Reinke Faces Life

In a company in the midst of coronavirus-caused bankruptcy, where stockholders are likely to be wiped out, there are weird signs of life—worthless stock ticking up, an equity offering. But betting on an undead company is a very bad idea.

Source: “This Is Just F–king Unbelievable!”: Bankrupt Hertz Is a Pandemic Zombie | Vanity Fair

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This is dirty pool!

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A man identified as a far-right protester has been carried to safety from protestors as animosity was briefly set aside on a day of clashes in London between rival groups and police.

Following violent clashes in Trafalgar Square, Black Lives Matter protestors and some counter protestors headed over the River Thames towards Waterloo Station.

Source: Black Lives Matter supporter carries ‘far-Right’ protester at London Waterloo station | Daily Mail Online

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We need to punish the violent and reward the peacemakers like this person.

We need more peace!

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HBO Max is incredible. Not because it is good, but because of how many problems with the media landscape it epitomizes. If you ever had trouble seeing where monopoly, net neutrality, and technology intertwine, well then thanks, I guess, to AT&T for its achievement in HBO Max.

Source: Streaming Is Laying Bare How Big ISPs, Big Tech, and Big Media Work Together Against Users

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This lack of choice means that there is no reason for AT&T or any of the other large ISPs to have a better quality product or better customer service. They know we will pay because in 2020, nearly all of us need Internet access at home. Any Internet service will sell just fine, and it’s more lucrative, in the short term, for ISPs to offer slow, expensive Internet than fast, good Internet.

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Sounds like the Gooferment “anti-trust” folks are in the hip pocket of Big Tech.  And, “We, The Sheeple” get screwed.

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We have a series of cases where governors and local officials have violated the First Amendment rights of church goers. In Kentucky we have seen the police record the license plate numbers of those who chose to attend Easter sermons. In Mississippi, the local police decided to disrupt church services that were delivered to a congregation that never left their cars. Recently, the mayor of Chicago authorized a full-scale raid against a black church that was holding services in her city. Sadly, it’s not just church goers that have had their rights violated. In Colorado there was a father who found himself handcuffed by the police for breaking social distancing rules when he played catch with his own daughter in the park. Yeah, you read that correctly, his own daughter. Even in my hometown of Houston you have Lina Hidalgo, the Judge of Harris County who is so overzealous that she needs to be consistently reminded by Governor Abbot and the higher courts that she doesn’t have the authority to release criminal inmates onto the streets, fine people for not wearing masks in public or single handedly passing a voting by mail initiative. In Dallas Abbot had to intervene when Dallas officials wanted to put a salon owner in jail for seven days for opening her shop a week before all hair grooming businesses were allowed to reopen in Texas. I do feel lucky living in a state that has a Governor and higher courts with enough sense to keep overzealous officials in their place.

Source: Liberty Must Survive in Good Times and Bad Times, by Sean Gangol

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Guess we can just scrap that pesky old First Amendment and move on to completely eliminating the Second one.

Then, the elite can start planning the trains to the camps!

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? . . .” — Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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In a statement posted on the company website on Friday afternoon, Hobby Lobby announced it will furlough “nearly all store employees” without pay and “is ending emergency leave pay and suspending use of company provided paid time off benefits and vacation.”

Source: Hobby Lobby closing all stores, issuing mass furloughs

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I foresee a lot of lawsuits and Gooferment regulatory action.

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Fudd, known for his own catchphrase, “Shhh. Be vewy, vewy quiet. I’m hunting wabbits,” gets outsmarted by Bugs at every turn, even though he’s always had his trusty shotgun at his side — until now.“

We’re not doing guns,” Peter Browngardt, executive producer of the new series, told the New York Times. “But we can do cartoony violence — TNT, the Acme stuff. All of that was kind of grandfathered in.”

Source: Elmer Fudd stripped of rifle in new Looney Tunes cartoon series

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Can’t come up with an original idea so then they revise it to make it “politically correct”.  Argh!

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Einstein famously talked about a “twin paradox,” where one identical twin gets sent out into space in a high-speed rocket, and the other remains on Earth. In the experiment, due to spatial relativity, the Earth twin would age more.

Source: Two Genetically Identical Twins Separately Ate Vegan And Meat-Heavy Diets For 12 Weeks, Then Compared Their Results

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Interesting comparison over a short time.

I’m convinced plant-based is the way to go.

Now if I just could do it!

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Anyone else annoyed with handicap-parking abuse?

I see perfectly fine “weightlifters” with “handicapped” placards. Big Ford 250s with “handicapped” plates. And one neighbor with a placard for each of her three cars.

Have the police ever wrote a ticket for this type of abuse?

My suggestion is to put the eligible person’s picture on the placard. Then the Usurpers could be easily detected.

As a little L libertarian, without the Gooferment this abide would be-non-existent. But how could the Gooferment signal its “compassion”?

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‘The idea that the military would be called in to dominate and to suppress what, for the most part, were peaceful protests — admittedly, where some had opportunistically turned them violent — and that the military would somehow come in and calm that situation was very dangerous to me,’ he added.

Source: Another top general slams Donald Trump: Former chairman of the joint chiefs Martin Dempsey | Daily Mail Online

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Well this seems to be getting out of control.  In our Constitutional republic, the State governors have the responsibility to maintain the peace.  DJT45 may have overstepped his bounds.

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Ex-MI6 chief Sir Richard Dearlove said he believes that Covid-19 is man-madeHe cited an ‘important’ report which claims virus was manufactured in a lab Believes China could be forced to pay ‘reparations’ to the rest of the world

Source: Coronavirus IS man-made,says ex-head of MI6 Sir Richard Dearlove | Daily Mail Online

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Sounds like a reasonable assertion!

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“Just when you thought you heard everything,” said Assemblyman Gerry Scharfenberger (R-Monmouth), the bill “would allow the state to borrow five billion dollars without voter approval that would add a statewide surcharge to everyone’s property tax bill.”

Source: N.J. Borrowing Bill Could Lead to Statewide Property Tax Surcharges | Lavallette-Seaside Shorebeat

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Sorry, but the borrowing must stop.  The spending must be cut!  The Labor Unions, especially the Teachers Union, have a stranglehold on the legislator.

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This is providing a massive amount of new dollars to bid for goods and services in the U.S. that suggests very strong price inflation ahead. In addition, these dollars, in addition to the dollars directly provided overseas, will also put downward pressure on the greenback on foreign exchange markets that will provide even more incentive for many global actors to ditch the dollar as the reserve currency. If the move away from the dollar picks up steam, the end of the dollar as a reserve currency may not be far behind.

Source: EconomicPolicyJournal.com: We May Be Heading Towards a Post-Dollar World

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Where will all those new “dollars” go if NOT into higher consumer prices (i.e., more “dollars” chasing fewer consumer goods)?

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I had the honor of speaking with the President of the United States recently as he called into our morning show.

Source: Spadea to Trump: Let’s reject ‘new normal’

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Bill is adamant that the whole WuFlu crap (i.e., masks, social distancing, closed business, etc.).  Not that there isn’t a virus, but he urges us to back out the nursing home deaths (which may have been due to Gooferment policies).  It’s no worse that the flu.

He’s also pointing out the hypocrisy of Cuomo / Murphy acceptance of “no social distancing” at protests or rioting.

It’s all a farce to take away our freedoms.

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Madison and Bret Mavity, of Rochester, New York, were attacked by a group of looters damaging a businessAt least five men were reportedly attempting to break into a jewelry store on Saturday Madison came downstairs from her apartment to stop the men, but was instead attacked Looters beat Madison and her husband before fleeing the sceneThe couple both sustained injuries from the altercation including a concussion Tensions have skyrocketed amid protests for George Floyd, a black man who died in police custody last week

Source: New York couple attacked by looters who tried to destroy store | Daily Mail Online

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Clearly if you are going face to face with “protesters” to protect your life and property, then you better have a “force multiplier” (aka a GUN!) to even the sides.

Personally, I’d use a shotgun with a 1911 as my backup.

Also, if you’re going to do this, you must be prepared to kill or be kill.

When you draw your weapon or take aim, you must be prepared to fire and accept the consequences.  No hesitation; no second thoughts.  Just remember your training.

If you shoot, shut up until you talk to your CRIMINAL defense lawyer.

And, hope I get on your jury.

Remember “better judged by 12 than carried by 6”!

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Evidence is piling up that the people in charge knew, from the very beginning, that the virus was not dangerous.
— Read on off-guardian.org/2020/05/31/its-all-bullsht-3-leaks-that-sink-the-covid-narrative/

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It seems the truth about the WuFlu eludes us. Why?

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https://patch.com/new-jersey/southbrunswick/s/h4lv5/men-issued-summonses-drinking-spotswood-american-legion?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_term=politics+%26+government&utm_campaign=autopost&utm_content=southbrunswick

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politicians and bureaucrats decide what we can and can’t do.

that’s just not right!

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No restrictions were placed on residents’ movements, and businesses from restaurants to hairdressers stayed open. No high-tech apps that tracked people’s movements were deployed. The country doesn’t have a center for disease control. And even as nations were exhorted to “test, test, test,” Japan has tested just 0.2% of its population — one of the lowest rates among developed countries.

Yet the curve has been flattened, with deaths well below 1,000, by far the fewest among the Group of Seven developed nations. In Tokyo, its dense center, cases have dropped to single digits on most days. While the possibility of a more severe second wave of infection is ever-present, Japan has entered and is set to leave its emergency in just weeks, with the status lifted already for most of the country and Tokyo and the remaining four other regions set to exit Monday.

Source: Japan may have beaten Coronavirus without lockdowns or mass testing. But how?

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Why was Japan different?

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Daily Variety editor Arthur Ungar penned a page-one tribute to Lombard that led the Jan. 19, 1942, edition.

“Carole Lombard died in the line of duty. She was the first casualty of show business in this world war. She was in active service on a mission in defense of the United States —  selling Defense Bonds — when death suddenly overtook her in the skies,” Ungar wrote.At a time when the country was polarized about whether to enter the conflict, Lombard had been an outspoken supporter of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

It was no surprise that she was among the first in what Variety then referred to as “the film colony” to raise her hand to help the war effort. U.S. Treasury officials put the movie star to work selling war bonds to finance the enormous military and industrial response to Japan’s bombing of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.

Source: How film goddess Carole Lombard became Hollywood’s first casualty of WW II

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World War II impacted Hollywood differently then. After that, they no longer were “Americans” imho.

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But then this study was published, suggesting the aluminum itself may be harmful. Most of our aluminum exposure comes from processed junk that contains aluminum-containing food additives, including those within some processed cheeses, baking powders, cake mixes, frozen dough, and pancake mixes. But approximately 20 percent of the daily intake of aluminum may come from aluminum cooking utensils, such as pans, pots, kettles, and trays. To see if this may be causing a problem, they took blood from consumers who used aluminum cookware versus those who did not, and found that not only were the aluminum users walking around with twice the level of aluminum in their blood, but they had more free radical damage of their body fats and proteins. And the total antioxidant capacity of their bloodstream was compromised; so, no surprise, they suffered significantly more DNA damage. And indeed, those with the highest levels of aluminum in their blood tended to suffer significantly more damage to their DNA. No surprise, since aluminum is considered to be a pro-oxidant agent.

Source: Are Aluminum Pots, Bottles, and Foil Safe? | NutritionFacts.org

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Take care around aluminum especially pots and foil!

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n 27 states, “a voter can designate someone to return their ballot,” says the National Conference of State Legislatures. This practice is often restricted to family members and caregivers, or with rules that cap the number of ballots any single person may return. Not always. “Ballot harvesting” has made news in California, where activists have canvassed neighborhoods collecting votes. The registrar in Orange County reported in 2018 that his office had “people dropping off maybe 100 or 200 ballots.

”Ballot harvesting isn’t widespread, but laws in 13 states are “silent on the issue,” the NCSL says. That includes Wisconsin, where the Elections Commission told voters in March that ballots may be returned by “a family member or another person.” Technically, that covers anybody at the door in a Biden shirt or a Trump hat. Last year when the commission flagged the issue, it said Wisconsin law also doesn’t “clearly prohibit failing or refusing to deliver a marked ballot collected from another voter.”

Source: A Vote-by-Mail Nightmare – WSJ

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Clearly this an invitation to fraud.  (By either “party”!)

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About 20 Charleston County absentee ballots were found in Maryland this week as the Democrat Party’s effort to gradually move all states to vote-by-mail continues, while the GOP warns that such moves will lead to voter fraud, inaccuracy, and abuse.

Source: SC Absentee Ballots Found in Maryland as Dems Urge Vote-by-Mail

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How can the Sheeple trust the process?

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`CASH IST FESCH!′
— Read on apnews.com/81f11055d39cefc7e9483c77e682bdbc

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I wonder when people are going to wake up and save gold and silver bullion. That’s real money. I don’t understand why people that are not recognized that the FED inflation has cost them 98% of the value of a dollar.

What is everybody stupid?

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Later in the piece, Roy points out that DoorDash lost $450 million generating $900 million in revenue last year, which is wild. The delivery business was working just fine before DoorDash and co. swept in with piles of money to burn. Today, as Roy writes astutely, the model is broken. “You have insanely large pools of capital creating an incredibly inefficient money-losing business model,” he writes. “It’s used to subsidize an untenable customer expectation. You leverage a broken workforce to minimize your genuine labor expenses. The companies unload their capital cannons on customer acquisition, while this week’s Uber-Grubhub news reminds us, the only viable endgame is a promise of monopoly concentration and increased prices. But is that even viable?”

Source: A pizzeria owner made money buying his own $24 pizzas from DoorDash for $16 – The Verge

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No substitute for stupid!!!!!!

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We are witnessing a massive shift in the economy in a very short period of time. The dislocations for people, particularly people of limited means, have been and will continue to be profound. (From The Washington Examiner) Forty-two percent of workers experiencing recent layoffs will suffer permanent job losses, according to a paper circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Source: Study finds 42% of pandemic layoffs will become permanent job losses

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As the Big Fat Old Turkey, I’ve always warned 50+ jobseekers that their BIGGEST fear would NEVER being able to find another job.  AT ALL!  Let alone on comparable to the one that they lost.

I’d be willing to bet that the impact on the 50+ unemployed will be much worse that anyone expects.

Hope I’m wrong, BUT I don’t think so.

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Officials tapped the influential village committees and Hindu beliefs to ensure residents stayed at home and no outside visitors were permitted to avoid wider infections after a British tourist with Covid-19 was the first in Bali to succumb to the virus in early March. People were also asked to perform certain Hindu rituals for protection, which mandated them to obey local leaders, according to Governor Koster.

Source: This is how Bali escaped being virus hot spot with local traditions – travel – Hindustan Times

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Well, good for them.

I am a bit concerned anytime “We, The Sheeple” are “mandated to obey local leaders”.

We were all give “free will” and need to use it responsibly.  Sometimes that even means “obeying local leaders”.

SOMETIMES!

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Raven-Symone has not spent any of her Cosby Show money after getting her big break on the series over 30 years ago.

The actress, 34, was just four-years-old years old when she began playing Olivia Kendall on the hit series from 1989 to 1992, and has been sitting on all that money ever since.

Source: Raven-Symone reveals she hasn’t spent ANY of her Cosby Show money | Daily Mail Online

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Now that’s good financial planning!

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