POLITICAL: Why aren’t Covid-19 cabal going to jail?

Saturday, April 20, 2024

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13298587/anthony-fauci-aide-covid-19-origins-emails-whistleblower.html

Bombshell emails show a top Fauci aide used his personal Gmail to ‘intentionally’ HIDE discussions about COVID origins… and would delete anything ‘incriminating’

  •  Rep. Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, revealed new documents from a whistleblower Thursday regarding federal official’s communications on the origins of COVID-19
  • They show that a senior advisor to Dr. Anthony Fauci tried to hide correspondence by using a Gmail account 
  •  ‘I will delete anything I don’t want to see in the New York Times,’ the Fauci advisor previously told Republicans 

By Jon Michael Raasch, Political Reporter On Capitol Hill, For Dailymail.Com

Published: 18:03 EDT, 11 April 2024 | Updated: 18:28 EDT, 11 April 2024 

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New documents show that Dr. Anthony Fauci’s top U.S. health aide intentionally tried to hide his discussions about the origins of COIVD-19 by using his personal email. 

Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, claimed a whistleblower provided him new bombshell materials obtained by DailyMail.com.

The unnamed whistleblower revealed emails showing that Dr. David Morens – Fauci’s top aide at the National Institutes of Health – allegedly used his personal Gmail account to discuss the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 to skirt federal transparency laws.

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Sounds like, if there was any fairness in political life, that several people would be facing jail and fines.  Makes the J6 treatment look laughable.

Any wonder why people don’t respect politicians and bureaucrats? 

Time to shut down the CDC, FDA, FBI, DOJ, and the CIA!

Time to clean house and break up the USA as immoral, ineffective, and inefficient. As well as untrustworthy.

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INNOVATION: Writing negative reactions on paper … …

Friday, April 19, 2024

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/09/write-down-your-thoughts-and-shred-them-to-relieve-anger-researchers-say

Psychology

Write down your thoughts and shred them to relieve anger, researchers say

  • Writing negative reactions on paper and shredding it or scrunching and throwing in the bin eliminates angry feelings, study finds

Caroline Davies  — Tue 9 Apr 2024 09.40 EDT

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Since time immemorial humans have tried to devise anger management techniques.

In ancient Rome, the Stoic philosopher Seneca believed “my anger is likely to do me more harm than your wrong” and offered avoidance tips in his AD45 work De Ira (On Anger).

More modern methods include a workout on the gym punchbag or exercise bike. But the humble paper shredder may be a more effective – and accessible – way to decompress, according to research.

A study in Japan has found that writing down your reaction to a negative incident on a piece of paper and then shredding it, or scrunching it into a ball and throwing it in the bin, gets rid of anger.

“We expected that our method would suppress anger to some extent,” said Nobuyuki Kawai, lead researcher of the study at Nagoya University. “However, we were amazed that anger was eliminated almost entirely.”

*** end quote ***

Have to try this and see if it helps.

“Income tax”.

Printed and shredded!

Didn’t help!!!

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DISCOURAGING: Some people don’t understand that some rules have a reason behind them

Thursday, April 18, 2024

https://nypost.com/2024/04/09/us-news/airstream-says-li-doctor-monika-woroniecka-should-not-have-been-in-back-of-rv/?lctg=6080ba40747925275a09dcd3

LI doctor who died during family road trip should never have been in RV, Airstream says
By Olivia Land
Published April 9, 2024 Updated April 9, 2024, 10:38 a.m. ET

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“Airstream travel trailers are not designed to carry passengers while in motion,” the company said in a statement. 

*** end quote ***

Having had two trailers and Minnie Winnie, the trailer dealers drummed into us that no one should be in the trailer when it was being towed.  One dealer had pictures of accidents to drive the point home.  Even in the Minnie Winnie, the dealer emphasized seat belts when driving.  So this accident was predictable and avoidable. 

Requiescat In Pacem

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DISCOURAGING: “Scrabble for Snowflakes” and “Woke Scrabble”

Wednesday, April 17, 2024

https://nypost.com/2024/04/09/lifestyle/scrabble-makes-historic-change-for-first-time-in-75-years/?lctg=6080ba40747925275a09dcd3

Scrabble makes historic change to game with ‘less competitive,’ ‘inclusive’ version to appeal to Gen Z
By Brooke Steinberg
Published April 9, 2024, 12:03 p.m. ET

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This is a game-changer.

For the first time in 75 years, Mattel is making a major change to the iconic board game Scrabble.

The new launch is a double-sided version of the famous board game — one side with the original game for those who want to stick to the long-time traditional version, and one side with a “less competitive” version to appeal to Gen Z gamers.

The flip side of the classic game, called Scrabble Together, will include helper cards, use a simpler scoring system, be quicker to play and allow people to play in teams.

*** end quote ***

What’s next “Monopoly for Communists”?

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Federeal Law prempts State Law and parental rights?

Tuesday, April 16, 2024
https://thevaccinereaction.org/2024/04/nc-court-rules-federal-prep-act-protects-forced-vaccination-without-parental-consent/
 
NC Court Rules Federal PREP Act Protects Forced Vaccination Without Parental Consent
by Carolyn Hendler, JD
Published April 8, 2024 
 
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A North Carolina Court of Appeals found that a clinic, where personnel gave a 14-year-old boy a COVID-19 shot without his consent or parental consent, was protected by the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREP Act). The court concluded that the Guilford Board of Education, which hosted the clinic, was also covered by the PREP Act.1
 
Despite calling the act of forcing a child to get a COVID-19 shot against his will and without his parent’s consent, “egregious,” the court unanimously concluded that the PREP Act preempted state law and protected the defendants from being held liable for battery, violation of Tanner’s mother’s constitutional liberty and parental rights, and violation of Tanner’s bodily autonomy and plaintiffs’ federal constitutional rights.2
 
The minor child, Tanner Smith, attended Western Guilford High School in Greensboro, North Carolina when the school district sent a letter to his parents stating that Tanner was one of the students who may have been exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 virus and that, unless he got tested, he would not be able to “return to football practice until cleared by a public health professional.” The letter set forth that one of the local schools would be hosting a free clinic offering testing the following day. The letter explained that, “consent for testing is required.”3 4
 
The following day, Tanner’s step-father took him to the clinic at the local school for the free testing so that Tanner could return to football practice. The school district failed to inform the parents that a there was also a free vaccination clinic along with the free testing at the school that same day. While Tanner’s step-father waited in the car, Tanner filled out a form that he believed was for the free testing needed to return to football practice. At that time, one of the clinic workers attempted to reach out to Tanner’s mother but she was not available. Tanner’s step-father who was waiting outside the clinic was not called.5
 

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​I’d be more than <past tense synonym for urine output> off if it was my child.

And, what about all the vaccine injuries we now know about?

Also, that the EULA was wrong because Ivermectin was available when they declared it an “emergency”.

Sorry but this was nothing more than a raid on the Public Treasury that trampled all the People’s rights.

Where is the outrage?

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RANT: Taxation ISTheft!

Monday, April 15, 2024

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/taxation-is-theft

Taxation is theft - Imgflip

Taxation Is Theft

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The idea that taxation is theft originated in Murray Rothbard’s The Ethics of Liberty in 1982. Rothbard compared government tax collectors to thieves demanding to know what valuables one may have in one’s house.

    “Just as no one is morally required to answer a robber truthfully when he asks if there are any valuables in one’s house, so no one can be morally required to answer truthfully similar questions asked by the State, e.g., when filling out income tax returns.”

*** end quote ***

Argh!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: The not so Unintended Consequences of a new tax

Sunday, April 14, 2024

https://nypost.com/2024/04/06/us-news/congestion-price-toll-evaders-turn-upper-nyc-into-parking-lot/

NYC’s Upper West Side already becoming commuter parking lot for congestion-pricing evaders
By Chris Harris
Published April 6, 2024  — Updated April 6, 2024, 9:16 a.m. ET

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The Upper West Side is about to become a commuter parking lot.

Already notorious for its scarcity of spaces, the parking situation on the UWS has reached new lows of desperation ahead of the mid-June implementation of the Big Apple’s much-maligned, five-years-in-the-making congestion parking plan, which the MTA’s board authorized last month.

“The situation up here is untenable,” said longtime West 79th Street resident Renee Baruch, who’s noticed a steady uptick since January in the number of cars with out-of-state plates circling her block each morning.

“They’re on Riverside Drive, on side streets, with plates from all over, and you’re seeing the same ones every day,” explained Baruch, part of a consortium of Manhattanites that continues to push pols for a parking permitting system.

*** end quote ***

Ahh, what will “We, The Sheeple” do?

I bet just suck it up and take it.  Death by a thousand cuts.  How do you eat a whole baloney?  Once slice at a time.

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POLITICAL: Perhaps time to reform how SCOTUS are filled

Saturday, April 13, 2024

https://thenationalpulse.com/2024/04/04/far-left-calls-for-scotus-justice-sotomayor-retirement-reveal-dems-believe-in-trump-victory/

Far-Left Calls for SCOTUS Justice Sotomayor Retirement Reveal Dems Believe in Trump Victory.

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Democrats are increasingly calling on Justice Sonia Sotomayor to resign from the Supreme Court before the 2024 presidential election, suggesting a widespread belief that former President Donald Trump will win.

Sotomayor is 69, a lifelong diabetic, and the oldest liberal member of the court. Should Trump win the election and Sotomayor need to retire in the next four years due to her health, conservatives could secure a 7-2 majority.

*** end quote ***

Maybe each President should get to select one Justice in each term.  Nine justices times 4 years is a 36 year term.  Seems like “lifetime” is impractical in today’s life spans.  So, stagger their terms.  Each President gets to pick one.  Still have the problem of death, disability, and retirement,  but it would be better than the chaos that we have around election time.

And, I’m not so sure that a 7-2 conservative majority is a sure thing.  Given how the justices seem to be all closet liberals.

Sigh!

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DISCOURAGING: 20 Year old woman died on Sunday after a battle with bone cancer

Friday, April 12, 2024

https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2024/04/03/kate-kaufling-20-year-old-kentucky-dance-team-member-dies/

University of Kentucky Dance Team Member Dead at 20 Years Old

Dylan Gwinn  —  3 Apr 2024

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Kate Kaufling, a member of the dance team at the University of Kentucky, died on Sunday after a battle with bone cancer. She was only 20 years old.

*** end quote ***

Was the covid shot the cause?

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NEWJERSEY: At what point does a speeding driver become guilty of murder?

Thursday, April 11, 2024

https://nj1015.com/lakewood-vehicular-homicide-case/

88 in a 45 – Lakewood, NJ teen charged in fatal crash

Dan Alexander  — Published: April 4, 2024

  • Way too fast: Lakewood, NJ teen charged in deadly crash
  • Crash on West County Line Road at Laurelwood Avenue in Lakewood 3/3/24 (The Lakewood Scoop/Canva)
  • Aryeh Bakst, 18, was driving a Tesla at 88 mph
  • Jules Brotsky was making a left turn in a minivan
  • The impact sent Brotsky’s vehicle spinning backwards several times

*** begin quote ***

LAKEWOOD — A teen was charged with vehicular homicide after police say he drove 88.6 mph in a 45 mph zone and hit a car that was making a left turn.

Aryeh Bakst was driving a 2023 Tesla sedan west on West County Line Road around 9 a.m. on March 3.

Surveillance video of the crash posted by The Lakewood Scoop shows the Tesla slamming into a 2013 Toyota Corolla driven by Jules Brotsky, 82, of Lakewood, who making a left turn onto Laurelwood Avenue from the eastbound lanes.

The minivan spun backward several times down the road while the Tesla hit a utility pole.

*** end quote ***

Where and in what world does a “teenager” get a Tesla to drive?

Now we all drive a little faster than speed limits, but 88 in a 45 is more than just a little.

At what point does this become murder?

And who ever put this car in the hands of a teenager has some culpability as well.

Time to throw the book at all involved.

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DISCOURAGING: People seem to be giving up to easily

Wednesday, April 10, 2024

https://www.thefp.com/p/im-28-and-im-scheduled-to-die

‘I’m 28. And I’m Scheduled to Die in May.’

  • Some right-to-die activists want everyone to have access to euthanasia—even young people with mental illness. Are they also making suicide contagious?

By Rupa Subramanya
April 1, 2024

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Zoraya ter Beek, 28, expects to be euthanized in early May. 

Her plan, she said, is to be cremated.

“I did not want to burden my partner with having to keep the grave tidy,” ter Beek texted me. “We have not picked an urn yet, but that will be my new house!” 

She added an urn emoji after “house!”

Ter Beek, who lives in a little Dutch town near the German border, once had ambitions to become a psychiatrist, but she was never able to muster the will to finish school or start a career. She said she was hobbled by her depression and autism and borderline personality disorder. Now she was tired of living—despite, she said, being in love with her boyfriend, a 40-year-old IT programmer, and living in a nice house with their two cats. 

She recalled her psychiatrist telling her that they had tried everything, that “there’s nothing more we can do for you. It’s never gonna get any better.” 

At that point, she said, she decided to die. “I was always very clear that if it doesn’t get better, I can’t do this anymore.”

*** end quote ***

I haver always thought that one of the rules in the “Game of Life” was that “You can’t leave early.”

As I have gotten older, maybe I’m wrong but how we treat and are treated should really value our humanity.

I’d sure like this person to find health and happiness.  I’m not sure that suicide is the best or only course.

Sigh!

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RANT: If everybody is unhappy, then maybe it’s the right answer

Tuesday, April 9, 2024

# – # – # – # – # 

A Solomon-like compromise?

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MONEY: 100% reserve gold backed banking is the only way to get to freedom

Tuesday, April 9, 2024

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/04/lew-rockwell/bring-back-gold/

Bring Back Gold! 
By Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

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If we want a true gold standard, can we get back to it? Of course we can. The inflationary monetary policy we have today is the key to the financial elites control over us. Without it brain-dead Biden and his gang of neocon controllers couldn’t function. We must prevail, and we can prevail.

*** end quote ***

Sure we might have to pay for “banking services” like we did for travelers’ checks or like do now for using credit cards, but isn’t that better than the “hidden taxes” of inflation.

I’d sure like to try,

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INSPIRATIONAL: Several therapy dogs bring children happiness during tought times

Monday, April 8, 2024

https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-therapy-dog-at-ann-arbors-mott-childrens-hospital/?ICID=ref_fark

Health
A day in the life of a therapy dog at Ann Arbor’s Mott Children’s Hospital
By Meredith Bruckner
Updated on: April 2, 2024 / 9:10 AM EDT / CBS Detroit 

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Dashiel is a three-year-old therapy dog who works primarily with oncology patients. 

Carly Reeves is about to receive an infusion when she sees a familiar face. 

“Dashiel!” she shouts down the hall. 

Reeves’ mom, Cassandra Mansfield, said Dash has been a steady presence during her time in the hospital. 

“He’s a good therapy dog,” said Mansfield. “He’s helped a lot through our treatment process.” 

Alanna Rock’s son, Jack, has been in the hospital for nearly two years. 

She said seeing the dogs lifts her mood. 

“No matter how bad of a day you’re having, there’s just something about a dog for me anyway,” said Rock. “You see them with their little golden retriever waddle walking around, and it just makes you laugh.” 

*** end quote ***

Seems like this should be standard MO at all children’s hospitals.  Like combining children’s day care with assisted living, or housing students in elder villages, sometimes ideas need to “come together”.

Can’t cost that much to change our views.

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INTERESTING: The giraffe is doing something to get 17 out of 20 experiments

Sunday, April 7, 2024

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13263997/ants-conscious-dolphins-currency-food-animal-intelligence.html

Did you know ANTS are self-aware? Or that giraffes can do mental math? New book documents the little-known brilliance of animal intelligence that may surprise you

  •     The book explores how animals engage in complex mental math and language
  •     Even insects, like ants and bees, prove to be more perceptive than expected
  •     ‘The Animal Mind’ by nature writer and photographer Marianne Taylor is out now

By Matthew Phelan Senior Science Reporter For Dailymail.Com
Published: 07:37 EDT, 3 April 2024 | Updated: 07:37 EDT, 3 April 2024 

*** begin quote ***

Giraffes can do math in their heads

Technically speaking, it’s a miracle of evolution that a giraffe can get its blood pumping 14 to 19 feet up to its brain to do much high-quality thinking at all. 

But to the surprise of researchers at the Barcelona Zoo, the tall, hooved creatures are actually capable of doing complex mental math, engaging in statistical inference to assess probabilities and make predictions.

The study, conducted with four of the zoo’s giraffe’s by animal behaviorists as Barcelona University, two male and two female giraffes were shown two clear boxes filled with vegetable sticks. 

Each had a mix of carrot and courgette sticks (zucchini), with carrots being the preferred option. But soon, the researchers started putting up barriers to the boxes, hiding visual cues and eliminating scent information.

In a stunning game of intellect, the giraffes managed to select which container was more likely to produce their preferred carrot sticks in 17 out of 20 experiments.

This was based on the relative frequencies of food in the containers, and not on other information such as their sense of smell, the researchers said.

*** end quote ***

I would assume that we, as humans, could learn a lot more if we were a little more humble in our position as the apex predator.

Aside from being beautiful, seems like giraffes have some “intelligence”.  I wonder if they will ever exceed or replace us?

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INTERESTING: The giraffe is doing something to get 17 out of 20 experiments

Sunday, April 7, 2024

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13263997/ants-conscious-dolphins-currency-food-animal-intelligence.html

Did you know ANTS are self-aware? Or that giraffes can do mental math? New book documents the little-known brilliance of animal intelligence that may surprise you

  •     The book explores how animals engage in complex mental math and language
  •     Even insects, like ants and bees, prove to be more perceptive than expected
  •     ‘The Animal Mind’ by nature writer and photographer Marianne Taylor is out now

By Matthew Phelan Senior Science Reporter For Dailymail.Com
Published: 07:37 EDT, 3 April 2024 | Updated: 07:37 EDT, 3 April 2024 

*** begin quote ***

Giraffes can do math in their heads

Technically speaking, it’s a miracle of evolution that a giraffe can get its blood pumping 14 to 19 feet up to its brain to do much high-quality thinking at all. 

But to the surprise of researchers at the Barcelona Zoo, the tall, hooved creatures are actually capable of doing complex mental math, engaging in statistical inference to assess probabilities and make predictions.

The study, conducted with four of the zoo’s giraffe’s by animal behaviorists as Barcelona University, two male and two female giraffes were shown two clear boxes filled with vegetable sticks. 

Each had a mix of carrot and courgette sticks (zucchini), with carrots being the preferred option. But soon, the researchers started putting up barriers to the boxes, hiding visual cues and eliminating scent information.

In a stunning game of intellect, the giraffes managed to select which container was more likely to produce their preferred carrot sticks in 17 out of 20 experiments.

This was based on the relative frequencies of food in the containers, and not on other information such as their sense of smell, the researchers said.

*** end quote ***

I would assume that we, as humans, could learn a lot more if we were a little more humble in our position as the apex predator.

Aside from being beautiful, seems like giraffes have some “intelligence”.  I wonder if they will ever exceed or replace us?

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INTERESTING: The giraffe is doing something to get 17 out of 20 experiments

Sunday, April 7, 2024

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13263997/ants-conscious-dolphins-currency-food-animal-intelligence.html

Did you know ANTS are self-aware? Or that giraffes can do mental math? New book documents the little-known brilliance of animal intelligence that may surprise you

  •     The book explores how animals engage in complex mental math and language
  •     Even insects, like ants and bees, prove to be more perceptive than expected
  •     ‘The Animal Mind’ by nature writer and photographer Marianne Taylor is out now

By Matthew Phelan Senior Science Reporter For Dailymail.Com
Published: 07:37 EDT, 3 April 2024 | Updated: 07:37 EDT, 3 April 2024 

*** begin quote ***

Giraffes can do math in their heads

Technically speaking, it’s a miracle of evolution that a giraffe can get its blood pumping 14 to 19 feet up to its brain to do much high-quality thinking at all. 

But to the surprise of researchers at the Barcelona Zoo, the tall, hooved creatures are actually capable of doing complex mental math, engaging in statistical inference to assess probabilities and make predictions.

The study, conducted with four of the zoo’s giraffe’s by animal behaviorists as Barcelona University, two male and two female giraffes were shown two clear boxes filled with vegetable sticks. 

Each had a mix of carrot and courgette sticks (zucchini), with carrots being the preferred option. But soon, the researchers started putting up barriers to the boxes, hiding visual cues and eliminating scent information.

In a stunning game of intellect, the giraffes managed to select which container was more likely to produce their preferred carrot sticks in 17 out of 20 experiments.

This was based on the relative frequencies of food in the containers, and not on other information such as their sense of smell, the researchers said.

*** end quote ***

I would assume that we, as humans, could learn a lot more if we were a little more humble in our position as the apex predator.

Aside from being beautiful, seems like giraffes have some “intelligence”.  I wonder if they will ever exceed or replace us?

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INTERESTING: Don’t “save” on a cruise line tours

Saturday, April 6, 2024

https://www.aol.com/news/eight-passengers-stranded-african-island-133209907.html?ICID=ref_fark

Eight passengers stranded on African island after Norwegian cruise ship left without them
NBC Universal
Marlene Lenthang and Arnav Jain
Updated April 2, 2024 at 2:28 PM

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A dream cruise vacation has turned into a nightmare for eight passengers left stranded on the African island of São Tomé and Príncipe after their ship left without them because they were late to return from a private tour.

*** end quote ***

There is a reason why you pay the Cruise Line their “vig” for an official Cruise Line sponsored “local tour”.  If an  “official tour” is late, then the boat waits for you.  Otherwise, you’re on your own.  Not worth saving a few bucks!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Doesn’t the State of Florida have scyba teams?

Friday, April 5, 2024

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2024/04/01/florida-volunteer-team-uses-sonar-to-solve-cold-case-mysteries/

Florida Volunteer Team Uses Sonar to Solve Cold Case Mysteries

Lucas Nolan  — 1 Apr 2024

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John Martin and Mike Sullivan, two half-brothers from Florida, have made a name for themselves using sonar technology to locate submerged vehicles and help solve cold case mysteries throughout the Sunshine State.

*** end quote ***

Why is it up to private citizens to do this?

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INSPIRATIONAL: ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith states the American ideal

Thursday, April 4, 2024

https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2024/03/28/everybody-doesnt-deserve-same-espns-stephen-a-smith-promotes-equality-of-opportunity-over-outcome/

‘Everybody Doesn’t Deserve the Same’: ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith Promotes ‘Equality of Opportunity’ over Outcome

Paul Bois  —  28 Mar 2024

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ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith recently promoted the idea of “equality of opportunity” over the more egalitarian “Equality of Outcome” that left-leaning theorists extoll.

Smith made his somewhat surprising position on the subject known during an interview on the PBD Podcast hosted by Patrick Bet-David, in which he said that “people who produce more ultimately end up more successful than those who don’t.”

“One of the things that I have a problem with when I look at things that are transpiring in this country, you can’t in the same breath talk about capitalism, talk about how it’s equal opportunity that we want, but everybody doesn’t deserve the same, it’s about your level of production,” he said.

“Some people are high-end earners, some people are high-level producers and stuff. And you know, they’re getting treated, they might earn more than somebody that just don’t have that skill set. That’s the world we’re living in,” he added.

*** end quote ***

I was pleased that someone repeats Doctor King’s wish about “content of character” rather than color.

The NBA is a classic example of the best rise to the top.  Is the system perfect?  No.  But it does demonstrate what is possible when we have “equal opportunity”.

Now if we could just have equality in the law, then we ca get back to doing productive work.

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RANT: Cadbury (going woke?) Renaming ‘Easter Eggs’

Wednesday, April 3, 2024

https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/03/cadbury-tells-stores-renaming-easter-eggs-as-gesture-eggs-to-remove-the-display-stores-comply/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cadbury-tells-stores-renaming-easter-eggs-as-gesture-eggs-to-remove-the-display-stores-comply

 Cadbury Tells Stores Renaming ‘Easter Eggs’ as ‘Gesture Eggs’ To Remove The Displays, Stores Comply

  • There is nothing to be gained by marketing to a vanishingly small segment of the population, and apparently Cadbury got the message.

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers Friday, March 29, 2024 at 09:00am

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I have bones to pick with Cadbury, not the least of which being that American ‘Cadbury’ is pretty much just Hershey and thus crap chocolate. I was also not happy when Cadbury decided that their Easter Egg was too large, so they shrunk it, and now it’s awful. And, weirdly, was sold for the same price as the former perfectly balanced treat.

But call an Easter egg a “Gesture Egg,” and I am done. Ten kinds of done.

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So sad but I guess to be expected!

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INNOVATION: Reporting potholes using what3wprods

Tuesday, April 2, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wsvWj6OPQg

Report your local ***hole with what3words
what3words  —  Mar 27, 2024

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Potholes are such a menace, we think they should be considered a rude word! They cause damage to cars, agony for drivers and a lot of frustration for communities and local councils. They can’t be fixed if they can’t be found, so many councils and highways authorities are asking people to use a what3words address when they report a pothole.

Next time you spot a pothole, find the what3words address and share it online, helping your council or highways authority to find and fix potholes easily.

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Hopefully we can get this working in the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee.

I’ll try and report back results of lack there of.

Sigh!

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Put in ///forgot.golf.scan on the NJDOT webform. 2024-Mar-28 1240 

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NEWJERSEY: NJ Potholes are the biggest and the “best” — we’re Number 1

Monday, April 1, 2024

Sadly too tru in the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee!

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INTERESTING: Was there a Planet V and what does that imply?

Sunday, March 31, 2024

https://radiofarside.substack.com/p/how-deep-is-your-woo

How Deep Is Your Woo?

Cuz we’re living in a world of fools

Radio Far Side

Mar 25, 2024

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In the 1500s, Tycho Brahe produced one of the greatest libraries of astronomical observations ever. Based on his work, Johannes Kepler formulated his Three Laws of Planetary Motion, in 1609 and 1619. He found that all orbits are ellipses, that bodies accelerate as they move toward the Sun and decelerate as they move away, The third law stated that the square of a body’s period was proportional to the cube of its semi-major axis (average distance from the Sun). Kepler also found a harmonious relationship between the orbits of the planets, such that we discovered new planets from the orbital positions given by Kepler. From these laws, Newton derived his laws of Universal Gravitation.

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Besides the asteroid belt, there are Centaurs, TNOs, Damocloids, and Trojans which may be part of the Planet V debris cloud. Some of them have ephemera that clearly resonate with the asteroid belt, and a couple of them may be lost moons of Planet V, as well.

So do we have any evidence that any of this scenario is even approaching reality?

Why, yes, we do.

“The successful predictions include: (1) satellites of asteroids; (2) satellites of comets; (3) salt water in meteorites; (4) ‘roll marks’ leading to boulders on asteroids; (5) the time and peak rate of the 1999 Leonid meteor storm; (6) explosion signatures for asteroids; (7) the strongly spiked energy parameter for new comets; (8) the distribution of black material on slowly rotating airless bodies; (9) splitting velocities of comets; (10) the asteroid-like nature of Deep Impact target Comet Tempel 1; and (11) the presence of high-formation-temperature minerals in the Stardust comet dust sample return.”

The two most stunning confirmations have been the presence of asteroid moonlets and that comets appear to be the same as asteroids. 

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While this may TL;DR for most readers, I found this to be most persuasive.

Could an advanced alien civilization have existed on Planet V?

Far beyond my abilities, but certainly seem an interesting possibility.

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DISCOURAGING: Do you think incumbent politicians will willingly give up all this power?

Saturday, March 30, 2024

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoin-and-taxation-government-on-a-bitcoin-standard-?mc_cid=e0840e7a31

Bitcoin and Taxation: Government On A Bitcoin Standard

  • Some thoughts on the difficulty of governments enforcing taxation in a world where Bitcoin is widely used in commerce.    

Robert Hall  —   Mar 25, 2024

REFERS TO

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2023/10/incumbent-politicians-enjoy-record-reelection-in-aging-congress/

Incumbent politicians enjoy record reelection in an aging Congress
By Miro Hall-Jones  —  October 12, 2023 3:11 pm

AND OPINES on

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In America, incumbents get reelected north of 90 percent. Did you know in the House of Representatives, the reelection of incumbents has never dipped below 85 percent? So you only have 15 percent of being voted out in the next election. Who doesn’t like those odds? This is why nothing changes. We get the same people in office year after year because they know how to play the game and grease the right palms, all thanks to the fiat money printer.

If you want to see all the BS the federal government spends on their deprecating fiat dollar, check out the Citizens Against Government Waste website. This will give you a good idea of the crap that is being funded in your name.

So, knowing this, do you think they will willingly give up all this power, prestige, and influence? I don’t think so.

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I agree.

So how do we rid ourselves of these “priestly drones”?

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FUN: Skydiving beavers — another Gooferment idea that was not half bad

Friday, March 29, 2024

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/70282/watch-beavers-parachute-planes-footage-1948?ICID=ref_

Watch Beavers Parachute From Planes in Footage From 1948
Skydiving beavers. What could possibly go wrong?
By Rebecca OConnell | Mar 25, 2024, 3:27 PM EDT

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With the help of test beaver Geronimo, Heter created a special wooden box that opened on impact. In total, 76 beavers were dropped in Chamberlain Basin, with all but one surviving. They went on to live fruitful, busy lives in their remote new home. 

The story of the furry skydivers may sound too silly to be true, but there is video evidence. Fish and Game historian Sharon Clark found the forgotten footage, and thanks to the magic of the internet, we can all enjoy it today.

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Well for one beaver, it didn’t work out so well.

Pretty funny to me.  Wonder what the beavers thought of it?

Do beavers think?

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