Reinke Faces Life

Former New Jersey governor slammed both the progressive New York lawmaker and the media for letting her off so easily

Source: Chris Christie: AOC Misleads People by Promising Free College and Health Care Without a Way to Pay

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Chris Christie said Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants tuition-free college, she wants $15 minimum wage for everybody, she wants health care for everybody.

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And, I want to be thin, young, and handsome.  Ain’t possible.

All the “Democratic Socialists” — whatever the hell that is — are spending OPM (Other Peoples’ Money).

“The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money [to spend].” — attributed to Margaret Thatcher https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Margaret_Thatcher

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On this island in West Tromsø, north of the Arctic Circle, the sun doesn’t set from May 18 right through to July 26, a full 69 days.

Source: Norway island of Sommaroy wants to be world’s first time-free zone | CNN Travel

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Interesting geography lesson.

It also reinforces my rant about time zones!  They are just labels.  So why can’t we have on universal time zone and date — GMT.

It’s a human meme; so whay can’t we change it?

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“Although the dual-sovereignty rule is often dubbed an ‘exception’ to the double jeopardy right, it is not an exception at all,” Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the opinion. “On the contrary, it follows from the text that defines that right in the first place.”

Source: Supreme Court ruling deals potential blow to Paul Manafort as he battles state charges | Fox News

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Sorry it sounds like double jeopardy to me!

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The notices of claim say the city and the New York City Housing Authority “failed to comply with proper designs and safety standards” and allowed “hazardous and unsafe conditions” at the building.

Under the city’s settlement with the federal government, it would funnel $2.2 billion to NYCHA over 10 years to fix rampant problems.

A spokesman for the city Law Department called the fatal fire “a tragic incident.

“The city will review the notice of claim,” he said.

Source: Relatives of Harlem fire victims plan to sue city for billions

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One has to ask the question, why is the City running a “housing authority”?

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Arabella Advisors establishes groups under trade, or fictitious, names, and acts as their “fiscal sponsor,” which allows the groups to avoid filing public returns to the Internal Revenue Service. The network also acts as a “pass-through” entity for left-wing donors, who do not have to mark their money as going to the exact group that they are funding, but rather can make out the contributions to the particular arm at Arabella where the group is located.

Source: Millions in Dark Money Flows to Pro-Abortion Groups

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Shouldn’t politicians only be allowed to accept contributions from voters in their own district?

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Even California can’t afford “Medicare for All.” The California plan is ambitious: as Fox News reported, “Families of four earning as much as $150,500 a year would get help paying monthly health insurance premiums.” But even far-left California does not go as far as providing “Medicare for All,” despite the fact that Democrats want such a plan (and even passed one in the California State Senate in 2017). The problem: even California cannot figure out how to pay for the proposal.

Source: 3 Key Facts About California’s ‘Medicare for Illegals’ Plan | Breitbart

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Absolute craziness?

Where is the CALEXIT movement in the other 49 States?

Cut them loose.

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The power of the sword, say the minority …, is in the hands of Congress. My friends and countrymen, it is not so, for The powers of the sword are in the hands of the yeomanry of America from sixteen to sixty. The militia of these free commonwealths, entitled and accustomed to their arms, when compared with any possible army, must be tremendous and irresistible. Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom. Congress has no power to disarm the militia. Their swords and every terrible implement of the soldier are the birthright of Americans. —Tench Coxe, Letter to the Pennsylvania Gazette, 20 February 1788

Source: Bernalillo County DA Raul Torrez, Idiot or Liar?, by Mike Blessing

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Don’t let the tyrants disarm the People.  Trains to the camps is the next step.

“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

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The past couple of days have seen interesting developments. The US or Israel struck a Japanese ship with small rockets and tried to blame it on Iranian mines. The Japanese ship owner put a halt to the false flag event. He pointed out that the damage was above, not below the water line and that crew members observed objects approaching in the air.

Source: The Stories are Beginning to Exceed even the Gullibility of Americans, by Paul Craig Roberts – The Unz Review

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Wonder if “We, The Sheeple” are watching?

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She’s already refused to cough up the gun, and I don’t blame her. You’re not likely to be the one targeted for rape or assumed to be an easy target for a break-in because she’s female. She is. Should there be a home invasion while you all are there, she’s the one who is likely to get the worst of it. You’re not the one likely to have to deal with a stalker, be it an ex-boyfriend or someone else. In other words, there are a lot of reasons she should keep that gun.

Source: Guy Writes To Advice Columnist About Lawfully-Armed Daughter

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“God made men and women; Sam colt made them equal.” — Unknown

“Victim disarmament is the view that it is somehow better to see a woman raped in an alley and strangled with her own pantyhose, than see her with a gun in her hand.” — T.D. Melrose

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“When you take a college program, a state university program, and privatize it, there’s only one reason you’re going to do that, and that’s to hide things. Why else would you do it?” she said. “There’s no advantage to it other than avoiding oversight and accountability.”

Source: Florida State says privatizing athletics won’t change anything. Skeptics aren’t so sure. – The Washington Post

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More corruption in the Gooferment!

Why are their “State Universities”?

Gooferment Skrules are just wrong — at any level!

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Bearing real costs for the sake of the climate will always be a sucker’s game for any one country so long as there isn’t a global regime mandating emission reductions (and, thankfully, there isn’t anything remotely like the political will for such a regime). It was supposed to be a disaster when Trump pulled out of the Paris accords, but G-20 countries haven’t been on pace to meet their goals regardless.

Source: Democrats have set themselves a major ‘climate trap’

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As a skeptic, I’m not surprised.

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Residents, business owners and leaders of houses of worship on the street are encouraged to begin the process of changing their addresses.

As of June 1, they will have up to 18 months to inform all agencies and businesses that the address on file and let them know of the change.

All addresses on the street will see a change in the street name, but the numerical part of the address will stay the same. For example, 1 Commercial Ave. will now be 1 Paul Robeson Blvd.

Source: City Completes Process of Installing Paul Robeson Blvd. Signs | TAPinto

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The signs are the cheap part of this change.

I’m imagining all the costs, inconveniences, and errors that imposed on “We, The Sheeple” to do this.  It’s a “tax” on living.

I’m not disputing that it could or should be done.  I am objecting to the costs being imposed by the Gooferment on others.

Gooferment is force and here is just one tiny example of it.

Argh!

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A tip for everyone: Lock your doors while pumping gas.

Source: Woman jumps through car window to stop would-be thief (VIDEO) | WSB-TV

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Obviously!

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A telecommunications service provider in north-central Montana will stop providing television services to customers this fall.

Source: 3 Rivers Communications terminating TV services by end of October – KRTV.com

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Is this a sign of things to come?

Yes, streaming works well with fiber optic to the home, but who has that?

And certainly no one is investing in that.  Google tried and seems to have failed.

Maybe there is a place for municipal or “community” broadband?  After all that’s how cable TV got started!

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The fire made news around the world, and the destruction of the video vault featured prominently in the coverage. But nearly all news outlets characterized the vault fire as a close call, in which worst cases were averted. The New York Times reported that “a vault full of video and television images” had burned up, but added that “in no case was the destroyed material the only copy of a work,” a claim attributed to Universal Studios officials. Subsequent articles focused on the fire’s impact on film festivals, which relied on prints from Universal’s library. But journalists moved on from the story, and there has never been a full accounting of film and video losses in the fire.

Source: The Day the Music Burned

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Hard to believe that something wasn’t lost.

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Yelizovo airport, a key hub on the Pacific coast, was packed with passengers when the bear made his way to security

Source: Russian airport on alert after huge brown bear wanders through security – World News – Mirror Online

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Boarding pass or not, who’s going to stop it?

Interesting that it got away.

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I’m 65 so it doesn’t affect me directly but I find this trend upsetting. I remember when 18 year olds gained the right to vote in 1971. at that time the age to make many decisions for oneself was lowered from age 21 to 18. Apparently they forgot how to stand up for themselves since then.

They have become a bunch of sheep, doing what the media tells them, standing up to spread socialism at the command of their masters. “If God didn’t want them sheared, He would not have made them sheep.”

Sometimes it looks as if the youth of America are being bamboozled into adopting an ovine state. The problem is that a libertarian society is meant for adults who are not domestic sheep and these youngster are not learning to be either wild or adults.

Source: Letters to the Editor

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If you’re old enough to sign up for the military, then you’re old enough to make decisions about smoking, drinking, drugs, etc. etc.

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When he appeared in court, the felony charge disappeared, replaced by misdemeanor charges of falsifying documents and possession of police scanners, allegations he denies.

Source: Driver Arrested, Charged After Repossession of Officer’s Car

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Want to bet that nothing happens to these “police officers”?

Seems “laws” are for the common folk; not the “Praetorian Guard”!

Argh!

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For those philosophers who work in epistemology (the ‘theory of knowledge’), the holy grail is to pin down the nature of knowledge and explain why it matters. But despite thousands upon thousands of articles devoted to the topic, the philosophers haven’t been able to come up with a good story. I say that’s because they’re barking up the wrong tree. The notion of knowledge doesn’t in fact pick out anything important. It’s a crude concept we have inherited from our prehistoric ancestors, and it positively handicaps us in our dealings with the modern world.

Source: Knowledge is a stone-age concept, we’re better off without it | Aeon Essays

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I’ve always worked on a paradigm of dikw (i.e., data, information, knowledge, wisdom).  Never could fit “skill” into my meme.  Now “knowledge” may be on shaky ground?

Guess I’ll have to add: “direct observation, sensory perception, hearsay, or inference”.  Seems ugly.  Maybe it should be “knowledge with provenance”?

Still doesn’t account for “skills”, “system of ‘evidential’ constructions”, or “knowledge provides the norm for assertion”, but that’s for another time.

To much heavy thinking for one fat old white guy injineer.

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As part of her plan, she attacked Levi’s for making most of their jeans overseas. She also mentioned, as a problem because of overseas manufacturing, other firms including Dixon Ticonderoga — maker of the famous №2 pencil. Carlson cheered all this. He said firms that manufacture products overseas cost “millions of good jobs lost” here in America.

Of course, this view is a call for economic protectionism.

Source: EconomicPolicyJournal.com: Tucker Carlson Endorses Elizabeth Warren’s Economic Central Planning Program and Then Disses Austrian School Economics

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I thought Tucker Carlson had “it”, but this shows he doesn’t get “it”.

“It” being that truly free trade makes everyone richer and peaceful.

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It turns out that commercial package delivery for e-commerce retailers such as Amazon was actually profitable for the USPS. Revenue from delivering packages increased in 2018. The problem is that revenue from first-class mail, which is still the biggest source of the USPS’s revenue, continues to decline even as labor costs continue to increase. In 2018, labor costs accounted for 76 percent of overall operating costs, and especially the pension and health benefits provided to each of the USPS’s retired government employees.

Lost in all of this is the real problem with the Post Office, specifically the postal monopoly and, to a larger extent, the fact that the federal government is involved in the postal business.

Source: Time to End the Postal Monopoly – The Future of Freedom Foundation

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Have to blame Ben Franklin for this mess.  He was the advocate for a Post Office.  He did OK with fire insurance, bifocals, and a lot of other things.  But he really did realize what boondoggle this would become!

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Source: D-Day – CartoonsForUs

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Pretty much sums it up.  Sadly.  Decades of political failures made this sacrifice inevitable.  Hopefully, but not likely, the human race will smarten up.

Dona Nobis Pacem

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In 2016, James Delingpole commented that toffs hate Brexit because it’s the Peasants’ Revolt. For non-British readers, the word “toff” is a shortened form of “toffee-nosed,” a slang term for the rich or upper class. But more important is the reference to the Peasant Revolt of 1381, which is little-known on the western side of the Atlantic.

Source: The Peasants’ Revolt

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However, we should take this time to recognize that Brexit was a twenty-first century form of the Peasants’ Revolt – a time when the population had the government running scared but made the mistake of accepting the continued leadership of those who created the problem in the first place.

Whatever country we are from, we should be reminded that, no matter how reasonable or conciliatory this may seem, putting the fox back in the henhouse is never the answer.

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Seems like that’s a recurring mistake that “We, The Sheeple” make — thinking that an agreement will solve the problem.

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