“Sometimes what seems possible is impossible. The whizdom comes from knowing when to quit.”
IN RESPONSE TO
“Never let someone tell you what’s possible. “https://tinyurl.com/y2yuweao —Jason Stapleton @Jason_Stapleton
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MEME: Jeff Bezos circa 1999
Monday, September 29, 2025
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SECURITY: Q-day threats — post-quantum security
Monday, September 29, 2025https://blog.cloudflare.com/you-dont-need-quantum-hardware/?utm_source=tldrinfosec/
You don’t need quantum hardware for post-quantum security
2025-09-19
Luke Valenta
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You don’t need quantum hardware for post-quantum security (15 minute read)
Organizations can prepare for quantum computing threats (Q-day) using post-quantum cryptography (PQC) deployed on existing hardware without needing expensive quantum technologies like quantum key distribution (QKD) or quantum random number generators (QRNG). Being “quantum ready” means systems remain secure after quantum computers can break conventional cryptography. Beware of vendor claims that quantum hardware products are necessary for quantum-resistant security. Organizations should prioritize implementing PQC algorithms on current infrastructure rather than investing in quantum hardware solutions that are neither necessary nor sufficient for protection against quantum adversaries.
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This has huge implications for both digital signatures and ₿itcoin.
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SECURITY: Fake US and Canadian IDs
Sunday, September 28, 2025https://hackread.com/chinese-network-ofake-us-canadian-ids/?utm_source=tldrinfosec
Chinese Network Selling Thousands of Fake US and Canadian IDs
- New investigation exposes a China-based ring that sold over 6,500 fake United States and Canadian IDs using well-planned covert packaging. Learn how this operation threatens national security and enables financial crime.
by Deeba Ahmed — September 19, 2025
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Chinese Network Selling Thousands of Fake US and Canadian IDs (3 minute read)
CloudSEK exposed a China-based operation called “ForgeCraft” that sold over 6,500 counterfeit US and Canadian driver’s licenses and Social Security cards to more than 4,500 buyers, generating over $785,000 in revenue through 83 websites and using covert packaging methods to ship fake IDs hidden in everyday items. The sophisticated fake documents feature scannable barcodes, holograms, and UV markings and pose national security risks by enabling financial fraud, bypassing border checks, and potentially facilitating voter fraud. CloudSEK researchers identified the main operator’s location in Xiamen, China, and shared evidence with authorities to disrupt the operation.
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So how do we stop this?
Clearly, this is an “epidemic” and undermines everything that needs “security”.
Must be a way to create a crypto hash and block chain implementation to compare it with.
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HEALTH: My favorite heuristic (rule of thumb) — “factoids” but not “evidence”
Saturday, September 27, 2025FROM A REPLY TO ONE OF MY FORWARDED MEME-FILLED EMAILS
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FJohn, do you actually believe that vaccines are a hoax?
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Well, … … … …
… … … … Just off the top of my head:
- “Covid vaccines” are not what we knew as “vaccines”. Certainly not studied for “safety”.
- Older “true” vaccines have a track record. But again never studied for “safety”.
- Flu “vaccines” are of dubious value; I never took them. Many times I’ve heard people bitch that they took it and then got the flu. To me that’s was an “interesting factoid”, but not real “evidence”. But enough to make me skeptical.
- Hep B vaxes are given to ALL babies even if their mother is NOT carrting the Hep B infection? That is at least unnecessary and maybe worse.
- As far as the autism vaccine link, it’s reported that the Amish don’t get vaxed and they have zero cases of autism.
- Japan doesn’t vax children until 4.
- My middle age niece remarked, when discussing this, that when her boys were young vaxes were spread out over time; not bunched up at once.
- Throw in that Big Pharma is legally immune from vax injury damages.
- And that hospitals are incentivized to give them.
- And, doctors are paid based on the percentage of their practice that are vaxed.
- Recently, the Gooferment under RFKjr reported that there was linkage between autism and young black males.
- The “advisory panel” for vaxes were merely a rubber stamp for Big Pharma. “Regulatory capture revolving door. They were replaced with respected people with no ties to Big Pharma. Now they are being more circumspect in their recommendation. This maybe be better, but not assured.
Again to repeat my favorite heuristic (rule of thumb) — “factoids” but not “evidence”.
I remember thalidomide when a “harmless” drug cause birth defects in mother’s GRANDCHILDREN!
So I don’t think they are a “hoax”, but they are not “innocuous”.
Hope that helps understand my thoughts about them.
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POLITICAL: Jasmine Crockett Provides Head-Scratching Explanation
Friday, September 26, 2025https://dailycaller.com/2025/09/18/jasmine-crockett-provides-head-scratching-explanation-about-law/
Jasmine Crockett Provides Head-Scratching Explanation About Law: Committing Crime ‘Doesn’t Make’ Person ‘Criminal’
Jason Cohen
DCNF Reporter/Clipper
<< EDITOR ADDED DATE 2025-09-19>>
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Democratic Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett claimed on “Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness” Wednesday that committing crimes does not make a person a “criminal.”
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“I do want people to know that just because someone has committed a crime, it doesn’t make them a criminal,” the continually entertaining congresswoman said. “That is completely different. Being a criminal is more so about your mindset.”
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Most amusing quote.
I hope the voters in Texas take this to heart.
Maybe it’s me, but that seems “stupid”?
No wonder that the D’s are losing with quotes like these.
Maybe “three strikes and your out” is harsh criminal policy. But surely “14 strikes and you’re still out” is just stupid. “We, The Sheeple” need the Judges to step up and protect us.
Argh!
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QUOTE: Success – Freddie Mercury
Thursday, September 25, 2025“Success has brought me world idolization and millions of pounds. But it’s prevented me from having the one thing we all need: A loving, ongoing relationship.” – Freddie Mercury
[JR: Guess we should pity all the “celebrities”]
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MONEY: The Federal Reserve has been unable to “provide the nation with a safer, more flexible, and more stable monetary and financial system”
Thursday, September 25, 2025FROM 1440 https://join1440.com/
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Federal Reserve Cuts Rates
The Federal Reserve announced a quarter-percentage-point cut in benchmark rates yesterday, bringing the range to between 4% and 4.25%—the lowest level in almost three years. The bank signaled the possibility of two additional cuts this year.
The decision saw the Federal Reserve prioritizing a hiring slowdown over inflation. A sluggish 22,000 jobs were added last month; weekly jobless claims reached their highest level in four years last week. The US has also downwardly revised job growth by 911,000 for the one-year period ending in March. Those concerns trumped sticky inflation, with consumer prices rising 2.9% annually last month.
The bank voted 11-1 in yesterday’s decision, with the only dissenter being newly appointed Fed Governor Stephen Miran, who preferred a half-point cut. Governor Lisa Cook participated in the meeting after an appeals court ruled the White House lacked authority to fire her. The White House plans to appeal to the Supreme Court.
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“Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.” — Milton Friedman
Why do we have a “Federal Reserve Bank”?
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.
Why do we need them to “set” interest rates?
We don’t, In essence, they are “price fixers”. And, as we know, no one can know the correct “price” of anything. The free market allows buyers and sellers to set a price where they are both “satisfied”. Otherwise, it “win-win” or “no deal”.
Why is there one “prime rate” of interest?
Because that allows the Gooferment to manipulate the market. By hiding the “true cost” of money (i.e., the interest rate), buyers and sellers are making decision based on a fiction. Everyone loses.
Why do we have “inflation”?
Milton Friedman: ‘Inflation is taxation without legislation.’ The FED “prints” money and the market reacts to the change in “the supply of dollars”. It’s a silent thief that steals wealth from everyone who has an “old dollar” especially the poor, those on fixed incomes, and savers.
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As gun-owning pro-life pro-choice little L libertarian, the market for money should be free from Gooferment. The Federal Reserve has been unable to “provide the nation with a safer, more flexible, and more stable monetary and financial system” which is its intended purpose. So let’s follow Andrew Jackson’s lead and end the Federal Reserve Bank.
FYI, he was the last President to have zero debt.
Argh!
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MEME: Protect us from what?
Wednesday, September 24, 2025
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TECHNOLOGY: Why can’t I compile a spreadsheet?
Wednesday, September 24, 2025TLDR 2025-09-12
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That giant mountain of spreadsheets and screenshots standing between your startup and your success.
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Why hasn’t someone come out with a simple way to “compile” a spreadsheet?
Once I’ve “perfected” my spreadsheet, why can’t I “freeze” into an app. That app would allow input BUT, (and there is always a BIG butt), not allow formulas or formatting changes.
When I was the bar manager at my local American Legion post, I had several spreadsheets for various functions. Unfortunately, I couldn’t share them with my team because invariably some one would mess it up the formulas or format. So even when we got square to take credit cards, my data entry work didn’t ease up; it increased. Argh!
I could have coded an app in assembler, Fortran, or COBOL, but why bother? That was more work than just entering, and in some cases, reentering the same data. Luckly, COVID came an killed the Post’s business. Thanks to Gooferment diktats and no reduction in fees to non-profits, we went from stay afloat to being underwater. Argh!
I still would like de able to “freeze” a spreadsheet. Maybe I should apply to Apple, Microsoft, or Google to develop it for them. I don’t see them doing much to advance spreadsheet technology?
FWIW!
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p.s., I’d like some TLDR swag. Laugh!
https://refer.tldr.tech/3dabce84/
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GUNS: A 30-06 from 200 yards puts a huge hole in deer; Chralie Kirk wasn’t shot with that round
Tuesday, September 23, 2025Charlie Kirk, mRNA and Government Fraud
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Now, let’s talk about the Charlie Kirk tragedy. I’m not buying the official story one bit, no lone gunman, no “tranny shooter” nonsense they think we’ll just swallow because it fits some stereotype. The details don’t add up. They say Charlie was hit with a .30-06 from 200 yards, a round that’d blow through you like a freight train. But no exit wound? No spray? Come on, that’s not how physics works. Something’s fishy, and it reeks of another government cover-up. I’m not saying I know what happened, maybe foreign interference, maybe powerful folks didn’t like Charlie’s message, but the narrative stinks, and I don’t trust a government that lies as easily as it breathes.
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I think we have more than enough examples of this. Pick your favorite:
- JFK
- MLK
- RFK
- Any of the CIA “operations”
- Covid
- The FED
- Any Gooferment “temporary” program
- 9/11
- FDR and Pearl Harbor
- The Lusitania
- Gulf of Tonkin
- Etc. etc. etc.
And that’s just off the top of my head.
When do “We, The Sheeple” wake up and resist?
Probably when they are disarmed and being sent to camps.
Argh!
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MEME: One Well-Worn Pre-1965 Silver Dime With Just Melt Silver Value Now Costs $3.15 in FRNs
Monday, September 22, 2025
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Gooferment diktats and “inspections” don’t keep us safe
Monday, September 22, 2025Homesteading: The Food Emancipation Proclamation
By Joel Salatin
Robert W Malone MD, MS
Sep 15, 2025
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If you said, I want to buy a can of your homemade canned tomato soup, I can’t sell it to you. The current system only allows availability in the marketplace from the industrial choice. If you ever notice a food recall, they’ll put down the brands that are being recalled. There’s 25 brands, they’re all coming from the same tube. People walk into Walmart and they say, well, what do you mean we don’t have food choice? Look at all the brands, all the colored labels. Well, they’re all industrial. So what we want, what the society, the culture is yearning for right now. Buyers want affordable unadulterated food. You can’t get that at the supermarket. Old farmers need a way to get out. We talked about that on the tour. Young farmers need a way to get in and inner city food deserts need a solution besides the food bank.
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In order for me to offer you a chicken pot pie, did you like that chicken yesterday? Yeah. Yeah. In order for me to offer you a chicken pot pie, I have to have an inspected kitchen, a hasp plan, hazardous analysis, critical control point plan, and there’s no template for making these. And if you take the template off the inspection service website, they will automatically cast it out.
I have to have a licensed bathroom, not a composting toilet, and it doesn’t matter that our kitchen is a hundred yards from two in our house, two in mom’s house. It has to be on site, a licensed leach field for that bathroom and a certified cold chain with 24 7 thermometer, computer microchip reading. That’s just to get you a chicken pot pie.
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Ultimately, these food safety laws have nothing to do with food safety. All other hazardous substances, prescription drugs, fentanyl, methamphetamine, cocaine, name your thing, you can’t buy them. You can’t give them away. You can’t possess them, and you certainly can’t feed ’em to your kids. But food, the prohibition is only on the seller. You can buy it, you can use it, you can feed it to your kids, you can feed it to your neighbors, you can give it away. You just can’t sell it. So who’s kidding? Who here is this really food safety? If it was really dangerous for me to butcher a beef in the field and take out a T-bone steak and sell it to you, if it was really dangerous, it ought to be I can’t give it away. You can’t buy it and you certainly can’t feed it to your kids. So the hypocrisy of this is so glaring that it defies imagination.
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Argh!
What more can I say?
Sorry but the Gooferment politicians and bureaucrats have a slew of regulations that don’t make sense.
Let the “free market” decide what we can and can’t put in out bodies.
We are NOT the Gooferment’s “livestock” to be “managed” at their whim.
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QUOTE: Hate speech does not exist legally in America … … … …
Sunday, September 21, 2025“Hate speech does not exist legally in America. There’s ugly speech, there’s gross speech, there’s evil speech, and all of it is protected by the First Amendment. Keep America free.” — Charlie Kirk
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POLITICAL: You can’t reason with crazy
Sunday, September 21, 2025Futility of Trying to Reason With Lunatics
- Widespread jubilation at the cold-blooded murder of Charlie Kirk reveals not only ideological possession, but also widespread mental illness.
John Leake — Sep 13, 2025
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For several years I’ve been turning over in my mind an idea that initially struck me as far-fetched, but now strikes me as a distinct possibility. Could it be that people suffering from some degree of mental illness are now heavily influencing or even directing cultural, political, and economic affairs? To put it more bluntly, are we now being constantly buffeted and even, in some jurisdictions, governed by lunatics?
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I would rather take my chances at bull riding or venomous snake handing than try to reason with deranged college students.
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I’m beginning to realize that expecting change from lunatics is like “waiting for Gidot”, the second coming, an honest politician, or the Second Coming.
As such, I’m going to stop trying. Best to keep to myself and my blog. Not that anyone cares.
Sadly, it’s frustrating to see things that are so OBVIOUS, and those things must be in Panes 3 and 4 of everyone’s Johari window. (the Hidden area known to self but not to others, and the Unknown area known neither to self nor others)
Sadly.
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The Johari Window model is a tool used to improve self-awareness and interpersonal communication. It consists of four quadrants: the Open area (known to self and others), the Blind area (known to others but not to self), the Hidden area (known to self but not to others), and the Unknown area (known neither to self nor others), helping individuals understand their relationships better.
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MACOSX: Upgrade 26.0 issues
Saturday, September 20, 2025MAC OSX 26 upgrade
2025-Sep-15
- Big download and long delay getting it; aborted once and restart seemed to pick up where it left off
- Multi-hour estimate; left it running overnight
2025-Sep-16 0911
- wipes out Marsedit 5.3.7 blog settings … …
… … no heads up from anyone. Took a few minutes to repair. - mac osx 26 lost share action for gmail … …
… … no obvious fix
2025-Sep-16 1150
- Firefox 142.0.1 (aarch64) appears to send every link thru google … …
… … can’t seem to capture or reproduce?
… … seems that clicking a link in email gets passed to Google search engine?
… … Firefox 143.0 (aarch64) updated on restarting Firefox?
2025-Sep-19 1000
- All tasks when tabbed out now become minimized. Giant PIA! Initial inet search shows no fix.
- Firefox 143 appear to route all new links thru google some how for some reason.
- In Finder 26 the share selection with a file selected does n’t have “mail” which should have been Firefox Gmail.
- … … Next?
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MONEY: Why can’t I have cheap gas?
Saturday, September 20, 2025I can hope! I remember 25¢ a gallon with full service, trading stamps, glassware, and a clean windshield. Then Gooferment “counterfeited” more dollars. That quarter translates to $5 today. Argh!
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From: New Jersey 101.5 <nj1015@trenton.mail.townsquarenewsletters.com>
Date: Fri, Sep 12, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Subject: The truth about NJ gas prices
New Jersey top news… View in browser Don’t expect $2 gas in New Jersey — expert calls it ‘a fantasy’Gas prices in New Jersey have jumped 11 cents since Labor Day, driven by rising oil costs and refinery maintenance with hopes for lower prices as winter blends roll out.
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RANT: Here’s the interefernece I was referring to in my previous post
Friday, September 19, 2025Here’s the real reason ABC has suspended ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’
By Charles Gasparino
Published Sep. 18, 2025, 10:31 a.m. ET
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Jimmy Kimmel’s comments on the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk weren’t just noxiously offensive and seemingly misleading — their timing was also incredibly bad: They threaten to derail Nexstar’s $6.2 billion takeover of rival broadcaster Tegna, telecom insiders tell On The Money.
The already controversial deal — which would combine two of the nation’s largest owners of local TV stations — poses significant antitrust questions and needs a close review by the Federal Communications Commission and its conservative firebrand chairman, Brendan Carr.
Kimmel’s comments made that approval even dicier. That’s why Nexstar publicly announced Thursday that its stations would no longer carry the show, telecom insiders tell On The Money. Ditto for ABC, which produces and distributes “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” to broadcasters like Nexstar — and likewise has business before the FCC.
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Here’s the conflict of interests!
It was wrong when the D’s did it. It’s still wronger when the R’s do it.
Argh!
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: DJT47 should find out if the Gooferment was involved in this suspension.
Friday, September 19, 2025Jimmy Kimmel reportedly ‘f–king livid’ over ABC pulling ‘Live!’ — as Trump cheers ‘great news for America’
By Anna Young
Published Sep. 17, 2025
Updated Sep. 17, 2025, 10:27 p.m. ET
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Jimmy Kimmel is reportedly “absolutely f–king livid” over ABC’s decision to ax his late-night talk show following backlash to his remarks about Charlie Kirk’s assassination — while President Trump cheered the move as “great news for America.”
The comedian, 57, was left fuming over the network’s Wednesday decision to suspend him and pull “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” off the air “indefinitely” after he unleashed a hateful tirade against the gunned-down conservative activist during Monday night’s monologue, sources and producers told the Daily Mail.
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Nexstar Media Group, the major broadcast company that serves as a primary affiliate for ABC, confirmed that it would “preempt” Kimmel’s program in the wake of his remarks.
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But after Monday’s blunder, the FCC chairman says the only reasonable step for ABC, parent company Disney, and the Emmy-nominated host is to issue a public apology — noting that the network’s “unprecedented” rejection of Kimmel by broadcasters is “an important turning point” in the media.
“This action today by NexStar and Sinclair, frankly, it’s unprecedented,” Brendan Carr told Fox News host Sean Hannity on Wednesday.
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Early reports indicated that Nexstar Media Group was seeking FCC approval for something. That seems to have “disappeared”. Was this a quid pro quo to make DJT47 happy? If so, it’s UNACCEPTABLE.
I’m no Jimmy Kimmel fan. BUT, (and there is always a BIG butt), was this “suspension” rooted in politics. Sure seems so. When you see some of the many examples of “trash” that the broadcast networks air, this seems “mild”.
What would the FCC say about George Carlin now?
As much as I dislike Kimmel, this is just WRONG. And, he should get his show back on the air.
DJT47 should IMMEDIATELY:
- Find out any and all conversations between the FCC and ANY Gooferment bureaucrat with Nexstar Media Group and ANY ABC (or Disney).
- Fire anyone in the Gooferment who was involved in this affair. (The Gooferment, like Caesar’s wife must be above reproach.) Someone MIGHT have been trying to “please the boss” and gone way too far.
- Invite Kimmel to the White House, like he did with Bill Mahr, to have dinner and discuss this and many other topics.
- If Kimmel is starting a podcast or internet show like Tucker, then DJT47 should offer to be his first guest.
- Everyone, who purports to support the First Amendment, should let DJT47, Nexstar Media Group, ABC / Disney know that this is just wrong. (I will!)
What would Charlie Kirk be doing? Certainly, not trying to shut down an opinion. Any opinion.
Argh!
“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it” — often misattributed to Voltaire
Two memes sum it up!
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SECURITY: Don’t forget the old printer as a “data leak”
Thursday, September 18, 2025FROM TLDR Information Security 2025-09-10
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USB drives are still a problem – but they’re not your only data exfiltration risk (Sponsor)
While most organizations focus on blocking USB devices, attackers and insiders can just as easily steal data through network shares, cloud storage, or even local folder access. You need visibility and control over ALL storage access points.
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Yeah, but I remember that brokers used to keep a shadow book at home. Meticulously copying or printing duplicates of “their” Client accounts.
Now it’s easy to just use your phone to take a picture. AI or software will even extract the text from the picture so no reentering data drudgery.
I’ve even seen utilities that will put files into QR codes for backup and recovery.
Never underestimate human inginuity to get what they want. Be it drugs, sex, money, or data.
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MEME: PSA about “free sppeech”
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
[JR: Seems to sum it up quite nicely to me?]
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POLITICAL: When to clean the slate and start the next cycle anew?
Wednesday, September 17, 2025https://survivalblog.com/2025/09/03/survivalblog-readers-editors-snippets-228/
SurvivalBlog Readers’ & Editors’ Snippets
James Wesley Rawles September 3, 2025
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Reader R.W. in Oregon had this comment:
“Well, it took a long time but I’ve come to the conclusion that politics is like the weather. People can bitch about it but there’s not a d*mn thing they can do about it. Politics is gonna happen with or without us.
Our votes haven’t meant sh*t since before reconstruction, the “Parties” and “Machines” captured or created by bankers and industrialists made short work of that. There’s no “Right” or “Left”, it’s just “Us” vs “Them”.
Thank God for people like Smedley Butler who had the courage to call it like it is. What he said applies to the entire world, not just us. Read: “Against the Grain”. Greed and avarice breed tyranny.
The most insightful, wise and thoughtful dissection of that premise, in my opinion, is still the Federalist Papers and various books of the Bible.
Eventually, every corrupt and rotting government finally picks a war (all wars are bankers wars) or drives their economy and culture into the ditch and the people won’t take it anymore. Our job is to know when to clean the slate and start the next cycle anew.
That is the one thing we can do. And, as we are one of the last peoples on this planet to retain that one very important right, the rest of the world is looking to us to do it.
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A most interesting dictum to us all. When is enough enough?
Do we wait for “them” to start herding us in to freight cars? We know from history what comes after that!
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? . . .” — Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Or do we, like “quiet quitting” and “quiet firing”, just refuse to kowtow to ever more increasing intrusive demands, diktats, and “trends”?
I think that ₿itcoin is the first step. Instead of “saving” in “dollars”, I’m “saving” in ₿itcoins, GoldBacks, junk silver, and gold rounds. Let them figure out how to “inflate” those.
YMMV
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IOS: IOS26 upgrade — issues list
Tuesday, September 16, 2025IOS26 Upgrade — Issues list
2025-Sep-15
- Big download and long delay getting it
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NEWJERSEY: Mikie Sherrill’s voting record is bad news for the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee
Tuesday, September 16, 2025If given the chance? Sherrill will turn N.J. into a giant Charlotte light rail train.
September 10, 2025 — Matt Rooney
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I don’t care what a politician says, Save Jerseyans.
Especially once they’ve developed a record? I care what they actually do, and Mikie Sherrill’s voting record in the U.S. House of Representatives gives me reason to believe she’d be a law-and-order DISASTER as New Jersey governor.
New Jersey is already struggling under the current cashless bail regime, and as the stomach-churning murder of a young immigrant woman on Charlotte’s light rail system vividly illustrates, the consequences of having a leaders who aren’t tough on criminals are inevitably fatal.
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Typical “democrat” soft on everything important!
For a veteran and pilot, I’d have expected a more realistic platform and record.
Not that the R is much better.
Argh!
To quote from the movie “The Far Side of the World” Master and Commander Capt. Jack Aubrey: “There! I have you! You’re completely dished. … one must always choose the lesser of two weevils?”
It’s just about as significant.
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MEME: About last night’s “emmys”
Monday, September 15, 2025
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ENCOURAGING: “Forbidden” llists are counter-productive to censorship
Monday, September 15, 2025https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/from-forbidden-to-top-sellers?r=3snn7d
From Forbidden to Top Sellers
- If books are any indication, the Bio-Pharmaceutical Complex is losing in the marketplace of ideas.
John Leake — Sep 09, 2025
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The dummies who tried to impose a censorship regime in the United States should have understood that their scheme wouldn’t work.
Key actors in the “censorship-industrial complex,” as Michael Shellenberger calls it, should have understood that their enterprise was doomed to fail, just as the Catholic Church’s Index Librorum Prohibitorum (Index of Forbidden Books), maintained between 1560 to 1966, was doomed to fail.
Notable authors on the Index included Jean-Paul Sartre, Michel de Montaigne, Voltaire, Denis Diderot, Victor Hugo, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, André Gide, Nikos Kazantzakis, Emanuel Swedenborg, Baruch Spinoza, Desiderius Erasmus, Immanuel Kant, David Hume, René Descartes, Francis Bacon, Thomas Browne, John Milton, John Locke, Nicolaus Copernicus, Niccolò Machiavelli, Galileo Galilei, Blaise Pascal, and Hugo Grotius.
Rather than censoring and banning ideas, it’s always better to discuss and debate them.
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I remember in Catholic High Skrule each week, the Diocesan newspaper (I forget the name) would print the Forbidden Books and Forbidden Movies lists. And the good Christian Brothers would make a point of reminding us that these would damage our souls. Little did they realize it was, just like Adam and Eve, tempting us. I know everyone tried to read or see these “evil demons”. Most of us succeeded. Word quickly spread which were worth the effort and which weren’t. Laugh!
I don’t think it made a difference.
If I was the Principal I would have put the summer required reading list as “Prohibited” and it would have gotten read.
Sigh! Those were the “easy days”.
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ETC: Links I thought were interesting
Sunday, September 14, 2025Ten Years Post “Cheating” – EPautos – Libertarian Car Talk
More On Charlie Kirk, The Qatar Strike and the Russia’s Netcentric Military Doctrine
A Common Trait Among Mentally Disturbed Women: Deviant-ated Septum
Some Catholic Schools Adding Armed Response After Annunciation Shooting – Bearing Arms
We betrayed Russians in 1945. We’re doing it again in 2025. :: Jeff Jacoby
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