Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her Green New Deal aim to eliminate air travel and replace it with high-speed rail systems. (Photo Credit: Scott Eisen/Getty Images) Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) wants to eliminate air travel and fossil fuel-powered vehicles as part of her “Green New Deal.” Notably, she does not make those demands publicly.
Source: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Will Eliminate Air Travel With Green New Deal
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How can she be taken seriously?
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2019-Feb-18
“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.”
— Charles Darwin “The Descent of Man”
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Puppyland’s owners told KIRO 7 they don’t benefit when customers finance pets. They work with a third party company that collects interest or leasing fees. The owners also said they strongly encourage customers to make more than the minimum payment so they pay less interest and fees.
Source: Family says pet lease left them with $7,200 bill, no puppy | KIRO-TV
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Seems like the animal equivalent of a payday, car title, or rent-a-center loan?
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Loop will deliver staples like shampoo, deodorant and ice cream to your door and pick up the empty container up when you’re done, like a modern milkman.
Source: A Closed-Loop Delivery Service Will Soon Pick Up Old Packaging To Reuse | Care2 Healthy Living
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Sounds like a good idea to me. I’d try it.
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2019-Feb-13
The bad news on human nature, in 10 findings from psychology
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2019-Feb-11
🧠 “The case for transmissible Alzheimer’s grows” (Scientific American). Genuinely a little frightening. Also consider this: neurosurgeons have a higher rate of Alzheimer’s than the general population.
The Case for Transmissible Alzheimer’s Grows
What separates a lethal prion from dementia-inducing amyloid plaque? Maybe not much
By Jennifer Frazer on February 7, 2019
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Alzheimer’s is not the only neurodegenerative disease in which aggregating misfolded host proteins – a class referred to as amyloid — seem to propagate and wreak havoc either. In Parkinson’s Disease, misfolded alpha-synuclein proteins spread through the brain, and in Amylotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (Lou Gehrig’s Disease), the misfolded, accumulating protein is TDP-43. We should investigate the transmission potential of these diseases as well.
The only thing that seemed to separate these conditions from classic prion diseases was transmissibility. But now that that barrier has been breached for at least one, I also wonder: What is the difference between amyloid and prions? Are they part of a spectrum? Are they one in the same? If not, what is the difference? Can what we’ve learned about the biology of prions help our efforts to fight amyloid dementias? Of course, since we still can’t cure prion diseases, it may not be much help even if so.
The realization that the peptides involved in some of the most common and feared dementias on Earth may be transmissible under even limited conditions is a sobering and humbling reminder of how very little we still understand about them. Given what we know about prions, I think we would be wise not to underestimate their abilities.
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This is really scary stuff to this old fart. It isn’t the Walking Dead where a bite turns you into a zombie, but a “sticky infectious prion” can wipe out your mind, life, and wallet. Hope a lot of someones are researching this. If I was a neurosurgeon, I be really concerned.
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“We are lucky that we have a few friends that could be helpful to us.”
Source: Ex-CIA and FBI director threatened by scammer, then helps put him in prison – WHNT.com
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Guess he picked on the wrong sucker.
The Gooferment can only protect the “connected”?
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The 69-year-old Democrat officially launched her campaign at a rally on Saturday in Lawrence, Massachusetts, one of New England’s poorest and most heavily Latino communities.
Source: Elizabeth Warren cheers AOC’s Green New Deal as she launches 2020 run | Daily Mail Online
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These SOCIALISTS are going to ruin the USA.
First, IMMORALITY “the rich” pay most of the taxes already. How much more do they think they can pay? If we think that tithing to God at 10% is holy, then what percentage doe the “god” of Gooferment demand. IMHO, any tax is an immoral taking.
Second, INVESTMENT “the rich”, unlike Scrooge McDuck, don’t have a basement full of gold goins that they swim in. They invest their wealth in productive higher order goods that improve productivity. if the Gooferment takes that wealth, then where is the investment going to come from.
Third, WASTE the Gooferment already wastes so much. It’s estimated, that for every dollar taken by Gooferment, more than half is wasted. Over and above that, since the Gooferment produces little if anything of value for real people, why would anyone want to give them more wealth.
The SOCIALISTS want us to ignore the real world examples of East and West Germany, North and South Korea, Venezuela, the Stalin’s Russia, Mao’s China, Pol Pot’s Cambodia, Hitler’s Germany, and on and on through out history. Countries that have been seduced by Socialism’s sirens song of “free stuff” have paid the price of death, poverty, starvation, and disease. Capitalism may not be the “best system”, but it’s better than all the others that have been tried.
Argh!
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2019-Feb-07
https://nypost.com/2019/02/05/why-the-public-pension-timebomb-is-growing-even-more-deadly/
Why the public-pension timebomb is growing even more deadly
By Steven Malanga
February 5, 2019 | 7:24pm
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The study found that, on average, female teachers were living 90 years, while male teachers lived 87.7 years. Female government workers in the general public-pension plans lived to 88.5; male government workers, 85.5.
By contrast, the Social Security Administration’s life expectancy tables show that men who reach 65 can expect on average to live 84.3 years, and women 86.7 years. A Society of Actuaries study of private-sector pension plans shows that members live longer than the general public but shorter than many government workers: men in these systems live on average to about 85.6 years old, and women to slightly more than 87.6 years old.
Workers’ life expectancy is an important factor, of course, in a pension fund’s financial picture. In the private sector, defined-benefit pensions must follow mortality tables issued by the federal government. No such strictures bind public pensions, and as the society’s study suggests, the rates used by government pension systems vary widely.
In 2014, several communities in Illinois discovered that officials were using mortality tables from 1971, when life expectancy was much shorter, which vastly underestimated pension costs. The resulting outcry forced those communities to update their calculations, and led to average increases in costs by about 20 percent.
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As a little L libertarian, I have little use for the Gooferment. But if I am forced to live under their tyranny, then I’ll try to make it “better”.
As an fat old white guy retired injineer who’s a poor old senior citizen on a fixed income, I am concerned for myself and our posterity by the the current 121T+ national debt and the guesstimated 200T+ in unfunded liabilities.
Perhaps, the Federal Gooferment should impose the same accounting standards on State Gooferments as it does on corporations. I’m not sure that aligns with the idea that States have rights. It would seem that requiring all actors to use the latest statistics would at least help define the problem.
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A popular Staten Island bar is putting a new twist on nightlife safety — by serving cocktails with lids after women were drugged at the hot spot, the owner told The Post on Tuesday.A woman in her
Source: Staten Island bar puts lids on drinks after women say they were drugged
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Sounds like a great response. Business, most of them, want to protect their Customers.
Despite what liberals, politicians, and bureaucrats claim.
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2019-Feb-06
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/green-new-deal-details-emerge-as-ocasio-cortez-preps-big-reveal
‘Green New Deal’ details emerge, as Ocasio-Cortez preps big reveal of WW2-level mobilization
By Gregg Re | Fox News
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New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Monday unveiled new details on the so-called “Green New Deal” she plans to introduce in a matter of days, as she worked behind-the-scenes to rally congressional support for the proposal that could cost as much as $7 trillion.
Ocasio-Cortez, who is set to unveil the plan with Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Ed Markey, told her fellow representatives in a letter that the Green New Deal calls for a “national, social, industrial and economic mobilization at a scale not seen since World War II.”
“Next week, we plan to release a resolution that outlines the scope and scale of the Green New Deal,” Ocasio-Cortez said in the letter, adding that the country’s near-total economic transformation should take approximately ten years.
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The Green New Deal proposal would lead to national net-zero greenhouse gas emissions, according to Ocasio-Cortez’s letter, “through a fair and just transition for all communities and workers,” while also generating millions of “good, high-wage jobs.” Details of the letter were first published by Bloomberg.
Through it all, the Green New Deal would additionally “promote justice and equity by preventing current and repairing historic oppression to frontline and vulnerable communities,” according to Ocasio-Cortez.
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But what about the the current 21T+ national debt and the guesstimated 200T+ in unfunded liabilities that our posterity will have to deal with? Add on another 7T$?
Remember when someone says “green”. think “watermelon”. Green on the outside; red inside. These are always thinly disguised plans to push into socialism or communism. “Democratic”, of course. Like Venezuela. It’s working so well there. Only the Joesixpacks are starving.
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2019-Feb-05
https://www.theadvocates.org/2019/02/california-charity-becomes-casualty-city-regulators/
A California Charity Becomes a Casualty of City Regulators
Remso Martinez•February 3, 2019
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Charity is a beautiful thing that everyone tends to support, regardless of creed or partisan slant. However, there is a strange concept of “forced” charity that both Republicans and Democrats try to enforce in their own various ways. Whether it is through entitlements, bailouts, or pork spending, some in government think that their involvement makes everything better, but in reality, those good intentions more often than not have adverse consequences.
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The primary change for Deliverance is the requirement that no food may be prepared in a volunteer’s home, which has been our primary method of food preparation. The Board of Directors discussed options for utilizing an existing food prep facility, but due to the distributed nature of the organization, this option would prove to be cumbersome and perhaps only a short term solution to the problem. As a result, Deliverance, San Diego can no longer prepare hot meals for distribution to the homeless population of downtown San Diego without incurring significant logistical and financial costs.
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If the government can create laws that restrict free people from providing a home cooked meal to the homeless, what is there to stop them from crafting a law that prohibits me from giving a pan of brownies to a neighbor? Or an office potluck where everyone brings a meal? This example might sound exaggerative but this whole situation creates a slippery slope for more state intervention in consensual and voluntary exchanges.
While the intentions of the regulators might be good, the homeless and needy probably would prefer a free meal instead of going hungry.
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Remember this “homelessness” crisis was caused, at least in part, by the Gooferment closing mental institutions while promising community support, high property taxes, rental regulations, and the “(pseudo) War on (some) Drugs”.
So naturally we can’t have any solution other than a Gooferment one!
Argh!
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If the research continues to bear fruit, though, it could offer a much more realistic solution for type 1 diabetes. Pancreas transplants can help, but they frequently fail and still require drugs that suppress your immune system. There are tests for safer and more targeted islet implants, but they still tend to require organs from dead donors. This breakthrough could lead to on-demand implants and make it relatively easy to gain (or regain) healthy insulin levels.
Source: Stem cell breakthrough could help cure type 1 diabetes
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Good news but wish it was a decade sooner. :-(
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A fresh-faced tech whiz used a sophisticated “SIM swapping” scheme to steal half a million dollars in 10 days from more than 50 people across the US — without ever leaving the comfort of his
Source: Tech whiz-turned-criminal stole $500K in 10 days: officials
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That’s why you should NOT rely on a phone for your two factor authentication.
I use AUTHY a free multi-platform authentication program.
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It looks like America’s next big religious-freedom case could center on the war memorial known as the “Peace Cross.” The Supreme Court justices recently agreed to hear the case this year.God
Source: An outrageous push to mutilate a war memorial
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To find this is “religious” is absurd!
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Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D.) commented Wednesday about a controversial 40-week abortion bill and in so doing said the law allows an abortion to take place after the infant’s birth.
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Isn’t this murder?
When does life begin?
And when does a baby get those “inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”?
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2019-Jan-31
https://tomwoods.com/ep-1326-how-to-secede-from-our-monetary-regime/
Ep. 1326 How to Secede From Our Monetary Regime
22nd January 2019 — Tom Woods
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Frequent guest Bob Murphy returns, this time talking about his new (co-authored) book, The Case for IBC. This is an acronym for “Infinite Banking Concept,” a strategy that uses properly designed whole life insurance policies as a way to “become your own banker.” The concept was developed by Nelson Nash, who besides working in insurance was personally tutored in Austrian theory by Leonard Read himself. Bob explains how the average person can benefit from IBC, and he answers common objections like “Isn’t it better to buy term and invest the difference?” and “Why would I put my money in life insurance when the dollar is going to crash?”
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My initial thought:
I (humbly) suggest another reason for the IBC concept. One can only by insurance when reasonable healthy. I had a young 30 something coworker who became uninsurable after surviving a bout with cancer. In his case, buying a whole life policy, when he was younger and healthier, would have given his family the death benefit protection. He died in his 50’s. So I’d suggest the IBC concept would avoid the “insurability” problem should it arise. Buying any insurance may not be possible later in life. Am I missing something here?
To which Bob responded:
BobMurphy9 ferdinand reinke • 7 days ago
You’re right. That has to do with the “buy term and invest the difference” canard. I think on the episode I contrasted the jump in premiums if you wanted to renew your term policy, but yeah, if you develop a condition in the meantime, you might be uninsurable.
Now upon reflection on “buy term and invest the difference”:
Based on my own personality, and that of many other “spendthrifts” I see around me, I think there are two types of people — spenders and savers. My now deceased wife grew up poor, was scared for life, and was a prodigious saver. My maternal grandmother and my mother grew up in the Depression and also were prodigious savers. I, OTOH, am a “spender”; maybe even a “spendthrift”, who never cared about delaying gratification. I can identify others who fall into one of those two categories.
Now with that in mind, considering the “buy term and invest the difference” canard, imho, “savers” can do that easily, but “spenders” can’t. So for spenders, whole life insurance and the IBC concept makes a lot of sense. All though, I’m not quite sure how one in their “earning days” could get on it or into it.
Unlike savings in a CD ladder (https://reinkefaceslife.com/2007/08/17/money-creating-a-ladder/), which my wife loved, entry and exit was easy. In today’s Fed-driven insane zero interest rate climate, the CD ladder makes no sense.
Hope this is of interest and helps someone further back on the road of life. As I like to say, “if I knew then what I know now, my life would be completely different”. Not sure it would be better or worse; just different. Unfortunately, in life, one can not just “rewind time” and choose differently. It doesn’t work that way. And one can’t even say a choice was “wrong”, since you made the choice at the time with feelings, imperfect information, and outlooks that structured your decision. All you can say is that the results were what they are.
Even “bad” results are how we are viewing the results in the eyes of the Monday Morning Quarterback. Shoulda, coulda, and woulda! An alternative future history. What might have been? You can drive yourself crazy and make yourself sad about “missed opportunities”, “missed loves”, and “bad mistakes”.
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And now, the end is near
And so I face the final curtain
My friend, I’ll say it clear
I’ll state my case, of which I’m certain
I’ve lived a life that’s full
I traveled each and every highway
And more, much more than this, I did it my way
Regrets, I’ve had a few
But then again, too few to mention
I did what I had to do and saw it through without exemption
I planned each charted course, each careful step along the byway
And more, much more than this, I did it my way
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The record shows I took the blows and did it my way
Yes, it was my way
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“You don’t have to pay tuition for every lesson. You can learn from other people’s mistakes!” — Unknown
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A man was arrested for DWI — after driving his car 17 miles in the wrong direction on a Connecticut highway, police said.
Source: Drunk driver cruises for 17 miles in wrong direction: cops
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As a fat old white guy injineer, why can’t this be prevented by parking lot like spikes at the entrance ramps?
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Jerry and Marge Selbee made millions winning various state lottery games over six years and helped others in their home town of Evart, Michigan, beat the system.
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Well good for them. I’ve always looked at the Gooferment’s lottery “offerings” and never found the odds even close to attractive. I never heard of “Windfall” until this 60 minutes story last night.
Reminds me of the Canadian guy who realized that the Canadian casio was powering down the Keno machine and the numbers were repeating. He took them for millions and they eventually figured it out but it was way too late. They went to court and lost. Laugh!
I just “love” politicians and bureaucrats who make blunders.
Like the IRS when they seized an Nevada whorehouse and ran it while seeking buy and lost a million dollars a month. Laugh! Can you lose money running a whorehouse? Obviously you can.
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2019-Jan-27
For the NFL and all of football, a new threat: an evaporating insurance market play
Jan 17, 2019 Steve Fainaru Mark Fainaru-Wada
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“Basically, the world has left the marketplace,” Alex Fairly, CEO of the Fairly Group, an Amarillo, Texas-based risk management firm whose clients include the NFL and Major League Baseball, told Outside the Lines. “If you’re football, hockey or soccer, the insurance business doesn’t want you.”
During the November convention of the Casualty Actuarial Society in Las Vegas, William Primps, an insurance lawyer and former Yale running back, told hundreds of actuaries, “Overall, I think that there is a real threat to the viability of contact sports.”
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I know, personally, that some are not going to let their children play football. I think that is the “death blow”. Here’s another factor in its eventual demise?
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FBI agents armed with rifles took the self-decsribed political dirty trickster into custody in a dramatic pre-dawn raid with their weapons drawn and a lead agent shouting ‘FBI! Open the door! We have a warrant!’
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Seriously?
What’s this? More political theater!
The demonstration of this was that CNN was there to film it!
Sorry, but this discredits the FBI in my mind. A phone call to his lawyer to arrange a surrender would have be a lot cheaper, but not as much “fun”.
Argh!
It’s all a political circus.
Where were the raids over the HRC emails?
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2019-Jan-25
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/01/23/proposal-could-require-women-register-draft.html
Proposal Could Require Women to Register for the Draft
23 Jan 2019
Military.com | By Patricia Kime
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A congressionally mandated commission is weighing whether women should be required to register for the Selective Service System, or whether the U.S. needs a draft registration system at all.
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Isn’t it time to end the draft?
After all it’s unconstitutional slavery.
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2019-Jan-24
https://tomwoods.com/ep-1326-how-to-secede-from-our-monetary-regime/#disqus_thread
Ep. 1326 How to Secede From Our Monetary Regime
22nd January 2019 — Tom Woods
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Frequent guest Bob Murphy returns, this time talking about his new (co-authored) book, The Case for IBC. This is an acronym for “Infinite Banking Concept,” a strategy that uses properly designed whole life insurance policies as a way to “become your own banker.” The concept was developed by Nelson Nash, who besides working in insurance was personally tutored in Austrian theory by Leonard Read himself. Bob explains how the average person can benefit from IBC, and he answers common objections like “Isn’t it better to buy term and invest the difference?” and “Why would I put my money in life insurance when the dollar is going to crash?”
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I understand the IBC; not sure I “grok” it. By that, I mean get it and apply to my life or my memes.
I (humbly) suggest another positive reason for the IBC concept that was not mentioned in the podcast. One can only by insurance when reasonable healthy. I had a young 30 something coworker who became uninsurable after surviving a bout with cancer. In his case, buying a whole life policy, when he was younger and healthier, would have given his family the death benefit protection. He died in his 50’s. So I’d suggest the IBC concept would avoid the “insurability” problem should it arise. Buying any insurance may not be possible later in life.
Am I missing something here?
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A Texas homeowner, 20, fatally shot three men and wounded two others, all of whom are suspects in an alleged home invasion against the shooter which took place in Houston on Saturday, authorities said.
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If this turns out as reported, then it’s a good case for keeping an AR15 legal!
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Same with the Saints. And blaming referees is almost always a loser’s lament. Except when a call this terrible comes in an elimination game. Then, it’s larceny. The NFL had been begging for something like this for years as the quality of its officiating eroded amid weekly yelps and protests. It was bound to happen sometime, to some team.
It happened to the Saints. They were robbed.
Source: Saints-Rams controversy: NFL allowed refs to steal Super Bowl berth
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Zebra ball at its best!
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A checklist for staying safe on the internet
Source: Security Checklist
A beginner’s guide to online security
This website is a clear guide for staying safe online. There’s no fluff or marketing, just the straight dope on how to use a password manager, create a strong device passcode, use two-factor authentication, set up a mobile carrier PIN, and much more. — MF
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Even I can learn some new methods to incorporate in my routines.
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