RANT: We need about 40 year, 4 decades, 2 generations to erase these SOCIALIST mistakes

Sunday, August 16, 2026

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Stephen E. Phelps Jr.
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Fúçĸ these scumbag pseudo-Republicans who want to welch on paying back the money that’s been “appropriated” by Congress out of our hard-earned Social Security savings over the years by now pretending that SS and Medicare are “benefits”.

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Stephen E. Phelps Jr. quoted Steve Warkentin

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I’m happy to share this, but sad that is necessary, because I don’t care what side of the aisle you sit on, this is a fact.
 
Speaker of the house, Mike Johnson, concerning Social Security payments.
 
My contributions were made for me since I was 16 years old, on every wage or salary I received. Those jobs may not have always been the work I wanted to be doing at the time, BUT I always had a job. The Social Security check is now (or soon will be) referred to as a “Federal Benefit Payment?” I’ll be part of the one percent to forward this.
 
I am forwarding it because it touches a nerve in me, and I hope it will in you. Please keep passing it on until everyone in our country has read it.
 
The government is now referring to our Social Security checks as a “Federal Benefit Payment.” This isn’t a benefit. It is our money paid out of our earned income! Not only did we all contribute to Social Security but our employers did too. It totaled 15% of our income before taxes.
 
Congress took our money and used it elsewhere. They forgot (oh yes, they knew) that it was OUR money they were taking. They didn’t have a referendum to ask us if we wanted to lend the money to them. And they didn’t pay interest on the debt they assumed. And recently they’ve told us that the money won’t support us for very much longer. And now, to add insult to injury, they’re calling it a “benefit”, as if we never worked to earn every penny of it.
 
Just because they borrowed the money doesn’t mean that our investments were a charity!
 
Let’s take a stand. We have earned our right to Social Security and Medicare. Demand that our legislators bring some sense into our government.
 
Find a way to keep Social Security and Medicare going, PLEASE for the sake of the 92% of our population who need it. Then call it what it is: Our Earned Retirement Income.

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I ABSOLUTELY AGREE! “Social Security” has always been a Gooferment Ponzi scheme that transfers, wealth from poor minority men to rich white women. It was a step towards socialism, and then communism.

  • It destroyed the extended family by allowing grandparents to “retire” and move places like Florida andArizona away from their families who needed their physical presence ass support.
  • Also, they got everyone used to the idea of a government monthly check thus destroying the savings incentive.
  • The federal reserve system destroyed the value of money and people could no longer put a few coins away for their old age.
  • It created an entitled boomer-class of voters beholding to the Democratic in income-bent politicians.

Both the Democrat and Republican incumbent politicians should share the blame and our scorn at their malfeasance in office. The Democratic Socialist cabal DSA should be laughed out of every election by pointing to North Korea, Cuba, and the third world hell hole.

Stephen E. Phelps Jr. and I don’t agree on a lot of political issues, but on this point, we are in 100% agreement.

Now that the government has made the wage slave class a serfdom we requires two salaries to barely stay afloat, we need a multigenerational decades long GENTLE plan to remove Social Security. We, The Sheeple should not allow the politicians to “pull the rug out “from people who planned their retirement around having that Social Security income.

Like separating “EDUCATION” from the Gooferment (i.e., Gooferment SK-CRUEL-as, we need about 40 year, 4 decades, 2 generations to erase these SOCIALIST mistakes.

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: USPS website doesn’t locate individual blue collection boxes

Saturday, August 15, 2026

“usps mailnox drops near me”

Claude response:

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Google Places doesn’t index individual blue collection boxes — just staffed locations. For those, USPS’s own locator is the reliable source: usps.com/manage/collection-boxes.htm — plug in your zip and it’ll show every street-corner blue box near you, with last pickup times.

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usps.com/manage/collection-boxes.htm —

<<ditto>>

Essentially the same.

UPS, FEDEX, and DHL can tell you exactly where and when they pickup —  even for individual blue collection boxes.

As ususal, the Gooferment can’t match what the “invisible hand of the free market” delivers … … at comparable or even lower cost.

Argh!

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RANT: Gooferment “codes” change without notice or a chance to object

Friday, August 14, 2026

In trying to sell our “old” house, I have a few example of “spectacular stupidity”.

Evidently NOW to sell a house and get a Certificate of Occupancy, all the smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors —  regardless of lifespan left —  must be replaced with a non-removable battery. 

WTH

My detectors were replaced when we bought the house 5 years ago because they were flakey and so were the carbon monoxide detectors because they were old and generating false alarms.  No Gooferment involvement!

Argh!

There’s a few dollars (more than 1,000) down the rat hole. And, now there is a fee for the City Inspector come out and confirm.

My Realtors, Handyman, and Contractor were all surprised by this.

And it’s not like a rental.  It was and will be owner occupied so there is NO motivation to cheap out.

Yet Another cash grab and expense incurred.  Glad to be out of the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee.  Hope the last person out shuts the lights off!

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POLICY: Here’s a good idea for a Gooferment diktat about corporations

Thursday, August 13, 2026

✔ 2026-08Aug-09 solar panel.

As much as I am against Gooferment diktats and “tax policy”, how about, until we get to a free open AnCap¹ society, the Gooferment require “corporations”² to purchase offsets from private homeowners’ rooftop solar panels.  

With the inet, there would be no need for the Gooferment to run anything but a domain to facilitate and document the transfers.  Not that homeowners would cheat and sell the same rooftop solar array credits to multiple corporations or the corporations would fudge “buying” the credits!  (Unlike how every Gooferment (welfare) program gets abused. Argh!)

Corporations are a construct of Gooferment diktats which most little L libertarians hate.  Since with public ownership, they do represent a collection of people. Where it gets further diluted is when “shares” are held by other corporations.  That actually dilutes the power of worth of individually owned shares. See how the Big Pension Funds supported the “DEI” initiatives of large corporations despite the general public’s opinion DEI. Argh!

Opinions?

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¹ Anarcho-capitalism is a political ideology and economic theory that advocates for the abolition of state monopolies and the expansion of economic liberalism and market economy through the promotion of a voluntary society. Proponents argue that a society could function without a centralized state through voluntary exchange and private institutions that provide legal and security services relegating coercion to the collection of tort damages, and refining recoupment in the context of a free and open marketplace. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-capitalism

² Libertarians generally oppose the idea of corporations being treated as individuals with the same rights, arguing that this can lead to excessive corporate influence in politics and undermine democratic processes. They believe that while corporations should have some rights, they should not have the same rights as individual citizens. https://www.libertarianism.org/videos/what-you-probably-havent-heard-about-citizens-united

³ Libertarians often argue against corporate influence in politics by advocating for limited government intervention and regulation, which they believe can reduce the opportunities for corporations to exert power through lobbying and political contributions. They emphasize the importance of free markets and individual liberties, suggesting that when government is less involved, corporate interests will have less sway over public policy. https://leadershipnowproject.org/corporate-political-influence-101/

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MEME: “There’s an App for That”

Wednesday, August 12, 2026

https://www.malone.news/p/sunday-strip-theres-an-app-for-that?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=583200&post_id=210458209&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=3snn7d&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

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“There’s an App for That”

Remember when you could just do things?

Check into a hotel. Board an airplane. Park your car. Order lunch. Buy a ticket. Enter a museum. Pay a bill. Turn on the television. Apparently those days are over.

Now there’s an app for that.

Checking in for a flight on an obscure foreign airline you will almost certainly never fly again? Download the app.

Parking for 37 minutes in a small town in Virginia? Download the app.

Want to look at the menu? Scan the QR code. Actually, no, download the app.

Want to pay for the parking meter? App.

Charge the car? Different app.

Open the hotel room? App.

Use the hotel Wi-Fi? Create an account, verify your email, accept 46 pages of terms and conditions, then download the app.

And naturally, every app would like to get to know you better.

Please provide your full legal name, date of birth, home address, email address, mobile number, two forms of identification, emergency contact, name and phone number of your closest living relative, credit card, billing address, location permissions, Bluetooth access, camera access, microphone access, contacts, notifications, and apparently a small vial of blood.

Then create a password containing 14 characters, one capital letter, two numbers, a hieroglyph, a Sanskrit character, and the name of your third-grade teacher.

Excellent.

Now verify your identity with a six-digit code we have sent to the phone you are currently using to read the six-digit code.

Whoops! The password has expired, create a new password. Be sure it doesn’t contain anything related to the last password. Oh, now verify your identity again.

All because you wanted to park the car.

There may indeed be an app for everything.

Unfortunately, there does not yet appear to be an app for leaving me the hell alone.

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Laugh!  

Yes, IKTF (I Know The Feeling).

Shouldn’t there be a genre of single function apps that can satisfy these “marketers” and yet not drive us all nut and fill up our “phones”.

It seems a misnomer to call what we carry around today as a “phone”?  I miss my Mickey Mouse handset that I had until my Mom came to visits eons ago and asked for it.  How could I say “NO”?  Good thing it had a switch for touch tone or not.  She never got touch tone because she didn’t want to pay for it.  I laugh even when I think about it because she kept it and her other extension phone switched to pulse even after the country switched to touch tone from pause for free.  When I’d use her phone I’d have to wait while the pulses were sent … … click … Click click … Click <eight more times> … Click <nine more times>… <<You get the idea?>> All to “dial” 1-90 something.  Felt like an eternity.

Laugh!

And I am called “cynical” and “curmudgeon”?  At least I am not a “LUDDITE”!

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BIGOTRY: Catholic Nuns Battle extremist judges and States that infringe on faith and conscience

Tuesday, August 11, 2026

https://johnklar.substack.com/p/catholic-nuns-battle-in-court-to?publication_id=779141&post_id=208475297&isFreemail=true&r=3vwsqx&triedRedirect=true

Catholic Nuns Battle in Court to Serve the Poor and Keep the Faith
Extremist judges and states infringe on faith and conscience.
John Klar
Aug 07, 2026

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The Little Sisters of the Poor, a Catholic charity that serves poor elderly citizens both in the United States and around the world, is battling in court to preserve the humble sisters’ rights of conscience against efforts of government coercion. Secular state governments, whose highest moral value appears to be ensuring as many babies are prevented or aborted as possible, seek to compel these feisty nuns to provide birth control (including the week-after pill) as part of their healthcare services. This attack on conscience is unconscionable.

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For years, the secular US monolith that oppresses Christians while advancing Islam has waved off claims of anti-Christian bias with gaslighting dismissals. Yet the evidence is clear that the far-left, TDS-fueled crusade Americans are witnessing against these nuns marginalizes Catholics and is far out of balance with the clear meaning and purpose of the First Amendment. Pennsylvania and New Jersey are not just abridging the fundamental liberties of a noble group of devoted nuns. They are advancing a state secularist religion in violation of the Establishment Clause. When Obama and Biden agreed with Trump, but the far left is pushing an extremely toxic and blatantly unconstitutional anti-nun lawfare, clearly an important liberty Rubicon has been crossed.

That’s why the Little Sisters of the Poor will win their legal (and spiritual) battle in any US court that understands and upholds the US Constitution. This will likely be seen in the pending Third Circuit opinion in this case, and possibly (if either party appeals) in another trip to SCOTUS for clarification.

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At what point does “We, The Sheeple” recognize that the Gooferment seeks to become the state secularist religion?  Just as in a bee hive, there can be only one queen, — “There can be only one!” — Highlander (1986) —  I firmly believe that the Gooferment suppressed the Catholic Church’s paedophilia scandal and bribed it with “illegal immigration benefits” to firmly put the Catholic Church, and all “churches” under its total dominion.  I don’t understand why the Gooferment allows them to have “tax exempt non-profit” status other than another “chip” to use in suppression.  As a matter of fact, I like Hillsdale College’s strategy to ignore all Gooferment diktats and golden lures to accept it as “god”.  If I had a Church, —  heaven forbid — like the Flying Spaghetti Monster in Keene —  then I’d say to the Gooferment: “Keep your gold and your diktats, we are free and independent of your tyranny.”  Like what they did to Ian Freeman and many many other libertarians, they would soon see us the one true threat to their complete domination of “We, The Sheeple”.  And, make us an object lesson,

Argh!

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GRAVEYARD: Google Assistant is going away on mobile devices

Monday, August 10, 2026

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We’re writing to let you know that the Google Assistant on your mobile device is being discontinued, and Gemini—our next-generation AI-powered assistant—is now the assistant experience on Android.1
What This Means for Your Mobile Device
As we transition our mobile experience to Gemini, Google Assistant will no longer be available on your mobile device. We will begin removing access to Google Assistant starting on September 4, and expect that this process may take a few weeks to reach everyone. Once availability is removed, you will no longer be able to use or switch back
to Google Assistant on your phone, tablet, or paired devices.
If your Android device meets the minimum system requirements2 and you are in a region where Gemini is available,3 Gemini will be the Google-provided assistant on your mobile device. When you invoke your assistant, for example, by saying “Hey Google” or long-pressing your power button, Gemini will appear instead of the previous Google Assistant.
Changes to Accessories and Paired Devices
When you set Gemini as your mobile device assistant, it also becomes the assistant on devices that are paired with your mobile phone. This includes:
• Watches running Wear OS
• Headphones or earbuds compatible with Gemini
• Vehicles running Android Auto projected from a user’s mobile device. For cars with Google built-in, Google Assistant will continue to function beyond September 4, 2026.
Like your mobile device, starting September 4, users will lose the ability to use Google Assistant on these paired devices.
Google Assistant on Other Devices
These changes are only for the assistant experience on your mobile device and accessories that pair to your phone, like watches, headphones, and car infotainment systems.
You can also read more about our separate plans to bring Gemini to Google TV devices
and Google Home speakers and smart displays.
Next Steps & More Information
We are committed to providing a smooth transition and are confident that Gemini will
offer you an even more capable and helpful assistant experience.
Thank you for being a valued Google user,
The Google Team

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I find Gemini is a PIA on my mac, Rose, and haven’t figured out how to get it to just go away.

It’s preempted the 🌐 key that I need to use with delete.

Argh!

And, of course, no thought of the User Interface implications.

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GRAVEYARD: Microsoft sends PUBLISHER to the mortuary; no reduction in price or refund

Sunday, August 9, 2026

https://m2.infomails.microsoft.com/rest/head/mirrorPage/@x6-bK_5WcZF67WfMcc3Am7IYxtg4JLXZIy3tL3eMfEqtFW8xCwNbS-gqrgkP1cchUb7nyMaehIX6xTPutjxSaguIVKoOAO-8eL5mimKdgHl9q1uM.html?ocid=

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Beginning 10/1/2026, Microsoft Publisher will no longer be supported as part of Microsoft 365. Many common Publisher scenarios are available in other Microsoft 365 apps, including Microsoft Word and PowerPoint.

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As always, we get less as they make more!

Something not fair in all this.

What if someone really uses this?  

We all paid for it.

Sigh!

Motto for the Inet: 3 is 2! 2 is 1! 1 is none! Look for redundant capability; not redundant gear!

That goes for software as well.  Watch out for depending upon a “product” that is an “island”.  Make sure it’s as easy to get off as it is to get on.

Argh!

And, of course, no thought of the User Interface implications.

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ENCOURAGING: Are shrink-wrapped licenses and HIPPA forms really “Informed Consent”?

Saturday, August 8, 2026

FROM 1440 https://join1440.com/

https://link.join1440.com/view/66c4b9c55d78644b3a882a4drwypm.5vq/c0a68b98

1440 Explains: Can Doctors Use Your Tissue Without Asking?

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Henrietta Lacks never consented to her cells being used in research. About 75 years after her cells were taken without her consent or knowledge, are patients still at risk of the same thing? 1440’s Health & Medicine editor, Dina Fine Maron, sits down with bioethicist and lawyer Anna Mastroianni from the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics to find out.

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“Informed consent is not just the signing of a form. Informed consent is about a thorough process of communication between patient and provider.” —Dr. Aaron Fink

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Certainly, shrink-wrapped licenses, HIPPA forms, and all manner of paperwork shoved in your face at time of purchase is NOT “Informed Consent”.

I’d be interested if this ever becomes a bone of contention in a courtroom.

I’d certainly find that there little ever “Informed Consent”!

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AI: Gave Claude my drug list and the new UHC formulary to correlate

Friday, August 7, 2026

2026-08Aug-07

When UHC hit me with a “new” formulary, I would usually spend some amount of my time, attention, effort, and whatever dikw was needed to play “Find Waldo” (i.e., look for changes that affect me in a mass of mouse print)!

Now with AI in my tool chest, I downloaded the formulary pdf, and then uploaded it to CLAUDE_AI (which I weirdly call CLAUDIA).  I upload my drug list and give CLAUDIA the go ahead.

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Correlate my drugs with the formulary and show me the results

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Before I can say the MAGIC WORD —  Shazam! — CLAUDIA tells me no surprises.

Since my short-term memory sucks,

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Save result in an appropriately named text file in CLAUDIA/TEXTS directory

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And poof all done!

Easy Peasy!

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