Maryland Shooting Illustrates What Will Happen If Guns Are Confiscated

Saturday, November 10, 2018

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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EconomicPolicyJournal.com: THE GALL: Bernanke Says the Fed Needs System to Bailout Shadow Banks

Saturday, November 10, 2018

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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Project Veritas uncovers staffers for Beto O’Rourke appearing to illegally spend campaign funds on caravan aliens

Saturday, November 10, 2018

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 .

Source: Project Veritas uncovers staffers for Beto O’Rourke appearing to illegally spend campaign funds on caravan aliens

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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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ADMINISTRIVIA: Mom of Sweeney, Peter K. (MC1964) passes

Saturday, November 10, 2018

2018-Nov-10

CROSS POSTED FROM JASPER JOTTINGS

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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Man breaks into crocodile enclosure, gets bitten

Wednesday, November 7, 2018

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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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Conservatives want to bypass usual way to amend Constitution

Monday, November 5, 2018

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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RANT: EFFector

Friday, November 2, 2018

Corporate Speech Police Are Not the Answer to Online Hate

A coalition of civil rights and public interest groups recently issued policies they believe Internet intermediaries should adopt to try to address hate online. There’s a lot to like about these proposals; indeed, they reflect some of the principles EFF and others have supported for years—notably the opportunity for users to appeal content moderation decisions, and expanded transparency from corporate platforms, and we look forward to working together to push them forward. But there’s much to worry about too.

Source: EFFector

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Corporations are creations of the Gooferment.  Hence, shouldn’t they be held to account.

ALSO, if they are exercising “editorial control”, don’t they lose the “safe harbor” given to “network operators”?

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VOCABULARY: Don’t Be a Zebra, Be a Giraffe | Innovation Management

Thursday, November 1, 2018

Zebra stands for Zero Evidence but Really Adamant.  Zebras are people who see things in black and white.  They are sure of their own opinions and they disdain information or science which undermines their beliefs.

Source: Don’t Be a Zebra, Be a Giraffe | Innovation Management

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A great addition to my vocabulary.

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 GOVERNACIDE: South Dakota executes man convicted of killing correctional officer – Breitbart

Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Oct. 29 (UPI) — South Dakota executed a man who killed a correctional officer during a failed prison escape in 2011. Rodney Berget, 56, was executed

Source: South Dakota executes man convicted of killing correctional officer – Breitbart

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Sadly, this is one of the rare instances where the “death penalty” makes sense.  Some criminal humans are too dangerous to their custodians and must be put down for everyone’s safety.  We, as a society, must do better job at protecting ourselves and our employees.

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Life at Georgetown Prep after the Kavanaugh smear machine rolled through our school | Fox News

Monday, October 29, 2018

Nobody at Georgetown Prep expects special pity in light of these experiences. Indeed, the problem is that almost any institution could be broadly caricatured in the underhanded way we have.

Source: Life at Georgetown Prep after the Kavanaugh smear machine rolled through our school | Fox News

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Sounds like the “press” slandered a good Catholic school?

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