VOCABULARY: finger of honour — doigt d’honneur in French

Saturday, March 31, 2018

https://www.clairewolfe.com/blog/2018/03/24/weekend-links-95/

French driver faces jail time for “disrespecting” a speed camera. Hint: He disrespected in the classic way, which I now learn the French call the “digit of honor.” Must adopt that phrase.

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https://www.thelocal.fr/20180322/french-motorist-gets-jail-time-for-giving-the-finger-to-speed-cameras

French driver faces prison for giving middle finger to speed cameras
The Local
news.france@thelocal.com
@thelocalfrance
22 March 2018
10:49 CET+01:00

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A 46-year-old motorist in the Loire department of central France has been warned he faces two to four months in jail after sticking his middle finger up to two speed cameras back in May 2015.

However while the driver accepted that he was speeding and paid his fines, he denied giving the one-finger salute, known as the doigt d’honneur in French (finger of honour), to two speed cameras at Saint-Forgeux-Lespinasse and Bessay-sur-Allier.

“At that moment, I was talking to my girlfriend, and I was upset because she was talking about her ex-boyfriend. The finger was intended for her,” he said. 

The public prosecutor’s office said that even though the driver had already paid his fines for speeding they pressed charges against him for “insulting a person tasked with a public service mission”.

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POLITICAL: Misdirection from true causes to “never let a good crisis go to waste”

Friday, March 30, 2018

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/03/24/broward-superintendent-keep-focus-on-gun-control-not-obama-policy-to-end-school-to-prison-pipeline/

Broward Superintendent: Keep Focus on Gun Control, Not ‘Fake News’ on Obama Policy to End ‘School to Prison Pipeline’
by DR. SUSAN BERRY24 Mar 2018

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Broward County, Florida, superintendent of schools Robert Runcie says it is “fake news” that his PROMISE school leniency program likely allowed accused school shooter Nikolas Cruz to remain under the radar of law enforcement and, therefore, able to purchase the firearm that killed 17 individuals at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in February.

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The Gooferment bureaucrats never want to take responsibility for the results of their policies.

This “school to prison” policy MIGHT have had some worthy objectives. I never heard this policy overtly stated, but it certainly has come up now.

And, it really just highlights why Gooferment Skrules should not exist. 

Argh!

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INTERESTING: Superb Fairywrens’ “secret password”

Thursday, March 29, 2018

https://www.howtogeek.com/trivia/which-of-these-birds-teaches-their-offspring-a-secret-password-while-they-are-incubating/

Answer: Superb Fairywrens

In an incredibly clever bid to protect their offspring from parasitic bird species that would dump their young on superb fairywrens and flee, the wrens consistently use special vocalisations while the young wrens are still inside their eggs. Before parasitic birds like the Horsfield’s bronze-cuckoo can drop their eggs off in the nest, the wren’s own babies already know the secret vocalisation pattern by heart.

When all the eggs hatch, the wren chicks incorporate the secret vocalisation pattern into their begging for food and the mother provides the chicks that produce the vocalisation pattern the most accurately with the most food. The parasite’s chicks, on the other hand, don’t know the vocalisation pattern and the mother wren neglects them.

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I love useless factoids. 

Now I need it on Final Jeopardy!

Laugh!

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POLITICAL: DJT45 should NOT meet with Mueller … … period!

Wednesday, March 28, 2018

https://www.ac2news.com/2018/03/trump-says-hed-like-to-testify-in-russia-probe/

Trump says he’d like to testify in Russia probe
Posted on March 22, 2018 by Editor

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Mueller will try to pull a General Flynn with Trump of course and try to trap him in a lie or a misstatement so that he can get SOMETHING on Trump. But hey, in a slugfest, one has to slug.

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All one has to do is review all the reversed convictions and the TV “legal shows” like “Law & Order”, etc. etc. You’ll then know one NEVER EVER talks to the police or prosecutors.

Argh!

DJT45 would drop HUGE imho if he falls for this trap.

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Argh! BHO44 treated differently that DJT45

Tuesday, March 27, 2018

https://www.ac2news.com/2018/03/maxine-waters-video-the-president-obama-has-put-together-a-database-that-no-one-has-ever-seen-before-that-database-will-have-information-on-everything-on-every-individual/

Maxine Waters VIDEO: “The president (Obama) has put together a database that no one has ever seen before…That database will have information on everything, on every individual”
https://www.ac2news.com/2018/03/maxine-waters-video-the-president-obama-has-put-together-a-database-that-no-one-has-ever-seen-before-that-database-will-have-information-on-everything-on-every-individual/

 — via my feedly newsfeed

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​Why the uproar that DJT45 did basically the same thing as BHO44 except that BHO44 probably had Facebook’s help doing it?

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Ever wonder how politicians and bureaucrats get so rich?

Monday, March 26, 2018

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/03/21/5-secret-empires-bombshell-revelations/

5 ‘Secret Empires’ Bombshell Revelations
by REBECCA MANSOUR 21 Mar 2018

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Here, then, are five China-related revelations Schweizer exposes in his new book:

1. Biden’s Son’s Firm Scored a $1.5 Billion Deal with the Bank of China 10 Days After Joe Biden and His Son Flew to China Aboard Air Force Two

2. The China-Backed Investment Fund Invested in Dual-Use Military Technology

3. The Obama Justice Department Charged One of the Companies with Stealing U.S. Nuclear Secrets

4. Mitch McConnell and His Wife Elaine Chao Received a $5 Million to $25 Million Gift from a Family Member Who Sat on the Board of a Top Chinese Government Military Contractor

5. Mitch McConnell’s Sister-in-Law Sits on the Board of the Chinese Government’s Bank of China

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Think this is a road map to how corruption works in the “District of Corruption”.

When will “We, The Sheeple” wake up to the facts.

The Taxpayers get screwed. Repeatedly.

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VOCABULARY: Woonerf?

Sunday, March 25, 2018

http://keywestlou.com/congratulations-vladimir/

CONGRATULATIONS VLADIMIR
Posted on March 21, 2018 by keywestlou

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re woonerf. Spelled correctly. Also known as a shared street.

The article advised Miami was going to try a woonerf in a four block area of the Wynwood section.

A woonerf is where cars, bikes, and pedestrians share the pavement on an equal footing.

Sounds strange. But, it works.

Experienced it on my several trips to Novara in northern Italy. Anna’s condo sits in a 1,500 year old building. The building sits on a wide street. Cars, bikes and people move freely over the street. There is no sidewalk. Everyone exercises caution. Cars travel a bit slower.

Never experienced a problem. Never even gave it a thought that the street was being shared by everyone.

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JOBSEARCH: Recognizing the change in the employment marketplace

Saturday, March 24, 2018

http://www.impactlab.net/2018/03/18/the-secret-to-making-115-an-hour-in-the-gig-economy/

The secret to making $115 an hour in the gig economy | Impact Lab

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​Interesting, but the “gig economy” is imho the wave of the future. Like the “movie studio” model. Folks come together for a project and then disband. It’s low overhead with respect to the “human resources”. Ir means that everyone is a proprietor of their own business. No more “lifetime jobs”. Change is … … unavoidable. One either recognizes it or is crushed by it. Like the Law Of Gravity, one has no choice but to deal with it even if you refuse to recognize it.

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VOCABULARY: “FISK” — a point by point refutation

Friday, March 23, 2018

Fisk | Define Fisk at Dictionary.com
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/fisk

/fɪsk/ verb. (slang) to refute or criticize (a journalistic article or blog) point by point. C21: after the use of this technique by Robert Fisk (born 1946), British journalist, to criticize articles. Word Origin and History for Fisk.

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LIBERTY: “How cool is socialism. Ask a Venezuelan. Or his pet rabbit.”

Thursday, March 22, 2018

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-03-17/time-wake-call-american-movement-towards-socialism-communism

Time For A Wake-Up Call: The American Movement Towards Socialism & Communism
by Tyler Durden Sat, 03/17/2018 – 12:46

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Just how popular is socialism in America? The majority of millennials are in favor of it. CNN has tweeted about Martin Luther King being a socialist before it was cool to be one. Socialism seems to be the current rage – among those who enjoy all the fruits of capitalism and protection of free speech.

While the wealth created by capitalism is now deemed to be hurtful and unfair, very little is heard about the 20 million people starved and killed under Stalin’s regime. Twenty percent of millennials consider Stalin a hero, and the media does little to dissuade them from this view. Nor does the educational system, which is eager to label American wealth as “white privilege.” History is being glossed over in favor of ideology. Sadly, today’s millennials are more ignorant of history rather than malicious. What is the excuse of teachers and the popular media?

One of the biggest confusion is that socialism and communism are different ideologies. The former may relate more to economics, while the latter is a political system. But, they both include a centralized government as a major tenet, and centralized control is only possible if citizens are denied individual rights. Socialism and communism are both totalitarian regimes that are spelled differently but function alike. It’s where a few elite despots determine the means of production, free speech must be squelched, and no opposition can be tolerated.

If Stalin seems too remote for millennials to grasp, Venezuela exists in the here and now, a graphic example of a socialist paradise.

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I love when a quote can distill the truth into a soundbite accurately.

“How cool is socialism. Ask a Venezuelan. Or his pet rabbit.”

Even a snowflake college student could, or should, be able to understand it.

Argh!

And, a commenter, “Arnold”, threw in my favorite point in the RKBA debate: “Genocide is a tenet of both.” referring to Socialism and Communism.

Wonder how many will listen? 

It’s the politicians and bureaucrats, that are sending us down the road to perdition! Or serfdom.

Argh!

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