“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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INSPIRATIONAL: Why was MLK assassinated?
Monday, January 15, 2018https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-15/ron-paul-who-killed-martin-luther-king-and-why
Ron Paul: “Who Killed Martin Luther King… And Why?”
by Tyler Durden
Mon, 01/15/2018 – 15:45
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Martin Luther King, Jr.’s own closest advisors begged him to avoid focusing on the Vietnam war.
It will alienate President Johnson, who is doing so much for the civil rights movement at home, they argued.
As Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams discuss below, MLK ignored his advisors, vocally opposed the war, and found much of the liberal establishment had turned on him (having applauded his work on civil rights in the US).
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I never connected this set of dots.
Argh!
I loved the “content versus color” spirit.
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INTERESTING: “Women are chimeras”? A unique new viewpoint
Monday, January 15, 2018https://aeon.co/essays/microchimerism-how-pregnancy-changes-the-mothers-very-dna
We are multitudes
Women are chimeras, with genetic material from both their parents and children. Where does that leave individual identity?
Katherine Rowland is a journalist. Her work has appeared in Nature, the Financial Times, the Independent, OnEarth and other publications. She is the publisher and director of Guernicamagazine, and lives in New York City.
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When Lee Nelson first began researching autoimmune disorders in the 1980s, the prevailing assumption was that conditions such as arthritis and lupus tend to show up more commonly in women because they are linked to female sex hormones. But to Nelson, a rheumatologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, this explanation did not make sense. If hormones were the culprit, one would expect these afflictions to peak during a woman’s prime reproductive years, when instead they typically appear later in life.
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The self emerging from microchimeric research appears to be of a different order: porous, unbounded, rendered constituently. Nelson suggests that each human being is not so much an isolated island as a dynamic ecosystem. And if this is the case, the question follows as to how this state of collectivity changes our conscious and unconscious motivations. If I am both my children and my mother, if I carry traces of my sibling and remnants of pregnancies that never resulted in birth, does that change who I am and the way I behave in the world? If we are to take to heart Whitman’s multitudes, we encounter an I composed of shared identity, collective affiliations and motivations that emerge not from a mean and solitary struggle, but a group investment in greater survival.
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I found this to be stunning and paradigm shifting.
How do you make sense of all these factoids?
Not sure what to make of all this.
Very confusing!
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FUN: Is it me?
Sunday, January 14, 2018
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FINANCIAL: “Social (In) Security” Trust Fund reserves become depleted in 2035″
Sunday, January 14, 2018Social Security Proposes “Immediate And Permanent Reduction” In Benefits
by Tyler Durden
Tue, 01/09/2018 – 16:47
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Literally tens of millions of people depend on it.
The Social Security Administration itself reports that 62% of recipients rely on the program for at least HALF of their income.
And further research by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) shows that, without Social Security, 22.1 million Americans would fall below the poverty line.
Needless to say, major cuts to the program would have nuclear effects.
And yet, year after year, the Social Security Board of Trustees publishes an annual report that describes the program’s terminal financial challenges in excruciating detail.They mince no words in plainly stating that Social Security pays out far too much money, and takes in far too little.
According to the 2017 Trustees report, “Trust Fund reserves become depleted in 2035.”
They’re practically giving us a date that we can circle on a calendar and mark “End of Social Security.”
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Unfortunately, all the politicians and bureaucrats that stole and spent it will be all dead and out of sight!
And there will be a lot of unhappy “Sheeple” look to hang someone out to dry.
Not sure, how it will be resolved. But it’s going to be dangerous and “unpleasant”.
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POLITICAL: We need DJT45 to remove AG Jeff Sessions for terminal stupidity
Saturday, January 13, 2018Your letter was sent to: President Donald Trump (R)
The campaign used to send this message can be found here: https://downsizedc.org/ sessions-marijuana-policy/
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Subject: 8 reasons you should reverse Jeff Sessions’ marijuana policy.
Reversing Jeff Sessions’ marijuana policy will benefit your administration in multiple ways.
Here are the 8 points…
#1: This will hurt you next election. The American people increasingly favor marijuana legalization.
#2: You’ve been achieving great things with de-regulation. This policy goes in the opposite direction. In fact…
#3: It will hurt economic growth. Even the stock market has embraced the marijuana industry. Don’t cause market uncertainty.
#4: This policy will also harm your promise to reduce crime. It will reinvigorate the black market and refill our prisons.
#5: There are too many laws to enforce. Government should focus and prioritize. Enforcing federal marijuana laws is a distraction.
#6: Republicans are supposed to favor federalism. States should made these decisions, per the Tenth Amendment. This policy harms that federalism.
#7: You promised during your campaign to respect the decisions made about marijuana in the states.
#8: Reversing an underling’s mistake will show the American people that you are both prudent and in charge.
Sincerely,
ferdinand reinke
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End the “(pseudo) War on (some) Drugs” now. Focus resources on treatment; not punishment.
The Gooferment can’t keep drugs out of its prisons! How can they keep them out of a free society.
Portugal is a shining example of how to do it.
AND, by ending the “drug war”, what will all the illegal drug gangs do? Stop shooting everything in sight in turf wars. Pepsi and Coke driver don’t shoot it out for shelf space.
I trust that WalMart, Walgreens, RiteAid, CVS, and others will do a far better job delivering “clean” and “safe” drugs to those who want them while keeping treatment options front and center.
Prohibition ended because “We, The Sheeple” refuse to convict. The same should happen now.
Don’t let the politicians and bureaucrats keep killing addicts with a policy that is immoral, ineffective, and inefficient.
Send your thoughts to your representatives now!
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RANT: Disband the Federal Gooferment’s “private armies”
Friday, January 12, 2018The FBI has become, along with other “deep state”agencies like the IRS, a political Praetorian Guard. I have read the constitution and find no authority for the Federal Gooferment to have this, and many other, private armies. DJT45, who for the wrong reasons, may be correct to disband the FBI. Let the States do their job of “police work”.
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RANT: Twitter is evil
Thursday, January 11, 2018I recommend: UNDERCOVER VIDEO: Twitter Engineers To “Ban a Way of Talking” Through “Shadow Banning,” Algorithms to Censor Opposing Political Opinions https://www.projectveritas.com/2018/01/11/undercover-video-twitter-engineers-to-ban-a-way-of-talking-through-shadow-banning-algorithms-to-censor-opposing-political-opinions/ by @Project_Veritas
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RANT: I guess we are doomed?
Thursday, January 11, 2018
The Editors’ Quote of the Day:
By Hugh James Latimer | January 5, 2018 |
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A public that can no longer distinguish between truth and fiction is left to interpret reality through illusion. Random facts or obscure bits of data and trivia are used to bolster illusion and give it credibility or are discarded if they interfere with the message. The worse reality becomes—the more, for example, foreclosures and unemployment skyrocket—the more people seek refuge and comfort in illusions. When opinions cannot be distinguished from facts, when there is no universal standard to determine truth in law, in science, in scholarship, or in reporting the events of the day, when the most valued skill is the ability to entertain, the world becomes a place where lies become true, where people can believe what they want to believe. This is the real danger of pseudo-events and why pseudo-events are far more pernicious than stereotypes. They do not explain reality, as stereotypes attempt to, but replace reality. Pseudo-events redefine reality by the parameters set by their creators. These creators, who make massive profits peddling these illusions, have a vested interest in maintaining the power structures they control. – From: Chris Hedges “Empire of Illusion”
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Like the lemmings that follow the leader over the cliff to their death.
We need to rid our society of these Judas goats who are leading us.
Argh!
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POLITICAL: Interesting switch — switch income tax to payroll tax?
Wednesday, January 10, 2018http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2018/01/screwing-trump-ny-may-scrap-its-income.html
FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 2018
Screwing Trump: NY May Scrap Its Income Tax for a Payroll Tax
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The state of New York may end its income tax and instead expand its payroll tax as a way to outmaneuver the new federal law that limits deductions for state and local taxes, according to WGRZ.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday during his State of the State address that he is exploring how to make the switch. California and New Jersey leaders have also discussed similar steps and other alternatives.
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Good for retirees and pensioners?
I love when levels of Gooferment fight each other.
Hopefully “We, The Sheeple” will wake up and see how they are being robbed.
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SECESSION: Is there an automatic right to secession?
Tuesday, January 9, 2018https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jan/4/jeff-sessions-ramp-federal-enforcement-marijuana-l/
Billion-dollar pot industry is dazed and confused by Justice Department’s reversal
By Jeff Mordock – The Washington Times – Thursday, January 4, 2018
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions moved Thursday to revoke the Obama-era see-no-evil policy on federal enforcement of marijuana laws, announcing that federal law enforcement will no longer look the other way even in states that have legalized use of the drug.
The decision doesn’t change the state policies, but it does give U.S. attorneys the freedom to decide how strongly to enforce federal law that classifies marijuana as an illegal substance.
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Does this give California a clear reason to leave “These United States of America”?
While everyone would like to think that “secession” was “settled” by the War Of Northern Aggression, it wasn’t. Like the demise of the Soviet Union, it really doesn’t matter what the “central authority” wants. Collapse occurs.
There is an internationally recognized to “self-determination”. Does that de facto entail an automatic right to secession?
Certainly seems to, to me.
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Women don’t need Gooferment “protection”
Monday, January 8, 2018http://keywestlou.com/george-bernard-shaws-caesar-and-cleopatra
A blog post from Petrone, Louis S. “Key West Lou” (MC1957)
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You have to admire Iceland. They are always a step ahead.
Following the bank debacle of 2008, they prosecuted and jailed bankers. Those at the top. Something I have been recommending for years we do in the U.S.
They elect women big time. Almost 50 percent of their Parliament is female. They elected a woman Prime Minister in November.
Iceland recently passed a law that allows companies who pay women less than men to be punished. Fined. No jail. A step forward, however.
Equal pay laws have no teeth. They tell the companies females must be paid equal to men. Enforcement lacking. Iceland recognized the problem and moved the step ahead.
It is generally acknowledged the law would not have come into being were it not for the large number of women in Parliament.
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Equal pay laws are a joke.
The invisible hand of the free market will quickly, efficiently, and effectively punish companies that underpay women. It’s only logical. If a business systematically underpays anyone, they will leave for someone who will pay them what they are worth.
That brain drain will hurt in numerous ways — cost of replacement, poor morale, loss of competitive advantage, bad image, impaired reputation.
The Gooferment probably is the worst offender in this regard. Politicians and bureaucrats routinely are exposed for pay disparities, but they always seem to spin their way out of it. Women don’t need “protection” and especially not from the Gooferment! Those “gals” are pretty tough imho.
Now if we could just end Gooferment Skrules, then both the girls and boys would not be brainwashed to think like serfs. Argh!
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RANT: End welfare if you love the poor
Sunday, January 7, 2018FROM AN EMAIL EXCHANGE
http://ncc-1776.org/tle2017/tle954-20171231-02.html
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Which brings me to my principal reason for opposing open immigration. Everywhere these newcomers go, encouraged by the likes of the politicians I have named, they change the culture, rather than become a part of it. I’m not entirely opposed to new elements of culture, and not every Mexican or South American is a robber or a rapist or a violent drug dealer, it’s true, but enough are to endanger the cultural home that our ancestors made for us, and damn few believe in the Constitution or the Rule of Law. Not every immigrant from the Middle East is a jihadist, but too many bring with them the unconstitutional mindset of Sharia Law, “honor” killings, death to homosexuals, and so forth. I have come to like the culture I live in, and the values it promotes. I don’t want to see it changed, especially to accommodate hostile strangers
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Two choices offered — build a wall OR end welfare — neither is very good but that’s all we are left with.
Argh!
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Wait a minute….they’re both bad? Do you agree with the guy that says there shouldn’t be a wall at all, that it’s infringing on people’s liberties? Just use a smidgen of your imagination, to envision our country without a wall. We’ve had a small taste of it already with the wall not being complete nor totally effective, and you like those results? Like I say, just imagine with even less control on the border, it would end life in America as we have known it. And none of us would like it.
As for “ending” welfare, that is not bad….it depends on what you mean by “ending” it? To me, ending welfare means stopping women from walking in with 14 children behind them that they recruited from the neighborhood to claim as their own, and ripping us off. At one point in NYC, there were more children on the welfare rolls than there were in the recorded child population levels! I think the solution for welfare and healthcare is really quite simple. First, you take the government out of the healthcare business with one exception…..you create a fund that is used in extreme cases where people are sick and need care that have no other means to help themselves. They have to “apply” for support, and a board reviews their request for approval…case by case basis. For the rest of us, we shop healthcare from the various healthcare providers and select the best plan for us. Initially it would be difficult for many, but like the great free enterprise system over time the cream would rise to the top, competition would create great healthcare solutions at affordable prices. The corrupt, cheaters, non-skilled, etc etc would be uncovered and run out of business.
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AND I CONCLUDED:
My concern with the “wall” is I remember the Berlin Wall. That which prevents ingress can also prevent egress. I don’t trust the Gooferment remember.
My concern with “welfare” is that I remember the destruction of the black family due to “welfare rules” about the father living at home. I don’t trust the Gooferment remember.
To elaborate on welfare, the Gooferment can’t “do charity” morally (i.e., it has to steal wealth from victims to redistribute), efficiently (i.e., the administrative costs are worse than any of the corrupt Big Charities), or effectively (i.e., I’ve been told and show evidence that the Gooferment perversely does NOT want people to get off welfare).
Not that I am NOT just against fraud and abuse but the whole concept. It’s a killer. Being poor should be painful to get folks to save themselves from the Gooferment “plantation”. TO be effective, and efficient, charity must be private and personal. (IMHO) I formed this opinion years ago from http://www.acton.org/public-policy/effective-compassion/seven-principles-century-ago which really struck a chord.
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And, from what I have seen, Gooferment “welfare” gives you enough to starve. Argh!
Your comments are welcome if you can change my mind.
p.s, yelling or name calling is unlikely to do that.
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Taxing Hospitals? Stupid is as stupid does!
Saturday, January 6, 2018FROM BEHIND THE WSJ PAYWALL
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Why Tax Hospitals?
It’s a Medicaid Shell GameProviders pay the state. The state pays providers, then collects matching funds from Uncle Sam.
By Red JahnckeDec. 29, 2017 5:22 p.m. ET
When Connecticut faced a budget shortfall of $2.2 billion, or 11%, this year, it helped close the gap by almost doubling its tax on hospitals, to $900 million. Taxing hospitals sounds strange, especially since most are nonprofits. It also would seem to increase their costs and, thus, the cost of care—much of which, thanks to Medicaid, is borne by the state that levies the tax.
Yet 42 states tax hospitals. Why? One answer is the perverse incentives built into the Medicaid law. When a state returns tax money to hospitals through Medicaid “supplemental payments,” it qualifies for matching funds from Washington.
Connecticut hospitals will pay $900 million in taxes, but the state will offset that with $600 million in supplemental Medicaid payments—matched with $450 million of federal funds. The state keeps those matching funds, plus the $300 million from the hospital tax, meaning Hartford comes out ahead in the whole scheme by $750 million. Nice work if you can get it.
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Oh come on. Hope DJT45 shuts this stupidity down immediately.
When you consider all the costs of “handling” this money from one Gooferment pocket to another, the Taxpayers are really getting screwed.
By “handling” I mean, the “loss” at each level of Gooferment that passes Taxpayer money to another level of Gooferment. I’ve seen calculations that estimate it at 50%. So a CT Taxpayer sends the “Federal” Gooferment a dollar, from which then the “Federal” Gooferment send the “Connecticut” Gooferment fifty cents. The CT Taxpayer would be better off just allowing the “Connecticut” Gooferment to steal the fifty cents directly. Argh!
Why can’t “We, The Sheeple” see that?
Argh!
So if the “Connecticut” Gooferment steals 450M$ from the “Federal” Gooferment, then the “Federal” Gooferment has to steal 900M$ from everyone paying taxes. Mutliply that by 50 States and who knows what else and that’s a lot of <synonym for the act of procreation in real time> money.
Argh!
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RANT: I love all Heinlein’s work!!!!
Friday, January 5, 2018http://ncc-1776.org/tle2017/tle952-20171210-02.html
It’s Time For a City On the Moon by L. Neil Smith lneil@netzero.com
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In his wonderful, life-changing novel that he called The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, the late, great science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein (he also wrote Stranger in a Strange Land and The Puppet Masters) demonstrated the vital importance to national security (or just good old-fashioned peace, freedom, and prosperity) of an established American presence on the Moon. In that book, he had a culture of lovable convicts and exiles declare their independence by electrically launching boxcar-sized boulders at Earth, creating purely kinetic impacts that rivaled nuclear explosions in power. I’m not usually one to go looking for international trouble, but for the sake of our health and safety, if nothing else, consider: if those who conceive themselves to be America’s enemies have a monopoly on Lunar colonies, it could be a disaster. Just sing Randy Newman’s “Let’s Drop The Big One Now” to yourself under your breath and substitute Los Angeles and Chicago for London and Paris.
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Let’s call it Heinlein City, okay?
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What tremendous idea!
Let’s start a social media Indigo to make it happen.
I’m in.
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HEALTH: A salad a day keeps dementia away?
Thursday, January 4, 2018EATING SALAD EVERY DAY KEEPS BRAINS 11 YEARS YOUNGER AND PREVENTS DEMENTIA, STUDY SHOWS
BY MELISSA MATTHEWS ON 12/20/17 AT 4:33 PM
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The study included 960 people, all between 58 and 99 years old and all without dementia. Everyone enrolled in the study was part of the Memory and Aging Project, which has been ongoing since 1979 at the Knight Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at Washington University. As part of their involvement in that project, participants completed questionnaires about their dietary habits over the course of nearly five years. Questions included assessments of how often people consumed spinach, salad, and kale, collards, or other greens. Participants also took yearly thinking and memory skill tests to gauge cognitive ability.
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That’s a prescription that’s easy to follow. Cheap insurance. And if their wrong, no side effects! My kind of medicine.
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TECHNOLOGY: iPhones slow down after a year
Wednesday, January 3, 2018iPhones start slowing down after a year of use, and that’s way too soon
By Jacob Kastrenakes Dec 20, 2017, 5:15pm EST
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But the big conspiracy has been that Apple intentionally slows down your phone every time a new one comes out, a subtle way of encouraging you to buy it. And now we know that it’s true on some level, even if you take Apple’s word and see this as about preservation and not a sales tactic, since the software update that comes out alongside every phone seems to be what introduces the throttling. Here’s how Apple puts it in its statement describing what’s going on: “Our goal is to deliver the best experience for customers, which includes overall performance and prolonging the life of their devices.”
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And, this — planned obsolesence — why I am leaving the Apple family for Android and Chromebook.
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GOVERNACIDE: Politicians ribbon-cutting opportunities cost people’s lives and Taxpayers’ wealth
Tuesday, January 2, 2018https://www.cato.org/blog/questions-ask-about-amtrak-501
DECEMBER 20, 2017 9:21AM
Questions to Ask About Amtrak 501
By RANDAL O’TOOLE
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The wreck of the 501–the Amtrak train that crashed near Seattle on Monday–is raising lots of questions about Amtrak operations, but they aren’t always the right ones. Here are some questions that should be asked and some of my preliminary answers. Answers from Amtrak (the operator), FRA (the funder), Sound Transit (the track owner), or WSDOT (the train owner) may differ.
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2. Around 800 people die in railroad accidents a year. PTC would prevent only about 1 percent of these fatalities; far more would be saved by spending the same amount of money on better grade crossings and fencing of rail rights of way. Why do we put so much emphasis on an expensive technology that will do so little?
Answer: Accidents that PTC could have prevented tend to be more spectacular than people getting killed when a train hits their car at a grade crossing. This suggests that, when politicians decide where private businesses spend their money, it’ll get spent on grandiose programs rather than things that could really make a difference.
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5. Why do so many reporters call this a high-speed train? The top speed between Portland and Seattle is 79 mph, the same as it has always been and the same as most other Amtrak routes. In technical terms, this was a conventional, low-speed train.
Answer: Though this was a low-speed train, it was funded by Obama’s high-speed rail fund. By repeatedly using the term “high-speed trains,” reporters are keeping that idea in the public consciousness, perhaps in the hopes that Trump’s infrastructure plan will include money for more such trains. (This could backfire, however, by making people think that high-speed trains are more dangerous. They aren’t–but they are a lot more expensive.)
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Question: So are all trains obsolete?
Answer: No, only passenger trains are obsolete. Freight trains are extremely productive, and America has the finest, most advanced rail system in the world. That’s because it is mostly private and operates to produce profits, not to give politicians ribbon-cutting opportunities.
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So the answer is that politicians and bureaucrats, their egos, cause the waste of Taxpayers’ wealth on their egos.
Argh!
Happy New Year; new year same as the old year.
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INOVATION: Happy “Underwear Day”?
Monday, January 1, 2018http://www.commanderzero.com/?p=4648
Underwear Day
Posted on December 16, 2017
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It’s not exactly a holiday, but today was Underwear
Day. Every two years or so I throw out all my socks, all my underwear, and most of my t-shirts, and start over.
Three dozen socks (all matching), three dozen boxer briefs, and three dozen black t-shirts. One pass through Costco and I’m pretty much done for the next two years.
Are some socks still good after two years? Some, not many. My rather oversize feet tend to wear socks and shoes out pretty quickly.
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So…every two years I scrap the whole thing and start over. One benefit to this policy is that I don’t have to match socks. In fact, if I get a hole in one sock I can toss it, keep the good one, and just mix it in with the others….they’re all identical.
It’s a very guy way to buy clothes.
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What a great idea!
If I wasn’t so “thrifty”, I could throw out stuff that was not EOL! (That “end of life” for my one Luddite reader.)
I do like the no matching. I have a pile of “orphans”.
Maybe if I was thin, young, and handsome (again), then I could do it.
Wonder how he handles it when you need brown socks for your “brown” outfits?
Hmmmm, maybe that’s the draw back.
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Slower than driving? Slower than flying? Why are the Taxpayers subsidizing this?
Sunday, December 31, 2017https://www.cato.org/blog/horrible-way-be-right
DECEMBER 18, 2017 3:50PM
A Horrible Way to Be Right
By RANDAL O’TOOLE
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No matter what speed, intercity passenger trains are obsolete and have been at least since the advent of jet airliner service. Even after hundreds of millions spent on improvements, this particular train would have been slower than driving from Seattle to Portland, but even the fastest high-speed trains are slower than flying.
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I really am tired of politicians and bureaucrats deciding how to waste Taxpayer money on feel good projects!
At some point in time, “We, The Sheeple” need to say “enuf’s enuf”.
There’s no need for these boondoggles and at least 6 people paid the ultimate price for this stupidity.
Argh!
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TINFOILHAT: Las Vegas Massacre Questions
Saturday, December 30, 2017New Video: Three Las Vegas Massacre Witnesses Come Forth And Spill The Beans
http://www.thedailysheeple.com/new-video-three-las-vegas-massacre-witnesses-come-forth-and-spill-the-beans_122017
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Additionally, the man confirmed that the FBI was “erasing” evidence from peoples phones and even pointed out that he thinks Stephen Paddock is likely a patsy.
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Argh!
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INTERESTING: Peak NFL?
Friday, December 29, 2017http://www.oftwominds.com/blogdec17/peak-NFL12-17.html
Have We Reached Peak NFL?
December 15, 2017
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To summarize:
1. The NFL has saturated the potential audience to the point of exhaustion.
2. The potential audience is shrinking as student-loan-burdened Millennials have collectively little interest in spending the money or time required to be a rabid fan of pro football.
3. The cost of attending an NFL game is increasingly out of reach of the bottom 95% of households.
4. TV viewership is declining across the entire demographic spectrum.
5. The wages/income of the vast majority of the TV audience has stagnated, and 95% of the populace has less disposable income than a generation ago.
6. The top 5% with the majority of the disposable income are not big pro sports fans, mostly due to the many demands on their time and the diversity of other pursuits available to them.
How will the owners and managers of the multi-billion-dollar NFL empire handle the league’s decline phase? Managing the decline phase is less fun than reveling in the expansion phase.
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Was it the interjection of politics or perhaps finding out that the taxpayers were paying for the NFL’s patriotism?
Perhaps, it’s just its time has past.
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TINFOILHAT: FBI LOST the fingerprints taken from rifle that killed JFK
Thursday, December 28, 2017http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5190201/How-FBI-LOST-fingerprints-JFK-assassins-rifle.html
How the FBI LOST the fingerprints taken from rifle that killed JFK fifteen years after the president was assassinated, new files reveal
- Latest files show scramble to find original fingerprint lifts on JFK assassin’s gun
- FBI unit chief says tracking down the lifts would be a ‘mammoth research effort’
- Dallas Police took the prints, but say they never received them back from FBI
- The gun was found on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository
- The date for the release of the sealed files was decided in October 1992
By Amanda Cashmore For Mailonline
PUBLISHED: 04:57 EST, 18 December 2017 | UPDATED: 06:11 EST, 18 December 2017
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The FBI lost fingerprints taken from the rifle agents found in the Texas School Book Depository after the president was assassinated in Dallas, new files have revealed.
At the time of the investigation in 1963, agents and outside experts concluded that a palm print taken from the barrel off the rifle belonged to Lee Harvey Oswald.
But 15 years later in July 1978, the agency revealed that the fingerprints had gone missing in their vast archives.
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All very convenient.
“Move along, people. Nothing to see here. Go home, you looky-loos.” Officer Barbrady’s Catch Phrase South Park
Sorry but the FBI is either corrupt or complicit.
Either way time for it to go.
Argh!
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POLITICAL: A stunning assertion, which if true ,needs some exposure
Wednesday, December 27, 2017The Obama administration ‘SABOTAGED a DEA operation to stop Hezbollah smuggling drugs into the US and helped the militant group grow into a global threat so the Iran nuke deal would go ahead’
- Ex-President’s officials accused of opening a door for traffickers and launderers
- DEA led a complex operation called Project Cassandra to bring down militants
- Claimed Obama’s people threw down a number of roadblocks, hindering agents
- As the Iran nuclear deal neared its agreement, the harder it became for the DEA
- By Gareth Davies For Mailonline
- PUBLISHED: 05:54 EST, 18 December 2017 | UPDATED: 11:21 EST, 18 December 2017
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Let’s see if there is any follow up on this story. I’m sure there will be no consequences. Argh!
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TECHNOLOGY: ICOs are probably not deserving of SEC regulation; caveat emptor
Tuesday, December 26, 2017https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/17/ico-lateral-damage/
ICO-lateral damage
Posted 5 hours ago by Jon Evans (@rezendi), Columnist
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The ICO regulators are here, and they’re carrying big sticks.
“Coins or other digital assets issued on a blockchain may be securities under the federal securities laws… tokens were securities as defined by Section 2(a)(1) of the Securities Act because they were investment contracts … An investment contract is an investment of money in a common enterprise with a reasonable expectation of profits to be derived from the entrepreneurial or managerial efforts of others.”
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Laissez-faire is an economic system in which transactions between private parties are free from intrusive government restrictions, tariffs, and subsidies, with only enough regulations to protect property rights.
We don’t need the Gooferment to “protect” us.
Their only interest is to protect their established interests.
Crypto-currencies do represent a huge threat to the fiat currencies that enable the Federal Reserve System — — The Federal Reserve Bank is a misnomer. IT ain’t “federal”. It reserves nothing. And, it ain’t a “bank”. It is a private cartel of the elite banks run for their benefit and that of the entrenched politicians. — — to fund the welfare / warfare state.
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INSPIRATIONAL: Why we need “our” “female Human Resources”
Monday, December 25, 2017The quiet hero of ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ (Hint: It’s NOT Jimmy Stewart)
By Paul J. Batura| Fox News
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As we approach the 71st anniversary of Frank Capra’s perennial Christmas classic “It’s A Wonderful Life,” I think it’s time to reexamine the film’s heroes. The result might surprise you.
As a child, I assumed the hero was Jimmy Stewart’s wholesome hometown character, George Bailey. The American Film Institute agreed, listing George as the ninth greatest screen hero of all time. After all, the whole point of the movie is to show us what life in Bedford Falls would be like without George.
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Here’s a lesson about why we need “our” “female Human Resources”. (And, we should thank all the countries of the world who keep “their” females barefoot, pregnant, and uneducated.)
While my personal “Christmas hero” is pre-transformation old Ebenezer — who gets a bum rap imho, I can certainly make room for a heroine as #2.
Dona Nobis Pacem
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