TECHNOLOGY: Tell 911 call handlers precisely where to send help is vital

Monday, December 18, 2023

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Getting help where it’s needed

In an emergency, being able to tell 911 call handlers precisely where to send help is vital – but this can be difficult when you’re out in rural areas or in an unfamiliar part of the city. A what3words address helps you to communicate any exact location easily and efficiently, no matter where you are. This means emergency responders will know exactly where to go, accurate to a 10ft square. Watch as the City of Austin Police Department put it to the test with Inside Edition.

Emergency service departments across Texas and the wider US are using what3words to find people faster and improve response times. You can read the full list of services using it and some of the incredible stories that have involved what3words.

https://what3words.com

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: I don’t think he udestand what “capitalism” means!

Sunday, December 17, 2023

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12853431/San-Francisco-homeless-drugs-Dean-Preston-blames-capitalism.html

Liberal San Francisco Supervisor Dean Preston blames capitalism for city’s sprawling homeless problem and says it’s ‘counterproductive’ to arrest people openly doing illegal drugs in public

  •     Supervisor Dean Preston has blamed capitalism for the city’s homeless problem
  •     He said he doesn’t believe arresting those that do drugs in public is productive
  •     Preston is the supervisor for the Tenderloin District where a majority of the homeless and drug-ridden population reside 

By Emma Richter For Dailymail.Com
Published: 02:11 EST, 12 December 2023 | Updated: 03:21 EST, 12 December 2023

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A liberal San Francisco supervisor has blamed capitalism for the city’s sprawling homeless issue and said that it’s ‘counterproductive’ to arrest people openly doing drugs in public. 

Dean Preston, the Supervisor representing District 5, has also been very open about his support for the ‘defund the police’ movement. 

‘I think we have a very, very bloated police budget. All kinds of waste in the police department. I mean, I could cut a hundred million dollars out of the police department,’ he said in a recent clip shared online from the UnHerd documentary.

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What we have in California is some type of socialism or fascism; certainly NOT capitalism.

 — Inigo Montoya from the 1987 romantic comedy film The Princess Bride.

Drug prohibition is certainly not “capitalism”.  

And, “defunding the police” means let criminals run wild robbing, killing, and terrorizing “We, The Sheeple”.

Think back to the Wild West, as long as you didn’t hurt someone, you were free to pursue your destiny.  But, “An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.” — Robert A. Heinlein

“The question isn’t who is going to let me: it’s who is going to stop me.” — Ayn Rand

The political class are the “parasite class of humans” (i.e., Gooferment politicians and bureaucrats, “scientist with agendas”, “celebrities”, the corporate press, Big Pharma, Big Tech).  All belong on the scrap bin of humanity

Argh!

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INSPIRATIONAL: Amazing but arduous cure for sickle cell disease

Saturday, December 16, 2023

FROM 1440 NEWS

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Sickle Cell Gene Therapy

The US Food and Drug Administration yesterday approved a pair of gene therapy treatments for sickle cell disease, a group of inherited red blood cell disorders caused by mutations in a gene that produces an oxygen-carrying protein known as hemoglobin. One of the treatments, called Casgevy, is based on breakthrough CRISPR technology—a Nobel Prize-winning gene-editing tool (see 101, w/video)—and is the first approved gene-editing therapy in the US.

Codeveloped by Vertex Pharmaceuticals and CRISPR Therapeutics, Casgevy involves harvesting cells from a patient’s bone marrow, editing the cells in a lab using CRISPR technology, and inserting the modified cells back into the patient’s body. Read one man’s account of being among the first people to experience the CRISPR-based treatment here.

The second treatment, developed by Bluebird Bio and called Lyfgenia, uses a harmless virus to introduce a gene into a patient’s body to help produce a hemoglobin substitute. Both Casgevy and Lyfgenia have been approved for people 12 years and older. 

Sickle cell disease (see overview) affects more than 100,000 Americans per year and 20 million people worldwide. 

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https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/12/04/1084209/vertex-exacel-approval-gene-editing-sickle-cell-disease-patient/

OPINION
I received the new gene-editing drug for sickle cell disease. It changed my life.

  • As a patient enrolled in a clinical trial for Vertex’s new exa-cel treatment, I was among the first to experience CRISPR’s transformative effects.

By     Jimi Olaghere
December 4, 2023

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The options for treating sickle cell disease are very limited. Denying access to such a powerful and transformative treatment based on someone’s ability to pay, or where they happen to live, strikes me as unethical. I believe patients and health-care providers everywhere deserve to know that the treatment will be available to those who need it.

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Truly it was an arduous journey.

And, while it may be hard to understand, breakthroughs are expensive.  But as soon as they are made, the inventors and others work on making it available cheaply and easily.  Indoor plumbing, electric light, and automobiles quickly became available to the masses thanks to the “invisible hand” of the marketplace and the incentives af making a profit.

It would be better IMHO for him to focus on the Gooferment and its incestuous relationship with Big Pharma as the barrier to quicker progress.

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NEWJERSEY: Because drug prohhibition wroks so well … …

Friday, December 15, 2023

https://newjerseymonitor.com/2023/12/08/new-jersey-senate-panel-approves-penalties-for-underage-drinkers/

New Jersey Senate panel approves penalties for underage drinkers

By: Nikita Biryukov – December 8, 2023 7:05 am

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A Senate panel approved a bill Thursday that would create new penalties for underage alcohol possession over the complaints of advocates who said the shift would send more young people into the criminal justice system.

The bill, approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee in a 9-2 vote, would subject individuals under the age of 21 found to possess alcohol to a $50 fine and a complaint summons, the equivalent of a disorderly persons offense.

Legislators who supported the bill said the change is needed to address parties in Jersey Shore towns that local officials have decried as chaotic and disruptive, and to provide some measure of enforcement for underage users who flout drinking laws.

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Has anyone noticed how the drug laws are obeyed?  Remember Prohibition?  Wonder why the pot laws were changed?

Argh!

The politicians and bureaucrats in the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee are examples of stupidity!

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RANT: Interesting photo of “insurrection”?

Thursday, December 14, 2023

Don’t you dare assemble and “petition your government for redress of grievances.”

FARK.com: (13082318) LAPD issues warning about “possible first amendment activity” because we can’t have that now, can we?

https://www.fark.com/comments/13082318/166397076/LAPD-issues-warning-about-possible-first-amendment-activity-because-we-cant-have-that-now-can-we#c166397076

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ECONOMICS: Big deffered contract takes a big risk?

Thursday, December 14, 2023

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/mlb/article-12853145/baseball-fans-slam-shohei-ohtani-deferred-contract.html

Baseball fans SLAM Shohei Ohtani’s ‘league-killing deal’ after it was revealed he will defer $680m of his eye-watering $700m contract… as rival supporters blast MLB’s ‘downright laughable’ decision to give green light | Daily Mail Online
By Jake Fenner For Dailymail.Com
Published: 23:39 EST, 11 December 2023 | Updated: 00:11 EST, 13 December 2023 

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  •     Ohtani’s deal will see the bulk of the contract paid out after it ends in 10 years 
  •     Baseball fans were irate at the structure and that it was allowed to happen 

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The Dodgers must have channeled their inner Bill Belichick.  This will get everyone’s shorts in a knot.  Especially the politicians and bureaucrats in the Pepuls Republik of Kaliforkneeah.  That’s a lot of money they can’t steal.  And it’s a big risk to take on the financial stability of the Dodgers and the future value of the USD.  Wonder what kind of Futures Contract he’s buying to protect it.

While I understand the motivations behind “stretching the rules”, it’s NOT without some significant risks IMHO.

It violates my favorite heuristic (rule of thumb; “common sense”; pov) that one should always “take the money and run”.  

It’s not beyond the imagination to conceive of the politicians and bureaucrats of the Pepuls Republik of Kaliforkneeah creating a special income tax rule for “deferred compensation”.  Watch for it!

AND, inflation AKA dollar depreciation is for SURE to erode that deferred wealth.

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NEWJERSEY: No digital only coupons

Wednesday, December 13, 2023
https://nj1015.com/digital-coupon-new-jersey-supermarkets/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NEWS%2C%20Tue%20Dec%2012:%20Possible%20changes%20to%20digital%20coupons&utm_term=All%20Valid%20Users

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Under the bill, coupons that can only be accessed by shoppers through their computers, tablets or smartphones would also have to be made available in-store, offering the same price or discount as what’s being offered online.

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POLITICAL: Just leave it vacant until the next regular election!

Wednesday, December 13, 2023

https://nypost.com/2023/12/05/metro/date-set-for-vote-to-replace-disgraced-george-santos/

Metro
Hochul sets Feb. 13 House special election to replace NY’s George Santos
By Social Links for Vaughn Golden and Carl Campanile
Published Dec. 5, 2023, 6:14 p.m. ET

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A special election to fill the congressional seat vacated by expelled former Rep. George Santos will take place on Feb. 13, 2024, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Tuesday.

Hochul set the date for the vote in New York’s Third Congressional District one day after calling her former challenger, ex-Rep. Tom Suozzi, to the governor’s mansion in Albany to bend the knee following his ill-fated primary bid last year.

“We had a good meeting and cleared the air, and I appreciate her making the time,” Suozzi said. “At a time of strong political division, I offered to be another moderate voice as the Governor works to solve problems and make progress.”

Suozzi repped the Queens and Nassau County district for six years before leaving to run against Hochul in the gubernatorial race, opening the way for Santos to upset Democrat Robert Zimmerman as part of a midterm red wave in the Empire State.

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Why have the expense of a “special election”?  Just leave it vacant until the next regular election!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Get il;legal immigration under control?

Tuesday, December 12, 2023

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/europeans-will-succumb-islam-former-top-german-spy-issues-new-warning-muslim-majority

“Europeans Will Succumb To Islam” – Former Top German Spy Issues New Warning
by Tyler Durden
Tuesday, Dec 05, 2023 – 02:00 AM
Authored by John Cody via Remix,

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“It should also be possible to persuade third countries to take back their own nationals after deportation orders. If they don’t do it, you could ‘freeze their assets,’ prevent (their citizens) from traveling to Europe and other things. You have to persuade these states to behave in accordance with international law,” he said.

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Clearly, the USA needs to deport ALL illegals.  Convicted Felons and illegally reentering aliens should be priority one.  And FAST!

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GUNS: Why was the homeowner put in handcuffs?

Monday, December 11, 2023

https://nypost.com/2023/12/04/news/la-homeowner-fatally-shoots-suspect-during-attempted-burglary/

 LA homeowner fatally shoots suspect during attempted burglary as horrified child, grandma watch
By Social Links for Isabel Keane
Published Dec. 4, 2023, 8:33 a.m. ET

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A Los Angeles homeowner shot and killed a suspected burglar over the weekend after a group of men wearing dark hoodies and masks broke into his home — where a child and grandmother were left rattled by the brazen attempted burglary.

Police responded to the Granada Hills home around 5 a.m. Saturday morning after receiving radio calls of shots fired inside the residence.

The homeowner told police he was inside his home when three or four unknown men wearing “dark clothing, hoodies and masks” broke in, the Los Angeles Police Department wrote on X.

“A suspect pointed a weapon at the victim and while the suspects were inside the residence, the victim produced a firearm and a shooting occurred,” the department wrote. 

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The homeowner, who was photographed outside the residence seemingly in handcuffs, was taken to the Devonshire Community Police Station to be interviewed, though they were later released. 

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Give you some insight into the Pepuls Republik of Kaliforkneeah’s attitude towards guns?

“No law ever written has stopped any robber, rapist or killer, like cold blue steel in the hands of their last intended victim.” —W. Emerson Wright

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