I’ve hunkered down due to the snow.
In my younger days, I’d be out and about.
I think these politicians are really obnoxious. “Travel bans”! It’s like they think they are Kings!
Argh!
It’s snow. If you go out and get stuck, that’s your problem.
All this does is empower the Nanny State to convince us that we are too stupid to take care of ourselves and make decisions about what we need to do and what risks we will take to get those important things done.
Argh!
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http://nypost.com/2016/01/21/the-nfl-conspiracy-theory-freaking-out-patriots-fans/
The NFL conspiracy theory freaking out Patriots fans
By Jonathan Lehman January 21, 2016 | 11:11am
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That fear picked up some fodder when the Boston Herald pointed out the Broncos are undefeated in games refereed by Hochuli. What’s more: The Patriots, despite their off-the-charts winning percentage this decade, are 3-4 in Hochuli games since 2010, and he was the ref who threw a crucial offensive pass interference flag against Rob Gronkowski in the Week 10 nail-biter against the Giants.
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Never bet on anything that talks and never doubt that EVERYTHING is fixed.
I bet the NFL brass would love to stick it to the PATS.
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http://www.garynorth.com/public/14715.cfm
We Have Passed the Tipping Point for American Liberalism
Gary North – January 11, 2016
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Then I got to thinking about the Khan Academy. In recent months, it has stated that it has over 26 million enrolled students. This is in 190 countries. So, I went to Alexa.com to see what percentage of the site’s traffic is from the United States. It is approximately 50%. Inside the United States, the site is ranked number 522. This is incredibly high.
I realize that some of their students are in public school settings. But I don’t think many of them are. A few selected schools use the Khan Academy. I am convinced the overwhelming majority of these enrolled students are homeschoolers.
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I’m not saying that we are winning this ideologically. I am saying that we are winning it institutionally and administratively.
The institutions are moving towards decentralization. This is anathema to the welfare-warfare statists. They are literally losing control, even if Salman Khan is not radically challenging the content of humanistic education. He is certainly no radical. He is a graduate of the Harvard Business School. His outlook and his teaching methods are going to shape the minds of tens of millions of students around the world. More important, they are going to shape the learning environments of these students. He is pulling them out of state-run classrooms.
The children who are coming up through the Khan Academy today go at their own pace. Nobody tells them what to do and when to do it. They take exams, and if they pass the exams, they go on to the next level. There is no one nagging them. There is no one telling them that class is over because a bell has rung. They are not being regimented.
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Remember the purpose of the Prussian education model: cannon fodder for the Army, willing morons for the factories, and useful idiots to vote for and be led by the elite!
I hope that the author is correct.
It can’t happen fast enough to get this country back on track.
Separation of Education and State will go a long way to restoring the American vigor.
Argh!
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http://patch.com/new-jersey/southbrunswick/taco-bell-nixed-south-brunswick-zoning-board
Taco Bell Nixed By South Brunswick Zoning Board
Adios, Taco Bell. A diner and a White Castle will be coming soon near Rt. 1 North at New Road, however.
South Brunswick, NJ
By CARLY BALDWIN (Patch Staff) January 15, 2016 2:31 pm ET
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South Brunswick, NJ – You’ll have to drive elsewhere if you want some Taco Bell.
The South Brunswick Zoning Board rejected a proposal to build a Taco Bell on Rt. 1 North at New Road. The board shot down the proposal in a 5-2 vote Thursday night, according to TAPInto.
Neighbors of the lot would be negatively affected by a Taco Bell, board members said.
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“(The lot) is not big enough (for another type of restaurant),” he said, according to TapInto. “We have to think about what we are going to put there (if not Taco Bell).”
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Sorry, but this is wrong.
The South Brunswick Zoning Board should not be in the business of picking winners and losers.
If some one is will to gamble their money putting it there, then who are these bureaucrats to say that they can’t?
Argh!
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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/01/17/two-virginia-men-arrested-on-terror-charges.html?intcmp=hplnws
CONSPIRACIES – PLOTST
wo Virginia men arrested on terror charges
Published January 17, 2016 Associated Press
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According to court documents filed in the case, Farrokh asked for help getting to Syria from a person who he didn’t know was an informant for the FBI. He later met with two other FBI informants he believed were people who could help him join the Islamic State group. Court documents say Farrokh expressed concerns about trusting the men and said he didn’t want to go to jail. At one meeting with them, however, he agreed to swear an oath of allegiance, court documents said. He also allegedly said that he wanted to die a martyr but did ask if his wife and family could eventually join him in Syria. He said he had other ways to get to Syria in the past that weren’t secure and needed a connection because he didn’t want to get arrested.
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Why is there always some Gooferment help for these fools to fall into a trap?
Entrapment?
Makes me wonder.
IF these guys couldn’t figure out how to buy a plane ticket, THEN how dangerous could they be?
Better they are over there, than staying here.
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2 dead, several injured as storms rip through Florida
Published January 17, 2016 FoxNews.com
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Florida officials say two adults have been killed and four children have been seriously injured after two suspected tornadoes swept through central Florida early Sunday.
The dead and injured were all members of the same family and living in a mobile home in Duette, Fla., near Tampa.
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One would think that “we” could build “mobile homes” that could keep folks safe. Or why do “we” permit them at all?
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District leaders furious Walmart breaking promise to build stores in poor neighborhoods
By Aaron C. Davis and Sarah Halzack January 15 at 8:41 PM
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Walmart abruptly announced Friday that it was abandoning a promise to build stores in Washington’s poorest neighborhoods, an agreement that had been key to the deal allowing the retailer to begin operating in the nation’s capital.
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Simple answer is why didn’t you insist that the poor neighborhood stores be build first?
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http://www.sbnation.com/2016/1/10/10743904/steelers-bengals-joey-porter-foul
The late penalty that doomed the Bengals was provoked by a Steelers coach illegally on the field
By Cyd Zeigler @CydZeigler on Jan 11, 2016, 7:33a
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In thinking back on that game, there was a lot of action on the field by players not in the game, spectators, and various coaches.
That’s just not right.
Seems like we need a rule like hockey’s third man in rule. I’d keep the coaches, bystanders, and not-in-the-game players off the field. Like a TWO game misconduct!
Sorry, but “the game” is sacrosanct. What the players do is what should matter; not anything else.
The various administrators of the game should take steps to protect the integrity of the game.
Basketball coaches are restricted to their “box”.
Ditto for the other sports.
Argh!
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https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/01/walter-e-williams/bunch-liars-minimum-wage/
Minimum Wage Dishonesty
By Walter E. Williams
January 12, 2016
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During South Africa’s apartheid era, the secretary of its avowedly racist Building Workers’ Union, Gert Beetge, said, “There is no job reservation left in the building industry, and in the circumstances, I support the rate for the job (minimum wage) as the second-best way of protecting our white artisans.” The South African Economic and Wage Commission of 1925 reported that “while definite exclusion of the Natives from the more remunerative fields of employment by law has not been urged upon us, the same result would follow a certain use of the powers of the Wage Board under the Wage Act of 1925, or of other wage-fixing legislation. The method would be to fix a minimum rate for an occupation or craft so high that no Native would be likely to be employed.”
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Walter Williams is among my favorite author / economists.
He often drives a metaphorical dagger into the hearts of the phony liberals, politicians, and bureaucrats!
In this specific case, the “minimum wage”.
The liberal politicians use it to demonstrate how much they care about the poor. All they care about is getting their votes.
I can’t think of a more destructive diktat then this.
I learned this lesson when the rising Federal minimum wage “forced” AT&T to automate all their elevators. While some of the all women elevator force were able to be placed in other higher skilled jobs, many were not and were fired. I know one personally who never worked again because the minimum wage cost more than she could produce.
Anecdotal? Sure. But that doesn’t make it real.
Look at the black youth unemployment rate and tell me that isn’t real either.
Argh!
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http://www.globalhealingcenter.com/natural-health/hot-dogs-can-be-a-risk-factor-for-your-health/
Hot Dogs: Questions and Answers
by Dr. Edward Group DC, NP, DACBN, DCBCN, DABFM
Published on December 22, 2015, Last Updated on December 14, 2015
Consuming Hot Dogs Can Be Harmful to Your Health
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Multiple studies have determined that consumption of hot dogs can be a risk factor for childhood cancer.
Peters et al studied the relationship between the intake of certain foods and the risk of leukemia in children from birth to age 10 in Los Angeles County between 1980 and 1987. The study found that children who ate more than twelve hot dogs per month had nine times the normal risk of developing childhood leukemia.
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I love bacon and I ate hot dogs.
Remember that old quote that “Swift once bragged that his slaughterhouses had become so sophisticated that they used “everything but the squeal.”?
Since I’ve retired, probably starting back when I became “old” somehow, and started dating a pescatarian, I’ve been working on my diet. This story about nitrites didn’t surprise me.
Thanks to Weekly NutritionFacts.org Videos by Michael Greger, M.D. http://nutritionfacts.org/video/is-bacon-good-or-is-spinach-bad/ I knew that cured meats — like bacon, ham and hot dogs — were killers and why.
That’s not to say I don’t fall off the wagon with bacon or hot dogs or other meats.
But maybe the sauerkraut on the hot dog helps?
Boy, I miss them.
However, if I want to live to a 1,000, bye bye everything but fruit, nuts, and plants.
Laff, when I’m diagnosed as terminal, BOY! am I going to enjoy that time.
Sigh!
Till then, no fun eating.
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Alabama’s Nick Saban makes his case as greatest coach in college football history
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I watched that game and it was a great one.
Unlike the Cincinnati Begals game, BOTH teams showed great discipline. Especially in the late Fourth Quarter.
The issue was settled when Alabama had an 11 point lead, but they couldn’t sit on it. Clemson was competitive.
Bottom line: Alabama’s onside kick worked and Clemson’s didn’t.
The difference? Alabama did it when it was not expected.
I thought the Alabama use of the Tight End was devastating. The game plan must have been thought up by a trickster.
Great game by both teams. Shame someone had to lose. Made you see why they were #1 and #2.
Well done. Great TV.
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Hola Hitler! Ex CIA agent claims Nazi leader faked his death and flew to Tenerife before escaping to Argentina on a U-Boat
By DARREN BOYLE FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 11:59 EST, 8 January 2016 | UPDATED: 14:40 EST, 8 January 2016
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During the controversial documentary series, Baer claims: ‘The narrative the government gives us is a lie. if you look at the FBI files it throws open the investigation.
‘What we are doing is re-examining history, history that we thought was settled that Hitler died in the bunker but the deeper we get into it, it’s clear to me we don’t have any facts for it.’
One of the declassified documents expresses concern that Hitler’s body had not been recovered and the complete lack of evidence of his death.
The controversial theory claims that Hitler flew to the Canary Island and boarded a U-Boat which transported him to a Nazi-friendly area of Argentina.
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“Why does it matter?” to quote a certain Presidential candidate.
I think it matters BECAUSE the Gooferment classified all the documentation and told lies for other purposes.
Think all the German rocket scientists that were “acquired”.
Cui bono? The CIA in the new Cold War that keeps “We, The Sheeple” fearful and needing the Gooferment to protect the flock?
And, the Gooferment can’t have anyone believe that the Chief Villain in this costly war got away scott free.
Argh!
And, most importantly, since I believe that the Gooferment is immoral, ineffective, and inefficient. As well as untrustworthy. One should take anything that we are told with a huge dose of skepticism.
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One of the declassified documents expresses concern that Hitler’s body had not been recovered and the complete lack of evidence of his death.
The controversial theory claims that Hitler flew to the Canary Island and boarded a U-Boat which transported him to a Nazi-friendly area of Argentina.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3390687/Hola-Hitler-Ex-CIA-agent-claims-Nazi-leader-faked-death-flew-Tenerife-escaping-Argentina-U-Boat.html#ixzz3wl4sksvd
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Shock Surveillance Footage Shows Couple Being Stalked and Ambushed in Upscale Atlanta Neighborhood
Jan. 8, 2016 10:25am Kate Scanlon
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The victims showed very little situational awareness.
I’d like to think that if they’d had guns they’d be more aware of their surroundings.
The world is vicious violent place out there. And, we need to cleanse the gene pool of the two legged varmints that prey on the average person.
I’m sure there’d be a wail that they were just “misguided”.
Forewarned is forearmed.
Molon labe.
Defense is not possible without Constitutional Carry.
Maybe then the streets will be safe again for honest people.
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2016-Jan-10
Steelers leave Cincinnati bruised, battered — and alive in AFC playoffs
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Did the “gods of football” deliver Karmic justice to the Cincinnati fans for booing and throwing garbage on Pittsburgh Steeler QB Big Ben when he was taken off injured?
And, to reinforce the lesson, those same “gods of football” did it by befogging the brains of the Cincinnati defense.
How does that line go?
“Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.” — Euripides
I always thought it meant “crazy”, but last night I got the true meaning.
A true champion respects his opponent; because in the end, our true opponent is ourselves.
Last night demonstrated that to any who watched.
Well done, “gods of football” for demonstrating STARKLY the Law of Karma — what goes around, comes around.
Usually, exponentially worse.
So, be careful what you wish for others, you might get it back — bigger and harder.
Wow!
And remember the old Cincinnati coach’s quote that was on the locker room scroll: “The key to winning is poise under stress.”
Guess no one read that one!
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http://www.unionleader.com/Grandmother-65-says-she-shot-man-who-tried-to-mug-her
January 05. 2016 7:59PM
Grandmother, 65, says she shot man who tried to mug her
By MARK HAYWARD New Hampshire Union Leader
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MANCHESTER — A 65-year-old grandmother said she didn’t have time to think when she pulled out her .32-caliber handgun and shot a man who tried to mug her outside her south Manchester apartment building late Monday night.
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This is quite educational.
“God made men and women; Sam colt made them equal.” — Unknown
The mugger was a foot taller and 100 pound heavier male.
Anytime the Gooferment tries to limit “guns”, think of all the women out there who could have used one.
Self-defense is a God given universal right.
And, the police took her gun as “evidence”. Argh! Luckily, she had good neighbor who loaned her another.
Why is a “license” required for any kind of carry?
Have some work to do in NH.
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Opinion: Major Issues We’re Following in Catholic Education in 2016
January 4, 2016, at 4:00 PM | By Adam Cassandra, Justin Petrisek, Kimberly Scharfenberger
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9. NLRB Exposing Catholic Identity Concerns
The number of Catholic colleges challenging the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) continues to grow. The problems with this trend are twofold: One, the NLRB is exercising unconstitutional government oversight in attempting to determine whether or not a college is sufficiently Catholic; and two, the test applied to the colleges is exposing major Catholic identity concerns. Colleges opposing NLRB rulings now include Carroll College, Duquesne University, Manhattan College, Saint Xavier University, Seattle University and Loyola University Chicago.
In the Newman Society’s amicus brief opposing the NLRB harassment, attorneys for Alliance Defending Freedom stated:
Religious organizations have the right of autonomy over their internal governance, the right to be treated the same as all other religious groups and denominations by the government, and the right to be free from government meddling and intrusion in their operations and beliefs.
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First, they come for the Catholic Schools?
Remember Gooferment Skrules are deliberately creating cannon fodder for the Army, willing morons for the factories, and useful idiots to vote for and be led by the elite.
They promote and propagandize the greatest of the State who solves all problems. Worship the Earth because there can’t be any God. It might limit the State which is the current God of Man.
Argh!
Dumb.
But, how do we get “We, The Sheeple” to stop it?
imho, the thing will eventually collapse under its own weight.
Look at how much it costs. Look at how the Teacher’s Union protects it and Big Gooferment. Look at the terrible results it produces.
The minute that the Black minority realizes how they have been screwed by the Gooferment Skrules, then things will change.
Wise up people.
Factoid: The only President that send his child to a Gooferment Skrule was Jimmy Carter. Why doesn’t anyone else? Why should anyone else?
Argh!
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9. NLRB Exposing Catholic Identity Concerns
The number of Catholic colleges challenging the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) continues to grow. The problems with this trend are twofold: One, the NLRB is exercising unconstitutional government oversight in attempting to determine whether or not a college is sufficiently Catholic; and two, the test applied to the colleges is exposing major Catholic identity concerns. Colleges opposing NLRB rulings now include Carroll College, Duquesne University, Manhattan College, Saint Xavier University, Seattle University and Loyola University Chicago.
In the Newman Society’s amicus brief opposing the NLRB harassment, attorneys for Alliance Defending Freedom stated:
Religious organizations have the right of autonomy over their internal governance, the right to be treated the same as all other religious groups and denominations by the government, and the right to be free from government meddling and intrusion in their operations and beliefs.
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http://tomwoods.com/podcast/ep-562-the-real-jfk-the-fed-the-economy-and-more/
In a forty five minute podcast, Tom Woods destroys the JFK mythology.
Especially in vogue today, is an assertion that the JFK assasination was partially due to his opposition to the FED. Tom destroys that illusion.
Well worth a listen in my opinion.
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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2497611,00.asp
Time Warner Cable Warns Users of Possible Data Breach
BY STEPHANIE MLOT JANUARY 7, 2016 02:24PM EST
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Here’s a reason NOT to use an ISP for your email address.
Another is that you’re locked into that ISP for email.
Argh!
May I suggest that you have your own domain?
The common wisdom, or is that common whizdumb, is to own your own name as a domain name. I own “reinke.cc”. (I like saying “sea sea me at reinke.cc”! me@reinke.cc will actually work!) I gives one quite a bit of control.
And, it’s very cheap. I know three solutions at 15$/year using wordpressdotcom with gmail, 25$/year email only with 1and1, and 60$/year for domain+email+webspace also at 1and1.
My point is not that you should use 1and1. http://www.1and1.com/?k_id=9113251 I could care less which one you use. It’s that getting on to your own domain with email is cheap and easy.
And, it’s not hotmail, yahoo, AOL, or gmail. It IS your own “personal brand”.
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http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2016/january/03/purism-is-practical/
Purism is Practical
written by ron paul
sunday january 3, 2016
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The ever-growing number of Americans who are joining the liberty movement are not interested in “reforming” the welfare-warfare state. They also have no interest in “fixing” the Federal Reserve via “rules-based” monetary policy. Instead, this movement is dedicated to auditing, then ending, the Fed and stopping the government from trying to run the economy, run the world, and run our lives. If this movement refuses to compromise its principles, we may succeed in restoring a society of liberty, peace, and prosperity in our lifetimes.
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In addressing the “welfare” part of the welfare-warfare state, it’s unfortunate that those of us that want to “end welfare as we know it” are portrayed as heartless unfeeling Ebenezer Scrooges.
In actuality, nothing could be further than the truth.
If you look on the Gooferment’s failed “war on poverty”, then you will see whole GENERATIONS lost to the despair of “welfare”. Politicians and bureaucrats — mostly D’s — and “community organizers” have developed a “poverty industry” that they siphon off of. Argh!
We have more than SIX DECADES of the current system, with no end in sight of misery.
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” — attributed to Einstein
So WHY can’t we try something different?
* Eliminate the minimum wage by phasing it out over 20 years. That would do wonders for black youth unemployment.
* Eliminate the “(pseudo) War on (some) Drugs” that sends so many poor people to prison, impoverishes them, and limits their employment opportunities. And BTW inflicts crime and violence on the poor disproportionately!
* Eliminate the handouts by phasing them out over 20 years. Reduce them 5% per year.
* Eliminate the various and sundry “regulations” on the States concerning “welfare”.
* Eliminate the Crony Capitalism “regulations” of “licensing” various things like hair braiding, Uber driving, and all sorts of other stupidity.
* Eliminate the tremendous “take” off the poor by the various forms of Gooferment lotteries.
Americans are very charitable. If the taxes are reduced by reducing the welfare burden, then true charity will spring up to help the truly needy with real help. I cite Homefront NJ as an example of what a real community can do. (And, from whom, I was taught that the “welfare bureaucracy” needs lots of “clients” to justify their continued existence.)
Argh!
Why can’t we have an experiment to see if this wouldn’t work so much better?
Gooferment politicians and bureaucrats, as well as all those that make fine living off the current system.
Argh! SQUARED.
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Argh!
Why do I get frustrated when people insist on being insecure?
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2016-Jan-06
http://theantimedia.org/15-news-stories-from-2015-you-should-have-heard-about-but-probably-didnt/
15 News Stories from 2015 You Should Have Heard About But Probably Didn’t
Home»Activism»
Carey Wedler
December 30, 2015
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Ross Ulbricht, founder of the dark web marketplace, the Silk Road, was sentenced to life in prison in spite of the fact that he committed no violent crimes — though the FBI attempted to paint a false picture that he did, albeit without filing formal charges. The prosecution was rife with corruption and scandal; two FBI agents involved in the case were charged with stealing Bitcoin during the investigation. In July, one admitted to stealing $700,000 worth of the digital currency.
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Sorry, but this is absurd.
Even more important, if the prosecution is not honest and above board, then it should be thrown out.
Argh!
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https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/01/mark-thornton/crazed-skyscrapers/
Will 2016 Be the End of the Current Skyscraper Boom?
By Mark Thornton Mises.org
January 2, 2016
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The important thing to remember is that skyscrapers do not cause economic crises. Rather they are just a very noticeable example of the distortions taking place throughout the economy when interest rates are kept artificially low by the central bank.
In addition to record breaking skyscrapers, there are many less perceptible changes taking place. Entrepreneurs are building bigger, longer term projects and production processes. Relative prices, i.e., interest, land, capital, and labor prices, are being distorted. Technology, nearly everywhere, is on the fast track. The economy is booming.
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And like the recent fire and two reported elevator crushings, I’m not sure that I want to be in “skyscrapers”. Or anything more than two or three stories. Maybe I’m getting old and fearful.
A recent conversation with a garbage executive confirmed that the “cardboard index” had collapsed. Despite Amazon from single handedly dropping all manner of “stuff” wrapped in cardboard, the recycling prices paid for cardboard had collapsed. This is an indication of economic activity.
So, as the doom ’n’ gloomer in the peanut gallery, I’d urge financial caution and lower expectations.
The world has become a lot more dangerous and the US has become even more divided on personalities and issues.
So fellow turtles, pull in your neck and wait the storm out.
It’s gonna get ugly out there.
“Gentlemen, prepare to defend yourselves!” Sergeant Major Basil Plumley (played by Sam Elliott): [about to face an onslaught of attacking NVA soldiers] http://buff.ly/1E8nOVr
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http://bearingarms.com/took-terror-attack-obamas-doj-prosecute-straw-purchaser/
It Only Took A Terror Attack For Obama’s DOJ To Prosecute A Straw Purchaser
Posted by Bob Owens on December 31, 2015 at 8:54 am
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It finally took a terrorist attack in San Bernardino to finally shame Barack Obama’s Department of Justice to do it’s job and prosecute a straw purchaser. Unfortunately, we can expect them to drop this charge, as they almost always do.
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How bad is Obama’s DOJ when it comes to prosecuting gun crime seriously?
This demonstrates that it’s all posturing about “gun violence”.
If BHO44 was serious about the issue, he’d have the DoJ working OT on REAL gun crimes.
And, ATF probably got bonuses — remember Fast ’n’ Furious.
The Gooferment is immoral, ineffective, and inefficient. As well as untrustworthy. And, so are the politicians and bureaucrats!
It’s all propaganda!
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http://listverse.com/2015/11/17/10-incredible-survival-stories-from-the-19th-century/
10 Incredible Survival Stories From The 19th Century
T. PIKUL NOVEMBER 17, 2015
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#10 Sergeant James Landon
Camp Sumter, commonly known as Andersonville, was a military prison operated by the Confederacy during the US Civil War. Even by the low standards of prisons at the time, Andersonville was notoriously horrible. The prison was overcrowded, and prisoners were forced to sleep in the open in disgusting, unsanitary conditions. During the Civil War, 13,000 prisoners died in Andersonville. Following the war, Captain Henry Wirz, the camp’s commander, was tried and hanged for war crimes.
Sergeant James Landon, a Union soldier from Iowa, was one of the unlucky ones who ended up in Andersonville. During a skirmish, Landon was shot in the thigh. He pried the bullet out using his knife and ran on foot from Confederate forces for five days before being captured. He was then forced to march for another four days to Andersonville. As a wounded soldier entering Andersonville’s unsanitary conditions, Landon didn’t stand much of a chance.
Amazingly, Landon survived. He was held for six weeks at Andersonville before being transferred to another prison camp. He was released from there after two months, as the Confederacy was crumbling and could no longer afford to hold prisoners. Even more amazingly, Landon didn’t receive proper medical treatment until he arrived back in the North. He lived until age 83 and was reportedly healthy and athletic throughout his life.
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Speechless.
Interesting that he operated on himself. All while E&E-ing for five days?
That would be some tale to hear about. As usual, the best part gets untold!
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A Marine’s Convictions: After flawed military sex assault investigation, Naval Academy teacher fights to prove he’s innocent. But is he? – Washington Post
By John Woodrow Cox Published on March 10, 2016
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/local/marine/?tid=a_inl
I found this a compelling read.
One of the most quoted excerpts from Scottish poetry is derived from Canto VI, XVII: Oh, what a tangled web we weave. When first we practise to deceive! Felicia Hemans used two lines from Marmion as an epigraph for her poem of 1827, The Homes of England.
Wow, he really “stepped in it”, and the Post reporter dug his grave with the lies.
Reporter should get a Pullitzer.
As a computer security guru, I doubt the cellphone evidence. Chain of custody was non-existent. The NCIS should have seized all the evidence at time of investigation. It doesn’t say what Stadler’s specialty was but for a USNA graduate there had to be some computer courses there. Fabricating message might not be that hard.
But Thompson was less than 100% truthful so that makes it look bad for him.
What a mess.
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https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/01/dr-david-brownstein/natural-salt-good/
Salt Restriction Increases Heart Disease Deaths and Hospitalizations
By Dr. David Brownstein
January 1, 2016
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Since graduating from medical school in 1989, I have come to the conclusion that much of what I was taught was wrong. In fact, at my medical school graduation, the dean said, “Fifty percent of what we just taught you were wrong, your job is to figure out which part was correct and which was incorrect.” When medical students come to my office, I always encourage them to question everything I tell them and, furthermore, to question what they have been taught.
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Wow, this does nothing to inspire confidence in “medicine”.
It wasn’t that way in injineering skrule!
And, add the Gooferment’s gigantic interference in the medical marketplace and my confidence drops even further.
So, I guess we do need IBM’s Watson to “help” doctors like the TV commercial says.
Argh!
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