DISCOURAGING: Do you think incumbent politicians will willingly give up all this power?

Saturday, March 30, 2024

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoin-and-taxation-government-on-a-bitcoin-standard-?mc_cid=e0840e7a31

Bitcoin 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

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2023/10/incumbent-politicians-enjoy-record-reelection-in-aging-congress/

Incumbent politicians enjoy record reelection in an aging Congress
By Miro Hall-Jones  —  October 12, 2023 3:11 pm

AND OPINES on

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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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FUN: Skydiving beavers — another Gooferment idea that was not half bad

Friday, March 29, 2024

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/70282/watch-beavers-parachute-planes-footage-1948?ICID=ref_

Watch Beavers Parachute From Planes in Footage From 1948
Skydiving beavers. What could possibly go wrong?
By Rebecca OConnell | Mar 25, 2024, 3:27 PM EDT

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With the help of test beaver Geronimo, Heter created a special wooden box that opened on impact. In total, 76 beavers were dropped in Chamberlain Basin, with all but one surviving. They went on to live fruitful, busy lives in their remote new home. 

The story of the furry skydivers may sound too silly to be true, but there is video evidence. Fish and Game historian Sharon Clark found the forgotten footage, and thanks to the magic of the internet, we can all enjoy it today.

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Well for one beaver, it didn’t work out so well.

Pretty funny to me.  Wonder what the beavers thought of it?

Do beavers think?

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ConspiracyTheories: Accident or terrorism — the Gooferment is quick to decide, but is that the truth?

Thursday, March 28, 2024

https://palexander.substack.com/p/lara-logan-on-baltimore-bridge-being?r=onvra

Lara Logan on Baltimore Bridge being hit by ship ad collapsing; para this was no accident, ‘ Intel Sources Claim Baltimore Bridge Collapse On “Second busiest strategic roadway for hazardous materials”

  • Was “absolutely brilliant strategic attack”; on US critical infrastructure – most likely cyber – & our intel agencies know it. Attack perfectly targeted. “They have figured out how to bring us down.”

Dr. Paul Alexander  — Mar 27, 2024

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too soon to rule out terrorism…Logan is on to something here…

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The footage shows the cargo ship never got in the approach lane in the channel. You have to be in the channel before you get into that turn. Location was precise/deliberate: chose a bend in the river where you have to slow down and commit yourself – once you are committed in that area there is not enough room to maneuver.

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They chose a full moon so they would have maximum tidal shift – rise and fall. Brisk flow in that river on a normal day & have had a lot of rain recently so water was already moving along at a good pace.

Hit it with enough kinetic energy to knock the load-bearing pylon out from under the highway – which fatally weakens the span and then 50 percent of the bridge fell into the water.

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I’m not convinced yet that it was NOT an accident!  

But she does bring up some interesting “factoids”.

I am skeptical about how quickly the Gooferment responded to rule out “terrorism” or a “cyber attack”.  How could anyone have enough time or data to make such a judgement.

“Move along, people. Nothing to see here. Go home, you looky-loos.” Officer Barbrady’s Catch Phrase South Park

At the very least, the Gooferment has not done a very good risk assessment on the nation’s infrastructure if one “bridge / boat” collision can have such an impact.  Where are the risk mitigation efforts planned if this should happen.

Once again, like so many times before, the Gooferment is asleep at the switch/

Have to see what comes out in the next 20 years.

Checking the Conspiracy Theorist “thermometer”  — it’s “category 5  — possible” pending further evidence.

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RANT: Of course. there never is and evidence of voter fraud?

Wednesday, March 27, 2024

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/03/ohio_volunteers_uncover_massive_irregularities_in_voter_database.html

americanthinker.com
Ohio Volunteers Uncover Massive Irregularities in Voter Database
By Jack Gleason

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The day after certification in 2022, the Ohio statewide voter roll database showed:

  •     58,209 resided in an apartment or in a mobile home lot but had no unit number as required on their voter registration application to ensure proper delivery of mail, including mail-in ballot material.
  •     4,143 were older than the oldest person in the U.S. at the time or were too young to legally register.
  •     6,348 had a date of birth that was different in 2022 than it was in 2020.
  •     253,486 voters supposedly registered on January 1st, 84,221 voters registered on another Federal holiday and 201,693 voters registered on Sunday — all times when Ohio boards of elections and state offices are closed.
  •     120,094 had registration dates in the 2022 state voter file that were earlier than their registration date in the 2020 file. 59,025 people were listed as registering to vote before they were born.
  •     243,583 had state identification numbers that had changed since 2020, even though federal laws require each voter be issued “a unique state identifier.” 34,233 had 2 to 5 registration records with different state identification numbers, making it possible for them to vote more than once.

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Seems there is ALWAYS evidence of voter fraud.  What is everyone looking at?  They say “justice is blind”; maybe that is what is meant.

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RANT: DJT is the victim of a vindictive witch hunt

Tuesday, March 26, 2024

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13219965/trump-bond-james-new-york-fraud-josh-hammer.html

Nothing’s better for Republican unity than Democratic lunacy! Biden and the Left are salivating at the chance of bankrupting Trump, but JOSH HAMMER reveals why the $454M ruling against Donald will end up costing THEM dearly

By Josh Hammer For Dailymail.Com
Published: 08:48 EDT, 21 March 2024 | Updated: 10:08 EDT, 21 March 2024 

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In New York, there’s no bail for murderous thugs who roam the streets of the Big Apple.

Yet a Republican presidential candidate, leading in the polls against Uncle Joe, gets no such mercy.

Folks in the Bronx, Brooklyn, and other crime-ravaged NYC neighborhoods would love to see that reversed.

No one can earnestly look at what’s been done to Trump and see anything other than a vindictive witch hunt – and America is watching.

Who wants to live in a country where you’re targeted by the all-powerful state simply for holding the ‘wrong’ opinions?

Never-Trumpers and supporters of Nikki Haley have a choice this November: It’s either Trump or these vicious leftists, who’ll stop at nothing to injure their political opponents.

It won’t be a hard choice.

Josh Hammer is the syndicated host of ‘The Josh Hammer Show’ and senior editor-at-large at Newsweek 

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Anyone, who has any sense of fair play, should be outraged at this perversion of “justice”.

Sorry from the get go this is nothing more than a modern day lynching.

Shome on “We, The Sheeple” in the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerk for letting this happen.

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DISCOURAGING: Crime is down? No, no one gets prosecuted

Monday, March 25, 2024

# – # – # – # – # 

Obviously!

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LAWFARE: Disclaimmer on box impacts your rights?

Sunday, March 24, 2024

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/consumer/lg-refrigerators-failures-update/3465620/

Fridge failures: LG says angry owners can’t sue, company points to cardboard box
NBC Bay Area ^ | Feb. 28, 2024 | Chris Chmura, Stephanie Lucero, Alyssa Goard and Camille Lopez Rodriguez
Posted on 3/18/2024, 9:32:09 AM by Leaning Right

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Frank Rodriguez in San Francisco says he has been dealing with a difficult LG fridge since 2021. “This one cost me $2,000 and it’s been a nightmare,” he said.

He says it’s not freezing well. Techs have repeatedly tried to fix it, but haven’t. Frank says he’s asked for a replacement or a refund. But that hasn’t happened.

*snip*

LG says it put an arbitration notice on the box. It’s now asking a federal judge to require individual fridge owners to move their case to arbitration — in private. But owners we interviewed say they never saw the box because delivery people unboxed their fridge.

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I guess “We, The Sheeple” will just have to give LG the “Bud Light” treatment.  Tell everyone you know NOT to buy the LG brand.  If this goes national, I bet they will back off quickly.  Tell Home Depot, Lowes, and all the appliance dealers and I bet the message gets through to the top.

Argh!

#boycottLG #budlighttreatment

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INTERNET: State of Texas forgets that the internet is designed to route around blocks

Saturday, March 23, 2024

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13201039/pornhub-texas-ban-law.html

Pornhub pulls out of Texas: World’s largest adult content website restricts access in Lone Star State over Gov. Greg Abbott’s age verification law

  • Last week, an appeals court in Texas upheld the law with the battle likely now to rage on. The appeals court did strike down a law requiring users to red a health and safety warning before logging on 

By Paul Farrell For Dailymail.Com
Published: 06:53 EDT, 15 March 2024 | Updated: 07:06 EDT, 15 March 2024

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The world’s largest adult content website, Pornhub, has blocked users from accessing it and its sister sites in Texas over a dispute regarding an age verification law that the Lone Star State passed in 2023. 

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Now don’t get me wrong, I think PORNHUB is despicable and disgusting.

That being said firmly upfront.  Texas politicians and bureaucrats have ventured far beyond the protections of the First Amendment.  (We can argue about the “incorporation doctrine” making it apply to the States.  But that is the current interpretation.)

It’s also just stupid because the simple use of a VPN can bypass any “location check”.

If you really wanted to do age verification, make the law that “adult material” must be protected by a credit card verification of age, that is technically feasible.

But politicians and bureaucrats are so dumb!

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DISCOURAGING: ‘Duty, Honor, Country’ replaced by “Army values”?

Friday, March 22, 2024

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13196933/West-Point-duty-honor-country-slogan-dropped-woke-army.html

West Point military academy drops ‘Duty, Honor, Country’ motto from its mission statement – as furious veterans’ slam ‘progressive ideology’ for eroding tradition

  •     The phrase, which was added in 1998, will be replaced with the words ‘Army Values,’ according to Superintendent Lt. Gen. Steve Gilland
  •     The lieutenant general claimed the new mission statement ‘binds the Academy to the Army’ while ‘Duty, Honor, Country’ is foundational to Academy culture
  •     West Point’s mission statement has changed nine times in the past

By Noa Halff For Dailymail.Com
Published: 10:13 EDT, 14 March 2024 | Updated: 11:11 EDT, 14 March 2024

# – # – # – # – # 

In the 1962 speech at West Point, Gen. Douglas MacArthur said, ‘The long gray line has never failed us. Were you to do so, a million ghosts in olive drab, in brown khaki, in blue and gray, would rise from their white crosses, thundering those magic words: Duty, Honor, Country.’

WTH does that mean?

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HEALTH: Social Media Posts Are Sometimes Dangerous to your health and

Thursday, March 21, 2024

https://viralimmunologist.substack.com/p/caulfield-your-overly-brief-social

Caulfield: Your Overly Brief Social Media Posts Are Sometimes Dangerous
Dr. Byram W. Bridle
Mar 7, 2024

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Wow, I have responded to some public requests to address questions about social media posts made by Canadian ‘misinformation’ ‘expert’ Timothy Caulfield, and now I find myself flooded with more requests. And I can’t help but respond to yet another one because the amount of potential harm to the public is too great.

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These many nuances place the overtly short and simple comments in the X post into a much more appropriate context, don’t they?

The most important message to all readers: do not take the study that was indirectly referred to in Caulfield’s post, nor the post itself as evidence of safety or effectiveness of COVID-19 shots.

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This expert really puts Timothy Caulfield in his place as a  “misinformation expert” in a long precision point but point critique.

When I read the reporting on the 217 vaxer, I dismissed it as a “mentally ill” individual.  

And, when the media tried to use it as an exemplar of anything but mental illness, I thought “agenda driven reporting”.

But, when I read point by point critique Dr. Byram W. Bridle, I was impressed that there was a fellow who no only knew his stuff but could write it in a way that even a fat old white guy retired injineer could understand it.

In short, as Michael Malice says: ““… factual but not truthful.” — Michael Malice @michaelmalice.

There a lot of factoids pitched in the tweet and follow up stories, but the truth is in the critique.

In short, don’t get your medical facts from Social Media.

Unless you too are “mentally ill” with a death wish.

Argh!

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