Reinke Faces Life

Is that a problem? Should we be lamenting the lack of diversity in the top ranks of competitive student spellers? Ought Scripps and ESPN (which broadcasts the annual spelling bee) manipulate the rules — the way Harvard, for example, has manipulated its admissions standards — to ensure that more non-Asians make it to the final rounds? . . .

Source: Non-diversity and the spelling bee :: Jeff Jacoby

# – # – # – # – #

“Equality of Opportunity”; not “Equality of Results”!

— 30 —

“Government healthcare is the first step to cyanide showers.”

Source: L. Neil Smith‘s The Libertarian Enterprise: working to fulfill the promise of the American Revolution since 1995

# – # – # – # – #

That seems accurate!

— 30 —

AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite Anti-gun politicians have a standard script they tend to follow in the wake of a mass shooting. It seems that no matter what gun control bill they’re advancing, that is the key to averting the mass shooting.

Source: Dem Rep Illustrates Standard Anti-Gun Stupidity Following Virginia Beach

*** begin quote ***

It’s not about lives to them, but legislation. Unless Nadler is a complete and total moron–a fact I’m not willing to rule out completely–he knows there’s not any information to suggest that HR8 would have made any difference in this shooting. None whatsoever. He just hopes that the voters are too freaking stupid to catch this fact.

*** end quote ***

I often wonder about politicians and bureaucrats, who push their agendas and pet projects regardless of their applicability to the situation at hand.  I think we need a special adjective to describe this behavior and I can’t think of one that applies.

Maybe you the reader can help?

It’s worst than “dishonest”.  It’s worse than “despicable”.  It’s worse than “deplorable”.

Argh!

— 30 —

Does it concern you that the FBI claimed “collection tool failure” in stating that 19,000 text messages between former FBI employees Lisa Page and Peter Strozk had been deleted and were unavailable for review by the Department of Justice (DOJ) inspector general? Is it worth investigating how the inspector general was able to recover the messages, when the FBI said it could not? Does the FBI lack the technical expertise, or the will? Isn’t it a serious issue that should be addressed, either way?

Source: Attkisson: 10 Questions I’d Ask Robert Mueller (If I Were Allowed) | Zero Hedge

# – # – # – # – #

If this IT guy was on Wall Street, he’d have been fired on the spot!

That’s only because having that person “drawn and quartered” is permitted.

Argh!

— 30 —

To comply with California’s ridiculously ineffective SB 880 gun law, AR-15 owners must use a fixed magazine. With this configuration, shooters must disassemble the firearm in order to load a second magazine. Gunsmiths across the country have been developing new concepts to sidestep these backwards laws. Mean Arms went the other direction and looked to […]

Source: Gunsmith uses 19th Century technology to fight ridiculous gun laws

*** begin quote ***

Meet the MA Loader, a detachable polymer loading device that attaches to the weapon’s ejection port. What’s basically a 10-round stripper clip in a plastic guide lets the shooter rapidly feed fresh rounds into the fixed magazine. After the MA Loader is removed the bolt slams shut and chambers the first round.

*** end quote ***

# – # – # – # – #

I love when the “free market” satisfies demand and frustrates the Gooferment’s politicians and bureaucrats efforts.

— 30 —

Finally, I would eliminate government schools, which in the inner cities does nothing but destroy minds and spirit–and distorts the thinking of youth in all other non-inner city schools.I am, more and more, beginning to think that government schools are the most dangerous institutions in America. I would end government-funded “education” of all kinds, including for all public schools and for all voucher programs.

Source: EconomicPolicyJournal.com: Solving the Homeless Situation in American Cities

# – # – # – # – #

Good luck with that.  I agree completely.  But the Gooferment Skrules are politically controlled by powerful unions that have the politicians and bureaucrats on a leash.  And, they are the closest thing to a national religion we have.

Argh!

— 30 —

*** begin quote ***

• The DEA classifies marijuana as a drug with no accepted medical use, akin to LSD and ecstasy (among others). But many turn to it for medical reasons, as do plaintiffs (a group of children and adults suffering from life-threatening medical problems), who sue the DEA to challenge its classification. Second Circuit (over a dissent): Alas, we cannot hear the case until you first ask the DEA to review it. But because the DEA is notoriously slow in reviewing classifications (petitions average nine years each), we will retain jurisdiction of this case so we can ensure speedy review.

*** end quote ***

Where is the treasure? Where are the assets? Where’s the loot?

Source: Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions – Reason.com

# – # – # – # – #

Sounds like typical Gooferment bureaucrat “barbara streisand”!

The phrase “no accepted medical use” rings hollow when so many are using it as side-effect free pain reliever?

— 30 —.

A World War II-era veteran returns to the air: “Miss Montana” joins other planes for a trip to Normandy for the 75th anniversary of D-Day – CBS News
— Read on www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/d-day-75th-anniversary-miss-montana-flight-to-normandy/

Argh. What at brave men.

Representatives from the Mills College Lokey School presented data from its recent ‘business conditions’ survey to our City Council on Tuesday. The study confirmed what restaurant owners warned when the ordinance was hastily passed in 2015. They are struggling, rapidly raising menu prices and increasingly looking to leave. …It’s getting harder to find small food service businesses that were around in 2015 when the MWO was passed. Emeryville institution Bucci’s, Commonwealth, Farley’s, Scarlet City … all gone. In fact, nearly all the brick & mortar businesses that comprised the short-lived Little City Emeryville small business advocacy group have moved, folded or sold. …The survey also identified that “the restaurant industry is clearly struggling.” Specifically, small, independent, non-franchise establishments are having the most difficulty.

Source: EconomicPolicyJournal.com: California Town Sees Businesses Vanish Following Minimum Wage Hike

# – # – # – # – #

The politicians and bureaucrats don’t understand the Laws of Economics are just like the Laws of Physics and not like the “Laws” that Gooferment passes.

It’s really unfair to use the same word “law” to apply to the fundamentals of the Universe and the diktats of politicians!  If the Eskimos can have a lot of words for snow, then the English language should have two different words for “Universal Laws” and “political diktats”!

Argh!

— 30 —

One of the problems with federal hand-out programs is that individuals take advantage of them and scam artists outright loot them. You see this in programs such as Medicaid, Medicare, school lunches, earned income tax credits, housing aid, student loans, and farm subsidies.Daily Beast writer Evan Wright has an appalling story of Christopher Bathum, who looted addiction-treatment funds made available by the Obamacare law. The law required addiction-treatment funding by Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance companies.

Source: Federal Subsidies Spur Massive Fraud | Cato @ Liberty

# – # – # – # – #

Sorry but all Gooferment “handouts” have “Unintended Consequences”.

The Gooferment is immoral, ineffective, and inefficient. As well as untrustworthy.

Argh!

— 30 —

Kim Jong-un is believed to be carrying out a massive purge following the failed U.S.-North Korea summit earlier this year after a special envoy to the U.S., Kim Hyok Chol (pictured), was executed.

Source: North Korea executes a special envoy to the United States | Daily Mail Online

# – # – # – # – #

Sounds like Kim would be prefect for a Wall Street job.  Maybe a Wall Street regulator?

In his first day on the job training manual should have a chapter on “You can’t call the secret police to execute a Wall Streeter who fails to follow your regulation or anyoneelse who displease you.”   (Hmmm, I guess that’s true if your name isn’t Clinton.)

Wow.  Wonder who want this guy’s job next?

— 30 —

RPI Board Member Judge Andrew Napolitano hits the nail squarely on the head:

Why was Assange indicted? Government killers are a mob, and mobs love anonymity. Assange assaulted their love by ending that anonymity. When the government kills and rejoices and lies about it in our names, we have a right to know of its behavior. Democracies spy on us all, yet they persist in punishing, to the ends of the earth, those who dare to shine a light upon them. Tyrannies do the same.

Source: Killing Assange? – May 30th Update

# – # – # – # – #

Don’t expose the politicians and bureaucrats for what they are!

— 30 —

No prosecutor should ever say or do anything for the purpose of helping one party or the other. I cannot imagine a plausible reason why Mueller went beyond his report and gratuitously suggested that President Trump might be guilty, except to help Democrats in Congress and to encourage impeachment talk and action. Shame on Mueller for abusing his position of trust and for allowing himself to be used for such partisan advantage.

Source: Alan Dershowitz: ‘Shame on Mueller,’ He ‘Revealed His Partisan Bias’

# – # – # – # – #

Like most things coming out of the “District of Corruption”, it’s always “partisan”.

Interesting the AD took so long to come to this conclusion.

Remember the three “laws” of political motivation: (1) reward your friends; (2) punish your enemies; and (3) feather your own nest.

In this case, Mueller has done all three to the detriment of a polite civil society here in the USA.

Why should any politician or bureaucrat be taken at face value ever?  At least, used car salesmen are “honest” — they want your money.

Argh!

— 30 —

CONCLUSIONS:The dollar devalues and stocks, gold and silver rise exponentially in nominal prices.Prices for silver and gold are inexpensive in 2019 compared to the S&P 500 Index. That will change.Prices for silver are inexpensive compared to gold. That will change.Timing is unclear, but 2019 appears to be a transition year for many markets.Central banks, the banking cartel and governments prefer rising stocks and bonds, lower interest rates, and weak metals prices. That will change as central banks lose control of debt creation, inflation and the economy.

Source: Silver – Eight Years Later | The Deviant Investor

# – # – # – # – #

Hard not to see some very ugly chickens coming home to roost.

“Get small in your hole” — Infantry advice with incoming

— 30 —

Memorial Day weekend is meant to be a time of reflection to honor the Americans who have served, so two days before the weekend the U.S. Army reached out to veterans via Twitter to ask them to share how their service had impacted their lives – and it’s easy to say it backfired.

Source: These 30 Responses To U.S. Army Asking ‘How Has Serving Impacted You?’ Was Not What They Were Expecting To Hear

# – # – # – # – #

Read this and then tell me about how much America reveres its vets.

Best way to honor them is to bring all the girls and boys home now.

— 30 —

What’s worse is that agenda editors related to pharmaceutical interests and the partisan blog Media Matters control my Wikipedia biographical page, making sure that slanted or false information stays on it. For example, they falsely refer to my reporting as “anti-vaccine,” and imply my reporting on the topic has been discredited. In fact, my vaccine and medical reporting has been recognized by top national journalism awards organizations, and has even been cited as a source in a peer reviewed scientific publication. However, anyone who tries to edit this factual context and footnotes onto my page finds it is quickly removed.

Source: “Wikipedia is…broken,” controlled by special interests and bad actors, says co-founder | Sharyl Attkisson

# – # – # – # – #

Maybe the academics were correct in not allowing Wikipedia citations in academic papers?

— 30 —

(Don Boudreaux) Tweet Here’s a letter to the Wall Street Journal : Editor: Worried that Americans today are “overly complacent” about volatile world oil markets, Spencer Jakab reminds Americans of the 1970s’ gasoline shortages – shortages that were, according to Mr.

Source: In This Case, Our Government Was Indeed to Blame

# – # – # – # – #

Uncle Sam’s ceilings on energy prices discouraged domestic suppliers from bringing to market the full quantities of fuel that buyers sought at those artificially low prices.

It’s usually always the Gooferment’s fault.

“The government is good at one thing. It knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say, ‘See if it weren’t for the government, you wouldn’t be able to walk.” ― Harry Browne

— 30 —

An image showing a solider placing an American flag at the tomb of the Unknown Solider during a severe thunderstorm at Arlington National Cemetery has gone viral.

Source: Image of ‘dedicated’ soldier seen placing flag at the Tomb of Unknown Soldier goes viral  | Daily Mail Online

# – # – # – # – #

This is what Memorial Day is all about.

Bring the girls and boys home NOW!

— 30 —

A fixed-blade knife, like those offered by Morakniv, is mandatory. I always carry a multitool-style of knife, but this class made me realize how ineffective these knives can be when it matters the most.

Source: Do You Learn Anything Useful in Survival School? | GearJunkie

# – # – # – # – #

My takeaway is that my swiss army knife needs to have a big brother available in my various “bags” — car survival, bug out, bug in, edc.

— 30 —

“As a woman, the decisions you make about when to have children is going to largely be determined by what kind of career you have and how the government has established you to have support while you’re in your child-bearing years,” Bialik says.

Source: The Big Bang Theory ends, but Dr. Amy Farrah Fowler lives on – CNET

# – # – # – # – #

The Gooferment shouldn’t be depriving civilization of every person’s God-given ability — boy or girl.

Argh!

We need every one to be “pulling the wagon”!

— 30 —

If there’s one legitimate gun problem in this country, it’s stolen firearms.Regardless of who they stole them from, gun thieves turn around and sell firearms to some of the worst people imaginable. They don’t care about what comes next, unlike legitimate gun dealers who will refuse a sale to anyone who appears suspicious. They’re arming other criminals, and they know it.

Source: Man Gets 33 Months For Stealing 55 Firearms – Bearing Arms

# – # – # – # – #

Like my rant about the Gooferment that fails to prosecute and punish harshly the “felon in possession” FEDERAL law with a mandatory 5 year sentence, here too, when they have a real chance to send a message, they wimp out.

Argh!

— 30 —

So far, she has 26 county chapters that want to split the rest of Illinois from Chicago. When forming her organization, Merritt sought advice from other state separation organizations, like New California. The group, which is run by a conservative radio talk show host, advocates for the creation of a new state split from the Los Angeles and San Francisco areas “to throw off the bonds of tyranny.”

Source: Behind the Movement to Kick Chicago Out of Illinois

# – # – # – # – #

Interesting?

What do you tag it as: ChicagoExit or IllinoisFree?

— 30 —

The remarkable impact of the structure of food beyond nutritional content or composition.

Source: Which Is a Better Breakfast: Cereal or Oatmeal? | NutritionFacts.org

# – # – # – # – #

Eat your non-instant oatmeal.

(I throw some ground flaxseed in mine for added benefit.)

— 30 —

Google tracks a lot of what you buy, even if you purchased it elsewhere, like in a store or from Amazon.Last week, CEO Sundar Pichai wrote a New York Times op-ed that said “privacy cannot be a luxury good.” But behind the scenes, Google is still collecting a lot of personal information from the services you use, such as Gmail, and some of it can’t be easily deleted.A page called “Purchases ” shows an accurate list of many — though not all — of the things I’ve bought dating back to at least 2012. I made these purchases using online services or apps such as Amazon, DoorDash or Seamless, or in stores such as Macy’s, but never directly through Google.

Source: Google Gmail tracks purchase history — how to delete it

# – # – # – # – #

Aren’t they “helpful”?

Laugh!

— 30 —

It is imperative that we MUST eliminate the income tax. It is a purely a Marxist development that is destroying the world economy. The income tax has become such a tyranny that our liberty, freedom of movement, and world economic growth are all at great risk. Never before in the history of human civilization do we find an income tax.

Source: The Evil Income Tax – LewRockwell

# – # – # – # – #

I completely agree.

“We, The Sheeple”, in that day and age, must have been out of their minds to allow this to happen.

— 30 —