Reinke Faces Life

Guest Post by John Stossel

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A law in South Carolina bans playing pinball if you’re under 18. That’s just one of America’s many ridiculous laws restricting freedom.

“There is a role for the government in keeping people safe from actual criminals, people who commit murder, robbery,” says Rafael Mangual, a “tough-on-crime” guy at the Manhattan Institute.

“But a lot of laws don’t keep people safe,” he says. “There’s a federal prohibition on walking a dog on a leash longer than six feet on federal property. It is a jailable offense.”

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Source: Bad Law – The Burning Platform

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The stupidity of the Gooferment always amazes me.

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By Friday Charleston to Bangor and as far west as Detroit could see snow, while Boston could still have snow or rain. New York and Washington are forecast for rain

Source: Winter Storm Kade dumps up to four inches of snow in Texas and Oklahoma as it heads to East Coast | Daily Mail Online

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Prepare for the “bread, milk, and eggs” run at the supermarkets.

Save the children from another day in the prisons labeled “Gooferment Skrules”!

Us retirees will just roll over and go back to sleep.

Argh!

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Lancaster began studying contract cheating more than a decade ago when he noticed one of his own students posting assignments online. “I found one of my students who was putting up my assignment up for tender on an internet site. So, people were bidding different amounts of money to complete that computer programming assignment,” he said.

Source: Kenya is a hotbed in the $1 billion global contract cheating industry

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I wish this was available when I went to injineering skrule.  I hated “wasting time” on theology papers and listening to my sainted future wife gripe about my spelling in the drafts.  Laugh!

I guess it made me a better person since I still remember “Danny Lou” and “The Ways to love God”.  It didn’t take, but then I’m not sure it didn’t make me the cynic I am today.

Dona Nobis Pacem

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While the deal with Cohen seems perilously close to being dead, one source familiar with Cohen from the hedge fund world cautioned, “This is Steve Cohen, so this might be a negotiation. The Wilpons need this more than he does and no one is going to pay more.”

Source: Billionaire Steve Cohen’s bid to buy Mets is on life support

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The main reason I don’t become enamored with MP4B (MP4B = “Millionaires Playing For Billionaires”) is I just care more about things that matter.

Bread and Circuses that distract “We, The Sheeple” from how they are being screwed.

Argh!

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There will be an $11 fee associated with changing your standard NJ driver’s license or non-driver ID to a REAL ID if not done at renewal.

Source: Big Changes For NJ Driver’s Licenses, REAL ID As Walk-Ins Allowed | Patch

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Argh!

Pay more for the Gooferment’s benefit.

I don[t think so!!!!

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Screen shot form Bloomberg’s controversial Super Bowl ad Democrat presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg’s $10 million anti-gun ad that aired during the Super Bowl made false claims about child gun deaths and falsely suggested that the victim highlighted in the commercial was a child when he was tragically killed.

Source: Bloomberg’s Super Bowl ad called ‘wildly misleading’, NRA says it left out ‘salient facts’

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The one-minute ad features Calandrian Simpson Kemp talking about the loss of her son, George Kemp, who was killed in a shooting in 2013. It showed childhood pictures of him, but none of him as the 20-year-old adult he was at the time he was killed during a gang fight.

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I saw that commercial and just knew it was slanted.

Like the Trevon Martin coverage, the deceased is “spiffed up” for public consumption.

No one feel that every human death is in some way a “tragedy”.  One can’t be pro-life and not be frustrated by Gooferment policies that make unnecessary deaths a plague on the nation.

In this case, Bloomberg supports the “(pseudo) War on (some) Drugs”.  Just like (alcohol) Prohibition, it led to gang warfare with  killings.  Why anyone is surprised that the “drug” gangs are killing each other?

End the “(pseudo) War on (some) Drugs” and you won’t have a gun problem.  Just like Coke and Pepsi don’t shoot it out over shelf space, neither will the “drug gangs”.  (What does an out of work drug kingpin do?)

In fact let’s turn Walmart, Amazon, Walgreens, CVS, and your local pharmacist on the problem. “Illegal” drugs will be so cheap that no one will care.

And, all the money being wasted by the police, judicial system, and the prison system can be redirected to treatment.  After all, it is a medical problem.

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What will happen when a majority of citizens in the world’s leading democracy, its largest economy, and mightiest military, lose faith in its very foundation?

Source: For The First Time Ever, A Majority Of The World’s Population Is Dissatisfied With Democracy | Zero Hedge

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Secession?

Breaking the large unwieldy body politic into smaller fragments will cut down on the “one size fits all” solutions that make no one happy.

Look at the USSR as a prime example.

The unfunded debts of all levels of the USA’s Gooferments — federal, state, local, territories, and NGOs — will break when the spend thrifts need to be bailed out.

Argh!

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FROM Against Crony Capitalism

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Mike Bloomberg Gave the DNC $300K Two Days Before He Entered the 2020 Race

And now the Democratic National Committee is changing the debate rules in a way that benefits the billionaire. We are sure however that this is a coincidence. (From Vice.com)

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DNC members discuss rules change to stop Sanders at convention

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Source: Mike Bloomberg Gave the DNC $300K Two Days Before He Entered the 2020 Race – AC2 News

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JUST A COINCIDENCE?

“I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!” Captain Renault in Casablanca

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The growing number of secession movements around the world gives rise to our topic: breaking away from current government structures that do so much harm to liberty, peace, and prosperity. Recorded at “Breaking Away: The Case for Secession”—the Mises Circle in Houston, Texas, on 24 January 2015.

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Time to consider an American “BExit” —  would that be AmExit?

The only safe way for the US to get out of the divisive state of affairs.

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Tomorrow’s date will be written as an eight-digit palindrome around the world , the first time this has happened in 900 years. The coincidence is rare because countries use differing conventions. February 2, 2020, is a palindrome whether expressed as day/month/year (02/02/2020), month/day/year (02/02/2020), or year/month/day (2020/02/02).

Source: All Together Now

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An auspicious day?

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The 17th Amendment changed Senate seats from being appointments to elected offices, but there is not currently a process showing a constitutional way to recall federally elected officials.

Source: The Daily Sheeple

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Time to repeal the 17th and put the States back in their proper Constitutional role.

This would END federal unfunded mandates.

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So far in 2020, the puppet-masters pulling the strings of the mainstream media have infected the American populace with such terror and panic, from talk of WW3 to Australia on fire, they “never let a serious crisis go to waste.” Remember swine flu, bird flu, sars, and ebola were supposed to kill us all?

Source: How To Protect Yourself From Coronavirus [VIDEO]

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With a tip of the hat to Alonzo Bodden!

“Remember swine flu, bird flu, sars, and ebola were supposed to kill us all?”

Laugh!

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Motorists who sound their horns too loudly now have to wait extra long at traffic lights thanks to Mumbai police’s new weapon in war on honking drivers

• The Punishing Signal sees red lights reset their countdown if drivers honk horns
• Decibel readers were set up above traffic lights in Mumbai to read noise levels
• If the reading goes above 85 decibels then the red light will reset

Source: Motorists who sound their horns too loudly now have to wait extra long at traffic lights | Daily Mail Online

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That’s one approach that seems “fair”.

I want traffic lights that countdown to changing color.  It would make the “flow” on roads better and avoid a lot of indecision when you get “caught” in the no man’s zone.

Just my opinion.  After all they lights are basically the same since they were invented?

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The extent of welfare fraud is not just limited to Pennsylvania; it happens all around the country. A 2019 Government Accountability Office (GAO) report found that $1 billion in SNAP benefits are trafficked in the U.S. annually. But experts say the real extent of the fraud is uncertain and could surpass that $1 billion figure.

Source: 45 Charged with Committing More than $240K in Welfare Fraud in Pennsylvania

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If there was no welfare, then there would be no fraud!

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Always have an up to date RX list in your-wallet,on line, and in your phone.

I also have a road id tab physically my iPhone watch band.

(never can be too prepared)

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With government money come strings. (From LifeSiteNews.com) DELTA, British Columbia, January 21, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — A British Columbia palliative care hospice under government orders to provide euthanasia onsite by February 3 has offered to forgo $750,000 in public funds rather than let sick patients be killed by lethal injection in its 10-bed facility.

Source: Canadian hospice tells gov’t it’ll forgo $750K in public funds rather than kill sick patients

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Remember when Sarah Palin was EXCORIATED (look it up) for calling Obamacare “Death Panels”.

Here’s evidence she was right!

The Gooferment should NOT have the right to kill anyone EVER.

(I can be persuaded that if the criminal is a Hannibal Lecter type who is too dangerous to be contained, then killing the “mad dog” MIGHT be warranted.)

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Tony Adams: My name is Tony Adams. I’m an Astros fan. In November 2019, when the videos of the banging during some Astros 2017 games came out, I was horrified. It was clear within a minute of watching it was true — my team had cheated.

Source: Obsessive Astros Fans Documented Their 2017 Cheating

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I wonder how many careers were ruined by their cheating.  The fellow cites a pitcher who never pitched again in the major leagues.

Argh!

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Via SchiffGold.com, Bernie Sanders has gained in the polls of late and only trails Joe Biden by about three percentage points, according to the latest Fox News poll. On top of that, Sanders matches up against President Trump. He leads 48% to 42% in a head-to-head matchup.

Source: Peter Schiff: Gold Would Explode With A Bernie Sanders Presidency

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What a Sanders win means is much bigger government deficits, and much more money printing by the Fed because there is no way to finance all of the spending that will happen with tax hikes on the rich. We’ll get tax hikes on the rich, but they’re not going to provide the revenue to pay for the programs.”

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While I like 2k$+ gold personally, the implications for the USA and the world.  It implies a catastrophic collapse in the global economy.

I’m old and probably will not see all the bad things that will happen with it.

Hopefully, the American electorate will come to their senses by election day.

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Vermont’s Department of Fish and Wildlife added that such rescues are rare because of the risk to both the animal and the rescue crews in those situations.“Such recoveries are many times not successful,” the department said. “It’s great to see that, in this case, it ended well for those involved and for this very fortunate moose. A great job by all, and a special thanks from the Vermont Fish & Wildlife to those who helped in this effort.”

Source: Vermont Moose Saved After Hoof Stuck on Railroad Tracks

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Good work and good practice.

All life is “sacred” and should be treated with dignity and respect.

While we can’t save everything, we should retain our “humanity”.

My thought, after good for the moose, was could it have been a child or other human stuck there.

Wonder how it can be prevented in the future?

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United Airlines, which has the most service of the U.S. airlines to Hong Kong and mainland China with about a dozen daily flights, on Tuesday announced it would cancel dozens of flights next month to Hong Kong and mainland China as the outbreak worsens. The Chicago-based airline said it has experienced a “significant decline in demand for travel to China.” United and its rivals Delta and American are waiving cancellation and change fees for travelers booked to China.

Source: White House tells airlines it may suspend all China-US flights amid coronavirus outbreak

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Wow, a “significant decline in demand for travel to China.”

No surprise there.

What surprises me is that there is ANY demand.

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