Hobby Lobby closing all stores, issuing mass furloughs

Monday, June 8, 2020

In a statement posted on the company website on Friday afternoon, Hobby Lobby announced it will furlough “nearly all store employees” without pay and “is ending emergency leave pay and suspending use of company provided paid time off benefits and vacation.”

Source: Hobby Lobby closing all stores, issuing mass furloughs

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I foresee a lot of lawsuits and Gooferment regulatory action.

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Elmer Fudd stripped of rifle in new Looney Tunes cartoon series

Sunday, June 7, 2020

Fudd, known for his own catchphrase, “Shhh. Be vewy, vewy quiet. I’m hunting wabbits,” gets outsmarted by Bugs at every turn, even though he’s always had his trusty shotgun at his side — until now.“

We’re not doing guns,” Peter Browngardt, executive producer of the new series, told the New York Times. “But we can do cartoony violence — TNT, the Acme stuff. All of that was kind of grandfathered in.”

Source: Elmer Fudd stripped of rifle in new Looney Tunes cartoon series

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Can’t come up with an original idea so then they revise it to make it “politically correct”.  Argh!

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Two Genetically Identical Twins Separately Ate Vegan And Meat-Heavy Diets For 12 Weeks, Then Compared Their Results

Saturday, June 6, 2020

Einstein famously talked about a “twin paradox,” where one identical twin gets sent out into space in a high-speed rocket, and the other remains on Earth. In the experiment, due to spatial relativity, the Earth twin would age more.

Source: Two Genetically Identical Twins Separately Ate Vegan And Meat-Heavy Diets For 12 Weeks, Then Compared Their Results

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Interesting comparison over a short time.

I’m convinced plant-based is the way to go.

Now if I just could do it!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Handicap parking

Saturday, June 6, 2020

Anyone else annoyed with handicap-parking abuse?

I see perfectly fine “weightlifters” with “handicapped” placards. Big Ford 250s with “handicapped” plates. And one neighbor with a placard for each of her three cars.

Have the police ever wrote a ticket for this type of abuse?

My suggestion is to put the eligible person’s picture on the placard. Then the Usurpers could be easily detected.

As a little L libertarian, without the Gooferment this abide would be-non-existent. But how could the Gooferment signal its “compassion”?

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Another top general slams Donald Trump: Former chairman of the joint chiefs Martin Dempsey | Daily Mail Online

Friday, June 5, 2020

‘The idea that the military would be called in to dominate and to suppress what, for the most part, were peaceful protests — admittedly, where some had opportunistically turned them violent — and that the military would somehow come in and calm that situation was very dangerous to me,’ he added.

Source: Another top general slams Donald Trump: Former chairman of the joint chiefs Martin Dempsey | Daily Mail Online

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Well this seems to be getting out of control.  In our Constitutional republic, the State governors have the responsibility to maintain the peace.  DJT45 may have overstepped his bounds.

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Coronavirus IS man-made,says ex-head of MI6 Sir Richard Dearlove | Daily Mail Online

Thursday, June 4, 2020

Ex-MI6 chief Sir Richard Dearlove said he believes that Covid-19 is man-madeHe cited an ‘important’ report which claims virus was manufactured in a lab Believes China could be forced to pay ‘reparations’ to the rest of the world

Source: Coronavirus IS man-made,says ex-head of MI6 Sir Richard Dearlove | Daily Mail Online

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Sounds like a reasonable assertion!

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NEWJERSEY: N.J. Borrowing Bill Could Lead to Statewide Property Tax Surcharges | Lavallette-Seaside Shorebeat

Wednesday, June 3, 2020

“Just when you thought you heard everything,” said Assemblyman Gerry Scharfenberger (R-Monmouth), the bill “would allow the state to borrow five billion dollars without voter approval that would add a statewide surcharge to everyone’s property tax bill.”

Source: N.J. Borrowing Bill Could Lead to Statewide Property Tax Surcharges | Lavallette-Seaside Shorebeat

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Sorry, but the borrowing must stop.  The spending must be cut!  The Labor Unions, especially the Teachers Union, have a stranglehold on the legislator.

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ECONOMICS: EconomicPolicyJournal.com: We May Be Heading Towards a Post-Dollar World

Tuesday, June 2, 2020

This is providing a massive amount of new dollars to bid for goods and services in the U.S. that suggests very strong price inflation ahead. In addition, these dollars, in addition to the dollars directly provided overseas, will also put downward pressure on the greenback on foreign exchange markets that will provide even more incentive for many global actors to ditch the dollar as the reserve currency. If the move away from the dollar picks up steam, the end of the dollar as a reserve currency may not be far behind.

Source: EconomicPolicyJournal.com: We May Be Heading Towards a Post-Dollar World

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Where will all those new “dollars” go if NOT into higher consumer prices (i.e., more “dollars” chasing fewer consumer goods)?

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Spadea to Trump: Let’s reject ‘new normal’

Tuesday, June 2, 2020

I had the honor of speaking with the President of the United States recently as he called into our morning show.

Source: Spadea to Trump: Let’s reject ‘new normal’

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Bill is adamant that the whole WuFlu crap (i.e., masks, social distancing, closed business, etc.).  Not that there isn’t a virus, but he urges us to back out the nursing home deaths (which may have been due to Gooferment policies).  It’s no worse that the flu.

He’s also pointing out the hypocrisy of Cuomo / Murphy acceptance of “no social distancing” at protests or rioting.

It’s all a farce to take away our freedoms.

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New York couple attacked by looters who tried to destroy store | Daily Mail Online

Monday, June 1, 2020

Madison and Bret Mavity, of Rochester, New York, were attacked by a group of looters damaging a businessAt least five men were reportedly attempting to break into a jewelry store on Saturday Madison came downstairs from her apartment to stop the men, but was instead attacked Looters beat Madison and her husband before fleeing the sceneThe couple both sustained injuries from the altercation including a concussion Tensions have skyrocketed amid protests for George Floyd, a black man who died in police custody last week

Source: New York couple attacked by looters who tried to destroy store | Daily Mail Online

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Clearly if you are going face to face with “protesters” to protect your life and property, then you better have a “force multiplier” (aka a GUN!) to even the sides.

Personally, I’d use a shotgun with a 1911 as my backup.

Also, if you’re going to do this, you must be prepared to kill or be kill.

When you draw your weapon or take aim, you must be prepared to fire and accept the consequences.  No hesitation; no second thoughts.  Just remember your training.

If you shoot, shut up until you talk to your CRIMINAL defense lawyer.

And, hope I get on your jury.

Remember “better judged by 12 than carried by 6”!

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“It’s all Bullsh*t” – 3 Leaks that Sink the Covid Narrative – OffGuardian

Sunday, May 31, 2020

Evidence is piling up that the people in charge knew, from the very beginning, that the virus was not dangerous.
— Read on off-guardian.org/2020/05/31/its-all-bullsht-3-leaks-that-sink-the-covid-narrative/

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It seems the truth about the WuFlu eludes us. Why?

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LIBERTARIAN: In a pandemic, no one wants to touch it. Why cash has become the new Typhoid Mary

Saturday, May 30, 2020

While many hail the shift to a cashless economy, others say that it raises equity concerns, because the poorest Americans have no access to digital alternatives. Much of the world, led by Scandinavia and Japan, has moved to assure virtually their entire populations have access to online payments. China introduced a digital currency this spring in four cities, paving the way to its becoming perhaps the world’s first cashless society.

Source: In a pandemic, no one wants to touch it. Why cash has become the new Typhoid Mary

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As a little L libertarian, I don’t like the Gooferment knowing EVERYTHING!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Let the patients and doctors decide, not politicians and bureaucrats

Friday, May 29, 2020

https://mailchi.mp/tomwoods/erdr?e=39307912ab

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For today, let me share with you part of an email I received from an emergency room physician who reads my newsletter. He has given me permission to share it with you, but with his name withheld:

I am a full-time practicing board-certified emergency room physician certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) — which is the real deal, not one of those “other” board-certified institutions. I have an Ivy League undergraduate degree in biochemistry, and my medical degree is from the NYU school of medicine. I have practiced medicine in urban Chicago, Boston and Quincy, Massachusetts, and for the last 19 years in Florida. I don’t mean to brag, but for what it’s worth I have seen a thing or two that most people rarely deal with when it comes to health issues….

[The coronavirus] is a real virus with real consequences, including death. I have taken care of a few young people who required hospitalization, one of whom was deathly ill and may have died. (She was transferred to a tertiary care facility, a higher level of care hospital that has more sub-specialists than at my hospital, which is a community hospital. When she was transferred I lost follow-up on her.) However, I typically will see one or two younger people who become seriously ill with every flu season, and I have seen the occasional death….

The consequences of the lockdown and the over-hyped fear that the MSM has instilled in the public are atrocious, worse than the War on Terror. In your podcast episode today (#1661), entitled “The Lockdowns and Those Millions of Lives,” you mentioned that treatments of emergency stroke patients are down 40%.

I cannot emphasize enough how devastating this fact alone is. I can honestly say that during every shift I have worked in the emergency room for the month of May, I have seen stroke patients who should have come in earlier for potentially brain-saving emergency treatment. Because these patients finally present many hours if not days later because of the fear of catching coronavirus, their chances of recovery are greatly diminished — to essentially zero. While coronavirus will pass, these patients will live with a disability for the rest of their lives. They and their families were robbed.

There are other real consequences that are just as terrible. An emergency physician like myself will typically see one or two cardiac arrest patients a week — the vast majority in people over 70 if not even older, mostly with underlying heart disease. Yet I have seen in March and in early April mostly younger men in their 50s and early 60s present in cardiac arrest. After any attempt at resuscitation, I always speak with the family to get more details, and in every circumstance I was told by the patient’s wife or partner that the patient was extremely stressed about not being able to work and provide for his family. Now the breadwinner is dead, and the family is left in mourning and without the means to support themselves.

I have also seen at least twice as many suicide attempts and also 2 to 3 times as many drug overdoses as I see in a 1-2 month period. These are the tragedies that are not counted by our wise overlords who need to protect us from ourselves with these politically face-saving lockdowns. I haven’t even mentioned the cancer patients, some of whom need time-sensitive operations let alone chemotherapy — and some of these patients, because of their compromised immune status, are at high risk of catching coronavirus, but the point is to let the patients and doctors decide, not politicians in state capitals.

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Seems OBVIOUS to me.

People have to decide what risks they want to take.

Argh!

As much as I want a haircut, I’m not willing to risk my life.

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Lockdown was unnecessary, this country now admits

Thursday, May 28, 2020

That the lockdowns were unnecessary.It turns out that the virus was already on the decline when the lockdowns were ordered, and it was not spreading nearly as fast as the most extreme numbers — on the basis of which the lockdowns were implemented — suggested it was:”It looks as if the effective reproduction rate had already dropped to around 1.1 [and not 2 or 3, as a frightened public was being told] when the most comprehensive measures were implemented on 12 March, and that there would not be much to push it down below 1…. We have seen in retrospect that the infection was on its way down.”

Source: Lockdown was unnecessary, this country now admits

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What a surprise!  Another example of the Gooferment in “action”!

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VETERANS: can’t decide what risks they-want to take

Wednesday, May 27, 2020

https://patch.com/new-jersey/southbrunswick/s/h4lv5/men-issued-summonses-drinking-spotswood-american-legion?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_term=politics+%26+government&utm_campaign=autopost&utm_content=southbrunswick

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politicians and bureaucrats decide what we can and can’t do.

that’s just not right!

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FUN: ​”​Men with long ring fingers are less likely to die from the coronavirus: study​”​

Tuesday, May 26, 2020

https://nypost.com/2020/05/26/men-with-long-ring-ringers-are-less-likely-to-die-from-the-coronavirus-study/

​”​Men with long ring fingers are less likely to die from the coronavirus: study​”​

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​Nice to know if I get the WuFlu, it’ll be mild. 

Laugh!

Makes a much sense as anything else we’ve heard from the “experts”!​

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Japan may have beaten Coronavirus without lockdowns or mass testing. But how?

Monday, May 25, 2020

No restrictions were placed on residents’ movements, and businesses from restaurants to hairdressers stayed open. No high-tech apps that tracked people’s movements were deployed. The country doesn’t have a center for disease control. And even as nations were exhorted to “test, test, test,” Japan has tested just 0.2% of its population — one of the lowest rates among developed countries.

Yet the curve has been flattened, with deaths well below 1,000, by far the fewest among the Group of Seven developed nations. In Tokyo, its dense center, cases have dropped to single digits on most days. While the possibility of a more severe second wave of infection is ever-present, Japan has entered and is set to leave its emergency in just weeks, with the status lifted already for most of the country and Tokyo and the remaining four other regions set to exit Monday.

Source: Japan may have beaten Coronavirus without lockdowns or mass testing. But how?

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Why was Japan different?

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How film goddess Carole Lombard became Hollywood’s first casualty of WW II

Monday, May 25, 2020

Daily Variety editor Arthur Ungar penned a page-one tribute to Lombard that led the Jan. 19, 1942, edition.

“Carole Lombard died in the line of duty. She was the first casualty of show business in this world war. She was in active service on a mission in defense of the United States —  selling Defense Bonds — when death suddenly overtook her in the skies,” Ungar wrote.At a time when the country was polarized about whether to enter the conflict, Lombard had been an outspoken supporter of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

It was no surprise that she was among the first in what Variety then referred to as “the film colony” to raise her hand to help the war effort. U.S. Treasury officials put the movie star to work selling war bonds to finance the enormous military and industrial response to Japan’s bombing of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.

Source: How film goddess Carole Lombard became Hollywood’s first casualty of WW II

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World War II impacted Hollywood differently then. After that, they no longer were “Americans” imho.

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Are Aluminum Pots, Bottles, and Foil Safe? | NutritionFacts.org

Sunday, May 24, 2020

But then this study was published, suggesting the aluminum itself may be harmful. Most of our aluminum exposure comes from processed junk that contains aluminum-containing food additives, including those within some processed cheeses, baking powders, cake mixes, frozen dough, and pancake mixes. But approximately 20 percent of the daily intake of aluminum may come from aluminum cooking utensils, such as pans, pots, kettles, and trays. To see if this may be causing a problem, they took blood from consumers who used aluminum cookware versus those who did not, and found that not only were the aluminum users walking around with twice the level of aluminum in their blood, but they had more free radical damage of their body fats and proteins. And the total antioxidant capacity of their bloodstream was compromised; so, no surprise, they suffered significantly more DNA damage. And indeed, those with the highest levels of aluminum in their blood tended to suffer significantly more damage to their DNA. No surprise, since aluminum is considered to be a pro-oxidant agent.

Source: Are Aluminum Pots, Bottles, and Foil Safe? | NutritionFacts.org

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Take care around aluminum especially pots and foil!

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A Vote-by-Mail Nightmare – WSJ

Saturday, May 23, 2020

n 27 states, “a voter can designate someone to return their ballot,” says the National Conference of State Legislatures. This practice is often restricted to family members and caregivers, or with rules that cap the number of ballots any single person may return. Not always. “Ballot harvesting” has made news in California, where activists have canvassed neighborhoods collecting votes. The registrar in Orange County reported in 2018 that his office had “people dropping off maybe 100 or 200 ballots.

”Ballot harvesting isn’t widespread, but laws in 13 states are “silent on the issue,” the NCSL says. That includes Wisconsin, where the Elections Commission told voters in March that ballots may be returned by “a family member or another person.” Technically, that covers anybody at the door in a Biden shirt or a Trump hat. Last year when the commission flagged the issue, it said Wisconsin law also doesn’t “clearly prohibit failing or refusing to deliver a marked ballot collected from another voter.”

Source: A Vote-by-Mail Nightmare – WSJ

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Clearly this an invitation to fraud.  (By either “party”!)

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Gooferment Skrules are getting worse

Friday, May 22, 2020

https://mailchi.mp/tomwoods/partlyfalse?e=39307912ab

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I listed a few of these inhuman and anti-social guidelines on my other email list, for entrepreneurs, the other day. They include:
 
No “communal shared spaces” — which means no cafeterias or playgrounds.
 
No field trips, assemblies, or external organizations.
 
Everyone over age 2 wears a mask.
 
No sharing toys, electronic devices, anything.
 
No switching teachers during the day.
 
On the school bus one child per seat, skipping rows.
 
Physical barriers between bathroom sinks.

One-way routes in hallways.
 
And plenty more besides.
 
Just when you thought the Prussian-inspired American public school system couldn’t get more regimented and dehumanizing, along comes the CDC.

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Tom Woods really nails “public education” for the disaster it is. The TRUE purpose of Gooferment Skrules  is to create cannon fodder for the Army, willing morons for the factories, and useful idiots to vote for and be led by the elite.  If you have ANY doubt, just look where the elite send their children to be educated.  It sure isn’t the “public schools”!

Argh!

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SC Absentee Ballots Found in Maryland as Dems Urge Vote-by-Mail

Thursday, May 21, 2020

About 20 Charleston County absentee ballots were found in Maryland this week as the Democrat Party’s effort to gradually move all states to vote-by-mail continues, while the GOP warns that such moves will lead to voter fraud, inaccuracy, and abuse.

Source: SC Absentee Ballots Found in Maryland as Dems Urge Vote-by-Mail

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How can the Sheeple trust the process?

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Cash, long a refuge in uncertain times, now under suspicion

Wednesday, May 20, 2020

`CASH IST FESCH!′
— Read on apnews.com/81f11055d39cefc7e9483c77e682bdbc

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I wonder when people are going to wake up and save gold and silver bullion. That’s real money. I don’t understand why people that are not recognized that the FED inflation has cost them 98% of the value of a dollar.

What is everybody stupid?

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TECHNOLOGY: Big Tech needs to be broken up to preserve “free speech”

Tuesday, May 19, 2020

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Facebook heads lobby group to push “Big Tech” as essential to free speech narrative
 
Silicon Valley is gearing up for a fight with regulators and Facebook is taking a leading role in the formation of a new lobbying effort to spin the narrative in Big Tech’s favour. Called “American Edge”, the group which hasn’t launched yet 
 
“argues that Silicon Valley is essential for the U.S. economy and the future of free speech…The group’s splash page, which went live on Tuesday night, defines the project as: “…a newly formed bipartisan coalition dedicated to the proposition that American innovators are an essential part of the U.S. economic health, national security and individual freedoms.”
 
Read: https://www.forbes.com/sites/rebeccabellan/2020/05/13/facebook-helps-launch-pro-tech-group-to-combat-silicon-valley-regulations/
 
Hold that thought….
 
Youtube deplatforms anti-lockdown epidemiologist and Bitcoin halving ceremony
 
Over the course of the Coronavirus pandemic the Big Tech platforms have been particularly aggressive in deplatforming any content that does not conform to the “official” narrative.  Youtube defines this in particular as anything that does not reflect WHO or CDC directives. 
 
So it was no surprise to learn that  Youtube’s latest hit was on controversial epidemiologist Knut Wittkowski, who had a video on Youtube, with over 1.3 million views, criticizing the lockdown and advocating for a herd immunity approach.
 
But the Bitcoin halving ceremony?  Yes.  YouTube deplatformed Cointelegraph’s live-streaming of the Bitcoin halving ceremony while it was in progress.
 
“Cointelegraph had a full day of programming lined up for a livestream that covered Bitcoin’s third block halving on May 11. The agenda mostly went off without a hitch — fintech luminaries like Tim Draper, Roger Ver, Meltem Demirors and many more shared their time and opinions with Cointelegraph editorial staff over the course of a livestream that lasted just under seven hours.
 
But the stream was blocked and deleted six hours and 42 minutes into a nearly finished program, locking more than 2,000 viewers out of our coverage.”
 
Read: https://nypost.com/2020/05/16/youtube-censors-epidemiologist-knut-wittkowski-for-opposing-lockdown/
 
And: https://cointelegraph.com/news/youtube-cancels-cointelegraphs-btc-halving-livestream-for-being-harmful-content
 
(Yeah, Big Tech is essential to free speech my ass. I can’t believe I’m actually pulling for the DoJ to break all these parasitic quasi-monopolies into a thousand little pieces.)

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Given the hard Left spin of Big Tech, it’s unlikely that anything will happen.

That being said, it’s time to use the corporate tax code to keep all Corporations “small”.

A long time ago, I said that the corporate balance sheets should be limited to 999,999,999.99.

Apply a flat tax on everything over that amount!

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POLITICAL: Defining Obama-gate

Tuesday, May 19, 2020

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/jeffrey-lord/2020/05/16/inside-medias-desperate-cover-obamagate

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This week’s news that at least 39 Obama officials had unmasked Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn’s private conversations during the last month of their administration seemed a little shocking. Today, major media outlets are telling readers and viewers that the practice is “routine.”

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So it appears that “Obama-gate” has three parts to it:

  1. There was 39 Obama officials that had Flynn’s conversations in violation of law, regulation, and the American spirit of fair play.
  2. This, in combination with the FBI conspiracy to take Flynn down, indicates that BHO44 is involved.
  3. And, the liberal Democratic leftist “main street media” is covering it up.

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A pizzeria owner made money buying his own $24 pizzas from DoorDash for $16 – The Verge

Monday, May 18, 2020

Later in the piece, Roy points out that DoorDash lost $450 million generating $900 million in revenue last year, which is wild. The delivery business was working just fine before DoorDash and co. swept in with piles of money to burn. Today, as Roy writes astutely, the model is broken. “You have insanely large pools of capital creating an incredibly inefficient money-losing business model,” he writes. “It’s used to subsidize an untenable customer expectation. You leverage a broken workforce to minimize your genuine labor expenses. The companies unload their capital cannons on customer acquisition, while this week’s Uber-Grubhub news reminds us, the only viable endgame is a promise of monopoly concentration and increased prices. But is that even viable?”

Source: A pizzeria owner made money buying his own $24 pizzas from DoorDash for $16 – The Verge

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No substitute for stupid!!!!!!

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