DISCOURAGING: Ex-Rabbi buys Pornub and is proud of it

Sunday, February 11, 2024

https://www.independentsentinel.com/rabbi-buys-mindgeek-that-owns-pornhub-other-porn-sites/

Ex-Rabbi Co-founder of a private equity firm explains why he acquired Pornhub
By M Dowling – December 29, 2023

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So, it’s for money, the tools, and mainstreaming porn? Didn’t Sodom and Gomorrah happen because this stuff went mainstream?

Correction: Mr. Friedman is only a partial owner. The headline was changed to clarify. Also, he rejected the teachings as a rabbi.

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I’m sure his parents are very proud of him.  Special “ring of hell” should be reserved for him.

Makes me sad to see such “news”.

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INTERESTING: All the world’s literature is slowly coming to the internet — possibly unapreciated

Saturday, February 10, 2024

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/agatha-christie/the-mystery-of-the-blue-train/text/single-page

The Mystery of the Blue Train

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The Mystery of the Blue Train revolves around a set of fabulous rubies, said to have been worn by Catherine the Great, now purchased by an American millionaire as a gift to his daughter. When she takes them with her on a luxury train to the Riviera, she is unaware that among her fellow passengers are her unfaithful husband, his not-so-secret mistress, a quiet Englishwoman who believes that nothing exciting ever happens to her—and the famous retired detective Hercule Poirot. And, possibly, a murderer.

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Standard E Books puts out a huge amount of “free” content.

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This ebook is thought to be free of copyright restrictions in the United States. It may still be under copyright in other countries. If you’re not located in the United States, you must check your local laws to verify that this ebook is free of copyright restrictions in the country you’re located in before accessing, downloading, or using it.

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More than even a fat old white guy retired injineer can possibly consume.  I remember reading the Hardy Boys in my youth and would save my supermarket tips to buy their latest adventure.  Like my comic book collection, those were discarded when I went in the military.   Another “casualty” of the Viet Nam war.  My Charlie Chan’s, my Heinlein’s, and McDonald color series of Travis McGees.  Sigh!

Wonder what they would be worth today?

Anyway, I am rereading some favorites as they come out of copyright.

And, of course, donate to the site.  Small change but every bit helps.  I can imagine growing up today and having the internet as a library of dikw (i.e., data, information, knowledge, wisdom) without having to physically trade to the library to find that illusive book that never seems to be there.

Sigh!

I wonder if these resources are “pearls before swine” and completely not used by today’s barbarian culture.

Argh!

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ADHOC: Is this how the DNC dumps Old Joe and makes room for “Big Mike” to replace him?

Friday, February 9, 2024

https://nypost.com/2024/02/09/news/doctors-call-for-biden-to-take-mental-competency-test-after-scathing-classified-docs-report-something-isnt-right/?utm_source=sailthru​

Is this how the DNC dumps Old Joe and makes room for “Big Mike” to replace him?

Argh! Sigh!

Need age limits for politicians and bureaucrats?

Suggest the Full Social Security Retirement age as a good standard!

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INTERESTING: Note on the impracticality of invading Taiwan

Friday, February 9, 2024

FROM FREEREPUBLIC

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I was reading the third book in Ian Toll’s War in the Pacific Trilogy the other day. There was a segment on the decision to invade Formosa or the Philippines.

Here is a quote:

“On August 18, 1944, Nimitz estimated that the operation (Invasion of Taiwan) would require 505,000 army troops, 154,000 marines, and 61,000 navy shore personnel.”

So, assuming that modern warfare doesn’t require the same number of troops and the Taiwanese will not “fight to the last man” as the Japanese would…let’s cut those numbers in half.

How is China going to move 325,000 troops across the Straits of Taiwan? It took the US three years of almost unstopped work to get the transports and landing craft to do that. Plus two years of hard earned practice. And no country has accomplished that since the Korean War—where we still had the men and equipment to do it.

No..China is not invading Taiwan any time soon.

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Seems like some unbiased assessment of the practicality.  And, China has “other bigger fish to fry” like the collapse of Evergrande and all the “fiscal contagion” that will cause.

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DISCOURAGING: Seems like a lot of criminials escape?

Thursday, February 8, 2024

https://patch.com/new-jersey/southbrunswick/s/iukb3/fbis-most-wanted-nj-fugitives-sought-in-killings-terrorism-spyings?utm_source=nearby-news&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alert

Crime & Safety
FBI’s Most Wanted NJ Fugitives Sought In Killings, Terrorism, Spyings

  • Over two dozen fugitives with ties to New Jersey are being sought in connection with serious, sometimes violent, crimes. Have you seen them?

Nicole Rosenthal, Patch Staff
Posted Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 2:16 pm ET

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Rodriguez was arrested for the crime, stood trial, was found guilty of murder, and was sentenced to life in prison, according to FBI records, although Rodriguez never surrendered for confinement when he was released on bail pending appeal of his conviction. 

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Cunningham, a convicted felon, is wanted in connection with the shooting death of a man in Irvington on May 12,2017, according to the FBI’s Newark office. Cunningham was charged with murder, unlawful possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and robbery on June 15, 2017; On September 8, 2017, a federal arrest warrant was issued by a U.S. District Court after he was charged federally with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution.

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Eight years later, Wright escaped from the New Jersey State Prison in Leesburg. 

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There are over a dozen other fugitives on the run, according the FBI office. Their names are:

  •     Angel Gonzalez: Crimes Against Children
  •     Nikolay Almazov Krechet: White Collar Crimes
  •     Wang Qiang: Counterintelligence
  •     Dong Ting: Counterintelligence
  •     Bi Hongwei: Counterintelligence
  •     Wang Lin: Counterintelligence
  •     Amir Hossein Nickaein Ravari: Cyber crimes
  •     Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev: Cyber crimes
  •     Ahmad Khatibi Aghda: Cyber crimes
  •     Mansour Ahmadi: Cyber crimes
  •     Iranian Cyber Actors: Cyber crimes
  •     Mujtaba Raza: Cyber crimes
  •     Mohsin Raza: Cyber crimes
  •     Mehdi Farhadi: Cyber crimes
  •     Hooman Heidarian: Cyber crimes
  •     Samsam Subjects: Cyber crimes
  •     Noor Aziz Uddin: Cyber crimes
  •     Farhan Ul Arshad: Cyber crimes

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First and foremost, notice the race to the picture and ethnicity of the names.  Don’t you see a pattern?

Second, how does an armed felon get arrested and get bail?

Third, “bail pending appeal”  — guess it wasnt high enough!

We need a Gooferment that is working for “We, The Sheeple”.

Maybe if the FBI wasn’t so deep into political lawfare, they might have time to take care of these important functions.

Maybe it’s time to shut down the FBI and let the States do what they were intended to do?

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HEALTH: Alzheimer’s disease causd by medical drugs after decades

Wednesday, February 7, 2024

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/jan/alzheimers-disease-acquired-historic-medical-treatments?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter

Alzheimer’s disease acquired from historic medical treatments
29 January 2024

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First known instance of transmitted Alzheimer’s disease observed; condition in five patients linked to childhood infusions of human growth hormone sourced from tainted cadavers, seeding misfolded proteins which led to Alzheimer’s decades later 

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Here we have evidence of Unintended Consequences of a medical treatment that has not stood the test of time.

Like Thalidomide, which took generations to show its ill effects, new “stuff” needs to be “time tested” with a increase emphasis on “risk acceptance”.

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Google Wallet FAQs & Additional Information – Google Wallet

Tuesday, February 6, 2024

Explore our FAQs for helpful information about how Google Wallet works, how to get started, and other questions and answers about Google Wallet.
— Read on wallet.google/faq/

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Yeah try putting in you medicare or united heath-care cards in apple or google wallet.

Can’t

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ECONOMICS: Inflation never goes “back”; that’s deflation

Tuesday, February 6, 2024

https://confoundedinterest.net/2024/01/30/captain-obvious-award-goes-to-treasury-secretary-yellen-who-admits-high-prices-here-to-stay-food-cpi-up-21-gasoline-prices-up-38-under-inflation-joe-home-prices-up-33-2-mortgage-rates/

Captain Obvious Award Goes To … Treasury Secretary Yellen Who Admits “High Prices Here To Stay” (Food CPI UP 21%, Gasoline Prices UP 38% Under “Inflation Joe”, Home Prices UP 33.2%, Mortgage Rates UP 154%)

1/30/2024, 1:07:50 PM · by Kaiser8408a · 13 replies

Confounded Interest ^ | 01/30/2024 | Anthony B. Sanders

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen just admitted what the rest of Americans already knew: high prices are here to stay. Example? Food prices (CPI) are up over 20% under Inflation Joe while gasoline prices are up 38% under Clueless Joe. On the housing front, the Case-Shiller National Home Price Index is up 33.2% under Biden. And Freddie Mac’s 3-year mortgage rate is up 154% under Biden’s leadership (c’mon man! Obama is pulling the strings on Puppet Joe). Speaking during an interview with ABC News Live over the weekend, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen admitted prices aren’t going down, contradicting arguments repeatedly made…

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Yup, that means we are NEVER getting back to penny candy, nickel cigars, and 25¢!

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INTERESTING: Humans can learn echolocation but xray vision is fascinating

Monday, February 5, 2024

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13005513/From-boy-sonar-vision-man-slept-50-years-meet-people-real-life-superpowers-scientists-just-explain.html

From the boy with sonar vision to a man who hasn’t slept for over 50 years – meet the people with real-life superpowers that scientists just can’t explain

  • Meet the people who can show you what the human race is really capable of 
  • The girl with X-ray eyes
  • The Iceman
  • The boy with sonar vision
  • The man who did not eat or drink for 70 years
  • The man who didn’t sleep for 50 years

By Matthew Cox
Published: 10:04 EST, 28 January 2024 | Updated: 10:09 EST, 28 January 2024

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We have all wondered what superpower we would like to have given the chance.

It is a classic icebreaker question – flying, pausing time or going invisible – but we never expect our answers to come true.

However, a smattering of unique individuals across the globe have powers which seem impossible to explain.

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I find the vision one inexplicably fascinating.

Imagine all the expensive testing that could be concentrated to those who need it quickly and easily.

Like training dogs to smell disease and low blood sugar.

Give some real meaning to that joke about ‘cat scan’ and ‘lab(rador) work’.

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INTERESTING: Miss Japan? At least she’s a female

Sunday, February 4, 2024

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-68078061

Ukrainian-born model winning Miss Japan re-ignites identity debate
24th January 2024, 04:25 EST
By Shaimaa Khalil, Tokyo correspondent

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Ai Wada, the organiser of the Miss Japan Grand Prix pageant told the BBC that judges had chosen Ms Shin as the winner with “full confidence”.

“She speaks and writes in beautiful and polite Japanese,” Ms Wada said. “She is more Japanese than we are.”

Ms Shiino had announced in Instagram earlier last year when she received Japanese nationality, saying that she “may not look Japanese”, but her mind had “become Japanese” because she had grown up in Japan. 

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I immediately remembered: “‘Pusher’ Ross: Well, you tell ‘im. You talk better English than I do!”.

The organizer’s quote just struck me as funny.

What makes someone “Japanese”?  

Or an “American” for that matter.  I’d like to believe that it’s a desire for freedom and liberty to “be all that you can be”.  Some how that ethic has been lost on many native born Americans.  As demonstrated by those from China and India that arrive with little or nothing and within a few decades they are “prosperous”.  But those born here with the same opportunities or even more never can rise from a self-inflicted poverty.

I’m sure that the Gooferment “welfare”  — handouts that are enough to starve  — blunts any ambition.

So sad that one has to be “Japanese” to win a beauty contest in Japan but not “ambitious” to be an “American”.

Argh!  Makes me sad!

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