousands of miles

This isn’t a subject that lends itself to experimental investigation. Evidence can only come from chance events, not laboratory tests, since it is obviously impossible to stage dangerous incidents. But in my files I now have more than 100 accounts of dogs appearing to respond to distant injuries or deaths of their human companions, and about half as many cases involving cats.

The existence of so many independent reports persuades me that this is a real phenomenon, even though it is not possible to do experiments. Further research is needed through the collection of more well- documented stories.

My theory is simple: the bond between person and animal is indeed a real connection, linking them together invisibly, even over thousands of miles. Death and danger disrupt this bond.

To take a simple analogy, if two people are connected by a stretched elastic band, and one of them shakes it or lets it go, the other feels a difference. Even if they do not know exactly what is happening to the other person involved, they know something is happening.

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Based on anecdotal evidence, his theory seems to have some basis in fact.  I haven’t formed a “reasoned belief” to any degree of certainty, but it certainly seems possible.  I’ve read many stories about “loyal dogs”, graveside visits, and such.  We know that dogs can smell disease, so why can’t they have some type of ESP.  We have seen anecdotal evidence about the connection of human twins.  Why can’t there be more to the physical world than we know right now?

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SURVIVAL: At least they had a flare gun … …

Sunday, July 28, 2024

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13657649/Miracle-fishing-crew-Elite-Navigator-survived-three-days-sea.html

Miracle at sea as fishermen reveal how they survived being stranded on a life-raft for three days
By Mitchell Goodbar For Dailymail.Com
Published: 00:24 EDT, 22 July 2024 | Updated: 00:39 EDT, 22 July 2024 

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A group of fishermen lost at sea for nearly three days managed to survive by keeping themselves in high spirits aboard their life-raft, before they used a flare gun to attract rescuers.

The seven crew members were forced to abandon their ship, the Elite Navigator, on Wednesday after a small fire on the vessel quickly turned into an inferno.

With little time to spare, the men piled into a life-raft and abandoned the burning boat.

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No inventory of what they had, should have had, or an obviously needed transponder.

No one seems to care about “preps” until it’s too late.

The concept of EDC (Every Day Carry) is to have what you’d need in an emergency.  When you go out on the water or into the forest, then your needs change and so to you EDC.

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ENCOURAGING: Something all girls should be taught and men should learn — boundaries

Saturday, July 27, 2024

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13659259/Instant-karma-Moment-female-MMA-champion-21-brutally-floors-sex-pest-right-hook-repeatedly-told-stop-touching-her.html

Instant karma! Moment female MMA champion, 21, brutally floors ‘sex pest’ with right hook after she repeatedly ‘told him to stop touching her’

  • Alisa Irinina, from Stary Oskol, Russia, had dated the man in the past

By Taryn Pedler and Will Stewart
Published: 09:25 EDT, 22 July 2024 | Updated: 09:49 EDT, 22 July 2024 

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This is the moment a female MMA champion brutally floored a ‘sex pest’ with a right hook after she repeatedly ‘told him to stop touching her’. 

Alisa Irinina, 21, took matters into her own hands when a man she had briefly dated in the past turned up uninvited to her birthday and began ‘behaving inappropriately’. 

The woman, from Stary Oskol, Russia, said she had told him to stop ‘touching her’ several times but claimed he continued to ‘pester’ her and even threw something at her despite Alisa making it clear she was not interested.

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Good for her.  Don’t depend on anyone to protect yourself.  He deserved it and should get a few days in the cooler to reinforce the lesson.

“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 

I hope we train all boys and girls in a martial art to give them the confidence to defend them selves in all situations.  There are some impressive videos of little children taking adults down hard.  

Don’t waste their time with “gym”!

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ADHOC: How about an auto “stop” reply?

Friday, July 26, 2024

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You need to see this ASAP: red24.us/04jo7i stop=end

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It’d sure be nice if every text that ended with “stop=end” would automagically reply “stop”.

Such magic would make the developer a fortune.

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TECHNOLOGY: Kiss of Death — Google URL Shortener

Friday, July 26, 2024

https://www.androidauthority.com/when-google-will-break-googl-links-3462692/

General technology
Google’s kiss of death is coming for your goo.gl links

  • It’s time to replace your short links before the tech overlord breaks them.

By Mahmoud Itani

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In typical Google fashion, the company killed its goo.gl short link generator on March 30, 2019. Since then, users have still been able to access goo.gl links created before the generator’s shutdown. However, this will change next year, as Google will completely sunset the service, breaking the short links in the process.

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# – # – # – # – # 

https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-url-shortener-links-will-no-longer-be-available/

Google URL Shortener links will no longer be available
JUL 18, 2024
Sumit Chandel Developer Relations Engineer
Eldhose Mathokkil Babu Software Engineer

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In 2018, we announced the deprecation and transition of Google URL Shortener to Firebase Dynamic Links because of the changes we’ve seen in how people find content on the internet, and the number of new popular URL shortening services that emerged in that time. This meant that we no longer accepted new URLs to shorten but that we would continue serving existing URLs.

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And off to the Google Graveyard, it goes.

Unfortunately I was on a kick using them on my blog for a while until for whatever reason, I stopped.  Now I had to waste two hours correcting that link headed mistake.  Sigh!  Some links were broken and one of my favorite authors died unnoticed.  But I did find some old forgotten content that made me laugh, cry, and wonder where my skills went.  Some of the content was timeless.  Me not so much!

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VOCABULARY: A narradigm is a portmanteau of “narrative” and “paradigm”

Thursday, July 25, 2024

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/marketingassetmanagement_technocreativesynthesist-narradigm-ai-activity-7213438621612199936-1fND

Mark Davey’s Post
Content, Metadata profiles and AI – New Paradigm

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Narradigm: A Brief Explanation

#Narradigm is a portmanteau of “narrative” and “paradigm,” representing a new model of storytelling that integrates advanced technologies, such as #AI, with traditional #narrative techniques. This concept goes beyond conventional storytelling by leveraging data-driven insights, interactive elements, and immersive experiences to create dynamic, multi-dimensional narratives.

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I found it in:

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/07/no_author/hard-about-aye/

Hard About Aye! Who pulled the lever?
Radio Far Side
July 18, 2024

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But something happened. Biden refused to quit (and they can’t shove him out), and Trump not only refused to get dead, but earned his god-king crown.

The pre-planned narradigm was supposed to rouse fear and anger toward an impotent and ineffective Biden presiding over a rudderless ship of state (see what I did there?), while stirring up sympathy and anger over Trump being horrifically and publicly cut down. Both events were to happen between the end of the primary cycle and before the conventions began, thus causing unbelievable amounts of chaos as both parties and the general public pointed fingers of blame, while trying to figure out who would replace the candidates.

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As mentioned in my last screed, Biden was clearly set up to fail, and in the most recent episode, Trump was clearly meant to die. The lack of “security” on rooftops, the Keystone Kops Secret Service DIE hires, the waving flag in the background as a wind sock…it was a setup from the word GO. 

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So here we have a word for a prepared narrative that is carefully produced to get the desired effect.

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Too young to have First Amendment rights — I don’t think so!!!

Wednesday, July 24, 2024

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13647349/California-school-punished-girl-black-lives-matter-drawing.html

California teachers were right to severely punish girl, 7, for writing these words under Black Lives Matter drawing she gave to friend, judge rules
By Germania Rodriguez Poleo, Chief U.S. Reporter For Dailymail.Com
Published: 08:30 EDT, 18 July 2024 | Updated: 09:17 EDT, 18 July 2024

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A California judge has ruled that teachers were right to punish a seven-year-old girl over a Black Lives Matter drawing because ‘she’s too young to have First Amendment rights.’

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Assuming that Gooferment Skrules gets Federal money, then where does the Bill of Rights say that?

Sorry but just another example of the Gooferment politicians and bureaucrats taking away RIGHTS that imbue from our humanity.

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HEALTHCARE: UK has 13% of its entire population on the NHS “waiting list”

Tuesday, July 23, 2024

https://www.newsmax.com/sallypipes/nhs-starmer-sanders/2024/07/17/id/1172934/

OPINION

U.S. Left Take Note: UK’s Healthcare an Unending Nightmare
By Sally Pipes Wednesday, 17 July 2024 02:43 PM EDT

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Last year, an average of 268 British patients died each week as a result of hospital admission delays in the nation’s emergency rooms, according to the Royal College of Emergency Medicine.

In England, the number of patients awaiting treatment referrals rose to 7.6 million as of the end of April.

That’s roughly 13% of its entire population.

There’s no shortage of lamentation from British officials about the rising death tolls and growing wait lists endemic to the NHS.

Britain’s new Health Secretary, the Labour Party’s Wes Streeting, even made headlines this week by declaring that “From today, the policy of this department is that the NHS is broken.”

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All of this tumult in Britain should give Americans pause the next time leftists like Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., celebrate the virtues of government-dominated health care.

Just last year, Sanders implored Britons: “Do not look at the American model. Please do not. Build on what you have, improve what you have.”

Britain has tried that for decades, with only worsening results.

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American observers take note: Socialized medicine is no dream. It’s a nightmare — and one from which Britain has been unable to awake.

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Hard to imagine that people aren’t dying while waiting for treatment.  Seems like “socialized medicine” always has this problem.

Not withstanding Senator Sanders advice, I’d suggest privatizing the whole mess.  Real Privatization.

Not like Medicaid, not like Medicare, not like the Veterans Administration healthcare, or not like the Indian Healthcare system.

Go back to the early insurance model, where the recipient must pay and be reimbursed.  If they are poor, then the Gooferment can “insure” them but they only pay a small percentage.  Same for catastrophic health expenses, pay a percentage.  No need for medical bill bankruptcy.  

By everyone paying something, I bet enough fraud would be eliminated to pay for the whole thing.  (I remember that ½ of all Medicare expense in South Florida was fraudulent.  By having a percentage to pay, we can turn all the senior citizens into medical auditors.  Ever seen old folks splitting a check at an early bird dinner?)

If you thing the US system is “bad”, then look into the UK’s NHS and its problems.

Argh!

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GOVERNACIDE: Never forget that the Gooferment doesn’t care about its victims

Monday, July 22, 2024

https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2024/07/16/trinity-and-the-parts-left-out-of-oppenheimer/

Trinity and the Parts Left Out of Oppenheimer
First atomic test was 79 years ago this morning.
by Greg Mitchell Posted on July 16, 2024 
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s substack Between Rock and a Hard Place.

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Entire books have been written about the test, so I’ll just touch on one key issue here briefly. It’s related to a hallmark of the age that would follow: a new government obsession with secrecy, which soon spread from the nuclear program to all military and foreign affairs in the cold war era.

In completing their work on building the bomb, Manhattan Project scientists knew it would produce deadly radiation but weren’t sure exactly how much. The military planners were mainly concerned about the bomber pilots catching a dose, but J. Robert Oppenheimer, “The Father of the Bomb,” worried, with good cause (as it turned out) that the radiation could drift a few miles and also fall to earth with the rain.

Indeed, scientists warned of danger to those living downwind from the Trinity site but, in a pattern-setting decision, the military boss, General Leslie Groves, ruled that residents not be evacuated and kept completely in the dark (at least until they spotted a blast brighter than any sun). Nothing was to interfere with the test. When two physicians on Oppenheimer’s staff (though not Oppie himself) proposed an evacuation, Groves replied, “What are you, Hearst propagandists?”

Admiral Williams Leahy, President Truman’s chief of staff – who opposed dropping the bomb on Japan – placed the bomb in the same category as “poison gas.” And, sure enough, soon after the shot went off before dawn on July 16, scientists monitored some alarming evidence. Radiation was quickly settling to earth in a band thirty miles wide by 100 miles long. A paralyzed mule was discovered twenty-five miles from ground zero.

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I was really shocked … …

“I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!” Captain Renault in Casablanca

… … at the values of the Gooferment politicians and bureaucrats.

I’d never heard this before, but surprisingly I was never informed about this atrocity.

Argh!

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CORRUPTION: How do we prevent future bad behavior. Make examples!

Sunday, July 21, 2024

https://palexander.substack.com/p/dr-sanjay-gupta-lied-to-us-for-4?publication_id=579356&post_id=146423697&isFreemail=false&r=onvra&triedRedirect=true

Dr. Sanjay Gupta lied to us, for 4 years, this CNN bitch lied to us for 4 years on CNN, lying, deceiving us, and now Gupta is saying Biden must have a cognitive test? Why? Because the nation SAW it so now you can’t lie anymore? Your medical license Gupta should be stripped and you should be investigated; you knew Biden was shitting on himself yet you lied UNTIL you could not lie no more…

Dr. Paul Alexander

Jul 17, 2024

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Et Tu Dr. Sanjay Gupta? of CNN now cupping balls too? He wants a job in Trump’s administration? None for you Sanjay, you fraud, your statements killed people across COVID; now you want test of Biden? 

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I hope that DJT has a list of all those that need “punishment”.  If he forgets, I hope we all can remind him.

Behavior won’t change unless there is some “negative” reinforcement.  Sorry, not vindictively, but to correct past “bad behavior” and prevent a reoccurrence.

Argh!

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INTERESTING: Which Beer Tastes Better?

Saturday, July 20, 2024

https://www.insidehook.com/beer/can-bottle-draft-which-beer-tastes-better

Can, Bottle or Draft: Which Beer Tastes Better?

  • What you drink your beer out of has an impact on its flavor

By Mike Dunphy 
July 11, 2024 12:06 pm

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The same phenomenon happens in the beer world, when enthusiasts deliver passionate panegyrics and firm convictions on the superiority of beer in a can, bottle or keg. Subjectivity keeps the debate ongoing, but chemistry and fermentology — alongside a bevy of other packaging factors — do have something to say about it and may challenge your beliefs. Here’s what really makes the difference in the flavor of your beer when it comes to the can, bottle or draft debate.

Packaging vs. Freshness

Just as an artifact uncovered by an archaeologist immediately begins to degrade in the open air and sun, so too does beer the moment it leaves the mother tank and funnels into cans, bottles and kegs. By and large, these chemical changes are not welcome, and preserving the freshness and flavor of beer depends a lot on keeping out the culprits. 

The most dangerous element is oxygen, explains Chuck Skypeck, technical brewing projects director for the Brewers Association. “The way that beer arrives at its best state to the consumer is about the brewer’s ability to put their beer into that package with a minimum amount of exposure to oxygen,” Skypeck explains. Oxygen impacts the flavor by essentially turning compounds in the beer into other, less desirable compounds that dull flavor and make beer taste stale. Oxygen gets many access points, too, in the path from source tank to consumer. Not only do you have to move beer between tanks during production, potentially exposing it to air, you also have to open the container to put beer in it. Bottles and cans can be damaged on the production line, or a pump seal might leak, too — again putting the onus on the brewer’s skill, system and equipment.   

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But the question is never answered.  So I assume that all three are equivalent all other factors being equal.  So you’re on your own and have to rely on your own taste buds.

FWIW YMMV faiwwypfi (Free Advice Is Worth What You Pay For It! ? zero?)

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: When Gooferment bureaucrats refuse to answer to their citizens

Friday, July 19, 2024

https://kirschsubstack.com/p/my-emails-with-the-county-executives?publication_id=548354&post_id=146562376&isFreemail=true&r=onvra&triedRedirect=true

My emails with the County Executive’s office of Santa Clara County

  • These people need to be held accountable for their decision to look the other way when confronted with evidence of public harm. If you live in Santa Clara County, please share your thoughts with them.

Steve Kirsch  —  Jul 13, 2024

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I had a discussion with the Director, Civic and Community Engagement of Santa Clara County whom I was referred to when I attempted to ask for a meeting with the County Executive.

Here’s the tl;dr:

    “The Santa Clara County Public Health Department isn’t interested in answering any questions about malfeasance regarding their data and we’re not interested in the answer either.

    We don’t give a shit that people were injured or killed as a result of the public health recommendations so we’re not going to answer any more of your questions.

    Have a nice day. Goodbye.”

This is an unacceptable response and I’m not going to let them get away with it. I plan to hold them accountable for their actions. All legal of course!

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It’s time that Gooferment bureaucrats were held accountable for being non-responsive.

The Gooferment politician in charge should fire them.  If they refuse or can’t, then they should be cvoted out of office.

I bet that this only has to be done a few times to correct bad behavior.

Argh!

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SURVIVAL: Experienced hiker gets into trouble

Thursday, July 18, 2024

https://nypost.com/2024/07/12/us-news/coast-guard-rescues-blind-hiker-guide-dog-lost-on-oregon-trail-for-days/

 Coast Guard rescues blind hiker, guide dog stranded on sweltering hiking trail for days

By Stepheny Price, Fox News 

Published July 12, 2024, 5:14 a.m. ET

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A blind hiker and his guide dog are safe after being rescued by a US Coast Guard helicopter crew when they became stranded for days in the heat on an Oregon hiking trail.

The US Coast Guard Pacific Northwest announced an aircrew had rescued a 55-year-old man and his dog from the Rogue River Trail in southwest Oregon.

The hiker, who officials said is legally blind, began hiking the trail with a friend and his guide dog July 3 and began to show symptoms of heat exhaustion July 6.

Officials said that, due to lack of cellphone service, the friend left the unidentified man and his dog with food and water and headed toward Gold Beach to call 911.

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Didn’t they have an Apple phone with satellite capability or a satellite phone?   Guess not.  Who pays for the rescue?

Sigh!  The taxpayer.

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ADHOC: Let’s make 7/13 “National Unity Day” when we can remember were all Americans

Wednesday, July 17, 2024

The Hope For National Unity In The Shadow Of A Failing State

The Hope For National Unity In The Shadow Of A Failing State | ZeroHedge

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/hope-national-unity-shadow-failing-state

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DISCOURAGING: America’s Societal Collapse Accelerates

Wednesday, July 17, 2024

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/authorities-are-literally-losing-control-streets-americas-societal-collapse-accelerates

Authorities Are Literally Losing Control Of The Streets As America’s Societal Collapse Accelerates
by Tyler Durden
Tuesday, Jul 09, 2024 – 01:25 PM
Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,

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In a civilized society, authorities are able to maintain at least a basic level of law and order in the streets most of the time. Unfortunately, at this point it is up for debate whether the United States is still a “civilized society” or not. The chaos in our streets never seems to end, and those that are in charge of running things don’t seem to be able to regain control. The theft, violence and mayhem that we are witnessing in our major cities is being fueled by the worst homelessness crisis in our entire history, the worst drug crisis in our entire history, and the worst migration crisis in our entire history. If authorities cannot control our streets now, what is going to happen once our societal collapse reaches a much more advanced stage?

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Over and over, the same story.  Laws not enforced.  Criminals not sentenced for violent crimes.  “Juveniles” not prosecuted as adults.  Bad behavior is tolerated or ignored.

Argh!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: You peasants may have opinions, but they matter not to your betters

Tuesday, July 16, 2024

https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2024/07/11/boston-is-getting-more-speed-humps-a-lot-more/?ICID=ref_fark

Boston is getting more speed humps. A LOT more.

The humps themselves are about three inches high and about 12 to 14 feet long. Cars can smoothly travel over them at 20 miles per hour or slower. 

By Molly Farrar  — July 11, 2024

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A speed hump could be coming to a street in your neighborhood soon, as the city unrolls a years-long effort to promote traffic safety.

The City of Boston will install more than 2,000 of the humps, as part of “Safety Surge,” which began in October. The City plans to have installed more than 400 humps by the end of July.

*** and ***

More humps are planned for Mission Hill and Allston-Brighton. According to the city’s website, there will be no opportunity for resident feedback, but residents will be notified before a speed hump is built on their street.

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I wonder if the elite are getting speed bumps like it or not?

Somehow I suspect not.

And, I guess all the potholes have already been filled?

Yet, another example of Gooferment arrogance.

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ConspiracyTheories: Grassy knoll 2.0 — my questions about what’s reported

Monday, July 15, 2024

https://palexander.substack.com/p/grassy-knoll-20-was-this-grassy-knoll?publication_id=579356&post_id=146598300&isFreemail=false&r=onvra&triedRedirect=true

Grassy knoll 2.0? Was this Grassy knoll 2.0 but bungled for Trump? 2nd shooter? Was the bungle deliberate? Grassy knoll involved JFK Kennedy being killed & did the assassin FAIL here with Trump? Yet was he killed by Secret Service (SS) to tell no tales? Was there a SECOND shooter? Did the SECOND shooter’s bullet hit Trump? Is this patsy ‘KILLED’ shooter a fake MISDIRECTION? How will we know?

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I have my own set of questions.

  1. How was a rooftop clear for a shooter to take up a position?
  2. Why wasn’t the shooter stopped by the cop that spotted him?
  3. Did the good guy sniper delay taking the shot that killed the “bad guy”?
  4. The “bad guy” was reputed to be a “bad shot”; so how did he get off nine rounds and kill one bystander?
  5. Why was DJT so exposed on the dais  — no bulletproof glass in front of him?

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GUNS: Magazine limits are nothing less than murder

Monday, July 15, 2024

https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2024/07/11/home-invasion-illustrates-why-gun-control-is-stupid-n1225559

Home Invasion Illustrates Why Gun Control Is Stupid
By Tom Knighton | 2:29 PM | July 11, 2024

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They took the money and pistol-whipped the victim and are currently at-large.

Now, either this gentleman didn’t have a firearm or couldn’t get to it in time, so it didn’t turn into a defensive gun use. However, let’s say, for the sake of argument, that he did.

Do you think one shot would have ended the threat? There were four of them. According to this report, all four were armed. 

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In out forefathers’ days, “home invasion” was unheard of.  Crime came with a chance of death.  

“An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.” — Robert A. Heinlein

So too, a “home invasion” should have a high probability of “return fire”.

There’s is no excuse for the Gooferment promising “protection” and enforcing disarming victims.

“No law ever written has stopped any robber, rapist or killer, like cold blue steel in the hands of their last intended victim.” —W. Emerson Wright

“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

“God made men and women; Sam Colt made them equal.” — Unknown

Too many criminals; need every citizen to be armed.

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INSPIRATIONAL: Tom Wodds gives his product away for free

Sunday, July 14, 2024

FROM TOM WOODS’ EMAIL

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In this atmosphere, I have decided not to charge for my US history courses anymore but instead to give them away for free.

If you want them, they’re yours. If you suffered from educational malpractice, here’s how to learn what they should have taught you but didn’t:

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https://www.WoodsHistory.com

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What a gift!  The gift of dikw (i.e., data, information, knowledge, wisdom) free from Tom’s own pocket.

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ECONOMICS: Dunkin shrinkflation

Saturday, July 13, 2024

Tropicana OJ came in a new bottle.

I wondered why they would do that.

Eliminated the inner seal, slimmer cap.

Ahh hah. new 315 ml; old 325 ml.

Don’t know if the price changed.

Sneaky <synonym for excrement>!

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2024-07Jul-18

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13647497/woman-calls-tropicana-juice-trick-brand-money.html

Someone else noticed!

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2024-11Nov-18

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/18/business/tropicana-orange-juice-bottle/index.html?ICID=ref_fark

More Tropicana shrinkflation

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VOCABULARY: “GasLighting” — technique designed to persuade you that you did not see nor hear what you saw and heard

Friday, July 12, 2024

https://sonar21.com/media-gaslighting-on-biden-and-ukraine-plus-belated-spief-2024-video/

Media GAsLighting on Biden and Ukraine; Plus, Belated SPIEF 2024 Video
5 July 2024 by Larry Johnson

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It dawned on me today (okay, I’m a little slow on the uptake) that the legacy media is using the same gaslighting technique in reporting on Joe Biden and the War in Ukraine.

  The term “gaslighting” comes from the 1938 play Angel Street, which was later adapted into the film Gaslight, in which a man tries to convince his wife that she is going insane so he can steal from her. When he turns on the lights in the attic to search for her jewelry collection, and the gas lights dim downstairs, he tells her it’s all in her imagination. Gradually she begins to question her own memories and perceptions.

The legacy media’s repeated insistence over the last two years that Ukraine was whooping the tar out of Russia on the battlefield, is the same tactic as the media’s claims that Joe Biden is a certifiable jeopardy candidate who could run circles around Albert Einstein were he still with us. Both messages are designed to bamboozle the public. But it is a failed tactic once visual, certifiable facts are on display and can no longer be dismissed as “conspiracy theories.”

Gaslighting is both a political tactic and technique designed to persuade you that you did not see nor hear what you saw and heard. Tonight’s interview on ABC of Joe Biden by Clinton protege, George Stephanopoulos, is a departure from the gaslighting and represents, instead, Biden’s last chance to persuade top Democrat officials and donors that last Thursday’s debate debacle was an aberration. It was not. Biden failed the test. The Democrats wanted it done on Friday night because it is not a big TV ratings night and any stumbles by Biden would be less damaging than if he did a full public melt-down in Prime Time like last Thursday’s debate.

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Finally have a good definition of what is being done to “We, The Sheeple”!

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MONEY: USA “sanctions” spur tech solution to SWIFT

Thursday, July 11, 2024

FROM TLDR Crypto 2024-07-05

https://cryptoslate.com/russia-contemplating-permanently-legalizing-stablecoins-for-cross-border-payments/

Russian government considering legalizing stablecoins for cross-border payments (2 minute read)

  • Russia is considering regulating the entire transaction chain, from transferring these assets into the country to accumulating and utilizing them for cross-border payments.

Assad Jafri
Jul. 3, 2024 at 8:48 pm UTC
Updated: Jul. 3, 2024 at 8:48 pm UTC

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Russia is considering legalizing stablecoins for international transactions to improve cross-border payments and mitigate the effects of ongoing sanctions. The Russian Central Bank is looking to regulate the transaction chain from entry to utilization. Its initiative would primarily target facilitating transactions with BRICS countries effectively integrating stablecoins into the national framework for international settlements. 

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This is another nail in the coffin of the USA dollar and the SWIFT funds transfer system.

Our politicians and bureaucrats have really screwed the pooch this time.

Now assets will move bypassing and being transparent to the USA.

Good job, Guys.  Incentivize the rapid adoption of a competitive technology.

Argh!

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RANT: Biden needs to fire some people

Wednesday, July 10, 2024

https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/michael-moore-trump-was-right-about-this-one-thing/

FROM MICHAEL MOORE:

“Trump was right — I know, there’s words I’ve never spoken — Trump was right when he turned to Biden to ask him what his problem was as to why he never fires anybody,” Moore said. “It’s amazing to me how a week later now, anyone on this campaign staff still has a job! How is that possible?!”

I agree with him and DJT on that point.

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SECURITY: A lesson in what phishing looks like

Wednesday, July 10, 2024

https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B0CQCDMY2V/ref=atv_dp_share_r_em_5605dba96bbd4

The Beekeeper

A retired military operative, who now serves as a Beekeeper in a secret organization that protects the world like bees in a hive, is forced into a campaign of revenge when his neighbor’s finances are wiped out after a phishing scam.

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The beginning of this movie should be required watching BEFORE anyone gets a personal computer.  

The ‘nice old lady” gets scammed out of everything she has by calling in after a pop up on her computer.  Been there getting pop ups, spam emails, and whatever.

Lesson Number 1 is have yourself some “tech support” relative.  Or at least, don’t trust anyone online.

The lady has a flash of insight to call her bank but gets talked out it when the nice man on the phone says “he’ll lose his job.”

The rest of the movie is mission impossible type hokum but enjoyable to see the “bad guys” get karma visited upon them.

All in all, the part about scammers is very believable and should serve as a warning to all computer Users.

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https://nypost.com/2024/07/07/us-news/scammers-get-away-with-billions-from-elderly-americans-every-year/

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