Reinke Faces Life

“Speaking of failing badly, has anyone seen what is happening to Nancy Pelosi’s district in San Francisco.” Trump wrote on Twitter. “It is not even recognizable lately. Something must be done before it is too late.”

Source: Donald Trump Taunts Nancy Pelosi and ‘Failing’ San Francisco

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I agree with his calling out “shitholes”, wether they be foreign countries or American cities.

It’s especially embarrassing when they are American Cities.  I notice that they all have D’s mayors and representatives.

Wonder when “We, The Sheeple” in those cities will wake up?

Argh!

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Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Market Review & Update Last week, we discussed the setup for a near-term mean reversion because of the massive extension above the long-term mean. To wit: “There is also just the simple issue that markets are very extended above their long-term trends, as shown in the chart below.

Source: Whistling Past The $70 Trillion Debt Graveyard

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When this self-induced tragedy hits, “We, The Sheeple” will have no one to blame but their voting to blame.  Get rid on incumbents!  It doesn’t matter who you vote for, just not the incumbent.  Can they possible be worse?  What can they do it two years that can not be fixed by voting them out too.

Argh!

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The Tea Party wave of 2009 and 2010, a Republican movement born in reaction to the budget blowouts of the Obama Presidency, is now officially dead. It’s ironic that as Trump hammered the final nail into the Tea Party’s coffin, no one seemed happier than the corpse itself! There was hardly a word of discomfort from all the Republican Senators and Congressmen who had so loudly railed against debt when the other party occupied the White House. There is simply no legitimate way that Republicans will ever be able to argue again that they are the party of fiscal discipline. They may try, but only the most partisan and credulous voters will buy it.

Source: Trump Kills the Tea Party – LewRockwell

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Can’t trust any politicians or bureaucrats!

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John Reynold’s book Citroën 2CV describes Boulanger’s sabotage efforts. Of course, he instructed workers to set a nice, leisurely pace when building trucks (likely Citroën T45 trucks) for the Wermacht, but that’s fairly obvious. What was brilliant was Boulanger’s idea to move the little notch on the trucks’ oil dipsticks that indicated the proper level of oil down just a bit lower.By moving the notch down, the trucks would not have enough oil, but German mechanics would have no idea, because, hey, the little notch on the dipstick says its just fine. Then, after the truck has been used for a while and is out deployed somewhere crucial, whammo, the engine seizes up, and you’ve got a lot of angry, stranded, vulnerable Nazis, balling up their little fists and redly barking curses in German.

Source: Citroën Sabotaged Wartime Nazi Truck Production in a Simple and Brilliant Way

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Brilliant!

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If Coppola is let go, he will be the third public victim of Google’s inherent bias toward conservative engineers. Coppola openly admitted in his interview with O’Keefe that he “liked Trump and liked his policies.” He stated that the search engine relies too much on biased news outlets to feed its users negative news on Trump.

Source: Google Punishes Whistleblowing Engineer with Administrative Leave

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Is it time to seriously boycott Google?

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On Tuesday, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii), a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, attacked Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) as “not qualified” to serve as president. She claimed that “personal perspective as a soldier” is essential for presidents and she singled out Harris as lacking the necessary “temperament” to lead the country. “I think one of the things I’m most concerned with is, Kamala Harris is not qualified to serve as commander in chief, and I can say this from a personal perspective as a soldier,” Gabbard told Clay Travis on the podcast “Outkick the Coverage.” Gabbard argued that Harris has “got no background or experience in foreign policy, and she lacks the temperament that is necessary for a commander in chief.

Source: Presidential candidates Gabbard and Harris spar after Gabbard claims Harris is ‘not qualified to serve as President

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I agree.

Once upon a time, before “BJ” Clinton, you couldn’t be elected President without having served in the military.  For better or worse, they at least understand what is at stake.

Perhaps, “We, The Sheeple” should resurrect that rule.

“A soldier accepts personal responsibility for the safety of the body politic of which he is a member, defending it, if need be, with his life. The civilian does not.” — Lt. Col. Jean V. Dubois (Ret.) and student, p. 26 Starship Troopers (1959) by Robert A. Heinlein

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The Trump administration has finalized a plan that will allow Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to rapidly deport illegal aliens by bypassing immigration courts in situations where an illegal alien is unable to prove that they have been present in the United States continuously for at least two years. “The Department of Homeland Security will publish a notice in the Federal Register Tuesday that aims to use the department’s full statutory authority to employ ‘expedited removal’ to a wider range of undocumented immigrants who cross the border illegally,” Politico reported.

Source: Policy expansion to allow ICE to use ‘expedited deportation’ anywhere in the US

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So end “welfare” and there would be nothing to argue about!

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The rats were winning.

There were so many earlier this summer outside the CalEPA building in downtown Sacramento officials had to close its outdoor playground out of fear state employees’ kids would catch rodent-borne diseases.

To fight back, building officials set out a controversial type of rat poison whose use may soon be banned statewide by the California Legislature. The poison didn’t stay out very long once word got out the state’s top environmental regulators were using a poison widely condemned by California’s powerful environmental groups.

Source: Rats infest LA, other CA cities as state restricts poison | The Sacramento Bee

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I think that the Pepuls Republik of Kaliforkneeah has completely lost their minds.

Will they be hosting the next “Black Death” plague?

At some point, will sanity return to the “Golden State”?

I’m not so sure.

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We know that Deutsche Bank’s derivative tentacles extend into most of the major Wall Street banks. According to a 2016 reportfrom the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Deutsche Bank is heavily interconnected financially to JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Bank of America as well as other mega banks in Europe. The IMF concluded that Deutsche Bank posed a greater threat to global financial stability than any other bank as a result of these interconnections – and that was when its market capitalization was tens of billions of dollars larger than it is today.

Source: A Bank With $49 Trillion in Exposure to Derivatives – LewRockwell

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As I said after the last “crisis”, isn’t “too big to fail” really “too big to exist”?

Seems like the corporate tax code could be used effectively to mitigate this risk.  For example, a balance sheet that is bigger than the Federal budget is subject to a 5% excess tax.  And, no one can get a W2 for more than the President gets. How about that executives get 20 year non-transferable non-optionable corporate bonds for their compensation more than the President?  (Guess they’d have to be sure the Firm survives long enough for their bonds to pay off!)

Corporations are creations of the Gooferment and can be treated badly like this.

Oh, and yes, no “campaign contributions”!

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Alternatively, NBC could provide time to policy experts from the conservative think tanks or from journals of opinion like The New Criterion, National Review, First Things or City Journal. To be fair, the network should allow each advocate similar amounts of air time and in the same format.

Source: NBC News — or NBC propaganda?

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It’s propaganda!

How about getting Joe the Plumber to do the interview?

Of course, they may have to bleep the “Are you @#$%^& kidding me?” that I’d expect from him.

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“A SLAPP filer doesn’t go to court to seek justice; they are just trying to silence or harass or intimidate a critic of theirs,” Mascagni said.Some states have laws against SLAPP lawsuits, but there is no federal anti-SLAPP statute.Earlier this year, the Federal Trade Commission began cracking down on businesses that put gag clauses in their consumer contracts in violation of the Consumer Review Fairness Act.

Source: Posting a negative review online can get you sued – CBS News

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I was glad to read that the fellow stuck to his guns and made the veterinarians hurt.

That’s all the consumer can do is the internet version of tell 100 friends.

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They came after the progressives and I said nothing because I am not a progressive, then they came for the conservatives and I said nothing, for I am not conservative, then they came for etc. and so on and I blah, blah, blah.Finally they came after me and there was no one left to speak up for me. And I was good with that, until I ran out of ammo.

Source: Letters to the Editor

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Not funny!

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Seaside Heights council members didn’t hold back at their first meeting since the July 4 holiday, when both officials and visitors began seeing private parking lots in town charging up to $100 for one day’s worth of parking.”To charge this kind of money and chase people away is a crime,” said Co

Source: Seaside Heights Officials Decry ‘Disgraceful’ $100 Private Parking Lot Fees | Lavallette-Seaside Shorebeat

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But, the rulers of legacy media think that they have a monopoly on truth. They believe they should decide who is a journalist and who is not. Citizen journalists are disdained by the legacy media from places like CNN, NBC, and MSNBC. Thus, the legacy media’s response to the summit has been one of smears and ugly insults, even potentially dangerous doxxing. This is because the legacy media now understands that their influence over the American people is all but dead thanks to the internet.  President Donald J. Trump’s election,  to colloquially put it, whacked the mainstream media upside the head. Now, they are taking vengeance on anybody who supports him.

Source: Matt Drudge’s ‘Future’ Is Now Realized, And That Has Legacy Media Enraged.

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Sorry but he’s correct.  The legacy media is akin to the “walking dead”.  Every time, another member of “We, The Sheeple” turns to the inet for “news”, they take another “cut” as in “death of a thousand cuts”.

If I was the boring old WSJ, I’d figure out how to take “micropayments”; rather than insisting on overpriced long subscription.  Another thing the old new papers are doing is “99¢” teaser rates.

Instead of the WSJ paywall, I’d have WSJ “story vending machine”.  When a non-subscriber comes up to read an article of interest, give them the first paragraph free and offer the rest for a fraction of cent. (That’s why micropayments are critical!) 1¢ = 0.0000010 of a bitcoin. (₿ * (10 ** – 6))

Think of it like a coin-operated newspaper kiosk.

I know I’d use such a technology.

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Last month, Breitbart News debunked the New York Times’ attempted hit piece, which framed Mnuchin as deliberately delaying the release of the Tubman $20 in order to avoid an embarrassing conflict with President Trump. The Times based its report on a conversation with an anonymous employee of the bureau, who claimed to have seen a digital image of the redesigned bill.

Source: Ex- Obama Officials Admit NYT’s Tubman $20 Hit Piece Was Fake News

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So the NYT is as untrustworthy as a source of “news”!

“I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!” Captain Renault in Casablanca

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AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File Usually, when the headline contains the word “Florida Man,” you expect to see something ridiculous. The adventures of Florida Man have reached legendary status and are the stuff of mockery, though Floridians would rather their fellow residents show some restraint.

Source: AR-15 Not For Home Defense? Tell This Florida Man That

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A 61-year-old man found himself up against four armed attackers, all younger than him, and the anti-gunners don’t think that’s the time to use an AR-15? He was disadvantaged in every other way possible. His best course of action was to at least have them outgunned as best he could. Even so, he was still wounded.

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AR15’s are the PERFECT weapon for home defense.  ANY weapon is the PERFECT weapon as long as you have one.  And, it’s not in an inaccessible gun safe or the ammo stored far away.  Sigh!

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He received a one-year suspended prison sentence and a $500 fine, and he was placed on unsupervised probation.

Source: Two killed and four injured on Oklahoma highway | Daily Mail Online

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Who was the judge and the prosecutor who gave this “deal”?

Time for them to seek other work!

Argh!

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Source: Today is a great day to buy a Chromebook — save as much as 45 percent

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Anyone looking for a simple tool for email and surfing can’t miss with these prices.  (Don’t bother with “insurance”.  If it breaks, but a new one.)

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Brent Bozell: Tim, I think at the end of the day, one of two things are going to happen. One is that the media hostility against Trump is going to ultimately give a couple of points to the Democrats, and that could sway the election. On the other hand, the media’s hostility to Trump could ultimately give Trump a couple of points that might sway the election to him. Either way, I think the media are going to decide this election. Now, if you put a gun to my head and said pick one, I would pick that it’s going to help him because the more you listen to them, the more unhinged they are.

Source: Brent Bozell and Big Media’s War Against Trump – Part One – Liberty Nation

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Hopefully, “We, The Sheeple” will recognize socialism and what that meas for the USA long term.

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Novak Djokovic defended his Wimbledon title Sunday, defeating one of the game’s greatest players Roger Federer in an epic five-set match that was the longest final ever in history at the All England Club.

Source: Novak Djokovic beats Roger Federer in epic five-set match to win Wimbledon men’s title | Fox News

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Why didn’t ABC show it live?

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“So your article Murray is about ‘The Gold Standard’ which is fantastic but you could not help yourself from throwing a knife at Trump. I may leave this up for a few mins but eventually today, your gone from this group. You’ve been warned many times about Trump bashing on this page. Go join a democrat page where you’ll find synergy. “- Admin

Source: EconomicPolicyJournal.com: Murray Sabrin Banned From Tea Party Group For Bashing Trump’s Desire For an Aggressive Money Printing Fed

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And that’s why the Tea Party, like so many “little people revolts”, has been take over by “Republican” operatives.  I remember the same thing happened to the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee tax revolt group “Hands Across New Jersey”.

Sigh!

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I’d call it an open secret in the world of cars but for the fact that everyone knows about it: the dual-clutch transmission in the last-generation Ford Fiesta and Focus was an utter disaster. The gearboxes are plagued with problems like sudden acceleration, sputtering, and slipping into neutral at highway speed.

Source: Ford Knew How Defective Its Fiesta and Focus Transmissions Were for Years: Report

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The worthlessness of Gooferment “regulators”!

And Ford Crony Capitalists equally to blame.

The sharks (i.e., the legal industry) didn’t go all “class action” on them?

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Since the early ’90s, millions of right-hand-drive cars from Japan have found their way into Russia, a country that drives on the right side of the road, just like the U.S. and totally opposite from Japan.That is to say, for these cars, they’re going to operate on the wrong side of the road than what they were designed for.The JDM import industry in Russia peaked in 2008, when over 500,000 second-hand vehicles from Japan were imported. Since then, economic and legal factors have dented the trade, which has declined “ten-fold” in recent years. Unsurprisingly, rumors float that the era of right-hand-drive is slowly coming to an end.

Source: How Right-Hand Drive Japanese Imports Took Over Siberia

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For some reason, I found this funny.  Like the lines: “… drive thru the McDonald’s drive thru in reverse …” and “… pay tolls with a bill extender …”.

Ya can’t make this stuff up.

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“Let’s say [a filmmaker] wanted to do a biographic movie about Heath Ledger, and rather than have an actor play Heath Ledger, they used a digital version,” says Bennett. “We think that would be perfectly fine. Now contrast that example with a [re-created] Heath Ledger becoming the next Captain Jack Sparrow in a Pirates of the Caribbean movie. That wouldn’t be OK. That would threaten actors’ livelihood.”

So it’s not just exploitation. Digital technology also puts jobs at risk.

But, as Bennett acknowledges, if Heath Ledger’s heirs were bequeathed his right of publicity in a will and then licensed it to Disney so a deepfake version of Ledger could play Jack Sparrow, that would be totally fine by law.

In fact, right now, there are only a few A-list actors in Hollywood, and the biggest reason they are not in every film is limitations on their time. But if the technology developments enable them to simply license their name, image and voice and not really spend any time actually on set, wouldn’t that potentially take away jobs? All the roles just might go to Dwayne Johnson and Jennifer Lawrence.

Source: Deepfakes Pose Increasing Legal and Ethical Issues for Hollywood | Hollywood Reporter

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I find this fascinating stuff.

And, it means that you can’t even believe your eyes anymore.

Wow.

Like the unreliability of “eyewitness testimony”, even digital evidence will be suspect.  What happens to DNA evidence as technology improves?

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“This is important, because Google claims protection under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act,” noted O’Keefe, “Basically, they say they are impartial publishers of content and therefore, not liable for any content they publish, but this document shows they are anything but impartial.”

Source: Project Veritas: 1,000 Google Employees Signed Internal Anti-Breitbart Petition | Breitbart

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If they moderate ANY content, then they are responsible for ALL content.

Let the lawsuits begin!

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AP Photo/Lisa Marie Pane, File If you’re ever involved in a shooting, you can find yourself in the midst of a very traumatic experience. Taking a human life can be devastating all on its own, even in the case of self-defense, but then things can get ugly.

Source: Indiana Law Benefiting Gun Owners Goes Into Effect This Month

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The new law seeks to prevent people from profiting off their jackwagon relatives trying to hurt other people and being put down like rabid dogs. Good.

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This need to spread to all 50 states.

‘I’M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!’ I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell – ‘I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore!’ Things have got to change. But first, you’ve gotta get mad!… You’ve got to say, ‘I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!’ Then we’ll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it: [screaming at the top of his lungs] “I’M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!” — the character Howard Beale played by Peter Finch in the movie Network (1976)

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