POLITICAL: I agree that people selected at random from the phone book would do a better job addressing the nation’s problems

Saturday, May 25, 2024

https://sharylattkisson.com/2024/05/poll-54-say-a-random-group-of-people-could-do-better-job-than-us-congress/

(POLL) 54% say a random group of people could do better job than US Congress?

By Sharyl Attkisson | May 20, 2024

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Only one-in-five voters think members of Congress listen to their constituents, and a majority say a random collection of people would do a better job.

That’s according to the latest Rasmussen Reports.

The survey found that 54% of likely U.S. voters believe a group of people selected at random from the phone book would do a better job addressing the nation’s problems than the current Congress.

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I’d suggest that we pick from the line at the unemployment office?

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POLITICAL: Gooferment “infringements” are a feature; not a bug

Friday, May 17, 2024

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/05/no_author/state-intervention-and-anarchy/

State Intervention and Anarchy
By Wanjiru Njoya Mises.org
May 17, 2024

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In Against the State, Lew Rockwell emphasizes that the assault on our liberties from the state is not merely “the product of temporary malfunctions. To the contrary, the state is by nature evil.” Rockwell shows that the state is founded on coercion and maintains its power by use of force.

In recent years, following the rise of environmentalism, public health “safetyism,” and the war against “hate,” state interventions have encroached even further into private and family life. Against the State shows that these interventions are not only coercive but also antihuman in prioritizing their goals above human life. A striking example of this was the lockdown policy of closing schools and playgrounds, on the basis that children are resilient and so there is no reason why the state should not keep them under house arrest for several months of their lives.

Another example is the prioritization of the needs of the socialized medicine behemoths such as the United Kingdom’s cultish National Health Service: the British journalist Sherelle Jacobs comments that “with NHS spending now more than that for education, transport, the Home Office and defense put together, Britain is arguably now merely a health service with a state attached.” Similarly, in Canada, private healthcare is banned, and citizens struggling to cope with life are offered state assistance in killing themselves.

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As we all should know the Gooferment, its politicians and bureaucrats, as well as its accomplices (i.e., the media presstitures, the rich entitled, the celebrities, and the identiarians) are immoral, ineffective, and inefficient. As well as untrustworthy.

Hence, all we can do is be in what I’ll call “Always resist” mode.

There is no other way that to be a “stainless steel rat” a la James Bolivar diGriz, alias “Slippery Jim” and “The Stainless Steel Rat” — a fictional character and a series of comic science fiction novels written by Harry Harrison.

Just find your way thru the maze and never be fooled by the platitudes and preachings of these evil people.

Remember FDR’s “policies” lead to the improvishment of generations and millions of deaths in WW2 and beyond.

Argh!

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POLITICAL: Voting for crime?

Monday, May 13, 2024

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/05/retail_theft_ring_busts_reveal_some_hard_truths.html

americanthinker.com
Retail Theft Ring Busts Reveal Some Hard Truths
By John F. Di Leo

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Los Angeles County Sheriff Department detectives proudly announced a complex and successful sting this week. 

A retail theft ring has been caught red-handed, with millions of dollars’ worth of make-up, perfume, pharmaceuticals, and more, stolen from stores in and around California, much of it still bearing store tags.  

Product has been recovered; at least a dozen locations have been revealed. Multiple fences have been identified, with eight arrests announced at the start, and likely more to follow. They will prove that shoplifting rings were organized to hit the stores that had what the fences wanted – from pharmacies like CVS to big box stores like Walmart.

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One of the hallmarks of today’s progressive prosecutors – the many Soros-funded district attorneys of cities and counties like Los Angeles – is the public declaration that police resources are too valuable, and capitalist retailers too unimportant and undeserving of protection, to waste time on prosecuting “minor crimes” like retail theft valued under some arbitrary figure of $800 or $1,000. This position has always been shameful and indefensible, but is all the more so in light of organized theft rings like the one in today’s news. 

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If the police are doing their jobs and the criminals are back on the street before they finish the paperwork then why are we surprised as crime wipes out society.

When we “vote” for these politicians and bureaucrats, then we are accepting the moral decline of our country.

Murders get a slap ion the wrist and thieves get a free pass.

It is the voters fault!

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POLITICAL: Defund NPR — it’s only “fair”

Saturday, April 27, 2024

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2024/04/17/npr-liberal-bias-media-uri-berliner/73345296007/

NPR editor quit after telling the truth about liberal bias in media. It’s time to defund them.

  • NPR in recent years has gone from being something I enjoy to something that more often than not leaves me shaking my head.

Ingrid Jacques USA TODAY

2024-04Apr-17

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Here’s a solution: Defund NPR

NPR – National Public Radio – isn’t just another media outlet. It’s funded in part by taxpayers, which places it in a different position than say The New York Times, The Washington Post or even my news organization.

Private publications are free to do what they want, although I think more are waking up to the need for more viewpoint diversity. It’s simply a smart business decision to reach a broader audience.

While Berliner argues that NPR still deserves public funding, I disagree. 

He writes: “As the country becomes more fractured, there’s still a need for a public institution where stories are told and viewpoints exchanged in good faith.”

Yet, NPR is offering no confidence that it will embrace anything close to the viewpoint diversity that it now lacks. Its new CEO, Katherine Maher, is getting attention because of social media posts she made before she was hired, including calling former President Donald Trump a “racist sociopath” and boasting of wearing a Joe Biden campaign hat in public.

That doesn’t bode well. 

If NPR wants to double down on its woke mission, fine. But it shouldn’t do it on my dime – or that of other taxpayers. 

NPR claims that “federal funding is essential to public radio’s service to the American public and its continuation is critical for both stations and program producers, including NPR.”

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#DefundNPR

I don’t want to pay for much of what the Gooferment does.  So let’s start here!

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POLITICAL: Seems like religious discrimination to me?

Friday, April 26, 2024

https://thenationalpulse.com/2024/04/15/judge-blocks-orthodox-jews-who-overwhelmingly-back-trump-from-trial-jury/

Judge Blocks Orthodox Jews, Who Overwhelmingly Back Trump, from Trial Jury.
Ed Kozak  — April 15, 2024

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“Orthodox Jews to be excluded from [Manhattan District Attorney Alvin] Bragg’s jury pool. The NYC demographic group most strongly supportive of Trump is the orthodox Jewish community,” Schneider posted on X. “So, no surprise that the very biased judge in Bragg’s case scheduled the trial to include Fridays instead of Wednesdays. Very unusual, but understandable since this switch will necessarily exclude all orthodox Jews from the jury pool. Democrat operatives are very clever.”

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I’m not lawyer.  (Thank God!)  But this seems to be blatant religious discrimination.  I would think that the Orthodox Jewish community would object.  I would.  And, it seems like automatic grounds for appeal.  (Maybe DJT’s lawyers are already drafting the appeal.)

Argh!

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POLITICAL: Seems like religious discrimination to me?

Friday, April 26, 2024

https://thenationalpulse.com/2024/04/15/judge-blocks-orthodox-jews-who-overwhelmingly-back-trump-from-trial-jury/

Judge Blocks Orthodox Jews, Who Overwhelmingly Back Trump, from Trial Jury
Ed Kozak  — April 15, 2024

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“Orthodox Jews to be excluded from [Manhattan District Attorney Alvin] Bragg’s jury pool. The NYC demographic group most strongly supportive of Trump is the orthodox Jewish community,” Schneider posted on X. “So, no surprise that the very biased judge in Bragg’s case scheduled the trial to include Fridays instead of Wednesdays. Very unusual, but understandable since this switch will necessarily exclude all orthodox Jews from the jury pool. Democrat operatives are very clever.”

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I’m not lawyer.  (Thank God!)  But this seems to be blatant religious discrimination.  I would think that the Orthodox Jewish community would object.  I would.  And, it seems like automatic grounds for appeal.  (Maybe DJT’s lawyers are already drafting the appeal.)

Argh!

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POLITICAL: Aren’t we told all the time about how safe our Gooferment water is?

Tuesday, April 23, 2024

https://patch.com/new-jersey/southbrunswick/s/ivvxk/strict-new-limits-on-water-chemicals-announced-see-nj-impacts

Strict New Limits On Water Chemicals Announced: See NJ Impacts

  • The rule is the first national drinking water limit on toxic PFAS, which have been linked to various health issues.

Nicole Rosenthal, Patch Staff
Posted Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 2:42 pm ET

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NEW JERSEY — In an extraordinary move Wednesday, the federal government imposed strict new limits on “forever chemicals” in public water systems, a costly undertaking for New Jersey’s local water utilities that many say will ultimately fall on the backs of taxpayers.

The Environmental Protection Agency mandate requires that the perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl chemicals, known collectively as PFAS, be reduced to near-zero levels. The rule is the first national drinking water limit on toxic PFAS, which are widespread, long-lasting in the environment and have been linked to cancer and a host of other health problems.

They’re ubiquitous, found in everything from food packaging and cookware to dental floss and other personal care items to children’s toys and firefighting foams.

At least 45 percent of U.S. water systems have one or more types of PFAS chemicals, according to a 2023 study by the U.S. Geological Survey. In New Jersey, PFAS have been found in public water systems in Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, Naval Weapons Station Earle, Woodbury Creek, Gloucester County Fire Training Area, Solvay Specialty Polymers Plant and the New Jersey Air National Guard Base, among others.

Health advocates praised the Environmental Protection Agency for not backing away from tough limits the agency proposed last year. But water utilities took issue with the rule, saying treatment systems are expensive to install and that customers will end up paying more for water.

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And I am sure that I get mailings every year from different “water suppliers” and municipalities telling my how “good” the water was.  Were those just lies?

Of course, the taxpayers and rate payers will pay more for this new and improved water. 

Argh!

Maybe instead of the Unintended Consequences of Gooferment “water”, people could be given a free market choice.  For example, if I use the new and improved water for my grass, then maybe I don’t want to pay more for it.  Ditto, flushing the toilet.  And, how about the concrete wash out basins, do they need the new and improved more expensive water?

Of course, with Gooferment solutions, there are no choices.

I guess all the folks buying bottled water may have had good reason too.

Argh!

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POLITICAL: Nuclear Power, like RKBA, is a litmus test issue

Monday, April 22, 2024

https://www.schiffsovereign.com/trends/these-powerful-inspired-idiots-will-take-us-back-to-the-stone-age-150693/

These powerful Inspired Idiots will take us back to the Stone Age
by James Hickman on April 12, 2024

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Sure, it would be great to reduce oil consumption… Geez if only there were another technology that was multiples more energy efficient than oil, but was simultaneously clean and green?

Oh wait, that technology already exists. It’s called nuclear.

But the green fanatics don’t like nuclear either… because they are Inspired Idiots. So their one-track minds are focused on stopping oil.

Just imagine if Honolulu’s lawsuit succeeds, and the city is awarded punitive damages; it would open up the floodgates for class action lawsuits around the world. Every city, state, and country in the world would be able to sue in the name of climate change.

No oil company would survive, and no investor or entrepreneur would touch the sector. The cost of energy would skyrocket… which would increase the cost of everything. Powering your home. Heating your home. Food. Medicine. EVERYTHING.

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Seems like “We, The Sheeple” should insist on safe cheap nuclear power!

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POLITICAL: Why aren’t Covid-19 cabal going to jail?

Saturday, April 20, 2024

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13298587/anthony-fauci-aide-covid-19-origins-emails-whistleblower.html

Bombshell emails show a top Fauci aide used his personal Gmail to ‘intentionally’ HIDE discussions about COVID origins… and would delete anything ‘incriminating’

  •  Rep. Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, revealed new documents from a whistleblower Thursday regarding federal official’s communications on the origins of COVID-19
  • They show that a senior advisor to Dr. Anthony Fauci tried to hide correspondence by using a Gmail account 
  •  ‘I will delete anything I don’t want to see in the New York Times,’ the Fauci advisor previously told Republicans 

By Jon Michael Raasch, Political Reporter On Capitol Hill, For Dailymail.Com

Published: 18:03 EDT, 11 April 2024 | Updated: 18:28 EDT, 11 April 2024 

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New documents show that Dr. Anthony Fauci’s top U.S. health aide intentionally tried to hide his discussions about the origins of COIVD-19 by using his personal email. 

Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, claimed a whistleblower provided him new bombshell materials obtained by DailyMail.com.

The unnamed whistleblower revealed emails showing that Dr. David Morens – Fauci’s top aide at the National Institutes of Health – allegedly used his personal Gmail account to discuss the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 to skirt federal transparency laws.

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Sounds like, if there was any fairness in political life, that several people would be facing jail and fines.  Makes the J6 treatment look laughable.

Any wonder why people don’t respect politicians and bureaucrats? 

Time to shut down the CDC, FDA, FBI, DOJ, and the CIA!

Time to clean house and break up the USA as immoral, ineffective, and inefficient. As well as untrustworthy.

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POLITICAL: Perhaps time to reform how SCOTUS are filled

Saturday, April 13, 2024

https://thenationalpulse.com/2024/04/04/far-left-calls-for-scotus-justice-sotomayor-retirement-reveal-dems-believe-in-trump-victory/

Far-Left Calls for SCOTUS Justice Sotomayor Retirement Reveal Dems Believe in Trump Victory.

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Democrats are increasingly calling on Justice Sonia Sotomayor to resign from the Supreme Court before the 2024 presidential election, suggesting a widespread belief that former President Donald Trump will win.

Sotomayor is 69, a lifelong diabetic, and the oldest liberal member of the court. Should Trump win the election and Sotomayor need to retire in the next four years due to her health, conservatives could secure a 7-2 majority.

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Maybe each President should get to select one Justice in each term.  Nine justices times 4 years is a 36 year term.  Seems like “lifetime” is impractical in today’s life spans.  So, stagger their terms.  Each President gets to pick one.  Still have the problem of death, disability, and retirement,  but it would be better than the chaos that we have around election time.

And, I’m not so sure that a 7-2 conservative majority is a sure thing.  Given how the justices seem to be all closet liberals.

Sigh!

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