GOVEROTRAGEOUS: “Taxation IS theft” spawns the CERTIFIED POLITICAL PROMISE idea

Saturday, May 9, 2026

https://www.newstribune.com/news/2026/may/03/commentary-everyone-hates-taxes-that-doesnt-mean/

COMMENTARY: Everyone hates taxes — that doesn’t mean you can skip them
Chicago Tribune (TNS)

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“Taxation is theft” is typically Libertarian-coded, a view that carries deep skepticism about the wisdom, efficiency and trustworthiness of government’s ability to spend our money better than we would ourselves. We suspect many folks who voted for President Donald Trump do not like paying taxes. Perhaps they even have this slogan taped to their rear bumper.

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You can protest how your tax dollars are used. You can press your lawmakers for a different approach. You can support candidates who reflect your priorities and hold them accountable once they’re in office. You can argue about how much should be collected in the first place.

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Yes, I do have the bumper stickers and it’s not like anything seems to work!

Unconstitutional regime-change war at the behest of Israel as well as widespread Welfare / Medicare / Medicaid fraud makes me enraged!

How about introducing the concept of a “CERTIFIED” (as in the Post Office “certified mail return receipt requested”) … … “CERTIFIED POLITICAL PROMISE”!  (Some lawyer be willing to create one pro bono for the good of the Republic?).  I envision it as an Undated Resignation Letter.

Date: TBD
TO: We, The People
FROM: ____ candidate for ____

PROMISE:  ____  (i.e., specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and time bounded)

CONSEQUENCE:  Consider this my immediately effective resignation

SIGNED:

NOTARIZED: 

COPIES TO: The National Archives, the current President, and the Governor of my State

That should suffice to cut down on the politicians’ <synonym for excrement> on the difference between CAMPAIGNING and GOVERNING!

Hey it’s worth trying ❶.

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❶ The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas. — Linus Pauling

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APPLE: EITHER my sleep score OR my reminders to move around … … but the battery isn’t big enough

Friday, May 8, 2026

https://click.iphonelife.com/ga/webviews/4-8912863-107-15777-20387-236433-fp231c6e99

Deep Dive – Trade in your physical wallet for the Wallet app

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Of course, this depends a lot on your Apple Watch model and usage (the Ultra has a bigger battery while the SE has a smaller one), but on average, you can expect your Apple Watch to last through your waking hours.

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I like to use the Apple Watch for my sleep score.  It’s handy for time too.

BUT, (and there is always a BIG butt), the battery is my problem.

I can have EITHER my sleep score OR my reminders to move around … … but the battery isn’t big enough to do both with a recharge Argh!

So you best be aware of that limitation or have multiple chargers for the recharging.

I guess that was not part of Apple’s use case!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: REMEMBER GARY WEBB?

Thursday, May 7, 2026

<<FROM TWITTER>>
<< EDITOR ADDED DATE 2024-06-08>>

https://x.com/redpillb0t/status/1799599851094651023/photo/1

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REMEMBER GARY WEBB

in 1996, gary exposed how the cia hired drug traffickers, to sell massive amounts of cocaine in the united states, in order to raise untraceable funds to finance a terrorist organization who were trying to overthrow the nicaraguan government. these massive shipments of cocaine ultimately sparked the crack epidemic that decimated inner cities during the 90’s. as a result mainstream media vilified gary webb & destroyed his career, which also destroyed his marriage. but he refused to back down. in 2004 he was found dead with 2 bullet wounds to his head. his death was ruled a suicide. this man literally lost everything to give us a glimpse of the truth. don’t let his memory or what he stood for fade.

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And oldie but goodie … … 

Since there is no “Statute of Limitations” on MURDER, how about some appropriate DA take this a grand jury.  Grant the person who signed off on the “suicide” determination immunity and then shake out all the “parasites” (i.e, criminals, politicians, and bureaucrats) involved.  

All grants of immunity are contingent on all TRUTHFUL testimony.  

It would be an interesting exercise of “sunshine” on some dark corners of Gooferment action!

Argh!

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ENCOURAGING: Left behind in Kabul. Alone. He waited 47 days.

Wednesday, May 6, 2026

<<FROM TWITTER>>
<< EDITOR ADDED DATE 2026-05-01>>

https://x.com/joedelhi/status/2049674299523629110?s=20

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Left behind in Kabul. Alone. He waited 47 days.

K-9 Chaos was not a dog who did his job. He was a dog who had DECIDED, completely, permanently, without reservation, that Lieutenant Marcus Webb was coming back for him. No matter how long it took.

At Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul, on the morning of August 30th, 2021, a three-year-old Belgian Malinois sat in an empty aircraft hangar. The last American plane had left six hours ago. The evacuation was over.

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Why are dogs more loyal than most humans?

I remember a fragment that went something like “when the human race goes extinct, only three species will mourn their passing —  dogs, mosquitos, and lice.  

I’m glad the dog out, BUT, (and there is always a BIG butt), sad that the USA abandoned all the humans that helped us there.

It’s a national disgrace.

Argh!

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NEWJERSEY: Forging hundreds of voter registration applications

Tuesday, May 5, 2026

https://nj1015.com/forged-voter-applications-plainfield/?alef=&lh_aid=84349&lh_cid=mnhlcy7a57&utm_campaign=democrat_admits_voter_fraud&utm_medium=email&utm_source=letterhead&utm_term=nj1015&di=5dee59a988d78dda1c830fead5b041f3

Former Plainfield mayoral candidate pleads guilty to forging voter registrations
Rick Rickman Published: April 30, 2026

  • Ex-mayor candidate admits forging nearly 1,000 voter forms in NJ Democratic primary
  • Failed Plainfield mayor candidate admits forging hundreds of voter registration forms before 2021 primary.
  • Investigators say he was caught carrying nearly 1,000 fake applications at an Elizabeth post office.
  • Prosecutors plan to seek probation, not prison, at June sentencing.

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PLAINFIELD — A failed candidate for mayor has admitted to forging hundreds of voter registration applications in the days leading up to a major election.

Henrilynn Ibezim, 71, pleaded guilty to third-degree forgery in Superior Court in Union County earlier this week. But he likely faces no time behind bars, according to the Attorney General’s Office.

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Probation!

What kind of message does that send to deter future crime?

We need tougher sentences and some institutional discipline.

Perhaps the various Democratic (or Republican) party organizations should be fined a million bucks.  That should send a message!

Argh!

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HEALTH: Mississippi has outlawed lab-grown dairy products, including fake milk

Monday, May 4, 2026

https://johnklar.substack.com/p/mississippi-bans-fake-milk-to-support?publication_id=779141&post_id=195486026&isFreemail=true&r=3vwsqx&triedRedirect=true

Mississippi Bans Fake Milk to Support Human Health and Farmers

  • Promoting cows and rural culture, not globalist venture capitalists.

John Klar
Apr 30, 2026

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The giveaway is that not one of the three “justifications” is true. The “animal welfare” argument ignores that, as cows are replaced with factory fabrications, they do not retire to green pastures but to abattoirs. Will cows eventually only be seen in a zoo? The “climate change” argument is baseless – cows sequester more carbon dioxide and methane in soil with their manure than they emit; that manure is replaced with synthetic fertilizers, especially urea, which is made from natural gas (aka methane). Manure builds soils; chemicals deplete them. And the “human health” argument goes out the window quickly. While many people are lactose intolerant, faux milk is not as healthful as the real deal and is just another chemical-laced processed replacement for farmers and their bovine charges.

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Sigh!  Is nothing sacred?

First off, Michael Greger M.D. writes that even real milk has problems ❶.  It’s meant for transforming calves into big cows. Not something humans should be doing without good reason.

Second, why do we keep experimenting on the ENTIRE human race when we really don’t know <synonym for excrement> about ourselves, our physical body, or chemistry.  Notice the fake milk hasn’t undergone any multi-generational safety studies.  Remember Thalidomide. ❷ 

Third, why would humanity accept yet another “scientific miracle” without some solid reasons.  Just so some  Big Corporation can make big bucks.

So, no “fake milk”, “plant based milk”, or “mike from roaches” for me.

Of course, as a little L libertarian, you can do what ever you feel is in your best interests that doesn’t use force on our fellow humans.

I’d urge a lot of caution, every time, someone comes along with a “great idea”.

Argh!

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❶  “The Side Effects of the Hormones in Milk” Michael Greger M.D. FACLM · September 22, 2025 · Volume 70    https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-side-effects-of-the-hormones-in-milk/

❷ Thalidomide scandal  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide_scandal 

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HEALTHCARE: The case for taking your health back into your own hands

Sunday, May 3, 2026

https://www.malone.news/p/the-cancer-weve-been-looking-for?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=583200&post_id=195777325&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=3snn7d&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

The Cancer We’ve Been Looking For in All the Wrong People

  • Why a forty-three-year-old runner’s near miss is the lung cancer story you didn’t know you needed to hear—a review of “One Scan Saved My Life” by Shira Kupperman Boehler

Dr. Robert W. Malone
Apr 29, 2026

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There’s a particular kind of book that arrives at exactly the right cultural moment, and Shira Boehler’s One Scan Saved My Life is one of them. A healthy, forty-three-year-old mother of four — a runner, a never-smoker, the daughter of a pulmonologist — gets blindsided by stage I lung adenocarcinoma. The only reason she’s alive to tell us about it is because her husband nagged her into a preventive scan that wasn’t covered by insurance, wasn’t recommended by any guideline, and wouldn’t have happened at all if she’d left her care entirely to the system. If that doesn’t crystallize the case for taking your health back into your own hands, nothing will.

For readers sympathetic to the Make America Healthy Again movement, this book is going to land with unusual force, and the reasons are worth spelling out plainly.

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Sometimes we can’t worry about “insurance coverage” and let that dictate our health choices. This lady spent a few bucks and saved her own life. Remember the Gooferment is not your “Guardian Angel” (i.e., the clot shot recommendation; the old “food pyramid”; red dye number 3 thru whatever).

“Government healthcare is the first step to cyanide showers.” — unknown

 

“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.” – Buddha

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: No Gooferment bailouts for any failing corporation.

Saturday, May 2, 2026

https://nypost.com/2026/04/24/opinion/spirit-airlines-deal-threatens-another-bailout-boondoggle/

Spirit Airlines deal threatens yet another bailout boondoggle
By Stephen Moore
Published April 24, 2026, 5:13 p.m. ET

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It’s a strange conundrum: If a company gets too big and successful and dares earn too much money, the US government accuses it of being an evil monopoly and tries to break it up.

And if it loses too much money, the government swoops in and bails it out with taxpayer dollars — as we’ve seen multiple times now, from banking to the auto industry.

Rewarding failure and punishing success isn’t a very smart economic game plan.

In the latest chapter of this saga, the federal government is reportedly about to provide a half-billion-dollar taxpayer bailout to Spirit Airlines.

Aren’t you excited to learn you may become a shareholder?

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And the politicians have a long and inglorious history of picking losers.

Think of the hundreds of millions of dollars lost under President Barack Obama’s so-called stimulus, when the government turned itself into a venture capital fund and “invested” in companies like Solyndra and Fisker Auto — celebrated solar panel and electric car manufacturers that went bust after huge infusions of tax dollars.

How many times have we been told that Amtrak and the US Postal Service are about to become profitable?

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The Gooferment —  at any level — as well as any politicians and bureaucrats should not be favoring any corporation or people with “investments” from the Taxpayers’ pocket.

I still remember how upset my sainted wife was when the Gooferment bailed out GM and the bond holders got screwed.   I also remember when my favorite tax accountant got screwed when Bear Sterns was allowed to go bust but AIG was bailed out.  And remember when the Gooferment was to bail out individual mortgagees that suddenly became bailouts for the Big Banks — who promptly gave big bonuses to high-earning employees, CxOs, and directors. Sigh!  

The beauty of “capitalism” is that “the invisible hand of the marketplace” rewards those who satisfy the consumers’ needs making a profit and applies discipline to those that don’t.  All without a single Gooferment bureaucrat!

When Gooferment seeks to frustrate the marketplace: (1) it doesn’t work since it doesn’t change the leadership, management, and workers behavior that got them into unprofitability in the first place; (2) the taxpayers become the deep pockets for further losses; and (3) continues the immorality of Gooferment theft and “training’ “We, The Sheeple” that the Gooferment knows what’s best for “us”!

Bottom line: No Gooferment bailouts for any failing corporation.

Argh!

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GOVERNACIDE:PFSA-polluted sites in the US

Friday, May 1, 2026

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/25/pfas-chemicals-ice-family-detention?CMP=share_btn_url

US immigration
ICE planning facility for children and families on Pfas-contaminated site

  • High concentration of toxic ‘forever chemicals’ found in groundwater at former military facility in Louisiana

Tom Perkins
Sat 25 Apr 2026 09.00 EDT

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The England air force base, now called England Airpark, is a sprawling former military facility in Louisiana where Pfas levels in the groundwater have been found at at least 41m parts per trillion (ppt).

Federal drinking water limits for several Pfas compounds range from 4 to 10ppt, meaning the levels have been at least 575,000 times higher than the limit. Military bases are often contaminated with high quantities of Pfas, but England’s groundwater has shown the highest levels ever recorded, and it is among the most Pfas-polluted sites in the US.

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As a little L libertarian, “we” have been pointing out the the Gooferment is the biggest polluter that we have in our control. There are politicians and bureaucrats lecturing about “climate change”, and “Earth Day” but no one is addressing the crap that “we” are doing like pollution.

When will base commanders be held accountable for pollution and remediation?

“When in a hole, stop digging!” — old Wall Street maxim.

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