ECONOMICS: Big deffered contract takes a big risk?

Thursday, December 14, 2023

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/mlb/article-12853145/baseball-fans-slam-shohei-ohtani-deferred-contract.html

Baseball fans SLAM Shohei Ohtani’s ‘league-killing deal’ after it was revealed he will defer $680m of his eye-watering $700m contract… as rival supporters blast MLB’s ‘downright laughable’ decision to give green light | Daily Mail Online
By Jake Fenner For Dailymail.Com
Published: 23:39 EST, 11 December 2023 | Updated: 00:11 EST, 13 December 2023 

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  •     Ohtani’s deal will see the bulk of the contract paid out after it ends in 10 years 
  •     Baseball fans were irate at the structure and that it was allowed to happen 

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The Dodgers must have channeled their inner Bill Belichick.  This will get everyone’s shorts in a knot.  Especially the politicians and bureaucrats in the Pepuls Republik of Kaliforkneeah.  That’s a lot of money they can’t steal.  And it’s a big risk to take on the financial stability of the Dodgers and the future value of the USD.  Wonder what kind of Futures Contract he’s buying to protect it.

While I understand the motivations behind “stretching the rules”, it’s NOT without some significant risks IMHO.

It violates my favorite heuristic (rule of thumb; “common sense”; pov) that one should always “take the money and run”.  

It’s not beyond the imagination to conceive of the politicians and bureaucrats of the Pepuls Republik of Kaliforkneeah creating a special income tax rule for “deferred compensation”.  Watch for it!

AND, inflation AKA dollar depreciation is for SURE to erode that deferred wealth.

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NEWJERSEY: No digital only coupons

Wednesday, December 13, 2023
https://nj1015.com/digital-coupon-new-jersey-supermarkets/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NEWS%2C%20Tue%20Dec%2012:%20Possible%20changes%20to%20digital%20coupons&utm_term=All%20Valid%20Users

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Under the bill, coupons that can only be accessed by shoppers through their computers, tablets or smartphones would also have to be made available in-store, offering the same price or discount as what’s being offered online.

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POLITICAL: Just leave it vacant until the next regular election!

Wednesday, December 13, 2023

https://nypost.com/2023/12/05/metro/date-set-for-vote-to-replace-disgraced-george-santos/

Metro
Hochul sets Feb. 13 House special election to replace NY’s George Santos
By Social Links for Vaughn Golden and Carl Campanile
Published Dec. 5, 2023, 6:14 p.m. ET

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A special election to fill the congressional seat vacated by expelled former Rep. George Santos will take place on Feb. 13, 2024, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Tuesday.

Hochul set the date for the vote in New York’s Third Congressional District one day after calling her former challenger, ex-Rep. Tom Suozzi, to the governor’s mansion in Albany to bend the knee following his ill-fated primary bid last year.

“We had a good meeting and cleared the air, and I appreciate her making the time,” Suozzi said. “At a time of strong political division, I offered to be another moderate voice as the Governor works to solve problems and make progress.”

Suozzi repped the Queens and Nassau County district for six years before leaving to run against Hochul in the gubernatorial race, opening the way for Santos to upset Democrat Robert Zimmerman as part of a midterm red wave in the Empire State.

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Why have the expense of a “special election”?  Just leave it vacant until the next regular election!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Get il;legal immigration under control?

Tuesday, December 12, 2023

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/europeans-will-succumb-islam-former-top-german-spy-issues-new-warning-muslim-majority

“Europeans Will Succumb To Islam” – Former Top German Spy Issues New Warning
by Tyler Durden
Tuesday, Dec 05, 2023 – 02:00 AM
Authored by John Cody via Remix,

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“It should also be possible to persuade third countries to take back their own nationals after deportation orders. If they don’t do it, you could ‘freeze their assets,’ prevent (their citizens) from traveling to Europe and other things. You have to persuade these states to behave in accordance with international law,” he said.

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Clearly, the USA needs to deport ALL illegals.  Convicted Felons and illegally reentering aliens should be priority one.  And FAST!

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GUNS: Why was the homeowner put in handcuffs?

Monday, December 11, 2023

https://nypost.com/2023/12/04/news/la-homeowner-fatally-shoots-suspect-during-attempted-burglary/

 LA homeowner fatally shoots suspect during attempted burglary as horrified child, grandma watch
By Social Links for Isabel Keane
Published Dec. 4, 2023, 8:33 a.m. ET

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A Los Angeles homeowner shot and killed a suspected burglar over the weekend after a group of men wearing dark hoodies and masks broke into his home — where a child and grandmother were left rattled by the brazen attempted burglary.

Police responded to the Granada Hills home around 5 a.m. Saturday morning after receiving radio calls of shots fired inside the residence.

The homeowner told police he was inside his home when three or four unknown men wearing “dark clothing, hoodies and masks” broke in, the Los Angeles Police Department wrote on X.

“A suspect pointed a weapon at the victim and while the suspects were inside the residence, the victim produced a firearm and a shooting occurred,” the department wrote. 

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The homeowner, who was photographed outside the residence seemingly in handcuffs, was taken to the Devonshire Community Police Station to be interviewed, though they were later released. 

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Give you some insight into the Pepuls Republik of Kaliforkneeah’s attitude towards guns?

“No law ever written has stopped any robber, rapist or killer, like cold blue steel in the hands of their last intended victim.” —W. Emerson Wright

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SECESSION: TEXIT still alive

Sunday, December 10, 2023

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/texit-progress-secession-question-expected-appear-2024-texas-primary-ballot

TEXIT Progress: Secession Question Expected To Appear on 2024 Texas Primary Ballot
by Tyler Durden
Saturday, Dec 02, 2023 – 10:45 PM

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As the US government hurtles toward insolvency while political and cultural divisions intensify across the country, Texans are poised to take their long-simmering flirtation with secession to the next level, as a non-binding proposition is expected to appear on the statewide GOP primary ballot in March 2024.  

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Interesting that of all the States only North Dakota has a State bank and could leave.

Other candidates for an _EXIT are: California, New Hampshire, Alaska, and Hawaii.

It happened to the USSR, so why not the USA?

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GOVERNACIDE: Analyziz of a school shooting and no one cares

Saturday, December 9, 2023

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/12/shouldnt_have_happened_the_oxford_high_shooting.html

American Thinker
Shouldn’t Have Happened: The Oxford High Shooting
By Rebecca Behrends
Dec 2, 2023 at 01:00

  • There were so many red flags, warnings, gaps, and deficiencies that school boards and parents need to come to terms with.

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Meanwhile, the boy’s backpack was brought to the office. None of the school officials asked for consent to search his backpack. Later, the shooter testified to a defense psychologist that he was relieved for the first time in his life when he was in the counselor’s office because he just knew that sheriffs would burst into the office and arrest him. After all they had witnessed, he felt there would be no way that they wouldn’t search his backpack.

Well, they didn’t search his backpack. Had they done so, they would have found a gun and bullets. This was the weapon the shooter used later in the day to kill four students and injure five other students and a teacher.

The school counselor and the dean of students never asked the parents if their son had access to a firearm. It was concluded that it would be okay to send the boy back to his classroom, as it would be a “controlled, supervised” setting, and “we know that students are happier when they’re with their peers.” Four individuals had knowledge of threatening behavior of the shooter, but this info was not shared through their computerized database. Had the principal been notified, he would have had the authority to trigger a Threat Assessment and a Suicide Assessment Intervention. The shooter’s social media posts would have been checked, which would have revealed that he did have access to a firearm.

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Rebecca Behrends, M.D. is a retired E.D. physician and is vice president for research for Michigan Citizens for Election Integrity at MC4EI.com.

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Schools are like prisons.  They train the “students” to be “inmates”.  Gooferment Skrules are the worst.

That being said, why don’t we treat them like they were prisons.  Armed guards and locks on everything.

Let’s not kid ourselves that “gun free zones” are really “target rich environments”!

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DISCOURAGING: A “demographic transformation” is occuring in the USA too thanks to Democrats welcoming illegal immigration

Friday, December 8, 2023

https://www.amren.com/features/2023/12/the-struggle-for-ireland/

The Struggle for Ireland
Gregory Hood, American Renaissance, December 1, 2023

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Polls show that most Irish are opposed to the demographic transformation, but this is utterly unrepresented in government. What kind of government muzzles its people, ignores their policy preferences, and replaces them? An illegitimate government of occupation. Getting rid of it was the purpose of the Irish struggle for independence. Will the Irish have to do it all over again?

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Let’s not forget that Obama resettled Muslims into Michigan and the Mid-West.  Now the D”s are losing those State because of their support for Israel.  Their hubris is now paying them back.

Crime and drugs are pouring over the southern border.  And, to a lesser extent the northern one too.

Sounds like we are losing the nation over this “transformation”.

Will anyone wake up and stop it?

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: AccuVote operating system is still running on Windows XP

Thursday, December 7, 2023

FROM FREE REPUBLIC

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Arizona Election Lies Exposed

12/1/2023, 2:54:49 PM · by cuz1961 · 3 replies

Frank Speech Email | 12/1/2023 | Frank Speech Email

Arizona Election Lies Exposed Frank Speech Email The tide is shifting. This week we heard blockbuster oral arguments before the New Hampshire Supreme Court from Patriot Daniel Richard. Richard uncovered the dirty secrets behind Dominion Voting Systems and AccuVote tabulating systems being run by LHS Associates. In fact the election machines are so bad that even the president of LHS Associates admitted the AccuVote operating system is still running on Windows XP–a system not supported in decades! And the media continues to tell me that election machines cannot be hacked???!!! Windows XP, seriously? This case may end up BLOWING UP…

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That sounds real secure!

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INSPIRATIONAL: Search for Mexico’s Ancient Civilizations

Wednesday, December 6, 2023

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/zelia-nuttall-globe-trotting-scholar-unlocked-secrets-aztecs-180983049/

History | November 2023

The Globe-Trotting Scholar Who Unlocked the Secrets of the Aztecs

  • Anthropologist Zelia Nuttall transformed the way we think of ancient Mesoamerica
  • An illustration of the Aztec calendar stone surrounds a young portrait of anthropologist Zelia Nuttall. “Mrs. Nuttall’s investigations of the Mexican calendar appear to furnish for the first time a satisfactory key,” wrote one leading scholar.
  • Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University

By Merilee Grindle
Author, In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl: Zelia Nuttall and the Search for Mexico’s Ancient Civilizations

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On a bright day early in 1885, Zelia Nuttall was strolling around the ancient ruins of Teotihuacán, the enormous ceremonial site north of Mexico City. Not yet 30, Zelia had a deep interest in the history of Mexico, and now, with her marriage in ruins and her future uncertain, she was on a trip with her mother, Magdalena; her brother George; and her 3-year-old daughter, Nadine, to distract her from her worries.

The site, which covered eight square miles, had once been home to the predecessors of the Aztecs. It included about 2,000 dwellings along with temples, plazas and pyramids where they charted the stars and made offerings to the sun and moon. As Zelia admired the impressive buildings, some shrouded in dirt and vegetation, she reached down and collected a few pieces of pottery from the dusty soil. They were plentiful and easy to find with a few brushes of her hand.

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Amazing what this woman was able to accomplish.

I was most impressed by her language abilities.

And, I wonder what else we have lost or overlooked.

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DISCOURAGING: Is it an “intelligence failure” if the top brass doesn’t listen?

Tuesday, December 5, 2023

https://sonar21.com/politics-and-arrogance-understanding-israels-october-7-intelligence-failure/

Politics and Arrogance — Understanding Israel’s October 7 Intelligence Failure
27 November 2023 by Larry Johnson

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I think this rings true. It is the worst of “intelligence failures” because the analysts accurately and correctly reported the warning signs and their analysis was ignored. The reaction of the “high-ranking intelligence official” who dismissed the reports and analysis as an “imaginary scenario” is not out of character for Senior Israeli intelligence personnel. Arrogance and hubris is their M. O.

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Like the USA had with 9/11 when pilot trainees who were not interested in take offs and landings?  Or “intelligence failures”, not to secure out legal visas?  Nevermind that the Southern Border is open for all manner of criminals and potential terrorists to invade.

Argh!

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GUNS: Don’t miss woman is robbed by rifle-wielding gang on busy Chicago street

Monday, December 4, 2023

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12797245/Chicago-robbery-rifle-woman-video-police-suspects.html

Shocking moment woman is robbed by rifle-wielding gang on busy Chicago street – before suspects stick up three other people and cops REFUSED to follow them

  •     A group of suspects robbed four people at gunpoint during a Chicago spree
  •     Video surveillance footage of one of the robberies was released by the state Attorney General’s office
  •     A total of 20 armed robberies were reported on Sunday alone in Chicago 

By Emma Richter For Dailymail.Com
Published: 17:20 EST, 27 November 2023 | Updated: 02:35 EST, 28 November 2023

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This is the shocking moment a pedestrian was robbed at a Chicago intersection by a rifle-wielding gang.

The incident took place on September 23, but surveillance video of the scene was just revealed on Wednesday after the city’s Office of Emergency Management and Communication refused to release it.

As the woman made her way across the six-way intersection at 4.45am, a silver sedan pulled up as one suspect pointed the gun at her and the others shook her down. 

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Remember “gun control” in Blue run cities?

“God made men and women; Sam Colt made them equal.” — Unknown

If the woman was allowed to carry, then maybe there would be a lot less crime.

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ConspiracyTheories: skepticism… about certain government claims and conduct

Sunday, December 3, 2023

https://dailyreckoning.com/in-praise-of-conspiracy-theorists/

In Praise of Conspiracy Theorists

Brian Maher –November 22, 2023

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Due to professional obligations we take aboard an overplus of daily “information.”

Some of it — perhaps more than some of it — sorts into the “conspiratorial” category.

For example: the theory that space lasers set Maui on fire.

For example: the theory that the Rothschilds ordered Kennedy shot dead.

For example: the theory that the Twin Towers were knocked down not by shanghaied airplanes but by pre-planted explosives.

Examples multiply and multiply.

Some have even accused this very publication — if you can believe it — of merchanting conspiracy theories.

These accusations have their origins in the pandemic.

We had expressed… skepticism… about certain government claims and conduct.

These concerned lockdowns, vaccines and the near-absolute suppression of unofficial information.

Thus the “conspiracy theorist” label came issuing.

Were we mistaken? Were we merely shouting wolf?

Or have subsequent discoveries validated our doubting Thomas skepticisms?

We leave that decision to you… our reader.

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Realitydenier

Seems like the bottom line.

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GUNS: Israel’s gun-control policies are much stricter than those of other countries

Saturday, December 2, 2023

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/11/israel_and_gun_control.html

americanthinker.com
Israel and Gun Control
By Jessica Geraghty

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Israel’s gun-control policies are much stricter than those of other countries typically known to be anti-gun, including Australia and England, says Stern.He believes that recent media narratives paint an all-too-forgiving picture of the willingness of Israeli leaders to arm and protect their citizens.

Jessica Geraghty is an established freelance writer and blogger who has over 15 years of experience writing for businesses, political candidates and news publications. Most recently, topics she has written about include human resources, informed consent, the Second Amendment and real estate.

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So, all the pictures of gun toting Israeli’s is “bull <synonym for excrement>”!

No wonder the October 7th attack by Hamas was so successful. The people were like lambs to be slaughtered.

It’s a well known meme about Germans were disarmed and then you got the Holocaust.  A lesson that has been repeated several times in history. 

So when do “We, The Sheeple” wake up?

Native american guns

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VETERANS: Gene F. Walker finally returned home; sadly

Friday, December 1, 2023

https://people.com/remains-wwii-soldier-identified-nearly-79-years-after-death-8406492?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter

Human Interest
Remains of WWII Soldier from Indiana Identified Nearly 79 Years After His Death

  • Gene F. Walker will be buried in San Diego in early 2024, according to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency

By Brenton Blanchet
Published on November 24, 2023 12:57PM EST

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The remains of a soldier killed during World War II at age 27 were identified by military scientists after nearly 79 years.

On Wednesday, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced that it had identified the remains of U.S. Army 2nd Lt. Gene F. Walker of Richmond, Indiana, and that he “was accounted for” in July of this year. 

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A 1944 obituary, cited by WTHR, noted at the time that Walker was survived by his wife and a daughter whom he never met. 

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So sad and a reminder of the cost of war in the lives of men, widows, and children.

Dona Nobis Pacem

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HEROIC: All 41 construction workers are free

Thursday, November 30, 2023

FROM 1440 (hello@join1440.com) 

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Good morning. It’s Wednesday, Nov. 29, and we’re covering the rescue of 41 men trapped in a tunnel for 17 days, a convicted murderer’s financial crimes, and much more. First time reading? Sign up here.

You share. We listen. As always, send us feedback at hello@join1440.com.

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India Tunnel Rescue

All 41 construction workers are free after being trapped inside a collapsed tunnel in northern India for over two weeks. The men were treated at a hospital and are reportedly in good health.

The men, reportedly working for $250 per month, were pulled through 187 feet of steel pipe on wheeled stretchers after the rescuers used hand-held drills to break through. The drilling machines had broken down Friday after rescuers had bored horizontally through a section of nearly 200 feet of fallen rock, coming within 50 feet of the cavern. The men were able to survive on food and oxygen supplied through narrow pipes.

The landslide-induced collapse first occurred Nov. 12 amid the construction of the three-mile Silkyara tunnel. The tunnel is part of the government’s $1.5M Char Dham highway project to connect four Hindu pilgrimage sites. The event has cast a spotlight on environmental concerns in the earthquake-prone Himalayan region.

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I call the “heroic” because humanity forced its way though several technical problems to get these men out alive.  No one sat around and did a cost benefit analysis.  Men and women got to work and “figured it out”.

Was it expensive in time, energy, and resources?  Sure.  Was it worth it?  Absolutely!

As a pro-life little L libertarian, EVERY life is worth saving.

41 families got to see their bread winner come home.  That’s what humanity is all about.

And, why I’m so anti-war; killing human beings over problems that can be solved makes little sense to me.  That’s why I’m anti-recreational abortion.  Or things like China’s one child policy; I guess they learned their lesson that more people is not a “problem” but asset; that yields more productivity.

Any way, kudos to all those who make it happen and even to those of us who just followed the story and preyed for their safe return.

Now let’s focus on saving more humans from war and “reproductive rights”.

Dona Nobis Pacem

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INTERESTING: Indo-Pacific species demonstrates they are the “smartest”

Wednesday, November 29, 2023

https://www.iflscience.com/first-dolphins-to-work-out-how-to-steal-bait-from-crab-traps-caught-in-the-act-71683?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter

First Dolphins To Work Out How To Steal Bait From Crab Traps Caught In The Act

  • World-first footage shows that even among the three famously intelligent dolphin families, the Indo-Pacific species manages to excel again.

Stephen Luntz  — Freelance Writer

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Crab traps exist all over the world, but it’s only off Bunbury that dolphins have worked out how to safely steal the bait.

Superb film has been obtained of dolphins stealing bait from crab traps and escaping to tell the tale to their fellow pod members in what may be a unique behavior caught on film for the first time. Moreover, when crab fishers tried to make the traps dolphin-proof, their first efforts didn’t succeed for long. It wouldn’t be fair to call it an arm’s race when only one side has any, but it certainly seems the dolphins are up for the challenge of solving problems humans put between them and a meal that can’t swim away.

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At first it made me laugh.  Then, it made we wonder if we don’t understand “intelligence”.  

Dolphins, of any “family”, might be more intelligent than humans?

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NOTRECOMMENDED: Napoleon (2023)

Tuesday, November 28, 2023

Napoleon (2023)

# – # – # – # – # 

Save your money and wait for it on free tv.

The only thing good was the costumes.

And, if you weren’t anti-war before the movie, you would be after it.  Marching lines of people into cannons is the height of stupidity.  And, why would Joe Grunt do it?

Argh!

Dona Nobis Pacem

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INTERESTING: Houston forced nonprofits to work together?

Monday, November 27, 2023

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12785247/Houston-Democratic-city-homelessness-housing.html

How one Dem-run city SOLVED its homelessness crisis…and did it on the cheap: Houston forced nonprofits to work together, then exploited city’s loose planning regulations to build one-bed apartments for vagrants

  •     A collective effort made of 100 different nonprofits has found a way to get apartments for homeless people
  •      In the past dozen years, 30,000 homeless Houston residents have been housed and supported 
  •     The city made sure to take a more direct and cheaper approach to do so 

By Emma Richter For Dailymail.Com
Published: 17:24 EST, 23 November 2023 | Updated: 17:24 EST, 23 November 2023

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A democrat-run city has managed to solved its homeless crisis with nonprofits that have worked together to obtain one-bedroom apartments for vagrants. 

Houston, Texas has gone on to create one of their ‘most important innovations’ – the Coalition for the Homeless, along with exploiting the city’s loose planning regulations. 

The independent agency, known as The Way Home, co-ordinates with 100 nonprofits to combat homelessness under a collective effort in the city. 

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Well, “solved” might be an overstatement.  I’m not sure that it can be “solved” without addressing the drug addiction and mental illness that seems to be at the root of the “problem”.

The reporting make it sound like “loose planning regulations” are the problem.  Maybe it’s regulations in the first place that are the “problem”?

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NEWJERSEY: Ban gas cars by 2035? The State Gooferment has lost their collective minds!

Sunday, November 26, 2023

https://nj1015.com/nj-will-ban-all-gas-cars-by-2035/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NEWS%2C%20Weds%20Nov%2022:%20Murphy%20bans%20gas%20cars&utm_term=All%20Valid%20Users

NJ will ban all gas cars by 2035
Eric Scott  — Published: November 21, 2023

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  • Gov. Phil Murphy presses ahead with gas-powered car ban
  • All new vehicles will have to be electric by 2035
  • Some regulations go into effect in just two years

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Jim Appleton, president of the state Coalition of Automotive Retailers told New Jersey 101.5, “Governments can mandate and auto manufacturers can build, but none of these goals will be met if consumers don’t buy the vehicles.”

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Will this cause a revolt?

One can only hope!

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SECESSION: Haven’t heard much about secession; maybe revolt it the next relief valve?

Saturday, November 25, 2023

FROM 2022

https://www.unz.com/article/stupid-party-except-for-trump-betrays-atlantas-buckhead-secessionists-but-it-cant-stop-white-americans-from-protecting-themselves-forever/

Stupid Party (Except for Trump) Betrays Atlanta’s Buckhead Secessionists. But It Can’t Stop White Americans from Protecting Themselves Forever

Jack Dalton • April 7, 2022 • 1,700 Words • 3 Comments • Reply

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Secession movements are flourishing across America. Angry right-leaning Oregonians want to join Greater Idaho to escape the crackpot leftism oozing out of Portland. Conservative Old Line Staters in western Maryland want to join Red West Virginia [3 Maryland counties have asked to join West Virginia. Here’s how they could do it, by Mia Salenetri, WUSA.com, October 28, 2021]. Right-leaning counties in Northern California want to form their own state [Another Conservative Revolt in California: The State of Jefferson, by Arthur Schaper, Townhall , May 13, 2018]. Those are exciting macro-level movements of predominantly rural whites who don’t have a voice in Leftist, anti-white state capitals. But a struggle at the micro level might be the one that cements secession as an idea whose time has come … if Stupid Party strategists would get out of the way. Buckhead, the large, predominantly white section of majority black Atlanta, Georgia, is ready to secede from the City Too Busy To Hate. But top GOP leaders in Georgia killed a ballot measure in February [State GOP leaders scuttle Buckhead secession push in 2022, by Greg Bluestein, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, February 11, 2022].

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Haven’t heard much about secession movements lately.  Except for the people voting with their feet from Blue States to Texas.

Guess the entrenched politicians and bureaucrats have a parasitic death grip on that can’t move.

Argh!

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GUNS: 2+ mile shot seems impossible

Friday, November 24, 2023

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12770127/Ukrainian-sniper-claims-new-world-record-picking-Russian-soldier-2-36-miles-away-using-Lord-Horizon-gun.html

Ukrainian sniper claims new world record after ‘picking off Russian soldier from 2.36 miles away using “Lord of the Horizon” gun’

  •     A Ukrainian claims to have the record for longest sniper kill in history
  •     The SBU sniper reportedly managed to pick off a Russian soldier from 2.36 miles
  •     The previous record was held by a Canadian special operations soldier 

By Perkin Amalaraj
Published: 04:33 EST, 20 November 2023 | Updated: 08:58 EST, 20 November 2023 

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The Ukrainian military gave no other details, such as when or where it was filmed, nor did it say how it had confirmed the sniper’s effort.

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I suspect all these claims.  Personally, it’s hard enough to hit a static target at great distances.  The least little wind or hand tremor can make a shot miss widely.  And at those distances, you need to compensate for the bullet drop and maybe the rotation of the earth.  In this specific case, was the unlucky Russian soldier just standing around?  Goofing off down range is a sure way to get killed. Even the article cites several seconds between trigger pull and target dropping.  That implies that the target was a sitting duck.

Maybe this is just more propaganda for the Ukraine War, the rifle maker, and the military?

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INNOVATION: Preventing dead birds is too easy for Bank of America; shame on them

Thursday, November 23, 2023

https://www.biographic.com/city-of-glass/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email

Solutions
10.31.2023
City of Glass

  • Meet the dedicated cadre of experts and volunteers working to protect birds from glass in the window-strike capital of the United States.

Story by Ben Goldfarb

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The film seemed to be working: Collisions at the Kellogg Hub had declined by half, and for 20 minutes I watched red-winged blackbirds (Agelaius phoeniceus) alight easily on its railings and roof. Even better, at the nearby Frances Searle Building, whose windows the university had covered with faint horizontal stripes, bird deaths had virtually ceased. Yet the projects had been neither cheap nor perfect. The Searle Building alone had cost the university $250,000 to retrofit, and large swaths of the Kellogg Center remained unprotected. Retrofitting existing buildings is crucial, no doubt; Chicago isn’t about to dismantle its existing skyline for the sake of birds. Still, “the best solutions are the ones that are designed into the building from the beginning,” Claire Halpin, a landscape architect who sat on the board of the Chicago Ornithological Society until her recent death, told me later.

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Not everyone was so receptive. During our rounds, Prince and I passed the Bank of America Tower, where three trees beckoned to birds from behind glass so clear it was surprising more humans didn’t hit it face-first. Prince had begged the building’s sustainability officer to put up a patterned film, or move the trees, or even hang a temporary banner during migration season — to do literally anything. “The answer,” she told me, “was ‘no, no, and no.’”

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Maybe we all can put some political pressure on BOA to address the problem?

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NEWJERSEY: Repeal the 17th Amendment; like alcohol prohibiition and the “war on some drugs” it was just a mistake

Wednesday, November 22, 2023

https://savejersey.com/2023/11/is-this-really-the-best-we-can-do/

Is this really the best we can do?
November 16, 2023 Matt Rooney Election 2024 0

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Direct election of U.S. senators wasn’t always the case; it was viewed as a necessary reform. One infamous instance in the late 19th century involved our immediate neighbor to the south (Delaware) lacking representation in the U.S. Senate for two whole years owing to an epic impasse in its state legislature. Reformers believed, perhaps understandably, that the people would produce better results than the bosses and their hand-chosen state representatives.

The law of unintended consequences had other ideas. Cory Booker is no Daniel Webster, folks, as if you needed me to tell you!

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A crook, an evil queen and an empty suit (who donated his suit to the Smithsonian).

Is this the best we can do? Really?

Even for New Jersey, notorious for making questionable electoral choices, this primary constitutes a new low. We’re slumming it and it shows in the results.

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Time to get out the Constitutional Eraser and repeal a bunch of “amendments” the 16th, 17th, 25th, 26th, and 27th.

While we are at it, time to enact  term limits on ALL elective federal offices to ZERO consecutive terms in the same office.  And, let’s put some teeth in the 9th and 10th!

Argh!

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RANT: The Real Story About Al Shifa Hospital, Hamas and Israel

Tuesday, November 21, 2023

https://sonar21.com/the-real-story-about-al-shifa-hospital-hamas-and-israel/

The Real Story About Al Shifa Hospital, Hamas and Israel
15 November 2023 by Larry Johnson

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A tip of the hat to Bernard at Moon of Alabama. He has a knack for finding hidden gems and his latest is a doozy. Most of the media is peddling Israel’s Big Lie that Hamas has its headquarters and the hostages underneath Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza.

Israel-Gaza war: US says Hamas has command centre under Al-Shifa hospital – BBC – November 14 2023

But Bernard then links to an astonishing article from 2014. DID YOU GET THAT? Nine years ago — July 29, 2014 to be precise — The Tablet published this: Top Secret Hamas Command Bunker in Gaza Revealed. To quote Yogi Berra, it is Deja Vu all over again. Check out what was published in The Tablet for yourself.

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Now isn’t that hoot.  The ISRAELIs built it. 

Reminds me of Bush’s claim about Iraq have WMDs.  How did we know?  Because we sold them to him.

Argh!

Trust nothing.

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DISCOURAGING: Africa IS “dependent on handouts…and philanthropic intervention.”

Monday, November 20, 2023

[TIP ‘o’ the HAT to: FARK for highlighting this one ]

https://www.fark.com/comments/13049658/165664230/I-dont-know-what-MrBeast-is-but-apparently-he-built-a-bunch-of-fresh-water-wells-in-Africa-with-his-own-money-Some-have-a-problem-with-that-because-of-reasons#c165664230

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https://www.outkick.com/mrbeast-hears-it-from-critics-wells-in-africa/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

MrBeast Is Hearing It From Critics After He Built 100 Wells In Africa…And That’s Completely Insane
by Matt Reigle November 8, 2023, 2:05 pm 

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YouTuber MrBeast is no stranger to critics, but those criticisms usually come in places you’d expect. Criticisms of his videos or his burger chain, stuff like that. What you wouldn’t expect is to see people pounce on the 25-year-old for providing drinking water to half a million people across Africa, but guess what? it happened.

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Take Saran Kaba Jones, founder and CEO of FACE Africa, for instance. According to CNN, that’s an organization that aims to improve water infrastructure and sanitation in Sub-Saharan Africa.

“I’ve been doing this for 15 years, but we’ve been struggling to continue the work because funding, awareness, and advocacy all take work,” Jones said.

That’s all true. So then she must have been pretty jazzed that MrBeast decided to use his gobs of money to help in this endeavor instead of buying another Island or filling a swimming pool with Fanta or whatever it is he does.

Nope. She told CNN this: “(O)vernight, this person comes along, who happens to be a white male figure with a huge platform, and all of a sudden, he gets all of the attention. It’s kind of frustrating, but it’s also understanding the nature of how the world is.”

Wait, wait, wait. Hold the phone here. Shouldn’t she be ecstatic that half a million people have access to water and now there’s way more attention brought to it?

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So, it’s less important that ½ MILLION should get access to clean water than he took the spotlight for doing it.

Sorry, her ego got hurt.

And, later on in the article an “aspiring politician” is upset that it appears Africa is “dependent on handouts…and philanthropic intervention.” 

Well it is.  I’ve been hearing about “poor Africans” for more than SIX DECADES.  And, I’d assert that the reason they are poor is that the politicians and bureaucrats are robbing them blind.  In conjunction with the colonial powers that like them just that way.  Gandhi showed a nation how to free themselves, but did NOT show them how to get rid of the parasitic drone class.

Argh!

I’m speechless.  

Perhaps, the Second Amendment is the way to rid oneself of the oppression of dictators.

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