Retired couple who made $26million on state lotteries to have a movie made of their lives | Daily Mail Online

Monday, January 28, 2019

Jerry and Marge Selbee made millions winning various state lottery games over six years and helped others in their home town of Evart, Michigan, beat the system.

Source: Retired couple who made $26million on state lotteries to have a movie made of their lives | Daily Mail Online

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Well good for them.  I’ve always looked at the Gooferment’s lottery “offerings” and never found the odds even close to attractive.  I never heard of “Windfall” until this 60 minutes story last night.

Reminds me of the Canadian guy who realized that the Canadian casio was powering down the Keno machine and the numbers were repeating.  He took them for millions and they eventually figured it out but it was way too late.  They went to court and lost.  Laugh!

I just “love” politicians and bureaucrats who make blunders.

Like the IRS when they seized an Nevada whorehouse and ran it while seeking buy and lost a million dollars a month.  Laugh!  Can you lose money running a whorehouse?  Obviously you can.

Argh!

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INTERESTING: Is “football” over?

Sunday, January 27, 2019

2019-Jan-27

http://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/25776964/insurance-market-football-evaporating-causing-major-threat-nfl-pop-warner-colleges-espn

For the NFL and all of football, a new threat: an evaporating insurance market play 
Jan 17, 2019 Steve Fainaru Mark Fainaru-Wada

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“Basically, the world has left the marketplace,” Alex Fairly, CEO of the Fairly Group, an Amarillo, Texas-based risk management firm whose clients include the NFL and Major League Baseball, told Outside the Lines. “If you’re football, hockey or soccer, the insurance business doesn’t want you.”

During the November convention of the Casualty Actuarial Society in Las Vegas, William Primps, an insurance lawyer and former Yale running back, told hundreds of actuaries, “Overall, I think that there is a real threat to the viability of contact sports.”

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I know, personally, that some are not going to let their children play football.  I think that is the “death blow”.  Here’s another factor in its eventual demise?

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Trump ally Roger Stone arrested following indictment in Robert Muller’s Russia probe | Daily Mail Online

Friday, January 25, 2019

FBI agents armed with rifles took the self-decsribed political dirty trickster into custody in a dramatic pre-dawn raid with their weapons drawn and a lead agent shouting ‘FBI! Open the door! We have a warrant!’

Source: Trump ally Roger Stone arrested following indictment in Robert Muller’s Russia probe | Daily Mail Online

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Seriously?

What’s this?  More political theater!

The demonstration of this was that CNN was there to film it!

Sorry, but this discredits the FBI in my mind.  A phone call to his lawyer to arrange a surrender would have be a lot cheaper, but not as much “fun”.

Argh!

It’s all a political circus.

Where were the raids over the HRC emails?

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Selective Service System should be ended

Friday, January 25, 2019

2019-Jan-25

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/01/23/proposal-could-require-women-register-draft.html

Proposal Could Require Women to Register for the Draft
23 Jan 2019
Military.com | By Patricia Kime

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A congressionally mandated commission is weighing whether women should be required to register for the Selective Service System, or whether the U.S. needs a draft registration system at all.

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Isn’t it time to end the draft?

After all it’s unconstitutional slavery.

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MONEY: Another use for life insurance?

Thursday, January 24, 2019

2019-Jan-24

https://tomwoods.com/ep-1326-how-to-secede-from-our-monetary-regime/#disqus_thread

Ep. 1326 How to Secede From Our Monetary Regime
22nd January 2019 — Tom Woods 

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Frequent guest Bob Murphy returns, this time talking about his new (co-authored) book, The Case for IBC. This is an acronym for “Infinite Banking Concept,” a strategy that uses properly designed whole life insurance policies as a way to “become your own banker.” The concept was developed by Nelson Nash, who besides working in insurance was personally tutored in Austrian theory by Leonard Read himself. Bob explains how the average person can benefit from IBC, and he answers common objections like “Isn’t it better to buy term and invest the difference?” and “Why would I put my money in life insurance when the dollar is going to crash?”

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I understand the IBC; not sure I “grok” it. By that, I mean get it and apply to my life or my memes.

I (humbly) suggest another positive reason for the IBC concept that was not mentioned in the podcast. One can only by insurance when reasonable healthy. I had a young 30 something coworker who became uninsurable after surviving a bout with cancer. In his case, buying a whole life policy, when he was younger and healthier, would have given his family the death benefit protection. He died in his 50’s. So I’d suggest the IBC concept would avoid the “insurability” problem should it arise. Buying any insurance may not be possible later in life.

Am I missing something here?

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Texas homeowner, 20, shoots and kills three men and injures two more during home invasion | Daily Mail Online

Tuesday, January 22, 2019

A Texas homeowner, 20, fatally shot three men and wounded two others, all of whom are suspects in an alleged home invasion against the shooter which took place in Houston on Saturday, authorities said.

Source: Texas homeowner, 20, shoots and kills three men and injures two more during home invasion | Daily Mail Online

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If this turns out as reported, then it’s a good case for keeping an AR15 legal!

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Saints-Rams controversy: NFL allowed refs to steal Super Bowl berth

Monday, January 21, 2019

Same with the Saints. And blaming referees is almost always a loser’s lament. Except when a call this terrible comes in an elimination game. Then, it’s larceny. The NFL had been begging for something like this for years as the quality of its officiating eroded amid weekly yelps and protests. It was bound to happen sometime, to some team.

It happened to the Saints. They were robbed.

Source: Saints-Rams controversy: NFL allowed refs to steal Super Bowl berth

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Zebra ball at its best!

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Security Checklist

Sunday, January 20, 2019

A checklist for staying safe on the internet

Source: Security Checklist

A beginner’s guide to online security

This website is a clear guide for staying safe online. There’s no fluff or marketing, just the straight dope on how to use a password manager, create a strong device passcode, use two-factor authentication, set up a mobile carrier PIN, and much more. — MF

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Even I can learn some new methods to incorporate in my routines.

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Advertisers Set Analog Watches To What Time To Attract Customers?

Saturday, January 19, 2019

Think you know the answer? Click through to see if you’re right!

Source: Advertisers Set Analog Watches To What Time To Attract Customers?

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Humans are such a frail species to be so easily manipulated.

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Laugh!

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BBC – Capital – The ‘dirty secrets’ of tiny houses

Saturday, January 19, 2019

Tiny houses look marvellous, but have a dark side that does not appear on the marketing blurb.

Source: BBC – Capital – The ‘dirty secrets’ of tiny houses

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Seems like a way to make affordable housing available.

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