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Lastly, you’ll be required to enter a phone number where you will receive an authentication code.
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I guess PSEG hasn’t gotten the message that codes via text is NOT secure.
Argh!
And, no where to complain.
BPU? Maybe!
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https://dailyreckoning.com/a-tribute-to-sgt-henry-gunther/
A Tribute to Sgt. Henry Gunther
Brian Maher
Posted November 11, 2022
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Recall the divisional chieftain who condemned 61 of his men to the grave that morning so that others might bathe — a certain William Mason Wright.
This human gem received promotion to Executive Assistant to the Chief of Staff of the Army after war’s end.
He could claim the distinction, after all, of capturing the final American objective of the war.
A less gaudy distinction fell to a young man under this man’s command that morning of Nov. 11, 1918. We refer here to Sgt. Henry Gunther, aged 23 years, of our former city of Baltimore.
This poor fellow was the last allied fatality of that fateful morning — and of the Great War itself. His time of death:
10:59 a.m.
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So anytime that a Gooferment politician or bureaucrat expresses concern for the troops, vets, KIA, WIA, or MIA, think of Sgt. Gunther and you’ll know what’s true.
Sadly, true.
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FROM NEXTDOOR
Ronald P. Society Hill • 2 Nov •
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The sneakiness of manufacturers!
One has to be so aware of how manufacturers dupe their customers.
We have been a big fan of Chock Full O’Nuts Coffee for many years. Always liked to wait for when the coffee went on sale for $1.99 per can. The new sale price at ShopRite reducing it from $5.69 a can is now $2.99. We put the coffee in a canister instead of using it out of the can. Suddenly the canister did not get filled. Apparently the amount of coffee that is now in the can is 10.3 ounces instead of 13 ounces! So now the sales price went up 50% and the quantity of coffee went down over 20%.
I have found that manufacturers slip in a new reduced package size when they put the item on sale and customers don’t pay attention to the quantity.
This is not unique to this company but seems to be practiced widely. It is always buyer beware.
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Let’s not ignore the Gooferment’s role in all of this.
It has inflated the number of dollars in circulation by several trillion.
Don’t you think that has some role in all this?
See my blog rants about penny candy, nickel cigars, and dime comics!
Shrinkflation is the manufactures’ response to a dollar devaluation.
“Dollar stores” are proliferating because that’s what people can afford.
I can’t imagine shopping for food in a dollar store, but I think we are going to see more of this. Not less.
Time to vote the clowns out and just resist.
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A Washington man is suing a hospital and two of its doctors for malpractice for allegedly removing the wrong organ during surgery, nearly costing him his life.
— Read on nypost.com/2023/11/09/lifestyle/man-
Sure glad that the Goofermentregulates “medical care”!!!!
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https://reason.com/volokh/2023/11/08/let-us-kill-your-dog-or-go-to-jail-for-a-year/
Animals
Let Us Kill Your Dog or Go to Jail for a Year
Eugene Volokh | 11.8.2023 8:01 AM
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The county code allows destruction of a dangerous dog under specific circumstances. It allows destruction when an owner does not redeem an impounded dog within 96 hours. And it allows immediate destruction when “a dog is suffering from a serious injury or disease, and destroying the dog is in the interest of public health and safety, or in the interest of the dog.” The code does not authorize destroying a dog in any other instance….
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I found this “in the interest of the dog” amusing. How is killing the dog in “its interest”?
Argh!
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5302918/
It tells the remarkable true story of athlete Diana Nyad who, at the age of 60 and with the help of her best friend and coach, commits to achieving her life-long dream: a 110-mile open ocean swim from Cuba to Florida.
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I’m not a big fan of movies that don’t make me laugh.
However every once in a while, one comes along that I feel is a “must see”.
I’d make it required watching for every student in the world.
Overcoming obstacles. Exponentiated.
Hard to say enough good things about this movie.
On a personal note, I didn’t recognize Annette Benning until I went to write this post.
I’d put this in my “Rudy” file of “motivational” musts.
Unlike the trash that Hollywood usually produces, there was a tasteful nod to sexual abuse and lesbianism. But didn’t detract from the message. If anything, it focuses on the hidden obstacles that one would never know about.
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Chuck Callesto and Libs of TikTok follow
Tom Fitton
@TomFitton
NJ election fraud: New charges brought against two Democrats over mail-in ballots, registrations
“Mendez’s campaign allegedly collected ballots that were not sealed by voters and examined them at the campaign headquarters to see if they were cast for Mendez. Ballots that were not cast for Mendez were allegedly destroyed and replaced with a ballot for him. The replacement ballots were allegedly stolen from voters’ mailboxes.”
via @JustTheNews
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What a farce!
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Mega-Jolt: The Costs and Logistics of Plugging In EVs Are About to Become Supercharged
By John Murawski, RealClearInvestigations
October 24, 2023
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To curb greenhouse gas emissions, California, New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Maryland, and other states have outlawed the sale of new gasoline cars starting in 2035, and similar EV mandates have been adopted by nearly 60 countries. The Biden administration is spending $7.5 billion on 500,000 EV charging ports as part of the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to boost EV sales targets to 50% of all new vehicle purchases by 2030.
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I expect that used cars are going to become the new “cars” in 2035.
We’ll probably begin to look like Cuba where cars ended in the 1950’s when the USA embargoed Castro.
Pity to poor and the renters, who won’t have access to a home charger. And, pity the poor homeowner who needs to retrofit their electrical service. That’s assuming that the local utility can provide such service.
BTW where is all this power generation capacity going to magically appear from.
In case you forgot, the extra taxes on gas pay for the roads.
DNF that EVs are hard on tires.
Argh!
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A cold-blooded killer who murdered a cop execution-style outside a Queens nightclub will be a free man by the end of November.
— Read on nypost.com/2023/11/04/metro/nypd-cop-killer-freed-after-execution-style-murder/
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Sorry. No parole EVER for murder!
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https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4192662/posts
A Texas farmer’s fight for justice could have major implications for property rights
By Jon Miltimore — October 26, 2023 09:44 AM
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In the 1930s, Richie DeVillier’s grandfather purchased a farm in Winnie, a little town in eastern Texas named after a railroad contractor who prospered.
For nearly a century, the DeVillier family raised cattle and grew crops on the 900-acre property without incident — until the Texas Department of Transportation started a highway project that had serious implications for DeVillier’s land.
In the early 2000s, the state renovated Interstate 10, elevating and broadening the highway and erecting concrete barriers. The construction trapped the DeVillier property, turning his farm into a lake whenever the region experienced heavy rains, as it did in 2017 during Hurricane Harvey.
“The water started to rise on August 28,” DeVillier recalled . “Our home was completely flooded by August 29.”
When DeVillier says his “home,” he’s not talking about just his house. Video footage shows his entire farm submerged, with cows standing chest-deep in water; fields where the family once grew rice and olives can be seen totally flooded.
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In November, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit punted on the matter, arguing that federal courts have no jurisdiction in takings cases against states. (A “taking” isn’t necessarily seizing the property; an action that substantially alters a property is legally defined as a taking in tort law.)
The court didn’t rule against DeVillier. It simply said that Congress never passed a law allowing Americans to sue states for taking their property, so the Fifth Amendment’s property protections do not apply to DeVillier or anyone else.
The court’s reasoning is strange. Not only does the Constitution explicitly state that no person shall be “deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law … [or] without just compensation,” but the high court weighed in on this issue as recently as 2019.
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“If there is one basic principle in property law, it’s the Pottery Barn Rule: You break it, you buy it,” said Robert McNamara, an attorney for the Institute for Justice who is representing the family. “The Fifth Circuit’s decision in this case amounts to ‘you pay if you feel like it.’”
*** and ***
That the government, which was created to secure these rights, has become the single greatest transgressor of human rights is a sad irony, one that was not lost on the 19th-century economist Frederic Bastiat, who described it as a “perversion.”
Few know this better than Richie DeVillier, whom the state of Texas is trying to stiff after destroying his farm.
Fortunately, the Supreme Court has a chance to make amends. If it does, it will not just be a win for DeVillier. It will be a win for justice.
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I like that summation — the Pottery Barn Rule. In this case, the Gooferment “robbed this family blind”!
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One month after experimental pig heart transplant, doctors say they see no signs of rejection or infection (4 minute read)
The patient who received a pig heart in an experimental heart transplant last month appears to have excellent heart function with no signs of infection or rejection. The pig heart had been genetically modified to make it more compatible with humans. Doctors have withdrawn all drugs that were initially supporting the heart, so it is performing well on its own. The patient was the second ever to undergo the treatment – the first patient died from a complex array of factors two months following their transplant.
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Fantastic news.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12670473/Hamza-Ibrahim-brain-cancer-loses-eye-sight.html
Heartbreaking three words Hamza Ibrahim, 8, told his mum after learning he will soon go blind because of a medical blunder
By Max Aitchison For Daily Mail Australia
Published: 08:17 EDT, 25 October 2023 | Updated: 08:18 EDT, 25 October 2023
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An eight-year-old boy told his mother there is ‘no point living’ after doctors delivered the devastating news he would never see again.
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So how did Gooferment-run socialized medical care work out for this young boy?
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Laughter Is Good Medicine
Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola
October 23, 2023
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Story at-a-glance
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I resolve to watch laughing babies at least once a day.
https://rumble.com/vc2be0-laughing-lockdown-baby.html
Laugh!
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Here’s something I used for years to keep family informed while minimizing the effort required. Here’s how I explained CARINGBRIDGE to our families.
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Let me explain. I use CARING BRIDGE to keep my and wife’s family informed about her condition.
She hates to tell them: feeling she’s always got more bad news to relate, a litany of ailments that is just a never ending kvetch, and it makes her focus on the fact that she’s not going to get better. Ever. The docs are not optimistic about this long term. Everyone refuses to give us a five year estimate.
So, it is our unspoken secret that: I let them know, they pretend not to know, and she can tell them “happy stories” about how she’s feeling better. :-) She knows I do it, but pretends I don’t. Women are SO complicated.
I think you might find what I write “cavalier and sometimes upsetting”. Especially since I write it for a select audience that know how “crotchety” I can be. (When I’m old, I’m going to make some nursing home aide’s life miserable.)
To a certain extent, I agree with Frau Reinke. The Universe does supply what you focus on. So it is important for her to stay optimistic and positive. I can be the pragmatic realistic fat old white guy injineer!
As her PiA (I call it “patient advocate”; she calls it PIA.), I keep all the notes, do the RXes, and generally fuss over her like a mother hen. (I have a lot invested in training her.) Hope you find it helpful, amusing, and distracting from your own more serious load. We’re at the end of the story; your girl is at the beginning.
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This was a handy “ruse” to prevent the repetition to every one who is concerned. For those interested, they control their subscription to the news. It can come in email or text. Or you can visit the website and read it when your up to it.
Now I know you may or may not on the same path as her. Eventually you’ll get it all sorted out. Medicine is much better than it was for her in the 1980’s.
I have tried to convince others to do CARINGBRIDGE for their loved one, but no one seems to be interested.
You might want someone to do this for you to prevent the “repetition” from getting you down.
You may want to read what I did to get a feel for how to do it. When my time comes, as it does for all of us, I’ll do my own site. Laugh! I am sure that there will be at least one reader — me.
FWIW YMMV
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Argh!
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Nolte: Taylor Swift Humiliates Hollywood Again — Trounces Leo’s ‘Flower Moon’
John Nolte — 21 Oct 2023
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Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour was produced by … Taylor Swift and her team. It was also distributed by … Taylor Swift and her team. Swift Inc. froze Hollywood out and went straight to the theater chains. The result has been a box office triumph. In its first weekend, The Eras Tour grossed $93 million domestic and $124 million worldwide. After only three days, Swift already had the highest-grossing concert film in history. Moreover, she enjoyed the second biggest October opening weekend ever. Only Joker (2019) topped her, and…
Hollywood had nothing to do with any of it.
Hollywood did not make one penny off of it.
And…
This so terrifies Hollywood that Hollywood’s palace guards at the far-left Hollywood Reporter spent 1,500 words last week spinning Swift’s box office triumph into a mistake. And what was the mistake? She didn’t distribute The Eras Tour through the same studios that advertise at the far-left Hollywood Reporter.
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And it couldn’t happen to a worse group of people. They deserve to be punished financially. And content creators don’t need them.
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https://nypost.com/2023/10/30/business/mcdonalds-revenue-soars-as-it-hikes-menu-prices-18-big-macs/
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Existing franchisees who plan to maintain their current footprint or who buy a franchise from another operator, as well as those who rebuild existing locations or transfer their franchise to a family member, will not be affected by the price hike.
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Isn’t that a taxable event?
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The teen was arrested nearby for the execution-style slaying and charged with second-degree murder as a juvenile — meaning that he faced up to 15 years behind bars, rather than the maximum of 25 years to life for an adult defendant.
NY mom slams plea deal for son’s teen killer
Sorry but a person accused of “murder” should never be tried as a “juvenile”!
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https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/10/hamas_massacres_the_new_face_of_gun_control.html
americanthinker.com
Hamas Massacres: The New Face of Gun Control
By Hank Vanderbeek
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Blizovsky told the Times he believes the atrocities committed by Hamas could have been avoided if more Israeli civilians had firearms.
Never ever give up your guns, because the minute you do you become a helpless victim. You never know when something like an inhumane attack on the homeland will happen. We have open borders through which illegal immigrants pour in from the entire world. We are not just talking about refugees from Central America and Mexico. Deranged Middle Easterners are entering unfettered. What are their plans? Entire terror cells could be walking across the borders.
Don’t believe someone who tells you to give up your guns to make society safe. The Second Amendment allows us to keep and bears arms to keep us safe, not to take our arms to keep us safe.
In the end, Stern said the Israeli government’s restriction on civilian firearms ownership cost hundreds of civilian lives. That grave injustice should never be forgotten.
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Sorry, but the Gooferment is the “gang that can’t shoot straight” and can’t protect its citizens. The police come after the fact and draw chalk lines around the dead victims.
We need to go back to the Old West ethic that everyone is responsible for “keeping the peace”.
Everyone needs to be armed at all times if they feel capable of doing it.
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FROM 1440 NEWS
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House Republicans remove Rep. Jim Jordan as House speaker nominee.
The removal, by a closed-door vote, comes after Jordan (R, OH-4) failed to secure the gavel in the third round of voting Friday. He received 194 votes, down from 199 in the second ballot and 200 from the first. All House Democrats continued to back House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D, NY-8). House Republicans will restart the speaker nominee process Monday.
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Ranked Choice Voting would have settled this impasse on the first ballot.
It really should be the way ALL voting is conducted.
However, we may find that “NONE OF THE ABOVE” is always the winner.
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Cher Says She will Leave the U.S. if Trump Gets Re-elected
Alana Mastrangelo — 18 Oct 20233,829
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Left-wing pop star Cher says she will leave the United States if former President Donald Trump is re-elected, claiming that she “almost got an ulcer” when Trump was elected president in 2016.
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Cher must be trying to get on my “Jane Fonda” list.
I remember many “celebrities” threatening to leave the USA for some reason or another, but yet never leaving.
Now, anyone, who reads my blog, know that I regard “celebrities” as nothing more than very well trained “performing seals” even if very well paid. They have no special other qualifications other than a very heightened sense of their value.
So, I think when you threaten to leave, “We, The Sheeple” should insist on follow thru.
Argh!
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FROM FREE REPUBLIC
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Trump Plots to Pull Out of NATO — If He Doesn’t Get His Way
10/27/2023, 11:02:03 AM · 54 of 54
Vaduz to McGruff
President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign is attacking former President Donald Trump’s over a new report alleging that he wants to withdraw from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
The Penn Biden Center’s website focused on strengthening American global leadership by addressing threats to the Liberal International Order.
Trump is spot on
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Absolutely, NATO is a vestige of the Cold War and needs to be dissolved. It allows Europe to palm off self-defense costs to the USA. BTW the USA is broke. And, needlessly provides billets for high ranking USA military who should be declared surplus.
Argh!
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Delta Air Lines backtracks changes to its SkyMiles program after customer revolt
By Associated Press
Published Oct. 18, 2023, 6:36 p.m. ET
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Henry Harteveldt, a travel analyst at Atmosphere Research Group, said some SkyMiles members will still be unhappy about Delta moving to an entirely spending-based program, and will view even the reduced requirements as too rich.
“I don’t think these concessions are going to go far enough to placate the disgruntled Medallions,” he said. “Given the mercenary mindset that many travelers have, they will fly other airlines and not look back.”
Less than two weeks after Delta announced the SkyMiles overhaul, Bastian announced that the Atlanta-based airline was taking another look at the matter. He said Delta “probably went too far” with the proposed changes.
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File this under “If it’s not broke, don’t fix it”.
You’d think that a CEO, or more likely the CFO, would have an eagle’s eye focus on <synonym for the act of procreation> with the Customer experience!
Was anyone watching Bud Light’s self-inflicted suicide?
Customer reactions are in vogue now. People are saying ‘I’M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!’
Don’t do anything to disturb that nice steady cash flow.
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‘I’M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!’ I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell – ‘I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore!’ Things have got to change. But first, you’ve gotta get mad!… You’ve got to say, ‘I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!’ Then we’ll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it: [screaming at the top of his lungs] “I’M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!” — the character Howard Beale played by Peter Finch in the movie Network (1976)
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FROM FREE REPUBLIC
Video: BREAKING: Gov. Sarah Sanders Announces Chinese State-Owned Company Must Give Up Arkansas Land
10/18/2023, 9:54:06 AM · 9 of 9
ferret_airlift to JesusIsLord
Most nations do not allow non-citizens to own land. Why do we?
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Time to rethink what corporations are, what they can do, and how big they can get.
I track all these issue back to the FED and fiat money!
Argh!
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Furious Michigan town demands justice after cops kill beloved deer named Annie – as graphic video shows officer pinning doe and firing handgun
By Joe Hutchison For Dailymail.Com
Published: 21:00 EDT, 24 October 2023 | Updated: 08:28 EDT, 25 October 2023
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The officer manages to pin Annie while she is laying upside down, before pulling out a handgun and firing a single shot, the deer jolts before going limp.
Under Michigan law, only licensed rehabilitators can legally possess wildlife – meaning families are banned from keeping wild animals as pets.
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“What the monsters you last interacted with did to you was cruel, inhumane, and heartless.”
The police are not your friends. They were there for an unrelated mater and, for whatever reason, decided to kill the deer.
Remember someone loaded the Jews on the trains to the death camps. The police don’t “protect and serve” us!
Argh!
Interesting that the deer was “rehabilitated” just like the “law” intended. Probably send the carcass to the dump.
Who or what authorized Officer David Loza to kill the deer?
Argh!
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https://mailchi.mp/tomwoods/universitiesandissues?e=39307912ab
FROM TOM WOODS EMAIL NEWSLETTER
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It so happens that the University of Chicago adopted precisely the correct position all the way back in 1967, in what became known as the Kalven Report.
The answer: the university itself remains neutral, but the professors themselves are free to do and say as they like.
The university, the statement said, had “a great and unique role to play in fostering the development of social and political values in a society,” but that role is one “for the long term.” Day-to-day debates were not matters for solemn and official statements by the university per se.”
“There is no mechanism by which it can reach a collective position without inhibiting that full freedom of dissent on which it thrives. It cannot insist that all of its members favor a given view of social policy; if it takes collective action, therefore, it does so at the price of censuring any minority who do not agree with the view adopted.”
It is the professors themselves who are to carry out the debate. The university is “the home and sponsor of critics; it is not itself the critic.”
This, it seems to me, is the correct approach. No more writing to express your outrage that University X hasn’t yet issued a statement on Issue Y. Its opinion on Issue Y is moronic and worthless anyway. These “statements” by university presidents are better left unwritten. I promise you, dear reader, the world will be a better place without them.
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Certainly seems like a good policy for ALL corporations too.
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