I’ve hunkered down due to the snow.
In my younger days, I’d be out and about.
I think these politicians are really obnoxious. “Travel bans”! It’s like they think they are Kings!
Argh!
It’s snow. If you go out and get stuck, that’s your problem.
All this does is empower the Nanny State to convince us that we are too stupid to take care of ourselves and make decisions about what we need to do and what risks we will take to get those important things done.
Argh!
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http://nypost.com/2016/01/21/the-nfl-conspiracy-theory-freaking-out-patriots-fans/
The NFL conspiracy theory freaking out Patriots fans
By Jonathan Lehman January 21, 2016 | 11:11am
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That fear picked up some fodder when the Boston Herald pointed out the Broncos are undefeated in games refereed by Hochuli. What’s more: The Patriots, despite their off-the-charts winning percentage this decade, are 3-4 in Hochuli games since 2010, and he was the ref who threw a crucial offensive pass interference flag against Rob Gronkowski in the Week 10 nail-biter against the Giants.
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Never bet on anything that talks and never doubt that EVERYTHING is fixed.
I bet the NFL brass would love to stick it to the PATS.
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http://www.garynorth.com/public/14715.cfm
We Have Passed the Tipping Point for American Liberalism
Gary North – January 11, 2016
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Then I got to thinking about the Khan Academy. In recent months, it has stated that it has over 26 million enrolled students. This is in 190 countries. So, I went to Alexa.com to see what percentage of the site’s traffic is from the United States. It is approximately 50%. Inside the United States, the site is ranked number 522. This is incredibly high.
I realize that some of their students are in public school settings. But I don’t think many of them are. A few selected schools use the Khan Academy. I am convinced the overwhelming majority of these enrolled students are homeschoolers.
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I’m not saying that we are winning this ideologically. I am saying that we are winning it institutionally and administratively.
The institutions are moving towards decentralization. This is anathema to the welfare-warfare statists. They are literally losing control, even if Salman Khan is not radically challenging the content of humanistic education. He is certainly no radical. He is a graduate of the Harvard Business School. His outlook and his teaching methods are going to shape the minds of tens of millions of students around the world. More important, they are going to shape the learning environments of these students. He is pulling them out of state-run classrooms.
The children who are coming up through the Khan Academy today go at their own pace. Nobody tells them what to do and when to do it. They take exams, and if they pass the exams, they go on to the next level. There is no one nagging them. There is no one telling them that class is over because a bell has rung. They are not being regimented.
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Remember the purpose of the Prussian education model: cannon fodder for the Army, willing morons for the factories, and useful idiots to vote for and be led by the elite!
I hope that the author is correct.
It can’t happen fast enough to get this country back on track.
Separation of Education and State will go a long way to restoring the American vigor.
Argh!
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http://patch.com/new-jersey/southbrunswick/taco-bell-nixed-south-brunswick-zoning-board
Taco Bell Nixed By South Brunswick Zoning Board
Adios, Taco Bell. A diner and a White Castle will be coming soon near Rt. 1 North at New Road, however.
South Brunswick, NJ
By CARLY BALDWIN (Patch Staff) January 15, 2016 2:31 pm ET
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South Brunswick, NJ – You’ll have to drive elsewhere if you want some Taco Bell.
The South Brunswick Zoning Board rejected a proposal to build a Taco Bell on Rt. 1 North at New Road. The board shot down the proposal in a 5-2 vote Thursday night, according to TAPInto.
Neighbors of the lot would be negatively affected by a Taco Bell, board members said.
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“(The lot) is not big enough (for another type of restaurant),” he said, according to TapInto. “We have to think about what we are going to put there (if not Taco Bell).”
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Sorry, but this is wrong.
The South Brunswick Zoning Board should not be in the business of picking winners and losers.
If some one is will to gamble their money putting it there, then who are these bureaucrats to say that they can’t?
Argh!
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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/01/17/two-virginia-men-arrested-on-terror-charges.html?intcmp=hplnws
CONSPIRACIES – PLOTST
wo Virginia men arrested on terror charges
Published January 17, 2016 Associated Press
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According to court documents filed in the case, Farrokh asked for help getting to Syria from a person who he didn’t know was an informant for the FBI. He later met with two other FBI informants he believed were people who could help him join the Islamic State group. Court documents say Farrokh expressed concerns about trusting the men and said he didn’t want to go to jail. At one meeting with them, however, he agreed to swear an oath of allegiance, court documents said. He also allegedly said that he wanted to die a martyr but did ask if his wife and family could eventually join him in Syria. He said he had other ways to get to Syria in the past that weren’t secure and needed a connection because he didn’t want to get arrested.
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Why is there always some Gooferment help for these fools to fall into a trap?
Entrapment?
Makes me wonder.
IF these guys couldn’t figure out how to buy a plane ticket, THEN how dangerous could they be?
Better they are over there, than staying here.
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2 dead, several injured as storms rip through Florida
Published January 17, 2016 FoxNews.com
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Florida officials say two adults have been killed and four children have been seriously injured after two suspected tornadoes swept through central Florida early Sunday.
The dead and injured were all members of the same family and living in a mobile home in Duette, Fla., near Tampa.
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One would think that “we” could build “mobile homes” that could keep folks safe. Or why do “we” permit them at all?
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District leaders furious Walmart breaking promise to build stores in poor neighborhoods
By Aaron C. Davis and Sarah Halzack January 15 at 8:41 PM
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Walmart abruptly announced Friday that it was abandoning a promise to build stores in Washington’s poorest neighborhoods, an agreement that had been key to the deal allowing the retailer to begin operating in the nation’s capital.
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Simple answer is why didn’t you insist that the poor neighborhood stores be build first?
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http://www.sbnation.com/2016/1/10/10743904/steelers-bengals-joey-porter-foul
The late penalty that doomed the Bengals was provoked by a Steelers coach illegally on the field
By Cyd Zeigler @CydZeigler on Jan 11, 2016, 7:33a
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In thinking back on that game, there was a lot of action on the field by players not in the game, spectators, and various coaches.
That’s just not right.
Seems like we need a rule like hockey’s third man in rule. I’d keep the coaches, bystanders, and not-in-the-game players off the field. Like a TWO game misconduct!
Sorry, but “the game” is sacrosanct. What the players do is what should matter; not anything else.
The various administrators of the game should take steps to protect the integrity of the game.
Basketball coaches are restricted to their “box”.
Ditto for the other sports.
Argh!
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https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/01/walter-e-williams/bunch-liars-minimum-wage/
Minimum Wage Dishonesty
By Walter E. Williams
January 12, 2016
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During South Africa’s apartheid era, the secretary of its avowedly racist Building Workers’ Union, Gert Beetge, said, “There is no job reservation left in the building industry, and in the circumstances, I support the rate for the job (minimum wage) as the second-best way of protecting our white artisans.” The South African Economic and Wage Commission of 1925 reported that “while definite exclusion of the Natives from the more remunerative fields of employment by law has not been urged upon us, the same result would follow a certain use of the powers of the Wage Board under the Wage Act of 1925, or of other wage-fixing legislation. The method would be to fix a minimum rate for an occupation or craft so high that no Native would be likely to be employed.”
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Walter Williams is among my favorite author / economists.
He often drives a metaphorical dagger into the hearts of the phony liberals, politicians, and bureaucrats!
In this specific case, the “minimum wage”.
The liberal politicians use it to demonstrate how much they care about the poor. All they care about is getting their votes.
I can’t think of a more destructive diktat then this.
I learned this lesson when the rising Federal minimum wage “forced” AT&T to automate all their elevators. While some of the all women elevator force were able to be placed in other higher skilled jobs, many were not and were fired. I know one personally who never worked again because the minimum wage cost more than she could produce.
Anecdotal? Sure. But that doesn’t make it real.
Look at the black youth unemployment rate and tell me that isn’t real either.
Argh!
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http://www.globalhealingcenter.com/natural-health/hot-dogs-can-be-a-risk-factor-for-your-health/
Hot Dogs: Questions and Answers
by Dr. Edward Group DC, NP, DACBN, DCBCN, DABFM
Published on December 22, 2015, Last Updated on December 14, 2015
Consuming Hot Dogs Can Be Harmful to Your Health
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Multiple studies have determined that consumption of hot dogs can be a risk factor for childhood cancer.
Peters et al studied the relationship between the intake of certain foods and the risk of leukemia in children from birth to age 10 in Los Angeles County between 1980 and 1987. The study found that children who ate more than twelve hot dogs per month had nine times the normal risk of developing childhood leukemia.
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I love bacon and I ate hot dogs.
Remember that old quote that “Swift once bragged that his slaughterhouses had become so sophisticated that they used “everything but the squeal.”?
Since I’ve retired, probably starting back when I became “old” somehow, and started dating a pescatarian, I’ve been working on my diet. This story about nitrites didn’t surprise me.
Thanks to Weekly NutritionFacts.org Videos by Michael Greger, M.D. http://nutritionfacts.org/video/is-bacon-good-or-is-spinach-bad/ I knew that cured meats — like bacon, ham and hot dogs — were killers and why.
That’s not to say I don’t fall off the wagon with bacon or hot dogs or other meats.
But maybe the sauerkraut on the hot dog helps?
Boy, I miss them.
However, if I want to live to a 1,000, bye bye everything but fruit, nuts, and plants.
Laff, when I’m diagnosed as terminal, BOY! am I going to enjoy that time.
Sigh!
Till then, no fun eating.
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