The ACLU no longer even pretends to believe in civil liberties. In the late 1960s, the ACLU was a small but powerful liberal organization devoted to a civil libertarian agenda composed primarily of devotion to freedom of speech, free exercise of religion, and the rights of accused criminals.
Source: [David E. Bernstein] American Civil Liberties Union, RIP
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It’s been going hard “left” for a long time. So sad, it’s a great loss to our “civil society”.
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Every educated person should understand basic supply and demand. If someone is in the business of laking laws that the rest of us must adhere to, they should ABSOLUTELY have a basic understanding of supply and demand. Sadly, economic ignorance is widespread among both the public and lawmakers.
Source: Ocasio-Cortez’s rise reveals rampant economic illiteracy in US
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It’s sad that some one so “uneducated” could be elected.
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2018-Nov-16
In California, gun control fails once again
Erich Pratt, Opinion contributor
Published 5:37 p.m. ET Nov. 8, 2018 | Updated 9:38 p.m. ET Nov. 8, 2018
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Wednesday’s California bar shooting was in a gun-free zone, where good guys cannot legally carry firearms: Opposing view
Once again, we see the failure of gun control in preventing a horrible tragedy.
Wednesday’s California bar shooting was in a gun-free zone, where good guys cannot legally carry firearms.
Gun-free zones are magnets for killers. Consider that almost 98 percent of public mass shootings in this country occur in these mandatory victim zones.
But where citizens can protect themselves, the situation is much different. Within the past month, two potential mass shootings were averted by law-abiding citizens who used their concealed firearms.
But the anti-gun left fails to mention how these two citizens saved lives in those incidents. Why is that?
We will never rid ourselves of one basic problem: Bad guys with evil intent will always acquire some kind of “weapon” to commit violence.
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Sadly, once again, the Gooferment thinks it can defy “natural law”. Criminals don’t obey laws and “gun restriction laws” are no different.
“Victim disarmament is the view that it is somehow better to see a woman raped in an alley and strangled with her own pantyhose, than see her with a gun in her hand.” — T.D. Melrose
Stop the insanity!
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2018-Nov-13
Recently my fiancée went on a trip overseas for a week. She realized that she was running low on her pain med for her amputation’s pain, so she went into town for a refill. Walks into a pharmacy, tells them what she needs, and gets it no prescription, doctor involved, and no Gooferment forms.
Hmmm!
The next day, she decides to get some more. Same foreign country; different town. Goes into a different pharmacy, but they don’t have her “brand”. But the helpful man says that he has Lyrica. (Back in the good old USA, she could not get Lyrica be cause it wasn’t “covered” and cost $800 for 30 day supply.) So she buys 10 pills for $22. Never having taken in before, she waited to try it until she returned home. Sure enough, it’s perfect for her pain.
Now she’s on a mission. It takes a week to get the doctor to transmit a prescription to the pharmacy. By the time, the pharmacy is closed. (She’s in pain and she knows she needs the Lyrica.) Calls the 24/7 pharmacy of the same company and begs. Can’t transfer it because “it’s a controlled deadly drug”. Really! (They had “transferred” her old other “controlled deadly drug” when we were in Seaside Heights and she ran out.) She’s not taking than answer and after 30 minutes on the phone (most of which was on hold), they relent.
I drive down and get it. $325 for 30 day supply. Insurance deductible.
Argh!
Anyone wonder why I think the free market is a better answer to our needs.
Time to deregulate medical care? I think so. Just make the FDA an advisory opinion. Stop the professional “license” game.
Argh!
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There are people out there who we describe as anti-gun who may not want to take away your guns. They might want to make it virtually impossible for you to buy any more, sell yours, or leave them to your kids, but they don’t actually want to take them away from you.
Source: Maryland Shooting Illustrates What Will Happen If Guns Are Confiscated
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Interesting that NO ONE knew who sought the protective order.
I predict that police, or others, who seek to enforce such orders will come out on the losing end.
“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
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Robert Wenzel
Source: EconomicPolicyJournal.com: THE GALL: Bernanke Says the Fed Needs System to Bailout Shadow Banks
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No conflict of interest here!
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You have to hand it to James O’Keefe and his group of undercover journalists: Time and again they have caught Left-wing Democrats red-handed doing immoral, improper, and often illegal things. And now it’s Robert “Beto” O’Rourke ’s turn or, at least, some of his campaign staffers .
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The pair appears to be using “pre-paid credit cards” and therefore it would, according to an attorney with Project Veritas who viewed the footage, be likely the pair violated Federal Election Commission rules.
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Anyone surprised?
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2018-Nov-10
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PRAYERSREQUESTED: Mom of Sweeney, Peter K. (MC1964) passes
2018-Nov-10
Jaspers Jotting will be very “thin” this week.
Dorothy Sweeney, Mother of Peter K. (MC1964), and my beloved Aunt, passed away this week.
She was my “Momma Diddy” who took care of me while my single Mom went to work after my Father abandoned her.
Recently, my fiancée has had full custody of her grandson since his release from the hospital in June 2017 after being weaned off narcotics at birth.
This little boy, Daniel, has taught me what it means to care for a baby. And especially someone else’s baby.
Her passing drove home what Momma Diddy, and my other maiden Aunt Patty, did for me and my Mom.
It’s another death in my life that makes me sad from All Souls Day to Saint Patrick’s Day, during which it seems all the significant people in my life passed on.
Makes me root for March 17th to come quickly.
The only bright light was that I met my Classmate Deacon Keith Casey (MC1968) who led the prayers at the wake and assisted at the Funeral Mass.
So with my apologies, because of this, my ongoing chores with Baby Daniel, and my new responsibilities as “bar manager” at American Legion Post #401 148 Major Road Monmouth Junction NJ 08810, I haven’t had time to “do” Jasper Jottings correctly.
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ST. AUGSTINE, Fla. — Authorities say a man was found injured after breaking into a Florida zoo and jumping into a crocodile enclosure.
Source: Man breaks into crocodile enclosure, gets bitten
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Crocs must be getting old and slow?
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In the 1890s, when the Senate refused to take up the issue of direct election of senators, states pursued a convention, falling just short. Eventually, the 17th Amendment passed in the usual way, fulfilling that aim. In the 1960s, states sought a convention over a Supreme Court decision dictating how legislative districts were apportioned.
Source: Conservatives want to bypass usual way to amend Constitution
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Seems like most Amendments are mistakes. And the Gooferment takes power without amending the Constitution (i.e., Drug Prohibition; maintain standing armies; regulating other than interstate commerce; regulating drugs; interference in the healthcare system).
Personally, I’d repeal the Seventeenth — direct election of the senate — and return power to the States.
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