Reinke Faces Life

Sure, these are all leading questions. They’re the questions that led me to the issue of guns and gun ownership as the clearest and most unmistakable demonstration of what any given politician—or political philosophy—is really made of.

Source: Why Did it Have to be … Guns?, by L. Neil Smith

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Gun Ownership is the palladium of liberty.

The ability to defend yourself is the essence of the non-aggression principle and self-ownership.

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“Mr. Sullivan believed that Mr. Weinstein deserved a vigorous defense, and it is a sad moment for us all right now,” Engelmayer said. “We, as a country, have now reached the point when a Harvard lawyer and professor cannot serve his duty to, and belief in, the law and defend a person who may be deemed unpopular or unworthy of a legal defense by segments of the public.”

Source: Harvey Weinstein’s ex-lawyer loses position at Harvard despite bowing out of case – ABC News

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A liberal college “mod” of politically correct snowflakes deprives a defendant of his best defense.  That’s un-American!

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The military makes up around $989 billion of the US’s current spending. This number alone should raise eyebrows, but the human cost is simply inhumane. At least 8,000 US soldiers have been killed since September 11th, and thousands more have been wounded. None of these deaths happened in defense of liberty. Rather, every single casualty that has occurred is a result of the power-mongers in Washington DC. 9/11, after all, is a result of blowback.

While the American Warfare State has cost Americans trillions in tax dollars, it has cost thousands of lives and millions of people will suffer from PTSD as a result.

War is far from humanitarian. It has made us less safe and less free. Spc. Riley is just one of the millions of examples of the cost of war. The unfortunate truth is that the government has exploited incidents like 9/11 to indoctrinate the public into supporting the US’s illegal and immoral wars.

If we wish to be free, we must bring the troops home and refuse to fall for the siren song of the Military Industrial Complex. Those charlatans are an enemy of liberty, and they do not care for the trail of blood and corpses that they leave behind.

Source: Warfare State Strikes Again: Another Life Lost to Endless War

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“WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.” –Major General Smedley Butler

Only strategy or tactic is to bring the troops home. NOW!

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Clearly, the people of Kansas at the time didn’t think their Constitution protected the right to an abortion.Justice Caleb Stegall wrote a searing dissent, criticizing the majority for “abandon[ing] the original public meaning” of the Kansas Constitution and “arbitrarily grant[ing] a regulatory reprieve to the judicially privileged act of abortion.”He summarized the majority’s ahistorical reasoning in stark terms: “[T]he story told by the majority is a strange one. In it, all the luminaries of the western legal tradition— from Sir Edward Coke and William Blackstone to Edmund Burke and Thomas Jefferson—would celebrate and enshrine a right to nearly unfettered abortion access.

Source: Pro-Abortion Decision of Kansas Supreme Court Has National Implications

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“Activist judges” will be the death of the Republic.

Words mean what they mean.

Finding new “positive” rights in old texts is impossible since the Dead Old White Guys knew the difference between the RIGHT to be left alone (negative) and a RIGHT to something (positive).

“Cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right?” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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The number of unintercepted rockets and Israeli fatalities sparked inquiry about the effectiveness of Iron Dome.

Source: 700 rockets, 4 dead Israelis: Is the Iron Dome getting worse? – Arab-Israeli Conflict – Jerusalem Post

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The missile that did get through in Ashdod killed Pinchas Menachem Prezuazman, a 21-year old American citizen who was hit while running for cover. Even with a high level of interceptions, with enough metal flying, some are bound to get through, Gross said, adding that it was unclear exactly how the IDF had calculated its claimed 86 percent interception rate.

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Unacceptable.

“This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we’ll be lucky to live through it.” — The Hunt for Red October (1990) by Admiral Josh Painter played by Fred Dalton Thompson

I can understand that the Israelis are going to strike back.

Can’t say as I blame them.

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Webb said he wasn’t even aware of the state’s obscenity law, but after reviewing it since his arrest, he said it needs to be changed. He acknowledged that his sticker could be considered vulgar by some, but the law doesn’t really define what that is.

Source: Florida man arrested after refusing to remove obscene sticker from window

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“We, The Sheeple”shouldn’t have to fight for their First Amendment rights.

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In just over a decade, tetraethyl lead gasoline—under the brand name Ethyl, cunningly not mentioning the “lead” bit—had actually captured 80 per cent of the US market. All the way, General Motors and Midgley insisted it was safe, despite plenty of what you might call “warning signs.” Huge flashing neon warning signs. Like the fact that in February 1923, when Ethyl first went on sale, Midgley himself had to take the whole month off work due to ill-health caused by the lead fumes. Or like the fact that workers at the factories that made the fuel kept on dying a lot. Five workers died from lead poisoning at the Bayway plant in New Jersey, and 35 were hospitalized, many of them driven insane by the neurological effects of lead—”the patient becomes violently maniacal, shouting, leaping from the bed, smashing furniture and acting as if in delirium tremens” one report recorded.

Source: Thomas Midgley, Jr. may have been the most environmentally disastrous person of all time | Popular Science

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Poor fellow made a “mistake”, but note the impact of the Gooferment’s “patent system” at the root of this and many other problems.

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Whether or not these tactics are lawful or Constitutional is a matter that has yet to be fully settled in the courts. This leaves a lot of gray area for travelers to worry about when it comes to privacy.

Source: What to do when US law enforcement asks for your password

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Personally, I’d say “hell no” and be prepared to buy a new phone.

YMMV

Clearly, it’s unconstitutional.

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“But Deep Sleep did have its consequences. I realized it was going to make my legitimate acting career virtually impossible. There had just been too much publicity and too much prejudice, and I was too well known at that point. Which is kind of sad. But you can’t turn back the clock. And I have no regrets because I think it was important that we fought. I’m glad that they picked on us, because we didn’t cave in. You can’t have regrets about anything you’ve done—only about the things you didn’t do.”

Source: ‘Deep Sleep’: How an Amateur Porn Film Set Off A Massive Federal Witch Hunt

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Interesting story about an “adult topic”.

All the time I was reading it, I kept asking “were was i?” because I don’t remember it at all.

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Authored by Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner via Wirepoints.org, Many of Chicagoland’s elite know exactly how to pass the property-tax buck onto other residents. For decades they’ve used their powerful connections to cut their own property tax bills and push the costs onto other unsuspecting residents.

Source: Toilets & Skyscrapers: How Chicagoland’s Elite Push Property Tax Bills Onto Average Joes

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“Assessed value” has always been a scam.  Taxes are theft.  If we have to be “robbed”, then let’s use the purchase price of the property whenever that last sale was.  There’s no “opinion” or way to fudge that fact.

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An earlier study published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease revealed walnuts help to provide protections against the brain wasting disease; animals studies showed adhering to a walnut rich diet lead to significant improvements in learning skills, memory, motor development, and reduced anxiety.

Source: Can Walnuts Help Prevent Inflammation And Brain Decline? | Worldhealth.net Anti-Aging News

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Eat your walnuts to stay out of “the (old age) home”!

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Yes, foreign aid should be cut to Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador, and cut completely and permanently. But foreign aid should also be cut to Israel ($3.3 billion requested for 2019), Egypt ($1.38 billion requested for 2019), Jordan ($1.275 billion requested for 2019), Afghanistan ($632.8 million requested for 2019), and Kenya ($624.3 requested for 2019). Even the $100,000 earmarked for Suriname in 2019 should be withheld.

That is because not one penny should be taken from a single American taxpayer and given to foreign governments, U.S. contractors, NGOs, relief organizations, or individual foreigners.

If it is not the proper role of the U.S. government to provide charity, fight poverty, provide job training, undertake disaster relief, fight disease, feed the hungry, increase literacy, build infrastructure, and drill wells for Americans, then it is certainly inappropriate to do those things for foreigners.

Doling out foreign aid is one of the most blatantly unconstitutional things that Congress does. The list of powers granted to the federal government in Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution includes nothing remotely related to foreign assistance. And there are no exceptions for natural disasters, humanitarian concerns, national interest, or political objectives.

Source: Time to End All Foreign Aid – The Future of Freedom Foundation

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Yup.  End it all.  “We” — “We, The Sheeple” — are broke and in debt!

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Despite the ruling, Judge Walter criticized Spain for being “inconsistent” and not following its “moral commitments” under non-binding international agreements to return Nazi-looted art.

Source: US judge rules Spanish museum can keep Nazi-looted Pissarro painting | News | DW | 01.05.2019

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It’s somewhat “humorous” when a USA Gooferment “judge” mentions “moral commitments”.

No?

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A government watchdog agency that monitors the U.S. war effort, now in its 18th year, said in a report to Congress on Wednesday that the U.S. military command in Kabul is no longer producing “district control data,” which shows the number of Afghan districts — and the percentage of their population — controlled by the government compared to the Taliban.

Source: US military stops releasing Afghanistan war information

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“Move along, people. Nothing to see here. Go home, you looky-loos.” Officer Barbrady’s Catch Phrase South Park

Guess it’s a total failure?

• Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan
• by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• $19.99

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Steve Hilton said Joe Biden is “compromised by a foreign power,” drawing on Peter Schweizer’s investigation of Biden family ties to China.

Source: Steve Hilton: China Is ‘Funding Biden Family Businesses’ with ‘Billions”

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A most stunning acquisition????

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Rents in California are notoriously high. The average price for an apartment in San Francisco is about $3,600 per month (that’s about twice as high as Miami and Chicago). But blocking that price from increasing won’t create more homes for people who need a place to live.Oregon in February passed a law which limits rent increases to 7% plus local inflation. Lawmakers in Colorado and New York are considering similar moves.The prospect of rent control comes during a time when the apartment business has been strong, and analysts expect the new bills to have a negative effect on the industry.“It has been proven time and again that rent control does not work,” argues Sid Lakireddy, president of the California Rental Housing Association. “We do not need more distractions and resources spent on failed policies but instead we need policies that encourage more affordable and accessible housing.”

Source: What Are They Thinking: Democrats and Duterte – The Daily Grind

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“Rent Control”, anohter great Socialist idea, is just stupid.

Argh!

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AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File Following the horrific events in Christchurch, New Zealand, the country has lashed out at gun owners and changed its laws so that massive numbers of gun owners have to turn over their guns or become criminals.

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Yet has France, for example, stopped terrorists from using guns, despite the nation’s long history of gun control? No. France can try, but it’s a lost cause, and so too it will be in New Zealand.

Gun control won’t work.

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Source: Police Efforts Like This Will Undermine NZ’s Gun Control Attempt

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Pretty sad when guns are stolen from the police!

Gooferment — at all levels — is immoral, ineffective, and inefficient. As well as untrustworthy.

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Like Slopes and Castro, I’ve changed to a date-based version-numbering scheme — 2019.4 is the fourth update released in 2019, the next version will be 2019.5, and so on — partly because version numbers don’t really matter anymore, but mostly because I no longer wanted to delay completed features until a major-version change or worry that I didn’t do enough to justify a certain number.

Source: Clip sharing with Overcast – Marco.org

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Interesting observation imho.

Version numbers really have become brands to the extreme like Windows 7 or iPhoneX.

For my part, i like the simple sequence.  I use 2019-Apr-28 (YYYYMMMDD) or 2019-04Apr-28 (YYYYmmMMMDD) for dates because of it’s “global” simplicity.

We need to make ourselves more clear when we communicate.

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With socialism trending in America, it makes sense to once again feature this short clip where Murray Rothbard explains how Ludwig von Mises refuted the idea that socialism could be a success. This is Mises’ important book on socialism: -RW

Source: The Problems with Socialism

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A timeless classic!

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Noted primatologist and anthropologist Jane Goodall, the world’s foremost chimp researcher, released a statement through her website Good For All News on Thursday, as the footage of the chimpanzee began to gather a lot of viral steam. Goodall said she is “very disappointed to see the inappropriate portrayal of a juvenile chimpanzee” and suggests that the footage helps to perpetuate the illegal pet trade of great apes.

This isn’t the behavior of a wild animal, rather a trained behavior that seems intended to elicit this exact response. That point can be lost amid the runaway virality <sic> of an online clip and the Jane Goodall Institute said this is “part of the larger issue of social media videos” that prompt trading in exotic animals.

Notably, this isn’t the first time that a chimpanzee video has gone viral — and it’s not even the first time the same organization has caused grief for primatologists. And posts and videos such as these highlight how social media influencers with large audiences can quickly spread content — for right or wrong. Once they’re online, there’s almost no way to stop their spread and, in this case, the funny exterior masks the sad hidden truth of animals living in captivity.

Source: Viral video of chimpanzee scrolling through Instagram hides a sad truth – CNET

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Don’t view any of the Great Apes being monetized and encourage bad behavior by human beings profiting off their captivity.

Animals belong in nature; not in captivity.

IMHO

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