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AP Photo/Richard Drew Judge Andrew Napolitano is bringing the heat in a stinging column for the Washington Times , rebutting and refuting the arguments by gun control activists that they can simply ignore the text of the 2nd Amendment and Supreme Court decisions and enact whatever anti-gun laws they want.

Source: Napolitano: The 2nd Amendment Isn’t A Gift From The Government

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We have civil commitment laws on the books in states across the nation. If we believe that someone is truly a danger to themselves or others, isn’t that a more appropriate place to seek help rather than a court hearing where a judge only hears one side of the case before making a determination about whether or not someone poses a threat to themselves or others?

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Why not use the tools that already exist?  Because it doesn’t fit the narrative and disarm the people so the Gooferment can do whatever it wants to “We, The Sheeple”!

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If his Social Media Addiction Reduction Technology Act (SMART Act) becomes law, your social media experience will be littered with authoritarian pop-ups imploring you to maintain 30-minute time limits and instead of easy-to-use scrolls, your feeds will turn into click-controlled social media rations. In short, your social media experience will become so annoying and static that you may, in fact, start using it less. So, Hawley will win, but you, and, especially, social media, will lose.

Source: Do We Need Laws to Help Curb our Social Media Addiction?

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Where in the Constitution does it make Gooferment the arbiter of how social media should work? Are “We, The Sheeple” just little children to be “protected” from their own choices. What’s next an “Eat Your Vegetables” Act? Argh!

https://buff.ly/33pbV0q #unconstitutional #Nannystatism #NOTSMART

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Researchers at the University of Exeter in the UK wanted to know if staring at seagulls might dissuade them from abducting your dinner, so they headed to coastal towns in Cornwall.

The team put a bag of chips (that’s fries for us US folks) on the ground and monitored how long it took the gulls to approach the food. “On average, gulls took 21 seconds longer to approach the food with a human staring at them,” the university said in a release on Tuesday.

Source: Scientists suggest staring down seagulls to protect your snacks – CNET

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Hope they didn’t spend a lot on that study!

Laugh!

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Authored by Michael; Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, Whenever a tragic act of violence makes national headlines, the calls to give up more of our freedoms and liberties in exchange for the promise of increased security become deafening.

Source: America Is Not Going To Be A Free And Open Society Any Longer

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As The Epoch Times’ Jack Phillips reports, at least seven people were shot and wounded on Aug. 4 as they gathered near a children’s playground on Chicago’s West Side. The people gathered at 1:20 a.m. as they stood in the park on the 2900 West Roosevelt Road when a person opened fire from a black Chevy Camaro, said Chicago Police.

So why didn’t this mass shooting get the same kind of coverage that the other mass shootings received?

Could it be that it is because it didn’t neatly fit the agenda that the mainstream media is trying to promote?

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Of course, “The Press” is a weaponized propaganda arm of the liberal left wing of the “Democratic” Party.

It’s time to hold them to account, along with the “Tech Giants”, who are manipulating “We, The Sheeple” like Judas goats.

The American Experiment failed with the “War of Northern Aggression” AKAK “The Civil War”.  All that’s left is to bury it and move on.

The American Empire will collapse shortly as do all “empires” as a result of the loss of “civic virtue”, decadence, and debt.

So sad.  Look at Venezuela and see the pain and strife coming to the USA as “democratic socialism” transform into dictatorial communism.

“If you love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.” ― Samuel Adams

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“These extraordinary FBI docs further confirm that James Comey should never have had FBI files on President Trump at his home and that the FBI failed to secure and protect these private and classified files,” stated Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.  “Mr. Comey’s illegal leaking these FBI files as part of his vendetta against President Trump (directly resulting in the corrupt appointment of Robert Mueller) ought to be the subject of a criminal investigation.”

On June 8, 2017, Comey testified to the Senate Intelligence Committee that he leaked memos of his conversations with President Trump “because (he) thought that might prompt the appointment of a special counsel.” Columbia University Law professor Daniel Richman, a friend of Comey’s, reportedly “turned over copies of the former FBI director’s explosive memos … to the FBI, sidestepping a request by congressional committees to deliver the materials to Capitol Hill.”

Source: Judicial Watch: New Docs Show FBI Agents Went To Comey’s Home to Retrieve Memos | Judicial Watch

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So why is he “above the law”?

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The government’s policy has shown signs of working, albeit at the cost of further strangling an economy that’s been atrophying for years. The annual inflation rate tumbled to 34,900% from 224,900% at the end of last year, according to Bloomberg’s Cafe Con Leche Index. But still, it hasn’t slowed inflation as much as the rate of the bolivar’s declines.

Source: Not Even Dollars Can Save Venezuelans From Inflation’s Wrath

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Here’s a lesson for all of us on what happens when the Gooferment prints money to pay its bills!

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Across denominations, congregations are shrinking as Americans increasingly separate from organized religion. Fourteen percent of Americans identified as unaffiliated in 2000, while 25 percent labeled themselves that way in 2016, according to a report from the Public Religion Research Institute.

Source: LGBT-friendly Twinbrook Baptist Church closing and donating $1 million – The Washington Post

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Of course, Gooferment Skrules teaching “worship” of Mother Earth and Father State is no factor int eh decline of “religion” in the USA.

Argh!

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(Don Boudreaux) Tweet In my most-recent column for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review I imagine a wholly unrealistic – as in, politically wholly unrealistic – response to one of Elizabeth Warren’s foolish statements . A slice: “Consider health care.

Source: Reality Is Not Optional

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“Therefore, relieving us Americans of having to pay directly for our medical care will oblige government to ration care. That’s an inevitable result of causing the demand for many kinds of health care to exceed the supply. There’s no avoiding the need to prevent people from consuming all the medical care they seek to consume when they don’t pay for it directly.

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Seems obvious!  Call it “death panels”, “rationing”, or whatever euphemism you can come up with but it’s going to happen.

Look at Canada, UK, the VA, Indian Healthcare, it’s all about “rationing”.

And, even Medicare / Medicaid is “limited” by the limited number of doctors who  will accept it.

Politicians and bureaucrats can no deny the Laws of Economic than they can the Laws Of Physics.

Argh!

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Airport people movers, close relatives to whatever the hell The Boring Company is building in Las Vegas, have been driverless for decades. Just last month, for example, I had a lovely, quick journey on Denver International Airport’s driverless people mover, which opened in 1995.

Source: Elon Musk’s Las Vegas Tunnel Kind Of Sucks?

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Seems like this is all a pipe dream.  Maybe the legalization of weed in Nevada has something to do with it?

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DETROIT, Michigan — Former vice president Joe Biden declared at the second Democrat debate in Detroit on Wednesday evening that he would fight climate change by eliminating coal, fossil fuels, and fracking.

Source: Joe Biden at Democrat Debate: Eliminate Coal, Fracking, Fossil Fuels | Breitbart

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While that might be something all D’s agree on, they are ALL out of their minds.  It can’t be done.  Even rolling out a huge nuclear program, like France and Germany, there are not enough kilowatts to do it.  Ignoring that not all kilowatts are equal.  (That is a solar power kilowatt is intermittent and would need to be stored to be useful. Whereas a fossil fuel kilowatt is on demand.)

Argh!

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Why do the state AGs not like this deal? There are several reasons why they don’t like the deal. Some of them relate specifically to Dish, but their biggest beef is that they don’t like the government propping up a competitor to replace Sprint as the fourth major wireless operator.

Source: What Dish swooping in to save T-Mobile-Sprint means for you – CNET

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Now the politicians and bureaucrats are again picking winners and losers.  That’s the function of a free market and its invisible hand!

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Buy things in stores, on websites, and in apps. Or make a payment on your Apple Card. Or pay back a friend in Messages. Or send it straight to your bank account and watch it add up. The money on your Apple Cash card can be spent using your iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac.

Source: Apple Card – How It Works – Apple

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If there’s no number on the physical card, how do you type it in if you buy something on website?

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https://nypost.com/2019/07/30/paperclipping-and-other-lousy-new-dating-trends-haunting-your-dms/

Also named for a type of clothing: Pocketing. It’s when your significant other has built a wall between you and their family. It’s a huge red flag— it means they don’t see a future with you, so they’re not going to bother introducing you to the important people in their life.

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Who knew that there was a taxonomy of these ways to dump communication.

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Medscape notes Walmart sells its own brand of over the counter insulin, ReliOn (made by Novo Nordisk) for approximately $25 for a 10 mL vial.

Source: What many diabetics don’t know: you can buy inexpensive, over-the-counter insulin in U.S. | Sharyl Attkisson

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Who knew?

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Novelist Victor Koman was dead right, when he said (in his great work, Kings of the High Frontier) that the actual mission of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration—its not-so-hidden agenda, having nothing to do with the development of space travel and exploration—is to keep scum like you and me from ever getting into space.

Source: Where Do We Go From Here?*, by L. Neil Smith

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Sadly I agree.

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“Speaking of failing badly, has anyone seen what is happening to Nancy Pelosi’s district in San Francisco.” Trump wrote on Twitter. “It is not even recognizable lately. Something must be done before it is too late.”

Source: Donald Trump Taunts Nancy Pelosi and ‘Failing’ San Francisco

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I agree with his calling out “shitholes”, wether they be foreign countries or American cities.

It’s especially embarrassing when they are American Cities.  I notice that they all have D’s mayors and representatives.

Wonder when “We, The Sheeple” in those cities will wake up?

Argh!

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Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Market Review & Update Last week, we discussed the setup for a near-term mean reversion because of the massive extension above the long-term mean. To wit: “There is also just the simple issue that markets are very extended above their long-term trends, as shown in the chart below.

Source: Whistling Past The $70 Trillion Debt Graveyard

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When this self-induced tragedy hits, “We, The Sheeple” will have no one to blame but their voting to blame.  Get rid on incumbents!  It doesn’t matter who you vote for, just not the incumbent.  Can they possible be worse?  What can they do it two years that can not be fixed by voting them out too.

Argh!

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The Tea Party wave of 2009 and 2010, a Republican movement born in reaction to the budget blowouts of the Obama Presidency, is now officially dead. It’s ironic that as Trump hammered the final nail into the Tea Party’s coffin, no one seemed happier than the corpse itself! There was hardly a word of discomfort from all the Republican Senators and Congressmen who had so loudly railed against debt when the other party occupied the White House. There is simply no legitimate way that Republicans will ever be able to argue again that they are the party of fiscal discipline. They may try, but only the most partisan and credulous voters will buy it.

Source: Trump Kills the Tea Party – LewRockwell

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Can’t trust any politicians or bureaucrats!

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John Reynold’s book Citroën 2CV describes Boulanger’s sabotage efforts. Of course, he instructed workers to set a nice, leisurely pace when building trucks (likely Citroën T45 trucks) for the Wermacht, but that’s fairly obvious. What was brilliant was Boulanger’s idea to move the little notch on the trucks’ oil dipsticks that indicated the proper level of oil down just a bit lower.By moving the notch down, the trucks would not have enough oil, but German mechanics would have no idea, because, hey, the little notch on the dipstick says its just fine. Then, after the truck has been used for a while and is out deployed somewhere crucial, whammo, the engine seizes up, and you’ve got a lot of angry, stranded, vulnerable Nazis, balling up their little fists and redly barking curses in German.

Source: Citroën Sabotaged Wartime Nazi Truck Production in a Simple and Brilliant Way

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Brilliant!

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If Coppola is let go, he will be the third public victim of Google’s inherent bias toward conservative engineers. Coppola openly admitted in his interview with O’Keefe that he “liked Trump and liked his policies.” He stated that the search engine relies too much on biased news outlets to feed its users negative news on Trump.

Source: Google Punishes Whistleblowing Engineer with Administrative Leave

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Is it time to seriously boycott Google?

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