GOVEROTRAGEOUS: rare disease isn’t so rare in Lehigh Valley Health Network?

Thursday, February 22, 2024

https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/lehighvalley/12-new-families-file-class-action-lawsuit-against-lvhn-doctor-accused-of-false-diagnoses/article_40005328-ccd7-11ee-b537-ab1b812ce2b3.html?ICID=ref_fark

12 new families file class action lawsuit against LVHN, doctor accused of false diagnoses
69 News, Rob Manch Feb 16, 2024 

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An Easton couple has filed the second civil complaint against Lehigh Valley Health Network and Dr. Debra Esernio-Jenssen, who has been accused of intentionally misdiagnosing children as victims of abuse from their parents. 

Esernio-Jenssen is accused of systematically overdiagnosing children with a rare condition called Munchausen syndrome by proxy, in which a child’s caretaker makes up fake symptoms to make the child appear sick. She is also accused of falsely accusing parents of child abuse — which has led to some parents losing custody of their children or serving prison time, the lawsuit alleges.

The lawsuit lists a total of 17 causes of action against Jenssen, LVHN and other defendants. Among these causes are corporate negligence, medical professional liability (multiple causes), interference with parental rights, fraud and invasion of privacy.

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Now the Gooferment is up to their elbows in the regulation of the Big Medical industry.  Of course, just “to protect us”!

I hope that some of these lawsuits reach the politicians, bureaucrats, and executives involved.

Bankrupt the people and organizations at fault.

Argh!

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GOVERNACIDE: A five-time deported illegal alien kills

Wednesday, February 21, 2024

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/02/15/five-time-deported-illegal-alien-accused-of-killing-10-year-old-boy-walking-home-from-school/

Five-Time Deported Illegal Alien Accused of Killing 10-Year-Old Boy Walking Home from School

John Binder  —  15 Feb 2024

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A five-time deported illegal alien is now accused of killing a 10-year-old boy walking home from school in Midland, Texas, in a hit-and-run crash.

Rogelio Ortiz-Olivas, a 50-year-old five-time deported illegal alien from Mexico, has been arrested and charged with drunk driving and causing a fatal hit-and-run crash that ultimately killed 10-year-old Alex “AJ” Wise, Jr.

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Seems like the Gooferment is unwilling to enforce the laws.  Time for a revolution.

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HEROIC: If a rickshaw-puller who wore used clothes and had no education can support 300 children to go to school … …

Tuesday, February 20, 2024

FROM QUORA

Loving and Amazing World
Posted by Richard Strachan

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In 1987, a 74-year-old rickshaw puller by the name of Bai Fangli came back to his hometown planning to retire from his backbreaking job. There, he saw children working in the fields, because they were too poor to afford school fees.

Bai came back to Tianjin and resumed his job as a rickshaw puller, securing a humble lodging near the railway station. He remained available for customers around the clock, consumed basic meals, and dressed in cast-off second-hand attire he stumbled upon. Every penny he earned through hard work went towards assisting underprivileged children in accessing education.

In 2001, he drove his rickshaw to Tianjin YaoHua Middle School, to deliver his last installment of money. Nearly 90 years old, he told the students that he couldn’t work anymore. All of the students and teachers were moved to tears.

In total, Bai donated a total of 350,000 yuan to help more than 300 poor students continue with their studies. In 2005, Bai passed away leaving behind an inspiring legacy.

If a rickshaw-puller who wore used clothes and had no education can support 300 children to go to school, imagine what you and I can do with the resources we have to bring about positive change in our world!

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Stunning contribution by an already old man.  I can’t imagine this in the here and now.

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TECHNOLOGY: Great stickers for social media

Monday, February 19, 2024

https://kottke.org/24/02/virtual-stickers-to-manage-replies-by

 

 

a virtual sticker that reads 'Do not reply to tell me you don't have this problem'

a virtual sticker that reads 'Do not reply unless you have direct experience'

 

a virtual sticker that reads ‘Do not reply, I’m just complaining, not asking for help’

 

a virtual sticker that reads 'This is an observation. Do not attempt to help. No reply necessary.'

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Great idea!

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ECONOMICS: Changing CEO incentives to more align with the needs of society

Sunday, February 18, 2024

https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2024/02/14/why-they-dont-care/

Why They Don’t Care
By Eric – February 14, 2024

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People ask why the CEOs of major automakers go along with what’s going on; can’t they see it’s killing their business?

Of course. They are not stupid people. But they are extremely wealthy people. So wealthy they don’t have to care – about anything. Certainly not whether the company they head goes under at some point in the future.

It won’t affect them, you see.

Consider GM’s Mary Barra as a case in point. She is paid around $29-30 million every year. It is difficult for the average middle class person who earns a “good living” to appreciate just how much money Barra is paid (I am careful to not say earns) in just one year.

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I have long thought that “executive compensation” focused on high salaries and stock options.  This has lead to a conflict in “incentives”.  The short term focus of corporate management and investment firms has been disaster for the economy, all the “little people”, pension funds, and investors.  Corporate management has no incentive to manage for the long run. 

It’s time for the Gooferment and the tax code to change the incentives.

I’ve always thought that “corporate management” should be paid is a modest “salary” (i.e., the average paid to individuals in their company), and any “excess” or “performance bonuses” in  laddered tiers of non-transferable corporate bonds (with allowances for death and personal bankruptcy).  Should their corporation goes “tits up” before those bonds mature, well then that’s just tough luck.

That will realign the incentives quickly.

To “encourage” quick adoption, excessive salary could have a special FU tax associated with it.  I’d like it paid to  the share owners, but that is getting down the road.

Maybe this would make those i the C-suite care!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: USPS mail delivery test — failed

Saturday, February 17, 2024

https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/special-reports/postal-problems/houston-usps-postal-system-problems/285-9e9c2da0-dac7-4bf0-b7fa-0fb8277dcab0?ICID=ref_fark

We sent 11 packages with Air Tags through priority mail last month. Here’s where they went.

  • In January, we boxed up 11 packages with Apple AirTags and shipped them to different locations in the Houston area. The packages were tracked in real time.

Author: Stephen Goin
Published: 11:49 PM EST February 4, 2024
Updated: 8:33 AM EST February 6, 2024 

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Ultimately, only one package was delivered by the “expected” delivery date. In fact, it was early – arriving in just two days. The rest of the packages took up to five days to arrive.

    Jan. 26 ……… one package delivered

    Jan. 30 ……… three packages delivered

    Jan. 31 ……… three packages delivered

    Feb. 1 ………. four packages delivered

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Pretty sad but to be expected.  I had a disappointing result with FedEx.  So what can you use?

Prayer!

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INTERESTING: Making of men in the USA — espeicially in Gooferment Skrules

Friday, February 16, 2024

FROM FREEREPUBLIC

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America’s Lost Boys and Me

2/11/2024, 10:32:44 AM · 14 of 14

ABN 505 to mo

There seems to be a dearth of men in teaching nowadays. When I was in High school most of the teachers were WWII vets with a sprinkling of woman in the arts and language’s. There was serious discipline administered and sometimes physical force was applied when needed. I don’t think woman are capable of handling young men and should not be in charge of them weather, in schools or military settings.

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Having been educated by WWII vets from grades 4 thru ~20, I tend to agree,  Turning boys into men is probably not best done by women.  

I guess that makes me a something or other.

But let us look at the results?

Pretty sad record.

And in Gooferment Skrules it’s uncontrolled chaos.

In my school days, that would have never been tolerate and met with overwhelming physical violence from the faculty.  Even the few lay and women teachers were down right insane.

Dona Nobis Pacem

American has lost its way.

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TECHNOLOGY: Get eyeglass prescriptions on paper

Thursday, February 15, 2024

Get eyeglass prescriptions on paper

My cousin is now in a nursing home and broke her glasses. The lens was lost. I which I had gotten that Rx on paper to get a replacement. Never thought of it. So thought I’d share it to help someone avoid my frustration. (I have my own prescriptions on a credit card type thing that I got from USAGLASSES mail order.). Just never thought of it for my old relatives. Argh!

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INSPIRATIONAL: Jackie, a bald eagle, demonstrated motherly dedication

Wednesday, February 14, 2024

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13062175/bald-eagle-mother-jackie-eggs-livestream-weather.html

Bald eagle Jackie’s livestream is turned into weather apocalypse film as expecting mom braves California’s tropical storm-force winds, relentless rain and heavy snow shielding three small eggs
By Mackenzie Tatananni For Dailymail.Com
Published: 14:55 EST, 8 February 2024 | Updated: 19:05 EST, 8 February 2024

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Jackie, a bald eagle, shakes powder off her feathers as she settles into a snow heap overlooking a California valley.

Invisible to the eye, a cozy nest sits underneath, kept warm by her body heat.

Jackie has been guarding her three eggs from the elements ever since a powerful atmospheric river pummeled the region last week.

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Life is tough in the wild.  Something we humans forget all to easily.  Life is precious.  

How did the eagles learn to survive?

Make me think hard thoughts.

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DISCOURAGING: Gooferment Skrules are a national disgrace

Tuesday, February 13, 2024

https://www.amren.com/news/2024/02/school-where-just-4-of-students-are-proficient-in-math-and-12-in-english-spent-250k-on-woke-kindergarten-program/

School Where Just 4% of Students Are Proficient in Math and 12% in English Spent $250K on ‘Woke Kindergarten’ Program

Alice Wright, Daily Mail, February 4, 2024

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A Bay Area Elementary School has spent $250,000 on a ‘Woke Kindergarten’ program only to see its student’s literacy and numeracy rates plunge.

The ‘Woke Kindergarten’ program states its mission as an ‘abolitionist early learning ecosystem’ that trains teachers to uproot white supremacy, disrupt racism and oppression which are barriers to learning.

After spending the federal money on the program Glassbrook Elementary in Hayward saw numeracy among its 474 students fall to a new low of just 4 percent and literacy just 12 percent.

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Gooferment Skrules are to produce cannon fodder for the Army, willing morons for the factories, and useful idiots to vote for and be led by the elite.

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ConspiracyTheories: Was John Kennedy Jr. killed?

Monday, February 12, 2024

https://palexander.substack.com/p/potus-john-kennedy-did-his-son-john?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=579356&post_id=141394796&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=onvra&utm_medium=email

POTUS John Kennedy: did his son John (John John) Kennedy Jr. who was ‘killed’ in a plane crash, did he tee us up on POPULATION control? depopulation agenda? SAGE HANA reminds us of Bill Gates’s 1997 interview with John Kennedy Jr. before he died;”Bill Gates’s 1997 Interview with RFK’s Dead Cousin John in George Magazine: “I fund population control…”Planned Parenthood Medical Director, Day Tapes

Dr. Paul Alexander

Feb 5, 2024

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I thought John Kennedy Jr. would have made a tremendous POTUS, I lean libertarian, right of center, social conservative yet no EFF in label but I would have voted for John-John.

Did they kill John-John? Was John Kennedy Jr. killed? I think a legitimate question. I actually think he was killed, deliberately. I do not discount that. I have no proof. 

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OK let’s crank up the old Conspiracy Theories meter. “Political  —  5. Possible”.

I remember that at the time his plane went down reading that he was being talked about as a rival of HRC for the NY Senate seat.  Now anyone who gets in the Clinton’s way seems to be “suicided” rather quickly.

So it’s possible that this very convenient “accidental” pilot error could be more than it seems.

Will we ever know?  Probably not.

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DISCOURAGING: Ex-Rabbi buys Pornub and is proud of it

Sunday, February 11, 2024

https://www.independentsentinel.com/rabbi-buys-mindgeek-that-owns-pornhub-other-porn-sites/

Ex-Rabbi Co-founder of a private equity firm explains why he acquired Pornhub
By M Dowling – December 29, 2023

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So, it’s for money, the tools, and mainstreaming porn? Didn’t Sodom and Gomorrah happen because this stuff went mainstream?

Correction: Mr. Friedman is only a partial owner. The headline was changed to clarify. Also, he rejected the teachings as a rabbi.

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I’m sure his parents are very proud of him.  Special “ring of hell” should be reserved for him.

Makes me sad to see such “news”.

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INTERESTING: All the world’s literature is slowly coming to the internet — possibly unapreciated

Saturday, February 10, 2024

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/agatha-christie/the-mystery-of-the-blue-train/text/single-page

The Mystery of the Blue Train

# – # – # – # – # 

The Mystery of the Blue Train revolves around a set of fabulous rubies, said to have been worn by Catherine the Great, now purchased by an American millionaire as a gift to his daughter. When she takes them with her on a luxury train to the Riviera, she is unaware that among her fellow passengers are her unfaithful husband, his not-so-secret mistress, a quiet Englishwoman who believes that nothing exciting ever happens to her—and the famous retired detective Hercule Poirot. And, possibly, a murderer.

# – # – # – # – # 

Standard E Books puts out a huge amount of “free” content.

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This ebook is thought to be free of copyright restrictions in the United States. It may still be under copyright in other countries. If you’re not located in the United States, you must check your local laws to verify that this ebook is free of copyright restrictions in the country you’re located in before accessing, downloading, or using it.

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More than even a fat old white guy retired injineer can possibly consume.  I remember reading the Hardy Boys in my youth and would save my supermarket tips to buy their latest adventure.  Like my comic book collection, those were discarded when I went in the military.   Another “casualty” of the Viet Nam war.  My Charlie Chan’s, my Heinlein’s, and McDonald color series of Travis McGees.  Sigh!

Wonder what they would be worth today?

Anyway, I am rereading some favorites as they come out of copyright.

And, of course, donate to the site.  Small change but every bit helps.  I can imagine growing up today and having the internet as a library of dikw (i.e., data, information, knowledge, wisdom) without having to physically trade to the library to find that illusive book that never seems to be there.

Sigh!

I wonder if these resources are “pearls before swine” and completely not used by today’s barbarian culture.

Argh!

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ADHOC: Is this how the DNC dumps Old Joe and makes room for “Big Mike” to replace him?

Friday, February 9, 2024

https://nypost.com/2024/02/09/news/doctors-call-for-biden-to-take-mental-competency-test-after-scathing-classified-docs-report-something-isnt-right/?utm_source=sailthru​

Is this how the DNC dumps Old Joe and makes room for “Big Mike” to replace him?

Argh! Sigh!

Need age limits for politicians and bureaucrats?

Suggest the Full Social Security Retirement age as a good standard!

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INTERESTING: Note on the impracticality of invading Taiwan

Friday, February 9, 2024

FROM FREEREPUBLIC

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I was reading the third book in Ian Toll’s War in the Pacific Trilogy the other day. There was a segment on the decision to invade Formosa or the Philippines.

Here is a quote:

“On August 18, 1944, Nimitz estimated that the operation (Invasion of Taiwan) would require 505,000 army troops, 154,000 marines, and 61,000 navy shore personnel.”

So, assuming that modern warfare doesn’t require the same number of troops and the Taiwanese will not “fight to the last man” as the Japanese would…let’s cut those numbers in half.

How is China going to move 325,000 troops across the Straits of Taiwan? It took the US three years of almost unstopped work to get the transports and landing craft to do that. Plus two years of hard earned practice. And no country has accomplished that since the Korean War—where we still had the men and equipment to do it.

No..China is not invading Taiwan any time soon.

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Seems like some unbiased assessment of the practicality.  And, China has “other bigger fish to fry” like the collapse of Evergrande and all the “fiscal contagion” that will cause.

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DISCOURAGING: Seems like a lot of criminials escape?

Thursday, February 8, 2024

https://patch.com/new-jersey/southbrunswick/s/iukb3/fbis-most-wanted-nj-fugitives-sought-in-killings-terrorism-spyings?utm_source=nearby-news&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alert

Crime & Safety
FBI’s Most Wanted NJ Fugitives Sought In Killings, Terrorism, Spyings

  • Over two dozen fugitives with ties to New Jersey are being sought in connection with serious, sometimes violent, crimes. Have you seen them?

Nicole Rosenthal, Patch Staff
Posted Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 2:16 pm ET

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Rodriguez was arrested for the crime, stood trial, was found guilty of murder, and was sentenced to life in prison, according to FBI records, although Rodriguez never surrendered for confinement when he was released on bail pending appeal of his conviction. 

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Cunningham, a convicted felon, is wanted in connection with the shooting death of a man in Irvington on May 12,2017, according to the FBI’s Newark office. Cunningham was charged with murder, unlawful possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and robbery on June 15, 2017; On September 8, 2017, a federal arrest warrant was issued by a U.S. District Court after he was charged federally with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution.

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Eight years later, Wright escaped from the New Jersey State Prison in Leesburg. 

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There are over a dozen other fugitives on the run, according the FBI office. Their names are:

  •     Angel Gonzalez: Crimes Against Children
  •     Nikolay Almazov Krechet: White Collar Crimes
  •     Wang Qiang: Counterintelligence
  •     Dong Ting: Counterintelligence
  •     Bi Hongwei: Counterintelligence
  •     Wang Lin: Counterintelligence
  •     Amir Hossein Nickaein Ravari: Cyber crimes
  •     Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev: Cyber crimes
  •     Ahmad Khatibi Aghda: Cyber crimes
  •     Mansour Ahmadi: Cyber crimes
  •     Iranian Cyber Actors: Cyber crimes
  •     Mujtaba Raza: Cyber crimes
  •     Mohsin Raza: Cyber crimes
  •     Mehdi Farhadi: Cyber crimes
  •     Hooman Heidarian: Cyber crimes
  •     Samsam Subjects: Cyber crimes
  •     Noor Aziz Uddin: Cyber crimes
  •     Farhan Ul Arshad: Cyber crimes

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First and foremost, notice the race to the picture and ethnicity of the names.  Don’t you see a pattern?

Second, how does an armed felon get arrested and get bail?

Third, “bail pending appeal”  — guess it wasnt high enough!

We need a Gooferment that is working for “We, The Sheeple”.

Maybe if the FBI wasn’t so deep into political lawfare, they might have time to take care of these important functions.

Maybe it’s time to shut down the FBI and let the States do what they were intended to do?

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HEALTH: Alzheimer’s disease causd by medical drugs after decades

Wednesday, February 7, 2024

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/jan/alzheimers-disease-acquired-historic-medical-treatments?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter

Alzheimer’s disease acquired from historic medical treatments
29 January 2024

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First known instance of transmitted Alzheimer’s disease observed; condition in five patients linked to childhood infusions of human growth hormone sourced from tainted cadavers, seeding misfolded proteins which led to Alzheimer’s decades later 

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Here we have evidence of Unintended Consequences of a medical treatment that has not stood the test of time.

Like Thalidomide, which took generations to show its ill effects, new “stuff” needs to be “time tested” with a increase emphasis on “risk acceptance”.

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Google Wallet FAQs & Additional Information – Google Wallet

Tuesday, February 6, 2024

Explore our FAQs for helpful information about how Google Wallet works, how to get started, and other questions and answers about Google Wallet.
— Read on wallet.google/faq/

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Yeah try putting in you medicare or united heath-care cards in apple or google wallet.

Can’t

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ECONOMICS: Inflation never goes “back”; that’s deflation

Tuesday, February 6, 2024

https://confoundedinterest.net/2024/01/30/captain-obvious-award-goes-to-treasury-secretary-yellen-who-admits-high-prices-here-to-stay-food-cpi-up-21-gasoline-prices-up-38-under-inflation-joe-home-prices-up-33-2-mortgage-rates/

Captain Obvious Award Goes To … Treasury Secretary Yellen Who Admits “High Prices Here To Stay” (Food CPI UP 21%, Gasoline Prices UP 38% Under “Inflation Joe”, Home Prices UP 33.2%, Mortgage Rates UP 154%)

1/30/2024, 1:07:50 PM · by Kaiser8408a · 13 replies

Confounded Interest ^ | 01/30/2024 | Anthony B. Sanders

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen just admitted what the rest of Americans already knew: high prices are here to stay. Example? Food prices (CPI) are up over 20% under Inflation Joe while gasoline prices are up 38% under Clueless Joe. On the housing front, the Case-Shiller National Home Price Index is up 33.2% under Biden. And Freddie Mac’s 3-year mortgage rate is up 154% under Biden’s leadership (c’mon man! Obama is pulling the strings on Puppet Joe). Speaking during an interview with ABC News Live over the weekend, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen admitted prices aren’t going down, contradicting arguments repeatedly made…

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Yup, that means we are NEVER getting back to penny candy, nickel cigars, and 25¢!

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INTERESTING: Humans can learn echolocation but xray vision is fascinating

Monday, February 5, 2024

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13005513/From-boy-sonar-vision-man-slept-50-years-meet-people-real-life-superpowers-scientists-just-explain.html

From the boy with sonar vision to a man who hasn’t slept for over 50 years – meet the people with real-life superpowers that scientists just can’t explain

  • Meet the people who can show you what the human race is really capable of 
  • The girl with X-ray eyes
  • The Iceman
  • The boy with sonar vision
  • The man who did not eat or drink for 70 years
  • The man who didn’t sleep for 50 years

By Matthew Cox
Published: 10:04 EST, 28 January 2024 | Updated: 10:09 EST, 28 January 2024

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We have all wondered what superpower we would like to have given the chance.

It is a classic icebreaker question – flying, pausing time or going invisible – but we never expect our answers to come true.

However, a smattering of unique individuals across the globe have powers which seem impossible to explain.

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I find the vision one inexplicably fascinating.

Imagine all the expensive testing that could be concentrated to those who need it quickly and easily.

Like training dogs to smell disease and low blood sugar.

Give some real meaning to that joke about ‘cat scan’ and ‘lab(rador) work’.

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INTERESTING: Miss Japan? At least she’s a female

Sunday, February 4, 2024

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-68078061

Ukrainian-born model winning Miss Japan re-ignites identity debate
24th January 2024, 04:25 EST
By Shaimaa Khalil, Tokyo correspondent

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Ai Wada, the organiser of the Miss Japan Grand Prix pageant told the BBC that judges had chosen Ms Shin as the winner with “full confidence”.

“She speaks and writes in beautiful and polite Japanese,” Ms Wada said. “She is more Japanese than we are.”

Ms Shiino had announced in Instagram earlier last year when she received Japanese nationality, saying that she “may not look Japanese”, but her mind had “become Japanese” because she had grown up in Japan. 

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I immediately remembered: “‘Pusher’ Ross: Well, you tell ‘im. You talk better English than I do!”.

The organizer’s quote just struck me as funny.

What makes someone “Japanese”?  

Or an “American” for that matter.  I’d like to believe that it’s a desire for freedom and liberty to “be all that you can be”.  Some how that ethic has been lost on many native born Americans.  As demonstrated by those from China and India that arrive with little or nothing and within a few decades they are “prosperous”.  But those born here with the same opportunities or even more never can rise from a self-inflicted poverty.

I’m sure that the Gooferment “welfare”  — handouts that are enough to starve  — blunts any ambition.

So sad that one has to be “Japanese” to win a beauty contest in Japan but not “ambitious” to be an “American”.

Argh!  Makes me sad!

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ECONOMICS: Measuring the FED’s inflation over time

Saturday, February 3, 2024

https://schiffgold.com/commentaries/wildest-inflation-red-flag-vegas-table-limits/

Wildest Inflation Red Flag: Vegas Table Limits | SchiffGold

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Take the Las Vegas Strip. Casinos on the Strip, long known for trying to take the money of everyone from the highest high-rolling whale to the coupon-clipping low-roller camped out at Motel 6 or Excalibur Casino, are now finally admitting that some dollars aren’t worth the effort of taking. In August, the Wall Street Journal reported on the declining number of tables where you could play blackjack in Las Vegas while the amount of revenue earned from blackjack stayed high even as casinos offered worse rules to players, such as paying out 6:5 when a player receives a “blackjack” rather than the traditional 3:2. Strip casinos are also doing away with low table limits, meaning that players that want to risk $5 or $10 on a single hand of blackjack are struggling to find a game.
 
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​Wow.  I remember 25¢ craps where I learned to play.  And 10¢ a way Keno on 15 lines.  Sigh.  I miss the cheap buffets, “free” rooms, and $1 per seat “shows”.  Progress?  I think not; INFLATION due to the FED and Gooferment spending.
 
#ENDTHEFED
 
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Yemen — None of our business, with no upside

Friday, February 2, 2024

https://www.theburningplatform.com/2024/01/24/doug-casey-on-how-the-middle-easts-poorest-country-confounds-its-adversaries/

Doug Casey on How the Middle East’s Poorest Country Confounds Its Adversaries
Via International Man

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It’s almost always a mistake for foreigners to get involved in another country’s civil war, especially when it has religious overtones. It doesn’t matter which side you back; the people that you’re backing are not your friends, and the people on the other side will really hate you. It’s a no-win situation for the US. None of our business, with no upside. Except for US Government operatives who get to play bigshot.

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Like George Washington said: “MYOB”.

Argh!

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GOVERNACIDE: The cruel and unusual punishment of Kenneth Eugene Smith

Thursday, February 1, 2024

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13008191/Kenneth-Eugene-Smith-nitrogen-executed-first.html

Wife of killer Kenneth Eugene Smith ‘cried out’ during his historic 22-minute-long nitrogen execution – which witness described as ‘horrific’ as he thrashed and ‘convulsed’ on gurney

  •     The convicted killer, 58, had a gas mask placed over his face before a stream of 100 percent nitrogen gas suffocated him  
  •     Smith’s pastor told DailyMail.com beforehand he was ‘really struggling’, and ate only a small part of his final meal of steak, hashbrowns and eggs  
  •     He was sentenced to death in 1996 over the murder-for-hire slaying of a pastor’s wife eight years prior  

By Will Potter and Neirin Gray Desai In Atmore, Alabama, For Dailymail.Com
Published: 21:35 EST, 25 January 2024 | Updated: 07:37 EST, 26 January 2024 

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The wife of Kenneth Eugene Smith cried out for her killer husband as he thrashed against his restraints, suffering as he became the first person in history to be executed via nitrogen hypoxia. 

Smith, 58, was put to death Thursday in a ‘horrific’ 22-minute ordeal when a gas mask was placed over his face, before a stream of 100 percent nitrogen gas suffocated him inside the execution chamber at the William C. Holman prison in Atmore, Alabama. 

The murderer’s spiritual guide, Jeff Hood, described the execution as the ‘worst thing’ he had ever seen, claiming prison officials gasped in shock as he died far slower than anticipated.

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As a pro-life little L libertarian, I find this horrifying.

The Gooferment should never EVER be allowed to kill people.  How can we differentiate between those that MIGHT ‘deserve it” and those who the Gooferment deems do “deserve it” because of their opinions, life style, or religion.

On a philosophical or moral level, the Gooferment can NOT be trusted with this “power”.

As a practical matter, the only time that it should have this power is when a convict is to dangerous to the prison guards.  Then, and only then, should the Gooferment be able to seek permission from a jury.

Think Hanible Lector or a convict who kills a prison guard or another inmate.  Maybe even a convict who assaults or rapes might deserve this “eternal reward”.

Now consider the manner of death in this specific instance of “nitrogen suffocation”,  Can anyone truthfully say this is not “cruel and unusual punishment” that is prohibited by Constitutional Amendment?  Shame on us for allowing it.

As reprehensible as Smith was, we as a society should be ashamed.

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JOBSEARCH: You should aleways be looking for your next job — even if you have tenure

Wednesday, January 31, 2024

https://mcquad.org/2024/01/24/tenured-professors-fired-in-sweeping-layoffs/

Tenured Professors Fired in Sweeping Layoffs
By Kyla Guilfoil, Senior Writer

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According to faculty sources, the administration told departments roughly what they could expect would be cut from their departments. Therefore, it became clear to several departments that certain professors would be fired based on the “Last In, First Out” metric. For example, faculty member sources described that a department would be told they would need to lose two faculty members and it was then clear to those two employees most recently hired that they would likely be let go.

Because of this, several employees decided to take the voluntary separation agreements, on the basis that they believed they would likely be fired anyways in the coming semester, faculty sources told The Quadrangle. 

On the other hand, more senior employees, including many tenured professors, believed they were safe in their jobs and would not be on the chopping block during the current academic year. Faculty sources told The Quadrangle that this made the tenured terminations, given mid-year, even more shocking. 

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I guess that this should be inscribed on great monuments to complacency: “they believed they were safe”.

Guess they never read that parable about the  lion and the gazelle?

“Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn’t matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle: when the sun comes up, you’d better be running.” This African proverb was reproduced in Thomas Friedman’s book The World is Flat.

I always preached that anyone in a “corporate job” had one objective  — find their next job.  

Whenever I started a new job, the first thing I would do was update my resume and send it to all my friends and headhunters.  Loyalty?  Like the old canard says: “Don’t Kill Yourself For A Job That Would Replace You Within 2 Weeks If You Dropped Dead”  — Anthony ‘AJ’ Joiner

Loyalty is for spouses, family, and friends; not corporations.

A College is nothing more than corporation that takes money and produces “entertainment”.  

Sad to say, but that’s how I see it.

Argh!

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ConspiracyTheories: The “DNC bomb” as part of the overall the Regime’s J6 narrative

Tuesday, January 30, 2024

https://mailchi.mp/tomwoods/pipe?e=39307912ab

FROM TOM WOODS’ NEWSLETTER

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I haven’t yet seen his interview with Tucker Carlson, but Darren J. Beattie just published this commentary on Twitter about a video clip that Congressman Thomas Massie’s office just released.

It tells us something very revealing about January 6 and the alleged “pipe bomb.” That, in turn, raises very disturbing questions.

You should read it.

So I’ve reproduced it for you:

Below, courtesy of Thomas Massie, is the most damning and explosive J6 footage yet released.

In my view this will end up demolishing the Regime’s J6 narrative and with it a major pillar of Dem’s 2024 strategy.

You paying attention, Kamala?

This footage shows the discovery of the pipe bomb at a bench outside the DNC headquarters.

This first clips shows that at approximately 1:05 a man in a backpack approaches a Metro PD SUV and a black Secret Service SUV informing them of the pipe bomb’s presence.

Interestingly, recent report from @TPC4USA reveals this man in the back pack is a plainclothes Capitol Police officer.

Here’s the first sign things are a bit out of the ordinary. After being informed of a pipe bomb feet away, the metro PD authorities (who are technically on the Secret Service detail) take over a minute before they even bother getting out of their car! 

Now things are really getting weird. Take a look at this clip, and note how casually the Metro PD and Secret Service operations lounge about after being informed of the pipe bomb feet away.

There’s absolutely zero concern for their own safety, or that of their protectee — VP Kamala Harris.

Toward the end of the clip you see a pedestrian walk by — they didn’t warn him there was a bomb feet away?

Incredibly bizarre and damning.

In this clip we see whoever is manning the Capitol Police cameras finally responds to the information regarding the pipe bomb, and zooms into the benches where the pipe bomb was planted.

Notice the empty coffee cup on the bench right next to the pipe bomb. January 6 was a very windy day and it’s unlikely an empty coffee cup would have lasted on that bench for long before getting blown away. Someone had been sitting there recently…perhaps the plainclothes officer

Can’t say this definitively but it appears 11 second into this clip that you can briefly catch the timer on the pipe bomb in view….?

If the nonchalance of the Secret Service seemed weird before, now it gets downright scandalous.

In this clip we not only see a bunch of Secret Service agents standing in close proximity to the pipe bomb, we see a group of CHILDREN cross the street toward the location of the bomb, ultimately walking within feet of it.

The Secret Service don’t bother to warn the children of the bomb.

Either these Secret Service agents were utterly concerned with the life of their protectee Kamala Harris, the lives of the children, and their own lives, or they somehow knew the pipe bomb was a DUD.

But how on earth would they know that?

We know that the DNC pipe bomb was dismantled by a bomb-safe robot.

How could one possibly explain this scenario in which the bomb is considered safe enough to allow children to walk within feet of it, and yet it requires a bomb safe robot to “defuse it”?

Minutes later a Capitol Police officer walks right up to the bomb and snaps a photo of it, gives a thumbs-up signal, and everyone leaves quickly thereafter.

Weirdly, the Secret Service behavior after the Capitol police officer takes a picture of the bomb is the fastest we’ve seen them move the entire time!

…Now we have to confront some very disturbing questions.

We’ve seen the bizarre and damning video in which the Secret Service respond with total lack of concern upon being informed of the bomb — unconcerned for themselves, for their protectee Kamala Harris, and even for children they allowed to walk within feet of the bomb.

Clearly they knew the bomb was a dud…but how?

Nonetheless as we’ve said they went through the motions of “dismantling” the bomb with a bomb-safe robot.

And what about Kamala Harris, who was being protected by the Secret Service?

Well, she actively covered up the fact she was in the DNC building for over a year — to the point of allowing the DOJ to falsely stipulate that she was in the Capitol in certain Jan 6 indictments.

Why on EARTH would Kamala Harris cover this up — she still hasn’t acknowledged it!

Think about that for a second — the first VP woman of color came within a hairs width of losing her life to the deadly MAGA explosives device — and for some reason she doesn’t want to milk that politically?

Joe Biden gave a whole speech on the third anniversary of January 6th and failed to mention that his own VP was within feet of the deadly MAGA bomb?

This makes zero sense.

If we add the inexplicable reaction of Kamala’s Secret Service to the pipe bomb, to Kamala’s inexplicable cover-up of the fact she was at the DNC during January 6th when the pipe bomb was there, [we arrive at] the following:

The only close footage the FBI has made public of the pipe bomber at the DNC site is security footage from the DNC.

We at Revolver News have shown DEFINITIVELY that that footage is both tampered with, and that the FBI is withholding footage from the camera angle that would actually show the bomber planting the bomb.

Here we show that the DNC surveillance footage is completely corrupted to prevent us from having a clear shot of the suspect. 

Here we PROVE the FBI is withholding critical footage that would show whether or not the pipe bomber planted the bomb when they said he/she did.

Why is the DNC so uninterested in finding out who this DNC pipe bomber is? Why has Kamala Harris covered up her presence at the DNC on Jan 6?

Of course we’ve only scratched the surface.

Something tells me the “conspiracy theorists” are about to be vindicated for the thousandth time in a row.

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“Tampered video”, “somehow knew the pipe bomb was a DUD”, and “uninterested in finding out who this DNC pipe bomber” are all telltale signs of a “good” conspiracy theory.

Time to clean house!

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The FBI must come forward with the whole truth, immediately. If they will not, then Republicans have a duty to tear the FBI down to its foundation, and ensure that no government organization is allowed to amass this kind of power ever again.” — Charlie Kirk

Kudos to Darren J. Beattie of Revolver News and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) for doing the FBI’s work for the FBI, 

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