POLITICAL: It’s about America’s Future, Not Trump or Harris … … end the fed and cut the Federal budget back 50%

Wednesday, August 14, 2024

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/08/the_election_is_not_about_trump_or_harris.html

americanthinker.com
The Election Is Not about Trump or Harris
By Civis Americanus

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The Harris campaign has raised upwards of $200 million and is garnering enthusiasm from the left wing of the Democrat party. If every one of 38.8 million registered Republicans sends the Republican National Committee ten dollars, we will have $388 million. Independents and centrist Democrats who value the future of our country can contribute as well, but don’t count on somebody else to do it. Do your part to help win in November.

Civis Americanus is the pen name of an American Thinker contributor who remembers the lessons of history and wants to ensure that our country never needs to learn those lessons again the hard way. 

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I’m not sure about sending $10 to the RNC.  Too many RINOs for my tastes.  But, I am sending $10 to my local candidate.

If we are to survive, then we need to #ENDTHEFED, cut the budget, and reduce the national debt.

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ConspiracyTheories: What was the FBI role in the attempted assassination

Tuesday, August 13, 2024

https://billingsreport.com/politics/government-corruption/phone-associated-with-would-be-assassin-pinged-near-fbi-dc-offices-in-2023-report-says/

Phone Associated with Would-Be Assassin Pinged Near FBI DC Offices in 2023, Report Says
Erica Carlin
July 23, 2024
in Government Corruption 

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The Gallery Place building in Washington, D.C. was visited by a cell phone linked to the home and work addresses of Thomas Matthew Crooks, who was identified as a potential assassin.

The visit was reported by the Heritage Oversight Project on July 22. Following the attempted assassination of former President Donald J. Trump at a fairground in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13, the Oversight Project, which is part of the Heritage Foundation, initiated a geo-location investigation.

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In taking the “temperature” of this particular Conspiracy Theory, I judge it to be “3. More likely than not” that the Deep State was once again “involved”.

Argh!

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NEWJERSEY: Count on Gooferment to screw up big time

Monday, August 12, 2024

https://longisland.news12.com/mayor-contractor-mistakenly-paves-over-park-avenue-drainage-pipes-in-hoboken?region=longisland&ICID=ref_fark

Officials spar over mistakes made regarding street repaving project

  • A street repaving project in Hoboken caused some controversy this week between local and county officials.

Matt Trapani and Amanda Eustice
Aug 7, 2024, 9:07 AM

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There is a lot of finger-pointing over a paving project in the city of Hoboken.

Mayor Ravi Bhalla says that the county paved over drainage pipes and impacted some sidewalks – but there is more to the story.

Hoboken resident David Radlin says there was never a time when he wasn’t concerned with flooding at his home on the 100 block of Park Avenue.

“It’s notorious for flooding, so obviously anything that goes on in the street I pay attention to,” Radlin says.

And he was paying extra attention when he noticed a construction company pave over his sump pump drain.

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Where was the on-site supervision?  Doesn’t take a PhD to recognize that something is just plain wrong.  And the home owner should have been screaming bloody blue murder until someone recognized the stupidity.

This should get the line painter, who painted over the dead squirrel, out of the Incompetence Hall of Fame replace by these folks.  At least the paint is temporary.

Argh!

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GUNS: The AR-15 is the most popular model of rifle in the United States

Sunday, August 11, 2024

https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2024/08/04/aoc-accidentally-gives-gun-rights-advocates-a-gift-n1225826

AOC Accidentally Gives Gun Rights Advocates a Gift
By Tom Knighton | 12:30 PM | August 04, 2024

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Yet the courts have held that and many anti-gunners have even tried to approach the AR-15 as being a particularly unusual weapon. Despite it being the most popular model of rifle in the United States, some have even tried to argue that it’s not commonly owned.

AOC, however, in acknowledging that these are one of the most popular semi-automatic weapons in the nation, is also acknowledging that they are, in fact, commonly owned.

Whether you think “commonly owned” should matter or not, the reality is that many people do accept that as the standard, and for AR-15s, that hurdle has been cleared. If there should be a hurdle or not is a different topic entirely.

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This “commonly owned” should not matter since we couldn’t own an automatic weapon for decades.  Not that a wise gun owner would want one unless you were facing a mob rushing you.  Then, you’d want to put as much as you could down range and wouldn’t worry about aiming.  Only in the movies, does the hero fire without aiming.

The Marines teach fire discipline.  “One bullet; one kill”.

AOC should be thanked for the rhetorical “gift”.

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NEWJERSEY: Taxpayers in New Jersey will spend $750,000 … …

Saturday, August 10, 2024

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2024/07/29/waste_of_the_day_upcoming_soccer_match_will_cost_new_jersey_taxpayers_750000_1047223.html?mc_cid=d542d25ea0

Waste of the Day: Upcoming Soccer Match Will Cost New Jersey Taxpayers $750,000
By Adam Andrzejewski, RealClearInvestigations
July 29, 2024

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Topline: Taxpayers in New Jersey will spend $750,000 to help bring an exhibition soccer game to Red Bull Arena in Harrison on July 31, even though the match is sponsored by the multibillion-dollar energy drink giant.

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Sorry but this is just yet another example of waste in the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee.

What else can be said?

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APPLE: “Contacts” app missing from icloud.com using iphone 13 with IOS 17.6.1

Friday, August 9, 2024

“Contacts” app displays web page at icloud.com on Mac 14.6 using safari or firefox, but not on iPhone 13 IOS 17.6.1 using safari or Firefox?

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POLITICAL: Joe Biden has a plan to enable more judicial tyranny

Friday, August 9, 2024

Brion McClanahan is an author, historian, professor and speaker with a focus on the Founding Fathers and the founding principles of the United States.

FROM A RECENT EMAIL BROADCAST FROM HIM

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Joe Biden has a plan to reduce the power of the Supreme Court. I’ll probably talk about this very soon on my show.

It seems the left has decided that the Court is a threat to their agenda, which is really funny because that is the only way they’ve been able to ram their unpopular plans down the throats of the American public.

Sure, some people like what they do. The same could have been said for any political movement in Western Civilization, but the left figured out in the 20th century that their authoritarian agenda would not have enough “democratic” support to make it work.

Hence, judicial tyranny.

Real “originalists” have been screaming at the clouds about this since the early 19th century.

I can hear Spencer Roane or Patrick Henry saying, “I told you so.”

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When I was in grammar school a history assignment was to read the Federalist papers.  That continued in high school. I read them but I didn’t grok them.

It wasn’t until I read Lysander Spooner that I went back to those Federalist Papers and had my eyes opened.

All the politicians and bureaucrats were tyrants then and now were tyrants in disguise.

“Would you tell me please, Mr. Howard, why should I trade one tyrant three thousand miles away for three thousand tyrants one mile away? An elected legislature can trample a man’s rights as easily as a king can.” Mel Gibson as the character Benjamin Martin in the movie The Patriot http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0187393/quotes

We’ve had our RIGHTS transformed into privileges.  Deigned to us by our betters to be suspended at will and whimsy,

Argh!

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DISCOURAGING: Making things worse

Thursday, August 8, 2024

May be an image of text that says 'Discouraging Quote of the Day a enan nek There is no circumstance so dire that your unique skillset couldn't make worse.'

George Frederic Watts, 1840-1850 – “Theophilos Kairis”

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RECOMMENDED: The Electronic Frontier Foundation gets my financial support

Wednesday, August 7, 2024

This is a friendly message from the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

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I put my money where my mouth is.  Not a huge amount, but every little bit helps to steer the ship.

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HEALTH: if “nearly all the PE reports in VAERS are associated with the COVID vaccine”, then what do you conclude?

Tuesday, August 6, 2024

https://kirschsubstack.com/p/the-pulmonary-embolism-reality-gap?publication_id=548354&post_id=147282572&isFreemail=true&r=onvra&triedRedirect=true

The pulmonary embolism “reality gap”

  • According to the peer-reviewed medical literature, COVID vaccination reduces your risk of pulmonary embolism. According to the doctors, nurses, and pathologists I know, it does the opposite.

Steve Kirsch  — Aug 02, 2024

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Pulmonary embolism (PE) as a side effect of the COVID vaccine is a perfect example of what I’ll call the “reality gap” between mainstream medicine and direct observations of people.

The medical community estimates, using large data that is kept hidden from public view and both partial and fully adjusted hazard ratios (HRs), that the COVID vaccines reduce your risk of pulmonary embolism by around 20%. The proposed mechanism of action for that miracle is that the vaccine reduces your risk of getting COVID (which can elevate PE levels).

On the other hand, all the medical experts I regularly communicate with believe the reverse is true.

And we have other supporting data as well: nearly all the PE reports in VAERS are associated with the COVID vaccine and there are over 15,000 reports. Since VAERS is at least 50X under-reported, this suggests around 650,000 PE’s associated with the COVID vaccine. That’s a train wreck. In addition, I did a survey of my followers on X, 80% of whom did not take the COVID vaccine, and the results were consistent with the safety signal in VAERS: 85% of all the PE cases people observed after 2021 were associated with the COVID vaccine.

Someone is not telling you the truth. This article looks at the arguments on both sides.

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Someone is lying.  To protect Big Pharma, the politicians, and the bureaucrats?

Once I read that Big Pharma was immune to damage claims in US Courts, I knew the fix was in.

Didn’t India refuse to agree to that?  Wonder what their results look like.

And, another “dead giveaway” (no pun intended) is that “the data” is hidden.

We need some Nuremberg (2.0) trials to expose “the Truth”.

“Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Whose gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinburg? I have a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago, and you curse the Marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know. That Santiago’s death, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. You don’t want the truth because deep down in places you don’t talk about at parties, you want me on that wall, you need me on that wall. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said thank you, and went on your way, Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon, and stand a post. Either way, I don’t give a damn what you think you are entitled to.” Colonel Jessep in A Few Good Men played by Jack Nicholson

We need some hangings and life sentences to ensure this never happens again!

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