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MEME: Meme about baby and trans that really touched me
Sunday, April 21, 2024
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DISCOURAGING: “Havisham future” is predicted for Western Civilization?
Sunday, April 21, 2024https://sonar21.com/miss-havisham-and-the-west-by-helmholtz-smith/
MISS HAVISHAM AND THE WEST
11 April 2024 by HELMHOLTZ SMITH
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Miss Havisham is a character in Charles Dickens’ novel Great Expectations. A wealthy woman, she was jilted and swindled on her wedding day. From that day on she has allowed nothing to change. The wedding feast sits there, liquids evaporated, silverware corroded, cakes and food rotted; overrun with vermin and spider webs. She wears still her wedding dress, filthy and torn. The Day preserved, decayed and monstrous. Time and events move on around her but her past is her present and her pitiless future.
Will this be the West in fifty years? Surrounded by decay and filth but still clinging its past? Shouting about its ever-so-valuable values, ranting on about the Rules-Based International Order, boasting it’s the best at this and the most at that, issuing judgments on the bad behavior of the others, sanctioning non-believers, bathed in its media feedback loop. Still the highest GDP in USD! (Now Big Mac Cricketburgers are $1000 a pop, there are lots of dollars in every pocket!)
But nobody in the rest of the world cares. They’ve moved on. No tourist visits the moldering house and its unhinged inhabitants. They prefer cruising the high speed railroad from Cape Town to Beijing with a side trip to Baikal. Who wants to be robbed in the shoot-up galleries of Amsterdam, the tent cities of New York, the machete gangs of London? If it’s Tuesday and riots, it must be Paris. Young Harvard graduates pass out in their slums and dream of becoming a toilet cleaner in Omsk Airport – full benefits, you know. Plus dental. And you can afford a small apartment on your pay.
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A pretty bleak prediction. Given the national debt and unfunded liabilities, it seems we have no place else to go but down.
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POLITICAL: Why aren’t Covid-19 cabal going to jail?
Saturday, April 20, 2024Bombshell emails show a top Fauci aide used his personal Gmail to ‘intentionally’ HIDE discussions about COVID origins… and would delete anything ‘incriminating’
- Rep. Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, revealed new documents from a whistleblower Thursday regarding federal official’s communications on the origins of COVID-19
- They show that a senior advisor to Dr. Anthony Fauci tried to hide correspondence by using a Gmail account
- ‘I will delete anything I don’t want to see in the New York Times,’ the Fauci advisor previously told Republicans
By Jon Michael Raasch, Political Reporter On Capitol Hill, For Dailymail.Com
Published: 18:03 EDT, 11 April 2024 | Updated: 18:28 EDT, 11 April 2024
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New documents show that Dr. Anthony Fauci’s top U.S. health aide intentionally tried to hide his discussions about the origins of COIVD-19 by using his personal email.
Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, claimed a whistleblower provided him new bombshell materials obtained by DailyMail.com.
The unnamed whistleblower revealed emails showing that Dr. David Morens – Fauci’s top aide at the National Institutes of Health – allegedly used his personal Gmail account to discuss the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 to skirt federal transparency laws.
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Sounds like, if there was any fairness in political life, that several people would be facing jail and fines. Makes the J6 treatment look laughable.
Any wonder why people don’t respect politicians and bureaucrats?
Time to shut down the CDC, FDA, FBI, DOJ, and the CIA!
Time to clean house and break up the USA as immoral, ineffective, and inefficient. As well as untrustworthy.
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INNOVATION: Writing negative reactions on paper … …
Friday, April 19, 2024Psychology
Write down your thoughts and shred them to relieve anger, researchers say
- Writing negative reactions on paper and shredding it or scrunching and throwing in the bin eliminates angry feelings, study finds
Caroline Davies — Tue 9 Apr 2024 09.40 EDT
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Since time immemorial humans have tried to devise anger management techniques.
In ancient Rome, the Stoic philosopher Seneca believed “my anger is likely to do me more harm than your wrong” and offered avoidance tips in his AD45 work De Ira (On Anger).
More modern methods include a workout on the gym punchbag or exercise bike. But the humble paper shredder may be a more effective – and accessible – way to decompress, according to research.
A study in Japan has found that writing down your reaction to a negative incident on a piece of paper and then shredding it, or scrunching it into a ball and throwing it in the bin, gets rid of anger.
“We expected that our method would suppress anger to some extent,” said Nobuyuki Kawai, lead researcher of the study at Nagoya University. “However, we were amazed that anger was eliminated almost entirely.”
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Have to try this and see if it helps.
“Income tax”.
Printed and shredded!
Didn’t help!!!
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DISCOURAGING: Some people don’t understand that some rules have a reason behind them
Thursday, April 18, 2024LI doctor who died during family road trip should never have been in RV, Airstream says
By Olivia Land
Published April 9, 2024 Updated April 9, 2024, 10:38 a.m. ET
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“Airstream travel trailers are not designed to carry passengers while in motion,” the company said in a statement.
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Having had two trailers and Minnie Winnie, the trailer dealers drummed into us that no one should be in the trailer when it was being towed. One dealer had pictures of accidents to drive the point home. Even in the Minnie Winnie, the dealer emphasized seat belts when driving. So this accident was predictable and avoidable.
Requiescat In Pacem
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DISCOURAGING: “Scrabble for Snowflakes” and “Woke Scrabble”
Wednesday, April 17, 2024Scrabble makes historic change to game with ‘less competitive,’ ‘inclusive’ version to appeal to Gen Z
By Brooke Steinberg
Published April 9, 2024, 12:03 p.m. ET
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This is a game-changer.
For the first time in 75 years, Mattel is making a major change to the iconic board game Scrabble.
The new launch is a double-sided version of the famous board game — one side with the original game for those who want to stick to the long-time traditional version, and one side with a “less competitive” version to appeal to Gen Z gamers.
The flip side of the classic game, called Scrabble Together, will include helper cards, use a simpler scoring system, be quicker to play and allow people to play in teams.
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What’s next “Monopoly for Communists”?
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Federeal Law prempts State Law and parental rights?
Tuesday, April 16, 2024NC Court Rules Federal PREP Act Protects Forced Vaccination Without Parental Consent
by Carolyn Hendler, JD
Published April 8, 2024
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A North Carolina Court of Appeals found that a clinic, where personnel gave a 14-year-old boy a COVID-19 shot without his consent or parental consent, was protected by the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREP Act). The court concluded that the Guilford Board of Education, which hosted the clinic, was also covered by the PREP Act.1
Despite calling the act of forcing a child to get a COVID-19 shot against his will and without his parent’s consent, “egregious,” the court unanimously concluded that the PREP Act preempted state law and protected the defendants from being held liable for battery, violation of Tanner’s mother’s constitutional liberty and parental rights, and violation of Tanner’s bodily autonomy and plaintiffs’ federal constitutional rights.2
The minor child, Tanner Smith, attended Western Guilford High School in Greensboro, North Carolina when the school district sent a letter to his parents stating that Tanner was one of the students who may have been exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 virus and that, unless he got tested, he would not be able to “return to football practice until cleared by a public health professional.” The letter set forth that one of the local schools would be hosting a free clinic offering testing the following day. The letter explained that, “consent for testing is required.”3 4
The following day, Tanner’s step-father took him to the clinic at the local school for the free testing so that Tanner could return to football practice. The school district failed to inform the parents that a there was also a free vaccination clinic along with the free testing at the school that same day. While Tanner’s step-father waited in the car, Tanner filled out a form that he believed was for the free testing needed to return to football practice. At that time, one of the clinic workers attempted to reach out to Tanner’s mother but she was not available. Tanner’s step-father who was waiting outside the clinic was not called.5
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I’d be more than <past tense synonym for urine output> off if it was my child.
And, what about all the vaccine injuries we now know about?
Also, that the EULA was wrong because Ivermectin was available when they declared it an “emergency”.
Sorry but this was nothing more than a raid on the Public Treasury that trampled all the People’s rights.
Where is the outrage?
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RANT: Taxation ISTheft!
Monday, April 15, 2024https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/taxation-is-theft
Taxation Is Theft
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The idea that taxation is theft originated in Murray Rothbard’s The Ethics of Liberty in 1982. Rothbard compared government tax collectors to thieves demanding to know what valuables one may have in one’s house.
“Just as no one is morally required to answer a robber truthfully when he asks if there are any valuables in one’s house, so no one can be morally required to answer truthfully similar questions asked by the State, e.g., when filling out income tax returns.”
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Argh!
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: The not so Unintended Consequences of a new tax
Sunday, April 14, 2024https://nypost.com/2024/04/06/us-news/congestion-price-toll-evaders-turn-upper-nyc-into-parking-lot/
NYC’s Upper West Side already becoming commuter parking lot for congestion-pricing evaders
By Chris Harris
Published April 6, 2024 — Updated April 6, 2024, 9:16 a.m. ET
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The Upper West Side is about to become a commuter parking lot.
Already notorious for its scarcity of spaces, the parking situation on the UWS has reached new lows of desperation ahead of the mid-June implementation of the Big Apple’s much-maligned, five-years-in-the-making congestion parking plan, which the MTA’s board authorized last month.
“The situation up here is untenable,” said longtime West 79th Street resident Renee Baruch, who’s noticed a steady uptick since January in the number of cars with out-of-state plates circling her block each morning.
“They’re on Riverside Drive, on side streets, with plates from all over, and you’re seeing the same ones every day,” explained Baruch, part of a consortium of Manhattanites that continues to push pols for a parking permitting system.
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Ahh, what will “We, The Sheeple” do?
I bet just suck it up and take it. Death by a thousand cuts. How do you eat a whole baloney? Once slice at a time.
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POLITICAL: Perhaps time to reform how SCOTUS are filled
Saturday, April 13, 2024Far-Left Calls for SCOTUS Justice Sotomayor Retirement Reveal Dems Believe in Trump Victory.
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Democrats are increasingly calling on Justice Sonia Sotomayor to resign from the Supreme Court before the 2024 presidential election, suggesting a widespread belief that former President Donald Trump will win.
Sotomayor is 69, a lifelong diabetic, and the oldest liberal member of the court. Should Trump win the election and Sotomayor need to retire in the next four years due to her health, conservatives could secure a 7-2 majority.
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Maybe each President should get to select one Justice in each term. Nine justices times 4 years is a 36 year term. Seems like “lifetime” is impractical in today’s life spans. So, stagger their terms. Each President gets to pick one. Still have the problem of death, disability, and retirement, but it would be better than the chaos that we have around election time.
And, I’m not so sure that a 7-2 conservative majority is a sure thing. Given how the justices seem to be all closet liberals.
Sigh!
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