LIBERTY: True Meaning of Freedom on Independence Day and are we slowly losing it?

Monday, July 4, 2022

https://medium.com/texas-veterans-blog/celebrate-the-true-meaning-of-freedom-on-independence-day-afafb02fea59

Texas VLB
Jul 1, 2015
Celebrate the True Meaning of Freedom on Independence Day

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For some, freedom means the right to vote, for others it represents the opportunity for an education. Two months ago the VLB Voices of Veterans Oral History Program launched a video project called “What Freedom Means” as a way to honor our Veterans and military members on this upcoming Independence Day. We asked Texas Veterans, military members and their supporters to share their thoughts and feelings about freedom and why it’s meaningful to them.

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All of these ideas about the liberty we enjoy remind us that we owe a lot to our Veterans and military members without whom none of these freedoms would exist. They are proud to wear their uniforms and serve this great nation, and in turn, we are proud to honor and serve them.

On this Fourth of July, as you reflect upon the anniversary of our independence, we ask that you express your gratitude to a Veteran or military member for the great sacrifices they have made for our country.

We wish everyone a safe and happy holiday!

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I wonder how many people even think about how many have died or worse to “give” us out “freedom”?  

I’m sure all the politicians and bureaucrats will out in force to lead parades.  But have been selling us into bondage.

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Shut down the U.S. Department of Education

Sunday, July 3, 2022

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/06/we_should_immediately_end_nationalized_funding_of_student_tuition.html

americanthinker.com
We Should Immediately End Nationalized Funding of Student Tuition
By Jerome Corsi

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On March 30, 2010, Obama signed the Health Care and Education Act charging the U.S. Department of Education to make 100 percent of all government-funded college loans, effective on July 1 of that year. In 2010, student loan debt totaled $760 billion. In 2022, the total outstanding student loan debt will more than double to a record $1.7 trillion. In 2017, a study by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York concluded that “more federal aid to students enables colleges to raise tuition more.” Raising U.S. higher education tuition costs to a level middle-class families cannot afford is not a problem as long as the government makes the taxpayer pay the price.

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It’s Unconstitutional for starters.

The Gooferment is immoral, ineffective, and inefficient. As well as untrustworthy.

We once criticized Communist countries for their indoctrination camps; failing to recognize that the Gooferment Skrules here are the same thing.

#endtheDoEd

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Why you can blame crazy gas prices on Joe Biden

Saturday, July 2, 2022

This July 4th, as you fill up your car or truck, you might be tempted to blame President Joe Biden for high gasoline prices.
— Read on nypost.com/2022/07/02/why-you-can-blame-crazy-gas-prices-on-joe-biden/

No doubt who screwing the poor and middle class and it is not Big Oil. It’s the politicians and bureaucrats pushing the left’s-agenda.

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RANT: AMAZON web site does “bait and switch”!

Saturday, July 2, 2022

Order some test strips which the website promised one day delivery.  

FIne.

Went to check out and the ETA switched to SIX day delivery.

Why did Amazon waste my time?

Argh!

And, of course, no one cares.

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RANT: Walgreens “delivery” didn’t!

Saturday, July 2, 2022

Walgreens <donotreply@rxorder.walgreens.com>
Thu, Jun 30, 3:59 PM

There’s an issue with your prescription, insurance or payment information that needs your attention in the next 3 business days so that we can continue to process and ship your order.

For further questions, please contact your Walgreens.com pharmacy at (877) 250-5823.*
Thank you,
Your Walgreens Pharmacist

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Placed an order for delivery. Went thru no problem.

Two days later an email that there is a problem. No phone call!  No real alternatives.

Call and after bouncing around, I got some one who explained they do NOT fill that type of prescription. 

Argh!

Bottom line they really screwed me.

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RANT: @FedEx & @Walmart let me down

Saturday, July 2, 2022

@FedEx
@FedEx
Ordered some rush test strips; Walmar promised 7/1. Fedex took the delivered and promised 7/1. Guess what? No delivery. They both failed! And as usual no one cares

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INTERESTING: Another question to ask about a future residence

Saturday, July 2, 2022

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/06/couple-bought-home-in-seattle-then-learned-comcast-internet-would-cost-27000/#p3

Comcast-less in Seattle —
Jon Brodkin – 6/29/2022, 7:30 AM
Couple bought home in Seattle, then learned Comcast Internet would cost $27,000

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When Zachary Cohn and his wife bought a house in the Northgate neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, they didn’t expect any trouble getting home Internet service. It was only after closing on the house in July 2019 that they learned the bad news. “All six neighbors I share a property line with are wired for Comcast, but our house never was,” Cohn told Ars.

Comcast’s predecessor company had wired up the neighborhood with cable decades earlier and the ISP provides high-speed broadband to the abutting properties. But the cable TV and Internet service provider never extended a line to the house purchased by Cohn and his wife, Lauryl Zenobi.

Cohn spent many months trying to get answers from Comcast on how he and Zenobi could get Internet service. Eventually, he contacted his City Councillor’s office, which was able to get a real response from Comcast.

Comcast ultimately said it would require installing 181 feet of underground cable to connect the house and that the couple would have to pay Comcast over $27,000 to make that happen. Cohn and Zenobi did not pay the $27,000, and they’ve been relying on a 4G hotspot ever since.

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Not our first Comcast horror story

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Maybe the Comcast web site should not have said “available”?

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GMA Calls Ketanji Brown Jackson ‘First Black’ SCOTUS Justice

Friday, July 1, 2022

GMA Calls Ketanji Brown Jackson ‘First Black’ SCOTUS Justice

GMA Calls Ketanji Brown Jackson ‘First Black’ SCOTUS Justice

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Clearly either they are following an agenda or they are stupidly careless!

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POLITICAL: Could President Kamala be any worse?

Thursday, June 30, 2022

https://nypost.com/2022/06/28/if-you-think-joe-biden-is-bad-just-imagine-president-kamala/

If you think Joe Biden’s bad, just imagine President Kamala …
By Piers Morgan
June 28, 2022

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Picture the scene:

It’s July 4, 2023, and President Kamala Harris is about to address the American people about Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade Poland.

She’s been leader of the free world for six months since Joe Biden, implementing the 25th Amendment, abruptly resigned on the grounds of physical and mental incapacity after the Democrats suffered the worst midterm election mauling in history, losing 120 House seats and eight Senate seats.

This beat President Grover Cleveland’s long-held ignominious 1892 record of “biggest midterm wipe-out ever” and meant the Republicans seized back full control of Congress with paralyzing, agenda-wrecking majorities.

(It was reported that Biden fell into a spontaneous catatonic state after seeing the sheer size of his failure to persuade Americans he was doing a good job, though it took White House aides several days to realize he wasn’t acting normally.)

President Harris’ tenure in office has bordered on the miraculous, in that she has managed to be even worse than her predecessor — something political experts didn’t think was possible.

In fact, her presidency has been a catalog of calamities, dominated by woke-ravaged lunacy.

Her first decision was to make freshperson Congressperson Megan Rapinoe her vice president, saying how delighted she was to appoint the first gay woman to such high office — only for Rapinoe to wreck the historic moment by issuing a furious statement saying she now identified as a non-binary bisexual womb-carrier, so had never been so offended and was quitting before she even started.

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Well, since we know Slo Joe isn’t running things, who’s running the show now?

Maybe Kamala might be slightly better?

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VOCABULARY: What is a “right”?

Wednesday, June 29, 2022

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/french-president-macron-abortion-is-fundamental-right-women-2022-06-24/

r/worldnews

French President Macron: abortion is a fundamental right for women

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As a fat old white guy injineer, I struggle when people use words that make no sense. When they add adjectives, they don’t seem to help my understanding.

A “right” is a meme that humans have agreed that everyone “has” by virtue of their humanity with respect to other humans.

You can chat with a lion, bear, or tiger, about your “rights”.  “Rights” have to be backed up with or enforced by force.  In polite society, “rights” are mutually agreed after a long violent process of “adjudication”.  

Now we can discuss “positive” and “negative” rights.  If you have a “negative” right, it’s somethings others agree not to interfere with (i.e., “free speech”).  If you have a positive “right”, then who has an obligation to provide it?  

Hence, little L libertarians don’t believe there are any “positive” rights.

Now let us parse Macron’s statement: “fundamental right”.

Clearly, he is stating a case for a “positive” right.  Who pays?  Who is FORCED to provide this service?

I don’t understand what “fundamental” adds to the equation.

And, we have to understand that “abortion” is killing a living human being. Seriously, does anyone believe that life doesn’t NOT begin at conception. 

Finally, how about that human life that is being killed?  When do that young human get their “rights”?  If you have to draw lines, the ones that have been suggested are: conception, first heartbeat, end of the first trimester, when “born”.  From my pov as a fat old white guy injineer, it when that child can defend his “rights” — for sure!

Sigh!

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