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DISCOURAGING: “Altering the deal”
Sunday, May 19, 2024
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DISCOURAGING: Addicted to Sports Gambling? Does NOT sound like a good trend
Saturday, May 11, 2024https://newrepublic.com/article/180373/ohtani-sports-gambling-addiction-crisis
Alex Shephard
April 3, 2024
Bad Bets
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Our Entire Society Is Becoming Addicted to Sports Gambling
Athletes are being caught in scandals, yes, but the bigger scandal is that the ease and prevalence of betting is driving a huge rise in addiction—and neither the leagues nor our politicians care.
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Whenever I watch professional sports on TV, I’m always dumbfounded when I see online gambling sites as sponsors of the NFL, NBA, and MLB. If I remember my sports history correctly, we used to keep a significant distance between sports leagues and gambling to avoid scandals like the 1919 “Black Sox.” In this article, Alex Shephard argues that a partnership between professional sports and gambling has given rise to an even bigger scandal than thrown games: a huge rise in gambling addiction, particularly among young men. We’re already seeing an increase in bankruptcy and relationship problems due to online gambling. I suspect we’ll be reading more about the problems of online sports betting in the coming years.
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I too see all the ads and know that someone is paying for the advertisements. And they are not cheap. And not run by someone with innocent motivations.
That’s all you need to know to see where this is going!
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DISCOURAGING: ‘Conspiracy Theories’ are not longer imaginary rantings of loonies, but warning signs of a downward trajectory
Tuesday, April 30, 2024https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/04/conspiracy_theories_aren_t_theoretical_anymore.html
‘Conspiracy Theories’ Aren’t Theoretical Anymore
By John Green
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The national mood in the mid-twentieth century was very different from now.
- The United States was respected around the world — even if not necessarily liked.
- Technology was advancing faster than at any time in human history.
- Our cities were mostly orderly, safe, and clean.
- We believed there were few hardships which couldn’t be overcome with hard work. Opportunities seemed endless, as was our optimism.
- We were completely naïve about the danger posed by our own government.
Not everything was sunny. We had problems that needed attention. That is the nature of human existence after all. But when Ronald Reagan said, “Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem,” we just thought he was promoting self-reliance and highlighting government inefficiency. As I said, we were naïve.
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As we watch all this unfold, we know that vast government criminal conspiracies are no longer theoretical. There is nothing demented or delusional about believing our government would willingly facilitate the murder a political threat. The actions of the DoJ in conjunction with the legislation proposed by the Democrats makes that perfectly clear.
The plot to place Donald Trump at the tender mercies of a prison’s “genpop” is not the only evidence of government criminal conspiracy.
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Things have changed a lot since the mid-20th century. The children of the 21st century have a completely different worldview.
- The United States is a corrupt and impotent international laughingstock.
- We’ve become technically stunted. Replacing the Francis Scott Key bridge is expected to take three times longer than building the Golden Gate bridge almost a century ago.
- Our cities are becoming unlivable post-apocalyptic hellscapes.
- “Living the American dream” is no longer a middle-class expectation.
- We know that fear of our own government is a prudent mindset.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. doesn’t sound so crazy now that the conspiracies are no longer theoretical.
John Green is a retired engineer and political refugee from Minnesota, now residing in Idaho. He spent his career designing complex defense systems, developing high performance organizations, and doing corporate strategic planning. He is a staff writer for the American Free News Network and can be reached at greenjeg@gmail.com.
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And lest we forget that JFK was killed by the Deep State to prevent him from ending the Vietnam War and sending LBJ to prison.
Can the USA ever return to its former greatness?
Not very likely, Argh!
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DISCOURAGING: “Havisham future” is predicted for Western Civilization?
Sunday, April 21, 2024https://sonar21.com/miss-havisham-and-the-west-by-helmholtz-smith/
MISS HAVISHAM AND THE WEST
11 April 2024 by HELMHOLTZ SMITH
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Miss Havisham is a character in Charles Dickens’ novel Great Expectations. A wealthy woman, she was jilted and swindled on her wedding day. From that day on she has allowed nothing to change. The wedding feast sits there, liquids evaporated, silverware corroded, cakes and food rotted; overrun with vermin and spider webs. She wears still her wedding dress, filthy and torn. The Day preserved, decayed and monstrous. Time and events move on around her but her past is her present and her pitiless future.
Will this be the West in fifty years? Surrounded by decay and filth but still clinging its past? Shouting about its ever-so-valuable values, ranting on about the Rules-Based International Order, boasting it’s the best at this and the most at that, issuing judgments on the bad behavior of the others, sanctioning non-believers, bathed in its media feedback loop. Still the highest GDP in USD! (Now Big Mac Cricketburgers are $1000 a pop, there are lots of dollars in every pocket!)
But nobody in the rest of the world cares. They’ve moved on. No tourist visits the moldering house and its unhinged inhabitants. They prefer cruising the high speed railroad from Cape Town to Beijing with a side trip to Baikal. Who wants to be robbed in the shoot-up galleries of Amsterdam, the tent cities of New York, the machete gangs of London? If it’s Tuesday and riots, it must be Paris. Young Harvard graduates pass out in their slums and dream of becoming a toilet cleaner in Omsk Airport – full benefits, you know. Plus dental. And you can afford a small apartment on your pay.
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A pretty bleak prediction. Given the national debt and unfunded liabilities, it seems we have no place else to go but down.
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DISCOURAGING: Some people don’t understand that some rules have a reason behind them
Thursday, April 18, 2024LI doctor who died during family road trip should never have been in RV, Airstream says
By Olivia Land
Published April 9, 2024 Updated April 9, 2024, 10:38 a.m. ET
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“Airstream travel trailers are not designed to carry passengers while in motion,” the company said in a statement.
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Having had two trailers and Minnie Winnie, the trailer dealers drummed into us that no one should be in the trailer when it was being towed. One dealer had pictures of accidents to drive the point home. Even in the Minnie Winnie, the dealer emphasized seat belts when driving. So this accident was predictable and avoidable.
Requiescat In Pacem
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DISCOURAGING: “Scrabble for Snowflakes” and “Woke Scrabble”
Wednesday, April 17, 2024Scrabble makes historic change to game with ‘less competitive,’ ‘inclusive’ version to appeal to Gen Z
By Brooke Steinberg
Published April 9, 2024, 12:03 p.m. ET
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This is a game-changer.
For the first time in 75 years, Mattel is making a major change to the iconic board game Scrabble.
The new launch is a double-sided version of the famous board game — one side with the original game for those who want to stick to the long-time traditional version, and one side with a “less competitive” version to appeal to Gen Z gamers.
The flip side of the classic game, called Scrabble Together, will include helper cards, use a simpler scoring system, be quicker to play and allow people to play in teams.
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What’s next “Monopoly for Communists”?
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DISCOURAGING: 20 Year old woman died on Sunday after a battle with bone cancer
Friday, April 12, 2024University of Kentucky Dance Team Member Dead at 20 Years Old
Dylan Gwinn — 3 Apr 2024
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Kate Kaufling, a member of the dance team at the University of Kentucky, died on Sunday after a battle with bone cancer. She was only 20 years old.
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Was the covid shot the cause?
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DISCOURAGING: People seem to be giving up to easily
Wednesday, April 10, 2024https://www.thefp.com/p/im-28-and-im-scheduled-to-die
‘I’m 28. And I’m Scheduled to Die in May.’
- Some right-to-die activists want everyone to have access to euthanasia—even young people with mental illness. Are they also making suicide contagious?
By Rupa Subramanya
April 1, 2024
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Zoraya ter Beek, 28, expects to be euthanized in early May.
Her plan, she said, is to be cremated.
“I did not want to burden my partner with having to keep the grave tidy,” ter Beek texted me. “We have not picked an urn yet, but that will be my new house!”
She added an urn emoji after “house!”
Ter Beek, who lives in a little Dutch town near the German border, once had ambitions to become a psychiatrist, but she was never able to muster the will to finish school or start a career. She said she was hobbled by her depression and autism and borderline personality disorder. Now she was tired of living—despite, she said, being in love with her boyfriend, a 40-year-old IT programmer, and living in a nice house with their two cats.
She recalled her psychiatrist telling her that they had tried everything, that “there’s nothing more we can do for you. It’s never gonna get any better.”
At that point, she said, she decided to die. “I was always very clear that if it doesn’t get better, I can’t do this anymore.”
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I haver always thought that one of the rules in the “Game of Life” was that “You can’t leave early.”
As I have gotten older, maybe I’m wrong but how we treat and are treated should really value our humanity.
I’d sure like this person to find health and happiness. I’m not sure that suicide is the best or only course.
Sigh!
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DISCOURAGING: Do you think incumbent politicians will willingly give up all this power?
Saturday, March 30, 2024Bitcoin and Taxation: Government On A Bitcoin Standard
- Some thoughts on the difficulty of governments enforcing taxation in a world where Bitcoin is widely used in commerce.
Robert Hall — Mar 25, 2024
REFERS TO
Incumbent politicians enjoy record reelection in an aging Congress
By Miro Hall-Jones — October 12, 2023 3:11 pm
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In America, incumbents get reelected north of 90 percent. Did you know in the House of Representatives, the reelection of incumbents has never dipped below 85 percent? So you only have 15 percent of being voted out in the next election. Who doesn’t like those odds? This is why nothing changes. We get the same people in office year after year because they know how to play the game and grease the right palms, all thanks to the fiat money printer.
If you want to see all the BS the federal government spends on their deprecating fiat dollar, check out the Citizens Against Government Waste website. This will give you a good idea of the crap that is being funded in your name.
So, knowing this, do you think they will willingly give up all this power, prestige, and influence? I don’t think so.
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I agree.
So how do we rid ourselves of these “priestly drones”?
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DISCOURAGING: Crime is down? No, no one gets prosecuted
Monday, March 25, 2024
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