Saget suffered “blunt head trauma,” likely during an “unwitnessed fall” in his room at the Ritz-Carlton Orlando, according to the results of an autopsy released last week. The medical examiner said the actor suffered severe skull fractures, but his death was ruled accidental.
Bob Saget’s family sues to block release of death records
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EMAIL FROM LUDDITE
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I have been talking a lot with friends about the push for EVs, and am hoping that you would consider doing a segment that investigates the practicality of electric vehicles. Here are the questions I have that I believe have not been addressed:
1. The cost of EVs are much higher than our current gas vehicles, that will exclude many from being able to afford one.
2. I have also heard that the cost of replacing the batteries in 4-5 years is in the thousands of dollars. Add that to the high cost of a new vehicle, and it makes it even more prohibitive.
3. Each home or business that needs to charge their vehicles will require a new electrical circuit installed.
4. Charging an EV requires anywhere from 25 minutes to 1.5 hours, depending on whether the charging station has a fast super-charger or not. What will the impact be on people waiting to get their EV charged? First, assume that every current gas station will have to convert to have both gas and electric fill pumps, making them available for older gas vehicles and new EVs, more additional costs and additional space required. With an EV the average time to “charge up” will be at least 4 times longer (5 minutes for gas versus 20 min for EVs). Without the “fast” chargers, it could be 12 times longer (5 min vs 60 min) or even longer to charge up. Think of the impacts, time itself on the traveler, at “least” twice as many charging stations as current gas pumps, waiting locations for travelers while they charge up?
5. What about apartment/condo dwellers that park outside, or city street dwellers that have to park in the street? Will chargers be installed in all apartment parking lot locations or street parking spaces? At whose cost?
6. Where is all the additional electrical power to come from? Can you imagine the peaks during nighttime charging?
7. Hazard/space component to storing so many dead batteries after they are no longer useful?
I’m sure there are several more questions that I have not thought of, and many more issues that would need to be addressed. But it does seem as if the government has “environmental blinders” on, and are not able to foresee the damage that moving to EVs will cause. If they are concerned about “climate change” they shouldn’t be, that’s what our climate does, change. It’s been very cold and very hot off and on since it’s creation, it’s what the earth does, and we are just along for the ride!
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EV’s seem to be a dead end technology.
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https://www.zerohedge.com/crypto/overton-window-bitcoin
The Overton Window & Bitcoin
BY TYLER DURDEN
SATURDAY, FEB 12, 2022 – 09:00 PM
Authored by ‘DON’ via BitcoinMagazine.com,
As Bitcoin enters the mainstream conversation, it is becoming increasingly common for politicians to embrace or disparage the technology…
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“The Overton window is the range of policies politically acceptable to the mainstream population at a given time. It is also known as the window of discourse.
“The term is named after American policy analyst Joseph P. Overton, who stated that an idea’s political viability depends mainly on whether it falls within this range, rather than on politicians’ individual preferences. According to Overton, the window frames the range of policies that a politician can recommend without appearing too extreme to gain or keep public office given the climate of public opinion at that time.”
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Can’t stop BITCOIN because it fulfills a basic human need — the ability to save financial wealth from the rapacious of seizure by central Gooferments!
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Maher on Canada Protests: There’s an Accurate View That Some Can Afford to Stay Home and Others Who Can’t
IAN HANCHETT — 11 Feb 2022
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Maher stated, “I thought, like during the pandemic, I talked about this many times, we would see these ads, we are all in it together. And I’d think, no, we’re not. There are some people who stay home and some people who bring them the food. If you’re just ordering Amazon and you don’t ever have to go out and your job, you can do remotely — but who’s bringing the Amazon things? The trucker.”
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Like my feelings about Piers Morgan, I am finding myself more and more agreeing with Bill Maher more and more.
I think that these politicians and bureaucrats who say “we are all in it together” are just peddling more “barbara streisand”!
I guess my views are becoming more into alignment with these guys calling the hypocrites out.
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https://www.futilitycloset.com/2022/02/10/second-life/
pareidolia, our tendency to see significant patterns where none exist.
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EMAIL TO LUDDITE AND OTHERS
Bitcoin: The Inevitable Path Toward Global Adoption Of The Next World Reserve Currency https://www.zerohedge.com/crypto/bitcoin-inevitable-path-toward-global-adoption-next-world-reserve-currency
So, if the USD has a shelf life partially due to historical precedence and partially due to fiscal irresponsibility (overprinting of the money supply), what comes next? What replaces the USD? Another fiat currency? It’s possible, but my guess is the days of trusting a centralized party to maintain a stable supply of a currency have come and gone. Why trust, when you can just verify? An argument could be made that gold is today’s reserve asset as it is held by the majority of central banks.
RESPONSE
Not sure what to say on this, it’s above my pay grade.
MY CONCLUSION
Me neither. But, with the Gooferment’s inflation destroying the U$D’s value, it would seem that “diversification” of savings is essential to preserving what little wealth one has.
Pre-1913, people saved gold and silver coins. Since there was a gentle price deflation in the USA during that interval, it was a great strategy for preserving wealth. After 1913, the erosion began, I blogged in June of 2006 about Evy’s Dad and his Fifty Dollar bill —
https://reinkefaceslife.com/2006/06/30/rant-a-visit-from-one-of-my-favorite-socialists/
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My now departed father in law used to have a folded up fifty dollar bill in his wallet. He had carried it their since he was a young man, so that he’d “never be broke”. He was blue collar working guy. Salt of the either. Raised his family, paid his bills, and did the best he could. He was poor! BUT, he never realized, (I didn’t tell him cause he wouldn’t have believed me! I was just a child in his eyes.) that HIS beloved DEMOCRATIC (not that the R’s are any different), silently stole his “fifty in sunken city”. Yup, when he put that Fifty in his wallet if could buy lots of stuff: A hundred gallons of gasoline. Feed his family for a week. Ffity cartons of his beloved Lucky Strikes. Pay an entire hospital bill for an accident. It had value 60 years ago. After 60 years of inflation, I didn’t have the heart to tell him that his beloved Fifty was really was worth about 13 cents. Sad isn’t it.
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As you know I like gold and silver bullion coins, but recently I’ve been thinking about diversifying to bitcoin. Now I’m thinking about GOLDBACKS. I’ve dabble in BITCOIN and ETHERIUM. I’ll probably dabble in GOLDBACKs too. My bullion coin dealer is shifting out of coins and into middleman. (Why use him when I can go directly AMPEX or others?). Sigh. So in March, I’ll be shifting. Not sure exactly what mix but I’ll do something.
YMMV
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https://www.breitbart.com/news/several-factors-contribute-to-nbcs-low-olympic-ratings/
Several Factors Contribute to NBC’s Lower Olympic Ratings
by AP — 8 Feb 2022
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In the case of ratings, though, topping that has meant producing record lows.
Through the first four nights of competition, NBC is on track for the lowest-rated Winter Games in history. Friday night’s coverage on NBC, USA Network and Peacock averaged 12.8 million viewers, significantly down from the 27.8 million average in Pyeongchang four years ago.
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I, for one, ain’t watching and I guess others aren’t either.
China should NOT be rewarded for its bad behavior.
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The FED is about to raise interest rates and shaft American workers – again
Robert Reich — Sun 6 Feb 2022 01.00 EST
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Fed policymakers are poised to raise interest rates at their March meeting and then continue raising them, in order to slow the economy. They fear that a labor shortage is pushing up wages, which in turn are pushing up prices – and that this wage-price spiral could get out of control.
It’s a huge mistake. Higher interest rates will harm millions of workers who will be involuntarily drafted into the inflation fight by losing jobs or long-overdue pay raises. There’s no “labor shortage” pushing up wages. There’s a shortage of good jobs paying adequate wages to support working families. Raising interest rates will worsen this shortage.
There’s no “wage-price spiral” either, even though Fed chief Jerome Powell has expressed concern about wage hikes pushing up prices. To the contrary, workers’ real wages have dropped because of inflation. Even though overall wages have climbed, they’ve failed to keep up with price increases – making most workers worse off in terms of the purchasing power of their dollars.
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It’s a fact of life the at the FED’s 2% inflation target is a joke. The FED has debased the currency of 99% of its value with its “2% target”! But over and above that, the inflation has been robbing poor people, working slobs, and senior citizens on fixed income.
So maybe a good liberal like Reich might be enlisted into the “End The Fed” movement.
IMHO we need to go back to “real money” aka gold and silver.
Under hard money, prices go down and real wages go up naturally.
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Wordle 235 5/6
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Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease with Diet
Written By Michael Greger M.D. FACLM on February 1, 2022
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When did the Covid truth bubble break?
When Israel had a huge number of “breakthrough” deaths. When Florida didn’t have any spike in deaths despite not locking down and having a lot of old people there? When college and pro football stadiums were packed with people and no spike? When the Sturgis motorcycle rally didn’t result in anything with Covid.
Or was it when we saw pictures of politicians, bureaucrats, and “celebrities” frolicking without masks or “social distancing”.
So to here we have strong evidence that the “Standard American Diet” is a cause of all sorts of bad results — one of which is Alzheimer’s!
What can we do?
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Wordle 234 5/6
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https://www.persuasion.community/p/opting-out-of-whiteness
Opting Out of Whiteness
For decades, immigrants fought to be considered white. Now that trend is reversing.
Shay Khatiri
Writes The Russia-Iran File
Feb 4
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I had always objected to race-based affirmative action on the principle that it was illiberal and anti-meritocratic. Job hunting during the pandemic changed my objection. Suddenly, despite my principled opposition, a practical part of me wished that there was affirmative action for Middle Easterners. I did the least I could do, returning to my full name, “Khashayar,” instead of Shay, in job applications as a signal to recruiters or hiring managers that I’m not that white.
My experience is an illustration of centuries of migration and assimilation in America. Immigrants who came to America always wanted to be counted as white to receive the benefits of whiteness. Now that the tides are turning, immigrants—and their descendants—want a divorce from whiteness.
Benjamin Franklin infamously wrote that America should prioritize white immigrants. On this principle, he favored restricting the immigration of “swarthy” Germans. But Germans came here, nevertheless, and they eventually became white. The same is true of the Irish, the Italians, the Jews, and the Greeks. Just like my Middle Eastern forefathers, each of these groups tried to “become” white, and they eventually did.
That racial categories are so pliable shows how inane the entire concept of race is. My great aunt, with her blonde hair, blue eyes, and fair complexion, was born in northern Iran, but my “white” friend from Indiana with his olive skin would pass as white before her. The racial categories that we have become so attached to break down with even the slightest rational pushback, and yet we refuse to let them go.
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Again again, “race” becomes such a obviously flawed perception and paradigm.
I just don’t know how to get the human “race” to move on to a better understanding of what makes humans different and what doesn’t.
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Eighteen people were rescued from Lake Erie on Sunday after they became stranded on an ice floe that broke away from land.
— Read on nypost.com/2022/02/06/us-coast-guard-rescues-18-people-from-ice-floe-on-lake-erie/
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https://nypost.com/2022/02/04/3-fishermen-rescued-thanks-to-sharp-eyed-911-caller/
Three fishermen rescued off coast of Massachusetts thanks to sharp-eyed woman who called 911
By Associated Press
February 4, 2022 10:04am
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SCITUATE, Mass. — Three fishermen who clung to debris in the frigid waters off the coast of Massachusetts for nearly an hour after their boat sank survived thanks to a sharp-eyed woman on shore who was the only person to call 911.
The 55-foot (16.75-meter) Bing Bing went down so fast about a mile (1.6 kilometers) from shore on Tuesday afternoon that the crew didn’t have time to don survival suits or even make a distress call.
“The whole boat flipped over; I was thrown in the water,” crew member Joe Roderick told WCVB-TV from his hospital bed, where he was recovering from hypothermia and from swallowing saltwater and diesel fuel. The other two crew members also required hospitalization.
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Kudos to this lady, who saw something and said something. To save three souls is inspiring. The Talmud teaches, “He who saves a single life, saves the world entire.” Not exactly sure what that means, but I know there are three men who would agree.
From my fat old white guy injineer’s perspective, should not boats, especially commercial ones, have an automatic alert system? Sort of like an airliner’s black box or transponder. If the boat goes down, it should be calling for help with a location — no human intervention required.
In any event, these fellows were lucky she was “on duty” watching over them like an unseen Guardian Angel.
And, speaking up like this, about a life saving event, is certainly not being a “Karen” and the MYOB rule is not applicable in this situation. I am waiting for my turn to “save a life” or, even deliver a baby. (Have to not waste that USAF air survival training. Laugh!)
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https://anchor.fm/brion-mcclanahan/episodes/Episode-246-Political-Puritans-e811ma
The Brion McClanahan Show
By The Brion McClanahan Show
The Brion McClanahan Show discusses history, politics, and society with the slogan, “Think Locally, Act Locally.”
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A Yankee is a peculiar type of American that was born and bred in New England in the 17th century but that eventually found his way into virtually every part of the United States, and like a horde of locusts, he plunders and consumes everything he deems unholy.
The Yankee is always concerned that someone, somewhere is doing something he doesn’t like and it is his goal to ensure that stops.
This originated in Puritan theology and has been secularized in the modern age. That is why I have termed the new left the “political puritans.”
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Yup, it certainly seems that no one can MYOB.
FMPOV, I don’t want my face rubbed in whatever you’re doing. If I don’t feel that whatever you’re doing will impact my life, I really don’t care. And most of all I don’t want to pay for whatever you’re doing. Hence why I really don’t like politicians and bureaucrats.
I guess I’m not a “Yankee” or a “Karen”.
Live and let live. MYOB. AND, most of all, blessed are the Peacemakers.
Sigh!
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You can add your COVID vaccination certificate to the Apple Wallet… but should you?
TNW ^ | 2/2 | Callum Booth
Posted on 2/2/2022, 5:01:47 PM by nickcarraway
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Spoiler: Yeah, why not?
The modern world hurts my brain. Let’s take the news that Apple enables users to store their COVID vaccination certificates in the Wallet and Health apps as an example.
When I first heard about it, I was pumped. Flashing my QR code to enter a restaurant or grab a coffee would be far simpler if it sat in my Apple Wallet. Friends, the time I’d save!
But, of course, the world had something to say about that.
We talked to 4 successful entrepreneurs This is what they wish they knew before getting started
While putting my digital certificate of vaccination in an easy-to-access place is cool… is it safe? And because I can do it, does that mean I should?
Something that seemed simple on the surface is actually a minefield. I wanted some clarity on this issue.
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COVID vaccine certificates in the Apple Wallet app: not a huge concern To put it bluntly: there are no obvious dangers of moving your vaccine certificate to the Apple Wallet. This does come with a large caveat though, as this is only true if you tightly control what apps can access your data.
In this way, vaccination certificates differ from digital IDs. The majority of the former are digital by nature, while the most common forms of identification (driver’s licenses and passports) are paper-based. Digitizing them opens a huge and wriggling can of worms — while the vaccine pass system could actually benefit from being incorporated into the Apple Wallet.
So, there you have it! A little bit of respite before the modern world messes with our heads again.
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It’s just too easy for the Gooferment make this the digital version of “show me your papers”!
It’s a BIG “NO” for me.
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-border-gets-worse-and-worse
The border gets worse and worse
by Byron York, Chief Political Correspondent | January 31, 2022 10:25 AM
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THE BORDER GETS WORSE AND WORSE. These days, the Biden White House talks a lot about the border. At press briefings, there are many questions about the border. But it’s the Russia-Ukraine border. Meanwhile, the situation on the U.S.-Mexico border is deteriorating daily.
Two new developments. One, we are learning more about the administration’s covert effort to relocate thousands of illegal border-crossers — single, adult males, not families — into the nation’s interior. We’ll talk about that today. And tomorrow, the second development — new information about the changing makeup of the thousands of people crossing the border illegally each month.
First, the relocation effort. Last week, Fox News broadcast body camera footage from security officers at New York’s Westchester County Airport, about 30 miles outside Manhattan. It was the middle of the night. An unmarked passenger jet had just landed, and a steady stream of single, adult men came down the plane’s steps. They were accompanied by federal contractors.
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The public knows very little about this process. How many illegal immigrants have been relocated? Where have they been sent? How many have been charged or convicted of crimes? How many have complied with the requirement to check in with immigration authorities? What nongovernmental organizations are assisting them? How much is the federal government paying for this? Is there a limit on how many will be relocated? And more.
The bottom line: Yes, the news is filled with reports on Ukraine, or COVID, or the latest twists and turns of the Biden agenda on Capitol Hill. But what’s happening on the border — the U.S.-Mexico border — is important news, and you need to know more about it.
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What can we do to get the Biden administration to follow the law?
They are just trying to upset the voting balance of the country and penalize the “red states” for their political votes by loading them with social costs (i.e., crime, welfare, homeless).
Argh!
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