https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/07/laurence-m-vance/2-drug-test/

Beware of the $2 Drug Test that Could Cost You Everything
By Laurence M. Vance
July 26, 2016

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Since it is neither constitutional nor a legitimate purpose of the U.S. government to prohibit, regulate, restrict, license, limit, or otherwise control what any adult American wants to smoke, snort, sniff, inject, or swallow, it follows, as the night the day, that there should be no laws whatsoever concerning the buying, selling, possessing, using, or processing of cocaine in any form for any reason—or any other any drug for that matter.

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Why did we need a Constitutional Amendment to prohibit alcohol, but not to prohibit “drugs”?

It’s a simple question.

Argh!

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FROM JUDICIAL WATCH’s EMAIL

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The FBI Declared Mass Killer Mateen “NOT” a Terrorist

This week we released previously undisclosed documents from the St. Lucie, Florida, Sheriff’s Department revealing that the FBI informed the sheriff’s office in late 2013 that Omar Mateen, who killed 49 people in a nightclub in Orlando, was “NOT” a terrorist and was no threat to “go postal.”  [Emphasis in original]  Remember this the next time you hear the media or a DC politician heap praise on the supposed expertise of the FBI.

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Guess they were wrong about about that!

What other mistakes have they made?

Argh!

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http://listverse.com/2016/07/15/top-10-little-known-facts-about-alcohol/

Top 10 Little-Known Facts About Alcohol
ADAM R. RAMOS JULY 15, 2016 

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The drinking age in the United States has varied between 18 to its current state of 21. Such an age would be absurd in 10 percent of the world, given that a total of 19 countries have no minimum drinking age at all, such as Sierra Leone and Cambodia. Fortunately, Antigua, Barbuda, and the Central African Republic are a little stricter when it comes to alcohol consumption—their minimum drinking ages are between 10 and 15 years old.

However, no laws are more stringent than the 16 countries where alcohol is illegal to consume at any age, such as Afghanistan, Somalia, and Pakistan. Iran, whose ban on alcohol was instituted after the 1979 revolution, displayed just how serious a criminal offence drinking was in 2012, when two men were sentenced to death for drinking alcohol. The men had two prior convictions for which they each received 80 lashes.

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I remember a time in my youth when in Nevada there was no speed limits, no drinking age, and prostitution was legal. The Mob ran the state and it was all very nice and peaceful.

Then, at the time, the drinking age in Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerk was 18. But I had my first beer at 14 in bar with my Dad. I drank there frequently and was never “carded” (i.e., asked for proof of age) until my 18th birthday. After that, the price of beer was half what it was when I was under age. (Guess that was the bar’s ‘risk premium’?)

SO why to we need the Gooferment telling us what we can do or put into our bodies. Are we their “human cattle”?

Argh!

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2016-Jul-14

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/07/14/gag-order-fbi-confirms-special-secrecy-agreements-for-agents-in-clinton-email-probe.html

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The New York Post first reported that the “Case Briefing Acknowledgement” was signed by the Clinton email agents, citing anonymous sources, but the Grassley letter is believed to be the first public acknowledgement by the FBI, and includes a sample copy of the non-disclosure agreement.

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Can’t have any of those “messy details” leak out about another Clinton cover up!

Argh!

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2016-Jul-08

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/07/andrew-p-napolitano/guilty-not-charged/

The Department of Political Justice
By Andrew P. Napolitano
July 7, 2016

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Comey has argued that somehow there is such a legal chasm between extreme carelessness and gross negligence that the feds cannot bridge it. That is not an argument for him to make. That is for a jury to decide after a judge instructs the jury about what Comey fails to understand: There is not a dime’s worth of difference between these two standards. Extreme carelessness is gross negligence.

Unless, of course, one is willing to pervert the rule of law yet again to insulate a Clinton yet again from the law enforcement machinery that everyone else who fails to secure state secrets should expect.

Why do we stand for this?

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We have long known that there was one set of rules for the rich and rest of us.

This just proves it.

I’m so frustrated with this I can’t even think how I can “not stand for it”!

What does the Judge propose?

All I can think of is “Anybody but Hillary”.

Hence, I’ll support choice.

The American system only allows two “parties” — effectively.

We saw Bill Clinton get elected when Ross Perot — a Democrat in Republican Conservative garb — split the vote.

So, unfortunately, I’ll support and vote for Trump — the prettiest horse in the glue factory coral. 

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http://www.jasonstapleton.com/host-calls-for-senator-joe-manchin-to-resign-after-comments-over-due-process/

Host Calls For Senator Joe Manchin to Resign after Comments Over Due Process.
By Jason Stapleton –  Jun 17, 2016

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Yesterday I alluded to some comments by Senator Joe Manchin on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. The senator suggested that the problem with gun violence today has to do with due process. That pesky 5th amendment that requires the government to have evidence against you before charging you with a crime.

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https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/call-resignation-senator-joe-manchin 

When a Senator takes office he swears an oath to defend and uphold the Constitution of our country. Senator Joe Manchin has shown that he has not only failed to uphold the ideals of the Constitution, but is actively attempting to destroy the foundations of our country with his recent disregard and disapproval of the right to due process as outlined in the Fourteenth Amendment.

“No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

I am calling on Congress to demand his resignation for failing to uphold his duties as a Senator.

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I am pleased to sign this petition and urge everyone to do the same.

We don’t have to be “terrorized” into giving up our rights like “We, The Sheeple”!

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When a Senator takes office he swears an oath to defend and uphold the Constitution of our country. Senator Joe Manchin has shown that he has not only failed to uphold the ideals of the Constitution, but is actively attempting to destroy the foundations of our country with his recent disregard and disapproval of the right to due process as outlined in the Fourteenth Amendment.

“No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

I am calling on Congress to demand his resignation for failing to uphold his duties as a Senator.

http://www.jasonstapleton.com/a-view-on-orlando-you-wont-hear-in-the-mainstream-media/

A View On Orlando You Won’t Hear in The Mainstream Media
By Jason Stapleton –  Jun 13, 2016

It’s a struggle to talk about an event like the Orlando massacre. I mean, it would be easy if I just followed one pre-approved philosophical line. I could blame radical Islam, and certainly there is plenty of room for that. I could blame guns since it’s such an easy target. What you can’t do though is suggest our own actions may have been a contributing factor to the events this weekend.

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Jason made some great points:

• Guns are not the issue. Although the talking heads have demonstrated that they know nothing about firearms (e.g., “gunshot loophole”; 700 rounds per minutes; “assault weapon”).
   
• It was a gun free zone!
• It’s not about gay rights. 
• The police waited 4 hours to assault the nightclub. It’s a miracle that even more people didn’t die when you gave the bad guy all that time.
   
• The guy was an American citizen who was investigated twice. His coworkers at the SECURITY firm say he was radicalized. So what are the background checks checking?
   
• The US foreign policy is provoking the angry response. 

We need to have a serious conversation about the intrusive Gooferment interference in our everyday lives.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/06/12/an-important-legal-victory-for-property-rights-in-the-north-carolina-supreme-court/

The Volokh Conspiracy
Opinion
An important legal victory for property rights in the North Carolina Supreme Court
By Ilya Somin June 12 at 11:35 AM 

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The North Carolina Supreme Court recently issued an important unanimous decision blocking what would have been a major uncompensated expropriation of property rights by the state. 

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The decision has implications that go beyond the Map Act and the taking of property for road-building. Had the ruling gone the other way, it might well have opened the door to uncompensated takings in various other situations, as well. There are many situations where the state might want to lower the value of property by indefinitely banning development, so it can then take the property at a later date in order to use it for a public project, or even to transfer it to influential private interests under the guise of promoting “economic development” or alleviating blight. Such takings were ruled to be permissible “public uses” by the Supreme Court in the controversial Kelo case in 2005, and are still permitted in all too many states even in the aftermath of the massive political backlash against Kelo.

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Unfortunately, Kelo was a disaster. 

We strayed far from the Constitutional meaning of “taking”.

“We, The Sheeple” need to push the politicians and bureaucrats harder for more legal protections. Every “taking” must be vigorously opposed.

Argh!

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http://www.emergencymgmt.com/emergency-blogs/disaster-zone/end-the-national-flood-insurance-program.html

End the National Flood Insurance Program?
The media spotlighted the issues!
Eric Holdeman | June 4, 2016

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In the Frontline program, the question was asked about how much profit the insurance companies make on the program with no good answer from FEMA. And I personally was amazed that FEMA paid for the litigation costs for the insurance companies, leaving the poor claimants to fight the insurance companies on their own dime. Clearly, reforms are needed — big reforms, not just tweaking the program.

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Here’s yet another Gooferment program that is Crony Capitalism (i.e., handouts for Big Insurance) and a subsidy program for the rich.

After Sandy, folks like myself who paid for “flood insurance” for 30 years found out they got no benefit because it wasn’t their primary residence. When I asked what I paid for, I was told: “I guess you made a mistake.” Argh!

Yet, “rich people” get their houses rebuilt time after time. 

In places in NJ where the Gooferment has rebuilt the same communities over and over under the guise of “flood insurance” and “helping devastated families”.

Argh!

In a real free market insurance, an insurance company would NOT insure a repeated loss for a house in a river valley time after time. Unless the premium was astronomical.

The Gooferment subsidizes poor decisions at the expense of the Taxpayers.

Sounds like this program should be killed immediately!

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http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/292786/john-oliver-buys-forgives-15-million-medical-debt/

John Oliver buys, forgives $15 million in medical debt
In News by Jamie Peck / June 6, 2016

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In the type of detailed 20-minute segment the show is becoming known for, Oliver examined the debt-buying industry, a poorly regulated field wherein companies buy people’s debt for pennies on the dollar and harass them into paying it, often by illegal and abusive means. He also discussed “zombie debt,” i.e. money which debt collectors try to extract that people are no longer actually obligated to pay. The show even sent a correspondent to an industry conference with a hidden camera to watch collectors gloat about how consumers don’t know their rights. (Also illuminating: An Arkansas lawmaker joking with the House Insurance and Commerce Committee about how he has to protect the bankers or his banker wife won’t let him come home at night.)

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Saw this episode.

It was funny and shocking!

I demonstrates that Gooferment, its politicians, and bureaucrats are not interested in the welfare of “We, The Sheeple”!

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http://cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/record-94708000-americans-not-labor-force-participation-rate-drops

Record 94,708,000 Americans Not in Labor Force; Participation Rate Drops in May
By Susan Jones | June 3, 2016 | 8:49 AM EDT

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The unemployment rate in May dropped to 4.7 percent, BLS reported, less than half of its Obama-era high of 10 percent in October 2009. But the labor force participation rate has deteriorated over Obama’s two terms.(AP File Photo)

(CNSNews.com) – A record 94,708,000 Americans were not in the labor force in May — 664,000 more than in April — and the labor force participation rate dropped two-tenths of a point to 62.6 percent, near its 38-year low, the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Friday.

When President Obama took office in January 2009, 80,529,000 Americans were not participating in the labor force; since then, 14,179,000 Americans have left the workforce — some of them retiring and some just quitting because they can’t find work.

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Tell me again how the economy is “improving”?

When will “We, The Sheeple” wake up to the fact that the “books are cooked”?

How do we reverse the trend, smaller Gooferment every time at all times.

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https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/05/andrew-p-napolitano/contagion-government-lying/

The Contagion of Government Lying
By Andrew P. Napolitano
May 26, 2016

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I would have barred all lawyers who lied to me from ever appearing in my courtroom, and I would have removed them from the case. I would also have referred what I knew about them to ethics prosecutors in the states and federal districts where they are admitted.

Lawyers have an obligation of candor to the judges before whom they appear. That duty is no less serious when the lawyers work for the government than when they work for private clients.

Because the government prosecutes people who lie to it and its liars almost never can be prosecuted, government lying is grave. It is equivalent to government lawbreaking because when people to whom the government lies — judges or litigants or members of Congress or the public — rely on those lies, they often do so to their detriment. They lose a right or an opportunity that often cannot be recaptured.

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Can’t private citizens ask the appropriate bar associations to disbar these lawyers?

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I would have barred all lawyers who lied to me from ever appearing in my courtroom, and I would have removed them from the case. I would also have referred what I knew about them to ethics prosecutors in the states and federal districts where they are admitted.

Lawyers have an obligation of candor to the judges before whom they appear. That duty is no less serious when the lawyers work for the government than when they work for private clients.

Because the government prosecutes people who lie to it and its liars almost never can be prosecuted, government lying is grave. It is equivalent to government lawbreaking because when people to whom the government lies — judges or litigants or members of Congress or the public — rely on those lies, they often do so to their detriment. They lose a right or an opportunity that often cannot be recaptured.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/05/23/short-circuit-a-roundup-of-recent-federal-court-decisions-4/

The Volokh ConspiracyOpinionShort Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions
By Eugene Volokh May 23 at 4:18 PM 

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Audit: Florida law-enforcement officers accessed the state’s motor-vehicle database over 500 times for a glimpse of a female (former) deputy’s personal information. Eleventh Circuit: The statute of limitations began to run when the (alleged) violations occurred, not when plaintiffs found out about them. So this suit (one of many) is dismissed.

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Sorry, but that’s just not fair and sections official misconduct.

The Statute of Limitations should only start on discovery.

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http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2016/05/save-puerto-rico-by-setting-island-free.html

TUESDAY, MAY 24, 2016
Save Puerto Rico by Setting the Island Free!
By Veronique de Rugy and Tad DeHaven 

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There’s an old saying about raising children that “healthy birds fly away from the nest.” Applying this concept to territories of the United States, it may be time to consider setting a timetable for Puerto Rican independence as part of any effort by federal policymakers to help the beleaguered island regain its financial health.

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It’s time to set free the USA’s “colonies” — Puerto Rico, Guam, Hawaii, Alaska, and anybody else.

Puerto Rico’s problems are partly of their own doing and partly Washington’s.

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/280982-ryan-secures-big-win-with-bipartisan-puerto-rico-deal

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Ryan secures big win with bipartisan Puerto Rico deal

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And, the débâcle will continue.

Give PR a fresh start and let them find their own way.

We’ll all be better off. 

The USA can’t afford the luxury of “high living” off the backs of the Taxpayer class.

Argh!

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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/05/23/va-secretary-disney-doesnt-measure-wait-times-so-why-should-va.html?intcmp=hplnws

VETERANS
VA secretary: Disney doesn’t measure wait times, so why should VA?
By Sarah Westwood  Published May 23, 2016

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Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald on Monday compared the length of time veterans wait to receive health care at the VA to the length of time people wait for rides at Disneyland, and said his agency shouldn’t use wait times as a measure of success because Disney doesn’t either.

“When you got to Disney, do they measure the number of hours you wait in line? Or what’s important? What’s important is, what’s your satisfaction with the experience?” McDonald said Monday during a Christian Science Monitor breakfast with reporters. “And what I would like to move to, eventually, is that kind of measure.”

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Argh!

You MUST be kidding me.

How tone deaf can a bureaucrat be?

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http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2016/05/17/nypd-crushes-dozens-confiscated-motorcycles-live-on-facebook/?intcmp=hpff

NYPD crushes dozens of confiscated motorcycles live on Facebook
Published May 17, 2016 FoxNews.comFacebook

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The New York City Police Department “crushed it” on the internet on Tuesday.

So said NYPD Commissioner William Bratton, who oversaw a Facebook Live broadcast of the destruction of a few dozen off-road motorcycles and ATVs, that were confiscated for being illegally operated on city streets.

The hashtag? #UseItAndLoseIt

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Several suggested that they should have been resold to raise money for the city, or donated to charity, instead.

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Argh!

The arrogance and stupidity of politicians and bureaucrats on full display.

How does this help anything?

The waste reminds me of BHO’s “cash for clunkers” that raised the cost of used cars and hurt everyone. 

Leaving aside the “theft of private property” for the “crime” of using the taxpayer paid for streets, how does the size of the crime match the punishment.

Argh!

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http://www.jasonstapleton.com/examining-the-tsa-why-government-fails-at-everything/

Examining the TSA. Why Government Fails at Everything
By Jason Stapleton –  May 16, 2016

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If you’ve been watching the news recently, you’ve not doubt seen the long lines of travelers waiting hours to pass through TSA checkpoints. According to a recent article, more than 4,000 people have missed flights due to delays caused by the TSA.

So why does TSA do such a poor job at its primary function? Simply put, because it’s government.

It turns out the TSA his a top-heavy, bureaucratic, administrative nightmare. The do everything poorly. The recruit poorly, they train poorly, and they perform poorly.

And what do we get for our long lines and humorless security providers? Not much it turns out. When the TSA did its own internal audit recently over 97% of the contraband made it through TSA screenings.

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The answer is simple.

End the TSA.

We can NOT afford “security theater”.

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http://tomwoods.com/podcast/ep-628-the-war-on-food-and-drink-freedom-and-one-group-thats-fighting-back/

Ep. 628 The War on Food and Drink Freedom, and One Group That’s Fighting Back
29th March 2016
Tom Woods

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The Gooferment allows: chicken raised and frozen in the USA; transported to China; butchered and refrozen; transported back to the USA for sale — without any labeling.

AND, it’s cheaper than chicken that never leaves the country?

Also, all the embedded protectionism in the State and Federal Gooferment and Big Agra.

Argh!

The little guys and “We, The Sheeple” can’t win. We are at the mercy of the Gooferment!

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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/03/27/2-iowa-police-officers-killed-in-wrong-way-crash-on-highway.html?intcmp=hplnws

IOWA
2 Iowa police officers killed in wrong-way crash on highway
Published March 27, 2016  Associated Press

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So sad. 

But why can’t we have the same technology that parking lots use on the entrance ramps?

Seems so simple to me?

Kinda hard to drive the wrong way with four flats.

It’s couldn’t possibly cost that much to save many lives and a lot of near misses.

Argh!

If a parking lot can afford it, surely “we” can too?

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http://tomwoods.com/podcast/ep-621-the-irs-is-about-to-terrify-organizations-into-shutting-up/

Ep. 621 The IRS Is About to Terrify Organizations into Shutting Up
18th March 2016
Tom Woods

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Wait until you hear the new rules the IRS is set to impose on a wide variety of organizations in September 2016 if all goes as planned. For example, forbidden “electioneering” will include so much as the mention of a candidate’s name on a website. We get into the details in this episode.

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https://taxrevolution.us/

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The IRS is a corrupt criminal organization that’s greedy for power over “We, The Sheeple”.

Remember Lois Lerner. You should you’re maying her ever month for “her service”. 

Who she was working for is in doubt, but one thing is for sure is that it was NOT the Taxpayer.

Argh!

Here Tom exposes another over reach!

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Ep. 621 The IRS Is About to Terrify Organizations into Shutting Up

18th March 2016Tom Woods

FROM MY EZPASS STATEMENT

NY’s 1st high-speed electric vehicle charging stations are open on the NYS Thruway. High-speed stations power in 30 minutes, 10x-20x faster than standard chargers. Northbound locations: Plattekill & Malden Service Areas between exits 17 & 21. Southbound locations: Ulster & Modena Service Areas between exits 20 & 17.For more information, visit: http://www.thruway.ny.gov/travelers/travelplazas/

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Does anyone think this is DUMB!

30 minutes to “fill up” your electric car?

Think of the “gas lines” in the summer!

Only in the Pepuls Republic of Nu Jerk!!!

Argh!

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https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/03/joseph-mercola/medical-cover-ups/

Hospital-Acquired Infections, Dangerous Tests and Other Medical Cover-Ups
By Joseph Mercola Mercola.com
March 9, 2016

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Drug Companies Siphon Tax Dollars for Dangerous, Useless, Overpriced Drugs

As if it wasn’t enough that you pay with your health for the drug industry’s lackadaisical approach to side effects — both by their downplaying the risk of death or serious injury in their ads, and by their filing adverse event reports that are useless for predicting risk to other patients — you also pay for their crimes with your tax dollars.

Sovaldi, a hepatitis C drug made by Gilead was under investigation for 18 months by the Senate Finance Committee. In the end, the Committee decided that the price of the drug — $1,000 per pill, or $84,000 per treatment — “did not reflect the cost of research and development and that Gilead cared about ‘revenue’ not ‘affordability and accessibility,’” the Epoch Times writes.

In 2014 alone, Medicare and Medicaid shelled out more than $5 BILLION for Sovaldi and another hepatitis C drug called Harvoni.

Writing for the New York Times, columnist Nicholas Kristof notes that in the year 2015, the drug industry “spent $272,000 in campaign donations per member of Congress … to bar the government from bargaining for drug prices in Medicare. That amounts to a $50 billion annual gift to pharmaceutical companies.”

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Sorry but this is what you get when the Gooferment picks winners and losers.

Unfortunately, when folks pay for their own medical care. it may hurt in the pocketbook, but the bills get careful scrutiny.

Waste, fraud, and abuse are REGULARLY reported in Gooferment “programs”. None more wasteful than “medicine”. I remember reading an article that asserted a huge percentage of “medical spending” in Florida was due to FRAUD.

Sigh!

The only way to cure that is to incentivize the patients to spend wisely. How can we do that? Make them pay 1%. Ever seen seniors look at an early bird special dinner check? Vultures would admire their attention to detail. 

Argh!

Doubt it will ever happen. Seniors vote!

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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/12/21/obama-administration-enacts-protections-for-lions.html?intcmp=hplnws

Obama administration enacts protections for lions
Published December 21, 2015  Associated Press

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WASHINGTON –  The Obama administration says it’s extending Endangered Species Act protections to two breeds of African lions.

The listings will be announced Monday and include an order that appears to touch on circumstances surrounding the killing of a well-known lion named Cecil earlier this year. 

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Yeah, with all the problems that the USA has, this was important to do?

How does that improve the world?

Don’t get me wrong. I think shooting Cecil was immoral. If you’re going to go kill a lion to prove you’re a “man”, then do it like the Zulu “boys” have to do it — alone, with a short eighteen inch spear, and a small shield made of reeds. Then, you’re a man … … or lunch for the lion! Shooting the poor dumb thing — although lions are regarded amount the Zulu and Masai as cunning and smart — from 500 yards with a precision rifle is hardly an indication of manhood. I have read that these “hunters” don’t even carry their own rifles. Having humped awhile on practice hike in the military with a light scout rifle, toting a heaving big caliber hunting rifle around on a lion “hunt” would make for a early night. 

Argh!

But back to BHO44 and the Gooferment. It’s just dumb and a waste of ink.

Sigh!

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http://ericpetersautos.com/2015/12/15/atlas-shrugging/

Atlas Shrugging
by eric • December 15, 2015 • 26 Comments

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Tailpipe exhaust emissions standards are just one example of real-world government demands that have become unreasonable – and which led VW to shrug.

Reasonable would be a requirement that 95 percent of a vehicle’s exhaust stream be free of noxious-to-health gasses. VW – and everyone else – met that standard about ten years ago.

It’s not enough.

It is never enough.

The demands always escalate.

Now 97 percent must be free of noxious-to-health gasses. And then 98 percent. When that bar is reached, they will insist upon zero emissions.

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Gooferment is immoral, ineffective, and inefficient. As well as untrustworthy.

And, here’s a great demonstration of it developing a regulatory agency with a life of it’s own with a mission to crush the evil Capitalist empire.

Seems like “We, The Sheeple” better reign this nonsense in while we can still buy an auto.

Argh!

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https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/12/gary-north/prison-public-school/

The Story of Two Buses
By Gary North
December 14, 2015

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That’s how it works.

Both systems use buses to take the students to school. But the colors are different.

In prison, prisoners sell illegal drugs. Students do the same in school. In prison the food is terrible. It’s not very good in school – possibly prepared by the same food service company. In prison, there are constant inspections. Guards keep taking roll to make sure everyone is present and accounted for. Teachers do the same in school. In prison, you aren’t allowed to leave without permission. The same is true in school. In prison, bullies run the show. In school, they do, too. But there is a difference. Prison buses are white. School buses are yellow.

This is too extreme. The systems are different. Criminals are convicted in a court of law before they are sent to jail. Students, in contrast, are innocent. Some prisoners can get parole. The average term in prison for murder is under ten years. Students are put into the school system for twelve years. There is no parole.

Be thankful if you are not in one of those buses, either white or yellow.

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This reminds me of “I, pencil”. 

Read the entire story and put yourself in the place of the child being forced to the Gooferment reeducation / propaganda camp!

Scary.

When the evil Commies did it, that was BAD. When “our” Gooferment does it, that’s different.

Remember the purpose of Gooferment Skrules: cannon fodder for the Army, willing morons for the factories, and useful idiots to vote for and be led by the elite! Where do the Presidents send their children? Certainly NOT to Gooferment Skrules!

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http://ericpetersautos.com/2015/12/09/drivers-license-and-social-security-number-please/

Drivers License And Social Security Number, Please
by eric • December 9, 2015 • 27 Comments

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Maybe you remember when Social Security numbers were “not to be used for purposes of identification.” It actually said so, right there on the card.

Well, it used to.

So much for that. As usual, per the frog in the ever-warming pot of water, we do not notice the change until it is too late to change anything.

Our SS number is now the de facto – and in a very real sense, the de jure – national ID. De facto, because it’s almost impossible to transact any business without one. De jure, because the law increasingly does require it for purposes of identification, even though the original law said it never would be used for such purposes.

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In other words, the SSN is now officially being used for purposes of identification – just as they (the authors of Social Security, all those years ago) swore up and down it never would be. It was only going to be a government social insurance program, to keep old folks from shivering and starving in the winter. Never to be the basis for a nationwide cattle-cataloging system.

Surprise, surprise.

They lied.

Again.

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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

I think I have to add a new element to my mantra “Gooferment is immoral, ineffective, and inefficient!”

It’s “untrustworthy”. The Gooferment, politicians, and bureaucrats all lie.

(The recent Tom Woods’ show on Hamilton demonstrated that the Federalist said what ever was needed to get the Constitution adopted and then did what the wanted any way.)

Argh!

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