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“The price of freedom is the willingness to do sudden battle anywhere, any time and with utter recklessness.” ― Robert A. Heinlein
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RANT: When do “We, The Sheeple” wake up to the world around us?
Saturday, April 19, 2025
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GUNS: Does the Bill of Rights apply to the States?
Saturday, April 19, 20252A Advocates Notch a Win in Fight Against Maine’s Waiting Period for Gun Sales
By Cam Edwards | 1:01 PM | April 11, 2025
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The attorney general also cited the Supreme Court’s language in Heller that “imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms” are “presumptively lawful regulatory measures,” but there’s a big difference between presuming something is lawful and actually looking at the historical record (or lack thereof) when it comes to delaying the lawful transfer of a firearm just because the state believes buyers need a cooling off period. There is nothing in the text of the Second Amendment or the national tradition of gun ownership that suggests arbitrary waiting periods preventing people from exercising their right to possess a firearm were the norm or even the exception in 1791 or 1868. Waiting periods are a modern invention, and a fair hearing under the Bruen test should lead the federal courts to establish that these artificial delays are a violation of our fundamental right to keep and bear arms.
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All this “Sturm und Drang” relies on “incorporation” that the Bill OF Rights (BoR) applies to the States as well as the Federal Gooferment.
In the modern age of Linconialism, after the “War of Northern Aggression” aka the “the (un) Civil War, everything became “national”.
In the world of originalism, before the Fourteenth Amendment, the States created the Federal union; not the other way around. The Dead Old White Guys would have never approved the Constitution — and some historians call it a coop — if the States were subservient to the Federal Gooferment.
The proper question is the RKBA enshrined in the various State Constitutions? And, if not, why not?
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TECHNOLOGY: Uncrewed aircraft delivery seems to be working
Friday, April 18, 2025Don’t call it a drone: Zipline’s uncrewed aircraft wants to reinvent retail
- Ars visits a zipline delivery service that’s deploying in more locations soon.
Tim Stevens – Apr 8, 2025 9:00 AM
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The inner portion of the Zipline P2 is lowered to the ground on a tether, facing into the wind, with a small propeller at the back. Doors on the bottom open when it touches the ground, depositing the cargo. Credit: Tim Stevens
The skies around Dallas are about to get a lot more interesting. No, DFW airport isn’t planning any more expansions, nor does American Airlines have any more retro liveries to debut. This will be something different, something liable to make all the excitement around the supposed New Jersey drones look a bit quaint.
Zipline is launching its airborne delivery service for real, rolling it out in the Dallas-Fort Worth suburb of Mesquite ahead of a gradual spread that, if all goes according to plan, will also see its craft landing in Seattle before the end of the year. These automated drones can be loaded in seconds, carry small packages for miles, and deposit them with pinpoint accuracy at the end of a retractable tether.
It looks and sounds like the future, but this launch has been a decade in the making. Zipline has already flown more than 1.4 million deliveries and covered over 100 million miles, yet it feels like things are just getting started.
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I was especially interest in their description of delivering blood in remote places in Africa. That could be used to deliver organs with less risk and fewer delays. A lot can be improved if their service is as promised. I imagine that some day, I would be able to ship stuff from my doorstep. Instacart, DoorDash, and UberEats may be in trouble.
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TECHNOLOGY: eSims introduce a single point of failure
Thursday, April 17, 2025https://www.androidauthority.com/esim-vs-physical-sim-experience-3539851/
I was ready to ditch physical SIMs forever — then my toddler threw my phone off a balcony
- I was ready to declare physical SIM cards obsolete until disaster struck!
By Adamya Sharma
April 5, 2025
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Just before writing that wholly different article, my iPhone 15 Pro, on which my primary number was registered as an eSIM, met a dramatic end. While on holiday, my toddler decided my phone would look cool skydiving from a ninth-floor balcony. Spoiler Alert: It didn’t stick the landing. Not only did the iPhone’s screen shatter to pieces from one corner, but the grade 5 titanium frame literally tore from the antenna band. Not to mention the internal damage to other crucial components.
After mourning the loss and explaining to my child that phones aren’t actually meant to fly, I faced a new problem. I needed a new phone. And fast. Apple told me the phone can’t be fixed and will need to be replaced. Shedding tears of desperation, I swallowed the bitter pill and coughed up to buy the iPhone 16 Pro.
But here’s the catch. You can’t just pop into a store, grab a phone, and swap out the SIM anymore when you’re only using an eSIM. Sure, transferring an eSIM is usually as easy as scanning a QR code, but what happens when your old phone’s display is completely dead?
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Never thought about this. Clearly, there needs to be a backup solution for an eSim.
I’m waiting.
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RANT: Let’s record everything
Wednesday, April 16, 2025FROM TWITTER.
https://x.com/amuse/status/1906860386508230897?s=46&t=fNifJ9M-EU2FgGneNcz51w
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DOGE: Once the DOGE team breached the fortress of taxpayer-funded tranquility known as the U.S. Institute of Peace, the accounting firm overseeing its books promptly deleted over a terabyte of financial data—an act as subtle as a burglar torching the crime scene. Fortunately, Big Balls intervened, recovering the lost data and exposing a veritable orgy of fraud, waste, and abuse, including the agency’s peculiar addiction to private jet travel, all in the noble name of “peace.”
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Why aren’t ALL Gooferment financial records, messages, and memos recorded to a blockchain? What are the bureaucrats afraid of?
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DISCOURAGING: The US defaulted on these bonds thanks to Roosevelt
Tuesday, April 15, 2025https://www.theburningplatform.com/2024/12/26/when-the-us-government-defaulted-on-its-bonds/
When the US Government Defaulted on its Bonds
Guest Post by Martin Armstrong
<< EDITOR ADDED DATE 2024-12-26>>
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The US Treasury called in this Fourth Liberty Bond on April 15, 1934, for redemption. However, the US defaulted on this term by refusing to redeem the bond in gold. They also ignored the dollar devaluation imposed by Roosevelt, which changed the dollar’s gold value from $20.67 to $35. The entire purpose of the gold clauses prior to Roosevelt was to protect against a currency devaluation. The 21 million bondholders lost 139 million troy ounces of gold, which caused the loss in international value terms to be approximately 70% of the bond’s principal.
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70% loss.
End the end of “sound (hard) money” meant that the Federal Gooferment was no longer held to any standard of “money”. It became a tyrant.
The plague of “paper money” was now visited upon the USA.
And, things would never be the same again,
Prices now always go up and the value of savings in dollars shrinks.
Any one wonder why bitcoin, gold, and silver are going up? Can’t print more of them.
Where does this runaway freight train of deficits, debt, and “inflation” end?
We’ll become like the Roman, Spanish, French, and English Empires! Weimar Republic, Zimbabwe, Argentina, … …
Argh!
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Sounds like this is a BIG mistake
Monday, April 14, 2025 ICE agents arrest 73-year-old grandfather in Louisiana who has lived in US for 45 years
BY CLAIRE TAYLOR | Staff writer Apr 3, 2025 Updated Apr 4, 2025
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Forty-five years ago, Jose Francisco Garcia Rodriguez fled Cuba on a ship provided by the United States for people seeking refuge from the Cuban government.
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Rodriguez arrived in the United States with just the clothes on his back, Riggs said, with no education and not speaking English. He struggled and made mistakes, paid for them, and for the next 43 years lived a good life, raising a family and working hard labor for 40-60 hours a week, paying taxes and paying into Social Security, which he never used.
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But starting with a 73-year-old grandfather who has a heart condition and who is the primary caretaker of his wife with dementia is not the solution, she said.
“It is a problem that has to be fixed with a surgeon’s blade. Not a machete.”
Riggs asked the public to contact their elected officials to ask for their help in freeing Rodriguez. And she asked for prayers.
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Who knows what he was told 45 years ago? Maybe some Gooferment bureaucrats assured him all was Okey Dokey.
And why hasn’t he gotten his Social Security? Seems like all the con artists are getting it.
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RANT: End “Unemployment Insurance” — it’s a scam
Sunday, April 13, 2025WHOA! DOGE Makes Three Major Findings Regarding Unemployment Benefits Fraud, Including One Discovery That Left Elon Musk Shocked: “So Crazy I Had to Read It Several Times”
by Cullen Linebarger Apr. 10, 2025 9:30 am
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An initial survey of Unemployment Insurance claims since 2020 revealed the following:
– 24.5k people over 115 years old claimed $59M in benefits
– 28k people between 1 and 5 years old claimed $254M in benefits
– 9.7k people with birth dates over 15 years in the future claimed $69M in benefits
In one case, someone with a birthday in 2154 claimed $41k.
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Time to end that program.
Or at least reduce eligibility. Why should “everyone” be eligible? Maybe a “poor” person with a low paying job should get some “help”. But that’s NOT what’s happening.
If someone filed a tax return in the past year, then they should be planning on their own.
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INNOVATION: Might cure road rage?
Saturday, April 12, 2025https://www.boredpanda.com/city-gadgets-convenient-traffic-urban-equipment-msn/
#26 This Hourglass Shaped Traffic Light
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I like this. Why can’t we have them here in the USA. Might cure road rage?
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MONEY: Nagging everyone about “three silver dimes” again and agian
Friday, April 11, 2025https://www.theburningplatform.com/2025/04/05/gold-price-forecasts-inching-toward-4000/
Gold Price Forecasts Inching Toward $4,000
Guest Post by Peter Reagan
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Already off to a breathtaking start this year, gold’s price continues to climb. Amid fears of a trade war and the global dedollarization drive, here’s how much higher analysts think it will go…
- $4,000 gold hints from big institutions are here
- Why faith in the U.S. dollar is going on all sides
- Gold vs the greenback: who will win?
- Bosnia’s central bank now owns the most gold it has since year of establishment
Gold’s unpredictable trend toward $4,000
Axel Merk, CEO of Merk Investments, said a lot in a recent (brief) segment on the relationship between the price of gold and the U.S. dollar.
Merk says we are now seeing perhaps the biggest shift since the end of World War II, one where the U.S. will no longer be the world’s police force. (The turning point was the invasion of Ukraine, when the greatest weapon in our economic arsenal, weaponizing the dollar against Russia, failed spectacularly.)
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A silver quarter is worth $6!!! (That’s 24 times face value.)
So my three silver dimes for a 70’s gallon of gas is ~$7.20 today or ~2½ gallons of much “better” gas.
Minimum wage was 5 quarters in the 70’s so that means it’s 30$ in today’s “valueless” money.
When do “We, The Sheeple” wake up?
I’ve been on this since 2009!
Just to refresh your memory:
https://reinkefaceslife.com/2014/07/07/money-those-same-three-silver-dimes/
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https://reinkefaceslife.com/2023/02/17/goldbug-when-priced-in-gold-beer-was-3-a-litre-in-301ad/
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https://reinkefaceslife.com/2009/10/20/money-dont-save-your-wealth-in-fiat-money/
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POLICY: How about a GOFUNDME style of foreign aid?
Thursday, April 10, 2025https://www.newsmax.com/murdock/usaid-atlas-network-doge/2025/04/03/id/1205534/
USAID Flops, But There May Be Alternatives
By Deroy Murdock Thursday, 03 April 2025 12:07 PM EDT
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Elon Musk is helping President Donald J. Trump rein in profligate, reckless, and corrupt federal spending via the new Department of Government Efficiency.
Democrats are not amused.
Left-wing domestic terrorists have responded by firing bullets into the windshields of electric vehicles at Musk’s Tesla dealerships. They have torched Tesla charging stations, set Teslas ablaze in parking lots, and used Molotov cocktails to ignite multiple Teslas beside a Las Vegas showroom.
Devolving into the party of arson is unwise for Democrats, especially after last month’s Harvard-Harris survey found that 76% of U.S. voters support chopping waste and fraud from federal expenditures.
One need not be Milton Friedman to be enraged by what DOGE uncovered in Haiti: Since 2010, USAID has made some $2 billion in grants tied to that star-crossed Caribbean nation. Only 2% of these funds actually reached Haitian companies and organizations.
Inefficiency is one thing. When Haitians see a mere $40 million of a $2 billion outlay, this smacks of money laundering.
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I remember CARE packages. After WWII, Americans sent care package to Europe. It was used to provide political cover for the Marshall Plan and all sorts of other “foreign aid”.
I have a “new” idea for “foreign aid”. Let the USA Gooferment identify places that need real help. Then let the “We, The Sheeple”, aka Taxpayers, decide who and how much. Americans are very charitable even though the Gooferment “elbows” their way into “charity” and seizes larger and larger portions of the wealth and earnings of ordinary people. Then, folks can pick and choose what and how much they can afford to donate.
Last time I looked there is no Constitution justification for the Gooferment to spend on such.
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VETERANS: Wish we could identify and recover all our POWs
Wednesday, April 9, 2025World War Two
National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day is observed on anniversary of largest US surrender in history
- New book reveals untold story of Gen. Wainwright, highest-ranking American POW of World War II
By Dana Perino Fox News
Published April 9, 2025 6:00am EDT
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Wish we could identify and recover all our POWs.
Dona Nobis Pacem
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RANT: It’s only fair that “women’s sports” is for women
Wednesday, April 9, 2025USA Fencing Defends Punishing Female Athlete for Refusing to Face Trans Opponent
Warner Todd Huston — 4 Apr 2025
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USA Fencing is deending itself over its policy of including transgender fencers in the women’s category and for punishing a female athlete for refusing to face a trans opponent.
The fencing organization is defending itself after fencer Stephanie Turner took a knee and refused to compete during a match with transgender opponent Redmond Sullivan last weekend.
USA Fencing immediately disqualified Turner, who had kicked her out of the tournament.
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I wonder who funds USA funding? If it gets any from my taxes, then I hope it gets “DOGE-ed”.
It seems like the woke LGBTQ mafia has infiltrated all sorts of organizations.
Argh! Sigh!
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POLITICAL: The First Amendment prohibits the Gooferment … …
Tuesday, April 8, 2025https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/04/james-bovard/first-they-came-for-the-op-ed-writers/
First They Came for the Op-Ed Writers – LewRockwell
By James Bovard
<< EDITOR ADDED DATE 2025-04-02>>
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Few Americans would object to deporting foreign students who destroy property or physically assault other people. But Ozturk was merely guilty of using words that are detested by the current administration. Are Trump’s policymakers using the same “guilt by association” standard the Biden administration used to persecute anyone near the Capitol on January 6, 2021? Biden’s Justice Department acted like anyone who merely “paraded without a permit” near the Capitol that day was guilty of insurrection and deserved a harsh prison sentence. Is any criticism of Israeli policy now the legal and moral equivalent of insurrection?
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As I read it, it doesn’t say anything about limits on who gets “free speech”.
In this case, I think that DJT47’s team is wrong in this specific case. And, he should reign in the leash apologizing for the error.
I hope that SCOTUS will take this and the matter of “dreamers” (i.e., children brought into the USA by their illegal immigrant parents and thru no fault of their own are in a catch-22).
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JOBSEARCH: You should have an active “networking program”
Monday, April 7, 2025“It’s not what you know, it’s who you know,” — Ralph Kramden aka Jackie Gleason in the “The Honeymooners”
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Wish I’d have paid more attention to the lessons on TV. It wasn’t until later in life that I realized the value of a personal connections network. It was when a sales guy I was nice too even though I could not buy his product, became a hiring manager in Wall Street firm and extends due a job offer that I took.
Now never let it be said that I was the dimmest bulb on the block. I immediately began “collecting contacts”. I’d read about a “Farley File” in Heinlein’s book “Double Star” so I too began my own Farley File. I didn’t discard it until I retired sometime later. (We can debate the stupidity of doing that.)
With cloud computing, it’s so much easier than using paper like in the “Job Changing at 100K+” workbook.
When I was in my own consulting business, I had my “Sunday Morning Imaginary Board of Directors” meeting with: myself the CEO, myself the CFO, myself the CMO, myself as the CTO, myself as the Sasles Manager, myself as the Product Manager, and myself as theThe Product itself. You might say I was full of myself. I should have had a Chief Relationship Manager too.
Anyway, now I am a fat old white guy retired injineer who’s a poor old senior citizen on a fixed income. I have lots of time to Monday Marning Quarterback all the Shoulda, Coulda, and Woulda things that I’d do differently.
“Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well ordered mind than a man’s ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.” — Seneca, Letters From a Stoic
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NOTRECOMMENDED: LASTPASS no longer recommended; Use BITWARDEN instead
Sunday, April 6, 2025LASTPASS has dropped support for Mac OSX application.
No appologies; just dropped.
Sigh!
I’m testing BITWARDEN and Apple’s PASSWORD app.
Not that I’m an “influencer”, but I have RECOMMENDED LASTPASS for a long time. Removing it’s availability from a key computer platform is short sighted at best and dumb at worst.
IMHO
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GUNS: Why make guns for “good guys” hard to get?
Saturday, April 5, 2025
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Makes a lot of sense to me.
“An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.” — Robert A. Heinlein
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“I particularly like unlimited concealed carry. If the criminal regards the general public as sheep to be shorn, then let’s sprinkle in a few “sheepdogs” with big teeth in the flock.
Guess which gay to bash? Buzz, wrong, you picked a Pink Pistol and you’re dead!
Guess which woman to bash? Buzz, wrong, you picked a Paxton Quigly and you’re dead!
Guess which brown person to bash? Buzz, wrong, you picked a Massad Ayoob and you’re dead!”
GUNS: Let’s sprinkle in a few “sheepdogs” with big teeth in the flock
Thursday, November 2nd, 2006 at 20:26
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Still as true to me as it was then.
FAFO
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EDUCATION: Walter Williams was a rock star
Friday, April 4, 2025https://jeffjacoby.com/28453/84-years-of-not-suffering-fools
84 years of not suffering fools
by Jeff Jacoby — December 7, 2020
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Walter E. Williams taught economics to university students for 47 years, the last 40 of them at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. He taught his class as usual last Tuesday, then died suddenly some hours later. His death did not go unnoticed — lengthy obituaries appeared in both the New York Times and the Washington Post — but the news ricocheted with particular velocity through the world of conservatives, libertarians, and free-market economists: To us, Walter Williams was a rock star.
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From How to Live in Peace (2017):
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The liberty-oriented solution to the school prayer issue is simple. We should acknowledge the fact that though there is public financing of primary and secondary education, it doesn’t follow that there should be public production of education. . . .
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I read Walter Williams as soon as I found out about him. He led me to Thomas Soul. Together they formed my opinions on Gooferment, Gooferment Skrules, politicians, and bureaucrats.
Clearly and concisely, they demolished the welfare / warfare state with its one-size fit all solutions. Good thing the Gooferment doesn’t produce shoes.
Argh!
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DISCOURAGING: Broken homes seems to be “acceptable”; not selfishness
Thursday, April 3, 2025I was devastated when my father abandoned me — yet liberals make excuses for broken homes
By Adam B. Coleman
Published March 30, 2025, 3:54 p.m. ET
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A child growing up in a broken home automatically puts them at a disadvantage. Studies across the board show that children of two-parent families have a better chance of success in education, in business . . . in life. Yet too often, society doesn’t do enough to encourage these unions, even saying it doesn’t matter. In his new book, “The Children We Left Behind: How Western Culture Rationalizes Family Separation & Ignores The Pain Of Child Neglect,” Adam B. Coleman explains how this is a terrible mistake of selfishness. An excerpt:
Why didn’t my father love me? Why did my father abandon me?
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This really hit home.
I can still feel the “sting” of rejection. And, these and other questions just get suppressed. Maybe I should have been in “therapy”? Even though that was unheard of.
At some point in time, one has to “grow up”, “grow a pair”, or “just accept the cards that life deals you”.
Shut up and move on.
But especially as the “game clock” winds down, the “Shoulda, coulda, and woulda! “ thinking emerges. How would I have been different and how would my life have evolved differently.
Unfortunately, there’s no “time” VCR to remind and rerun / retry life.
“… checked the Eternal Possibilities Machine, which generates all the possibilities for use in creating the alternative worlds. In all those probability lines …” CHURCH 10●19●62 (Vol 1) 978-0-557-08387-9 page 45
I guess every child feels this and maybe that’s why things are this way now.
One of the many many things we’ll never know.
Sigh!
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POLITICAL: Age limit for politicians and bureaucrats!
Wednesday, April 2, 2025Here’s an original thought:
If there is a minium age for political office, why can’t we have a maximum age for it. I suggest your full benefit retirement age for Social Security.
#agelimitforpoliticians
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ENCOURAGING: Interesting heroic tale of the Polish “James Bond”
Tuesday, April 1, 2025FROM PRIME VIDEO
The Resistance Fighter
The Resistance Fighter tells the incredible true story of the Polish “James Bond” war hero Jan Nowak-Jeziorański, a man of extraordinary courage, who served as an emissary between the commanders of Poland’s resistance movement and the Polish government in exile in London at the height of WWII.
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I doubt I’d ever have, or would have had, the courage to act in this fashion.
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HEALTHCARE: C-Sections, home births, and a sprinkle of medical correuption make for a complex decision
Monday, March 31, 2025What They Don’t Tell You About C-Sections
Analysis by A Midwestern Doctor — March 28, 2025
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- For more than a century, there has been a push to medicalize childbirth and transform it from a natural life event to something requiring major interventions so nothing goes amiss
- Many of the standard procedures done during hospital births increase your risk of needing other invasive interventions, eventually cascading into requiring a cesarean section
- Like other major abdominal surgeries, C-sections expose mothers to significant risk, require a prolonged recovery, and leave large scars which can cause a wide range of chronic issues
- C-sections also expose infants to real risks and predispose them to a variety of chronic autoimmune and neurological issues
- This article will discuss the risks of C-sections, the situations where they are necessary, and some approaches that can be used to recover from them
Many traditions throughout history have come to view one’s birth as one of the most important moments in a human’s life as it sets the stage for all that follows. Unfortunately, much in the same way we desecrate the death process by over-medicalizing it (to the point research has found that doctors are less likely to seek end of life care at a medical facility1), the same issue also exists with childbirth.
Many physicians I know who are familiar with the hospital birthing process chose to skip it and give birth at home (along with many more doctors featured in a 2016 documentary2).
Conversely, a minority of childbirths do need advanced medical care. For those mothers, access to a hospital greatly benefits them, particularly if actions are taken to mitigate the most dangerous aspects of hospital birth.
As such, childbirth occupies a similar place as many other medical controversies; neither side of the issue is entirely correct. However, the data clearly shows the risk of routine C-sections outweighs their benefits so this article will attempt to expose what they aren’t tell you about them.
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I was particularly interested in all the stats that were provided. As well as the anecdotal evidence from the New Zealand Maoris, “getting a spark”, and the old practice of doctors would wack a baby’s soles to trigger a vigorous cry. I thought it was a smack on the butt.
In survival school, one of the mandatory lessons was about emergency child birth. The essence was to do as little as possible until real help arrived. Keep patient level, legs elevated, clean newspapers to keep the area as sterile as possible, get the baby crying (really), on mom’s chest, and don’t touch the cord. And to ignore everything we’d seen on TV. Laugh!
Came close twice, but no cigar. In the closest case, commuting into NYC on a train, after the paramedics took her away, the old gent came up and complimented me on doing everything right. Even mentioning the newspaper bedding and “sheets”. He said he a was the head of obstetrics at Saint Vincents and would have intervened if I was doing anything wrong. His reticence was due to the malpractice law that rendered me immune but made him libel. Dumb law. I was almost pooping MY pants that I might have to deliver. Labor pains were a minute intervals. But Saint Simeon the Holy Fool was with me that day.
Glad I never had to make any of these hard decisions as outlined in the article.
I would hope that the incentive structure for “health care” gets straightened out.
Argh!
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ECONOMICS: Second corpoation puts reserves in ₿itcoin to avoid inflation
Sunday, March 30, 2025GameStop’s Bitcoin Move Looks Bold—But It Might Be Brilliant
- GameStop’s Bitcoin move left many scratching their heads. But behind the confusion is a clear, calculated strategy that more CFOs should be watching closely.
By Nick Ward — March 26, 2025
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This week, GameStop quietly updated its investment policy to include Bitcoin as a treasury reserve asset. With approximately $4.78 billion in cash—nearly 37% of its $12.9 billion market cap—this move marks more than just a diversification of reserves.
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For companies with material cash holdings, the erosion of purchasing power is no longer theoretical—it’s measurable. Over the past decade, the U.S. dollar has declined in real terms by more than 25%, driven by inflation, expansionary monetary policy, and global fiscal uncertainty.
Bitcoin presents a compelling counterweight to this degradation, particularly for balance sheets with the flexibility to tolerate mark-to-market volatility in pursuit of long-term strategic payoff.
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Now a corporation doing this can spend resources ensuring the security of its assets.
However, the average consumer retail type needs to be extremely careful not to lose their “wallet”.
Considering the 25% loss of purchasing power over 5 years, that can put a hole in anyone savings.
It’s the same problem as Social Security “Insurance” (see my many rants about that — the prepaid Death Tax). You pay in with “good” dollars say in 1970 and get out “bad” dollars that have lost 90+% of their purchasing power.
Given the state of Gooferment finances (i.e., the current 140T+ national debt and the guesstimated 200T+ in unfunded liabilities that our posterity will have to deal with) how does one preserve wealth in this disastrous era.
I, personally, have some savings, but not enough, in ₿itcoin, gold, silver, and Goldbacks. As always YMMV.
How does the consumer, to use a military term, “get small in your hole”? Where is your “underground bunker” for this “tornado”. Everyone should have one.
In the pre-1913 era, you could save your gold dollars in jar or bury some in your back yard. Then in your old age you’d find that the money had actually increased a little in purchasing power. What can you do today?
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RANT: Lotto tries to welch on a winning ticket
Saturday, March 29, 2025https://nypost.com/2025/03/25/us-news/mystery-winner-of-83-5m-lottery-may-never-see-her-money/
Mystery winner of whopping $83.5M lottery may never see her money — due to a sudden technicality
By Isabel Keane — Published March 25, 2025, 9:53 a.m. ET
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A Texas woman with a winning $83.5 million lottery ticket may never get her mega payout because officials are investigating the app she used.
The woman, who has not been publicly identified, bought $20 worth of Texas Lotto tickets for the Feb. 17 drawing on the app Jackpocket — a lottery courier service state lawmakers are now trying to ban.
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Why is the Gooferment involved in gambling in the first place?
And, if the “courier service” is a legal business now, what’s the problem?
Will the State refund all the tickets purchased thru the app?
I don’t think so.
And, economics experts have all pointed out that these State run games are a tax on the poor. As well as provide lucrative “jobs” for Gooferment bureaucrats.
Like so many other things run by the Gooferment, the private sector could do it better and give the players a better prompter payout.
Argh!
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DISCOURAGING: What can one say when stupidity results in a disaster?
Friday, March 28, 2025Racing car with 4 brothers from NJ somersaulted before diving from overpass
Dan Alexander — Published: March 24, 2025
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- The Mazda was racing another vehicle on Route 95, police say
- It overturned numerous times before crashing through the guide rail
- 2 brothers and a puppy died after the crash
PHILADELPHIA — A New Jersey man who was behind the wheel of a car that crashed off a Route 95 overpass on Friday night remains hospitalized with one of his siblings after their two brothers died in the wreck.
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What can one say when stupidity results in a disaster?
I guess that’s why the universe delivers 1.04 boys to 1.00 girls in population studies.
Only the puppy was “innocent”.
Sometimes the “Darwin Award” is funny like the man hitting the sleeping crocodile because he want to see some action. In this case, it’s just sadly needless.
I feel for their parents and friends.
Old enough to know better; now will never grow old.
Dona Nobis Pacem
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ConspiracyTheories: Time to end the CIA! Can DJT47 do it?
Thursday, March 27, 2025https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/deeply-intriguing-memo-in-jfk-file
Deeply Intriguing Memo In JFK File Dump
- Gary Underhill publicly stated that “a small clique within the CIA was responsible for the assassination” and was then found shot to death less than six months later.
John Leake
Mar 19, 2025
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I am indebted to fellow Substack author, Jon Fleetwood, for drawing my attention to a deeply intriguing memo that was part of the JFK files that were just dumped. Fleetwood’s piece on the memo is linked below.
The CIA memo, dated 19th July 1967, opens with a long quotation from an article published in Ramparts, June 1967.
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The totality of circumstances—including the fact that the CIA insisted on keeping this memo top secret until now—suggests that Underhill knew what he was talking about and that his stated fear was well-founded.
To be sure, it’s possible that Underhill did not know—or chose not to disclose to his friends—the extent of the activity in which the “CIA Clique” was involved. It may have been more than just gun-running, narcotics, and other contraband.
Going pack <<sic>> to the Roman Praetorian Guard, the trouble with elite security services is that the secrecy they are granted almost inevitably tempts at least some of their members to engage in nefarious enterprises. Considering this, it strikes me as remarkable that the CIA hasn’t assassinated more than just one president.
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Now the Conspiracy Theorists are again being proven right. CIA, Israel Mossad, and the Mafia are involved. And the “lone gunman” is “Barbara Streisand”.
Argh!
Now what happens to the CIA that JFK wanted to shut down. Does DJT47 have enough juice to do it?
#disbandtheCIA
I expect more revealing facts as the various writer sort through the document dump.
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