GOVEROTRAGEOUS: The BHO44 DOJ interfered in the Clinton Foundation investigation

Monday, April 23, 2018

http://dailycaller.com/2018/04/15/fbi-clinton-foundation-investigation/

Behind The IG Report — How The Obama Justice Department Tried To Shut Down The FBI’s Investigation Into The Clinton Foundation
RICHARD POLLOCK — Reporter — 8:37 PM 04/15/2018

  • The Department of Justice Inspector General released a report Friday claiming “lack of candor” by former FBI deputy Director Andrew McCabe
  • The report also details Justice Department’s influence to close a multi-state investigation into the Clinton Foundation
  • The IG claims McCabe leaked DOJ’s pressure to end the Clinton investigation to battle claims he was partial to the Clintons

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The Department of Justice Inspector General report on the “lack of candor” by FBI deputy Director Andrew McCabe also documents for the first time the Obama administration’s effort to shut down the bureau’s investigation of the Clinton Foundation, according to a review of the report by The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group.

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The question is how much additional pressure did the Obama administration apply upon the FBI to end its investigation of the Clinton Foundation. The IG’s report is silent on this point.

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Seems factual that the BHO44 DOJ interfered in the Clinton Foundation investigation.

How high did the interference go? 

To BHO44 himself?

Who knew what and when?

Argh!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Shut the USPS down!

Sunday, April 22, 2018

Interesting personal experience

Had to send a return via UPS. Since I had some other stuff to send, I used them.

I usually use USPS priority mail that costs 6$+ and change with a free envelope.

UPS was 10$+, but they charged separately for the envelope.

If UPS is a proxy for the “real cost”, then this explains how the USPS loses so much money.

Time to put the USPS out of its misery.

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FITBIT: Got my new Versa; hope it can make me thin, young, and handsome

Saturday, April 21, 2018

Fitbit Versa Smartwatch, Black/Black Aluminium, One Size (S & L Bands Included)

It seems good.

  • Changing the small band installed to the large one was a little tricky.
  • Large face is an improvement.
  • Firmware update took a while.
  • Getting it setup was very simple and trouble free.

Hope the power meets expectations

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Gooferment Skrules should be teaching more about the Shoah and other genocides

Saturday, April 21, 2018

https://nypost.com/2018/04/15/why-were-forgetting-the-holocaust/

OPINION

Why we’re forgetting the Holocaust
By Karol Markowicz
April 15, 2018 | 7:06pm

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A scary new survey released on Holocaust Remembrance Day purported to show that Americans are forgetting the atrocities of the Holocaust. What it really showed, however, was that Americans don’t learn enough to forget in the first place.

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Yet lack of Holocaust knowledge had become so pervasive that in 2016 Michigan and Rhode Island passed bills requiring Holocaust and genocide education in high school, joining New York, New Jersey, California, Florida and Illinois. Several organizations are pushing to expand this mandate to all 50 states.

That would be a good start. As these surveys show, students need to be taught not just the basics but the details. The Holocaust stands apart as one of the few world events students should have to master.

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Instead of protesting the Second Amendment, the “children” should know about the direct relationship between a disarmed population and genocides. 

If there not going to learn the three R’s, then they should learn how to shoot.

Argh!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: End Gooferment defined benefit pension plans immediately

Friday, April 20, 2018

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5617901/Oregon-public-university-president-receives-monthly-76-111-pension.html

REVEALED: Oregon public university president receives a $76,111 A MONTH taxpayer-funded pension

  • Dr Joe Robertson retired as president of the Oregon Health & Science University in October last year 
  • The 66-year-old is receiving a monthly taxpayer-funded pension of $76,111
  • His pension is considerably higher than what the average family in Oregon earns a year with the median household income being $57,532 in 2016
  • His high pension is a result of the Oregon Public Employees Retirement System
  • Pensions paid out by PERS are reportedly consuming other essential spending

By Emily Crane For Dailymail.com

PUBLISHED: 10:08 EDT, 15 April 2018 | UPDATED: 12:19 EDT, 15 April 2018

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A former Oregon eye surgeon and public university president is receiving a $76,111 a month taxpayer-funded pension after retiring late last year. 

Dr Joe Robertson, the former president of Oregon Health & Science University, will receive an annual pension of $913,000, which is the state’s largest public pension.

The 66-year-old’s pension is considerably higher than what the average family in Oregon earns a year. The median household income for the state was $57,532 in 2016, according to Census data.

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Why should the taxpayers be one the hook for something that’s impossible for them to get?

It puts a burden on future taxpayers that they can’t escape.

And, in the case of the average fixed pension, inflation can ravage the purchasing power of the pension.

By making it a defined contribution plan, the taxpayer is off the hook for a future liability.

Argh!

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HEALTH: Plant-Based Diets for Diabetics

Thursday, April 19, 2018

https://nutritionfacts.org/2018/04/12/plant-based-diets-put-to-the-test-for-diabetes/

Plant-Based Diets Put to the Test for Diabetes
Written By Michael Greger M.D. FACLM on April 12th, 2018

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The bottom line is that the more plant-based diet “led to a greater improvement in quality of life and mood. Patients consuming a vegetarian diet also felt less constrained than those consuming the conventional diet.” People actually felt the conventional diabetic diet was more restrictive than the plant-based diet. Disinhibition decreased with a vegetarian diet, meaning those eating vegetarian were less likely to binge, and the subjects in the vegetarian group tended to feel less hungry. All of this helps with sustainability in the long term, which is, of course, critical for any dietary change. So, not only do plant-based diets appear to work better, but they may be easier to stick to. And, with the improvement in mood, patients may exhibit desired improvements not only in physical, but also in mental, health.

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I’d wish I had know this back in 1970.

Would it have made a difference, who can say?

But, upon reflection, I’d hope I’d have been smart enough to try it.

Argh!

Add it to my list of failures.

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SECESSION: I don’t believe that 350M people should be ruled bt the “District of Corruption”

Wednesday, April 18, 2018

https://tomwoods.com/i-gave-this-washington-post-reporter-an-earful/?omhide=true

I Gave This Washington Post Reporter an Earful
12th April 2018 — Tom Woods

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Blast from the past:

One of my favorite speeches ever was the one I gave in Houston, on secession, during the last presidential campaign.

The Mises Institute hosted a one-day event on secession. Ron Paul and I were among the speakers. The Washington Post sent a reporter, for the obvious purpose of reporting on Ron’s remarks as a way of embarrassing then-candidate Rand Paul.

Now you’d think secession would be a question we could discuss rationally, the way we discuss anything else. The American Union is obviously just a utilitarian arrangement, to be judged by how well it works, and not sacred and unchangeable. (Why on Earth would it be? Does the Union exist for the people, or the people for the Union?)

Of course, we’re not allowed to have this conversation. Why, neither Mitt Romney nor Barack Obama thinks it’s a reasonable question, so that does it, citizen!

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Why can’t we dissolve the Union?

Allow CA to do a @calexit. And, everyone else that wants out to get free.

Worked for the USSR.

Argh!

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ECONOMICS: Never thought of a cargo ship that way

Tuesday, April 17, 2018

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2018/04/whos-we.html

SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 2018
Who’s the “We”?
Donald J. Boudreaux

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You’ll say that the “we” is Americans – to which I say that our capacity as Americans to make all these marvels has emphatically not been dismantled.  We do make them, sometimes directly and other times in a roundabout way.  But always we make them.  As the economist David Friedman points out, we Americans have an ingenious machine for transforming the corn that we grow in Iowa into automobiles that we drive.  That machine is called a “cargo ship.”  Into the ship we put corn and, a few days later, out of the ship comes automobiles.  We make cars by making corn.  This production process is akin to every other production process: mix various inputs together to produce something different and greater than the sum of its parts.

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Now that’s an insight.

And the Gooferment should get out of the way of “we” filling up the outbound ships with “stuff”!

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FUN: A “trash panda” makes fools of Gooferment bureaucrats and their “raccoon proof” trash can

Monday, April 16, 2018

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5611463/Rascal-raccoon-figures-open-secure-bin-hilarious-footage.html

Trash panda strikes! Brazen bandit figures out how to open ‘raccoon proof’ trash can in seconds in hilarious footage

  • Toronto householder Graeme Boyce spotted the brazen daylight break-in
  • The animal forced its way in to the ‘raccoon-proof’ trash can in 30 seconds 
  • They were introduced in 2015, touted at the time as being totally critter proof
  • But the animal in the video dispelled that claim with consumate ease 

By Alastair Tancred For Mailonline

PUBLISHED: 05:32 EDT, 13 April 2018 | UPDATED: 08:41 EDT, 13 April 2018

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This is pretty funny. 30 seconds to dispose of the barrier?

Link when they mandated “bear proof trashcan” in North Jersey. The bears just threw the cans at the conveniently located garage doors; splitting the cans open and damaging the garage door. Then they proceeded down the street and doing it at every house. Nothing like having an annoyed hungry bear in the neighborhood.

When will people learn that wildlife will find a way to survive. And, we’d best not get in their way.

This video made me laff at the arrogance of humans.

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GUNS: Without them, it’s all about size and strength

Sunday, April 15, 2018

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5612133/Horrific-moment-female-worker.html

Horrific moment female worker is pinned to the floor by knife-wielding ‘rapist’ before a ‘guardian angel’ bursts in to save her

  • Man spotted a woman being attacked in a shop in Krasnoyarsk, Russia
  • Seeing ‘an attempted rape’ by another man with a knife, he intervened
  • CCTV caught the moment  the attack took place, and when it was stopped

By Will Stewart In Moscow for MailOnline

PUBLISHED: 09:25 EDT, 13 April 2018 | UPDATED: 09:49 EDT, 13 April 2018

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A Russian man has been hailed as a hero after saving a female shopworker from an armed man who was ‘attempting to rape her’. 

Alexander Vysotsky was walking past a shop in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, when he saw a young female clerk being attacked by a man, and dashed in to pull him off her, and held him down until police came.

The horrific attack was caught on CCTV and shows the woman, known only as Ekaterina, 28, suddenly attacked by a man with a knife in the shop.

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

I think the RKBA is a “woman’s issue” or a “senior citizen’s issue” or a “gay right’s issue” or even a “bully’s victim’s issue”.

We need to “even the playing field” from the thugs and criminals. Make them guess. 

As wrote more than a decade ago:

“I particularly like unlimited concealed carry. If the criminal regards the general public as sheep to be shorn, then let’s sprinkle in a few “sheepdogs” with big teeth in the flock.

Guess which gay to bash? Buzz, wrong, you picked a Pink Pistol and you’re dead!

Guess which woman to bash? Buzz, wrong, you picked a Paxton Quigly and you’re dead!

Guess which brown person to bash? Buzz, wrong, you picked a Massad Ayoob and you’re dead!”

https://reinkefaceslife.com/2006/11/02/guns-lets-sprinkle-in-a-few-sheepdogs-with-big-teeth-in-the-flock/
GUNS: Let’s sprinkle in a few “sheepdogs” with big teeth in the flock
Thursday, November 2nd, 2006 at 20:26

“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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FITBIT: Versa?

Saturday, April 14, 2018

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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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Gooferment Skrules don’t teach history

Saturday, April 14, 2018

https://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, 2018

http://www.theoccultmuseum.com/8-insanely-mysterious-photos-never-explained/

1. Babushka Lady

Babuska lady 2018 04Apr 11
[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, 2018

https://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, 2018

https://patch.com/new-jersey/southbrunswick/s/ge8s8/east-brunswick-public-library-forgives-all-late-fines-for-kids

East 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, 2018

I 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, 2018

https://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, 2018

https://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, 2018

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5585351/What-Mark-Zuckerberg-hiding-Facebook-secretly-deleted-founders-private-messages.html

What 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, 2018

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2018/04/james-bovard/after-the-fbis-pulse-nightclub-failure-why-should-we-trust-james-comey-anymore/

After 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, 2018

https://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, 2018

https://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, 2018

http://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, 2018

http://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, 2018

https://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, 2018

https://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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https://www.thelocal.fr/20180322/french-motorist-gets-jail-time-for-giving-the-finger-to-speed-cameras

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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Laugh!

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