Reinke Faces Life

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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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

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

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“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

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That seems accurate!

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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

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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.

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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!

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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

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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!

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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

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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.

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

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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

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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!

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• 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.

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

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

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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?

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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

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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!

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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

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

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

Argh!

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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

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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?

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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

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

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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’

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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!

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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

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

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

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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

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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.

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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

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

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