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Noah Friend returned Monday to his home in Leilani Estates to find a 10-foot wide crack running 500 feet long through his backyard and beneath his house.

Source: Leilani Estates family ‘heartbroken’ as huge crack swallows up their home

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That’s tough luck.  Is there any insurance that would cover that?

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Have you used Nextdoor to help collect donation items before? Hillcrest Ranch resident Michelle hadn’t until recently when she was looking to donate bikes to St. Vincent de Paul, and was pleasantly surprised at the response! As part of National Bike Month, Michelle was looking to collect bikes to donate to the St.

Source: Glendale, AZ neighbor collects over 40 bikes for those in need

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What a great combination of technology and human needs!

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Every time we write about passwords on Lifehacker, a few readers share their secret formula for creating passwords. According to Ryan Merchant, senior manager at the password manager Dashlane , those formulas are easy to hack. Dashlane recently analyzed 61 million passwords from years of large data breaches—passwords that are available to many security researchers, hackers, and even the public.

Source: Password Formulas Don’t Fool Hackers

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Been saying that for years.  My favorite is LASTPASS.

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The “March For Our Lives” gun-grabbers have convinced themselves that the only way to stop mass shootings in the United States is to prohibit law-abiding Americans from owning firearms. But what these brainwashed leftists fail (or willfully refuse) to acknowledge is the fact that almost every major shooting incident that’s occurred in recent years is directly tied to the perpetrators’ use of mind-altering pharmaceuticals.

Source: The Elephant in the Room: Why Isn’t Anyone Talking About the Link Between Psychiatric Medications and Mass Shootings?

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The NRA, GOA, and gun owners in general have been yelling about this for decades!

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Source: Thank you from AARP Feedback

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I really object to the far left liberal political agenda that you push for. I don’t think that you should advocate for things that will bankrupt the posterity of the USA. You should be advocating for a strong fiscal discipline in Congress, against the inflationary Federal Reserve policies, and programs like Obama/SCOTUS/Trump care. We can do so much better and seniors are not a homogeneous class of people. Social Security is a Ponzi scheme that transfers wealth from poor minority men to rich white women. As such, you should be championing reform into Individual Social Security Accounts just like a 401k. If Chile could do it in the 70’s, why can’t we do it now.

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UBI is an idea gaining traction among those given to believing impossible things — college professors.And politicians.The fellow with stars in his eyes… is often the fellow with rocks in his head.Under UBI, the government would guarantee every working-age American a basic standard of living.No string would come attached to this pretty peach… no proof of want… no questions whatsoever.Assume, for example, that a strong-backed fellow can find employment moving furniture.But the job demands an early rise… and he finds that dozing until noon better suits him.Would this layabout receive a check?Yes he would.

Source: The Next Welfare Program – The Daily Reckoning

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Subsidizing “welfare queens”?  Again!

The only way this flies if ALL other welfare programs are completely eliminated and all the bureaucrats are put on the street to look for work.  No unemployment insurance for 99 weeks  — that goes away with the Universal Basic Income.  No welfare  — no food stamps, no WIC, no retraining  — no nothing.

Some how I don’t the politicians and bureaucrats will make the trade.

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[FiOS Phone] New Telemarketer Trick? – Verizon FiOS | DSLReports Forums, broadband news, information and community

Source: [FiOS Phone] New Telemarketer Trick? – Verizon FiOS | DSLReports Forums

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A new curse upon the land?

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High school seniors Luciana Tellez, Giselle Montano and Esmeralda Nava died Saturday night after their car was struck head-on on Interstate 5 in Yoncalla, Oregon.

Source: Three high school seniors die in Oregon crash weeks before graduation | Daily Mail Online

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Why can these types of crashes be prevented by good injineering (i.e., wrong way tire shredders at all entrances).  If we had private roads, I bet they’d be installed already!

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We should all be concerned about honey bees dying. Honeybees pollinate more than 100 crops , from apples to zucchini. The world has watched honey bees dying in the millions since 2006. Though there have been news reports concerning this crisis fro the last 12 years, a majority of people still aren’t tuned in to the actual scope of the situation.

Source: Honey Bees Dying? You Can Help By Starting Your Own Hive

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Wondering about the idle green spots around and how hard would it be to establish colonies. Not for harvesting honey; just to create more bees.

Seems like a “johnny appleseed” type project.

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Unfortunately, as we said last month “all signs point to the gold being repatriated only so it can be raided, pillaged and promptly deposited in offshore vaults by members of the ruling oligarchy.”

Source: Zero Hedge

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It always important to understand the motivation of politicians and bureaucrats!

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I team up with chef Rich Landau and public health nutritionist Tracye McQuirter to discuss the health benefits and preparation of beans.

Source: Prescription: Nutrition Episode 3 – Spilling the Beans | NutritionFacts.org

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I like the idea to just move yourself along a spectrum as you can.  Right now my personal goal is to limit meat to only once a day.  I give myself an extra “pat on the back” if, like yesterday, I can go without meat for a whole day.  Sometimes it’s not really that hard.  It’s all about developing your “tastes”.  One doesn’t change one’s eating habits abruptly, UNLESS you have a heart attack or stroke.  So why not try to avoid the catastrophe in the first place.  Like Al Aiello taught me: “When you’re in a hole, stop digging.”

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The Amish don’t always reject a technology, but they have very specific rules about how it is to be used.

Source: The Amish understand a life-changing truth about technology the rest of us don’t — Quartz

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Interesting perspective.  Is technology ruining us?  I don’t think so.  But it is changing us.

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Mr. Peterson is spot on on so many things. It is an absolute pleasure to watch him dismantle his opponents. (One because he does so so respectfully.) He is a classical liberal who is standing up to the speech Nazis. He calls out the indoctrination centers in universities, and the graduates of these indoctrination centers are not happy that someone is exposing them.

Source: EXPLOSIVE interview with Jordan Peterson on The Wright Stuff (VIDEO)

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Political correctness is fundamentally sexism and racism institutionalized to a very large degree. It is anti-thought. It is anti-reason. It is anti-intellectual. And it is anti-reality.

Have to say this is exceptionally perceptive. I never understood the whole PC thing.  It’s what’s in people’s hearts; not their words.

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Ron Unz — theoretical physicist, software developer, political candidate, and author — joins me to discuss themes from his “Our American Pravda” article, which explores stories the media suddenly dropped, or never covered.About the GuestRon Unz, a theoretical physicist by education and a successful software developer by profession, has been involved in many high-profile political causes over the years. In the 1994 California gubernatorial race he ran a spirited campaign against then-incumbent Pete Wilson for the Republican nomination. He operates the opinion site Unz.com.

Source: Ep. 1160 Our American Pravda: How the Media Misleads | Tom Woods

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Interesting that after our exchange about John McCain this podcast drops. It slaughters John “Tokyo Rose” McCain and makes him worse than “Hanoi Jane”. And to think he almost became President.  So sad that “We, The Sheeple” have been so deceived.

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Feed your curiosity with the latest topics, news, blogs and magazines. All your favorite content in one place and made for you.

Source: Google News – For You

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Boy did Google screw the pooch with “Google News”.

• It lost all my favorite topics
• It thinks I’m back local in Keene NH
• Doesn’t remember my settitngs
• Can’t find any help
• The UI feels jumbled
• Hodgepodge third column
• Dates are scrambled in no recognizable order

Argh!

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“We are working on and currently overwhelmed with significant fraud cases involving organized crime defrauding hundreds of millions of dollars. Significant amounts of these defrauded tax dollars are being sent overseas to countries and organizations connected to entities known to fund terrorism,” Stillman wrote to his supervisors at the Minnesota Department of Human Services in an email on March 28, 2017, which was provided to the committee.

Source: Report: Somali Immigrants Ran $100 Million Daycare Fraud | Breitbart

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Another example of a failed “immigration” policy to drain the welfare state.

Argh!

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Healthcare/sickcare will bankrupt the nation by itself. If you want to understand why the U.S. healthcare system is bankrupt, financially, morally and politically, then start with this representative anecdote from a U.S. physician.

Source: U.S. Healthcare Isn’t Broken–It’s Fixed

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U.S. Sickcare is organized to maximize profits by any means available.

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That’s the essence of the problem.  The interests of the patient and the suppliers are not aligned. Like the fiduciary standard in the financial services industry, we need to realign the rewards.

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This magical, monosyllabic exclamation applies to a whole slew of circumstances: Accidentally pulling on a push door; trying to flag down a waiter; realizing you were served the wrong dish; hearing a mildly juicy piece of gossip; realizing a car is coming when you’re about to cross the street; thanking someone for opening a door for you; feeling the first drops of rain. “Ope!” works for all of ‘em. It’s a way to announce your presence in the most passive, non-intrusive way possible. We’re too kind to say “Excuse me”—that can come off as pushy, right? Plus, given our near-sociopathic tendency to chat up strangers, any word longer than “ope” might get us unintentionally roped into conversation.

Source: ‘Ope!’: The All-Purpose Expression of Midwestern Politeness | Chicago magazine | Politics & City Life May 2018

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Seems dumb to me, but to each their own.

Ope!

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Insurance or extended warranties aren’t required purchases for all iPhone owners. You may already have a good idea about whether your phone might get broken or be stolen before you’re ready to upgrade to a new phone. If you need the extra coverage, make sure you know all the details before you make your purchase or, when the time comes to use your insurance, you may be sorry.

Source: Why You Should Never Buy iPhone Insurance: 6 Reasons

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I always thought almost any kind of “product insurance” was a scam.

Especially on any item that costs less than 200$.

You really have to self-insure anything below where it would hurt to have to replace on your own (i.e., home, auto, an “unbrella”).

Argh!

As for poor “customer service” or “tech support”, that’s the norm today.  Disgraceful, but no one seems to care.

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Women are having fewer babies than ever before — except, surprisingly, those in their 40s.The number of births in the US last year to women of any age was roughly 3.8 million, down 2 percent from

Source: How women over 40 can save the human race

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We need more children to pay my Social Security.

Come on gals; get to work.

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ROSWELL, Ga. — High school students hiding from the gunman in Parkland, Florida, were forced to whisper in calls to 911 for fear of tipping off their location. Others texted friends and family who

Source: 911 is struggling to keep up with the times

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Gooferment technology and understand lags behind the real world.

Argh!

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Back in 2012, I started a column with this line: “The US Postal Service deserves to go broke.”What bothered me was the fact that enterprising crooks were making counterfeit postage stamps and

Source: I tried to warn USPS about this counterfeit operation

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I wonder if FedEx or UPS has these problems.

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Around San Diego County, a hot, salty, buttered controversy has popped up. Should hardware stores offer free bags of freshly-popped popcorn? While that may look like a warm, welcoming treat, free popcorn is a threat to public health — or so argue county officials.

Source: Pop goes a tradition: county cracks down on free popcorn in hardware stores – The San Diego Union-Tribune

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The tyranny of the “individual complaint”?   How can residents of the Pepuls Republik of Kaliforkneeah ever survive without the benevolent over watching everything police state?   Guess that ecoli outbreak of romaine lettuce didn’t happen?  Argh!  What’s next regulation of kid’s lemonade stands?  Oh yeah, the “health police” already do that.  Argh!

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