Fitbit Versa Smartwatch, Black/Black Aluminium, One Size (S & L Bands Included)
Fitbit Versa Smartwatch, Black/Black Aluminium, One Size (S & L Bands Included)
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FITBIT: Versa?
Saturday, April 14, 2018
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Gooferment Skrules don’t teach history
Saturday, April 14, 2018https://www.cbsnews.com/news/holocaust-study-millennials/
4 in 10 millennials don’t know 6 million Jews were killed in Holocaust, study shows
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NEW YORK — More than one-fifth of millennials in the U.S. — 22 percent — haven’t heard of, or aren’t sure if they’ve heard of, the Holocaust, according to a study published Thursday, on Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day. The study, which was commissioned by The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany and conducted by Schoen Consulting, also found that 11 percent of U.S. adults overall haven’t heard of the Holocaust or aren’t sure if they did.
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Argh!
How can the children be so “mis-educated”?
Argh!
“We” need to do much better!
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TINFOILHAT: Where’s the Babushka Lady? Why didn’t she take cover?
Friday, April 13, 2018http://www.theoccultmuseum.com/8-insanely-mysterious-photos-never-explained/
1. Babushka Lady
[Image via Historic Mysteries]
The ‘Babushka Lady’ is the nickname given to the unidentified woman who was present during the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The woman appeared in numerous films that captured the final moments of Kennedy’s life, she was seen standing, holding a camera to her face even though most of the surrounding witnesses had taken cover. The woman never came forward and despite multiple appeals and an extensive investigation by the FBI, her identity (and what she may know) remains a mystery to this day.
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There are just way too many unanswered questions. “We” need to have a real “housecleaning” for all the facts of the JFK assassination. And before all the witness die and take their story to the grave!
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NEWJERSEY: Guv Murphy pushes an insurance company bill
Thursday, April 12, 2018https://www.tapinto.net/articles/op-ed-new-jerseys-out-of-network-bill-is-a-huge-61
Op-Ed: New Jersey’s Out-of-Network Bill is a huge blow to the middle-class
By PETER DENOBLE, MD
April 11, 2018 at 1:07 AM
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While the A-2039/S-485 bill is complex, in a nutshell it uses a heavy-handed arbitration model to line the pockets of insurance companies while drastically cutting reimbursements to the independent physicians who provide the bulk of emergency care in our state’s 72 emergency rooms. With far fewer specialists available in your local hospitals, it will make the overpriced benefits of all New Jerseyans worthless, as these doctors will not be available at all hours to cover emergencies such as strokes and traumas.
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Can these politicians and bureaucrats screw up medical care any more? It’s not about “health”, “health care”, “health care insurance”, or something else anymore. It’s about control!
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: What are they teaching the children?
Wednesday, April 11, 2018East Brunswick Public Library Forgives All Late Fines For Kids
Hey kids or teens, have an overdue book from the East Brunswick Public Library? You’re in luck…
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Maybe I’m an old curmudgeon but what lesson do the children get from this?
Like the “everyone gets a trophy”, it just sends the wrong message imho!
“Come home; all is forgiven!” should be “You promised; you knew the rules; you agreed to the rule; here is the consequences.”
Children are smart and observant. It tells them that they don’t have to keep their promises.
Argh!
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FINANCIAL: A Health insurance alternative?
Tuesday, April 10, 2018I was listening to “Charitable Liberty: An Honest Word with Bo Brown, Libertarian 2.0” by Jenn Gray
heyjenngray.com/
Leading Liberty – Libertarian Marketing Podcast Trailer … The first marketing and communications podcast ever created for pro-liberty professionals … She’s shown libertarians around the country exactly how to use Facebook to create targeted video advertising campaigns that reach users from both the left and the right.”.
And I heard about “Liberty Health Share”.
https://www.libertyhealthshare.org/3-program-options
I was very impressed with Ms. Gray’s personal experience with her personal health insurance needs.
I immediately identified some folks who could use this option.
I’m putting it on my blog so perhaps it won’t be such a secret.
FWIW.
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GUNS: Let’s DO what everyone already agrees on!
Monday, April 9, 2018https://bearingarms.com/tom-k/2018/04/07/support-armed-teachers-comes-unexpected-place-science/
Support For Armed Teachers Comes From Unexpected Place: Science!
Posted at 10:00 am on April 7, 2018 by Tom Knighton
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Computer modeling shows what we already knew, that an armed response from a good guy saves lives in school shooting scenarios.
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Why can’t we start with everything that everyone agrees on. (1) fixing the broken background check system; (2) ending the “target rich environments” aka “gun free zones”; (3) “gun violence restraining orders” that require court hearing; and (4) strict enforcement of “felon in possession” laws. No argument from the NRA; no argument from the “anti-gun” folks! Why don’t we? Because the politicians, bureaucrats, and “talking heads” would lose their “talking points”. See they don’t really want to solve the problem; they just want to have something to say. Argh!
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NEWJERSEY: The Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee races to the bottom?
Sunday, April 8, 2018https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-jerseys-business-model-1523053978?mod=djemMER
OPINION
REVIEW & OUTLOOK
New Jersey’s Business Model
Phil Murphy wants to raise taxes to offer free tuition.
By The Editorial Board
April 6, 2018 6:32 p.m. ET
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Herewith the latest installment in our continuing coverage of the race to the bottom between two of America’s most progressive Democratic governors— Dannel Malloy of Connecticut and just-elected Phil Murphy of New Jersey. This week Mr. Murphy made his bid for the lead in his state’s downward cycle.
Governor Murphy has proposed that New Jersey provide what has come to be known as “free” community college. It is already “free” in New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Tennessee. Attached to Governor Murphy’s free-tuition commitment would be an outlay of $45 million in grants, which will come out of the state’s already stretched budget.
Governor Murphy argues that this “investment” makes sense because a larger pool of community-college graduates will attract entrepreneurs and start-ups to New Jersey. “Community college is a linchpin opportunity for us,” he says. Of course making New Jersey’s community colleges free depends on another linchpin: imposing higher taxes on other residents of the state to pay for it.
The budget that Governor Murphy’s submitted last month, a 4.2% spending increase, proposes raising the state’s highest individual tax rate to 10.75% from 8.97% on incomes above $1 million, restructuring business taxes to raise more revenue and raising the sales tax to 7%. That is essentially the governance model Governor Malloy has used since 2011, with famously unfortunate economic results for Connecticut.
New Jersey is already dead last in the Tax Foundation’s 2018 ranking of state overall business tax climates. It’s 50th in property taxes but only 48th in individual taxes. Perhaps Mr. Murphy can overtake New York and California to get to the bottom.
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Well, all I can advise Taxpayers in the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee is to get out.
If at all possible.
Those of us, who are stuck, here have stand, fight, and die on this proverbial “hill”. For whatever reason, we have no good choices left.
And, as the old Taxpayers dies out, who is going to replace them. Not the wealthy; not the young; not even anyone who has a choice.
Argh!
“…if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.” -Churchill, The Second World War, vol. 1, The Gathering Storm (London: Cassell, 1948, 272, on the British guarantee to Poland in Spring 1939.
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INTERESTING: What did Zuck delete? What did HRC delete? Who knew what and when?
Saturday, April 7, 2018What is Mark Zuckerberg hiding? Facebook secretly deletes some of its founder’s private messages over fears sensitive data may be leaked
- Three sources said old Facebook messages from Zuckerberg have disappeared
- Recipients were not notified – raising concerns about what the CEO is hiding
- Removal of messages was not disclosed publicly and users were not informed
- Company’s ability to tamper with Messenger could be alarming for some users
By Phoebe Weston For Mailonline
PUBLISHED: 06:02 EDT, 6 April 2018 | UPDATED: 08:35 EDT, 6 April 2018
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Facebook has deleted some of Mark Zuckerberg’s private messages over fears sensitive data could be leaked.
Three sources claim old Facebook messages from Zuckerberg have disappeared from their inbox.
The recipients were not notified – raising concerns about what the Facebook CEO could be hiding.
Facebook claims the change was made after the 2014 Sony Pictures hack, when a mass data breach at the movie studio resulted in embarrassing email histories being leaked.
However, the lack of disclosure has angered some users, along with the absence of a similar tool to recall messages for normal users.
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Very interesting?
Of course, his upcoming Congressional testimony could NOT have anything to do with this “discovery”.
Yeah right.
Guess old Zuck forgot the second rule of legal tactics: “Say it, forget it; Write it, regret it.”
That’s just after: “Say nothing; admit nothing; and strenuously deny everything.” a la Bill Clinton.
Argh!
Now everyone will learn that there is nothing so “free” as a “free” service.
Argh!
Remarkable comparison to HRC’s emails?
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Require all FBI “interviews” to be video recorded … …
Friday, April 6, 2018After the FBI’s Pulse Nightclub Failure, Why Should We Trust James Comey Anymore?
- Now that Noor Salman has been acquitted of charges she played a role in the worst terror attack on U.S. soil since 9/11, the FBI should be embarrassed.
By James Bovard USA Today April 5, 2018
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Federal prosecutors flourished the FBI memo of Salman’s confession as the ultimate proof of her perfidy. But the memo contained false statements and contradictions which even the government could not sweep away. After the trial ended, the jury foreman (who wished to remain anonymous) notified the Orlando Sentinel: “I wish that the FBI had recorded their interviews with Ms. Salman as there were several significant inconsistencies with the written summaries of her statements.”
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Require all FBI “interviews” to be video recorded … …
… … because “we” can no longer trust them — if “we” every could.
Argh!
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: DJT45 should leave Syria
Thursday, April 5, 2018https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2018/04/04/trump-should-withdraw-us-forces-from-syria-but-he-wont/
Trump Should Withdraw US Forces from Syria, But He Won’t
Daniel Larison Posted onApril 4, 2018
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If Trump did withdraw US forces from Syria, it would be the only good foreign policy decision he has made thus far. The US military presence is illegal. It has no authorization from Congress, no international mandate, and our forces are in the country over the explicit objections of the recognized government. The US military presence is not needed to protect US security interests, which are not threatened by the prospect that the Syrian government might reclaim control over its own territory. No vital American interests are at stake in Syria, and therefore no American lives should be put at risk there. Staying indefinitely in Syria an attempt to oppose Iranian influence in the territory of Iran’s own ally is not only a waste of time, manpower, and resources in a dubious cause, but it is also runs roughshod over international law and the Constitution.
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One can only hope for DJT45 pulls out and gives us some “peace”.
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POLITICAL: Casualties in the “(pseudo) War on (some) Drugs”
Wednesday, April 4, 2018https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/02/health/fake-weed-illinois-death-bn/index.html
Two deaths, 54 other cases of severe bleeding tied to fake weed in Illinois
By Jacqueline Howard and Marlena Baldacci, CNN
Updated 6:13 PM ET, Mon April 2, 2018
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Remind anyone of the Federal Gooferment poisoning bootleg booze to teach people a lesson.
And the addiction rates haven’t changed throughout history.
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” — attributed to Einstein, Ben Franklin, and Rita Mae Brown
Argh!
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PRODUCTIVITY: Grab PDFs of products
Tuesday, April 3, 2018http://recomendo.com/issues/calendly-mark-hard-to-reach-places-website-status-check-103817
Get PDF first
Owner manuals and installation guides contain far more information about a product than either the sales brochure, the online descriptions, or even Amazon reviews. The manual will have exact dimensions, all the parts, and caveats about what it can’t do. So my rule of thumb these days is to always download the product’s manual before I purchase the item. Impossible in the old pre-internet days, it’s a no-brainer today. It has saved me many times. Regrettably, not 100% of product have manuals PDFs that are findable, but the better products do. — KK
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Here’s a great idea. Need to do this as a regular habit.
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Are Gooferment Skrules in fact a giant unionized “jobs-and-day-care” program?
Monday, April 2, 2018http://ncc-1776.org/tle2018/tle966-20180325-04.html
Here’s Plenty We Could Do About Mass Shootings
by Vin Suprynowicz
vin@vinsuprynowicz.com
Special to L. Neil Smith’s The Libertarian Enterprise
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Despite the fact this giant unionized “jobs-and-day-care” program for the otherwise largely unemployable now costs a hundred times more per student than the schools of a century ago (which turned non-English-speaking immigrant kids into the physicists who built the atomic bomb), they certainly aren’t producing many graduates today who can count change, do long division, find Paris on a map, speak a foreign Language, or explain if their lives depended on it the difference between “there,” “their,” and “they’re.”
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Certainly seems this way.
Why does the taxpayers of the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee pay such high property taxes for a dismal result?
Why aren’t parents responsible for educating THEIR children?
Argh!
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INOVATION: Start New Year’s Eve resolutions on April Fools Day?
Sunday, April 1, 2018https://lifehacker.com/start-your-new-years-resolutions-in-april-not-january-1821952289
Start Your New Years Resolutions in April, Not January
Tim Donnelly
Friday 9:30am Filed to: NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS
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So consider this: if you still prefer the resolution model of self-improvement, in which you adhere to specific challenges that begin on a specific date, don’t start those resolutions in January. Start them on April 1st instead.
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Seems like a great idea to me.
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VOCABULARY: finger of honour — doigt d’honneur in French
Saturday, March 31, 2018https://www.clairewolfe.com/blog/2018/03/24/weekend-links-95/
French driver faces jail time for “disrespecting” a speed camera. Hint: He disrespected in the classic way, which I now learn the French call the “digit of honor.” Must adopt that phrase.
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French driver faces prison for giving middle finger to speed cameras
The Local
news.france@thelocal.com
@thelocalfrance
22 March 2018
10:49 CET+01:00
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A 46-year-old motorist in the Loire department of central France has been warned he faces two to four months in jail after sticking his middle finger up to two speed cameras back in May 2015.
However while the driver accepted that he was speeding and paid his fines, he denied giving the one-finger salute, known as the doigt d’honneur in French (finger of honour), to two speed cameras at Saint-Forgeux-Lespinasse and Bessay-sur-Allier.
“At that moment, I was talking to my girlfriend, and I was upset because she was talking about her ex-boyfriend. The finger was intended for her,” he said.
The public prosecutor’s office said that even though the driver had already paid his fines for speeding they pressed charges against him for “insulting a person tasked with a public service mission”.
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POLITICAL: Misdirection from true causes to “never let a good crisis go to waste”
Friday, March 30, 2018Broward Superintendent: Keep Focus on Gun Control, Not ‘Fake News’ on Obama Policy to End ‘School to Prison Pipeline’
by DR. SUSAN BERRY24 Mar 2018
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Broward County, Florida, superintendent of schools Robert Runcie says it is “fake news” that his PROMISE school leniency program likely allowed accused school shooter Nikolas Cruz to remain under the radar of law enforcement and, therefore, able to purchase the firearm that killed 17 individuals at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in February.
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The Gooferment bureaucrats never want to take responsibility for the results of their policies.
This “school to prison” policy MIGHT have had some worthy objectives. I never heard this policy overtly stated, but it certainly has come up now.
And, it really just highlights why Gooferment Skrules should not exist.
Argh!
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INTERESTING: Superb Fairywrens’ “secret password”
Thursday, March 29, 2018Answer: Superb Fairywrens
In an incredibly clever bid to protect their offspring from parasitic bird species that would dump their young on superb fairywrens and flee, the wrens consistently use special vocalisations while the young wrens are still inside their eggs. Before parasitic birds like the Horsfield’s bronze-cuckoo can drop their eggs off in the nest, the wren’s own babies already know the secret vocalisation pattern by heart.
When all the eggs hatch, the wren chicks incorporate the secret vocalisation pattern into their begging for food and the mother provides the chicks that produce the vocalisation pattern the most accurately with the most food. The parasite’s chicks, on the other hand, don’t know the vocalisation pattern and the mother wren neglects them.
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I love useless factoids.
Now I need it on Final Jeopardy!
Laugh!
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POLITICAL: DJT45 should NOT meet with Mueller … … period!
Wednesday, March 28, 2018https://www.ac2news.com/2018/03/trump-says-hed-like-to-testify-in-russia-probe/
Trump says he’d like to testify in Russia probe
Posted on March 22, 2018 by Editor
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Mueller will try to pull a General Flynn with Trump of course and try to trap him in a lie or a misstatement so that he can get SOMETHING on Trump. But hey, in a slugfest, one has to slug.
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All one has to do is review all the reversed convictions and the TV “legal shows” like “Law & Order”, etc. etc. You’ll then know one NEVER EVER talks to the police or prosecutors.
Argh!
DJT45 would drop HUGE imho if he falls for this trap.
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Argh! BHO44 treated differently that DJT45
Tuesday, March 27, 2018Maxine Waters VIDEO: “The president (Obama) has put together a database that no one has ever seen before…That database will have information on everything, on every individual”
https://www.ac2news.com/2018/03/maxine-waters-video-the-president-obama-has-put-together-a-database-that-no-one-has-ever-seen-before-that-database-will-have-information-on-everything-on-every-individual/
— via my feedly newsfeed
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Why the uproar that DJT45 did basically the same thing as BHO44 except that BHO44 probably had Facebook’s help doing it?
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Ever wonder how politicians and bureaucrats get so rich?
Monday, March 26, 2018http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/03/21/5-secret-empires-bombshell-revelations/
5 ‘Secret Empires’ Bombshell Revelations
by REBECCA MANSOUR 21 Mar 2018
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Here, then, are five China-related revelations Schweizer exposes in his new book:
1. Biden’s Son’s Firm Scored a $1.5 Billion Deal with the Bank of China 10 Days After Joe Biden and His Son Flew to China Aboard Air Force Two
2. The China-Backed Investment Fund Invested in Dual-Use Military Technology
3. The Obama Justice Department Charged One of the Companies with Stealing U.S. Nuclear Secrets
4. Mitch McConnell and His Wife Elaine Chao Received a $5 Million to $25 Million Gift from a Family Member Who Sat on the Board of a Top Chinese Government Military Contractor
5. Mitch McConnell’s Sister-in-Law Sits on the Board of the Chinese Government’s Bank of China
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Think this is a road map to how corruption works in the “District of Corruption”.
When will “We, The Sheeple” wake up to the facts.
The Taxpayers get screwed. Repeatedly.
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VOCABULARY: Woonerf?
Sunday, March 25, 2018http://keywestlou.com/congratulations-vladimir/
CONGRATULATIONS VLADIMIR
Posted on March 21, 2018 by keywestlou
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re woonerf. Spelled correctly. Also known as a shared street.
The article advised Miami was going to try a woonerf in a four block area of the Wynwood section.
A woonerf is where cars, bikes, and pedestrians share the pavement on an equal footing.
Sounds strange. But, it works.
Experienced it on my several trips to Novara in northern Italy. Anna’s condo sits in a 1,500 year old building. The building sits on a wide street. Cars, bikes and people move freely over the street. There is no sidewalk. Everyone exercises caution. Cars travel a bit slower.
Never experienced a problem. Never even gave it a thought that the street was being shared by everyone.
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JOBSEARCH: Recognizing the change in the employment marketplace
Saturday, March 24, 2018http://www.impactlab.net/2018/03/18/the-secret-to-making-115-an-hour-in-the-gig-economy/
The secret to making $115 an hour in the gig economy | Impact Lab
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Interesting, but the “gig economy” is imho the wave of the future. Like the “movie studio” model. Folks come together for a project and then disband. It’s low overhead with respect to the “human resources”. Ir means that everyone is a proprietor of their own business. No more “lifetime jobs”. Change is … … unavoidable. One either recognizes it or is crushed by it. Like the Law Of Gravity, one has no choice but to deal with it even if you refuse to recognize it.
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VOCABULARY: “FISK” — a point by point refutation
Friday, March 23, 2018Fisk | Define Fisk at Dictionary.com
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/fisk
/fɪsk/ verb. (slang) to refute or criticize (a journalistic article or blog) point by point. C21: after the use of this technique by Robert Fisk (born 1946), British journalist, to criticize articles. Word Origin and History for Fisk.
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LIBERTY: “How cool is socialism. Ask a Venezuelan. Or his pet rabbit.”
Thursday, March 22, 2018Time For A Wake-Up Call: The American Movement Towards Socialism & Communism
by Tyler Durden Sat, 03/17/2018 – 12:46
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Just how popular is socialism in America? The majority of millennials are in favor of it. CNN has tweeted about Martin Luther King being a socialist before it was cool to be one. Socialism seems to be the current rage – among those who enjoy all the fruits of capitalism and protection of free speech.
While the wealth created by capitalism is now deemed to be hurtful and unfair, very little is heard about the 20 million people starved and killed under Stalin’s regime. Twenty percent of millennials consider Stalin a hero, and the media does little to dissuade them from this view. Nor does the educational system, which is eager to label American wealth as “white privilege.” History is being glossed over in favor of ideology. Sadly, today’s millennials are more ignorant of history rather than malicious. What is the excuse of teachers and the popular media?
One of the biggest confusion is that socialism and communism are different ideologies. The former may relate more to economics, while the latter is a political system. But, they both include a centralized government as a major tenet, and centralized control is only possible if citizens are denied individual rights. Socialism and communism are both totalitarian regimes that are spelled differently but function alike. It’s where a few elite despots determine the means of production, free speech must be squelched, and no opposition can be tolerated.
If Stalin seems too remote for millennials to grasp, Venezuela exists in the here and now, a graphic example of a socialist paradise.
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I love when a quote can distill the truth into a soundbite accurately.
“How cool is socialism. Ask a Venezuelan. Or his pet rabbit.”
Even a snowflake college student could, or should, be able to understand it.
Argh!
And, a commenter, “Arnold”, threw in my favorite point in the RKBA debate: “Genocide is a tenet of both.” referring to Socialism and Communism.
Wonder how many will listen?
It’s the politicians and bureaucrats, that are sending us down the road to perdition! Or serfdom.
Argh!
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GUNS: Looking at Parkland from the lens of the Texas tower shooting
Wednesday, March 21, 2018https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/03/the_grim_lessons_of_charles_whitman.html
March 15, 2018
The Grim Lessons of Charles Whitman
By Steve Campbell
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The era of mass public shootings began with Charles Whitman in 1966. He taught us all we need to know to prevent or minimize such events. We ignored his lessons.
On August first of that year,Whitman rode the elevator to the top of the Clock Tower at the University of Texas at Austin. He rolled a hand truck along with him that carried a footlocker full of guns and ammunition. Soon after ensued the first mass murder in a public place in America.
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I. There will be warnings.
II. There are reasons.
III. Help will not be in time to save you.
IV. Do not dwell on the tragedy.
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The current state of affairs: Paralysis
There have been more and more arms restrictions and regulation. The role of defenders has been taken away from the people and deposited with SWAT teams. Has it improved the situation? Not at all!
Perpetrators are being spotted in advance, but their actions and words are ignored by the very authorities charged with defending the public. Schools are institutionally disarmed and advertised as such. Crimes that would disqualify perpetrators from purchasing weapons under existing laws are not being prosecuted. And some of these shooters seem to have been taking drugs with dangerous side-effects.
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I found this very persuasive.
We know that there were so many warning signs that the Gooferment, Gooferment Skrules, and society ignored.
We need to looking into the SSRI drugs as the proximate cause of these shooting rampages.
“We, The Sheeple” can’t allow themselves to be stampeded into disarming themselves. We know for a fact that genocide follows citizen disarmament.
We need to emulate Israel and allow ARMED teachers, school staff, and grandparents to protect Gooferment Skrules. “Gun free zones” are just stupid magical thinking.
And, we need to stop depending upon the police and Gooferment bureaucrats as the “first responders” — the People are the true “first responders”.
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Reinke Faces Life 
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