POLITICAL: Time to end the “war on poverty”?

Monday, October 19, 2015

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2015/10/end-war-on-poverty.html

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2015
It’s Time to End the War on Poverty
Richard Ebeling 

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We discuss and dissect the history and the failures of the modern welfare state that, in fact, has been a cause of perpetuated poverty and permanent government-dependency through the spider’s web of “entitlement” programs and redistributive activities.

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Can’t imagine an idea that has outlived its usefulness.

LBJ’s “Great Society” and the ongoing “(pseudo) War on (some) Drugs” has totally destroyed: the inner cities, the black family, the lives of countless minority boys and girls, as well as created generations of “welfare farmers”.

Sorry, but it’s time to change.

I suggest that “public welfare” programs be reduced 5% per year for 20 years. 

It’s going to hurt some people, but the Nation has hit rock bottom and needs to change its ways. 

Blame the folks who started us down this path and not the messenger who delivers the bad news.

No free lunch.

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OPERATION SYSTEM: OS X El Capitan resets password to iCloud’s

Sunday, October 18, 2015

2015-Oct-18

Upgraded to OS X El Capitan.

Ran for about an hour and then wouldn’t let me sign on to my primary id.

Argh!

Luckily, I have always followed a rule of thumb with all OS’, “create multiple admin and regular User accounts”.

So I was able to log on an alternate administrator account, so the problem was limited to the MAIN administrator account.

I could not reset the MAIN admin account from the ALTERNATE admin account.

Strange?

So since I use LASTPASS and keep all my old passwords, I just found the prior one which was the ICLOUD password.

Bingo that was it.

So, make sure you know that one, because OS X El Capitan resets it back when you upgrade.

I guess that’s a “feature”.

Argh!

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PRODUCTIVITY: Manage things, lead people

Sunday, October 18, 2015

2015-Oct-18

http://takimag.com/article/flying_off_the_handle_theodore_dalrymple/print#disqus_thread

Flying Off the Handle
by Theodore Dalrymple 
October 10, 2015

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I am no great admirer of management as a science or of managers as people. The latter tend to speak a strange language, a jargon neither elegant nor poetic; they buy very dull books at airports, they are often shifty and ruthless, and they seem to me to live in a constant condition of bad faith. They are bureaucrats pretending to be entrepreneurs even when they work for the state, an organization that secures its solvency by the simple expediency of printing more money—in fact, not even by printing it anymore, simply by adding a few naughts on computer screens. We live in a regime of paper money without the paper.

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As a fat old white guy injineer, who has been “managing” for a long time, I learned from my first boss at AT&T that “You manage things, but lead people.” Hence, I think there is “science” in managing things (i.e., projects; processes; technology; etc. etc.). But the minute, one attempts the “Human Resources” approach of “managing” people, you are doomed to failure. Argh!

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TINFOILHAT: What’s a ‘benign cover-up’?

Saturday, October 17, 2015

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3267845/Former-CIA-director-John-McCone-benign-cover-withhold-information-investigators-JFK-s-assassination.html

Former CIA director was part of a ‘benign cover-up’ to withhold information from investigators about JFK’s assassination

  • Declassified CIA reports claim former CIA Director Jon McCone withheld information about President John F Kennedy’s assassination
  • The reports claim McCone and other top officials were part of a ‘benign cover up’ to keep the Warren Commission focused on Lee Harvey Oswald
  • McCone concluded in his assessment that Oswald, a former Marine, was a ‘lone gunman’ who acted on his own
  • The Warren Commission’s final report was consistent with McCone’s
  • The declassified CIA reports did not raise question about the findings of the Warren Commission, including that Oswald was the gunman
  • But the reports acknowledge the failure in the CIA’s dealings with the Warren Commission
  • The CIA report offers no conclusion as McCone’s motivations to cover up agency activities 

By KELLY MCLAUGHLIN FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 16:12 EST, 10 October 2015 | UPDATED: 20:07 EST, 10 October 2015

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A former CIA director withheld information about President John F Kennedy’s assassination, according to declassified agency reports.

The CIA reports, which were declassified last fall, claim that then-agency head John McCone and other top officials were part of a ‘benign cover-up’ surrounding the assassination of Kennedy in November 1963.

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Sorry, but there’s no such thing.

I read this story earlier in the week but waited for a more reputable source to report it.

Excuse me, don’t you go to jail for a ‘cover-up’ — benign or not.

Just goes to show that the Gooferment is ENTIRELY untrustworthy.

Argh!

Now I’m not a new kid on the block, but this continues to shock me.

“I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!” Captain Renault in Casablanca

That there is lying going on. Special circle of Hell for these folks.

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GUNS: Make “toy guns” all orange?

Friday, October 16, 2015

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/10/10/officers-shooting-of-boy-with-pellet-gun-was-justified-reports-say/

Officer’s Shooting of Boy With Pellet Gun Was Justified, Reports Say
Oct. 10, 2015 10:57pm
Dave Urbanski

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The pellet gun Tamir was holding shoots non-lethal plastic projectiles but its orange markings had been removed.

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Sorry, but I side with the police on this one.

Who takes the orange off?

What parent sees that and doesn’t go nuts?

It was either stupidity or criminal conduct. We’ll never know.

The details have to emerge, but, sad as it is, it was totally predictable.

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RANT: “Bad” food might discourage recidivism?

Thursday, October 15, 2015

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/pork-ban-federal-prison/2015/10/11/id/695684/

Obama Bans Pork from Prisons, CAIR Praises Decision

By Greg Richter   |   Sunday, 11 Oct 2015 11:59 AM

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The federal Bureau of Prisons has banned pork products from being served in the 122 prisons it runs nationwide, The Washington Post reports. 

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It’s supposed to be prison?

“Bad” food might discourage folks from coming back.

Oatmeal for fast; beans for lunch; and veggies for dinner. Very healthy.

Didn’t Sheriff Joe just serve baloney sandwiches?

Argh!

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GUNS: The Left has a clear gun grab agenda

Wednesday, October 14, 2015

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tom-johnson/2015/10/10/lefty-blogger-josh-marshall-we-really-do-want-take-your-guns-maybe

Lefty Blogger Josh Marshall: ‘We Really Do Want to Take Your Guns. Maybe Not All of Them. But a Lot of Them’
By Tom Johnson | October 10, 2015 | 12:22 PM EDT

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Marshall concluded, “Those of us who see the current situation as not just non-ideal but actually a sort of societal sickness need to start thinking way beyond things like closing the gun show loophole…In other words, yes, we really do want to take your guns. Maybe not all of them. But a lot of them.”

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At least, he’s honest to admit that the Left wants to disarm “We, The Sheeple”.

Molon Labe.

Hope that works out well for whomever you send out.

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? . . .” — Alexander Solzhenitsyn

“…if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.” -Churchill, The Second World War, vol. 1, The Gathering Storm (London: Cassell, 1948, 272, on the British guarantee to Poland in Spring 1939.

I think that the “gun grabbers” misunderstand the temperament in flyover country.

Even in the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerk, gunowners ignored “Safe NY”. And, the State Gooferment backed down.

Argh!

Secession is the answer. And eternal vigilance about every over step.

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RANT: A split-level passenger seat design?

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2015/10/06/airbus-files-patent-for-split-level-passenger-seat-design/?intcmp=hpff

Airbus files patent for split-level passenger seat design
Published October 06, 2015
FoxNews.com

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Airplanes could get even more cramped with a new seat design from Airbus that has passengers seated on top of each other in a bi-level configuration.

Earlier this month, the global airline manufacturer filed a patent with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for a split level seating design that could be used in businesses cabins on wide body aircraft, news.com.au reports.

In rows where passengers are normally seated six across, the middle rows would alternate between floor level and elevated seating to fit an additional two passengers per row. The raised seats would be accessible by a stair or ladder and would be able to fully recline above the passengers seated below.

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ARE YOU KIDDING ME!

I can’t image how you evacuate that plane in an emergency. Let alone board and “de-plane”.

And, if the passenger above you spills something or worse, then yuck?

Can you make it any MORE uncomfortable and cramped?

There’s a reason I hate to fly any more.

It used to be “fun”; now it’s like torture.

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INTERESTING: A “woman” manipulates a “man”

Monday, October 12, 2015

2015-Oct-12

Laugh!

Today, I was having a bagel and coffee.

A man, “obviously” Grandpa, having a snack with a young female child Sophia about age 8 would be my guess.

He sits down and tells her to sit across from him. 

(Why I have no idea. Mistake number 1 — give an order that may not be obeyed.)

She sits two tables away.

After several interactions, he “compromises” half-way and sits at the table next to her. 

(Mistake number 2 — “compromise”. Shows the original order wasn’t important!)

After several more interactions, he sits at “her” table.

Laugh.

(Mistake number 3 — capitulation. Demonstrating this was a waste of time.)

Guess “women” learn “man – ipulation” early in life.

Argh!

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TINFOILHAT: Did the Alcatraz escapees make it?

Monday, October 12, 2015

http://nypost.com/2015/10/10/relatives-have-proof-alcatraz-escapees-are-still-alive/

Relatives have ‘proof’ Alcatraz escapees are still alive
By Tim Donnelly
October 10, 2015 | 9:45am

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Alcatraz officials have long stated that the men drowned, maintaining the prison’s bragging rights of no escapees. But now, more than 50 years later, new leads are being presented by the Anglin family, who are cooperating with authorities for the first time.

They claim that not only did the brothers survive the escape, they were alive and well up through at least the mid-1970s — and may still be alive today.

The evidence is offered up by the Anglins’ nephews David, 48, and Ken Widner, 54, who are featured in “Alcatraz: Search for the Truth,” a History Channel special airing Monday. The evidence has pumped life into the cold case, and has investigators lining up new interviews and planning to search South America for signs of America’s most notorious escapees.

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And, why would we believe the “Alcatraz officials”?

Like with murder cases, it’s very hard to convict without a body.

And, from time to time, we hear of folks who have disappeared completely.

Personally, without proof, all we have is assertions and presumptions.

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GUNS: Disarmed and helpless is an irresponsible, suicidal choice

Sunday, October 11, 2015

http://www.wnd.com/2015/10/the-answer-get-a-damn-handgun/

THE TED OFFENSIVETHE ANSWER: GET A DAMN HANDGUN
Exclusive: Ted Nugent shouts, ‘Quit acting like helpless sheep afraid of a simple tool’
Published: 24 hours ago

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Welcome to the fundamentally transformed America, a heartbreaking embarrassment where rugged individualism, self-sufficiency and self-defense is scorned and condemned and, horror of horrors, outright forbidden for all practical purposes in New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois and California and in gun-free zones across the land.

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Welcome to the planet of the zombie apes flew over the cuckoo’s nest.

Luby’s cafeteria: gun-free zone. Columbine: gun-free zone. Virginia Tech: gun-free zone. Pearl, Mississippi: gun-free zone. New Jersey mall: gun-free zone. NW University: gun-free zone. Aurora, Colorado: gun-free zone. Pennsylvania Amish school: gun-free zone. Chicago: gun-free zone. NYC pizza parlor: gun-free zone. NYC McDonald’s: gun-free zone. L.A. McDonald’s: gun-free zone. Sandy Hook: gun-free zone. Maryland Navy Yard: gun-free zone. Arkansas recruitment center: gun-free zone. Fort Hood: gun-free zone. Paris, France: gun-free zone. Toronto, Canada: gun-free zone. Charleston church: gun-free zone. Chattanooga recruitment center: gun-free zone. Umpqua Community College: gun-free zone.

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If you believe and know in your heart that your life is worth defending and you live in a state or city where it is illegal, join the NRA and fight with all you have to get your right to keep and bear arms back. If you don’t get this lifesaving right back, move to a state that does not infringe.

Do not vote for Democrats ever again, and educate everyone you know how they are destroying America. Vote Republican and send a message that we the people are in charge of our lives, and our American Dream is defined by the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights, the Golden Rule and the Ten Commandments.

Disarmed and helpless is an irresponsible, suicidal choice that will get you killed. Defend yourself.

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Having lived most of my life in the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee and worked in the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerk, I’ve been “trained” to be unarmed. 

Luckily, I never was hurt. Harmed by crime several times. Mostly petty thefts from my car.

As I get older and, possibly a little wiser, I realize I was lucky. As big guy, a vet, and with some street smarts, trouble may have passed me by for easier pickings. Now as a poor old senior citizen on a fixed income, I’m probably a target. 

I want to defend myself so I can steal back all that “social security” that was stolen from me by the Gooferment.

I was pursuing my Conceal Carry license in Virginia when I was downsized. Now I realize it’s my Constitutional God-give right to carry.

One of my first projects in New Hampshire is to located a range, complete my training, and begin packing.

Dona Nobis Pacem

Si vis pacem, para bellum 

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Who listens to the Gooferment about anything?

Saturday, October 10, 2015

http://www.cato.org/blog/government-nutrition-often-wrong-seldom-doubt

OCTOBER 7, 2015 9:38AM
Government on Nutrition: Often Wrong, Seldom in Doubt
By WALTER OLSON

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Readers of this space will be familiar with the pattern. Previous advice from Washington about the supposed hazards of eggs and other cholesterol-laden foods, the advantages of replacing butter and other animal fats with trans fats, and the gains to be made from switching from regular to diet soda, have all had to be re-evaluated and sometimes reversed in later years. And yet some in the public health establishment — including a few who are quoted in today’s Post article— still aspire to use the power of government to coerce changes in citizens’ diet. They seem to imagine that with people like themselves in charge, next time will be different.

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I can’t imagine any more UNRELIABLE source of dikw (i.e., data, information, knowledge, wisdom) than the Gooferment.

Even when they are not deliberately LYING to us, they are often just wrong.

Look at any research and find out who’s paying or who’s profiting (i.e., Cui Bono) and that will determine the results.

That, and now days, unless there’s a profit or patent or copyright or some other angle, you’ll never hear about it.

There’s an internet meme about Salk not patenting the polio vaccine because he want to cure it globally.

Today, everyone would be laughing at him.

The whole definition of “non-profit” is a joke. The Salvation Army is a non-profit; the NFL is not.

Time to make the doughnuts and take back our country.

Secession.

Take the money away from them and see what happens.

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Readers of this space will be familiar with the pattern. Previous advice from Washington about the supposed hazards of eggs and other cholesterol-laden foods, the advantages of replacing butter and other animal fats with trans fats, and the gains to be made from switching from regular to diet soda, have all had to be re-evaluated and sometimes reversed in later years. And yet some in the public health establishment — including a few who are quoted in today’s Post article— still aspire to use the power of government to coerce changes in citizens’ diet. They seem to imagine that with people like themselves in charge, next time will be different.


POLITICAL: Jindal’s plan eliminates the corporate tax

Friday, October 9, 2015

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/10/07/bobby-jindal-unveils-tax-plan-eliminate-corporate-tax/

BOBBY JINDAL UNVEILS TAX PLAN, WOULD ELIMINATE CORPORATE TAX
by ALEX SWOYER
7 Oct 2015
Washington, DC

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GOP presidential candidate Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal aims to eliminate the corporate tax, an issue he addressed as he unveiled his tax plan Wednesday afternoon on a call with reporters where Jindal argued his plan simplifies tax code.

Jindal’s tax plan only has three tax brackets – two percent, 10 percent and 25 percent.

“Most Americans will be in the 10 percent bracket,” he told reporters. He went on to explain that a couple making $150,000 is now in the 25 percent tax bracket, but under his plan would drop to the 10 percent bracket.

According to Jindal’s plan, individuals making less than $10,000 will be in the two percent bracket, those making more than $10,000 but less than $90,000 will be in the 10 percent bracket, and everyone else will be in the 25 percent bracket.

Those who are married have a slight shift in their brackets: Couples making under $20,000 a year will be in the two percent bracket, where as couples making between $20,001 and $180,000 will be in the 10 percent bracket. Lastly, couples making more than $180,000 will pay 25 percent in taxes.

Jindal said his plan “eliminates the estate tax – death tax, the marriage penalty and the gift tax, and the alternative minimum tax.”

“I think my plan is best,” he touted, referencing that other GOP candidates have revealed their tax plans.

He said his plan has three key differences from fellow Republican candidates.

“Most Republican plans brag about the fact that they allow as many as half of all Americans pay zero federal taxes. Jeb and Trump both have said that. I think that’s a mistake,” Jindal said. “I think everybody should pay at least something.”

“We’ve got to this point where too many Americans believe money just grows on trees in Washington,” he said.

We’re only asking two percent from the bottom bracket. I think that may be the most important two percent in the whole plan. It reestablishes the idea that in America everybody is expected to help row the boat. Some people may have a bigger ore, some may have a smaller ore, but you keep your ore in the water along with everybody else.

The second way Jindal’s plan differs from other Republicans is that it eliminates the corporate tax in America.

The U.S. has the highest corporate tax rate than any other developed countries. Jindal says this move will create jobs and end wealth incentives for companies investing outside this country.

“We need to be willing to be bold,” he said of eliminating the corporate tax rate.

We’ve done various analyses. We show that for example in a 10 year period the GDP would grow 14.4 percent on top of the current base growth projection rate with just my tax changes. We show that nearly six million jobs would be added to the economy, wages would grow by 8. 7 percent – just as an example of the positive outcomes from changing our taxes.

Jindal also says his plan is different because it “reduces the amount of money the federal government is going to be able to spend.”

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Finally someone nails the corporate tax.

It’s stupid.

The product of Liberal Left non-economic thinking is just dumb.

“Corporations are merely tax collectors; not taxpayers. They merely pass their costs along.” Lawrence Alan “Larry” Kudlow is an American economist, television personality, and newspaper columnist. August 26, 2014 0830 on WMAL Mornings on the Mall Brian Wilson and Larry O’Connor

It’s one of the ways the Gooferment hides the true costs.

A business has only two choices — pass along its costs of which taxes is a big one OR go out of business.

Argh!

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GUNS: Liberalism kills

Thursday, October 8, 2015

https://www.survivalmonkey.com/threads/guns-dont-kill-people-liberalism-does.53292/

October 7, 2015
Guns Don’t Kill People, Liberalism Does
By Trevor Thomas

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President Obama wants us to politicize gun deaths in America. I decided to take him up on his invitation.

I hope that no one is surprised that Obama took this opportunity again to attack guns, the gun industry, and those of us who are fans of the Second Amendment. This is what a community organizing career politician does. For liberals like Obama, virtually everything is political, or must be made so. Because political problems require political solutions, and thus, when something is politicized, those in favor of empowering and growing government get to do what they do best: give speeches, call for legislation, and attempt to stir up the electorate in their favor.

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What have you done to stop BHO from eroding your rights?

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: the “(pseudo) War on (some) Drugs” reminds me of Prohibition

Tuesday, October 6, 2015

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2015/10/04/nearly-75-people-reportedly-overdose-on-laced-heroin-in-3-day-span-chicago/?intcmp=hplnws

HEALTH
Nearly 75 people reportedly overdose on laced heroin in 3-day span in Chicago
Published October 04, 2015FoxNews.com

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Nearly 75 people reportedly overdosed on dangerous narcotics, possibly heroin laced with painkiller fentanyl, in Chicago over a three-day span, according to city health and fire officials.

The Chicago Tribune, citing hospital officials, reported by Friday afternoon at least 14 people were rushed to Mount Sinai Hospital in Chicago to be treated for possible heroin overdoses, and some patients still had needles in their arms.

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”We suspect what is happening is the same thing that happened in 2006 when people were getting heroin that was cut with fentanyl, which is a very strong narcotic,” she told the newspaper. “That’s what we think is happening.”

The Drug Enforcement Administration and Chicago police are teaming up to try and find the source of the batches.

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The last major outbreak of fentanyl-related deaths took place between 2005 and 2007. The outbreak killed more than 1,000 people across the country and dozens specifically in Chicago.

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Doesn’t anyone remember their history lessons?

OK, anyone remember Robert Stack playing Elliott Ness in the Untouchables? Where during Prohibition, he had to track down a moonshiner who was making contaminated bathtub gin. That gin was causing folks to die or go blind!

Can’t you see the similarity here?

Argh!

Now imagine an American where drugs were “legal”. Let’s have a mental experiment.  The addiction rate would be at a historical norm — since back in the days when that Chinese emporer study the problem and couldn’t fix it then by killing addicts — of 10%. Walmart, Walgreens, RiteAid, and every drugstore would be selling “drugs”. Clean, pure, of know quantity and quality. And, of course, they would offer treatment alternatives. 

Also, since it would no longer be illegal or “dangerous”, children would find some other alternative to rebel. Dye their hair, pierce their bodies, and listing to bad music — oh wait they’ve done that through the decades already. (But it doesn’t kill them!)

Of course, currently “illegal” drugs would be cheap, so one could have a “habit” and hold down a job — which was common in late 1800’s and early 1900’s.

Now let’s consider the poor Drug Lords, Cartels, and drug dealing gangs. Guess they’ll have to find other employment since Walmart can drive the profit out of anything.

And, all the money that the USA spends on prisons, courts, cops, DEA, FDA, BATF, etc. etc. can be redirected to treatment.

Wow, what different country this would be.

How many people would still be alive?

How many people would be better off?

“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” — attributed to Einstein

Time to end the “(pseudo) War on (some) Drugs”!

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RANT: Anyone care to tell me how the economy is getting better?

Monday, October 5, 2015

From Drudge

Record 94,610,000 Americans Not in Labor Force… 
Participation Rate Lowest Since 1977… 
Record 56,647,000 Women Not Working… 
‘Payrolls Disaster’…
‘Fed never going to raise rates’…
IT’S UGLY!FLASHBACK: IT’S GOING TO BE GREAT…
Markets at ‘panic levels’… 

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Anyone care to tell me how the economy is getting better?

Any wonder that Trump is leading in the polls.

Argh!

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TINFOILHAT: Benedict XVI was blackmailed?

Sunday, October 4, 2015

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/09/no_author/did-the-us-blackmail-benedict-xvi/

“There was a Blackmail Come From Who Knows Where, Through SWIFT, Exercised on Benedict XVI.”
Anglocath.blogspot
September 30, 2015

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“This explains and justifies the unprecedented resignation of Ratzinger, that many of us have been able to exchange for an act of cowardice; the Church was treated as a state ‘terrorist’, but worse — because note that the dozen banks falling into the hands of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ‘are not excluded from SWIFT’ and continue to be able to make international transactions — and the Vatican finances could no longer pay the nunciature, to convey transport missions — in fact, the same ATM of Vatican City had been blocked.

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Wow, that would explain an UNPRECEDENTED action.

Any other explanation?

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Can’t predict the storm a few days in advance

Saturday, October 3, 2015

http://www.tropicaltidbits.com/storminfo/11L_tracks_latest.png

JOAQUIN BECOMES HURRICANE…
TRACK…
COMPUTER MODELS…

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And, yet they can’t predict the storm a few days in advance, but they can predict climate decades from now?

You have to be kidding me!

And, of course, the answer is more taxes and Gooferment power!

Argh!!!

“Fool me twice, shame on me.”

Come back when you have a better lie.

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: 1% copays would end fraud

Friday, October 2, 2015

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20150929/us–mystery_ambulance_rides-2f39c3677a.html

Medicare’s $30M ambulance-ride mystery
Sep 29, 3:46 AM (ET)
By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Medicare paid $30 million for ambulance rides for which no record exists that patients got medical care at their destination, the place where they were picked up or other critical information.

The mystery ambulance rides are part of a bigger problem with Medicare payments for transporting patients, according to a federal audit being released Tuesday.

The Department of Health and Human Services’ inspector general’s office also found that some urban ambulance services got paid for an average distance of more than 100 miles per ride. That contrasts with a national average of just 10 miles for urban ambulance rides.

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How many times do I have to say: “The Gooferment is immoral, ineffective, and inefficient”?

Simple fix here — copays.

Make it near trivial. Say 1%. Medicare doesn’t pay until the patient pays 1%. So if the bill is $100, then they pay a dollar. 

And, most of the seniors I know scrutinize their bills.

End of phantom billing.

You could even cap the copay at $100. 

Or include the patient in the audit team and the patient gets half of any mistake. Like treasure hunt.

I know from patients that I advocated for that the bills were always wrong and in one case bordered on fraud.

Argh!

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POLITICAL: Once again, justice denied

Thursday, October 1, 2015

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/09/sibel-edmonds/graymail-and-blackmail/

Two Delays & Tight-Lipped Negotiations Point to Graymail & Blackmail Tactics by Hastert’s Legal Team
By Sibel Edmonds
Boiling Frost Post
September 26, 2015

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Graymail is the threatened revelation of state secrets in order to manipulate legal proceedings. It is used as a defense tactic, forcing the government to drop a case to avoid revealing national secrets. Graymail can occur in two ways:

* To straight forwardly blackmail the government, forcing it to drop the case using the threat that if the trial moves forward the defendant will reveal classified information he or she already knows.

* To request the use of classified material as evidence in the trial, with an expectation that the government will be unwilling to make the material fully available to the case, and that this will raise the possibility, in the eyes of the judge or jury, that the unreleased material might clear the defendant, making it difficult to prove guilt.

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Once again, justice denied.

Wonder what the full real story is.

“Move along, people. Nothing to see here. Go home, you looky-loos.” Officer Barbrady’s Catch Phrase South Park

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SURVIVAL: Water, water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink when you need it

Wednesday, September 30, 2015

http://www.offthegridnews.com/extreme-survival/8-life-saving-emergency-items-that-should-be-in-your-car-right-now/

8 Life-Saving Emergency Items That Should Be In Your Car Right Now
Written by: Zach Dunn

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4. Water purification and storage. Don’t get caught without some water with you and a means to purify more. A simple pot can do for boiling, and water purification filters can make river and lake water drinkable. I suggest you have a few bottles and at least one method to purify more H20.

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You have to have water. No doubt about that!

If you’re going to be stupid, then the wilderness will kill you.

And, you have to rotate your bottled water. It can evaporate in the sealed bottle cause the container to fail. Water in your trunk is a disaster weather is flood or a case of water that you store there.

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RANT: GSA’s 10% occupancy rate?

Tuesday, September 29, 2015

http://www.jasonstapleton.com/epa-spends-92-million-on-office-furniture/

EPA Spends $92 Million on Office Furniture
Jason Stapleton –  Sep 25, 2015

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If you’re thinking, “That must be some nice furniture!” you’re absolutely right. The EPA ended up spending an average of $6,000 per employee buying some of the most expensive furniture in America.

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More shocking was the assertion that the inventory of Government Services Administration (GSA) leases shows that there is a 10% occupancy rate.

The podcast states that the GSA has an inventory of 8,000 buildings. With a 10% rate, that means that they only need 800?

Argh!

Any place I ever worked that occupancy rate was between 80 and 120%. 

With teleworking, even less space is needed.

Argh!

The Gooferment is immoral, ineffective, and inefficient. And this is an example of it.

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RANT: All is not well with the “refugee” influx

Monday, September 28, 2015

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3249667/Germany-state-SIEGE-Merkel-cheered-opened-floodgates-migrants-gangs-men-roaming-streets-young-German-women-told-cover-mood-s-changing.html

Germany in a state of SIEGE: Merkel was cheered when she opened the floodgates to migrants. Now, with gangs of men roaming the streets and young German women being told to cover up, the mood’s changing 

  • Thousands of economic migrants are posing as refugees to reach Europe
  • David Cameron said this week that Europe must said failed asylum claimants back to their countries
  • Demands for Germany’s ‘open doors and windows’ policy to be scrapped
  • Women said rape and child abuse were rife in Giessen’s refugee camp

By SUE REID IN GIESSEN, GERMANY
PUBLISHED: 18:27 EST, 25 September 2015 | UPDATED: 19:29 EST, 25 September 2015

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Meanwhile, the migrants keep arriving. Many have deliberately thrown away their passports on their journey through Europe, so they can pretend to be Syrian refugees rather than economic migrants.

The authorities, now being urged by both the EU and Germany’s leaders to return those who aren’t genuine, are completely overwhelmed.

At Freilassing, on the border with Austria, I see hundreds of migrants waiting in teeming rain to reach Mrs Merkel’s promised land. Wrapped in see-through charity macs, they queue excitedly for soup. Most have travelled for weeks, from Turkey by boat to Greece, then via Macedonia, Serbia and Croatia to Austria.

‘We are nearly there,’ says Arun Ari, 27, grinning. He comes from the Syrian town of Kobane, where Kurdish fighters have been battling Islamic State for two years.
He seems a deserving refugee among so many who are not, yet won’t show me his identity papers.

Deserving or not, he faces a tough future. Arun will be processed in one of the camps set up all over Germany in former military bases, school gymnasiums, sports halls, even a former monastery. Yet, just like him, almost every male migrant I meet is optimistic.

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And, if this is happening in Germany, then it must be happening here.

These communities show no signs of “assimilation”.

Wonder where it all ends.

Strife and mayhem?

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GUNS: San Fran preempts the RKBA

Sunday, September 27, 2015

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/09/24/surrender-san-fran-iconic-last-gun-shop-to-close-over-new-regulations/?intcmp=hplnws

SECOND AMENDMENT
Surrender: San Fran’s iconic, last gun shop to close over new regulations
By Hollie McKay
Published September 24, 2015
FoxNews.com

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The proposed new city regulations, which could only be aimed at High Bridge Arms, would have required the shop to take and preserve video of all transactions and turn customers’ personal data over to police on a weekly basis. General Manager Steven Alcairo said the shop’s owners finally threw in the towel after years of what they consider being unfairly targeted with burdensome rules and regulations. Past regulations have required the shop to bar ads and displays from its windows and install cameras and barriers around its exterior. The shop has 17 cameras as it is, and turns video over to police on request, he said.

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Isn’t this a de facto obliteration of the Second Amendment?

And if the gang of Gooferment politicians and bureaucrats, calling themselves the “City of San Francisco”  gets away with it, then why not all of California!

Argh!

Wake up “We, The Sheeple”!

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TINFOILHAT: “Conspiracy” allows the elite to dismiss legitimate questions

Saturday, September 26, 2015

http://www.thedailysheeple.com/10-disturbing-facts-most-americans-are-too-fearful-to-face_092015

10 Disturbing Facts Most Americans Are Too Fearful to Face
Humans Are Free 
September 23rd, 2015

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7. “Conspiracy” doesn’t mean what you think it does

Throughout the history of humanity people do things by planning it out, this simple act or organizing is considered bizarre, unlikely and improbable by a generation of brainwashed people controlled by one hypnotic word: “conspiracy“!

That’s right. You may be reading this and thinking this refers to you. The simple phrase “conspiracy” or “conspiracy theory” has singlehandedly mind-controlled millions of Americans like no other word or phrase has. Unfortunately there is no way around it.

“Conspiracy” is a substitute word for an otherwise ordinary act of planning or coordinating. Something all people do especially groups like corporations and governments. You MUST plan, organize, or “conspire” to do things. That’s how things get done!

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I think that where “Conspiracy Theorists” go wrong is that they speculate on the answers.

It’s sufficient to present facts and ask questions. We, since I put me and my tin foil hat in the same camp, don’t have to provide answers. 

As a “Conspiracy Questioner”, I would prefer to layout things in this format: facts and questions. Period.

For one example:

  • JFK was assassinated.
  • If you believe the Warren Report, then how was Oswald able to be the lone gun man with an inferior weapon.

For another example:

  • 9/11 happened.
  • How did the BBC report WTC7’s collapse before it happened?

And, the just stack the questions, line by line.

I think this is a much more powerful way to raise doubts.  Better than saying LBJ did it or the CIA led cabal blew up WTC7.

imho

“Question authority”? What a joke. “We, The Sheeple” have lost their ability to think critically and I blame it on Gooferment Skrules.

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GUNS: Let’s protect the children EFFECTIVELY

Friday, September 25, 2015

http://bearingarms.com/protecting-americas-children/

Protecting America’s Children
Posted by Jenn Jacques on September 21, 2015 at 5:28 pm

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In 2013 more than 80 bills were introduced in at least 33 states related to arming teachers or school staff, but only Alabama, Kansas, South Dakota, Tennessee and Texas enacted laws affecting public schools, according to a report by the Council of State Governments. In the state of Wisconsin, concealed carry permit holders can request permission to carry from the principal of their local school, and a new law just went into effect this year allowing both off duty and retired LEO’s to carry in schools as well.  The Outdoor Channel’s in-depth documentary Safe Haven hosted by Katie Pavlich was an eye-opening look into just how ineffective gun-free zones really are.

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“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” — attributed to Einstein

So, we have demonstrated evidence that “gun free” zones do NOT work.

Can we try something different?

Argh!

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