ECONOMICS: The death of the department store and the American middle class – Impact Lab

Sunday, December 13, 2020

Department stores are also facing the reality that they are no longer the main way most shoppers discover or access new brands — which was once perhaps their main appeal as onetime innovators. Consumer brands have increasingly become focused on building connections with customers through their own stores, websites, social media platforms, and other online-only marketplaces. 

The death of the department store and the American middle class – Impact Lab

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Clearly, the handwriting is on the proverbial wall.

EVERYONE needs to reassess what this means in their own life.

My past advice seems to apply even more so now.

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.

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HEALTH: Hygiene Theater, like Security Theater, is a waste of attention, time, and resources

Sunday, December 13, 2020

https://www.targetliberty.com/2020/12/surface-cleaning-in-response-to-covid.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+TargetLiberty+(Target+Liberty)

Friday, December 11, 2020
Surface Cleaning in Response to COVID-19 is Hygiene Theater

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Joseph G. Allen, an associate professor and director of the Healthy Buildings program at Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Charles Haas, professor of environmental engineering at Drexel University and Linsey C. Marr, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Virginia Tech, write in The Washington Post:

We don’t have a single documented case of covid-19 transmission from surfaces. Not one.

So why, then, are we spending a small fortune to deep clean our offices, schools, subways and buses?

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Just like the Gooferment, who desires to be seen as “leading”, sends up down a rat hole of wasted effort.

Gooferment is just immoral, ineffective, and inefficient. As well as untrustworthy.

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POLITICAL: Fix the voting frauds!

Saturday, December 12, 2020

VON SPAKOVSKY: How To Make Sure The 2020 Election Never Happens Againhttps://dailycaller.com/2020/12/04/van-spakovsky-how-to-make-sure-2020-election-never-happens-again

HANS VON SPAKOVSKY SENIOR LEGAL FELLOW, THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION

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In fact, that is the first reform states need: requiring a government-issued photo ID to vote not just in-person as in Georgia and Indiana, but also for absentee ballots, as is the law in Kansas and Alabama. That includes providing an ID at no charge for the tiny percentage of the residents of their states who don’t already have one. And states need to modify their driver’s licenses, which are the default national ID card used by the average American every day for many different purposes besides voting, to conspicuously note whether the individual is a citizen or not.

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Sorry, but if this MINIMAL precaution is NOT implemented, then why trust ANY election!

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TECHNOLOGY: The search engines rewrite history

Saturday, December 12, 2020

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/12/no_author/google-youtube-is-erasing-all-evidence-of-election-fraud/

Google/YouTube Is Erasing All Evidence of Election Fraud
By Andrea Widburg
American Thinker
December 11, 2020

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Google/YouTube didn’t try to be subtle. It announced on Wednesday that it would delete any videos that so much as mentioned the word “fraud” in connection with Joe Biden’s patently fraudulently ascension to the top of the ticket in the days after the November 3 election. The implications of this are so enormous that it’s currently difficult to assimilate all of them, let alone understand what needs to be done to hang on to American liberty.

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The control of “history” belongs now not only to “the victors” but to the corrupt “lame stream media” and the tech giants who control the search engines.

Hopefully, “We, The Sheeple” will not forget. 

But that is asking a lot for the asleep, the dumb, and the distracted.

Argh!

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POLITICAL: Will SCOTUS punt or stand up for honest elections

Friday, December 11, 2020

https://reason.com/volokh/2020/12/11/can-the-supreme-court-unite-to-decimate-texas-original-jurisdiction-case/#comment-8632660

Can the Supreme Court Unite to “Decimate” Texas’ Original Jurisdiction Case?
 — Could the Chief bring everyone together for a single merits ruling in a short time?
JOSH BLACKMAN | 12.11.2020 5:35 PM

Tom Goldstein writes that the Supreme Court should do more than dismiss Texas’s original jurisdiction case in a summary order. He says that the Supreme Court should “decimate” the motion with a written opinion.

It is perfectly ordinary and appropriate for the justices to write an opinion explaining the various reasons why they are rejecting Texas’ request. . . A simple five-page per curiam opinion genuinely could end up in the pantheon of all-time most significant rulings in American history. Every once in a long while, the court needs to invest some of its accumulated capital in issuing judgments that are not only legally right but also respond to imminent, tangible threats to the nation. That is particularly appropriate when, as here, the court finds itself being used as a tool to actively undermine faith in our democratic institutions — including by the members of the court’s bar on whom the justices depend to act much more responsibly.

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Disclaimer: I’m not any kind of a lawyer. As a little L libertarian, I don’t like either the d’s or the R’s, but I have followed the anecdotal stories and the statistical analysis of the 2020 Election carefully.

If SCOTUS doesn’t address the blatant fraud in SOME fashion, I fear we will never have an honest election ever again. Why shouldn’t the “political parties” lie, cheat, and steal in ANY election they can? NO ONE is ever held to account, especially the rich and powerful politicians and bureaucrats. Maybe a few peons will get their wrist slapped but that’s about it.

Corrupt elections have been a national joke since the JFK’s dad stole the Presidency from Nixon. We joke about the “graveyard vote”, non-citizens voting, and all sorts of scams around registering to vote. Never mind, “harvesting” the nursing homes, homeless, and felons. And don’t forget the “walking around money” that gets distributed.

No, if SCOTUS punts on this, then it sends the wrong message to the power players to clean up their act. If SCOTUS was to disqualify the five or so States from sending electors, then that, by itself, would send a STRONG message about “law and order”. Anything less, means that the Republic is lost until the next revolution.

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UPDATE 2020-Dec-11 1846 

SCOTUS punted!

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ECONOMICS: Focus on the downside

Friday, December 11, 2020

Guns are a big part of my life… they make me money, they keep me safe, they encourage a particular set of values and lifestyle….but sometimes it gets difficult to remember that there are other aspects of preparedness that may actually be more paramount.

Source: Focus

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If someone asked me what to do to increase resilience for 2021 I’d say “Wargame a scenario where you lose your job and can’t find another one at all or at the same wage and prepare for that”. That means clear debts as quick as you can, and start holding cash. Sure, you’ll lose some to inflation but I don’t see a Wewimar-esque hyperinflation coming yet. If you want to hedge your bets, split it among cash and metals. Here’s what I wold not do: I would not buy big ticket items just because I can, I would not buy anything on credit, I would not plan any expensive vacations, and I would not plan on having kids (because do you really want to take the hit of three months without a paycheck  and have the added medical expenses and the additional stresses all at a time when things are so uncertain?)

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Yeah, it’s easy to be an optimist, and if you’re lucky, it’ll always work out for you.

But when planning for contingencies, assume the worst, and all surprises will be to the up side.

When as the Big Fat Old Turkey couselling Fat Old White Men, who were laid off or fearing for “their” job — even though “your job” is really NOT yours — I would urge them to figure out their “burn rate” of mandatory monthly expenses and depending upon their situation of age, education, savings, debts, and skills — hot in great demand or not — then realistically plan for how long they would be out of work.

Sometimes the answer was that they’d never get another job like their last one. It’s a brutal honest truth that comes to all of us sooner or later. (In my case, it was later; I’ve see some who just turned 50 and were stunned to be unable to find work at all.)

So a word to the wise, be prepared.  In this economy, an emergency fund of two years burn rate is NOT out of the question.

AND, YOU MIGHT NEED MORE.

YMMV.

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BIGOTRY: The secular religion is predominating the woke culture

Friday, December 11, 2020

https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/sippin–starbucks-no-more/

Sippin’ Starbucks No More
By Paul Gottfried 

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The fate of Betsy Fresse, an evangelical Christian who refused to don a gay pride shirt in accordance with instructions from her manager in a Starbucks store in New Jersey is explained with remarkable concision in a recent Reuters article:

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Let’s imagine that the dissenter was a homosexual activist being forced to wear a shirt stating marriage is between a man and a woman. This assertion would not have caused the slightest scandal up until about 25 years ago, because it would have expressed what everyone across the political spectrum had always believed—or was expected to believe.

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Seems that we can see the “truth” when we put the shoe on the other foot.

Mostly, the question begging for an answer is: “Why do all these corporations suddenly get involved in politics?”

I don’t understand it.

Focus on selling your over-priced coffee, please.

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HEALTH: On the Reaction to Covid-19

Thursday, December 10, 2020

(Don Boudreaux) Tweet Here’s a letter to a new correspondent: Ms. Tolbert: I did indeed see my friend and former colleague Omar Al-Ubaydli’s recent op-ed decrying what he believes to be humanity’s under- estimation of the seriousness of Covid-19.

Source: On the Reaction to Covid-19

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as I read the evidence, it tells me three things: (1) lockdowns do not work to reduce Covid deaths; (2) lockdowns fuel other healthproblems, including ones that are fatal; (3) lockdowns create enormous economic hardships for hundreds of millions of people.

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Yes, it seems that the “experts” don’t know as much about the WuFlu as they proclaim they do.

That’s all right.  Now that Sleepy Joe has stolen the election, we will see if my prediction that Covid disappears in the next 90 days.

Its only purpose was to defeat the “Bad Orange Man” and having done that, it’s no longer need in the narrative.

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Now many fraudulent votes do you have to have before that’s evidence

Thursday, December 10, 2020

FROM TWITTER

Charlie Kirk
@charliekirk11
 
In Georgia Alone, sworn testimony alleges:

2,056 felons illegally voted
66,248 under 18 voted
2,423 weren’t registered
1,043 used a PO Box to register
10,315 died before the election
395 voted in 2 states
15,700 moved out of GA
40,279 changed county & didn’t re-register to vote
 
5:57 PM · Dec 6, 2020·Twitter for iPhone

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Certainly seems like fraud to me!

Shake a haystack and needles fall out, then there MUST be more in there.

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: When can you sue about elections?

Wednesday, December 9, 2020

FROM TWITTER

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Robert Barnes
@Barnes_Law

Courts, before election: you can’t complain about illegal votes that may not even happen! Too soon to sue!

Courts, after election: you can’t complain about illegal votes that already happened! Too late to sue!

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Seems like a valid complaint!  Especially in Pennsylvania!!!

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