http://halelrod.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/AYG074.pdf
“I let my goals / commitments dictate my actions.” — Hal Elrod Achieve Your Goals Podcast #74
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Stunningly simple piece of advice.
Wish I’d heard it decades ago.
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FROM FACEBOOK
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Leonard Cohen – Everybody Knows
Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows that the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That’s how it goes
Everybody knows
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Hmm, not so sure that “poor stay poor, the rich get rich” is accurate here in America. There are economic studies that show tremendous movement between the financial strata. WHile there are some people who are born poor and die poor, but that’s not cast in concrete like in some countries. And, rarely does a “family fortune” survive three generations.Also, how does one explain the immigrants from Asia and India who arrive with nothing and wind up with thriving businesses in a few decades. #Tom Woods
http://tomwoods.com/podcast/ep-298-income-inequality-non-solutions-to-a-non-problem/
Ep. 298 Income Inequality: Non-Solutions to a Non-Problem
4th December 2014
Tom Woods
Nineteen ways income redistribution harms society.
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Jim:
I was listening this morning about the Guv pontificating on enforcing Federal Pot laws.
Maybe at ‘Ask the Guv’, someone should ask him where in the Constitution’s enumerated powers, the Federal Gooferment gets to “regulate” drugs.
“We, The Sheeple” learn nothing — not from VietNam, not from Prohibition and on and on.
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I wrote this week’s KONK Life column yesterday. Got it out a day early. Don’t know where the energy came from.
The title is Portugal The Blueprint.
Portugal legalized drugs in 2001. All drugs. Even the real bad stuff like cocaine and heroin. Fourteen years later, the results are amazing. Drug problems significantly down in every area. Jails closing because there are not enough criminals to occupy them.
You will find the article interesting. Perhaps something the U.S. should consider.
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I am a little L libertarian and completely agree with ending the “(pseudo) War on (some) Drugs”. It’s a MEDICAL problem; not a legal problem.
My exemplar is Prohibition that created organized crime. (We got Prohibition because women regained the right to vote, but that it another rant.) Once Prohibition was repealed, there is no violence between Budweiser and Miller employees. And, “organized crime” had to move on to other prohibited substances.
Remember why Prohibition was repealed? Jury nullification.
Prosecutors could get a jury to convict any one on booze arrests; that’s why they had to get Al Capone on Tax Evasion.
So regardless of what the Gooferment, the politicians, or the bureaucrats say, American Juries can put an end to this nonsense all by themselves. No victim; no crime. Sorry. A juror doesn’t have to explain or even talk; just vote “not guilty” and this house of cards will come tumbling down. Argh!
What does an out of work Columbian or inner city drug lord do for a living?
AND, furthermore, the FDA should be in an ADVISORY role.
Leave “drugs” to the medical profession and people to figure it out themselves.
IMHO,
fjohn
p.s., I’ve left NJ because I couldn’t afford to die here. With no kids, the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee would tax my estate 30%. Ask the Guv why it’s OK to rob the dead?
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https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/06/walter-e-williams/white-privilege-2/
Intellectual Dishonesty
By Walter E. Williams
June 2, 2015
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President Barack Obama’s stance, expressed in his 2014 State of the Union address, is that the debate is settled and climate change is a fact. Obama is by no means unique in that view. Former Vice President Al Gore declared that “the science is settled.” This “settled science” vision about climate is held by many, including those in academia. To call any science settled is sheer idiocy. Had mankind acted as though any science could possibly be settled, we’d be living in caves, as opposed to having the standard of living we enjoy today. That higher standard of living stems from challenges to what might have been seen as “scientific fact.”
According to mathematician Samuel Arbesman’s book, “The Half-Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date,” many ideas taken as facts today will be shown to be wrong as early as five years from now. Arbesman argues that a study published in a physics journal will lose half its value in 10 years.
Many academics know that to call any science settled is nonsense. But their leftist political sentiments and lack of academic integrity prevent them from criticizing public officials and the media for misleading a gullible public about global warming.
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I can always count on Professor Wilaims educating me.
I never had heard about the “Half-Life of Facts”.
As a fat old white guy injineer, “facts” were always “facts”.
There are certain absolutes in this world: π, ℊ, 𝑒, and lying politicians.
There are certain moral principles: The Golden Rule (i.e., do unto others), the Zero Aggression Principle (i.e., don’t hurt people or steal their stuff), and Karma (i.e., what you do, comes around back to you).
There are a lot of “theories”. For example, Evolution, Conspiracy, and Global Warming / Global Cooling / Climate Change,
Personally, I have always used the DIKW (i.e., data, information, knowledge, wisdom) paradigm to understand the world and structure my memes accordingly.
Note that “facts” don’t appear in my paradigm because, for the most part, when people tell me “facts”, they are not very absolute.
In my mind, “facts” are “information” subject to verification and testing.
Thanks for Professor Williams educating me that there is no such thing as “settled science”.
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Peanut Butter Smell Test for Alzheimer’s
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An ingenious group of researchers at the University of Florida discovered all we may need is some peanut butter and a ruler.
Considering that the left side of the brain primarily processes what we smell through our left nostril and the right side of our brain covers the right nostril and Alzheimer’s strikes the left side more than the right, what if you performed the following experiment?
Close your eyes and mouth and breathe normally through the nose. Then close one nostril and hold a foot-long ruler out from the open nostril. After their eyes, mouth, and one nostril were closed, the container of peanut butter was opened at the bottom of the ruler and moved closer 1 cm upon each exhale until the person indicated that they detected the odor. Then they repeated the whole procedure again using the other nostril.
In the normal elderly controls, they smelled the peanut butter as soon as it came within an average of 18 centimeters, which is about 7 inches from either nostril. And in the right nostril of Alzheimer’s patients was about the same, 7 inches. No difference, but in their left nostril, only 2 inches. The peanut butter had to get all the way up to 2 inches before they could detect it through their left nostril. And this happened every single time, left nostril impairment of odor detection was present in all the patients with probable Alzheimer’s disease.
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You can bet I’ll be testing myself with peanut butter.
Amazing that these folks came up with a cheap and easy way to dispositively test for the disease.
Truly inspirational.
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Commemorating the 71st Anniversary of D-Day and the Museum’s 15th Anniversary
In fact, the institution we now know as The National WWII Museum was once dedicated entirely to the story of D-Day in Normandy. With founder (and noted author) Stephen E. Ambrose at the helm, it opened in June 2000 in New Orleans—home of shipbuilder Andrew Higgins, whose production of the amphibious Higgins Boats led Eisenhower to describe him as “the man who won the war for us.” Now 15 years later, The National WWII Museum is one of the most popular museums in the world, and home to historical collections and scholarship that span the entire scope of America’s WWII story. The Museum is also a center for ongoing research and outreach, innovating every day to reach students, teachers, veterans, and visitors like never before.
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I wonder how many people will remember the slaughter on the beaches.
And this was against a weakened Germany that was bled by their Russian disaster.
How was history changed by this blood letting?
And blame it all on Wilson and FDR.
Argh!
Also “We, The Sheeple” have learned nothing from all these wars.
Seems like a good anniversary to bring all the girls and boys home now.
Requiescat In Pacem
Dona Nobis Pacem
Let’s not forget!
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SECOND AMENDMENT
‘Covering Guns’: Columbia University’s ‘workshop’ for journalists far from objective
By Dr. John R. Lott Jr. Published May 29, 2015 FoxNews.com
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Columbia University would never sponsor an event funded by the National Rifle Association. What’s more, the idea would seem especially outlandish if most of the speakers at the event were NRA supporters.
Yet, gun control advocate and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his gun control group Everytown are now funding a two-day workshop in Phoenix on Friday and Saturday sponsored by Columbia University’s Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma. The event will bring together journalists from around the country to learn about “covering guns and gun violence.”
Bruce Shapiro, executive director of the Dart Center, claims that there is “no party line” and calls the workshop “very balanced.”
But gun control advocates make up 15 of the panel’s 17 experts. Aren’t journalism schools supposed to teach journalists to present both sides of a story? Why doesn’t Columbia feature other speakers who argue that people should be able to defend themselves with guns?
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But you would think that Columbia would have the gumption to at least use basic journalistic practices of fact checking and teaching journalists to see both sides of an issue when they offer a workshop.
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Seriously, have you ever seen the state of “Journalism” today?
Columbia is partially responsible for that state.
Common sense demonstrates that “good guys with guns” stop “bad guys with guns”.
And, when there is a defensive use of gun, it rarely gets any media attention. If no shots are fired, there will be NO coverage at all.
The Dead Old White Guys must be rolling over about this issue, as well as some others (i.e., fiat currency; Gooferment Skrules; FED; Federal “special militias” that is the various Federal “police” agencies; federal asset forfeiture; “(pseudo) War on (some) Drugs”).
The RIGHT to Keep and Bear Arms is the platinum standard for Liberty.
All you have to do is ask candidates one question. “Where do you stand on guns?”
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https://www.facebook.com/AAAMidAtlantic?sk=app_234658916574732
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LIFE IS JOYOUS. IT’S MESSY. IT’S SURPRISING. MOSTLY, IT’S YOURS.
THROUGHOUT IT ALL, THERE’S ONE NAME YOU CAN COUNT ON, AND IT’S PRONOUNCED TRIPLE-A. SHARE YOUR AAAHH! MOMENT AND YOU COULD BE A WINNER. IT’S EASY.
Just click ‘Enter Now!’ below to get started. Upload a photo depicting your favorite AAAHH! Moment – good, bad, funny – it’s up to you! Next, add a clever caption, fill in the remaining fields, click ‘Submit’ and you could win cool prizes like free gas, theme park passes or free movie tickets!
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SO I did.
BUT, (and there is always a BIG butt), they never gave me a chance to capture my creation.
I was going to send to my “usual suspects”.
IT would have had their logo on it.
SOOoo they missed a chance to expand their “mind share” and possibly their market share.
Dumb!
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I heard a sad tale of woe.
Fellow did his “own” will with Legal Zoom.
When I was told that the son had the original will, I just KNEW there would be trouble. Most attorneys INSIST that you leave the original will in their vault for safekeeping.
All was fine and dandy until he “corrected” it.
Note that if he had NOT had the original, he couldn’t have spoiled it.
Now the fun begins.
It may be that the fellow that died will be declared “intestate” (i.e., no will).
And the state law will divide his assets.
Probably not the way he planned.
AND, for sure, there will be extra costs (i.e., legal fees, court fees, insurance bond, extra lawyer, billable hours).
ALSO, if he had NOT screwed it up, his son could have been the executor and “saved” the 15% fee. Now that’s up for grabs.
Getting your will done by a good lawyer is NOT that expensive and certainly not as expensive as a mistake.
Argh!
No one to blame but the fellow who thought he knew what he was doing.
Argh! I hate when “amateurs” try and do “brain surgery”. It’s a common thing on Wall Street, but didn’t expect it of this individual.
[Note to self: Remember this blog post.]
“Yes, the advice of an attorney costs more. But eighty percent of people who fill in blank forms to create legal documents do so incorrectly. Are you going to beat the odds? Are you willing to take the risk?”
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HOMELAND SECURITY
FBI flying surveillance aircraft over US cities; planes traced to fake companies
Published June 02, 2015
Associated Press
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The surveillance flights comply with agency rules, an FBI spokesman said. Those rules, which are heavily redacted in publicly available documents, limit the types of equipment the agency can use, as well as the justifications and duration of the surveillance.
Details about the flights come as the Justice Department seeks to navigate privacy concerns arising from aerial surveillance by unmanned aircrafts, or drones. President Obama has said he welcomes a debate on government surveillance, and has called for more transparency about spying in the wake of disclosures about classified programs.
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Sorry, but every American should be hoping mad about this.
No one knew about it or admitted it until Drudge broke the story about “mysterious planes”.
And why hide the FBI affiliation?
Everything else has logos on it, except for unmarked police cars which is another topic.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
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The Volokh Conspiracy
‘[W]e know what happens when you criticize Muhammad, we know how some people react to that’
By Eugene Volokh May 29 at 9:45 AM
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U.S. News (Steven Nelson) reports:
“The mass transit authority that oversees commuter buses and trains in the nation’s capital is banning issue-oriented ads for the remainder of the year after receiving an ad proposal featuring a cartoon of Muhammad, Islam’s central figure.”
The cartoon that prompted the decision was apparently this one, a combination of an earlier cartoon by artist Bosch Fawstin with the addition of the caption “Support Free Speech,” and the American Freedom Defense Initiative logo:
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Sorry, but that’s not good enough.
They were taking ads up until they got one that was a “hot grounder”.
As part of the Gooferment, they don’t get to censor speech.
This issue was tried up in NYC and the First Amendment won.
As a pro-life pro-choice little L libertarian, I get “offended” all the time.
Politician corruption offends me, but I have to “tolerate” it.
Argh!
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http://www.unz.com/article/nazis-on-the-backlot/
Nazis on the Backlot
How Hollywood has changed our perception of war
BY PHILIP GIRALDI • MAY 26, 2015
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Memorial Day used to be a somber occasion, dedicated to reflection and remembrance of those killed in America’s wars. Today it is instead a celebration of ongoing wars, a long shopping weekend and the unofficial start of summer. Part of the problem with America’s shifting perception of the price to be paid when one goes to war is that it has been shaped by Hollywood and video games, so much so that it has become divorced from the horrible reality of what happens when countries and peoples do their best to kill each other.
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My point is that when Americans think of war they think of something heroic and relatively painless unless you are somehow electrocuted by your PlayStation. There are no bad consequences arising from stomping on Afghans from a control center in Nevada. And if you screw up and kill a wedding party, so what? I am not advocating a salutary invasion of the United States to create an awareness of just how terrible war is, but a little more creative candor from the media, Hollywood and the political class might just help make the public think twice before it goes into that voting booth to pull the handle for Ted Cruz or Jeb Bush. Or Hillary.
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“WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.” –Major General Smedley Butler
Gooferment needs war to keep the Crony Capitalists pouring “campaign contributions” into the politicians and bureaucrats.
I have often blamed “giving women the right to vote” for the rise of “organized crime” because they pushed Prohibition and other “Progressive” causes. I add to that they have failed to stop us from going to war so many time.
“Yes, when we get out of here. We’re going to have to fix that. You know we control something that can get it done. Not the ballot box, but the other box. (A giant sucking sound as pure Miss Marie used that very rude idiom.) We can end war.” — character “Marie” being anti-war in CHURCH 10●19●62 Volume 1 Page 262
As I’ve aged, I’d like to think I’ve gotten wiser.
And, one topic of growth is about the wars.
I don’t understand why “We, The Sheeple” can NOT wake up and see the rows of graves and ask “Why?”
You can trace it back to brainwashing, propaganda, and Gooferment Skrules.
It’s rooted in the FED printing press money that allows the Welfare / Warfare state to spend without restraint. (One reason for the FED was so that Gooferment could spend money without having to forcibly extract it from the people.)
SO how do we roll this back and put Gooferment back in avery small cage?
Have to end the FED. Have to end Gooferment Skrules. Have to bring all the girls and boys home now.
Be more like Switzerland.
Secession is the key. Just like the USSR imploded, so to will the USA.
Argh! Not going to happen in my lifetime.
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http://www.nj.com/education/2015/05/remembering_hurricane_sandy_tcnj_launches_oral_his.html
Powerful stories: TCNJ launches Hurricane Sandy project
By Kelly Heyboer | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
on May 24, 2015 at 8:47 AM, updated May 24, 2015 at 9:37 AM
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Building something bigger
The hurricane ripped a wall off the Beach Bar in Seaside Heights, the popular boardwalk restaurant where the Garofalos worked and owned the food concession. The owner of the building never rebuilt after the storm and the Garofalos remain involved in an ongoing legal dispute over their business losses.
The family opened a new business, Silver Bay Bagels in Toms River, and are still repairing the storm damage to their house. As they were interviewed for the oral history project, they were preparing to move out temporarily so the house could be lifted six feet and put on stilts, like many in their bayside neighborhood.
The Garofalos said the hardest part of Hurricane Sandy has been dealing with the red tape and bureaucracy as they navigated insurance claims and government programs to find money to rebuild. They said they hope their story shows historians the lasting impact of the storm on ordinary families.
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As I strolled around Seaside Heights, I saw many buildings being raised or completely rebuilt on stilts.
They are big robust “trees”.
My concern is “how long do they last”?
How long does a utility pole last and they are not under load?
Termites?
Exposed to the weather?
My guess is twenty years. My house, that I affectionately call “my white elephant”, didn’t suffer any major damage due I attribute to being built on three rows of cinder block as a foundation.
It’s been that way for probably eighty years.
No way those “stilts” will last eighty years.
Than what happens.
Will it be it’s own version of Sandy as the house come crashing down?
I think that’s an interesting question.
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Judge nixes New York City gun permit for firearms dealer
Published May 24, 2015
FoxNews.com
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A judge won’t let a traveling firearms dealer carry a concealed weapon in New York City to protect himself and his wares from “criminals and terrorists.”
Cavalier Knight applied for a gun permit from the New York City Police Department in 2014. He went to court when the application was denied. He claimed the NYPD violated his Second Amendment rights.
But in a decision posted Friday, a judge rejected that claim while upholding New York’s tough gun control law, the New York Daily News reported Saturday.
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Sorry, but that’s “infringement”!
Let’s apply the same rules to the First Amendment?
“An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.” — Robert A. Heinlein
And a crime free one too!
“I particularly like unlimited concealed carry. If the criminal regards the general public as sheep to be shorn, then let’s sprinkle in a few “sheepdogs” with big teeth in the flock.
Guess which gay to bash? Buzz, wrong, you picked a Pink Pistol and you’re dead!
Guess which woman to bash? Buzz, wrong, you picked a Paxton Quigly and you’re dead!
Guess which brown person to bash? Buzz, wrong, you picked a Massad Ayoob and you’re dead!”
https://reinkefaceslife.com/2006/11/02/guns-lets-sprinkle-in-a-few-sheepdogs-with-big-teeth-in-the-flock/
GUNS: Let’s sprinkle in a few “sheepdogs” with big teeth in the flock
Thursday, November 2nd, 2006 at 20:26
Ferdinand John Reinke
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2015-May-29
I’m not receiving new email on GMAIL.
Test messages from other accounts depart normally, but don’t arrive.
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EDUCATION
No pay, no play! Poor kids banned from NY school carnival
Published May 24, 2015New York Post
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No party for the poor.
PS 120 in Flushing held a carnival for its students on Thursday, but kids whose parents did not pay $10 were forced to sit in the auditorium while their classmates had a blast.
Close to 900 kids went to the Queens schoolyard affair, with pre-K-to-fifth-grade classes taking turns, each spending 45 minutes outside. The kids enjoyed inflatable slides, a bouncing room and a twirly teacup ride. They devoured popcorn and flavored ices. DJs blasted party tunes.
But more than 100 disappointed kids were herded into the darkened auditorium to just sit or watch an old Disney movie while aides supervised — the music, shouts and laughter outside still audible.
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So much for the Gooferment Skrules as the great equalizer.
I can’t imagine them doing worse.
And, for those of you who thought “free Gooferment education” was a great idea, this should come as big wake up call.
Can you imagine a parent funded student focused achievement oriented school doing such? I can’t.
Separation Education and State!
The Gooferment is immoral, ineffective, and inefficient and here’s another example.
How do you think those children felt?
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What happened to ‘anti-trust’?
FTD acquires: ProFlowers, Shari’s Berries, ProPlants, Cherry Moon Farms, Personal Creations, Gifts.com and Sincerely.
Argh!
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Thank you for being an FTD customer. We truly value your business, and we’re reaching out today with exciting news.
Our goal at FTD is to provide our customers with a wide range of high quality, unique products that meet all your gift-giving needs. With that goal in mind, we are thrilled to announce that the FTD Family of Brands has expanded and now includes ProFlowers, Shari’s Berries, ProPlants, Cherry Moon Farms, Personal Creations, Gifts.com and Sincerely . In addition to the full assortment from FTD, you now have access to hundreds of additional gift options from these premier online gifting brands.
With so many more gifts to choose from, we look forward to sending you our very best offers from these new brands. If you prefer to not receive email communications from our new brands, please click here before June 22, 2015 to visit the Customer Contact Preference Center.
As always, we remain deeply committed to protecting your privacy and have combined and updated our Privacy Policy to reflect our new brands. If you would like to review the policy, please click here.
From our new family to yours, we look forward to continuing to serve you for all your gifting needs.
Sincerely,
FTD Customer Service
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Dear Ferdinand,
Thank you for being a ProFlowers customer. We truly value your business, and we’re reaching out today with exciting news.
Our goal at ProFlowers is to provide our customers with a wide range of high quality, unique products that meet all your gift-giving needs. With that goal in mind, we are thrilled to announce that ProFlowers has joined the FTD family of brands! As a ProFlowers customer, you will now have access to hundreds of additional florist-designed bouquets and gifts from FTD, in addition to the full assortment from ProFlowers.
With so many more gifts to choose from, we look forward to sending you our very best offers from FTD. If you prefer to not receive email communications from FTD, please click here before June 22, 2015 to visit the FTD Customer Contact Preference Center.
As part of FTD, ProFlowers remains deeply committed to protecting your privacy and has combined and updated our Privacy Policy. If you would like to review the policy, please click here.
From our new family to yours, we look forward to continuing to serve you for all your gifting needs.
Sincerely,
ProFlowers Customer Service
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http://www.rcrwireless.com/20150521/cell-tower-news/tower-bear-and-the-sting-of-indifference-tag8
Cell Tower News: Tower bear
BY JARAD MATULA ON MAY 21, 2015
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Bear climbs tower for eggs
We’re all doomed. The large hairy killing machines known as bears are now bringing their endless appetites off the ground and into the skies. O.F. Mossberg & Sons captured this surprising video of a bear that managed to climb an electrical tower to feast on eggs in a nest. In the video you can see the mother bird flapping around the bear, obviously unhappy about what is taking place.
While this isn’t the first time we’ve covered a bear on a tower site, that time the bear was on the ground. With this latest development it seems like only a matter of time before climbers are working on a tower and looking down to find a bear dozens of feet in the air after their lunch.
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Probably, like climbing a tree, but easier.
A nest in a tree is, imho, harder that a nice regular tower frame.
Guess it’s just one more adaption that the bears have made.
Like the one in north Jerzey, that figured out how to open the ‘bear proof’ garbage cans by throwing them against the garage doors. Scratch one can and one grade door on EVERY house on the block!
Laugh.
And we think we’re so smart!
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https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/05/no_author/why-are-conspiracy-theories-demonized/
10 Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out To Be True
By Jake Anderson
Oddee.com
May 20, 2015
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In recent years, the mere notion of the conspiracy theory has increasingly been ridiculed by even some of the more liberal mainstream news outlets, but don’t let them fool you: it isn’t always some wackadoodle notion without merit or evidence. In fact, sometimes it turns out to be dead on. Here are 10 you may or may not be familiar with that turned out to be true…
1 The Gulf of Tonkin Incident, escalator of the Vietnam War, never happened
2 Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment: Deliberate Non-treatment of Syphilis-Infected Patients
3 Project MKUltra: CIA Mind Control Program
4 Operation Northwoods: US military had plans for ‘false flag’ Cuban provocation
5 CIA drug trafficking in Los Angeles
6 Operation Mockingbird: Early incarnation of media control
7 COINTELPRO: 1960s Counter Intelligence Programs Against Activists
8 Operation Snow White: The Church of Scientology infiltrated the government and stole information
9 National governments/corporations determine global economic policy in secret (TPP, TISA, etc.)
10 The US Government Illegally Spies On Its Own Citizens
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Of course, it’s nothing much. No big deal. No apologies.
Sorry, but “Conspiracy Theory” doesn’t scare people off as much as it used to. Call me a tin foil hat; I don’t care.
CT’s are “credibile” until they are factually disproven. And, even then, they deserve the respect for asking the hard questions.
Keep digging.
My theory is these all start from a germ of truth. Instead of ridicule, let’s ALL dig for the truth.
Argh!
“Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Whose gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinburg? I have a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago, and you curse the Marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know. That Santiago’s death, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. You don’t want the truth because deep down in places you don’t talk about at parties, you want me on that wall, you need me on that wall. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said thank you, and went on your way, Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon, and stand a post. Either way, I don’t give a damn what you think you are entitled to.” Colonel Jessep in A Few Good Men played by Jack Nicholson
I think “We, The Sheeple” are ENTITLED to the “Truth”!
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Saudi Arabia advertises for eight new executioners as beheading rate soars | World news | The Guardian: “Saudi Arabia is advertising for eight new executioners, recruiting extra staff to carry out an increasing number of death sentences, usually done by public beheading.”
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Makes you wonder?
What are “we” thinking, were the politicians and bureaucrats thinking at all?
And we still haven’t gotten down to the bottom of their involvement in 9/11!
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https://www.newsmax.com/NewtGingrich/baltimore-riots-freddie-gray/2015/05/17/id/645106/
What’s Behind the Collapse of Baltimore
Sunday, 17 May 2015 10:13 AM
By Newt Gingrich
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As Archbishop of Baltimore William Lori points out, the Catholic schools cost $6,000 a year and have a 99 percent graduation rate. Yet the Democrats are committed to locking poor children out of those schools if it takes a dime away from funds for failing, unionized public schools.
With school choice policies, we could save children’s lives while saving money. Instead the left wing unions and bureaucracies ruthlessly exploit children, ruining their lives while the Democratic leadership in the Maryland House blocks school choice bills that would give children a chance to attend better schools and would force schools to compete for students by actually being good schools.
There is no greater example of the relentless dishonesty of modern Democrats than their willingness to destroy children’s lives while blaming others. President Obama could quit blaming Fox News and simply demand school choice (which of course he opposes) and he would radically improve the lives of millions of trapped poor children.
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I have always liked Newt’s brains. His morals cost him the Presidency.
But read this article and he factually pounds home the immoral, ineffective, and inefficient government by one party.
It’s hard to imagine the lives that have been lost, the possibilities missed, and the trees lost by the terrible Gooferment Skrules.
Further, after ending the Fed, I can’t think of a more important step to improve America than to Separate Education and the State.
We wouldn’t think of the Gooferment running food so why do we let it “ruin” Education and Health Insurance?
Argh!
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School Bans Teen From Flying American Flag. Quickly Regrets It.
By Hunter Roosevelt on May 14, 2015
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Peyton Robinson, a senior at York Comprehensive High School in South Carolina, was flying an American flag and a POW-MIA flag on the back of his truck – until the school took them off his truck
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The community has rallied around Robinson and his flags and staged a demonstation. As many as 70 cars full of students and adults arrived at the school with people waving flags along the street.
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Under overwhelming public outcry, the school gave in. An announcement on the school district says:
Due to the outstanding display of patriotism through peaceful demonstration, it is apparent to us that many are not happy about this policy. School officials have reviewed the standing policy regarding flags and have decided that an exception will be made for the American flag, as long as the size of the flag(s) does not create a driving hazard.
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So now the Gooferment Skrules are the traffic police. How do they determine it creates “a driving hazard”? Ask the drivers ed teacher!
Argh!
Close the Gooferment Skrules. Defund the Department of Education. And, return the education of children to their parents. And, btw, the parents had ‘em, let them pay to educate them.
Bet all those international measures of education for the USA compared to the world get blown off the scales.
There’s a reason that homeschoolers rock!
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http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/keep-using-cash-support-killing-penny/
If You Want People To Keep Using Cash, Support Killing The Penny
By Justin Pot on 15th May, 2015
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There’s quote you might have heard.“A penny saved is a penny earned” -Ben Franklin
First: Franklin never said that. Second: adjusting for inflation, an early 1800’s penny is worth about 25 cents today. With these points in mind, I propose the following update: “A quarter saved is a quarter earned” -Unknown
My point is simple: when the penny was worth more, no one saw the need for a piece of currency valued at 1/25th of a penny. Creating something like that would have been stupid, because you couldn’t have bought anything with it.penny-bucketToday, it’s nearly impossible to find anything that costs one cent. Anywhere.Seriously: try to find anything that costs a penny. You’ll have to resort to a single nail at the hardware store, but when you try to pay for it with your penny the clerk will probably tell you not to bother – saying to just take the nail and leave.
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I disagree. The penny is an in your face constant reminder that the Gooferment, specifically the FED (i.e., Ferderal Reserve Bank) … …
— The Federal Reserve Bank is a misnomer. IT ain’t “federal”. It reserves nothing. And, it ain’t a “bank”. It is a private cartel of the elite banks run for their benefit and that of the entrenched politicians. —
… … stolen the wealth of the world by inflation. I insist on ranting every time some wants to get rid of the penny, by pointing to Ron Paul and the evils of fiat currency.
Without the Fed’s fiat currency, WW1 and WW2 could not have been fought and the current welfare / warfare state would be impossible.
The penny is the “canary in cage” for the national debt, the deficit, the unfunded liabilities, and the out of control spending.
Keep the penny and let’s not forget WHY it’s worthless!
If you doubt any of this rant, listen to the Tom Woods podcast http://tomwoods.com/podcast/ep-397-the-fed-the-lifeblood-of-the-empire/ and how the FED enables war.
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What Does U.S. Treasury Do with Vaccine Excise Taxes It Collects?
Activist Post
May 13th, 2015
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Earlier this year I started to research what’s known as the “Vaccine Injury Trust Fund,” a “stash” of cash collected on every vaccine sold and given to children and adults in the USA.
That Trust Fund is “financed” by a $0.75 excise tax on each vaccine active recommended by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. On multi-valent vaccines, i.e., those containing more than one disease active e.g., trivalent vaccines like MMR, DTaP, etc., then 75 cents is paid for each valent, or a total of $2.25 for a 3-valent vaccine.
Now, here’s an interesting aspect: The U.S. Department of Treasury collects those excise taxes and also manages the Trust Fund’s investments. Investments? Sounds like there should be quite a stash in that Trust Fund portfolio since the U.S. Vaccine court has paid out just over $3 Billion [$3,159,410,649.38] [1] in claims and attorneys’ fees as of June 30, 2015. That got me to wondering what the Vaccine Injury Trust Fund is valued at; where the money is invested; and that there should be an accounting of public record posted on the Internet.
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However, this foray into vaccine excise taxes has left me with wondering what the real reason is behind having all adults receive ‘catch-up’ children’s vaccines. Are vaccines more of a hidden money-maker for Uncle Sam than anyone ever suspected? But, how is that money used? Off-budget?
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Catherine J Frompovich is a retired natural nutritionist who earned advanced degrees in Nutrition and Holistic Health Sciences, Certification in Orthomolecular Theory and Practice plus Paralegal Studies. Her work has been published in national and airline magazines since the early 1980s. Catherine authored numerous books on health issues along with co-authoring papers and monographs with physicians, nurses, and holistic healthcare professionals. She has been a consumer healthcare researcher 35 years and counting.
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Cut to the chase, bottom line, obvious to anyone who isn’t blind, it went into the “trough”!
It’s humorous to read what the researcher went thru to find this out.
And, of course, there are conflicts of interests all over the place.
Wonder why there is an “anti-vax-er” movement among “We, The Sheeple”?
Perhaps, it’s not about “health”, “health care”, “health care insurance”, BUT something else?
Crony Capitalism between Big Pharma and the Gooferment? Enriching the politicians and bureaucrats at the expense of the victims.
Argh!
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3077507/Everything-think-know-diets-wrong.html
Everything you think you know about diets is WRONG: Counting calories is a total waste of time, it’s bacteria in your gut that make you fat and finally, cheese, alcohol and chocolate can all help
By JOHN NAISH FOR THE DAILY MAIL
PUBLISHED: 18:46 EST, 11 May 2015 | UPDATED: 07:30 EST, 12 May 2015
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Calorie-controlled diets don’t work.
Many of us may have suspected as much for years — but now there’s compelling evidence in a new book by Professor Tim Spector, a leading genetics expert at King’s College London.
What’s more, he’s offering a tantalising new theory about what really makes us fat — which could revolutionise our approach to weight loss.
As one of the scientists leading worldwide research into the trillions of bacteria living in our stomachs, Professor Spector believes they hold an amazing power over our health and moods — and that our modern diet may be having a negative effect on them.
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I agree about calorie counting. I watched my Aunt struggle with weight. Calorie counting all the way. Yet, her sisters were all “normal”; one was down right thin.
There has to be more to regulating weight than a simplistic input = output equation.
The body is a complex interrelated system that’s evolved over a gazillion years.
Sigh!
No hope for me. Since I’m the one in the family most like her. Some said we looked alike or that I was her kid.
Argh!
Doomed, I say. Doomed.
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Washington Post: Hillary Clinton was paid millions by tech industry for speeches
By Editor on May 19, 2015
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While it is common for former presidents to receive top dollar as paid speakers, Hillary Clinton is unique as a prospective candidate who received large personal payouts from corporations, trade groups and other major interests mere months before launching a White House bid. In some cases, those speeches gave Clinton a chance to begin sounding out themes of her coming campaign and even discuss policy issues that a future Clinton administration might face.
Companies that paid her to speak include industry giants such as Xerox, Cisco Systems and Qualcomm, as well as start-ups and trade groups focused on biotechnology and medical technology.
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No, no corruption here. Any more than the contributions to the “Clinton Foundation” by foreigners when she was Secretary of State.
Argh!
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