“It’s how I fill the time when nothing’s happening. Thinking too much, flirting with melancholy.”
― Tim Winton, Breath
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“It’s how I fill the time when nothing’s happening. Thinking too much, flirting with melancholy.”
― Tim Winton, Breath
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https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/12/thomas-sowell/smearing-scalia-racist/
Attacking the Truth
By Thomas Sowell
December 15, 2015
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Mismatching students with educational institutions is a formula for needless failures. The book “Mismatch,” by Sander and Taylor is a first-rate study of the hard facts. It shows, for example, that the academic performances of black and Hispanic students rose substantially after affirmative action admissions policies were banned in the University of California system.
Instead of failing at Berkeley or UCLA, these minority students were now graduating from other campuses in the University of California system. They were graduating at a higher rate, with higher grades, and now more often in challenging fields like math, science and technology.
Do the facts not matter to those who are denouncing Justice Scalia? Does the actual fate of minority students not matter to the left, as much as their symbolic presence on a campus?
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We’ve proven over and over that Gooferment is immoral, ineffective, and inefficient. As well as untrustworthy.
And, that the levers of Gooferment are controlled by corrupt, possibly evil, politicians and bureaucrats.
So what can’t affirmative action be a new strategy by the KKK to keep minorities “in their place”. Destroy their top performers so nothing can change.
An “Unintended Consequence”?
I think not. Where evil is concerned, one has to look deep into the results to find the truth. Words are meaningless; actions and results speak volumes.
In this case, I’m listening and convinced.
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https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/12/gary-north/prison-public-school/
The Story of Two Buses
By Gary North
December 14, 2015
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That’s how it works.
Both systems use buses to take the students to school. But the colors are different.
In prison, prisoners sell illegal drugs. Students do the same in school. In prison the food is terrible. It’s not very good in school – possibly prepared by the same food service company. In prison, there are constant inspections. Guards keep taking roll to make sure everyone is present and accounted for. Teachers do the same in school. In prison, you aren’t allowed to leave without permission. The same is true in school. In prison, bullies run the show. In school, they do, too. But there is a difference. Prison buses are white. School buses are yellow.
This is too extreme. The systems are different. Criminals are convicted in a court of law before they are sent to jail. Students, in contrast, are innocent. Some prisoners can get parole. The average term in prison for murder is under ten years. Students are put into the school system for twelve years. There is no parole.
Be thankful if you are not in one of those buses, either white or yellow.
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This reminds me of “I, pencil”.
Read the entire story and put yourself in the place of the child being forced to the Gooferment reeducation / propaganda camp!
Scary.
When the evil Commies did it, that was BAD. When “our” Gooferment does it, that’s different.
Remember the purpose of Gooferment Skrules: cannon fodder for the Army, willing morons for the factories, and useful idiots to vote for and be led by the elite! Where do the Presidents send their children? Certainly NOT to Gooferment Skrules!
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http://ericpetersautos.com/2015/12/09/drivers-license-and-social-security-number-please/
Drivers License And Social Security Number, Please
by eric • December 9, 2015 • 27 Comments
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Maybe you remember when Social Security numbers were “not to be used for purposes of identification.” It actually said so, right there on the card.
Well, it used to.
So much for that. As usual, per the frog in the ever-warming pot of water, we do not notice the change until it is too late to change anything.
Our SS number is now the de facto – and in a very real sense, the de jure – national ID. De facto, because it’s almost impossible to transact any business without one. De jure, because the law increasingly does require it for purposes of identification, even though the original law said it never would be used for such purposes.
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In other words, the SSN is now officially being used for purposes of identification – just as they (the authors of Social Security, all those years ago) swore up and down it never would be. It was only going to be a government social insurance program, to keep old folks from shivering and starving in the winter. Never to be the basis for a nationwide cattle-cataloging system.
Surprise, surprise.
They lied.
Again.
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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
I think I have to add a new element to my mantra “Gooferment is immoral, ineffective, and inefficient!”
It’s “untrustworthy”. The Gooferment, politicians, and bureaucrats all lie.
(The recent Tom Woods’ show on Hamilton demonstrated that the Federalist said what ever was needed to get the Constitution adopted and then did what the wanted any way.)
Argh!
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DNA Prove’s Obama is a Foreign Citizen and No Relation To Stanley Ann Dunham
Published on Apr 23, 2014
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Obama a natural citizen of Great Briton,Will an obscure intelligence advisor in England show the way for Americans to finally get rid of the illegal presidency of Barack Hussein Obama?
Barack Obama’s long-form birth certificate has been almost universally deemed a forgery, long before Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio’s forensic examination found it to be created digitally and never having existed in paper form. Without even a digital examination, it is obvious it is a cut-and-paste job, with at least eight different typewriter fonts.
Despite this fact, and despite Obama clearly not being a natural-born citizen—his father, Barack Obama, Sr. being a subject of the British crown as admitted by Obama—the dozens of lawsuits filed against Obama charging that he’s not a natural-born citizen, or that his birth certificate is a fake—have been summarily dismissed for invalid reasons.Americans have found themselves in a quandary: we know Obama is ineligible to be President; we know his birth certificate is fake—yet we appear to be powerless to do anything about it. But there may be a novel way that Americans can prove Obama is not a natural-born citizen: have a Special Prosecutor demand Obama submit—like Clinton did in 1998—a DNA sample to prove that his mother and father are who he says they are.
This, however, may have already been carried out—by the CIA!
According to British intelligence advisor and author of the just-published book, Spyhunter, Michael Shrimpton states that the CIA took a DNA sample of Obama prior to the 2008 election and found that the woman Obama now states is his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, is not related to Obama—and his mother may in fact be a foreign citizen!
Shrimpton is no tinfoil hat-wearing kook: He has dozens of contacts in both the British and American intelligence agencies and has access to a huge cache of intelligence documents.
Will an obscure intelligence advisor in England show the way for Americans to finally get rid of the illegal presidency of Barack Hussein Obama?
Barack Obama has been methodically dismantling the United States, shredding the Constitution, and enslaving us to the Chinese with crushing debt; so let us hope Michael Shrimpton can show us how how we can prove Barack Obama is not a natural-born citizen and may in fact be a foreign citizen
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I’m not a “birther”. I have no idea where he was born or who his parents are.
I prefer to think of myself as a “proofer”.
There are enough questions that make one suspect that he has usurped the Presidency with the willing cooperation of the Democratic Party, some of the “elite”, and some in the Republican Party.
Telling a big enough lie often enough is the essence of political propaganda.
Who knows what the truth is.
BHO44 may not even know himself.
The ultimate ”manchurian candidate”?
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RECEIVED AN EMAIL FROM A VERY SMART GIRL WHO SHOULD KNOW BETTER
We need to move to Finland!
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MY RESPONSE
Sorry, as a little L libertarian, I can’t be part of such oppression. Where does the gang pretending to be the Gooferment of Finland get the largess it’s going to distribute, why it’s STOLEN from the oppressed taxpayers of course.
I’m surprised at you, my ersatz daughter, from not learning this lesson.
If the gang pretending to be the Gooferment of Finland can steal from Peter to pay Paul, then what else can the do to poor Peter and demand of poor Paul at risk of having his basic income withheld?
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Argh!
It’s the same for any Gooferment “giveaway”. First it must be stolen from someone else!
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ASIA
Report from Australian investigators suggests MH370 was a ‘zombie plane’
news.com.au
Published December 10, 2015
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Buried in the lengthy report released last week by Australia’s MH370 investigators is one crucial revelation: the aircraft suffered a serious technical problem triggered by a power outage.
The Australian Defense Science and Technology report officially acknowledges the doomed Malaysia Airlines flight suffered a sudden electrical failure before its disappearance on March 8 last year, the Daily Beast found. This backs the popular “zombie plane” theory, whereby the missing plane’s avionic systems are ravaged, rendering the flight crew helpless, and the aircraft continued flying on autopilot until it ran out of fuel.
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So it may NOT be terrorism.
I think this should have been front page; not “buried”.
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http://tomwoods.com/podcast/ep-551-michael-malice-and-tom-debate-hamilton-in-nyc/
An excellent 90 minutes in American History class.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTsg9i6lvqU
As I think back to the terrorist attack in Paris, reminded by San Bernadino, I don’t know why I didn’t post this clip from the movie Casablanca?
Yes, we are all French … fellow HUMAN beings … at this point.
Requiescat In Pacem and Dona Nobis Pacem!
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CA Shooting Reaction: Wrong Diagnosis, Wrong Treatment
written by daniel mcadams
thursday december 3, 2015
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The police had no motive and no suspects in custody after yesterday’s shooting in California, yet those pressure groups with agendas were already demanding that Muslims be spied on and guns be confiscated. The media, as per usual, amplified every unsubstantiated rumor and outright falsehood about the San Bernardino shooting to keep people glued to their television and glued to their seats. There is little concern about accuracy or journalistic responsibility. The president jumps out ahead of the news and criticizes guns. These tragic events are tools in the hands of those who want to destroy our civil liberties. More on this real threat to our way of life in today’s Liberty Report:
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BHO44 and Hillary were stumbling over themselves to get “gun control” on the agenda.
Peplos Republic of Nu Jerzee Republican senators voted to override the Governor’s gun control veto so as to be seen as “doing something”.
The main stream lame stream media were first blaming right wing white guys before surprising the shooters Muslim connections.
The FBI wouldn’t label it terrorism.
Neither the local police or the FBI sealed off the terrorists’ apartment to preserve evidence and possibly link others to them (i.e., fingerprints; dna; documents).
The Keystone Kops could do better.
Argh!
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https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/12/no_author/top-journalist-spills-beans/
World Class Journalist Spills The Beans & Admits Mainstream Media Is Completely Fake
By Arjun Walia Collective Evolution
December 5, 2015
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One (out of many) great examples of a whistleblowing reporter is investigative journalist and former CBC News reporter Sharyl Attkisson. She delivered a hard-hitting TEDx talk showing how fake grassroots movements funded by political, corporate, or other special interests very effectively manipulate and distort media messages.
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It’s all intended to manipulate the sheeple.
How do you react to the “news”?
Frankly, I give it little credibility.
If a politician or a bureaucrat says “X”, then I assume that they may not be credible and look for evidence, facts, or actions to back up their statement.
Take for example, BHO44 on climate change. He says X, but flies all over the place with a carbon footprint of a small country.
Take for example, … … (you fill in the blanks of something the media says) … and look for the substantiation. Let me know if you find it?
Argh!
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2015-Dec-08
http://www.fox5dc.com/news/56367747-story
Video shows apparent stabbing following Redskins – Cowboys game at FedEx Field
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LANDOVER, Md. – Video of what appears to be a stabbing at FedEx Field following Monday night’s Redskins – Cowboys game has surfaced online.
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Another incident posted online shows a fight between fans breaking out in the stands during the game.
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Hey, geniuses, it a <synonym for the ongoing act of procreation> GAME!
Sure, I raz my friends, relatives, acquaintances, relatives of friends, old classmates, and even Facebook “friends”, but when it comes to MP4B = “Millionaires Playing For Billionaires”, I don’t get that concerned.
It’s not like I am going out and “winning the game”. Or getting my <synonym for donkey> whipped or a concussion.
Get a life, people.
There are really problems in the world for you to solve.
We have enough politicians, bureaucrats, terrorists, criminals, and ne’er-do-wells figuring out how to get us fighting with each other. We don’t have to help them by creating artificial division between us.
And, the grand cosmic scale of things, to quote Rick in Casablanca: “And you never will. But I’ve got a job to do, too. Where I’m going, you can’t follow. What I’ve got to do, you can’t be any part of. Ilsa, I’m no good at being noble, but it doesn’t take much to see that the problems of three little people don’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you’ll understand that.”
As a Giants fan, I have to say thanks to Dallas Cowboys.
But, it’s a “hill of beans”.
Smarten up, people.
Argh!
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“In this circa 1925 photograph, the poem “In Flanders Fields” is shown in downtown South Bend, in the Christmas window display at Robertson Brothers Co., a department store that eventually became known as Robertson’s …” ““In Flanders Fields the poppies blow, between the crosses row on row…” begins the poem “In Flanders Fields.” Written by a Canadian physician, Lt. Col. John McCrae, it was composed on May 3, 1915, after the funeral of his friend and fellow soldier, Alexis Helmer, who died in the Second Battle of Ypres. It was later published in the London magazine Punch on Dec. 8, 1915, exactly 99 years ago.” South Bend Tribune.
Now a hundred years, and humanity STILL has not learned.
Dona Nobis Pacem
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http://www.wnd.com/2015/12/norway-seizes-kids-over-familys-christian-indoctrination/?cat_orig=world
WND EXCLUSIVE
KIDS SEIZED OVER FAMILY’S ‘CHRISTIAN INDOCTRINATION’
Social media campaign to reunite parents, children surges worldwide
BOB UNRUH
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The conflict arises on the heels of a decision by the Supreme Court in neighboring Sweden not to allow parents Christer and Annie Johansson even to see their son, now 14.
He was “state-napped” from the family when he was 7 because he was being homeschooled.
Word of the court decision comes from the Home School Legal Defense Association, which has been working with other groups, including the Alliance Defending Freedom and lawyer Ruby Harrold-Claesson of the Nordic Committee on Human Rights on the case involving Domenic Johansson.
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2015-Dec-06
http://ftw.usatoday.com/2015/12/texas-baylor-brawl
Texas-Baylor game interrupted by massive bench-clearing scuffle
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Disgraceful.
What are “we” or “they” teaching these young men? Certainly not how to be a competitor, a gentleman, or a warrior.
It’s a GAME! Not a war.
Join the Marines if you want to go to war. And, they won’t tolerate such a shocking lack of discipline.
A competitor, a gentlemen, or a warrior must be disciplined if there’s to be any chance of success in a battle, a struggle, or a life.
Very disappointing.
Bread and circuses — that’s what football has become.
Sorry, time to downsize the whole thing in importance.
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JOBS REPORT: 94,446,000 Americans Not Working…
…56,295,000 American Women Not in Labor Force…
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Argh!
This is a DISASTER.
Lost productivity. Stuff not created. Retirements not saved for.
This too will end badly.
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https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/12/fred-reed/government-powerless-stop-terrorism/
Security Theater: Customary Federal Pointlessness
By Fred Reed
December 4, 2015
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The future? Hard to say. As I write, President B. Hussein Obama is endeavoring to import tens of thousands of Moslems. It will be impossible to screen them, presumably making the importation a free ride into the US for terrorists if they so choose. It is not politically incorrect to note that the countless Moslem terrorists in recent years have been countless Moslem terrorists. It is, however, true. The greatest question about terrorists is not whether they can, but why they haven’t.
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Stipulating that all this “security” is nothing more than “theater”, as originally identified by Bruce Schneier @schneier.com, this is an essential interesting question.
If it’s so easy, why haven’t the terrorists struck more and harder.
It’s not like there are not huge numbers of gun free zones.
Perhaps there are NOT as many terrorists as we have been led to believe?
Maybe the pool of potential “suicide bombers” isn’t so large?
Hmmm, it which case, “cut bono”? The Gooferment keeping us “safe”!
Argh!
Wake up, Sheeple. You’re being shorn again.
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https://www.newsmax.com/Newsmax-Tv/bernard-kerik-california-shooting-reaction/2015/12/02/id/704325/
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“It’s terrorism,” he declared. “When you mass-murder, when you slaughter 15, 20 people, injure another dozen, it’s terrorism in my eye.
“Whether you want to call it domestic or international, it doesn’t make any difference.”
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And this in the gun control state of California?
Argh!
And out of 200 people, not one was armed.
And no security.
How does that saying go: “If you want peace, prepare for war.”?
All we hear from BHO, Hillary, and Sanders is “gun control”. How did that work out for those victims?
Dona Nobis Pacem
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http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/sandy-berger-national-security-adviser-216344
Sandy Berger, former national security adviser, dies
By Nick Gass12/02/15 09:44 AM EST Updated 12/02/15 11:04 AM EST
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Berger’s legacy was marred, however, when he pleaded guilty in 2005 to removing highly classified documents from the National Archives in Washington the previous year. The inspector general of the National Archives said that a staff member had witnessed the former NSA adviser wrapping the classified documents around his socks and under his pants.
He was fined $50,000, sentenced to two years’ probation and stripped of his security clearance for three years. Following a Justice Department investigation and subsequent congressional hearings, Berger voluntarily gave up his license to practice law in 2007.
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What did Sandy Berger take?
And why?
Guess we’ll never have an answer to that question.
Had to be at the behest and benefit of the Clintons.
Another unanswered question.
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Acts of Faith
Passenger rants about Islamic State before shooting Muslim taxi driver in back
By Peter Holley
November 30
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But by the time it was over, the Pittsburgh taxi driver — a 38-year-old Muslim man from Morocco — had a bullet wound in his upper back and was lucky to be alive, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Pittsburgh police are investigating the Thanksgiving Day shooting, and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is asking for more help: CAIR, the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, has called on the Justice Department to investigate the incident as a hate crime — which, it said, was “similar to a growing number of attacks targeting the nation’s Muslim community following the recent terror attacks in Paris.”
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The cab driver told the Post-Gazette that he doesn’t want revenge, but he does want justice.
“In our religion, Islam, we forgive, even in such conditions,” he said. “I learned this from our prophet Muhammad. We don’t take revenge. I could forgive this, but I still want my rights.”
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Absolutely unacceptable.
Probably a drunk from the casino trying to beat the guy for the fare.
Argh!
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http://www.wnd.com/2015/11/supremes-asked-to-rule-on-shell-game-taxation/
WND EXCLUSIVE
SUPREMES ASKED TO RULE ON ‘SHELL GAME’ TAXATION
Was ‘seedbed in which the people’s right not to be taxed without representation sprouted’
Published: 13 hours ago
BOB UNRUH
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“Obamacare raises taxes by hundreds of billions of dollars, but it was enacted in violation of the Origination Clause, which was designed to safeguard against arbitrary and reckless taxation. Obamacare was unveiled in the Senate, even though the Origination Clause requires taxes to start in the House, the body closest to the people,” he said.
“Pacific Legal Foundation and Matt Sissel are asking the Supreme Court to accept our challenge to Obamacare, in order to uphold and enforce the Constitution’s safeguards against arbitrary taxation, and to liberate Americans from a harmful law that was imposed in defiance of those procedures and protections,” said Sandefur.
Pacific Legal argues that Reid simply took the number of a House-passed bill that raised no taxes and and pasted it on the front of the thousands of pages of Obamacare, which taxes Americans $500 billion a year.
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Not very likely.
We’re already seen SCOTUS turn itself into knots to keep it a la “it’s not a tax” / “it is a tax”.
Argh!
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Published: 13 hours ago
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2015/11/supremes-asked-to-rule-on-shell-game-taxation/#tHtHT1p0rgfrdduL.99
http://ericpetersautos.com/2015/11/29/speed-averages/
Speed Averages
by eric • November 29, 2015 • 15 Comments
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For example, a memo issued to the highwaymen of Fairfax County, Virginia:
“Two traffic stops is the minimum acceptable daily average, calculated on a monthly basis. Either two summons and one warning must be issued and entered per day on average. (Two warnings are not acceptable). All days, all officers are required to be well-rounded in their production, regardless of minimum standards.”
The bolding, underlining and italics are not mine. They are in the original.
“Well-rounded in their production.”
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SO what are you going to do about, you Sheeple you.
Argh!
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https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/11/no_author/jfk-disinformation/
The Mystery of the Constant Flow of JFK Disinformation
By Russ Baker and Milicent Cranor Who.What.Why.
November 25, 2015
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One can debate that forever, though the assembled evidence is that it was not Oswald at all who wanted Kennedy dead, not Oswald who shot him. More important, however, is the evidence, everywhere, of a coverup — from hanky-panky in the autopsy room to a shockingly premature termination of any efforts to seriously investigate. Was the coverup itself not proof of more going on? Of course it was.
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Of course, and the cover up is often worse than the crime.
As a dedicated tin foil hat, I firmly believe that there is a lot more “covering up” than we understand.
I also think that it’s essential to just ask questions and not speculate.
The label, tin foil hat, and “Conspiracy Theorist”, are use to smear and denigrate legitimate questions.
After all, what is the harm in asking “questions”. Other than the answers might lead to more questions than answers.
I, for one, don’t know the “answer”, but every surely knows the “questions” (i.e., what are the facts; cut bono; where is the evidence).
Argh!
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How to spot a fake email?
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Q. I got an email from Amazon that was a security alert about my account. How can you tell if it’s legit or not?
A. The fake email is a favorite of scammers trying to steal your information. Major companies don’t send out emails that haven’t been checked by a team of professional writers and editors, so poor writing is a dead giveaway. They also won’t ask you to click on anything or download an attachment.
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I have a better way. GET YOUR OWN DOMAIN!
May I suggest that you have your own domain? The common wisdom, or is that common whizdumb, is to own your own name as a domain name. I gives one quite a bit of control. And, it’s very cheap. I know three solutions at 15$/year using wordpressdotcom with gmail, 25$/year email only with 1and1, and 60$/year for domain+email+webspace also at 1and1. My point is not that you should use 1and1. http://www.1and1.com/?k_id=9113251 I could care less which one you use. It’s that getting on to your own domain with email is cheap and easy. And, it’s not hotmail, yahoo, or gmail. It IS your own “personal brand”.
https://reinkefaceslife.com/2010/02/27/service-your-isp-email-address-is-a-trap/
And you don’t want your ISP, like comcast, twc, or aol, to lock you into their service.
https://reinkefaceslife.com/2007/07/14/productivity-changing-email-addresses/
And you don’t want the hassle of changing your email and risk “losing” people.
Use my trick of assigning specific emails to your correspondents. For example, XRAY0001 at my domain is American Express. If I EVER get an email from Amex that doesn’t come in on that address, I know it’s a fraud and I delete it right away. Easy peasy!
Simple!
For cheap protection. Do it now. Lest a Nigerian Prince catch you “asleep at the switch”.
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Maryland student who prompted closure of campus found dead
Published November 22, 2015 FoxNews.com
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Marberger had been wanted on four charges after authorities said he displayed an antique gun at his fraternity house last month. Phi Delta Theta fraternity kicked him out last week and last Sunday he resigned his position as speaker of the senate in the college’s student government.
Chestertown Police Chief Adrian Baker told WTTG he was scheduled to have a hearing based on the school’s honor code. Baker told the Fox affiliate Marberger didn’t make any threats against the school or students. It closed proactively.
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What were those charges?
Did he threaten someone with the “antique gun”?
In this age of PC, did the school drive him out because he dared to exercise his RKBA?
The story doesn’t give those essential details. And, Google doesn’t show any better source.
Argh!
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This is a about a 4 minute audio clip. The steps to detect it and correct it are rather easy. But do parents do them on an annual basis? Obviously not, if that 1/10 stat is reliable.
Here’s the link:
Identity Thieves’ Newest Target: How to Protect Your Kids
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A recent study from Carnegie Mellon found that one in 10 kids under the age of 10 has had their Social Security number compromised.
Have you checked the financial records of your young children or grandchildren? Most people don’t even consider checking their kid’s financial records because … they’re kids. But that’s exactly why thieves target them.
They know children won’t use their Social Security number for years – usually until they’re old enough to go to college or get a credit card. By then the thief has successfully opened accounts, borrowed money and made purchases without anyone noticing.
“It’s a complicated world these days, and we need to be ever vigilant and diligent to protect ourselves,” Ric Edelman said.
Listen to the full clip above to learn the steps you can take to protect your child’s identity.
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I know what I’d do every year on their birthday? Check. But then I don’t have any so it’s easy for me to say.
YMMV
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