In cleaning out my old home prior to sale, I keep finding memorabilia that makes me sad. Here’s a photo of Evy’s cousin for who she was named. She passed away prematurely and I don’t know any more.
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EVLYNN: The cousin who passed prematurely and Evy was named for
Monday, October 7, 2024
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Springfield, Ohio is home to a Human Trafficking empire
Monday, October 7, 2024Exclusive: Feds and State AG Investigate an Alleged Human Trafficking Empire Run in Springfield, Ohio, for Years by ‘King George’
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Dispatches from Springfield, Ohio – The story in this town is not about cats or dogs. It’s about mules. It’s a twin tragedy of migrant workers from Haiti exploited and locals from Springfield marginalized. Just about every week since 2019, First Diversity Staffing Group Inc. has shuttled vulnerable Haitian migrants in unmarked white Ford and Chevy vans from Florida to Ohio, where they are allegedly exploited for cheap labor by companies like Dole Food Company Inc. It is a secretive and sinister operation that has gone unchecked for more than five years. The mastermind behind this scheme lives in a $1.35 million mansion on Pawleys Plantation Court. His name is George Ten, but in that underworld, his nickname is “King George,” because of his opulent lifestyle of luxury cars, cash handouts and fast-talk. For years, he has operated his reign of alleged exploitation openly and freely out of a former mansion on E. High Street.
Asra Q. Nomani
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What began as my efforts to track down a rumor about animal cruelty has turned into an investigation that reveals a malignant system of labor exploitation involving a local businessman, George Ten, whom Haitians and local residents call “King George,” the chief executive at First Diversity Staffing Group Inc., a Springfield company that has been the tip of the spear in the alleged trafficking operation of Haitians to the town.
While Haitians have lived in homes condemned now with an “X” on the front door, he lives in a $1.35 million mansion on Pawleys Plantation Court in a ritzy neighborhood called “Estates at Country Club of the North.”
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This is a story of unchecked greed and cruelty, committed not by the immigrants, but to the immigrants, with local residents of Springfield also a casualty.
As most journalists learn through experience, things are rarely as they seem. When the allegation of migrants eating cats and dogs exploded across the media, I knew there was more beneath the surface. What began as an investigation into animal cruelty quickly revealed a much darker reality—a large-scale human trafficking operation.
I arrived in Springfield from my home in Morgantown, W.V., a town much like Springfield in size and scale. I wanted to get to the bottom of this story. I came to Springfield because I felt a connection to the immigrants and the locals here, both their stories echoing my own experience growing up uniting two worlds. I moved to the U.S. with my brother when I was four years old, joining our parents as they made the difficult move in search of a better life, and when I was 10, we settled in West Virginia.
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Maybe DJT45 may have gotten the story wrong about animal cruelty, there is an underlying story that’s a lot worse.
He should make this a campaign issue about Human Trafficking and Election Interference.
Argh!
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INSPIRATIONAL: “Tests” and school should NOT obsure the real purpose of education
Sunday, October 6, 2024FROM QUORA
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Regular People & Their Amazing Stories
Posted by Taresa Strachan
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“I gave my 10 year old a math test today. He spent nearly an hour and used four sheets of scratch paper. He worked each problem with intense concentration. And then with a deep breath he handed it to me to be graded.
I quickly worked my way through the test and calculated his score.
“It’s an 89” I said, “that’s a high B.”
Immediately his eyes filled with tears. He had done his best work, given his greatest effort and had still come up short.
I looked at my boy and back down at his paper.
And then I ripped it in half.
My boy is amazing in the kitchen. He can cook a meal for the entire family without breaking a sweat.
My boy is incredible at putting things together. He uses tools like a skilled craftsman.
My boy is a founding member of the mother/son debate team, (I just made that up) he can persuade me into doing things I never planned to do.
My boy is hilarious. He is always the first one to make a joke at the dinner table.
My boy is a sensitive soul. He’s kind and gentle when that sort of thing is necessary.
My boy is diligent. He will work at something until he feels it’s as good as it can be.
My boy is NOT defined by the grade on his math paper.
When I ripped that paper up, I looked my boy in the eyes and I told him how I had watched him. How I saw him give his best, how he considered each problem and checked each one until he felt it was complete. I watched him erase and rework problems he was unsure of. I watched him pour every bit of effort in his little body into that test.
And I told him I had never been more proud.
Children are so much more than test scores. They are so much more than their reading level. They are so much more than the box we try to mold them in to.
School is important, education is important but it’s not of highest importance.
I am more concerned with how he treats others, with his level of integrity and his desire to serve Jesus than any score on any test.
I am more concerned with his ability to learn how to use his talents to earn money for his family.
I am more concerned with the character that we are building than the division facts on the paper.
Our children should have an opportunity to show us where they excel, especially in the elementary years.
I was shocked at the pressure he felt to do well on that test. I never imagined the tears of disappointment that would fall. I admire his ambition and his desire to do well.
I have never been more proud of an 89 on a math test.”
Credit: Sprinkles In My Closet
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Just the other night I saw a seven year old ADHD boy master “counting by twos” page of homework. He got in a rhythm, had fun, big smile,and was so pleased with himself. I gave him a round of applause and he was even prouder.
Not that he still won’t get in trouble for doing dumb things, but he says “he hates math because it’s hard”, I’ll remind him of “adding twos”.
It’s more important that he seeks that endorphin filled moment of accomplishment so that when life’s problems face him — as they do for us all — he can slog through them without being discouraged.
I’m sure he’ll remember these formative positive moments long after his adults are gone.
That’s the essential human teaching to leave behind.
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MEME: Avoiding a copyright suit by this much ….
Saturday, October 5, 2024
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GOVERNACIDE: The death penalty is just morally wrong and fraught with abuse
Saturday, October 5, 2024https://kottke.org/24/09/0045345-the-state-should-not-give
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“The state should not give itself the right to kill human beings — especially when it kills with premeditation and ceremony, in the name of the law or in the name of its people, and when it does so in an arbitrary and discriminatory fashion.”
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The Gooferment should never be permitted to kill for any reason.
I can make a small carve out for those humans that are just too dangerous to keep prison. For example, there should be a Devil’s Island where murders, who attack guards, can be kept and never leave.
The problem with the death penalty is that there is no “undo” function and mistakes happen. Whatever the reason — an “honest” mistake or some sort of discrimination — a mistake can be corrected. But not if the mistake is deadly.
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JOBSEARCH: Always remeber your roots are as deep as your paycheck
Friday, October 4, 2024159 employees are leaving Automattic as CEO’s fight with WP Engine escalates | TechCrunch
Ivan Mehta
<< EDITOR ADDED DATE 2024-10-04>>
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Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg said on Thursday that 159 employees (roughly 8.4% of staff) accepted a severance package that the company had offered to those who disagreed with his direction of WordPress and his handling of the tussle with web hosting provider WP Engine.
In a blog post, Mullenweg said the package offered $30,000 or six months of salary, whichever is higher, but the employees who took it would not be eligible to be re-hired by Automattic.
Nearly 80% of people who took the offer worked in the company’s Ecosystem / WordPress division, and the rest were in Automattic’s Cosmos businesses, consisting of apps like Pocket Casts, Day One, Tumblr and Cloudup.
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Once again, wage slaves must always be looking for their next job or gig. Unless they have their FU money in a safe store like an annuity, they must be ready when their CEO, organization, or a regulatory agency loses their mind and commits suicide or murder.
When this happens it is NOT the time to begin to think about your resume. Back when I was first fired — and I was 4½ times — I was only surprised the FIRST time. Thanks to that employers’ outplacement, I learned a valuable lesson. I am the Captain of My Own Ship, the CEO, CFO, CTO, Marketing Manager, Sales Manager, Sales Person, and Product De Jour. I even had a “VP of Product Development” reporting to the CFO! From that day forward, until the day I retired, I had a monthly “meeting” on the First Sunday of every month early in the morning. First thing, without fail, although I did serve coffee, I would put on each of my metaphorical hats and review my work in that role. Was I always happy as I reviewed my “subordinate personality’s” accomplishments? No, but I was never “surprised” again.
When presented with a “surprise”, I immediately shifted gears seamlessly into “active job search” from “passive job search”. Was I stressed by the “surprise”? Yes, but my first action after filing for unemployment (Have to “steal” back as much as possible from what the various Gooferments “stole” from me!), was to take a week of vacation. Calms the soul and refreshes the spirit.
YMMV but be ever vigilant.
“You, too, must keep watch! For you don’t know when the master of the household will return—in the evening, at midnight, before dawn, or at daybreak.” — Mark 13:35
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HEALTH: Where’s the warning label for high-fructose corn syrup and emulsifiers?
Friday, October 4, 2024https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13890137/doctor-colon-cancer-crisis-food-ingredients.html
EXCLUSIVE I’m a doctor on the frontlines of America’s colon cancer crisis – I believe two ingredients found in ‘healthy’ foods are to blame
By Emily Joshu Health Reporter For Dailymail.Com
Published: 07:45 EDT, 26 September 2024 | Updated: 08:45 EDT, 26 September 2024
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She notes the introduction of high-fructose corn syrup and emulsifiers in the 1970s and 80s could explain why so many adults in their 40s are getting colon cancer at record rates.
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Not that I expect much from the FDA, CDC, NIH, or any of the politicians and bureaucrats, but how about a skull and crossbones for all products containing these?
Argh!
Yeah, not until Pelosi sells all here stocks in these companies!
Argh!
RFKjr has made the “obesity epidemic” an election issue. This could be added to that!
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ConspiracyTheories: Is there a Geoterrorist CHEMTRAIL operation against Florida?
Thursday, October 3, 2024OPERATION HURRICANE HELENE: NWO Cabal Launches Vicious Geoterrorist Attack Against Florida—Why now?
Via State of the Nation
- Massive CHEMTRAIL operation conducted right over the Florida State Capitol in Tallahassee, Florida
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AN OPEN LETTER TO
GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS
Dear Governor DeSantis,
This is one of several open letters that we have written to you about the extremely dire predicament known as weaponized weather attacks, which the state of Florida is again facing in the form of the geoengineered Hurricane Helene.
Here is a previous open letter that was sent to you two years ago just before the highly weaponized Hurricane Ian ravaged the state of Florida quite deliberately before Election Day.
In point of fact, every single member of the Florida Legislature has been made aware of the stark reality that the once ‘Sunshine State’ has been unrelentingly geoegineered via various chemical geoengineering technologies into the “Chemcloud Cover State”.
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This is an “interesting” Conspiracy Theory.
I have no evidence to put before the Court of Public Opinion.
On a prima facie basis, I think this should be “investigated” by some trustworthy entity other than the Gooferment. If such a thing exists.
On my Conspiracy Theory Taxonomy and Ruler (Type and Veracity), I’d grade it as:
* Governmental
and
5. Possible
YMMV!
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ENGINEERING: Building hurricane proof housing developments
Wednesday, October 2, 2024Miracle Florida neighborhood that survived Hurricane Helene without a scratch
By Sonya Gugliara For Dailymail.Com
Published: 07:30 EDT, 2 October 2024 | Updated: 08:40 EDT, 2 October 2024
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In the midst of crumbled homes and flooded communities stands a single Florida development that survived Hurricane Helene without a scratch.
Hunters Point, a housing development in Cortez, Florida, avoided flooding and kept electricity while nearby streets were filled waist-deep with water and houses lost power.
The community’s first residents arrived in 2022 and have since experienced three devastating hurricanes – Ian, Idalia and Helene – without serious damage.
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So it is possible to build housing that can withstand a hurricane!
When the Gooferment “approves” site plans, why don’t they insist on some, if not all, these “lessons learned”.
Federal and State flood insurance should be the big cheerleaders for these type of actions.
Swales, raised roads, beefed up studs, solar panels — all seem to be very cost effective.
I don’t understand why Gooferment seems to always be in the way,
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MONEY: Why are “savings” taxed at all?
Wednesday, October 2, 2024https://www.cato.org/blog/penalty-american-savers-how-usas-fix-it
September 26, 2024 9:44AM
The Penalty on American Savers and How USAs Fix It
By Adam N. Michel and Joshua Loucks
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For many young and low-income Americans, the limits discourage them from using the accounts at all. Americans who use these accounts and then have to access their money early for a family emergency or job loss face new layers of taxes. Many low-income workers are automatically enrolled in these programs by their employers, following government incentives or mandates.
Money deposited in qualified accounts cannot be used flexibly based on an individual’s or their family’s immediate needs. If someone cannot confidently commit to leaving their savings untouched until the government-designated time, it may be wiser for them to avoid using a qualified account altogether.
IRS data show that for the lowest-income taxpayers, penalties for improper use of retirement savings make up a significant portion of their tax liability. Using an average from tax years 2017–2019, Figure 1 shows that 43 percent of all taxes paid by taxpayers with adjusted gross income (AGI) below $5,000 went to penalties for accessing their own money. About 19 percent of income taxes paid by taxpayers with AGI less than $25,000 went to penalties on qualified accounts.
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Why not let Walmart offer “banking services”? Why not allow Credit Unions offer tax free savings? Why aren’t Treasuries (i.e., Bills, Notes, Bonds) tax free like Municipal Bonds?
It doesn’t take a degree in Economics to figure out that America has a “savings problem”. “We, The Sheeple”, responding to incentives, is deeply in debt. No taxes on debt; taxes galore on any kind of savings/
Argh!
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INTERESTING: Pirate library hides in plain sight?
Tuesday, October 1, 2024“This site can’t be reached” —
Pirate library must pay publishers $30M, but no one knows who runs it
Some Libgen links can’t be reached after broad takedown order.
Ashley Belanger – 9/26/2024, 1:25 PM
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Because Libgen’s admins remain anonymous and elusive—and previously avoided paying a different set of publishers $15 million in 2017—McMahon granted publishers’ request for an uncommonly broad injunction that may empower publishers to go further than ever to destroy the shadow library.
Under the injunction, not only is Libgen banned from sharing copyrighted content, but so are “all those in active concert or participation with” anyone connected to Libgen. The order forbids anyone from hosting Libgen, registering Libgen domains, or providing cloud storage, file-sharing, or advertising services, among other restrictions. Even using tools to display links or enabling browser extensions linking to Libgen is forbidden under the order.
But even under such a broad injunction, the question remains whether publishers can succeed in taking down Libgen—which openly informs users that using its platform violates copyright laws and encourages them to pirate books anyway.
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This raises a bunch of questions. How are they able to hide so effectively?
I wonder if a rogue nation like North Korea, Afghanistan, or such would host a website like this for “free” access to all the dikw (i.e., data, information, knowledge, wisdom) that Users could upload.
Hmm!
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ConspiracyTheories: We’re in a “simulation” like the movie the Matrix?
Monday, September 30, 2024Are we living in a simulation? Scientist claims we’re simply characters in an advanced AI world – and says the proof is hidden in the BIBLE
- Passages from the Bible support the simulation hypothesis, physicist claims
- READ MORE: These everyday clues seem to suggest we’re living in a simulation
By Jonathan Chadwick For Mailonline
Published: 02:30 EDT, 30 September 2024 | Updated: 03:26 EDT, 30 September 2024
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If you feel like you’re living in a convincing virtual reality akin to The Matrix, a scientist thinks you may well be right.
Melvin Vopson, an associate professor in physics at the University of Portsmouth, claims our entire universe may be an advanced computer simulation.
And the proof that this so-called simulation hypothesis is correct may be hiding in plain sight in the Bible.
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Well, we could also be a creation of the Pastatarian’s Flying Spaghetti Monster. (I always admired their willingness to have their DMV photos taken with a pasta strainer on their heads!)
I’d need some more and solid “evidence” other than the Bible says it.
Maybe some testimony from a modern day Neo or an Oracle.
Til then, I regard this as possible as the Scientologists or the Amish having “the Truth”.
Checking the Conspiracy Theorist “thermometer” — my personal gauge —
Conspiracy Theory Taxonomy and Ruler (Type and Veracity)
* Miscellaneous
8. Generally Accepted As False
But I’d be happy to test again should some new evidence warrant it.
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ECONOMICS: A new form of shrinkflation
Monday, September 30, 2024Target reduced the number of baby wipes in a case from 12 to 8. That’s a ⅓ reduction. At a “new lower price”! Which, of course, is more than ⅔ of the old price. I guess they think we are stupid or math challenged! Argh!
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ENGINEERING: “Lifetime” is not forever!
Monday, September 30, 2024https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2024/09/25/how-long-is-a-lifetime-2/
How Long is a “Lifetime”?
By Eric – September 25, 2024
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One of the great scams perpetrated on car buyers is selling them on the idea of “lifetime” fluids – such as transmission fluid, for instance. And coolant. Also oil changes that don’t require doing but once every 7,500 (or even more) miles.
It’s sold this way to sell them on “low maintenance costs” – and that’s true. You just pay for it later, in the form of expensive repair costs caused or hastened by those “low maintenance costs.”
The trick works like this:
Advertise “lifetime” fluids – which leads the mark to believe that means forever. As in the fluid never needs to be changed. What it actually means is for the lifetime . . . of the warranty coverage. And that’s probably true. Those numbers – ten years, 100,000 miles as an example – are not picked out of a hat. They are arrived at after extensive durability studies that accurately foretell how long a component such as a transmission will probably last before it fails if it isn’t serviced during its “lifetime.”
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It’s not so much that the fluids – such as the hydraulic fluid in an automatic transmission (or the gear oil in a manual transmission or engine oil) go bad. It is that they get contaminated with the byproducts of mechanical components meshing and unmeshing in an environment of high heat and pressure. Inevitably, the contaminants build up, inevitable reducing the anti-friction properties of the fluid. Fine particles accrue, like plaque inside our arteries, with the same inevitable result. A filter will filter out a lot of these small bits but what happens when the filter can no longer filter – because it’s full of those small bits and pieces?
It stops filtering.
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Need an “illegal alien” plan!
Sunday, September 29, 2024https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/09/10_million_illegal_aliens_what_is_to_be_done.html
americanthinker.com
10 Million Illegal Aliens: What Is to Be Done?
By Randall Childs
<< 2024-09Sep-25 Wed >>
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After the economy, illegal immigration ranks highest among voters’ concerns. President Trump has spoken of “mass deportations” of the more than ten million illegal aliens who have flooded our country under Biden-Harris. That’s appealing political rhetoric to the base, but he needs to build policy muscle upon the rhetorical bones.
First, the optics. We’re talking ten million people, and then some. Men, women, children, oldsters, families. Some are the “hardworking people seeking a better life,” as they claim; others are gangsters and terrorists, plus lots in between. Rounding them up and arranging transport of a population equal to Michigan will be no small feat. Prepare for nightmarish images of armed agents descending upon “immigrant” motels and shelters; rounding up families and frog-walking them onto buses, trucks, trains, and planes; and shipping them out. We can expect horrific portrayals of “children in cages” revisited, oldsters with ailments, detention centers portrayed as internment camps, all that. Wouldn’t the anti-Trump media have a field day? Families torn apart! Lives disrupted! Local economies hit hard. And what if their nations of origin refused their re-entry? More ugly media attention.
Candidate Trump needs to present a credible plan to repatriate these people in an orderly, efficient, humane, and politically palatable way. This can be done by arranging deportations in cohorts according to immigrants’ harm and costs to our nation.
We start with the criminal elements: murderers, rapists, drunk drivers, drug-dealers, and professional shoplifters. By legal and administrative means, illegals who have been involved in criminal activity will be prioritized in “grab” lists and subject to arrest and detention. Being flight risks, they must be denied bail, then given a simple choice: be prosecuted, or be deported with the understanding that re-entry will be a mandatory five-year felony. The point is to get bad actors out of the country.
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Well, it seems like a no brainer to start with the high priority criminals.
I’m sure that would make a huge difference in “the problem”.
I like the idea of having a plan for the “sanctuary cities and states”. Cut off the federal funds seem like a way to get “cooperation”.
Argh!
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RANT: Funny how DOJ selects targets for its “rage”?
Saturday, September 28, 2024*** begin quote ***
The Biden Administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) has launched yet another blatant attack on state sovereignty and election integrity, this time setting its sights on Alabama.
In an outrageous move, the DOJ has filed a lawsuit against Alabama for daring to clean up its voter rolls by removing illegal noncitizens from the system ahead of the upcoming general election.
This lawsuit, spearheaded by Biden’s weaponized DOJ, accuses the state of violating the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA), citing so-called “Quiet Period” provisions meant to prevent last-minute adjustments to voter registration lists.
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Jumped right on anything that removes illegal voters!
Interesting how they chose their targets.
Like the prosecution of NYC Mayor Adams, when he complained about the illegals getting dumped in his city.
Argh!
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ENCOURAGING: Let’s do more than pray!
Saturday, September 28, 2024<<< FROM QUORA >>>
Regular People & Their Amazing Stories
Taresa Strachan
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A mother made a run to Walmart with her young son. While in the store, she turned around and he was gone. She looked all over for him, and was on the verge of becoming frantic when she walked to the front of the store and spotted him.
She was just getting ready to lay some scolding on him when she realized he was doing something very strange. He was kneeling at one of the benches just inside the store and he was praying. She could not understand why he was doing this. Then she looked above him at the huge poster he was facing. It had photos and descriptions of missing children, and it read: “Every second counts.”
So she took a photo of her son doing this and posted it on Facebook. It went viral in no time. And as it did, one Facebook commenter summed it up pretty well, writing: “Whether or not you believe in God really doesn’t matter. This was a child in Walmart who was thinking about others and doing the only thing he could to help. The world would be a better place if everyone followed his example.”
Photo courtesy: 89.5 KVNE
# – # – # – # – #
https://www.missingkids.org/home
https://www.missingkids.org/gethelpnow/search/poster-results
Erick Sanchez
NCIC# M357784090
Missing Since: February 14, 2024
Piscataway, NJ
Age Now: 16 Years Old
Male
# – # – # – # – #
I can’t imagine what this child’s family is going through.
We need more than platitudes, milk cartons, and web pages.
Let’s all look.
Sigh!
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ENGINEERING:The interlocking bricks of glass are like future building Legos
Friday, September 27, 2024MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Engineers 3D print sturdy glass bricks for building structures
- The interlocking bricks, which can be repurposed many times over, can withstand similar pressures as their concrete counterparts.
Jennifer Chu | MIT News
Publication Date: September 20, 2024
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What if construction materials could be put together and taken apart as easily as LEGO bricks? Such reconfigurable masonry would be disassembled at the end of a building’s lifetime and reassembled into a new structure, in a sustainable cycle that could supply generations of buildings using the same physical building blocks.
That’s the idea behind circular construction, which aims to reuse and repurpose a building’s materials whenever possible, to minimize the manufacturing of new materials and reduce the construction industry’s “embodied carbon,” which refers to the greenhouse gas emissions associated with every process throughout a building’s construction, from manufacturing to demolition.
Now MIT engineers, motivated by circular construction’s eco potential, are developing a new kind of reconfigurable masonry made from 3D-printed, recycled glass. Using a custom 3D glass printing technology provided by MIT spinoff Evenline, the team has made strong, multilayered glass bricks, each in the shape of a figure eight, that are designed to interlock, much like LEGO bricks.
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As a fat old white guy injineer with a 7 year old boy, I will quibble that Lego blocks are easy to assemble and disassemble. Not withstanding this critique, I find this very interesting. Almost as good as that African handy fella making buildings out of soda bottles filled with water and mud. Or the other fellow who made indoor daylights from water filled soda bottles.
I was taught that “engineers turn interesting ideas into something valuable and useable.
Sounds like these people at MIT have a winner.
Very impressive.
I look forward to the practical use of these new (fangled) “bricks”.
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MONEY: Inflation is just plain old theft of your wealth
Thursday, September 26, 2024https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/09/no_author/inflation-is-an-intentional-tax/
lewrockwell.com
Inflation Is an Intentional Tax – LewRockwell
Schiff, Andrew J.
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“The best way to look at inflation is a tax. Inflation is what we pay for the government that we don’t pay for with the income tax or the Social Security tax or a sales tax. Basically, the deficits, the Federal budget deficits– we end up funding them by inflation. And those deficits are about to skyrocket. They’ve been skyrocketing. And so the inflation tax is going to be much bigger in 2025 than it was this year regardless of what the Fed is trying to tell us.”
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What else can one say?
“We, The Sheeple” just keep getting the wool over their eyes treatment.
Deficit, Debt, Unfunded liabilities, Gooferment spending!
Argh!
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POLITICAL: Cutting taxes without addressing spending is just a fraud
Wednesday, September 25, 2024https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/09/laurence-m-vance/whats-so-goofy-about-eliminating-taxes/
lewrockwell.com
What’s So Goofy About Eliminating Taxes? – LewRockwell
By Laurence M. Vance
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As usual, Ron Paul gets it right:
It is common to describe tax cuts as “costing” the government. Saying tax cuts cost the government assumes that the government has a moral claim over an individual’s earnings, so anytime those running the government allow individuals to keep more of their money the rulers are being generous. The truth is that income belongs to the people who earn it and that saying tax cuts cost the government is like saying burglar alarms cost thieves. Therefore, any legislation that cuts taxes is a victory for liberty.
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If the politicians and bureaucrats merely cut taxes, but don’t address Gooferment spending, then it just means bigger deficits, means more borrowing, means more money printing by the FED, means more currency debasement, means more inflation.
It’s just fraud being perpetrated on “We, The Sheeple”.
I’d prefer that the amount cut from taxes is immediately cut from the spending. Accross the board on a percentage basis.
I would further favor, any deficit means that the incumbents in Congress are ineligible for reelection. Bet that would fix the problem.
Also, taxpayers get a veto on all spending bills!
We need a third “house” elected by taxpayers, who get one vote for every dollar they pay in taxes.
Argh!
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MEME: Die Hard gas prices!
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
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GOVERNACIDE: “End the Scourge” by letting people be free
Tuesday, September 24, 2024Fentanyl – Which Candidate Can End the Scourge?
Trump and Harris place the blame and solution in different places.
John Klar — Sep 18, 2024
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Among the odd exchanges between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris at their first and perhaps only debate before Election Day was a dispute over who would better protect Americans from the growing scourge of illegal substances, especially fentanyl. This issue is of top concern to millions of Americans who have suffered the loss of a loved one to this deadly drug, largely imported from Mexico. How will these candidates measure up for this demographic in November?
As Americans weigh the respective offerings of the 2024 party platforms, differing prescriptions for abortion, economic growth, foreign policy, and border security vie for favoritism among voters. The irreversible, life-changing trauma of losing a child, parent, or sibling to pernicious fentanyl or other opioids is, for many, an issue of the highest priority – cutting across party loyalties and hardly confined to undecided independents.
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As a little L libertarian, and having lost a family member to drugs and raising a child injured by per-natal drug use, I think and believe that the the Gooferment must admit it is powerless to “solve” the problem. “They” can’t keep drugs out of prison so how do they expect to do it in a free society? My “solution” is to let the free market operate. Walmart, Walgreens, and Amazon will make the “illegal drugs” clean, safe, and cheap. Then, we can focus all the wealth wasted of “prohibition” on making resources available to those who want to get “clean”. Will people still die from “drugs”? Absolutely! But they won’t be “accidental” from fentanyl in their heroin. Sorry to be the bearer of “bad news”, but it’s completely out of our control what free people can put in their own bodies. Let’s make addiction as “safe” as possible.
#endthedrugwar
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GUNS:The unsubstantiated word of any politician, in this case Kamala Harris, is worse than hearsay
Monday, September 23, 2024https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2024/09/21/what-we-dont-know-about-kamalas-gun-ownership-n1226305
What We Don’t Know About Kamala’s Gun Ownership
By Cam Edwards | 4:30 PM | September 21, 2024
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So, we still don’t know much about Harris’ handgun, if it actually exists. Even if she doesn’t want to give free advertising to a particular gun company, there are still plenty of things she could tell us about her gun ownership, including:
- How often does she go to the range to practice and train with her gun?
- Is her pistol available to all gun-buyers in California, or is it an “off roster” gun available only to law enforcement?
- What’s the magazine capacity of the pistol?
- Why did she choose to purchase a firearm? Was there a specific incident that caused her to become a gun owner, or just a general need to protect herself?
- Why does she continue to own a gun now that she has Secret Service protection?
- What factors did she consider when purchasing a gun?
- Did she try out multiple guns before making her purchase?
None of these are “gotcha” questions. If Harris really is a gun owner, they should all be easy to answer.
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Sorry, but the unsubstantiated word of any politician and | or bureaucrat is one step below “hearsay evidence”. Inadmissable, in my “court of public opinion”. We all know that politicians and bureaucrats say all sorts of things. Fact checked or not, I want proof. Especially about this “gun claim”.
Argh!
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ENCOURAGING: In her digging, Sharyl Attkisson finds that Federally-Funded Study Data is hidden?
Monday, September 23, 2024Update on the Amish Approach to Covid
As a result of my challenges, journal makes multiple corrections to scientific article
Sharyl Attkisson
Sep 15, 2024
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Can Data From Federally-Funded Study Be Kept Hidden?
In response to my request to see study supporting materials, data, and communications, which the public owns since it was a taxpayer-funded study (and the tenets of solid science require transparency so that any findings can be replicated), West Virginia University stalled and then eventually provided only heavily-redacted materials that revealed very little except that several other observers had also questioned the study.
According to Springer Nature, “Journal of Religion and Health has a research data policy which encourages authors to publish data in a public repository where possible, but does not require that they do so.”
The National Science Foundation, which used US taxpayer money to fund the questioned study, provided no meaningful information when asked.
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And, most important of all, why were the most significant takeaways of international interest seemingly ignored including that the researchers found no evidence that the Amish suffered more harm for not having shut down schools, businesses and church; for not isolating, masking or social distancing; for not Covid testing and vaccinating; and for not having spent a great deal of public funds on various measures.
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I hope, that among the many things that DJT promises to change, the “liberation” for Federally-Funded Study Data is madated.
We already know that there is a cover up of the disastrous effects of the Covid “vaccine”. That’s no surprise. What is surprising is that the Amish stayed open and true to their beliefs and demonstrated that there wasn’t any adverse impact.
Argh!
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GUNS: Guns, even pellet guns, are always deemed to be loaded … … PERIOD!
Sunday, September 22, 2024Boy Given 1% Chance of Survival Walks 5k for Hospital That Saved Him–After Air Rifle Shot to the Head as Baby
By Good News Network – Sep 8, 202
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Harry Studley was just 18-months-old when a 24-year-old neighbor was cleaning his air rifle in 2016 and aimed it at the crying toddler, saying he thought it was unloaded. The pellet lodged in Harry’s brain causing a displaced skull fracture, as well as swelling and bleeding on the brain.
Harry was given a one percent chance of survival, but pulled through. He was left with serious conditions, though, and still suffers epilepsy, partial blindness, weakness, and some cognitive issues.
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Why, in Heaven’s name, would you ever aim a gun at a toddler — FOR ANY REASON?
The fact that this occurred in the “gun control” UK is astonishing.
First rule of gun safety is that they are ALWAYS to be pointed in a safe direction. Second, they are always treated as if they are loaded and ready to fire.
Growing up, (mostly) boys brought guns to school as part of a shooting team. Guess in the name of “gun control”, now children don’t learn about these tools and the safety rules.
Argh!
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NEWJERSEY: ZEF cars get an extra tax.in the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee
Saturday, September 21, 2024
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