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UPDATE:
White House
Trump signs Laken Riley Act into law as first legislative victory in new administration
‘America will never, ever forget Laken Hope Riley,’ Trump said before signing the law
By Diana Stancy
Published January 29, 2025 2:46pm EST
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https://nypost.com/2025/02/13/us-news/about-100-cars-and-trucks-involved-in-oregon-highway-pileup/
100 vehicles involved in Oregon highway pileup in treacherous whiteout conditions
By David Propper
Published Feb. 13, 2025, 10:40 p.m. ET
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A highway pileup involving 100 vehicles, including big rigs, grinded an Oregon highway to a destructive halt during a nasty whiteout snowstorm Thursday, according to authorities.
The series of crashes caused a SUV fire and closed a part of Interstate-84 where numerous drivers and passengers were trapped in their vehicles late morning, the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office said.
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The conditions were so treacherous the Oregon Department of Transportation closed the highway in both directions between La Grande and Baker City – a stretch of roughly 50 miles between the two cities.
“Closures are due to blowing and drifting snow with visibility less than 500 feet,” the state DOT wrote before later reopening that section.
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Lucky that no one was killed or seriously injured. First rule in survival training was “AWARENESS”.
Did these folks not realize the danger of the weather?
Visibility of less than 500 feet didn’t happen because the weather gods waved a magic wand. I’ve driven some costal roads, even in Oregon, and fog can be just around the next bend.
At 30 MPH, and 10 second reaction time, you’ve used up your 500 feet.
And, seriously who goes 30?
The other night was a passenger in car and all the drivers in the car thought 15 was fast. Yet we were being passed by drivers doing far in excess of 50. No way they could stop on an ice covered road. Even at 15, we could all feel the slip of the tires on gentle curves.
I guess I’m getting old. But, I think drivers in the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee are all insane!
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https://www.theburningplatform.com/2025/02/12/is-anyone-really-surprised-there-were-two-shooters/
Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
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Rep. Anna Paulina Luna says her FIRST investigation will be the JFK assassination.
“Based on what I’ve seen, the initial hearing held in Congress was FAULTY. I believe there were TWO SHOOTERS.”
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The official story never made sense.
Never had a fair investigation,
The events surrounding the body, autopsy, and Zapruder film are prima facie evidence of a high-level conspiracy.
The assassinations of RFK, Dorthy Kilgallen, and numerous others were cleaning up loose ends.
“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
TO BE CONTINUED
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Here’s an odd bug that no one seems interested in:
Using opera air when I go to signon I fail the cloudflare robot test. Argh! I’m not a robot. When I click on the cloudflare link it knows I’m not a robot. Suggestions?
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Sorry to hear you are having troubles! Unfortunately, we have no control over what Cloudflare returns in these challenges. If you have any add ons or extensions enabled, you could try disabling these in case they are interfering with the validation.
Another option would be to use the login link option from the login page. This will email you a link that will log you in to your account automatically.
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Cheers,
The Penzu Support Team
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Of course, CLOUDFLARE has no end User support. Interesting that I’ve never seen that happen before.
YMMV.
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https://nypost.com/2025/02/11/opinion/make-doge-stick-let-taxpayers-monitor-americas-checkbook/
Make the DOGE revolution stick: Let Musk and taxpayers reveal what’s really in America’s checkbook
By John Hart
Published Feb. 11, 2025, 6:29 p.m. ET
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A federal judge’s decision to bar Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from reviewing the Treasury Department’s payment system is most likely a temporary setback — but it illustrates the urgent need to secure a permanent win for transparency.
Progressives are panicking because their 100-year, largely successful assault on American constitutional government is in danger of being reversed.
Thanks to Musk’s wise plan to follow the money, he has a historic opportunity to mount a coup — not on behalf of himself or President Trump, but for We the People.
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Crowd-sourcing oversight will shift the balance of power away from the bureaucracy and back to individuals.
“America’s Checkbook” will give citizens a megaphone and silence critics.
It will prove our leaders’ confidence in the wisdom of We the People, our system of checks and balances and the genius of America’s founders.
John Hart is the chief executive officer of Open the Books and the former communications director for US Sen. Tom Coburn.
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Not sure how that could possibly work but I like the idea.
But I’m a like foggy on the usefulness of:
“Check #, Payee Joe Blow, Amount 1B$”
But it should give investigative journalists a lead. (If there are any such left? Other than Sharyl Attkisson and James O’Keefe.
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https:///174085/cyber-crime/google-tag-manager-gtm-e-skimmer-software-in-magento.html
Crooks use Google Tag Manager skimmer to steal credit card data from a Magento-based e-stores
Pierluigi Paganini
February 11, 2025
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Crooks use Google Tag Manager skimmer to steal credit card data from a Magento-based e-stores
Threat actors are using Google Tag Manager (GTM) to install credit card skimmer malware on Magento-based e-stores, according to Sucuri researchers. The malware hides in a website’s database and steals credit card information entered during the checkout process, sending it to the attackers’ server. This sophisticated attack demonstrates how criminals are using legitimate platforms like GTM to deploy malicious code that is difficult to detect.
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Isn’t it about time to retire the concept and strategy of using numbers for identification?
Social Security Numbers, credit card numbers, account numbers, or any kind of numbers are just not secure enough any more. I even have my doubts about crypto keys used for “wallets”.
The Gooferment and Visa are the primary actors that we need to lead the change.
Medicare transitioned from a number to an alphameric string to stop the frauds. Why can’t social security?
I’m not sure what should take its place but how about a secure hash of your name?
“John Q Public” could easily become “9YWJSN0BSVR3IKNV11A2HZM 8X70I24JXUA6REACFTXYD7WC436”!
Go ahead hackers guess that!
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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/epic-president-trump-releases-powerful-ad-support-secret/
EPIC! President Trump Releases POWERFUL Ad in Support of Secret Service Prior to Super Bowl LIX – Can You See What’s Missing?
by Jim Hoft Feb. 9, 2025 5:00 pm
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President Donald Trump released a powerful new ad on X Social and Truth Social in support of the US Secret Service prior to the kick off to Super Bowl LIX.
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Made sense to appeal to American pride. So far, the Secret Service has not been involved in any scandal. Although their (DEI influenced) performance in Butler PA was not up to snuff.
All physical standards should be reviewed in every aspect of the Federal Gooferment. No more “accommodations”. And, I include fat old out-of-shape men; not just slightly built short women as bodyguards.
One standard for EVERYONE in a meritocracy!
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Investors take aim at NBA with plans to create $5B basketball league: ‘Opportunity is massive’
By Reuters
Published Feb. 7, 2025 Updated Feb. 7, 2025, 5:54 p.m. ET
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A group of investors are looking to create a new basketball league that will span Asia and Europe to one day rival the NBA, with Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund as a strategic partner and Swiss bank UBS serving as an adviser.
The Financial Times reported that the $5 billion basketball competition plans to create six men’s teams and six women’s teams that will compete in eight host cities.
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Interesting. The NBA is a “monopoly”. Economics teaches that monopolies don’t last since competition seeks to “eat their lunch”. Here’s real life proof of that economic ‘lesson”.
From Standard Oil on to every other attempt to corner the market, we see monopolies destroyed without Gooferment intervention almost immediately after they come into being. Remember Standard Oil went from 100% market share to under 70% in a decade due to competition. And, then the Gooferment got involved.
The only way you can have a monopoly today is with a Gooferment grant of immunity. Like Baseball, the Post Office, or Amtrak. And, it usually comes with subsidies (i.e., why does the Gooferment build NFL stadiums?) that return to the politicians and bureaucrats as payoffs (i.e., campaign contributions).
In the end, the Taxpayers and the Customers get <synonym for the act of procreation>!
Argh!
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Hikers on tallest mountain in Northeast rescued from whiteout snowstorm at 5,000 feet
Mount Washington in New Hampshire known for extreme weather conditions
By Stephen Sorace Fox News
Published February 6, 2025 7:55am EST
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Two experienced hikers were rescued from the tallest mountain in the Northeast after a whiteout snowstorm stranded them at about 5,000 feet on Sunday, authorities said.
Kathyrn McKee, 51, of Southborough, Massachusetts, and Beata LeLacheur, 54, of Westborough, Massachusetts, were trekking through a challenging Mount Washington trail in New Hampshire when the weather turned severe, the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department (NHFG) said.
Temperatures dropped and winds kicked up, blowing snow so that the trail the friends were following was completely erased. The pair pushed through chest-deep snow, lost on the mountain.
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Temperatures at the summit fell to -2 degrees and sustained winds blasted at 50-60 mph, often with gusts significantly higher, by the time the agency began a rescue operation at 8:30 p.m., Holmes said.
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A half hour later, the rescuers found the two hikers alive and coherent, though both were suffering from cold weather injuries. The rescue crew set up emergency shelters and began to warm both hikers, who were able to move on their own after about an hour, officials said.
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Experienced hikers with advanced training still got in trouble. Imagine being in their situation.
When I was in USAF survival school in “good weather” during October in (I think) Idaho, I was cold, wet, and befuddled. And, we had “instructors” nearby to make sure we didn’t kill ourselves. And, it sure seems in retrospect we were trying: “camping in a dry stream bed that became wet at night”, blundering around a night to find “firewood”, making a fire with wet tinder, etc. etc. … And they in the “after action session”, we found out that we weren’t “the worst”. One group tried to make a tea out of hemlock and another tried to take down an adult female deer with a Swiss army knife. The instructor kicked over the tea and the deer was last see scampering out into the night with a Swiss army knife in her butt about a quarter inch.
Seriously, I think that the various parks should have rescue insurance so the taxpayer doesn’t have to bear the costs.
When I think how much calling an ambulance in the city costs, calling for rescue should be expensive enough to be “instructive” to avoid it in the future.
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https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/02/ira-katz/believing-is-seeing/
Believing Is Seeing – LewRockwell
By Ira Katz
<< EDITOR ADDED DATE 2025-02-06>>
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This short explanation cannot do justice to such a broad and important topic. But I hope you will see that while seeing is believing has a certain veracity, it is more important to understand that reality is conceived such that believing is seeing.
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selective attention test
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I didn’t see it and now I understand the limitations of “perception”!
What to make of it?
Like the JoHari window, I realized then to always look for what I can’t “see”.
Maybe if I had learned this much much younger, then my whole life could have been completely different!
“… checked the Eternal Possibilities Machine, which generates all the possibilities for use in creating the alternative worlds. In all those probability lines …” CHURCH 10●19●62 (Vol 1) 978-0-557-08387-9 page 45
Laugh! I could really use that tool today.
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FROM 1440 https://join1440.com/
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Cruise to slash workforce by nearly 50%, or roughly 1,000 employees, after owner General Motors ended funding to robotaxi unit (More) | Estee Lauder to trim up to 7,000 jobs, or around 11% of workforce; shares drop 16% on the news (More)
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Given the wholesale downsizing of Gooferment employees, every one of the “wage slaves” in the USA should reassessing their unemployment risk profile.
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JOBSEARCH: Your reputation as a master networker has qualified you
Get started. When the axe does fall, as it always does, you’ll have bought yourself time, help, goodwill, and possibly some wisdom. I’ll probably have landed in my final spot before I hear from you. But be advised, I’ll be rooting for you from upstairs or down, where ever I’m sent.
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And …
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JOBSEARCH: The risk inherent in the status quo of employment
I counsel job seekers and potential job seekers that they must rigorously and honestly evaluate just how much is at risk in their current state. One tool is my “how much money do I need to have to get another job”. Age, level of education, hotness of field, hotness of your geography, level of position you’d accept, what’s your burn rate, how do you look, and unfortunately sex all combine in strange complex calculus to determine the risk of the status quo. In more than one instance,
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As you can see, once I woke up to the “status quo is not risk free” after my first “promotion outside”, I preached to anyone who would listen that “wage slaves” were at great risk of “downsizing”, “rightsizing”, or just a plain old corporate bankruptcy,
I remember that Gooferment employees would tell me that they’re 100% secure in their Gooferment GS13 position. Wonder how they would evaluate that now with DOGE chainsawing whole departments and agencies. I used have heated discussions with those poor confused souls that “Nothing is 100% risk free”. I pointed to my and my mother’s experiences at AT&T. We both had “gold watch” syndrome (i.e., the good corporation would care for its valued people from cradle to grave). I took the buyout and she didn’t. And she never realized that the “rules” had changed.
One piece of advice that often preached:
“Success for your generation is: (1) ruthless financial discipline — no bad debt; (2) a life long interest in learning — education — a degree — they can’t take it away from you; (3) a NON-OFFSHORABLE white collar job in order to save big bux; (4) a blue collar skill for hard times — never saw a poor plumber; (5) one or more internet based businesses — your store is always open; (6) a free time hobby that generates income; and (7) a large will-maintained network of people who can “help” you.
has held up very well over the decades.
Hope this helps and is not seen as “dancing on graves”.
As always, YMMV.
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https://www.macrumors.com/2025/02/03/apple-doesnt-approve-eu-porn-app/
Apple Says It Doesn’t Approve of EU Porn App
Monday February 3, 2025 1:15 pm PST by Juli Clover
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Apple does not approve of the “Hot Tub” pornography app that was released for the iPhone in the EU using alternative app distribution, Apple said in a statement to MacRumors. Further, Apple is concerned about the potential user safety risks with a pornography app, and says that it undermines consumer trust in the Apple ecosystem.
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I agree with Apple. Not that they are “saints”, but forcing them to support an app (Apple’s Notarization process only checks for malware, fraud, and other egregious issues) is a violation of their independence.
I thought, that by “alternative App Store”, Apple would have no part in the process of putting an app on their hardware. Guess I was wrong!
I see a whole slew of issues and “finger pointing” when some app bricks the hardware. Apple’s response should be “Nie mój cyrk, nie moje małpy” . . . literally, “not my circus, not my monkey;” figuratively, “not my problem.”
I guess monkeys are “problems” in Poland, and circuses are where “problems” come from. If it’s not your monkey, and it’s not even from your circus, then it’s not your problem.
And, the User should seek help from the EU technocrats.
Tough nuggies but that’s what the EU wanted.
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Parents Ditch 529 Plans and Embrace Bitcoin for College Savings
By Charlie Wells and Claire Ballentine
February 1, 2025 at 11:00 AM EST
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Most parents typically worry about funding 529 college savings plans, brokerage accounts or high-yield savings vehicles for their kids. Now, a subset are eschewing the old ways, pushing instead to pile up enough Bitcoin to help their children in the years ahead.
Some say it’s because stock gains aren’t good enough. Others view it as reasonable diversification. Plenty are true believers — convinced that, despite a more than 500% gain since the depths of the last “crypto winter,” Bitcoin’s climb has only just begun. The world’s biggest cryptocurrency surpassed the $100,000 mark for the first time in December, having changed hands for less than $16,000 in November 2022.
Still, these parents argue their children have long enough time horizons to stomach Bitcoin’s intense volatility.
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Anytime I blog on financial topics, I always disclose faiwwypfi (Free Advice Is Worth What You Pay For It! ?zero?) and I have no hidden interests. I am willing to buy and sell ₿, goldbacks, and bullion.
Before jumping into this topic, you must be absolutely sure that you won’t lose the keys to the kingdom. Your wallet should be backed up and secure.
And, remember you may not be around to extract the value. Everyone dies — sooner or later. Remember the guy in the UK who threw away his back up hard drive with his ₿itcoin keys on it. Millions of dollars in a landfill.
It also should NOT be an exchange wallet since “not your keys; not your coins”.
So you are going to have to have a young person to understand and hold keys.
A hardware walled that multi signature is essential.
Remember the Ukrainian tech guy who escaped Ukraine with nothing but his clothes and his twelve word pass phrase?
YMMV
That being said: (1) ₿ is an inflation proof asset; (2) it avoids the Gooferment; and (3) might be a hidden “lottery ticket”.
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Shocking video shows 78-year-old fatally shoot teenager who tried to rob him in Argentina
By Ronny Reyes
Published Feb. 2, 2025, 9:13 p.m. ET
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A 78-year-old retiree shot and killed a 15-year-old boy who tried to rob him outside his home in Buenos Aires, Argentina, shocking video shows.
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The teenager, who was described by a friend online as a “great person,” was holding a fake gun meant to resemble a gray .22-caliber mini Bersa Thunder, Page 12 reported.
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Local prosecutor Diego Rulli, who is in charge of the case, will not seek charges against the 78-year-old man, who he said acted in clear self-defense with a weapon that he is licensed to carry and use.
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It seems like a gang related crime and a case of “kill or be killed”.
Fake gun or not, in the heat of the moment, the old man really had no choice.
I can’t imaging how he must feel especially after finding out it was a fake gun and a teenager.
FAFO is the common refrain we hear these days and this is an example of the “FO” part.
Can not fathom the depth of evil that this teenager go into.
Guess that this will put a damper on car jackings.
As I’ve blogged before:
“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
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FROM 1440 https://join1440.com/
<< EDITOR ADDED DATE 2025-02-08>>
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Today, we’re sharing a story from reader Richard B. in Springfield, New Jersey.
“My daughter left her handbag with her phone and passport in the back of a taxi in Paris on the eve of a Sunday. Flight with her family was scheduled for 1 pm the next day. At 2:30 am, our phone rings in New Jersey with a 510 area code. When it rings a second time, my wife answered. A voice says, ‘Please don’t hang up as I have been trying to call someone for the last 6 hours. I work for Boeing in Seattle and my sister lives on the outskirts of Paris and has Felice U.’s pocket book. She doesn’t speak English but would like to return it. Her husband found it in the back of his cab.’”
“Our daughter contacted her concierge and arrangements were made for the brother-in-law to come to the hotel. This was accomplished by 10 am and they made the plane home in time. We still are not sure how the man in Seattle was able to trace us to NJ but his detective work and persistence in attempting to find someone is amazing. Upon their return, my daughter and her family found multiple calls from him on the home phone and my son-in-law’s cell phone documenting his persistent efforts. There are, indeed, good people in this world.”
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I’d call what these folks did a “mitzvah”!
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… … a mitzvah, even one he didn’t understand, is a connection n a way to get closer to G‑d that transcends logic. We affix a mezuzah to our doorposts, not just because it makes sense to us, but because this is G‑d’s wish. When we fulfill the request of G‑d, we are strengthening our bond with Him. Next time a mitzvah comes your way, make the connection!
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More than just a “good deed”, these folks really made a “connection” with more people than they know or imagine.
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FROM A EMAIL THREAD:
LUDDITE:
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Wow this is beyond mind blowing! The list of blatant wastes of billions of U.S. tax dollars is really hard to comprehend. It will probably reach trillions very soon, there are no words to describe what the scabs have been doing to us!
Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) / X
x.com
https://x.com › doge
Through 1/29/2025, 85 DEIA related contracts totaling ~$1B have been terminated within the Dept. of Ed, GSA, OPM, EPA, DoL, Treasury, DoD, USDA, Commerce,
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REINKEFJ:
Very sad indeed. And, a lot of “little people” are going to be displaced. It’s not just the “leadership” that gets fired. Argh!
Last tin foil hat estimate I read was that 3T$ could be freed up if 12 Departments, about 15 “agencies”, and a bushel basket full of other types of activities were eliminated.
Sigh!
A YOUNGER RELATIVE:
I don’t think anyone disagrees with cutting poor employees. But, as the reaction to grant programs being cut showed, red states are disproportionately impacted by government program cuts and those senators and congressman got an earful hence that idea was quashed. Today offices across the Midwest and south got hammered by calls regarding the tariffs. Farmers want their government handouts to continue. Biggest welfare group in the country and they have some power in the republican caucus so it’ll be interesting to see. President Musk is certainly leaving his mark but you’d think his lackey will want to regain some control soon.
REINKEFJ:
Well, it’s about time that EVERYONE got off the dole. The fiscal ship is sinking and if we don’t want a complete financial meltdown, everyone has to take their cuts.
Farmers, especially the corporate farmers like ADM, have been “milking” the system. Parity payments for sugar are a classic example. Paying farmers not to grow crops is another. America could feed the world if the Gooferment would just get out of the way and allow the really free market to explode our productivity.
Sorry but EVERYONE is not entitled to a handout. Ponzi scheme of Social Security needs to be unwound.
The Federal Reserve is a huge stumbling block to a healthy economy. But probably too big for DJT47 to tackle. Although I did read that his advisors were floating a trial balloon of 50 year bonds pegged to the price of gold as a way to retire the national debt. If so, then the FED would be unnecessary. Shade of Andrew Jackson, imaging no Federal debt to service.
I have high hopes that the DJT47 team can turn the Titanic away from the icebergs.
First time in decades that there is a glimmer of hope.
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I think this dialogue is instructive in that everyone sees the problem but no one wants their “Sacred Cow” to get killed.
Hopefully, if everyone is upset, then the country is getting back on track.
The good ideas seem to keep flowing in. From “Kill the Department of Education” to defund NPR, nothing is too big or too small to get the AXE.
One thing I learned and was astonished to find out was that “USAID” was not “USA foreign aid” but “USA International Development” and was a CIA front for “foreign adventures”. Surely that should be axed.
Another surprising revelation, was that all the Ukrainian cash aid didn’t get to Ukraine.
Finally, the NGO’s like Red Cross and Catholic Charities were getting gazillions for “illegals” “resettlement”.
No wonder the USA is going broke, too many grifters robbing us blind.
Argh!
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https://nypost.com/2025/02/06/entertainment/royal-family-live-updates-news-photos-feb-6/
Royal family live updates: Kate Middleton pairs up with girl, 5, on field trip who has no idea she’s a princess
By Sarah Ng, Kaydi Pelletier and Nika Shakhnazarova
Updated Feb. 7, 2025, 6:28 a.m. ET
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Maybe I’m a sucker for a photo op, but the lady looks like she was just having bit of fun doing something “normal”. I’m sure that the security was really tight wvwn though it was “invisible”. And the children had no idea something special was happening.
And, Kate Middleton has a beautiful smile and an air of Noblesse oblige.
Again, she makes you forget just how evil and expensive “monarchy” is.
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Classy Ravens Fans Return the Favor for Foes–After Bills Player Drops Ball in Heartbreaking Playoff Loss
By Andy Corbley – Jan 29, 2025
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The quality among Baltimore Ravens fans have donated to a GoFundMe to raise money for an autism charity supported by Buffalo Bills tight end Dalton Kincaid, who just dropped a key pass that could have taken the franchise to the Super Bowl.
In a bizarre reversal of circumstances, the fundraiser mirrors what happened last week: when Bills fans set up a GoFundMe to raise money for a diabetes charity supported by Ravens tight end, Mark Andrews, who also dropped a key pass that may have taken his franchise to the Super Bowl.
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This is a tremendous counterweight to all the bad stories we read about out-of-control fans and players.
I’m proud to put my money where my mouth is and donate to Dalton Kincaid’s gofundme.
While good works should be done in secret, this needs to be encouraged.
(Ever heard that old Irish adage about “good works only count if done in secret”. Funny, I learned that from my maternal English Protestant grandmother who wanted to teach me about my maternal grandfather’s “heathen Irish culture that has a few good points”. ROFL!)
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Bill Proposed in Illinois Could Allow 18-Year-Olds to Drink Alcohol
Amy Furr6 Feb 202577
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A bill up for consideration in the Illinois General Assembly would change the state’s legal drinking age.
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Sorry but did we learn NOTHING from Prohibition?
Is it because DRUG PROHIBITION has worked so well?
Can’t we see what Portugal has done?
Argh!
No one can stop someone from putting in their body what they want. It’s call free will. Human beings are as resourceful as any rat or roach.
Argh!
Could we try abandoning an approach that is an OBVIOUS failure and try a true free market approach?
Imagine how many drug addicts would survive if they could walk in any pharmacy and buy their drug of choice in a sterile accurately measured does of a know potency? Like going into a Marijuana Dispensary today. I’m sure that if Walmart, Walgreens, or CVS was in charge, the whole process would be safe and that they would offer information about rehab with every “prescription”, Maybe even require a buyer to acknowledge that they were given the information. And, I bet prices would be cheaper than aspirin!
Of course, we would have the problem of out-of-work drug gangs and what does a Drug Kingpin do when he has to compete with Walmart?
If short, I think we should admit defeat in the “(pseudo) War on (some) Drugs” and seek a different strategy.
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https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B09742MWY9/ref=atv_dp_share_cu_r
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The Great War of Archimedes
Pre-WWII, the Japanese Navy commissioned the creation of impressive “supership” Yamato, strongly opposed by a top official insisting on more strategic and battle-ready warships. After being ignored without cause, Admiral Yamamoto recruits a math genius to help uncover what he soon suspects is a massive
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Movie of the Philosophy of Japan & Humanity
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Not usually a fan of historical fiction, but this Japanese made movie incorporates mixtures of reality, ideology and humanity. Knowing the history of the Pacific war, the culture mindset of imperial Japan and the more ancient ideas behind bushido and the engineering genius of the Yamato, is mixed with fictional characters who have a deeper realization of the effect of war of humanity, especially as it pertains to Japanese cultural mindset. It’s NOT a war movie, but “Archimedes” is a metaphor for the unsolvable problem of how to avoid an unavoidable war.
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It is really captivating in the story. Not sure how real it is but Pearl Harbor was a fact. And regardless of what the beliefs of the key players really were, they were powerless to stop it.
Kind of like the vets today with the USA involving us in all sorts of “foreign adventures”, when in every vet’s heart, mind, and soul, we know how wrong this is.
Dona Nobis Pacem
And aren’t today’s carriers like the WWII battleships, obsolete. Vulnerable to cheap drones and hypersonic missles Yet the USA keeps building them.
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“We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.” — Arthur Ashe
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Sounds like a foreign policy that the Dead Old White Guys would approve of!
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https://www.popsci.com/science/why-dont-i-remember-my-dreams/?utm_placement=newsletter
Why don’t you remember all your dreams?
By Lauren Leffer
Posted 23 Hours Ago
<< EDITOR ADDED DATE 2025-01-28>>
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Some mornings, waking up might feel like interrupting a vivid alternate universe. You open your eyes to reality, but the dream you were having still lingers clearly in your memory, complete with characters and plot points. Other days, waking up may be more akin to emerging from a black void with nothing to report.
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Sleeping after a learning task, and dreaming about that task is linked to improvement in subsequent task performance and memory, according to a 2010 study led by Wamsley and a 2012 follow-up. Further, participants remembered negative images from an emotional picture task better after a night of sleep, if they reported recalling a dream, according to a 2024 study led by Zhang. The same study also found that emotional state correlated with dream content (positive dreams from the night before were linked with more positive mood the next day), and those that remembered their dreams became less emotionally responsive to neutral stimuli during follow-up tasks.
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Though don’t let that trick you into over-interpreting the dreams your mind metes out. The Freudian idea that dreams align by any common code, which can be used to analyze your subconscious is “bullshit,” says Wamsley. “There’s no evidence that dreams harbor a secret meaning below the surface level, especially not one that you need a professional to tell you about,” she adds. “The person who is having the dream is the person best-positioned to say what it means. There’s no hidden manual.”
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Wow, this gives me some insights.
It’s no secret in my family that my Mother and Father had terrible dreams. I think it was part of what drove them to drink and madness. In my 30’s, I developed what I labeled “night terrors”. Horrible dreams that would wake me up in a cold sweat, literally drenching the sheets and pillows to where I had to change them. I remember my Grandmother complaining that my maternal Grandfather’s bet was always wet when he arose. Possibly he was having those “bad dreams” too. He never talked much, so I don’t know. Anyway, I learned to deal with the night terrors by recording them and thinking about them. Some were down right comical when you parsed them out. Naked, lost in rooms, seeing long dead relatives, conversations with people I know never met IRL, mixing eras, … … all sorts of strange stuff. Eventually, I settled on the concept that it was my brain “taking out the trash”. And since I didn’t want dementia or to descend into madness, I got in the habit of just ignoring them and getting about my day. Soon the “night terrors” evolved into “interesting adventures” that were no longer scary. And since they had no real meaning, they went into the garbage bin of “forgotten stuff”. Some of my novel and many “index card” short stories sprung from the debris of those dreams.
I found this pop sci summary of the research interesting since it confirms: learned behaviors, meaninglessness of dreams, and unscientifically objectively measurable.
Guess I’ll never really “understand” but I’m not crazy either. Or at least, able to function with my craziness.
YMMV
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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/medal-honor-legend-john-chapman-snubbed-national-medal/
Medal of Honor Legend John Chapman Snubbed by National Medal of Honor Museum
by Margaret Flavin Jan. 27, 2025 11:00 am
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The National Medal of Honor Museum has refused a stand-alone exhibit of Medal of Honor legend John Chapman when it opens in March, and the decision is being criticized harshly.
The Museum will have 200 exhibits detailing the personal stories of MoH recipients, but Chapman will not be one of them.
David Hookstead from Outkick reports that Chapman, an Air Force combat controller with the 24th STS, was killed in March 2002 during Operation Anaconda in the Battle of Takur Ghar.
He died alone on a mountain, fighting to protect his fellow warriors.
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Why is the national medal of honor museum leaving John Chapman, an air force CCT, out of their exhibit? He was the only medal of honor recipient to ever have his battle filmed via ISR feed.
Is there ANY logic to this?
Who are the honchos in this museum and who are its donors?
Argh!
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Experts reveal what caused Buddy Holly’s plane to crash 65 years ago today
By Social Links for Hillary Andrews, FOX Weather
Published Feb. 3, 2024, 6:23 p.m. ET
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So many sing about “the day that music died” on Feb. 3, 1959, when Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson were killed in a plane crash.
Don McLean coined the term in his 1971 hit “American Pie.”
The song about the decline of the 60s starts with the death of the three young musicians, “the end of the happy 50s,” he told Forbes Magazine.
Investigators point to quickly-changing wintry weather conditions that were not communicated to the inexperienced pilot as the cause of the crash that left such a tragic mark on music history.
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Just a sad remembrance of the “happy 50’s”.
Requiescat In Pacem
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Why Kanye West and Bianca Censori decided to cause an ‘outrageous’ stir on Grammys red carpet
By Nika Shakhnazarova
Published Feb. 3, 2025, 8:07 a.m. ET
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And while the ordeal may have seemed like it was an impromptu decision made by the married couple, Hollywood PR expert Quincy Dash believes that the move was carefully thought out by the “Vultures” rapper ahead of time.
“They’re in a business called showbusiness,” Dash, founder of PR firm Quincy Dash Co., exclusively told The Post. “What Kanye understands better than any other celebrity or talent is the game of public relations. His strategy is that all press is good press, and there’s no such thing as bad publicity.”
“While we are thinking, ‘Oh wow, this is crazy. What is she doing?’ she is actually going to gain as much as he is, because prior to their relationship, no one knew who she was. Fast forward to today, everyone knows her. She’s getting fame, recognition, and soon she will transition to be able to do what she wants to do,” he said, adding, “It’s a crazy strategy, but it works.”
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They both should be “cancelled”.
Laugh!
It’s shameful behavior.
Hopefully it sends their “brands” into the trash bin of history.
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