Google is using artificial intelligence to expand its technology that alerts people about life-threatening floods and wildfires.
— Read on nypost.com/2022/11/03/google-launching-free-life-saving-iphone-and-android-feature/
Doing good!
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INTERESTING: Where is Africa, Europe, South America, and the USA actually?
Friday, November 4, 2022Misconceptions
Some common geographic mental misplacements
John Nelson
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So what are some tantalizing locational mistakes that seemingly come pre-installed in American students’ minds that geography teachers wrestle to overcome?
So glad you asked! Here is a cherry-picked handful of examples that we’ll dive into…
- The northiness of Africa
- The northiness of Europe
- The eastiness of South America
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I think I knew these but it was good to get a feel for EXACTLY where these places are.
How does your mental map square with reality?
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ECONOMICS: Social Security is a Ponzi scheme that is a national disaster and getting worse
Thursday, November 3, 20227 Facts Biden Ignored About Social Security in His Speech to Florida Retirees
Rachel Greszler / November 02, 2022
- Rachel Greszler is a research fellow in economics, budget, and entitlements in the Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget, of the Institute for Economic Freedom, at The Heritage Foundation. Read her research.
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Social Security is a bad deal for current and future workers. Social Security may have been a good deal for Biden’s generation, but it’s not a good deal for current and future workers. A Heritage Foundation analysis showed that the average younger worker could receive nearly three times as much as Social Security can provide if they were instead able to save Social Security taxes in their own retirement accounts. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.) Even low-wage workers making about $20,000 a year could have 40% larger incomes in retirement as a result of saving on their own. And personal savings can be passed on to family members or friends, something that’s especially important for lower-income Americans, who are less likely to be able to save outside of Social Security and also for individuals with shorter life expectancies. One in five black men will die between the ages of 45 and 65, meaning they will pay tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars into Social Security and could get little or nothing in return.
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It’s often been asserted and proved that Social Security is a racist program that transfers wealth from poor minority men to rich white women.
If for no other reason, it needs to be eliminated. I’m sure the financial gurus can transform the unfunded liabilities fairly. Yes, it will be painful and not pretty. I can foresee the under 40 participants getting a 25+ year bonds for their “benefit”. The 40 to 67 get a similar but non-transferable bond ladder. Current recipients will have to be paid out of the current budget. It’s going to require pain, but it’s better than future financial disaster when all the politicians and bureaucrats who created the mess are long dead.
Argh!
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GUNS: Could the US Gooferment ever sieze all the guns?
Thursday, November 3, 2022FROM QUORA
Kelly Jones
Knows a bit about firearms, and about physics
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If firearm confiscation were to become law, and gun owners fought against it, how many fatalities of either police or civilians would gun control activists be willing to accept before abandoning the effort?
Why would there be ANY fatalities?
Let’s think about the sides here:
On one side, you have gun owners, who aren’t willing to surrender their rights. They have guns.
On that same side, you have police, who (for the most part) are in favor of ‘civilian’ ownership of guns, and who (for the most part) have taken an oath to defend the constitution. They, also, have guns.
The only ones on the other side are the misguided citizens and politicians who illegally voted for gun confiscation. They, for the most part, have no guns. How, exactly, are they going to pose a lethal threat to the other side? This just seems like a non-starter, and possibly the shortest conflict ever.
The only question is, how will the victors handle those who sought to deprive them of their rights?
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Sorry, but it is an interesting “thought experiment”.
I’d think it would be interesting to consider what would happen in the “inner city” first. I’ve often written that the drug gangs would be a fine example of a guerrilla militia since Viet Nam. Farmed by day; warrior by night. The police can’t currently control the guns in the streets today under today’s rules. What will happen if the elite Gooferment officials (i.e., ivory tower politicians and bureaucrats) declare it “open season”. I doubt that police would enforce those orders.
Now let’s consider what happens in the rural areas where the average hunter may have better and more practiced with arms. That’s not going to be pretty.
Now let’s consider all the arm chair keyboard warriors. I’d bet that half give up their guns, but the other half would give a good account of “from my cold dead hands”. That will be be a blood bath.
In short, it would be short, bloody, and a reaffirmation of the RKBA.
Consider that in the USA there are probably a lot more guns than people. And, those trains will not be loading willing participants.
Most patriots will remember the Holocaust, the Japanese American interment, the Trail of Tears, and Gooferment’s violent history of suppression here and abroad.
Yes, how will the trials after work out for the gun grabbers.
Hope it never comes to that.
Peace.
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How physics and a video game trick forever changed the NASCAR Championships
Wednesday, November 2, 2022If you’ve ever driven a car, you know how important it is for your tires to grip the road. As long as your tires aren’t slipping along the road, you remain in control of your vehicle; when you turn your steering wheel, the angle at which your tires grip the road changes, propelling you forward with an accompanying change in direction.
Source: How physics and a video game trick forever changed the NASCAR Championships
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For whatever it’s worth, Chastain’s final lap time, where he incorporated this video game-inspired strategy into his driving, was 18.845 seconds: the fastest lap in the 75 year history of this track. The move will likely inspire copycats in the future, forcing NASCAR to evaluate the dangers inherent in wall-riding during the final lap. At some point, they’ll have to make a decision as to whether this risky maneuver will remain legal, or whether the risks are too great to allow it.
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One always has to look at the “constraints” to see if you can “cheat” nature and win.
A good lesson for anyone tempted to “follow the crowd”.
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POLITICAL: Here’s a lady ranting about human trafficking — who care who doesn’t want to hear it
Wednesday, November 2, 2022https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/118/819/695/playable/c7220434ede8c9b5.mp4
Lara is asking important questions, you may not like how she asks them and the fact she is asking them; I love it. Bravery
Dr. Paul Alexander
Oct 26
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There’s no transcript of @Laura Logan’s rant but in a nutshell she points to human trafficking of children across the border who then “disappear” to who knows where.
That’s upsetting and outrageous. These children are human beings and deserve to be treated humanely.
It also brings to mind Epstein’s and Maxwell’s “little black book of Clients” that has never been disclosed.
The Gooferment is immoral, ineffective, and inefficient. As well as untrustworthy. And, this lady needs o ur support to expose the truth.
Argh!
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TINFOILHAT: FDA in complicity & collusion with CDC & Pfizer were NEVER … going for approval
Tuesday, November 1, 2022FDA in complicity & collusion with CDC & Pfizer were NEVER ever going to grant BLA ‘full’ licensure approval of COVID vaccine; was going to keep it ALWAYS on EUA; why? ineffective & harmful, could not pass thresholds to get full BLA, vaccine could not be granted BLA as is too harmful, FDA knew it & gave placebo group vaccine so study was OVER, only way then is via child immunization schedule
Dr. Paul Alexander
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… was explained this by FDA and CDC high level officials on condition of anonymity. FDA with the vaccine makers had their plan ALWAYS never ever grant BLA for the vaccine could not pass that test, and FDA officials knew they would go to jail for the vaccine killed and they could not get past that, so kept it on EUA, so always was headed to children immunization schedule, they concocted that scheme.
The American people have been defrauded and been lied to day one by FDA, CDC, NIH etc. All the officials. These are not just inept people, they are corruptible.
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Seems like a “special prosecutor” is in order.
Personally, I always thought it was strange when the placebo group was vaccinated before the end of the trial.
They didn’t want any honest “study” of the drug. Tootin foil hat much money involved.
Special place in hell.
As tin foil hat Conspiracy Theories go, I’d call the a “Government & Commercial” one that is “3. More likely than not”!
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GUNS: Armed citizen stops attack on pregnant woman
Monday, October 31, 2022Armed citizen stops attack on pregnant woman outside Florida grocery store
By Cam Edwards | 11:30 AM on October 26, 2022
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A bystander drew his gun on a man accused of beating and stomping on his pregnant girlfriend outside a Publix super market, ending the “brutal” attack, Florida deputies say. The incident occurred around 5:15 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 22, in the parking lot of the Largo grocery store, according to an arrest affidavit. The woman told Pinellas County deputies that her boyfriend, Cole Danisment, 27, got angry and punched her in the face repeatedly. She fell to the ground, and Danisment is then accused of stomping on her head and upper body.
The woman told deputies that Danisment knew she was 14 weeks pregnant with his unborn child. A man who witnessed the attack said he feared for the woman’s life, prompting him to intervene. Danisment didn’t stop brutalizing the woman until the witness pulled a gun on him, according to the affidavit.
According to police, Danisment had a no-contact order issued just last week after another domestic violence arrest that prohibited him from being anywhere near the woman he allegedly assaulted. That court order didn’t stop him from allegedly carrying out the brutal assault of his girlfriend, obviously. It took a stranger who was lawfully carrying concealed to bring the attack to a close without it escalating any further.
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Court orders don’t protect victims. A gun gives them a fighting chance.
The court order should come with a loaner gun and quick training session from the local sheriff or deputy.
And, if the domestic violence suspect comes close enough to be shot, then that is a de facto “good shooting”.
“God made men and women; Sam Colt made them equal.” — Unknown
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Man in Nazi uniform kicked out of Manhattan bar
Sunday, October 30, 2022A man in a Nazi uniform was intimidated into leaving a Soho bar as patrons shamed and threatened him.
— Read on nypost.com/2022/10/30/man-in-nazi-uniform-kicked-out-of-manhattan-bar/
Lucky he didn’t get punched in the face!
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POLITICAL: Repeal the 17th and use their Home State discipline them
Sunday, October 30, 2022REPORT: Menendez under investigation… again?
October 26, 20221 min read Matt Rooney
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Allegations of unethical (or worse) behavior have dogged Bob Menendez for as long as he’s been in Washington. His 2017 bribery trial ended in a mistrial.
Is he under investigation… again?
According to Kadia Goba of Semafor, “[p]rosecutors in the Southern District of New York have contacted people connected to [U.S. Senator] Menendez in recent weeks” and “have sent at least one subpoena in the case.”
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Remember when US Senators were held to high standards by their State Legislators? One wiff of scandal or impropriety and they were recalled and replaced.
There also were no such things as “unfunded mandates”.
Argh!
Repeal the 17th and eliminate “carpetbagging” and cut some of the money going into elections!
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TINFOILHAT: Is Katy Perry’s eye a vaccine injury? And who is preventing her from tweeting about it?
Saturday, October 29, 2022https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/is-katy-perrys-eye-a-vaccine-injury#poll-27581
Is Katy Perry’s eye a vaccine injury?
- If I had to guess, I’d say “yes.” Here’s my reasoning.
Steve Kirsch
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Here’s the story of Katy Perry’s eye.
Here’s the video… 16.4M views.
First off, let’s eliminate the obvious.
Katy Perry has a “wonk” eye, but it is her left eye. She admits this in this video from 2011. Now how can we be sure the video wasn’t mirrored and it’s really her right eye? We can ascertain this because the candy bar she shows at 00:35 into the video is correctly displayed so we can read the writing. So the video isn’t mirrored. It’s her left eye.
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If it was the vaccine, she wouldn’t be able to admit it.
The fact that she has said nothing about this on her Twitter feed is also very suspicious. Everyone is talking about this. So it means there isn’t an explanation for this incident that she is allowed to share with the public that the public will believe (that is consistent with what we all observed).
So I’m guessing a COVID vaccine side effect.
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Who would be motivated to shut her up?
Celebrities tweet about everything all the time. Why not about this?
Who has enough power to get her to keep quiet for what ever it is and whatever caused it.
AND, if it is a vaccine injury, then we need to know?
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GUNS: Responsible gun owner stop s robbery with no shots fired
Friday, October 28, 2022I will take ‘concealed carry’ anytime over the knife, see what this piece of garbage faced when he pulled the knife on the supermarket cashier; gun owner was responsible, others might have opened up
Dr. Paul Alexander
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Every time I get engaged about concealed carry it seems to be after a disaster (i.e., young girl killed by a shot at a fleeing criminal). I’m forced to defend the principle in a specific bad example.
Here’s a good example of the principle in action. No shots fired; no one hurt; and robber stopped cold.
Concealed carry does NOT equal “Wild West” shootouts. (Which by the way were very rare. “An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.” — Robert A. Heinlein)
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INTERESTING: How fast is gravity, exactly? Fast enough to make my head hurt thinking about it.
Friday, October 28, 2022https://bigthink.com/hard-science/speed-of-gravity/
Hard Science — October 24, 2022
How fast is gravity, exactly?
- Thanks to observations of gravitational waves, scientists were able to settle a longstanding debate over the speed of gravity.
Key Takeaways
- Throughout history, scientists have proposed many answers for the exact speed of gravity.
- Broadly speaking, the two main propositions have been that gravity is either infinitely fast or as fast as the speed of the light.
- Thanks to observations of gravitational waves recorded in 2017, we now know that gravity and light travel at the same speed.
Don Lincoln
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While gravitational radiation was predicted back in 1916, it took scientists nearly a century to develop the technology to detect it. To detect these distortions, scientists take two tubes, each about 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) long, and orient them at 90 degrees, so they form an “L.” They then use a combination of mirrors and lasers to measure the length of both of the legs. Gravitational radiation will change the length of the two tubes differently, and if they see the right pattern of changes of length, they have observed gravitational waves.
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So, that’s the answer. Gravity and light travel at the same speed, determined by a precise measurement. It validates Einstein once again, and it hints at something profound about the nature of space. Scientists hope one day to fully understand why these two very different phenomena have identical speeds.
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Not only do I NOT understand the point that they are making. It gives me a headache to read about it. YMMV, but all the same very interesting.
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TINFOILHAT: Where is James Gordon Meek?
Thursday, October 27, 2022ABC Journalist James Gordon Meek Still Missing After FBI Raided His Home in April
- Meek covered many sensitive topics in his career. Did he come across something that frightened the government?
Posted by Mary Chastain Monday, October 24, 2022 at 07:00am
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In April, the FBI raided ABC investigative journalist James Gordon Meek’s apartment. People “believe the raid is among the first — and quite possibly, the first — to be carried out on a journalist by the Biden administration.”
Are we in China?
No one knows for sure why the FBI targeted Meek, who once worked as a senior counterterrorism advisor and investigator for the House Homeland Security Committee.
No one has seen or talked to Meek since the raid.
Believe it or not, Rolling Stone broke the story five days ago. John Antonelli described the raid at the Arlington, VA, apartment complex. It sounds like something right out of a movie, someone who committed a vicious crime:
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Could the raid have anything to do with Meek’s last tweet? It implied that we have been helping Ukraine much more than the administration told us. In fact, the help has been happening since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014.
Meek’s last tweet:
Actually, it started long time ago…we learned this between 2014-2022. Not just now. It was an 8 year lab experiment on Russian TTPs. On EW. On everything. This is why Ukrainians (with our advise/assist) r doing so well. Ask those in IC and UW communities. We learned a shit ton.
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The White House press corps should ask Karine Jean-Pierre about Meek every day. Every administration official should be asked about Meek when addressing reporters.
Where is James Gordon Meek?
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Will we EVER get an answer? Just how out of control is the Gooferment?
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HEALTH: Do your own research before vaccination or don’t be surprised if bad things happen later
Wednesday, October 26, 2022Stanford tells doctors to give false information in order to overcome vaccine hesitancy
- I found a Stanford course used to train doctors worldwide on how to overcome vaccine hesitancy. Basically, they tell doctors to give false information. They truly believe the false narrative.
Steve Kirsch
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One of the references is to a paper on why people resisted making the HPV vaccine mandatory. I can tell you why people resisted the HPV vaccine… that vaccine is the second most dangerous vaccine in VAERS, that’s why. Only the COVID vaccines are more dangerous. It has 3 times the number of adverse events that all other vaccines combined at the time it was introduced. That’s why!
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I am now officially an “anti-vaxer”. Before I take another one, I’ll have to be really convinced it’s “safe and effective”.
Argh!
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‘Speed of Science’ — A Scandal Beyond Your Wildest Nightmare
Tuesday, October 25, 2022In conclusion, there’s no reason to trust government ever again, at least not in the U.S., which stands alone in pushing the jab on toddlers. (The reason for that, as mentioned earlier, is probably to get the jabs onto the childhood vaccination schedule, which will shield the vaccine makers from financial liability for harms.) As noted by GB News host Neil Oliver in the video above, the very basis for COVID mandates or vaccine passports — that everyone had to get jabbed for the greater good, to protect others and help end the pandemic — was a deliberate lie from the start.
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The primary questions that still remain unanswered are: Why was this script created? What are its intended consequences? And, who created it? As mentioned earlier, the evidence suggests harm is an intended outcome — harm to our economy, our social order, our health, our life span and reproductive capacity.
As for “why,” we can just look at what has been accomplished so far. Assuming the consequences were intentional, the “why” appears to be wealth transfer, depopulation and the creation of a one world government.
Source: ‘Speed of Science’ — A Scandal Beyond Your Wildest Nightmare
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POLITICAL: The bureaucrats are not our friends and we shouldn’t trust anything they say
Tuesday, October 25, 2022The Authorities Are Our Enemies
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2022/10/21/the-authorities-are-our-enemies/
Guest Post by Jim Kunstler
— via my feedly newsfeed
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As if there has not already been enough official fuckery over the lab-birthed Covid-19 virus, the CDC’s Vaccine Advisory Committee voted on Thursday to add Pfizer’s and Moderna’s mRNA shots to its childhood vaccine schedule.
The vote was 15 to 0 — a final supreme gesture of contempt for the people of this land.
Had none of the committee members seen reports of mRNA-vaccinated children dropping dead from myocarditis induced by the vaccines? Or read about the effect of the vaxxes on the reproductive organs? Or the enhanced incidence of cancer? Or heard about the damage that the shots instigate in human immune systems? If not, that would be astounding. The news is all over the place (if not in the mainstream news media). Was any of this discussed in their deliberations? I don’t think so, but we may never know.
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Hopefully, “We, The Sheeple” will NOT “vax” anyone any more. It may take decades to get “the truth”. Like JFK’s assassination, we may never know.
“I wouldn’t believe you, if your tongue came notarized.” … attributed to Judge Marilyn Milian, but may have an earlier history.
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VOCABULARY: “Weaponized Governmental Failure”
Monday, October 24, 2022https://www.zerohedge.com/political/weaponized-governmental-failure-primer
Weaponized Governmental Failure: A Primer
by Tyler Durden
Saturday, Oct 22, 2022 – 07:40 PM
Authored by Scott McKay via The American Spectator,
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Democrats rule over a ruin, but they rule…
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Let’s call it Weaponized Governmental Failure. It’s the single most explicative factor in the breakdown of American political consensus in the 21st century, even though it’s been around since the latter part of the 20th century.
The simple definition of Weaponized Governmental Failure is this: it’s the deliberate refusal to perform the basic tasks of urban governance for a specific political purpose.
The crime and the graft and the potholes and the bad drainage, not to mention the spotty trash collection or nonexistent snow shoveling, aren’t incompetence. In fact, none of what you see in the American public sector is incompetence. The people responsible for it are quite highly educated and well-trained in their craft. You just need to understand what their craft is.
It’s a choice to do a poor job with the more mundane tasks of running a city, and an educated and purposeful choice at that. If you do those things effectively, after all, what you will get is middle-class voters moving in. Middle-class voters tend to choose to live in places where they can expect to get actual value out of their tax dollars — good roads, safe streets, functional drainage, decent schools, a friendly business climate, and a growing economy, among other things — and those things are hard to produce when you govern the way the Left does.
Put a different way, middle-class voters are a pain in the ass.
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The politicians and bureaucrats are the drones of the human hive.
I have often posted that the Gooferment is immoral, ineffective, and inefficient. As well as untrustworthy. And to that “deliberately incompetent”.
Argh!
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NEWJERSEY: The mandatory newborn blood spot testing should be allowed as evidence
Monday, October 24, 2022https://www.forensicmag.com/591014-NJ-Bill-Limits-Use-of-Newborn-Dried-Bloodspot-Cards/
NJ Bill Limits Use of Newborn Dried Bloodspot Cards
10/18/2022, 8:12:46 PM · 4 of 4
JohnBovenmyer to nickcarraway
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Don’t throw the babies out with the bath water here. The mandatory newborn blood spot testing is essential for detecting several rare genetic diseases that can be treated if treatment is started very young, but that may not be treatable if diagnosis is delayed until the child becomes symptomatic. Realistically it’s the only chance these kids have. And it’s cost effective for the state as the often large medical expenses by those diagnosed too late tended to devolve on the states. Several diseases are tested for in essentially all states, some states have chosen to add to the basic list to be tested.
If states wish to limit access to this data beyond its original intentions that is their choice, and is certainly preferable to not having as close to 100% of kids tested as is possible. Alleged criminals deserve reasonable due process rights. Using these for DNA evidence should still be feasible if proper process and real judicial oversight is established. Legislatures and courts deal with similar issues routinely and should be able to handle this. What I can’t accept here and fear the woke soft on crime types would push is a novel principle that rapists can bar any DNA evidence they left behind from admittance on the grounds of self incrimination. Such should be as admissible as fingerprints and dropped wallets. If tech allows cops to more efficient at accurately catching crooks it is good for society and for both past and otherwise potential future victims of crime. I don’t want that genie back in its bottle. Still citizens, their elected representatives and their courts need to beware of the potential abuse of state powers, provide appropriate oversight and limits there.
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Seem like the “dropped wallet” analogy is appropriate.
And, the purpose is to save children from rare diseases. If a few bad guys get caught as a result, then that is just a Unintended Consequence dividend.
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NEWJERSEY: Why don’t “we” have those tire-rippers to prevent “wrong way” drivers?
Sunday, October 23, 2022Little Egg Harbor, Ocean County October 22, 2022
North Carolina And New Jersey Women Dead In Garden State Park Way Opposite Direction Head On Crash
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LITTLE EGG HARBOR, NJ (OCEAN)–Trooper II Charles Marchan from the NJ State Police Public Information Unit told MidJersey.News that Troopers responded to a motor vehicle crash at approximately 9:23 p.m. on the Garden State Parkway south at milepost 59.3, Little Egg Harbor Twp., Ocean County.
Based on a preliminary investigation Michelle L. Ross, a 50-year-old female of Asheville, North Carolina was operating a 2017 Mitsubishi Outlander on the Garden State Parkway South. Cortney L. Downey a 32-year-old female of Northfield, NJ was operating a Toyota Corolla on the Garden State Parkway South. In the area of milepost 59.3, an opposite direction head on collision occurred between the Mitsubishi and the Toyota. After impact, the Mitsubishi overturned. Both drivers sustained fatal injuries. The crash remains under investigation and there is no additional information available at the moment.
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Why don’t “we” have those tire-rippers that are common in parking lots? It would seem to me that this is an easy way to prevent these disasters.
Argh!
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: The Gooferment should have NO role in “flood Insurance”
Sunday, October 23, 2022https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/10/flood_insurance_a_modest_proposal.html
Flood Insurance: A Modest Proposal
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All of this raises a simple question. What is the best way to deal with this sort of natural disaster? Where I live, it’s an inconvenience from which I can easily recover. That’s a lot like Tornado Alley where some people die each year, but most are unaffected. And even though California gets a lot of earthquakes, most people aren’t seriously affected and, contrary to Red State fever dreams, California won’t slide into the Pacific Ocean with the next temblor, thus favorably altering the political balance of the country. In short, there are natural challenges everywhere. But a few places are more challenged than others.
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If every property owner had to purchase flood/hurricane insurance on an open market, it’s likely a lot would not be able to come up with the scratch. It would be just too rich for their blood. But in 1968, the Feds decided that it would be good to “help” out coastal communities. They would have to do some land use planning, but ultimately, the lure of higher local tax bases won out. Over time, subsidized rates became the norm as President Obama finalized them in 2014.
Subsidized flood insurance means that sensitive barrier island ecologies are disrupted by massive cancers of concrete, steel, and lumber. When a storm at sea leads to high waves and beach erosion, the State of Florida dumps millions of dollars harvested from inland on those beaches in the form of megatons of sand. “Someone’s home is about to be washed out to sea!”
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We must get the government out of the flood insurance business. Stopping it overnight is probably a bad idea because current owners have a legal “reliance interest” in the program. So a stepwise approach must be found. The simplest approach might be called the “Hurricane Ian” solution. Every building wiped out by the storm would fall under this proposal.
If you lost your home or business due to the storm and were covered by Federal flood insurance, the Feds should pay you the full pre-storm value of the property, including the dirt. Then, the Feds would turn the property over to the state for full demolition and return to nature with a deed restriction that prevents construction on the site. Obviously, there would be an exception for basic park facilities such as parking lots and restrooms, but residences of any sort would be completely forbidden. In a subsequent storm, those would be relatively inexpensive and easy to rebuild.
In our current example, Sanibel Island would become a State Park nature preserve instead of a high-end residential community. The high rise resorts would go away, either because room rents were too high for most or because storm damage was severe. Much of Fort Myers Beach would undergo the same treatment. But neither area would be eligible for building.
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The only losers in this approach would be the people who simply “can’t” give up their beach lifestyle and the municipalities that would see their tax base shrink. I’ll shed a few crocodile tears for them.
Ted Noel MD is a retired Anesthesiologist/Intensivist who podcasts and posts on social media as DoctorTed and @vidzette. His DoctorTed podcasts are available on many podcast channels.
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I most heartily agree. And, while “taxation is theft”, we can never allow our search for liberty to get in the way of a good idea to get us “more freedom”.
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VOCABULARY: “Gaslighting” — to sow self-doubt and confusion in their victim’s mind
Saturday, October 22, 2022https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/hopkins-gaslighting-masses
Hopkins: The Gaslighting Of The Masses
by Tyler Durden
Sunday, Oct 16, 2022 – 11:30 PM
Authored by CJ Hopkins via The Consent Factory,
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nstead, I want to focus on one particularly effective mind-control technology, one that has done a lot of heavy lifting throughout the implementation of the New Normal and is doing a lot of heavy-lifting currently. I want to do that because many people mistakenly believe that mind-control is either (a) a “conspiracy theory” or (b) something that can only be achieved with drugs, microwaves, surgery, torture, or some other invasive physical means. Of course, there is a vast and well-documented history of the use of such invasive physical technologies (see, e.g., the history of the CIA’s infamous MKULTRA program), but in many instances mind-control can be achieved through much less elaborate techniques.
One of the most basic and effective techniques that cults, totalitarian systems, and individuals with fascistic personalities use to disorient and control people’s minds is “gaslighting.” You’re probably familiar with the term. If not, here are a few definitions:
“the manipulation of another person into doubting their perceptions, experiences, or understanding of events.” American Psychological Association
“an insidious form of manipulation and psychological control. Victims of gaslighting are deliberately and systematically fed false information that leads them to question what they know to be true, often about themselves. They may end up doubting their memory, their perception, and even their sanity.” Psychology Today
“a form of psychological manipulation in which the abuser attempts to sow self-doubt and confusion in their victim’s mind. Typically, gaslighters are seeking to gain power and control over the other person, by distorting reality and forcing them to question their own judgment and intuition.” Newport Institute
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IMHO the whole Covid fiasco from start to finish has been “gaslighting” the world’s population. The politicians and bureaucrats did this to transfers huge amounts of wealth into Big Pharma.
Argh!
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HEALTH: It’s irresponsible to report “covid deaths” as a fact
Friday, October 21, 2022Health & Fitness
COVID Added To Vaccine Schedule, New Strains Hit NJ
New Jersey also reported its highest number of COVID hospitalizations since early August.
Josh Bakan, Patch Staff Verified Patch Staff Badge
Posted Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 10:21 am ET
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Forty-three people in New Jersey died from the virus in the past week, according to the CDC. Federal officials reported about 2,400 deaths from COVID complications around the nation during that timeframe.
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It’s irresponsible to report “covid deaths” as a fact unless there is an autopsy. Based on the currently available reporting, the government facts as well as CDC / FDA data is at best “unreliable”. One has to question the narrative based on all the money flowing around “covid deaths”, the payoffs to Big Pharma, and lack of transparency. “I wouldn’t believe you, if your tongue came notarized.” … attributed to Judge Marilyn Milian, but may have an earlier history.
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TECHNOLOGY: Building a community ISP — Comcast and AT&T should be concerned
Friday, October 21, 2022Building a community ISP —
Comcast wanted $210,000 for Internet—so this man helped expand a co-op fiber ISP
Fed up with Comcast and AT&T, Silicon Valley residents started their own network.
Jon Brodkin – 10/17/2022, 8:48 AM
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Sasha Zbrozek lives in Los Altos Hills, California, which he describes as “a wealthy Silicon Valley town,” in a house about five miles from Google’s headquarters. But after moving in December 2019, Zbrozek says he learned that Comcast never wired his house—despite previously telling him it could offer Internet service at the address.
Today, Zbrozek is on the board of a co-op ISP called Los Altos Hills Community Fiber (LAHCF), which provides multi-gigabit fiber Internet to dozens of homes and has a plan to serve hundreds more. Town residents were able to form the ISP with the help of Next Level Networks, which isn’t a traditional consumer broadband provider but a company that builds and manages networks for local groups.
Zbrozek’s experience with Comcast led to him getting involved with LAHCF and organizing an expansion that brought 10Gbps symmetrical fiber to his house and others on nearby roads. Zbrozek described his experience to Ars in a phone interview and in emails.
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Remember that cable tv started as a community effort to get better TV reception. Perhaps this is a way to escape cable companies and their contracts and high prices.
Now with these folks it wasn’t about money. For us poor folks, that’s too much of a capital expense.
I wonder about the possibilities.
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TECHNOLOGY: TNF picture isn’t very good
Thursday, October 20, 2022Watching Thursday Night Football on Amazon Prime. I think the picture stinks. Is it just me?
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Surprise there is a a shortage of … … some thing the Gooferment “manages”!
Thursday, October 20, 2022https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/10/californias_water_supply_falls_victim_to_crt.html
americanthinker.com
California’s Water Supply Falls Victim to CRT
By Don A. Wright
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When did the board’s mandate change from a bureaucracy administering water rights to an arbitrator and avenger of perceived injustices? At exactly the same moment the people of California stopped holding their government accountable because they thought someone else would do it for them. It gets serious when your family’s food supply can be negatively impacted.
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William Rusher, the editor of the conservative National Review, quoted economist Milton Friedman as saying that “if the government were to take over the Sahara Desert, there would be a shortage of sand in five years.”
Here we have a Gooferment taking over water and now there is a shortage?
Like anything else, the invisible hand of the fee market would do much better job of allocating a scarce resource. If folks paid for water and the price went up, the usual behavior would be conservation and alternatives.
Anyone in the Pepuls Republik of Kaliforkneeah considering desalinization? I hear is works well in Israel.
Argh!
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