Behind the Movement to Kick Chicago Out of Illinois

Monday, May 20, 2019

So far, she has 26 county chapters that want to split the rest of Illinois from Chicago. When forming her organization, Merritt sought advice from other state separation organizations, like New California. The group, which is run by a conservative radio talk show host, advocates for the creation of a new state split from the Los Angeles and San Francisco areas “to throw off the bonds of tyranny.”

Source: Behind the Movement to Kick Chicago Out of Illinois

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Interesting?

What do you tag it as: ChicagoExit or IllinoisFree?

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Which Is a Better Breakfast: Cereal or Oatmeal? | NutritionFacts.org

Sunday, May 19, 2019

The remarkable impact of the structure of food beyond nutritional content or composition.

Source: Which Is a Better Breakfast: Cereal or Oatmeal? | NutritionFacts.org

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Eat your non-instant oatmeal.

(I throw some ground flaxseed in mine for added benefit.)

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Google Gmail tracks purchase history — how to delete it

Saturday, May 18, 2019

Google tracks a lot of what you buy, even if you purchased it elsewhere, like in a store or from Amazon.Last week, CEO Sundar Pichai wrote a New York Times op-ed that said “privacy cannot be a luxury good.” But behind the scenes, Google is still collecting a lot of personal information from the services you use, such as Gmail, and some of it can’t be easily deleted.A page called “Purchases ” shows an accurate list of many — though not all — of the things I’ve bought dating back to at least 2012. I made these purchases using online services or apps such as Amazon, DoorDash or Seamless, or in stores such as Macy’s, but never directly through Google.

Source: Google Gmail tracks purchase history — how to delete it

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Aren’t they “helpful”?

Laugh!

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The Evil Income Tax – LewRockwell

Saturday, May 18, 2019

It is imperative that we MUST eliminate the income tax. It is a purely a Marxist development that is destroying the world economy. The income tax has become such a tyranny that our liberty, freedom of movement, and world economic growth are all at great risk. Never before in the history of human civilization do we find an income tax.

Source: The Evil Income Tax – LewRockwell

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I completely agree.

“We, The Sheeple”, in that day and age, must have been out of their minds to allow this to happen.

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ADMINISTRIVIA: Testing textexpander on Chromebook

Friday, May 17, 2019

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

Works!

But not in the Chrome Address Bar.

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Senator Wyden Leads on Securing Elections Before 2020

Friday, May 17, 2019

Sen. Ron Wyden’s new proposal to protect the integrity of U.S. elections, the Protecting American Votes and Elections (PAVE) Act of 2019, takes a much needed step forward by requiring a return to paper ballots. The bill forcefully addresses a grave threat to American democracy—outdated election technologies used in polling places all over the country that run the risk of recording inaccurate votes or even allowing outside actors to maliciously interfere with the votes that individuals cast.

Source: Senator Wyden Leads on Securing Elections Before 2020

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  • It bans voting machines from connecting to the Internet.

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Seems Obvious!

Captain Obvious

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Ten Years Later—Did QE Work? – The Big Picture

Thursday, May 16, 2019

Altogether, the empirical studies of recent years suggest that large-scale asset purchases can affect real economic outcomes via a bank lending channel. Like an interest rate cut in a conventional monetary policy setting, QE can lead to additional bank lending, which in turn translates into additional economic activity.

Source: Ten Years Later—Did QE Work? – The Big Picture

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It overlooks: (1) increased moral hazard; (2) bailed out Wall Street at the expense of Main Street; and (3) kills the retirement savings of retirees and soon to be retirees.

The only answer is to END THE FED!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: “Political Capitalism” is the death of “Market Capitalism”

Thursday, May 16, 2019

https://tomwoods.com/ep-1403-the-origins-and-evils-of-crony-capitalism/

I heard a great podcast episode that really cleared away some fog in my understanding of “what’s wrong with the USA”!

The guest, Randall Holcombe, made the point that we no longer live under the system of “Market Capitalism”, but under a NEW system of “Political Capitalism”.

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Political capitalism is an economic and political system in which the economic and political elite cooperate for their mutual benefit. The economic elite influence the government’s economic policies to use regulation, government spending, and the design of the tax system to maintain their elite status in the economy. The political elite are then supported by the economic elite which helps the political elite maintain their status; an exchange relationship that benefits both the political and economic elite.

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He translated Karl Marx’s “oppression of classes” into “those with political influence oppress those without it”.  Occupy Wall Street’s “the 1% oppress the 99%”.

It makes perfect sense as an explanation of how things are now working.

  • Argue against smoking but then giving tax subsidies to tobacco farmers.
  • Decry obesity but give “parity payments” to sugar producers.
  • Ethanol in gas means a payoff to farmers and raises food prices.
  • Bailouts of the “fat cat Wall Streeters” as opposed to the people being foreclosed on.

And on, and on, and on!

I didn’t hear a lot of solutions except for: (1) strongly objecting to anyone seeking “transfers from the public to the privileged individuals; and (2) opposition to every extension of Gooferment into every day life.

Argh!

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Eight Questions for Russia Hoaxers to Answer After End of Mueller Probe | Breitbart

Thursday, May 16, 2019

2 – Were Obama administration officials involved in passing dossier charges of questionable political origin to the FBI or bolstering Steele’s credibility to the bureau?David Kramer, a long-time adviser to late Senator John McCain, revealed in testimony that he met with two Obama administration officials to inquire about whether the anti-Trump dossier authored by former British spy Christopher Steele was being taken seriously.In a deposition on Dec. 13, 2017 that was recently posted online, Kramer said that McCain specifically asked him in early December 2016 to meet about the dossier with Victoria Nuland, a senior official in John Kerry’s State Department, as well as an official from the National Security Council.Nuland’s specific role in the dossier episode has been the subject of some controversy for her.

Source: Eight Questions for Russia Hoaxers to Answer After End of Mueller Probe | Breitbart

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Another great question?

What was McCain’s role in getting even with DJT45?

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Ajit Pai proposes new rule that would allow carriers to block robocalls – The Verge

Wednesday, May 15, 2019

The new rule would make it easier for carriers, like AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile, to automatically register their customers for call-blocking technology. As of right now, customers have to opt-in on their own. It would also allow customers to block calls coming from phone numbers that are not on their contacts list. Commissioners are expected to vote on the measure at their June 6th meeting.

Source: Ajit Pai proposes new rule that would allow carriers to block robocalls – The Verge

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Sounds like “it’s about time”.

I love how Gooferment always arrive late to the party and then claims to lead!

I’d like an option that non-contact calls get route to voice mail automagically.

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