NEWJERSEY: Time for some judges and prseecutors to be fired!

Monday, February 24, 2025

https://nj1015.com/violent-record-roman-romanovskiy-nj-man-charged-murder-lauren-saldana/?lh_aid=84349&lh_cid=7kirmfg475&di=a842a82fc065ea5c55c94d390ad9f7cd

NJ courts kept letting him go until mom of 4 was killed in front of her kids
Erin Vogt
Published: February 10, 2025

  • Lauren Saldana, 38, was strangled to death
  • The murder suspect has a long history of violence
  • Victim’s daughter now pursues justice

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Prosecutors and judges kept giving him new chances. And he kept returning to his girlfriend’s life.

It was a decades-long cycle of brutal violence and lenient justice that came to a head on Jan. 9 in South Brunswick when Roman Romanovskiy, not for the first time, placed his rage-filled hands around the neck of a woman, police said.

But this time, Lauren Saldana, 38, did not survive. This time, a 5-year-old boy witnessed the homicide of his mother by his father, just steps from his newborn brother.

This time, Romanovskiy, just seven months into a probationary term of four years for a seemingly unprovoked assault on two other people, was accused of the most heinous charge after a life of terrorizing others.

“This isn’t fair and was never supposed to happen,” Saldana’s oldest child said in a heartbreaking post on Facebook two days after her mother was killed. “I will fight for her memory and make sure justice is served for her 3 sons and myself, no matter what it takes.”

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OK, let’s start names and kicking asses. (Yeah, I said it.)

Sorry but this criminal was not some young first-time non-violent offender who deserved the benefit of the doubt or leniency.

Everyone involved should be publicly outed and scorned.

Judges should be impeach for poor judgement.  The attorneys involved should be censured. And any prosecutors, politicians and bureaucrats should be fired.

And, by the way, what was Roman Romanovskiy immigration and drug testing status?

Argh!

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ECONOMICS: The “true cost” and environmental impact of wind turbines

Sunday, February 23, 2025

https://dailyreckoning.com/blissful-ignorance-now/

Blissful Ignorance Now
By Sean Ring
Posted February 13, 2025

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I was recently watching Landman, which is a TV series about the oil industry in West Texas. Tommy Norris, the Landman, explained to his female lawyer colleague the economics and environmental impact of wind turbines and how oil companies use them to power the wells. They need to use those monstrosities because the wells are off-grid.

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Tommy: “Do you have any idea how much diesel they have to burn to mix that much concrete or make that steel, and haul this shit out here, and put it together with a 450-foot crane? You wanna guess how much oil it takes to lubricate that fucking thing or winterize it? In its 20-year lifespan, it won’t offset the carbon footprint of making it. And don’t get me started on solar panels and the lithium in your Tesla battery. And nevermind the fact that if the whole world decided to go electric tomorrow, we don’t have the transmission lines to get the electricity to the cities. It’d take 30 years if we started tomorrow. And, unfortunately, for your grandkids, we have a 120-year petroleum-based infrastructure. Our whole lives depend on it. And hell, it’s in everything. That road we came in on, the wheels won’t every car ever made, including yours. It’s in tennis rackets, and lipstick, and refrigerators, and antihistamines, pretty much anything plastic. Your cell phone case, artificial heart valves, any kind of clothing that’s not made with animal or plant fibers, soap, fucking hand lotion, garbage bags, fishing boats, you name it. Every fucking thing. And you know what the kicker is? We’re gonna run out of it before we find its replacement.”

Rebecca: “It’s the thing that’s gonna kill us all as a species.”

Tommy: “No, the thing that’s gonna kill us all is running out before we find an alternative. And, believe me, if Exxon thought them fucking things right there were the future, they’d be putting ’em all over the goddamn place. Getting oil outta the ground is the most dangerous job in the world. We don’t do it ’cause we like it, we do it ’cause we run outta options. And you’re out here trying to find something to blame for the danger besides your boss. There ain’t nobody to blame, but the demand that we keep pumping it.”

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Funny how we have to rely on TV fiction to “explain” why “green energy” is fictional concept.

And, even more peculiar, that we need nuclear power before we run out of oil.

The alternative is we die off as a species.

ECONOMICS is truly the dismal science of limited resources and the recognition there of.

Argh!

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QUOTE: Each morning … …

Saturday, February 22, 2025

“Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.”

– Groucho Marx


MEME: DNF Laken Riley

Saturday, February 22, 2025

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UPDATE:

White House

Trump signs Laken Riley Act into law as first legislative victory in new administration

‘America will never, ever forget Laken Hope Riley,’ Trump said before signing the law

By Diana Stancy

Published January 29, 2025 2:46pm EST 

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QUOTE: Gooferment Skrules have made us helpless!

Friday, February 21, 2025

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SURVIVAL: Get out of bad weather road conditions

Friday, February 21, 2025

https://nypost.com/2025/02/13/us-news/about-100-cars-and-trucks-involved-in-oregon-highway-pileup/

100 vehicles involved in Oregon highway pileup in treacherous whiteout conditions
By David Propper 
Published Feb. 13, 2025, 10:40 p.m. ET

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A highway pileup involving 100 vehicles, including big rigs, grinded an Oregon highway to a destructive halt during a nasty whiteout snowstorm Thursday, according to authorities.

The series of crashes caused a SUV fire and closed a part of Interstate-84 where numerous drivers and passengers were trapped in their vehicles late morning, the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office said.

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The conditions were so treacherous the Oregon Department of Transportation closed the highway in both directions between La Grande and Baker City – a stretch of roughly 50 miles between the two cities.

“Closures are due to blowing and drifting snow with visibility less than 500 feet,” the state DOT wrote before later reopening that section. 

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Lucky that no one was killed or seriously injured.  First rule in survival training was “AWARENESS”.

Did these folks not realize the danger of the weather?

Visibility of less than 500 feet didn’t happen because the weather gods waved a magic wand.  I’ve driven some costal roads, even in Oregon, and fog can be just around the next bend.

At 30 MPH, and 10 second reaction time, you’ve used up your 500 feet.  

And, seriously who goes 30?

The other night was a passenger in car and all the drivers in the car thought 15 was fast.  Yet we were being passed by drivers doing far in excess of 50.  No way they could stop on an ice covered road.  Even at 15, we could all feel the slip of the tires on gentle curves.

I guess I’m getting old.  But, I think drivers in the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee are all insane!

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TINFOILHAT: TWO SHOOTERS … … want to see back up of this claim

Thursday, February 20, 2025

https://www.theburningplatform.com/2025/02/12/is-anyone-really-surprised-there-were-two-shooters/

https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1889411775696896438?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1889411775696896438%7Ctwgr%5E3ed66cd690aca4194a6f5dffe88699ac141ba215%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theburningplatform.com%2F2025%2F02%2F12%2Fis-anyone-really-surprised-there-were-two-shooters%2F

Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok

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Rep. Anna Paulina Luna says her FIRST investigation will be the JFK assassination.

“Based on what I’ve seen, the initial hearing held in Congress was FAULTY. I believe there were TWO SHOOTERS.”

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The official story never made sense.  

Never had a fair investigation,

The events surrounding the body, autopsy, and Zapruder film are prima facie evidence of a high-level conspiracy.

The assassinations of RFK, Dorthy Kilgallen, and numerous others were cleaning up loose ends.

“Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Whose gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinburg? I have a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago, and you curse the Marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know. That Santiago’s death, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. You don’t want the truth because deep down in places you don’t talk about at parties, you want me on that wall, you need me on that wall. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said thank you, and went on your way, Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon, and stand a post. Either way, I don’t give a damn what you think you are entitled to.” Colonel Jessep in A Few Good Men played by Jack Nicholson

TO BE CONTINUED

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CLOUD: I fail the cloudflare robot test

Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Here’s an odd bug that no one seems interested in: 

Using opera air when I go to signon I fail the cloudflare robot test. Argh! I’m not a robot. When I click on the cloudflare link it knows I’m not a robot. Suggestions?

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Sorry to hear you are having troubles! Unfortunately, we have no control over what Cloudflare returns in these challenges. If you have any add ons or extensions enabled, you could try disabling these in case they are interfering with the validation.

Another option would be to use the login link option from the login page. This will email you a link that will log you in to your account automatically.

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Cheers,
The Penzu Support Team

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Of course, CLOUDFLARE has no end User support.  Interesting that I’ve never seen that happen before.

YMMV.

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INTERESTING: “America’s Checkbook” is an interesting idea, but may not satisfy a “deep dive”

Wednesday, February 19, 2025

https://nypost.com/2025/02/11/opinion/make-doge-stick-let-taxpayers-monitor-americas-checkbook/

 Make the DOGE revolution stick: Let Musk and taxpayers reveal what’s really in America’s checkbook

By John Hart 

Published Feb. 11, 2025, 6:29 p.m. ET

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A federal judge’s decision to bar Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from reviewing the Treasury Department’s payment system is most likely a temporary setback — but it illustrates the urgent need to secure a permanent win for transparency.

Progressives are panicking because their 100-year, largely successful assault on American constitutional government is in danger of being reversed.

Thanks to Musk’s wise plan to follow the money, he has a historic opportunity to mount a coup — not on behalf of himself or President Trump, but for We the People.

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Crowd-sourcing oversight will shift the balance of power away from the bureaucracy and back to individuals.   

“America’s Checkbook” will give citizens a megaphone and silence critics.

It will prove our leaders’ confidence in the wisdom of We the People, our system of checks and balances and the genius of America’s founders.

John Hart is the chief executive officer of Open the Books and the former communications director for US Sen. Tom Coburn.

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Not sure how that could possibly work but I like the idea.

But I’m a like foggy on the usefulness of:

“Check #, Payee Joe Blow, Amount 1B$”

But it should give investigative journalists a lead.  (If there are any such left? Other than Sharyl Attkisson and James O’Keefe.

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SECURITY: Time to end credit card number and social security numbers

Tuesday, February 18, 2025

https:///174085/cyber-crime/google-tag-manager-gtm-e-skimmer-software-in-magento.html

https://securityaffairs.com/

Crooks use Google Tag Manager skimmer to steal credit card data from a Magento-based e-stores

Pierluigi Paganini

February 11, 2025 

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Crooks use Google Tag Manager skimmer to steal credit card data from a Magento-based e-stores

Threat actors are using Google Tag Manager (GTM) to install credit card skimmer malware on Magento-based e-stores, according to Sucuri researchers. The malware hides in a website’s database and steals credit card information entered during the checkout process, sending it to the attackers’ server. This sophisticated attack demonstrates how criminals are using legitimate platforms like GTM to deploy malicious code that is difficult to detect. 

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Isn’t it about time to retire the concept and strategy of using numbers for identification?

Social Security Numbers, credit card numbers, account numbers, or any kind of numbers are just not secure enough any more.  I even have my doubts about crypto keys used for “wallets”.

The Gooferment and Visa are the primary actors that we need to lead the change. 

Medicare transitioned from a number to an alphameric string to stop the frauds.  Why can’t social security?  

I’m not sure what should take its place but how about a secure hash of your name?

“John Q Public” could easily become “9YWJSN0BSVR3IKNV11A2HZM 8X70I24JXUA6REACFTXYD7WC436”!

Go ahead hackers guess that!

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