AN ORIGINAL THOUGHT
After sending an email to the wrong list of people, I wondered why I couldn’t have a “Mail Send Delay” universal option?
Can’t do it in GMAIL!
Can’t do it in APPLE MAIL!!
Can’t seem to find it in ANY EMAIL Client! ! !
Argh!
It’s as if every time you sealed an envelope, then you immediately had to run to the Post Office and send it out.
Argh!
Where are the User Interface coders getting their specs?
Certainly not from this User!
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Facing bankruptcy, Toms River schools defy New Jersey education officials
Rick Rickman
Published: July 2, 2025
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TOMS RIVER — The largest school district in Ocean County, on the verge of declaring bankruptcy due to funding cuts, is slamming the Murphy administration for demanding that it stop student services.
On Monday, the Toms River school board refused to pass a budget for the upcoming fiscal year.
The district, which serves over 14,600 students, has lost $175 million in recent years due to changes in the state funding formula.
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Local lawmakers say the problem is Toms River’s spending, it’s Gov. Murphy’s cuts.
In a statement, a group of Republican lawmakers representing parts of Ocean County condemned changes to New Jersey’s school funding formula.
“Toms River is one of the most efficient and fiscally responsible districts in the state. This is a revenue problem, created entirely by a deeply flawed and politically driven funding formula, implemented with zero transparency and even less accountability,” the group of state lawmakers said.
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Ahhh, Gooferment Skrules, the flash point of Taxpayer unrest.
Putting mytin foil hat on, might the “State” currently in the hands of the Democrats be seen as punishing Ocean County for its continued Republican support? I’m sure that thought NEVER entered the “good” politicians and bureaucrats, who only want the best for the State, its “subjects”, and the Taxpayer aka slaves who pay for “good Gooferment”. Argh!
Sorry but it all goes to the core of several issues (imho):
Yesterday, I proposed my plan to end State funded Gooferment Skrules over 20, 40, or 60 years. I was getting traction until the “leadership” of the Hands Across New Jersey tax revolt group sold out to the Republican Party establishment.
Maybe some young conservative can pick up that “flag” and advance it over the goal line.
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This isn’t leadership
June 28, 2025
Dawn Fantasia
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My heart is breaking for the state of New Jersey — and I am furious.
The Democrats push preschool expansion for 3- and 4-year-olds while ignoring the crumbling schools we already have — schools with no busing, failing test scores, stripped extracurriculars, and students forced to pay to participate in basic activities. All while their parents are crushed by obscene taxes.
Meanwhile, irresponsible school districts are using our tax dollars to go on lavish trips to Honolulu, hold open bar events, and spend $225,000 on balloon decorations — while holding their hands out claiming there’s no money for teachers, programs, or transportation.
They’re seizing a multi-generational family farm through eminent domain to force mandated “affordable” housing that our communities can’t afford and our infrastructure can’t support.
They’ve turned their backs on clean, affordable natural gas and shut down reliable power sources — chasing green energy fantasies that don’t exist — while we import energy from fossil fuels and coal-burning states and pretend it’s progress.
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About Dawn Fantasia 8 Articles
Dawn Fantasia (R) represents New Jersey’s 24th Legislative District in the General Assembly.
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The Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee has been “fiscally raped” by the Democrat party, the “Teachers’ Union”, and all sorts of leftist liberal midwest with dreams of an “ideal world”.
Unfortunately, the New Jersey taxpayers have to live in the real world.
All the economics are headed in the wrong direction.
Dismal results, escalating costs, and a complete utter failure of any type of political supervision or will to address the problem.
When faced with an utter collapse, I suggest we “declare victory” and let the parent do what they want.
In the HANDS ACROSS NEW JERSEY tax revolt, I proposed a 60 year “solution’ to migrate from the current system to a radial solution. It was simple:
And, we could finally be free of the Gooferment Skrules, the Teachers’ Union (influence in politics), and the Prussian Model of “School” (making cannon fodder for the Army, willing morons for the factories, and useful idiots to vote for and be led by the elite).
Unfortunately, I wasn’t up to the task of selling the idea. The R’s (republicans as opposed to the Democans) infiltrated the HANJ organization and destroyed any hope.
Sigh!
Imagine the Gooferment took over the shoe industry and only made average one-size-fits-all size 8½ shoes. How would that work out? Yup, just like today’s education “system”.
Argh!
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https://youtu.be/pGcwRnQUmUw?si=fcL2zf6rcYMx9CQc
Red Skelton’s Pledge of Allegiance
In 1969, Red Skelton performed … a salute to Old Glory, we revisit an all-time classic rendition of the Pledge of Allegiance.
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I remember that on TV. Who would miss Red Skelton? Like Johnny Carson, unmissable!
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FROM 1440 https://join1440.com/
One man recorded over 17,000 traditional folk songs to preserve the true sound of America
By Katherine Gross
Published 13 June 2025
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To take a break from his studies, at 17 he joined his father on a work trip sponsored by the Library of Congress to collect folk songs around America. It was from this trip in 1934 that Alan’s legacy as an ethnomusicologist would blossom – over the course of his nearly 70-year career, he would document over 17,000 traditional songs, dances, interviews, and social practices from independent cultures within America to preserve the traditions and diversity of our heritage.
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His life work was collected by the Library of Congress in 2004, and can be explored in the Lomax Digital Archive.
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I vaguely remember hearing some of these in 1972-1974 when I was stationed in DC. While the recordings were far from the pristine sound we get today, they were fascinating. Like saving the Library at Alexandria, humans have a rich history that needs to be preserved.
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Hiker suffers hypothermia during trek on New England’s highest peak amid East Coast heat wave
By Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News
Published June 24, 2025, 8:21 p.m. ET
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In a striking contrast to the sweltering heat gripping much of the East Coast, a 55-year-old hiker from Texas was rescued in frigid and treacherous conditions Friday evening from the high peaks of New Hampshire’s White Mountains.
Caroline Wilson, 55, of Austin, Texas, was found hypothermic and unresponsive on the Gulfside Trail, approximately one mile north of the Cog Railway tracks, while hiking Mount Washington, New England’s highest peak, the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department said in a release.
The department said Wilson became incapacitated during the hike, prompting her husband to call 911 at 5 p.m. He told authorities that she could no longer move or communicate.
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The White Mountains can be pretty unforgiving,” she said. “Weather changes here in a flash.” Photos from the scene of the rescue captured the misty environment and steep rocky terrain.
New Hampshire Fish and Game Department conservation officers, along with volunteers from Androscoggin Valley Search and Rescue, Pemigewassett Valley Search and Rescue, Mountain Rescue Service and personnel from the Mount Washington Cog Railway, mounted a complex response in severe alpine conditions to rescue Wilson.
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Again, another unprepared hiker not ready for “severe hypothermia” in the middle of a heat wave. Gets cold and wet in the mountains.
And, from personal experience, I saw those conditions twice.
First, in USAF Survival School, at ground level somewhere in the Idaho Montana forrest, we had hiked a few miles (maybe five) on a hot fall afternoon. We camped out (think of a bunch of city boys playing Boy Scouts) and it start to rain. The temperature dropped like a rock (Say 30 degrees) and everyone was cold, wet, and hungry. Oh what fun! At the debriefing from the “exercise”, the Senior Chief asked what we learned. After eliminating the profanity, his message was “be prepared for the weather to change on a dime, Mother Nature ain’t your Mom”. A lesson I soon forgot.
Second, a decade later, in Switzerland, as a tourist, we took ride to a (short) mountain by tram for five bucks a head and when we got out at a few thousand feet up, it was <synonym for the act of procreation> COLD. I got the pleasure of buying a (one size too small) sweater at the Gift Shop at a premium price (which I donated before we left). I remember that Senior Chief saying “I told you so!”.
Due to that unprepared hiker’s age, she would not be qualified for a Darwin Award. But Mother Nature is not very strict about the award rules when handing out death sentences. Again, look at all the resources used to save her. Who pays?
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Sharp elbow; warm heart
Ferdinand Reinke
The journey of a girl born into poverty,
From a tenement walk up
… to …
a quiet passing into heaven
… with frequent stops:
to help people, and
love all the children along the way.
The Evlynn Marie Mahoney Reinke story (Version 1.1)
Details Publication Date Jan 26, 2012
Language English
Category Biographies & Memoirs
Copyright All Rights Reserved – Standard Copyright License
Contributors By (author): Ferdinand Reinke
Specification
Pages 292
Binding Type Paperback Perfect Bound
Interior Color Black & White
Dimensions US Letter (8.5 x 11 in / 216 x 279 mm)
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A sad day for me. Here’s her story.
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2025-Jul-01
Ricky Gervais has a great answer. ;-(
A tear jerking moment.
Kudos to him for being authentic.
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Couldn’t logon for several days.
First call into them; they changed UserIds to emails. Argh!
Second call into them; send us a screen shot.
Sent it in and then they said: “three to five business days”.
Argh!
I fail to understand how they are going to diagnose and fix this. And, five days, someone must be INSANE!
Nevermind that no one is interested in WHY I need to get on their website.
Argh! Argh!
Maybe I need to change?
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FROM 1440 https://join1440.com/
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NATO Spending Hike
NATO leaders are expected to agree to ramp up defense spending when the two-day summit concludes today. Countries may commit to spending 5% of their gross domestic product on defense by 2035—up from the current 2% target, which 22 of the 32 member countries have met.
The commitment responds to a call from President Donald Trump, who has conveyed skepticism about the military alliance’s value to the United States. The US is one of NATO’s biggest contributors, responsible for roughly 16% of the alliance’s collective $3.5B budget last year. It is also the only country to have triggered Article 5, which assures collective defense for all member countries. Spain struck a deal with NATO to be exempted in the final communique, instead committing 2.1% of its GDP to defense. Learn more about NATO here.
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#getoutofNATO, #NATO, #endNATO
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Given the USA’s fiscal state, I would like to see us pull out of NATO and the UN.
“Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.”
— Thomas Jefferson
Can anyone give a good reason not too?
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Diamondbacks’ Ketel Marte cries on field in heartbreaking scene after fan’s disturbing comments
By Mitch Fink
Published June 25, 2025, 8:36 a.m. ET
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“I hope MLB can do something with that guy. I don’t know who it was, but they’ve got to do something. We can’t continue to do that [expletive] here in MLB … he should be banned, for sure. Everybody knows Ketel lost his mom. She was the world to him.”
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I’d hope that MLB would ban this bozo fan for a decade. Hey, “kill the ump” isn’t even acceptable these days. I think that the “bread and circuses” crowd has lost all public decency. Cheer, boo, whatever, but personal slurs are, or should be, severely punished.
Same with verbal and physical assaults at ANY sporting event should be prosecuted to the full extent of the local law. It’s a real “HATE” crime. (Even though as a little L libertarian, I don’t believe in “hate enhanced penalties”.)
I can’t imagine how I’d react if I was really focused on my job and performing it to the best of my ability and someone came up behind me and yelled slurs about my sainted past wife. I’d probably try and deck the guy.
Argh!
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UPDATE: 2025-Jun-30
https://1057thehawk.com/ixp/385/p/branchburg-youth-baseball-umpire-assault/
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Read More: Major win for youth umpire punched by coach at NJ baseball game | https://1057thehawk.com/ixp/385/p/branchburg-youth-baseball-umpire-assault/?utm_source=tsmclip&utm_medium=referral
In March 2023, he was sentenced to five years’ probation. He also had to complete five months of anger management counseling, NJ.com reported.
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FJR: No jail time? To light IMHO.
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Remember Heinlein’s Starship Troopers’ universe? One does not merely have the right to be a citizen and vote by virtue of what Heinlein called the mere accident of birth; rather, one has to earn this right through Federal Service that tested one’s ability and willingness to sacrifice for the greater good of the polity. Bet not a lot of vets would vote for all the undeclared wars the USA has been in since WW2?
And, my many posts about repealing the 16th (income tax) and 17th (direct election of Senators) Amendments.
Go back to funding the Federal Gooferment with tariffs and excise taxes. If the Federal Gooferment needs more money then let it ASK the State Gooferment to impose a sales tax and forward the money to the Federal Gooferment!
Return the power to select Senators to the State Legislatures as the Dead Old White Guys designed it. As a State’s check on Federal power. Restore it and get the money out of elections and politics. Too many carpet baggers buying their Senate seats.
And, how about creating more Representatives in the House? What was the representation ratio in the House when the Union was formed? One per some number of citizens in the thousands. With technology today, it can be a virtual meeting. With a population of 350,000,000, we can set the number of Representatives at 3500 (one per hundred thousand). Guess these folks never heard of Zoom calls. We don’t need politicians and bureaucrats in DC where they can conspire easily about how to oppress us. Argh!
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Hiker rescued after falling out of tree and getting lost in Washington woods for nearly a week
By Caitlin McCormack
Published June 24, 2025, 7:02 p.m. ET
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A hiker survived nearly a week lost in the woods of Washington state, including a fall from a tree, and was finally saved after someone heard his desperate cries for help.
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The man’s calls in the woods of Suquamish were heard by a nearby tribe member who called 911 on Saturday around 12:30 a.m. to alert authorities, the Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office said.
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A hiker was rescued after spending four or five days lost in the woods in Washington. Kitsap County Sheriff
When a sheriff’s deputy arrived, he too heard a “faint, distressful voice coming from the woods from a man saying he had fallen from a tree,” the office wrote in a Facebook post.
The deputy quickly helped form a search party with assistance from the Washington Explorer Search and Rescue, Kitsap Search Dogs, Olympic Mountain Rescue, and the Suquamish Tribal Police Department.
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Another person is almost a Darwin Award winner!
Unprepared for a day in the woods; let alone a week. Sorry but Mother Nature doesn’t forgive foolishness easily. Look at the number of organizations, amount of human hours, and just the sheer effort. Who pays for all that?
No compass, no map, no cell phone … …. I could go on and list all the things that he should have had. Not the least of which is a hiking buddy.
Hiking alone is a sure fire way of winning that Darwin Award!
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Jersey Shore official slams NJ over summer-long Shark River Bridge closure
Dan Alexander
Published: June 20, 2025
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🚧 The Shark River Bridge is closed to vehicles and pedestrians
🚧 A County Commissioner says the DOT doesn’t properly maintain the bridge
🚧 The DOT says it spends $1.5 million on preventative maintenance
BELMAR — The New Jersey Department of Transportation is defending its oversight of a Jersey Shore drawbridge that will be out of service all summer, the time when traffic in the area is the busiest.
Monmouth County Commissioner Director Tom Arnone blasted state transportation officials for lackluster maintenance, saying that could have avoided the full closure of the Shark River Bridge, which connects Avon-by-the-Sea and Belmar.
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Why is anyone surprised when Gooferment fails to do its job?
“I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!” Captain Renault in Casablanca
It’s not like the politicians and bureaucrats of the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee don’t know that this bridge is a constant problem. Why in this day and age do we still have drawbridges? And especially on critical roadways?
Thanks Governor Murphy; another great success!
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The secret British language that was used to outwit the Nazis
17 July 2023
Oliver Berry Features correspondent
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Instead of taking up arms, islanders found other, subtler ways to resist. They engaged in a campaign of passive resistance, and Jèrriais became central to their efforts. With its complex vocabulary and regional variations, the language was all but impossible for outsiders – even French-speaking Germans – to follow. As such, it made the perfect secret code, and islanders increasingly used it to exchange information, make clandestine plans against their occupiers and, occasionally, even mock their them right under their noses.
“Jèrriais articles at the beginning of the occupation managed to get through resistance messages,” explained Geraint Jennings, a linguist, scholar and Jèrriais expert who works at L’Office du Jèrriais to promote the language. “Articles openly printed that it’s best to speak Jèrriais so ‘certain people’ won’t be able to understand it – IE the Germans! Of course, they soon cottoned on to that and clamped down with censorship, but Jèrriais continued to be used as a secret language for passing messages for the rest of the war.”
Ironically, despite its wartime role, the use of Jèrriais declined at an alarming rate after liberation in 1945. Like many of Britain’s minority languages, such as Manx, Gaelic, Welsh and Cornish, Jèrriais was derided as a language spoken only by the uneducated, and it had been in gradual decline since the late 19th Century – a trend that accelerated rapidly after the end of WW2.
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Fascinating stuff. Like most of the lost languages, “We, The Sheeple” have no idea what has been lost.
Hopefully, AI and some dedicated individuals can capture and save it.
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$1.2 Trillion Later, and Air Traffic Control is Still Using Floppy Disks
by James Hickman
on June 18, 2025
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In 1988, a Professor of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico named Joseph Tainter published a book called The Collapse of Complex Societies.
Now, “collapse” is a strong word that conjures images of apocalyptic scenarios… Mad Max or Hunger Games drama. But that’s not what Tainter intended.
He uses the term ‘collapse’ in its academic, anthropological meaning, i.e. a breakdown of strength and order in society. In fact Tainter’s entire career has been devoted to investigating how large, sophisticated civilizations throughout history ultimately “collapsed”.
I first read Tainter’s book more than 15 years ago. And, even though it is a work of anthropology, it is, in my opinion, one of the best books on economic history ever produced.
From the Roman Empire to the Mayan people, Tainter explores how civilizations are born, grow, peak, and decay… and how, more often than not, the decay phase is a direct result of failed government or leadership.
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Floppy disks were removable storage technology that were prevalent in home computers in the 1980s… sort of like a USB memory stick, only MUCH slower and with a fraction of the storage capacity.
A typical 3.5” floppy disk could only hold 1.44 megabytes of data, i.e. not even enough to store even a single photo from your mobile phone’s camera.
Yet this is the technology that America’s air traffic controllers still have to use… because the Transportation Department thought it was a better idea to spend billions of dollars on a handful of electric vehicle charging stations.
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ATC (Air Traffic Control) is a national disgrace. Time to privatize this essential function.
Real simple. The airlines use it every day. They should run it. Bet the infrastructure would be state of the art. Matching the plane’s controls.
Transition to the private function would be easy — you fly in the USA airspace then you get to buy in.
Same with th airports! You use, you pay, and you get a share of the decision making. The more you pay the bigger your vote.
I bet the airplane manufacturers and the drone makers would want to buy in too. Anything to escape the politicians and bureaucrats meddling in technical decisions!
Since the current system is on the verge of “collapse”, why not try something “radical”? The free market solution!
#privatizetheFAA #endtheFAA
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Friday Funnies: The Myth of the Mad King
Just watch out for the jokers
Robert W Malone MD, MS
Jun 20
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Many a true word is said in a joke!
1. Restore us to “honest” commodity money; 2. End the personal and corporate dole; 3. Stop the various wars — foreign and domestic — repatriate the troops home; 4. End the drug war; pardon all non-violent drug offenders; 5. Transition out of gooferment funded public education; 6. Downsize ALL gooferments; 7. Eliminate all taxes but tariffs and excise.
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https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/12/03/misinformed/
“One must select wisely a source of news; otherwise it would be better to be uninformed than misinformed.” — Ezra Taft Benson
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Mark Twain? Denzel Washington? Thomas Jefferson? Thomas Fuller? Orville Hubbard? Ezra Taft Benson? Apocryphal?
Question for Quote Investigator: A cynical attitude toward the media is widespread today, but this is not a new development. Supposedly, Mark Twain made the following remark:
If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.
Are these really the words of the famous humorist?
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I love the investigation of quotes done on this website. They do a real service to prevent misattribution.
Kudos!
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Science
A grassland bird eavesdrops on prairie dog calls to keep itself safe from predators
By CHRISTINA LARSON
Updated 10:04 AM EDT, June 12, 2025
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Prairie dogs are the Paul Reveres of the Great Plains: They bark to alert neighbors to the presence of predators, with separate calls for dangers coming by land or by air.
“Prairie dogs are on the menu for just about every predator you can think of”— golden eagles, red-tailed hawks, foxes, badgers, even large snakes — said Andy Boyce, a research ecologist in Montana at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute.
Those predators will also snack on grassland nesting birds like the long-billed curlew.
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Isn’t “nature” amazing?
Who have thought that birds could evolve to listen and differentiate between “danger – ground” and “danger – air”?
I find this almost unbelievable. I know from all the war movies that listening and smelling was ssential skills in most kinds of warfare and hunting.
From my time in survival school, I know that animals had no worry about me “sneaking” up and eating them. I wouldn’t have survived on what I could have caught. Laugh!
In our modern world of “bread and circuses” is there equivalent skills in keep us safe. Like “situational awareness” to avoid crime. “Marksmanship” to end threats quickly. “Listening” and “reading” to avoid frauds and misinformation. “Distrust all experts, politicians, and bureaucrats” who seek to deceive us for their own reasons.
Maybe we can be like “the Paul Reveres of the Great Plains” and warn family, friends, acquaintances, others of our species, and other species to the dangers we see?
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Red Sox fans fume over Rafael Devers trade with $100M conspiracy theory
By Ryan Giancola
Published June 16, 2025, 9:37 a.m. ET
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The owner of the Red Sox, John Henry, also owns the Premier League-winning soccer team Liverpool.
Simmons hinted on X that the possible motive behind the trade was to help finance the newest transfer to Liverpool, Florian Wirtz. Liverpool reportedly paid his former club $100 million for the midfielder.
Devers is in the third season of a 10-year, $313 million contract and had been at odds with the team this spring training, after he was moved from third base to DH for the newly signed Alex Bregman.
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Good for the Yankees?
It’s all about $. Who cares what the rubes think? They will just keep spending their money on these circuses.
My question is “Is that taxable”? Short term capital gains, long term capital gains, sales tax?
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Walmart and Amazon Are Exploring Issuing Their Own Stablecoins
By Gina Heeb, AnnaMaria Andriotis, Josh Dawsey
Updated June 13, 2025 4:51 pm ET
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Walmart and Amazon Are Exploring Issuing Their Own Stablecoins
Several multinational giants, including Walmart and Amazon, are discussing potential efforts to issue stablecoins. Whether these initiatives will go ahead depends on a bill still yet to clear the Senate and House called the Genius Act, which establishes a regulatory framework for stablecoins. Stablecoins could allow merchants to bypass traditional payment rails, which cost them billions of dollars in fees each year. A regulatory framework for stablecoins would enable an alternative payment type for merchants that could significantly lower their expenses and create competition against Visa and Mastercard.
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To me this is BIG (<synonym for the act of procreation in real time>) deal.
I never understood why Walmart was allowed to establish its own bank. The politicians and bureaucrats are always whining about the “poor unbanked”. But Walmart could solve that problem quickly, cheaply, and easily. So could Amazon.
Stablecoins by either of them could serve the same purpose as a bank without the regulatory hassle.
Let’s wait and see. Competition in the “traditional financial system” for JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Visa, and Mastercard could certainly be good for the consumers.
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Odd News
June 13, 2025 / 1:12 PM
World’s largest game of red light, green light played in California
By Ben Hooper
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June 13 (UPI) — A fitness education group in California broke a Guinness World Record by gathering 1,423 people to play the playground game red light, green light.
CF Fitness Inc., an education-oriented group aimed at promoting physical fitness at schools, gathered students from the Anaheim Elementary School District and their families to play the record-breaking game at Yorbe Park in Anaheim.
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As you know as a little L libertarian, I really don’t like Gooferment involvement in anything.
BUT, (and there is always a BIG butt), here’s a cheap and easy way to get children, and maybe some adults, moving.
I remember the Presidential Fitness Challenge; do you?
Every Gooferment politician, from mayor to governor, can spark up their own “challenge”. Make it fun and somewhat competitive. Get some ribbons and medal to give out at the end of school year.
Like being an Eagle Scout, that I am not one or had the opportunity to be one, I believe that children can be encouraged to accomplish great things.
Instead of a nation of “thumbs” ((i.e., video game addicts mindlessly spending hours in front of a screen), we could create physical and mental challenges that would prepare then for a healthy and happy life.
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FROM Bitcoin.com Weekly Update
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You don’t have to wade through a ton of Austrian Economic texts although it’s very worthwhile. This chart should serve to know why we need “honest money” and should #endtheFed!
By “honest money”, I mean gold and silver in the physical money. Paper should be redeemable in a commodity.
By “#endtheFed”, I mean that “We, The Sheeple” have to recognize what the Fed is. The Federal Reserve Bank is a misnomer. It ain’t “federal”. It reserves nothing. And, it ain’t a “bank”. It is a private cartel of the elite banks run for their benefit and that of the entrenched politicians.
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Scientists Can’t Get Enough of Watching Seagulls Steal Your Food
By Natasha Dangoor
June 5, 2025 11:00 pm ET
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St. Ives in Cornwall, which Rock dubs the “world capital of food snatching,” took a more human-targeted approach. The Business Improvement District launched a campaign to pack takeouts in paper printed with humorous and informative messages about gulls. This “Daily Gull” newspaper-style wrapping featured “Tips from the experts to help you protect your pasty” and quizzes on gull species.
One tip: Stare at the gulls.
Researchers at the University of Exeter did an experiment which showed that gulls took 21 seconds longer to approach a bag of fries when a human was watching them, compared with when the human looked away.
“It’s like shoplifting,” said Boogert. “You wouldn’t look at a shopkeeper whilst stealing from them!”
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As a long time, SHORE resident, I am very familiar with just how intelligent seagulls are. The kids love to feed them french fries and bread. One time as a joke one of them threw a mushroom with the bread. Despite several gulls, eating the bread, the mushroom was left like an orphan. Finally, some squirrel came along and ate it.
Tourists on the Seaside Heights boardwalk are often mobbed by seagulls stealing their food. Nothing is safe even a baby bottle. Well some people regard them as pests, they are fun to watch.
If the scientists are right, and I think they are, birds are descended from flying dinosaurs. One doesn’t survive a grazilian years without being adaptable and smart.
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US Maternal Mortality Surged More Than 27% Over 5 Years, NIH Study Reveals
Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola
June 10, 2025
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What Does the Latest Data Reveal About Postpartum Deaths?
The featured study, published in JAMA Network Open, analyzed pregnancy-related deaths in the United States from 2018 to 2022 using national birth and death certificate data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Unlike many previous studies, it also examined “late maternal deaths,” which are deaths from pregnancy-related causes that occur more than 42 days and up to one year after delivery.3
• Maternal deaths increased sharply in just five years — {Extraneous Deleted}.
• Where a woman lives made a major difference — {Extraneous Deleted}
• Disparities by race and ethnicity were equally striking — {Extraneous Deleted}
• One-third of all pregnancy-related deaths occurred after six weeks — {Extraneous Deleted}
• Postpartum care often ends too early — {Extraneous Deleted}
The researchers emphasized that identifying and addressing the causes of late maternal death is essential to lowering pregnancy-related mortality in the U.S. “We cannot take our eyes off of maternal health right now,” said Dr. Rose Molina, an OB-GYN at Harvard Medical School and co-author of the study. “If anything, we need to not just maintain focus, but actually increase investment in maternal health.”4
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Seems like the Medical Establishment has taken their collective eyes “off the ball”!
Moms need a longer recovery period?
I like the advice to track your own symptoms or data. Sounds like a good job for Dad’s or Grandparents to be the “Patient Advocate” in this case for the new mom and the offspring.
Individual responsibility is a little L libertarian “value”. Don’t depend on the doctors, physician assistants, nurses, or their staffs to be the only ones watching out for you and yours.
When I read the sad stories of bad things happening resulting from postpartum depression and wonder where was all of mom’s “help”?
Sigh!
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I invented the ‘Death Clock’… and was horrified when it confirmed my worst fears about my own health
By LUKE ANDREWS SENIOR HEALTH REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
Published: 16:17 EDT, 7 June 2025 | Updated: 16:22 EDT, 7 June 2025
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Brent Franson wasn’t afraid of dying. He was afraid of dying from Alzheimer’s disease.
He remembers seeing sufferers on TV growing up, with their listless expressions and inability to walk. It left him certain he did not want to develop the devastating condition.
His worst fear was revealed when he used the Death Clock – an artificial intelligence that predicts – down to the minute – when and how a person will die.
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https://www.thecalculator.co/lifestyle/Death-Calculator-216.html
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This death calculator is designed as a death clock based on the average life expectancy for each country and gender specific. Read more on this topic below the form.
Based on the average life expectancy for your country and on your general conditions and life standard specified, a person like you should have been died with some time ago. Congratulations for your performance to live a number of years above the average life expectancy. Enjoy your live!
Disclaimer:Please note that the Death Calculator is a funny tool and that it does NOT pretend to be accurate. The creator of this tool is in no way liable of any actions which might be taken by users, as this calculator was made for entertainment purposes ONLY.
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“Enjoy your live!”
Did you mean life?
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I think these things are funny, In this story, the fellow was able to change his life style and purportedly get a lot more time to spend with his family, (Until he steps off a curb and gets hit by the metaphorical bus. Let’s see AI predict that!)
So since I’ve already outlasted the prediction, on to 132. (When I can have finally stolen back my social security “contribution” on a dollar for dollar basis. Ignoring that I “contributed” good strong dollars and received poor weak dollars that are but a shadow of their former purchasing power.)
Beans, Band Aids, Bullets, Bullion, and ₿bitcoin!
(I like Goldbacks for their low denomination and low cost to acquire. YMMV!)
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The Tri-Cities
‘Nothing short of heroic’: 12-year-old boy saves family from house fire in Petersburg
by: Kendal McAuley
Posted: Jun 3, 2025 / 12:27 PM EDT
Updated: Jun 3, 2025 / 12:27 PM EDT
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PETERSBURG, Va. (WRIC) — A 12-year-old boy rescued his grandmother and infant siblings from their burning home on Tuesday, according to Petersburg Fire Rescue and Emergency Services.
On June 3, a fire broke out at a home on the 2000 block of Burks Street, leaving the home severely damaged. Although this was a moment of devastation, a social post from Petersburg Fire said, “a powerful story of courage rose from the smoke, one that deserves to be told.”
Twelve-year-old Ramir Parker reportedly saved his two baby brothers and grandmother from the burning home.
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Now I never use the label “heroic” often, But it applies when someone risks their life to save others. Whether successful or not, it’s the courage and bravery shown in the attempt.
At twelve years old, he’s old enough to recognize the risks. Although I’m not sure that anyone really thinks of the risks; more reaction. But remember that most people freeze or run away. Heroes run towards it.
Bravery is the ability to confront fear or danger without hesitation, while courage involves taking action despite feeling fear, often with a conscious choice and awareness of the risks involved.
This young man is a brave and courageous hero imho.
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