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Can’t depend upon anything staying around.
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State Dept. Redacts Big Chunks of $22.8 Mil Contract to Resettle Muslim Refugees
MAY 23, 2017
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This has become a heated issue for the government which may explain why other agencies aren’t as forthcoming in providing specific figures, thus abusing the (b)(4) exemption. The State Department, for instance, redacted huge portions of records involving contracts with VOLAGs to resettle refugees from mostly Muslim countries. The files illustrate the disparate redaction treatment given by different government agencies to the same types of records. The State Department paid a VOLAG called United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) a ghastly $22,838,173 in one year to resettle refugees that came mostly from Muslim countries. Unlike HHS, the agency redacted information related to what the USCCB charged the government for things like furniture, personnel, equipment and other costs associated with contracts to resettle refugees. Why did one government agency hand over the same types of records that another agency claims are trade secrets? Judicial Watch is challenging the State Department’s (b)(4) exemption and will provide updates as they become available.
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Argh!
What happened to the “Separation of Church and State”?
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Terror at the Concert
At least 22 people, including children, were killed and 59 wounded by a suicide bomber at a concert hall in Manchester, England, on Monday night. Just after American pop singer Ariana Grande finished a show at the 21,000-seat Manchester Arena, a loud explosion outside sent screaming fans, many of them young girls, fleeing. The blast took place near the box office, the Greater Manchester Police said, and on Tuesday authorities said they believed they knew the identify of the bomber and were seeking to determine whether he had acted alone or was part of a broader terror network. World leaders including President Trump issued condemnations, and national campaigning for Britain’s June 8 general election was suspended. It was the U.K.’s second terror attack this year and deadliest since 2005.
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A special place in hell for those that make war on children … …
… … and that includes “I think this is a very hard choice, but the price–we think the price is worth it.” — Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on 60 Minutes (5/12/96)
This is a sad statement on the ethics of human conduct.
Makes me sad. Makes me sick. Makes me especially mad at … …
… … the Gooferments with their politicians and bureaucrats, who support this type of “war”.
Argh!
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theCHIVE.com, Austin, TX
“Making the world 10% happier”
NOMINATED BY DAVID WELCH
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Taylor Morris came back from war severely injured. After recovery, theCHIVE community helped raise enough money to help him build his dream cabin in the woods.
While the internet can be an echo chamber of negativity, cyber-bullying and mean-spirited trolls, there is one online refuge where sincerity and good-natured humor shine through. theCHIVE.com started as a photoblog in 2008 and in less than a decade has gone from a simple website to a global movement of goodwill.
Founded by two brothers from Indiana, John and Leo Resig, theCHIVE was created to make folks laugh without snark or ridicule. Photo galleries comprised of hilarious cats and adorable kids, feel-good features meant to inspire, heartwarming stories of people helping others and personal tales of triumph over adversary, theCHIVE’s content brings the best of humanity to the forefront, all to make the world 10% happier.
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Tell me again that how without the Gooferment there’s be no charity!
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2017-May-22
Ferdinand J. Reinke:
Thank you for submitting the Mitchel Square Washington Heights-Inwood War Memorial to memorials for our website! Much appreciated.
Once our Judge Advocate has approved it, we will be able to publish it on our website. Thank you.
Julie Campbell
The American Legion
317-630-1298
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Hard to believe that there’s no inventory of Veterans’ Memorials.
[TIP ‘o’ the HAT to: Steve T for the lead]
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FROM A FACEBOOK DISCUSSION WITH A RELATIVE
(who’s both a hard left Democrat and a Gooferment employee)
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Aside from the fiscal death cliff of that would destroy the state from within, your guy Scalia threw water on this . “If there was any constitutional issue resolved by the Civil War, it is that there is no right to secede,” wrote Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in 2010.
Other than fringe libertarians there are no legal conversation that supports a states right to secede.
Don’t let states fool you- they depend on the federal government for their existence. All the noise about states being independent of the federal government is a game played by republican governors and legislators.
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Well, I’m sure if you look at the USSR documents, their collapse wasn’t covered either.
“Right to secede”? Hmmm, interesting concept.
All peoples have the right to self-determination. … All peoples have the right to self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development.
Jul 19, 2006
UNPO: Self-determination
http://www.unpo.org/article/4957
The UN says I do.
The question becomes that when NH secedes, will the Federal Gooferment roll tanks on us?
Personally, I don’t care if they do or don’t . If they do, then the fraud of a peaceful benevolent Union is unmasked. If they don’t, we’re free of the tyranny of the “District of Corruption”. Either was, liberty wins.
p.s., The Tenth Amendment to the Constitution reserves all the unstated rights to The States or to The People. Since the “Right to Secede” is UNSTATED, then I must have it.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/us/puerto-rico-statehood.html?_r=0
A New Push to Become the 51st State in an Ailing Puerto Rico
By RICHARD FAUSSET
MAY 16, 2017
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SAN JUAN, P.R. — It is a proudly Spanish-speaking territory at a time when the White House has taken down the Spanish version of its website. It is as materially poor as it is culturally rich. And Puerto Rico has entered a new and exotic version of bankruptcy, facing a staggering $123 billion in debt and pension obligations.
In short, it is difficult to imagine a worse time for governing-party officials in this struggling Caribbean commonwealth to persuade Washington it is ready to become the 51st American state.
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It’s funny when other groups are seeking the exit, this “state” wants to join.
Could it be for the perceived largess?
In that case, why would “We, The Sheeple” want them in the “club”.
And, if they had any “national aspirations”, then why would they take them into “the Le Brea Tar Pits” of this “union”, or any union.
“I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON’T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.” — Groucho Marx
If anything, spin them off into their own country with our apologies for bothering them all these years.
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The Red Pill Protests
Sargon of Akkad Sargon of Akkad
https://youtu.be/iI6wExvChaA?t=28m34s
“Raving about Donald Trump on an Australian University”.
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The world’s youth have been brainwashed and gone mad.
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California DOJ files new ‘assault weapon’ regs, not available to the public
5/16/17 | by Chris Eger
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California Attorney General Xavier Becerra’s office this week filed new regulations for review over just what constitutes an “assault weapon” moving forward.
The state Department of Justice submitted draft regulations to the California Office of Administrative Law this week expanding the definition of an “assault weapon” in the state.
The state hasn’t released the proposed regulations to the public, submitting them “file and print only” even though California residents are facing an end of the year registration deadline to abide by the yet-to-be established rules.
This comes three months after the withdrawal of an initial proposed rule formulated during the administration of Attorney General Kamala Harris, now a U.S. senator, to address changes required by legislation passed last year. That rule had been submitted after a proposed emergency regulation on making now-outlawed pre-ban magazines capable of holding more than 10 cartridges compliant, which, in turn, has also been pulled.
The National Rifle Association and California Rifle & Pistol Association had fired off a prelitigation letter to the state, warning of several potential illegalities with the initially proposed regulations and now eagerly wants a look at the new regulations.
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It’s just a version of the old “hidden ball” trick. Unfortunately for the politicians and bureaucrats of the Pepuls Republik of Kalifornia, the NRA and other “pro-Second Amendment” groups ain’t falling for it.
“We, The Sheeple” should INSIST that all regs, diktats, and “laws” be available for at least 90 days before a 30 day public comment period and THEN a 90 day “cooling off” period, before they get “voted” on.
That should give enough time to people to vote with their feet!
Argh!
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https://www.lewrockwell.com/2017/05/no_author/tool-political-suppression/
Why the FBI Has Always Been a Political Tool of Suppression
The Daily Bell
May 15, 2017
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There is a dangerous myth that permeates the political arena that government agencies and bureaucrats can somehow be non-political and independent.
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Politico’s article could be summed up like this:
The FBI has long been an enemy of the citizens of the United States and abused their authority by suppressing dissent and intimidating political opposition to the government. But now, the FBI risks becoming the exclusive tool of one political party, at which point others in government and politics may be targeted! Can’t we all agree that the proper target of the FBI is the peasantry and not the political classes?
The FBI has always been political, and always will be. Trump’s choice will not be inherently better or worse for the American people than picking someone who is not a politician. But Trump’s choice will be pretty scary for those in the government on the left.
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I doubt that any entity in the Gooferment, at any level, is “non-political”.
That’s why we’d best be served by not having such entities to exist at all.
Sure MAYBE the FBI, thinking back to the Jimmie Stewart FBI movie, catches spies, bank robbers, and serial killers. But how much damage can one serial killer do? 100 people, maybe. How many has the Gooferment killed and ruined how many lives?
As someone, unlikely to be “targeted” by the Gooferment, I’m afraid for my crazy little L libertarians, the whistleblowers, and just plain old good folk who run afoul of some diktat or “regulation”.
Time to tear down these power centers.
Plus, nowadays an admittedly minor afterthought, where in the Constitution does the Federal Gooferment get to have an FBI, CIA, BATFE, TSA, etc. etc. etc. ????????
Just asking?
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4509952/DNC-staffer-Seth-Rich-DID-links-Wikileaks.html
Did he or didn’t he? Murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich ‘had WikiLeaks links’ according to private investigator – but the victim’s family have dismissed the PI’s claims as ‘fake evidence’
By Jay Akbar For Mailonline and Louise Boyle and James Wilkinson
For Dailymail.com
PUBLISHED: 04:46 EDT, 16 May 2017 | UPDATED: 10:13 EDT, 16 May 2017
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You decide?
I’m just asking the question.
And, if there is a cover up, then who’s behind it?
Argh!
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Shared from the Toms River, NJ Patch | Politics & Government
Chris Christie Signs 7 Bills Into Law, Including One Inspired By ‘Snooki’Gov.
By Tom Davis (Patch Staff) – May 8, 2017 2:39 pm ET
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S-2398/A-3879 (Bateman, Allen, Greenstein, Singleton/Ciattarelli, Auth, Space) – Requires school district to adopt policy allowing students in grades 9 through 12 who participate in certain interscholastic extracurricular activities to earn varsity letter
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So the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee has time to legislate on “varsity letters”, but can’t solve the fiscal problems.
Doesn’t anyone see the folly in this?
Another reason that the Gooferment Skrules should be privatized. Really privatized.
I believe that it could take 40 years — 20 to transfer them to private entities and another 20 to reduce the Gooferment funding to zero — but imagine how free we’d be when the Gooferment can’t propagandize the the children.
Argh!
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This does NOT live up to the hype. I read the articles, some from reputable tech journals, and bought in.
After trying to install it, and could not, I find out there are all sorts of problems.
* Doesn’t work with CHROMEBOOKS (No one mentioned that.)
* Doesn’t support shared Users on a computer.
* Doesn’t install easily
And there support site has many pages of questions form Users globally.
I was looking for a POGOPLUG replacement and I think I’ve bought a pig.
More to follow.
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Sunday, May 8, 2011
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Not very nice. But then neither are all these Mothers’ sons and daughters dying for the whims of politicians and bureaucrats!
What better way to celebrate Mothers’ Day?
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Here’s a re-cycled post that STILL makes me crazy.
Why can’t we have peace?
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Toms River ‘Airbnb’ Ordinance Revised for Barrier Island Neighborhoods
By Daniel Nee – May 11, 2017
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An ordinance aimed at preventing short-term home rentals such as those booked on the website ‘Airbnb’ was tweaked this week to exclude barrier island neighborhoods from the regulations, which essentially ban short-term rentals. But one mainland resident said that it is not fair to those who live on lagoons on the west side of the bay, which also could be attractive for vacationers.
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Why isn’t this a “taking” under the Fifth Amendment?
Whose property is it?
And unless you live there full-time, you don’t get to vote for these tyrants. “No taxation without representation” is another joke!
Argh!
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http://www.popsci.com/legroom-blood-clots
Health
How to prevent blood clots as airlines squeeze you into tighter spaces
THE POTENTIALLY FATAL CONDITION IS LIKELY TO INCREASE AS LEGROOM DECREASES
—BUT IT’S TOTALLY PREVENTABLE
By Claire Maldarelli
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The bottom line, Stewart says, is that as long as people continue to practice unhealthy plane habits, the rates of DVT will either remain the same or increase—but with a little knowledge (and movement), the condition could be completely prevented.
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It’s a systemic problem we have the airplanes, their design, and the Gooferment. No one is responsible for the result — crippled and even dead people!
Argh!
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… … connecting to TWC / SPECTRUM online. Fighting thru their authentication mechanism to watch Jeopardy away from “their network” and this is what I get.
Argh!
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FROM THE WSJ
This daily briefing is named “The 10-Point” after the nickname conferred by the editors of The Wall Street Journal on the lead column of the legendary “What’s News” digest of top stories.
Richard Hobson of New Jersey wrote: “The only standard by which our distinguished congressmen and congresswomen should be judged on this issue is simply this: Will you personally forsake your current taxpayer-provided congressional health-care plan for the new one you have just passed?”
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That’s the acid test of all this bluff and bluster from the “District of Corruption”!
Just do a clean repeal, put down the pens, and step away from the “legislating”.
All they do is make things worse and worse.
Leave people alone to make their own decisions.
End Congress’ special benefits for itself.
Argh!
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1067583/
Water for Elephants
Set in the 1930s, a former veterinary student takes a job in a traveling circus and falls in love with the ringmaster’s wife.
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This was a really engaging movie. You could / should know that this was going to end badly. And it did. I thought it was completely believable. The elephant was great and made the story human.
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Despite Secession Talk, Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
May 04, 2017 By Mindy Fetterman
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Recently, these efforts have ranged from fairly large, ongoing campaigns in Texas and California to smaller pushes in Oklahoma, Maine, Utah, West Virginia and New York’s Long Island, among others.
Just last month, a longshot effort to allow Californians to vote on seceding fell apart after one of the founders dropped out amid criticism of his ties to Russia. But a new group pushing secession has vowed to collect the nearly 600,000 signatures required by July to put the measure on the November 2018 ballot.
Last May, the Texas Nationalist Movement came within two votes of adding Texas independence language to the state’s Republican platform. And in Oklahoma, Republican state Sen. Joseph Silk in January introduced a bill to remove the word “inseparable” from the sentence in the state constitution describing Oklahoma as “an inseparable part of the Federal Union.”
The move for independence, whether it’s from the right of the political spectrum as in Texas, or the left as in California, reflects the political division felt across the country, said Edward Meisse, a supporter of the Yes California secession group that just disbanded. “We have two diametrically opposed philosophies in our country, and we’re just not getting anywhere,” he said. “I think we should allow states to secede so California can be California and Texas can be Texas.”
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Yeah, right! Unfortunately, once the Gooferment gets power, it will never relinquish it voluntarily. People can NOT be held against their will. If an individual did it, then it’d be called “kidnapping”. But when the Gooferment does it, it’s call “jurisdiction”. Of course, once people start to refuse their cooperation to the Gooferment, it’ll collapse. It happened to the old Soviet Union; it’ll happen here too.
With all the out of control spending, unfunded and underfunded pensions, soaring “entitlement” costs, the collapse is inevitable. The only question is “who takes the ‘haircut’?”
Argh!
Secession is the only LOGICAL solution.
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https://www.wired.com/2017/04/norways-bold-maybe-foolhardy-plan-build-worlds-first-ship-tunnel/
AUTHOR: LIZ STINSON.
DATE OF PUBLICATION: 04.09.17.
TIME OF PUBLICATION: 7:00 AM.
NORWAY’S BOLD, MAYBE FOOLHARDY PLAN TO BUILD THE WORLD’S FIRST SHIP TUNNEL
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NORWAY IS HOME to more than 1,100 road tunnels. They cut through the mountains and stretch under its deep sea, allowing vehicles a more direct route through the country’s challenging terrain. The Scandinavian country has burrowed thoroughfares for nearly every mode of transportation—except one.
“We build a lot of tunnels, just not for ships” says Terje Andreassen, head of Kystverket, the Norwegian coastal administration. It’s strange when you think about it. Norway has more than 18,000 miles of coastline, punctuated by rugged cliffs that jut into the sea like outstretched fingers. The country’s fjords fill the long, slender gaps between the cliffs. These narrow inlets are famed for their beauty, but are a pain for shipping vessels. Traversing the country’s coast requires venturing in and out of fjords, which is inefficient; and rough waters on the open ocean occasionally strand boats in an inlet’s relatively placid waters. That’s why, for the last two years, Kystverket and the architecture firm Snohetta have plugged away at a proposal to build the world’s first ship tunnel. The recently approved plan calls for a mile-long passageway through the Stadlandet Peninsula in northwestern Norway, and would afford boats a safe and quick alternative to the tumultuous waters separating two major fjords.
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Seems so obvious.
And a great engineering feat.
Makes life better, safer, and more predictable for their society.
My only question is: “As a gooferment project, as opposed to one funded and done by an entrepreneur, how much of a boondoggle will this become?”
We’ll just have to wait and see.
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https://www.buzzfeed.com/eleanorbate/list-of-lists-of-lists-of-lists?utm_term=.jwePOMjY#.nw5a15xn
19 Wikipedia Pages That’ll Send You Into A Week-Long Wikihole See you next week.
Posted on September 12, 2016, at 12:24 p.m. Ellie Bate Buzz Feed Staff
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We recently asked members of the BuzzFeed Community to tell us which Wikipedia articles they love to waste time reading. Here are their recommendations…
1. Unit 731
Suggested by Lurker8.
Unit 731 was a unit of the Japanese Imperial Army that carried out brutal (and, in many cases, lethal) experimentation on human beings during World War II under the guise of chemical and biological research. For the majority of the time it was active, the unit acted under the command of General Shiro Ishii, and was responsible for the deaths of up to 250,000 people. The worst part? Instead of being put on trial for human experimentation, the people involved with the unit were granted immunity by the US government in exchange for the data they had gathered.
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While I found the concept of a “Wikihole” fascinating, the first suggestion was shocking!
Once again the US Gooferment does the unthinkable and the unforgivable.
The blood of a ¼ million human beings is on that “data” and amnesty.
Argh!
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078748/
REVIEW: Alien (1979)
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After a space merchant vessel perceives an unknown transmission as distress call, its landing on the source moon finds one of the crew attacked by a mysterious life-form, and they soon realize that its life cycle has merely begun.
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Pretty scary stuff.
It’s not enhanced computerized graphics. But it is well acted and well written.
Scary stuff!
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http://www.offthegridnews.com/current-events/6-months-in-jail-for-selling-cookies/
6 Months In Jail For Selling … Cookies?
Written by: Daniel Jennings May 4, 2017
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A ruling from a judge may be needed to sell homemade baked goods in Wisconsin.
Three home bakers in the state are challenging a state law that can punish people who sell homemade cookies, brownies and other treats with up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine.
Lafayette County Judge Duane Jorgensen will rule on May 31 if Wisconsin’s ban on the sale of homemade baked goods is unconstitutional, the Associated Press reported. The challenge to the home-baking ban was brought by the Institute for Justice.
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I read this and just shook my head.
How dumb can the Gooferment be?
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So why do they waste my time, electrons, and processing power when they have ZZEERROO chance of converting it to a sale?
Argh!
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Job SearchSales Funnel
(Remember this is an inverse tree)
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