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GUNS: Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church was a “gun free zone”?
Sunday, June 21, 2015http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/06/18/gun-free-zones-easy-target-for-killers.html
OPINION
Gun-free zones an easy target for killers
By John R. Lott
Published June 18, 2015
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The horrible tragedy last night that left nine people dead at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., probably could have been avoided. Like so many other attacks, the massacre took place in a gun-free zone, a place where the general public was banned from having guns. The gun-free zone obviously didn’t stop the killer from bringing a gun into the church.
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Time after time, we see that these killers tell us they pick soft targets. With just two exceptions, from at least 1950, all the mass public shootings have occurred in these gun-free zones. From last summer’s mass public killers in Santa Barbara and Canada, to the Aurora movie theater shooter, these killers made it abundantly clear in their diaries or on Facebook how they avoided targets where people with guns could stop them.
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The gun control debate would probably be dramatically different if even some of the news stories would occasionally mention that another attack has occurred in a gun-free zone. I have been able to find just one Associated Press story that mentions an attack occurred in a gun-free zone — a recent attack at a mall this year in Pittsburgh.
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Yet, BHO44, Hillary, and the leftist liberal media all want more gun control.
Never let a crisis go to waste?
Argh!
Concealed carry saves innocent lives at zero cost.
It’s predictable.
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INTERESTING: Robot grocery store
Saturday, June 20, 2015Robot grocery store gives high-tech upgrade to food shopping | Fox News
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Des Moines, Iowa is planning to build a first-of-a kind robotic grocery store as an experiment to offer food and necessities to locals anytime at their convenience.
A partnership between the nonprofit Eat Greater Des Moines and the business equipment firm Oasis24seven will see an automated, vending machine-style unit come to the area.
“Throughout Des Moines, there are areas of town where access to quality food is limited,” said Aubrey Alvarez, the nonprofit’s executive director. “We would love for a full service grocery store to move into these areas, but until that time the robotic unit will address the gap in the community.”
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No security risk.
No staffing issues.
No worry about raising the minimum wage.
No “bodega” for “electronic benefits fraud”.
If this becomes “profitable”, then where will it end?
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POLITICAL: “illegal immigrants” versus the “welfare state”
Friday, June 19, 2015https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/06/patrick-j-buchanan/is-a-3rd-world-america-inevitable/
Is Third World America Inevitable?
By Patrick J. Buchanan
June 18, 2015
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Writes Coulter, “Roe v. Wade can be overturned. Obamacare can be repealed. Amnesty is forever.”
Anyone concerned for the future of this country as one nation and one people should find a candidate who will commit to secure the border, enforce immigration laws against businesses that hire illegal immigrants, and pledge no amnesty for the duration of their presidency.
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This “immigration” is nothing more than a “Democratic” party’s attempt to pack the ballot box forever in their favor.
And, the key issue is the “welfare state”.
As long as we have a “social safety net” and the “(pseudo) War on (some) Drugs”, immigration will be a problem.
We need all the hands and brains that come here to work and create. We don’t need more takers and criminals.
The “Republican” party is complicit because they think that cheap labor is good for their donors.
Both “parties” are wrong.
The “welfare / warfare” empire will collapse like all empires on a funeral pyre of paper money.
Argh!
Glad I’m too old to see the result.
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LIBERTARIAN: End the “Selective Service System”
Thursday, June 18, 2015http://cafehayek.com/2015/06/no-conscription-never-unconditionally.html
No Conscription. Ever. Unconditionally.
by DON BOUDREAUX on JUNE 16, 2015
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This market method of recruiting workers works for every other sort of business. When convenience stores (which are very dangerous places to work) need more workers, no one frets about the nation being “underserved” because of a shortage of convenience-store clerks – and no one proposes that the government, to protect against this possibility, conscript people to work in convenience stores. Instead, the pay of such store clerks rises. Problem solved. Ditto for fishing boats (also very dangerous places to work). And ditto for local police, fire-fighting, and EMS forces. Ditto for every other job you can name.
If every job other than those in a national-government’s military is routinely filled without problem or concern by market forces, I see zero reason to worry that jobs in the U.S. military cannot continue to be filled in the same way.
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So why does the USA keep the “draft” aka “selective service” (meaning if you’re not rich and politically connected you’ll get “selected”!)?
Jobs for politicians’ relatives and bureaucrats!
And if we ever do have to mount a defense, then there be more than enough patriots.
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POLITICAL: Off-Grid Living Illegal
Wednesday, June 17, 2015Another Court In The U.S. Has Ruled Off-Grid Living Illegal
Written by: Daniel Jennings Current Events June 16, 2015
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Green living and sustainable energy are encouraged in Huntsville, Alabama, just as long as you do not practice such an off-grid life within the city limits.
Marine veteran Tyler Truitt discovered that the hard way when the city condemned his off-grid retreat because he chose not to use city utilities – and a judge subsequently upheld the city’s decision.
This year he installed solar panels in the front yard, a composting toilet in the trailer, and placed a 550-gallon plastic tank outside his trailer home to catch rainwater. But the city said he can’t live that way, and it has placed a yellow “unsafe building” sticker on the outside of the trailer.
The home sits on two acres of land at the end of a road.
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“The purpose behind these requirements is public safety,” Kelly Schrimsher, the communications director for Huntsville Mayor Tommy Battle, told Al.com. “This includes ensuring that occupants of a residential dwelling have safe, potable, running water and electricity, particularly in the wintertime. The city has posted the property as ‘Unsafe’ for this reason.”
The city of Huntsville owns Huntsville Utilities.
“We encourage green environmental living, and we request interested citizens go through proper channels,” Schrimsher said. “Our departments stand ready and willing to guide them through theappropriate permitting process.”
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What a coincidence!
The gang, claiming the title ‘City of Huntsville’, controls the Gooferment and just happens to own the utilities.
No conflict of interest there.
And, who owns the land?
The “owner” or the “city”?
Argh!
Hope the fellow can stand his ground.
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GOLD: Gold enabling secession?
Tuesday, June 16, 2015https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/06/tyler-durden/one-step-closer-to-secession-2/
Writing’s On The Wall: Texas Pulls $1 Billion In Gold From NY Fed, Makes It “Non-Confiscatable”
By Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
June 15, 2015
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The lack of faith in central bank trustworthiness is spreading. First Germany, then Holland, and Austria, and now – as we noted was possible previously – Texas has enacted a Bill to repatriate $1 billion of gold from The NY Fed’s vaults to a newly established state gold bullion depository…”People have this image of Texas as big and powerful … so for a lot of people, this is exactly where they would want to go with their gold,” and the Bill includes a section to prevent forced seizure from the Federal Government.
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This is interesting to me.
I obviously follow the “secession movement”. There are active groups in many states and parts of states.
I still think North Dakota is the most prepared because of the State Bank of North Dakota. They can “clear” checks and have the infrastructure in place to be a “central bank” for the State.
This “repatriation” of gold moves Teas into second place.
Many State could go on their own when the American Empire fractures. Just like everyone before them. The USSR being the latest.
Like the Soviet Union, the American Empire is going to go broke from corporate / personal welfare and too many foreign wars. It’s inevitable on their current track.
So what does an individual do?
After all opinions are like anal sphincters, everyone has one. It has be “actionable”.
- Prepare for a “crash” by being a prepper (i.e., bullets, beans, band aids, bullion).
- Get in shape. Use the poor man’s gym by just walking. (It’s sad that so many arm chair preppers are coach potatoes.)
- Practice skills that you’ll need in the future (i.e., make fire; improvise solutions; eat basics).
- Grow a garden. Real preppers create wild no-till forest gardens.
What are you doing?
It’s going to be a rough time and many of “We, The Sheeple” aka “Clovers” aka “Mundanes” are not going to make it.
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ECONOMICS: No surprise — no growth in the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee
Monday, June 15, 2015New Jersey’s Economic Growth Among Country’s Worst: New Report
New Jersey’s gross domestic product grew a mere 0.4 percent in 2014, ranking 46th in the nation.
By TOM DAVIS (Patch Staff)June 13, 2015
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New Jersey’s economy is barely ticking upward, with its growth ranking near the bottom in 2014 – and falling far below the national average.
New Jersey’s gross domestic product grew a mere 0.4 percent in 2014, ranking in a three-way tie for 44th in the nation, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. The nation’s real GDP grew 2.2 percent in 2014 after increasing 1.9 percent in 2013.
The state’s growth slowed from previous years, In 2012, the GDP grew 2.5 percent, and in 2013, there was 0.8 percent growth.
The state had the slowest growth of any state in the Mideast region, way behind New York’s 2.5 percent GDP growth.
Gordon MacInnes, president of New Jersey Policy Perspective, a liberal Trenton-based think tank, told NJSpotlight that the state needs to invest more in education, public transit and transportation infrastructure, as well as colleges and universities.
“You can’t create a strong economy and create jobs without a strong foundation,” MacInnes said told the publication.
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“Invest” my <synonym for donkey>!
Spending more money — stolen from over taxed residents of the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee — will not spark any type of growth. Except it the taking class of teachers’ unions, other Gooferment unions, politicians, and bureaucrats!!!
Cut the minimum wage.
Cut the corporate and individual tax rates.
Convert Gooferment pensions to 401s like private businesses are doing.
Introduce a meaningful school choice voucher program.
Reduce education expenses by consolidation of the 600+ “school districts” into 21 county ones.
UNWIND the regulatory state.
End the “(pseudo) War on (some) Drugs” and pardon all non-violent drug offenders.
Eliminate property taxes to fund Gooferment Skrules. (Eliminate Gooferment Skrules entirely!)
And, my personal favorite, end the inheritance tax.
THEN watch the Stte become a magnet for people, business, and happiness!
Argh!
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RANT: Should have been ejected for poor sportsmanship
Sunday, June 14, 2015SPORTS
What a High School Softball Catcher Does Not Once but Twice During a Championship Game Is Downright Dirty
Jun. 10, 2015 4:20pm
Dave Urbanski
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A Texas high school softball catcher was caught on a now-viral video elbowing — and toppling — runners trying score during a championship game.
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I think this says something about the young woman’s character.
If I was her Dad, I’d have gone down on the field and told her to “cut that <synonym for excrement> out”.
Of course, she should have been ejected for poor sportsmanship.
It’s a sad reflection on today’s social environment.
Be mad. Work harder. Be very mad — at yourself, your team, or even your luck.
“I think sportsmanship is knowing that it is a game, that we are only as a good as our opponents, and whether you win or lose, to always give 100 percent.” — Sue Wicks, tenacious Rutgers womens basketball payer
This is a disgrace to Texas high school softball. I thought better of Texans.
At the very least, the next offensive player to score should have decked her!
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TINFOILHAT: Am I Asking the Wrong Questions?
Saturday, June 13, 2015http://deviantinvestor.com/7070/asking-the-wrong-questions/
Asking the Wrong Questions
Posted on June 3, 2015 by Gary Christenson
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We often hear (the wrong) questions such as:
What did politicians know about that scandal?
Will the stock market rally another year?
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What happened to penny candy?
How much longer can “they” hold it together?
Will gold prices ever get to $2,000?
And 101 more…
In my opinion these are often the wrong questions. Ask better questions and we receive more relevant answers.
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Garbage in, garbage out! Ask better questions and the answers will be more useful. The same thinking that brought the world to this point will not be helpful in solving the problems that threaten our financial well-being.
Gary Christenson
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I find this funny because HRC won’t answer questions, BHO just flat out lies (i.e., keep your doctor), and politicians just stall until you give up.
Sharyl Attkisson just gave written testimony how the Gooferment evades and stonewalls FOI requests.
And, everything Gooferment plans to do is either classified, secret, or redacted.
So, when the author cites Groucho, I understand.
“Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?” —Groucho Marx
It’s related to: “I wouldn’t believe you, if your tongue came notarized.” … attributed to Judge Marilyn Milian, but may have an earlier history.
I see an county that is going quickly in the wrong direction, but have no idea how to stop it.
Argh!
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GUNS: Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee “kills” a woman with its “gun laws”
Friday, June 12, 2015NJ WOMAN STABBED TO DEATH WAITING FOR STATE PERMISSION TO OWN GUN
by AWR HAWKINS
4 Jun 2015212
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On April 21, Carol Bowne from Berlin Township, NJ, applied for a license to own a handgun, which she wanted to protect herself from a former boyfriend against whom she had a restraining order.
On June 3—while still waiting for the state to give her permission to own a gun—Bowne’s former boyfriend, Michael Eitel, allegedly stabbed her to death in her own driveway.
According to the Courier-Post, after getting the restraining order, Bowne “installed security cameras and an alarm system to her home and began the months-long process of obtaining a handgun.” Bowne’s co-workers said, “She got a restraining order about a month ago, and right after that her car windows were broken.”
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This tragedy is one more example of the foolishness of putting a licensing requirement on the Second Amendment. Like all gun control, it empowers those with criminal intentions while making the vulnerable more vulnerable.
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Back in 2006, I wrote about the uselessness of restraining orders.
I won’t repeat myself; you can read it if you want:
If the politicians and bureaucrats would pull their heads out of their <synonym for donkeys>, obeyed the Constitution, this woman might be alive today.
Argh!
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QUOTE: Goals & commitments dictate actions
Thursday, June 11, 2015http://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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ECONOMICS: Do “the poor stay poor, the rich get rich”?
Wednesday, June 10, 2015FROM 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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RANT: Open email to Jim Gearhart on Christie and pot
Tuesday, June 9, 2015Jim:
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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INTERESTING: Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date
Monday, June 8, 2015https://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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INSPIRATIONAL: Peanut Butter Smell Test for Alzheimer’s
Sunday, June 7, 2015Peanut 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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HISTORICAL: 71st Anniversary of D-Day
Saturday, June 6, 2015Commemorating 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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GUNS: Columbia trains future journalists in the “party line”
Friday, June 5, 2015SECOND 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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INTERESTING: AAA has a contest, but the missed an opportunity
Thursday, June 4, 2015https://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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INTERESTING: Don’t “roll your own will”
Wednesday, June 3, 2015I 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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RANT: The “rules” are “heavily redacted in publicly available documents”
Tuesday, June 2, 2015HOMELAND 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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POLITICAL: First Amendment and Washington Metro
Tuesday, June 2, 2015The 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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POLITICAL: How Americans perceive “war”
Monday, June 1, 2015http://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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INTERESTING: Houses on stilts
Sunday, May 31, 2015http://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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GUNS: NYC judge nixes RKBA for gun dealer; makes us all less safe
Saturday, May 30, 2015Judge 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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INTERNET: GMAIL appears to be stalled
Friday, May 29, 20152015-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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