Couldn’t logon for several days.
First call into them; they changed UserIds to emails. Argh!
Second call into them; send us a screen shot.
Sent it in and then they said: “three to five business days”.
Argh!
I fail to understand how they are going to diagnose and fix this. And, five days, someone must be INSANE!
Nevermind that no one is interested in WHY I need to get on their website.
Argh! Argh!
Maybe I need to change?
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FROM 1440 https://join1440.com/
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NATO Spending Hike
NATO leaders are expected to agree to ramp up defense spending when the two-day summit concludes today. Countries may commit to spending 5% of their gross domestic product on defense by 2035—up from the current 2% target, which 22 of the 32 member countries have met.
The commitment responds to a call from President Donald Trump, who has conveyed skepticism about the military alliance’s value to the United States. The US is one of NATO’s biggest contributors, responsible for roughly 16% of the alliance’s collective $3.5B budget last year. It is also the only country to have triggered Article 5, which assures collective defense for all member countries. Spain struck a deal with NATO to be exempted in the final communique, instead committing 2.1% of its GDP to defense. Learn more about NATO here.
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#getoutofNATO, #NATO, #endNATO
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Given the USA’s fiscal state, I would like to see us pull out of NATO and the UN.
“Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.”
— Thomas Jefferson
Can anyone give a good reason not too?
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Diamondbacks’ Ketel Marte cries on field in heartbreaking scene after fan’s disturbing comments
By Mitch Fink
Published June 25, 2025, 8:36 a.m. ET
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“I hope MLB can do something with that guy. I don’t know who it was, but they’ve got to do something. We can’t continue to do that [expletive] here in MLB … he should be banned, for sure. Everybody knows Ketel lost his mom. She was the world to him.”
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I’d hope that MLB would ban this bozo fan for a decade. Hey, “kill the ump” isn’t even acceptable these days. I think that the “bread and circuses” crowd has lost all public decency. Cheer, boo, whatever, but personal slurs are, or should be, severely punished.
Same with verbal and physical assaults at ANY sporting event should be prosecuted to the full extent of the local law. It’s a real “HATE” crime. (Even though as a little L libertarian, I don’t believe in “hate enhanced penalties”.)
I can’t imagine how I’d react if I was really focused on my job and performing it to the best of my ability and someone came up behind me and yelled slurs about my sainted past wife. I’d probably try and deck the guy.
Argh!
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UPDATE: 2025-Jun-30
https://1057thehawk.com/ixp/385/p/branchburg-youth-baseball-umpire-assault/
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Read More: Major win for youth umpire punched by coach at NJ baseball game | https://1057thehawk.com/ixp/385/p/branchburg-youth-baseball-umpire-assault/?utm_source=tsmclip&utm_medium=referral
In March 2023, he was sentenced to five years’ probation. He also had to complete five months of anger management counseling, NJ.com reported.
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FJR: No jail time? To light IMHO.
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Remember Heinlein’s Starship Troopers’ universe? One does not merely have the right to be a citizen and vote by virtue of what Heinlein called the mere accident of birth; rather, one has to earn this right through Federal Service that tested one’s ability and willingness to sacrifice for the greater good of the polity. Bet not a lot of vets would vote for all the undeclared wars the USA has been in since WW2?
And, my many posts about repealing the 16th (income tax) and 17th (direct election of Senators) Amendments.
Go back to funding the Federal Gooferment with tariffs and excise taxes. If the Federal Gooferment needs more money then let it ASK the State Gooferment to impose a sales tax and forward the money to the Federal Gooferment!
Return the power to select Senators to the State Legislatures as the Dead Old White Guys designed it. As a State’s check on Federal power. Restore it and get the money out of elections and politics. Too many carpet baggers buying their Senate seats.
And, how about creating more Representatives in the House? What was the representation ratio in the House when the Union was formed? One per some number of citizens in the thousands. With technology today, it can be a virtual meeting. With a population of 350,000,000, we can set the number of Representatives at 3500 (one per hundred thousand). Guess these folks never heard of Zoom calls. We don’t need politicians and bureaucrats in DC where they can conspire easily about how to oppress us. Argh!
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Hiker rescued after falling out of tree and getting lost in Washington woods for nearly a week
By Caitlin McCormack
Published June 24, 2025, 7:02 p.m. ET
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A hiker survived nearly a week lost in the woods of Washington state, including a fall from a tree, and was finally saved after someone heard his desperate cries for help.
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The man’s calls in the woods of Suquamish were heard by a nearby tribe member who called 911 on Saturday around 12:30 a.m. to alert authorities, the Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office said.
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A hiker was rescued after spending four or five days lost in the woods in Washington. Kitsap County Sheriff
When a sheriff’s deputy arrived, he too heard a “faint, distressful voice coming from the woods from a man saying he had fallen from a tree,” the office wrote in a Facebook post.
The deputy quickly helped form a search party with assistance from the Washington Explorer Search and Rescue, Kitsap Search Dogs, Olympic Mountain Rescue, and the Suquamish Tribal Police Department.
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Another person is almost a Darwin Award winner!
Unprepared for a day in the woods; let alone a week. Sorry but Mother Nature doesn’t forgive foolishness easily. Look at the number of organizations, amount of human hours, and just the sheer effort. Who pays for all that?
No compass, no map, no cell phone … …. I could go on and list all the things that he should have had. Not the least of which is a hiking buddy.
Hiking alone is a sure fire way of winning that Darwin Award!
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Jersey Shore official slams NJ over summer-long Shark River Bridge closure
Dan Alexander
Published: June 20, 2025
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🚧 The Shark River Bridge is closed to vehicles and pedestrians
🚧 A County Commissioner says the DOT doesn’t properly maintain the bridge
🚧 The DOT says it spends $1.5 million on preventative maintenance
BELMAR — The New Jersey Department of Transportation is defending its oversight of a Jersey Shore drawbridge that will be out of service all summer, the time when traffic in the area is the busiest.
Monmouth County Commissioner Director Tom Arnone blasted state transportation officials for lackluster maintenance, saying that could have avoided the full closure of the Shark River Bridge, which connects Avon-by-the-Sea and Belmar.
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Why is anyone surprised when Gooferment fails to do its job?
“I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!” Captain Renault in Casablanca
It’s not like the politicians and bureaucrats of the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee don’t know that this bridge is a constant problem. Why in this day and age do we still have drawbridges? And especially on critical roadways?
Thanks Governor Murphy; another great success!
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The secret British language that was used to outwit the Nazis
17 July 2023
Oliver Berry Features correspondent
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Instead of taking up arms, islanders found other, subtler ways to resist. They engaged in a campaign of passive resistance, and Jèrriais became central to their efforts. With its complex vocabulary and regional variations, the language was all but impossible for outsiders – even French-speaking Germans – to follow. As such, it made the perfect secret code, and islanders increasingly used it to exchange information, make clandestine plans against their occupiers and, occasionally, even mock their them right under their noses.
“Jèrriais articles at the beginning of the occupation managed to get through resistance messages,” explained Geraint Jennings, a linguist, scholar and Jèrriais expert who works at L’Office du Jèrriais to promote the language. “Articles openly printed that it’s best to speak Jèrriais so ‘certain people’ won’t be able to understand it – IE the Germans! Of course, they soon cottoned on to that and clamped down with censorship, but Jèrriais continued to be used as a secret language for passing messages for the rest of the war.”
Ironically, despite its wartime role, the use of Jèrriais declined at an alarming rate after liberation in 1945. Like many of Britain’s minority languages, such as Manx, Gaelic, Welsh and Cornish, Jèrriais was derided as a language spoken only by the uneducated, and it had been in gradual decline since the late 19th Century – a trend that accelerated rapidly after the end of WW2.
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Fascinating stuff. Like most of the lost languages, “We, The Sheeple” have no idea what has been lost.
Hopefully, AI and some dedicated individuals can capture and save it.
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$1.2 Trillion Later, and Air Traffic Control is Still Using Floppy Disks
by James Hickman
on June 18, 2025
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In 1988, a Professor of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico named Joseph Tainter published a book called The Collapse of Complex Societies.
Now, “collapse” is a strong word that conjures images of apocalyptic scenarios… Mad Max or Hunger Games drama. But that’s not what Tainter intended.
He uses the term ‘collapse’ in its academic, anthropological meaning, i.e. a breakdown of strength and order in society. In fact Tainter’s entire career has been devoted to investigating how large, sophisticated civilizations throughout history ultimately “collapsed”.
I first read Tainter’s book more than 15 years ago. And, even though it is a work of anthropology, it is, in my opinion, one of the best books on economic history ever produced.
From the Roman Empire to the Mayan people, Tainter explores how civilizations are born, grow, peak, and decay… and how, more often than not, the decay phase is a direct result of failed government or leadership.
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Floppy disks were removable storage technology that were prevalent in home computers in the 1980s… sort of like a USB memory stick, only MUCH slower and with a fraction of the storage capacity.
A typical 3.5” floppy disk could only hold 1.44 megabytes of data, i.e. not even enough to store even a single photo from your mobile phone’s camera.
Yet this is the technology that America’s air traffic controllers still have to use… because the Transportation Department thought it was a better idea to spend billions of dollars on a handful of electric vehicle charging stations.
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ATC (Air Traffic Control) is a national disgrace. Time to privatize this essential function.
Real simple. The airlines use it every day. They should run it. Bet the infrastructure would be state of the art. Matching the plane’s controls.
Transition to the private function would be easy — you fly in the USA airspace then you get to buy in.
Same with th airports! You use, you pay, and you get a share of the decision making. The more you pay the bigger your vote.
I bet the airplane manufacturers and the drone makers would want to buy in too. Anything to escape the politicians and bureaucrats meddling in technical decisions!
Since the current system is on the verge of “collapse”, why not try something “radical”? The free market solution!
#privatizetheFAA #endtheFAA
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Friday Funnies: The Myth of the Mad King
Just watch out for the jokers
Robert W Malone MD, MS
Jun 20
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Many a true word is said in a joke!
1. Restore us to “honest” commodity money; 2. End the personal and corporate dole; 3. Stop the various wars — foreign and domestic — repatriate the troops home; 4. End the drug war; pardon all non-violent drug offenders; 5. Transition out of gooferment funded public education; 6. Downsize ALL gooferments; 7. Eliminate all taxes but tariffs and excise.
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https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/12/03/misinformed/
“One must select wisely a source of news; otherwise it would be better to be uninformed than misinformed.” — Ezra Taft Benson
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Mark Twain? Denzel Washington? Thomas Jefferson? Thomas Fuller? Orville Hubbard? Ezra Taft Benson? Apocryphal?
Question for Quote Investigator: A cynical attitude toward the media is widespread today, but this is not a new development. Supposedly, Mark Twain made the following remark:
If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.
Are these really the words of the famous humorist?
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I love the investigation of quotes done on this website. They do a real service to prevent misattribution.
Kudos!
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