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MEME: About last night’s “emmys”
Monday, September 15, 2025
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ENCOURAGING: “Forbidden” llists are counter-productive to censorship
Monday, September 15, 2025https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/from-forbidden-to-top-sellers?r=3snn7d
From Forbidden to Top Sellers
- If books are any indication, the Bio-Pharmaceutical Complex is losing in the marketplace of ideas.
John Leake — Sep 09, 2025
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The dummies who tried to impose a censorship regime in the United States should have understood that their scheme wouldn’t work.
Key actors in the “censorship-industrial complex,” as Michael Shellenberger calls it, should have understood that their enterprise was doomed to fail, just as the Catholic Church’s Index Librorum Prohibitorum (Index of Forbidden Books), maintained between 1560 to 1966, was doomed to fail.
Notable authors on the Index included Jean-Paul Sartre, Michel de Montaigne, Voltaire, Denis Diderot, Victor Hugo, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, André Gide, Nikos Kazantzakis, Emanuel Swedenborg, Baruch Spinoza, Desiderius Erasmus, Immanuel Kant, David Hume, René Descartes, Francis Bacon, Thomas Browne, John Milton, John Locke, Nicolaus Copernicus, Niccolò Machiavelli, Galileo Galilei, Blaise Pascal, and Hugo Grotius.
Rather than censoring and banning ideas, it’s always better to discuss and debate them.
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I remember in Catholic High Skrule each week, the Diocesan newspaper (I forget the name) would print the Forbidden Books and Forbidden Movies lists. And the good Christian Brothers would make a point of reminding us that these would damage our souls. Little did they realize it was, just like Adam and Eve, tempting us. I know everyone tried to read or see these “evil demons”. Most of us succeeded. Word quickly spread which were worth the effort and which weren’t. Laugh!
I don’t think it made a difference.
If I was the Principal I would have put the summer required reading list as “Prohibited” and it would have gotten read.
Sigh! Those were the “easy days”.
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ETC: Links I thought were interesting
Sunday, September 14, 2025Ten Years Post “Cheating” – EPautos – Libertarian Car Talk
More On Charlie Kirk, The Qatar Strike and the Russia’s Netcentric Military Doctrine
A Common Trait Among Mentally Disturbed Women: Deviant-ated Septum
Some Catholic Schools Adding Armed Response After Annunciation Shooting – Bearing Arms
We betrayed Russians in 1945. We’re doing it again in 2025. :: Jeff Jacoby
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MEME:Teach the criminal to fear the victim by LtCol Jeff Cooper
Sunday, September 14, 2025
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GUNS: Lessons from the Charlie Kirk assassination
Sunday, September 14, 2025Charlie Kirk assassin most likely ‘internet shooter’ who took advantage of low-security spot: elite sharpshooter
By Nicholas McEntyre
Published Sep. 11, 2025, 6:31 a.m. ET
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Ranstad believes the gunman used a high-powered rifle during Wednesday’s shooting.
“I don’t think it was an AR, the crack had too much base in it, not a crack like an AR,” he said, claiming it was either from a .308 bolt action or a 7.62 x 39mm.
He called on investigators to check local gun ranges for any unusual activities in the weeks leading up to Kirk’s murder.
“Any bloke can go to the range three or four times and make that shot. I would start looking at range time if I was police,” he told the outlet. “They should get all the videos, who’s got what rifle and who isn’t properly trained so don’t know how to control their blood pressure and adrenaline.
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IMHO “easy shot”. 200 yards. Slightly down. No real security. One shot. Smells professional — except for one fact.
I bet all politicians and bureaucrats will be better protected now.
This is the stuff that you see in the movies.
Definitely someone with some training, maybe a lot.
Could be an experienced deer hunter with that type of weapon,
Not your average “mass shooter” kid on drugs, or gang banger.
Given what is known publicly, he may never be found.
Unless he carelessly left brass, fingerprints, dna, or some type of trash, there may not be a lot of physical evidence,
Unless they have a picture of him that they have not released, it’s going to be a tough case.
The one fact that says not a pro — If he was “camouflaged” at least his face, then I’d suspect a professional. Otherwise, I’d bet on a “deer hunter”.
But what do I know?
Technically any good shooter could have done it, but this is not the work of a noob.
We shall see.
I’m sure that all the survivalists and patriots are watching this one. Like the internet memes, always point out — if guns were the problem, you’d know it — “You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.” — apocryphal unsourced quote attributed to Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto — Rambo movie about body bags. —
Dona Nobis Pacem
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Update: “Investigators say the suspect left palm prints on the roof and a shoe imprint as he fled— a grave mistake.”
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MEME: In reaction to the assassination of Charlie Kirk
Saturday, September 13, 2025Paratattein (παρατάττειν) “Form the line!” — attributed to Leonidas to prepare his men for battle at
<< in reaction to the assassination of Charlie Kirk >>
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INSPIRATIONAL: Some times you can use your image to your advantage and do good for the world
Saturday, September 13, 2025{tip of the old tin foil hat to <Stephen E. Phelps Jr.> for sharing!}
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1A3MmpKyce/
True Stories
Dolly Parton once walked into a boardroom full of men in rhinestones and heels — and walked out owning her own masters. The executives thought she was a naïve country girl who’d sign anything. Instead, she quietly bought back her publishing rights, a move so rare at the time that even industry sharks didn’t see it coming. Decades later, when Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You” sold 20 million copies, the checks went to Dolly. She didn’t just write the song — she owned it.
That’s the paradox of Dolly. She leaned into the dumb-blonde jokes, the wigs, the over-the-top curves — and used them as camouflage. People underestimated her, and she liked it that way. Behind the glitter was one of the shrewdest business operators in music. She built Dollywood in rural Tennessee, turning her home into a tourist empire. She funneled money into children’s literacy programs, giving away more than 200 million books. And she did it all while letting the world laugh at her “backwoods Barbie” image.
The kicker? She admitted the caricature was intentional. “It costs a lot of money to look this cheap,” she quipped. The hair, the nails, the laugh — they were her armor, her Trojan horse. She could sparkle her way past prejudice and still walk out with the contract that made her untouchable.
Even Elvis tried to own her. When Colonel Tom Parker demanded half the rights to “I Will Always Love You” for Presley to record it, Dolly said no — sobbing in her car, heartbroken, but unyielding. It may be the single most profitable “no” in music history.
Dolly Parton’s story isn’t about a country diva in sequins. It’s about a woman who weaponized underestimation, sold the world a joke it wanted to hear, and laughed all the way to the bank — while handing out books to children on the side.
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Way back when, in the 70s, some of my friends were playing a game. I think it was called “Facts in Five”? One of the challenges was to name the smartest person you knew of. My wife assured everyone that she had my answer cold. “Einstein”! Nope, I had written down “Dolly Parton”. She went nuts and the entire group. I explained that she was the shrewdest business lady and the most charitable. I knew of Dollywood and her book donations.
This story reminded me of that game and added some details about Ms. Parton IDK.
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POLITICAL: The Young Democrats and Young Republicans of Connecticut issued a joint statement
Friday, September 12, 2025After Charlie Kirk’s Murder, Politicians Can Back Away From the Brink, or Make Matters Worse
- The political class has been pushing the country towards a conflict nobody should want.
J.D. Tuccille | 9.11.2025 3:00 PM
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The Young Democrats and Young Republicans of Connecticut issued a joint statement denouncing the murder.
“What happened at Utah Valley University this afternoon is unacceptable,” it reads. “We reject all forms of political violence. There is no place in our country for such acts, regardless of political disagreements.”
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Finally a little bit of sanity returns to politics.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083987/quotes/
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Nehru: Think of what you can do by living, that you cannot do by dying… What do you want?
Gandhi: That the fighting will stop. That you make me believe it will never start again.
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This quote is preceded. By a line, something like, “I will fast until the violence stops to atone for my part in stoking it”. Something like that. It’s seems that ALL politicians need to take this example and tone down the posturing.
No one should be stoking the flames of violence for any reason. Certainly not for their political gain.
Argh!
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NEWJERSEY: Who gets sued for the vax injuries?
Friday, September 12, 2025NJ to maintain COVID-19 vaccine access despite new federal restrictions
By: Dana DiFilippo – September 10, 2025 12:22 pm
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The New Jersey Department of Health has authorized pharmacies and pediatricians statewide to give COVID-19 vaccines to anyone 6 months or older, a move meant to protect access to the shots after federal health officials last month announced new eligibility restrictions limiting them to people over 65 or with other health problems.
Acting Health Commissioner Jeff Brown issued an executive directive Monday denouncing the “unfounded and unsupported barriers” the federal Food and Drug Administration created in rolling back vaccine access.
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Let the lawsuits begin!
Does the law preempting suing Big Pharma still have any effect?
If I was a Doctor or Pharmacist, then who’s directions do you follow?
If I was the Insurance Companies, then I’d warm the lawyers. This is going to be a giant mess.
Argh!
Remember “informed consent”?
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QUOTE: Conspiracy theorists … …
Thursday, September 11, 2025“Conspiracy theorists underestimate the ingenuity of the past and overestimate the competence of the present.” — Fred Anderson
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