https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wdqbi66oNuI
Remember Dam Quayle and “potato” versus “potatoe”?
Funny thing is that’s how I learned to spell it — with the “oe”.
I’ll have to find and check an old dictionary!
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https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/potato
(1) “Potato.” Merriam-Webster.com. Merriam-Webster, n.d. Web. 8 Apr. 2017.
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http://deviantinvestor.com/8711/death-of-penny/
Death of Penny – What It Means!
Posted on April 6, 2017 by Gary Christenson
By Stefan Gleason, Originally Published on Money Metals Exchange
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The dollar’s reign as the world reserve currency will come to an end someday. But before that happens, the penny will likely go into the dustbin of monetary history.
U.S. pennies have already been debased – going from 95% copper before 1982 to just 2.5% copper (and 97.5% zinc) since. Now there’s a push afoot in the Senate to junk the penny entirely.
All the sound and fury Republican leaders made about repealing Obamacare signified nothing. They aren’t eager to betray the healthcare lobby, insurance providers, and pharmaceutical companies who worked with Congress to write the law and who paid so handsomely into campaign funds. They would rather betray voters.
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The decline of the value of the penny toward functional obsolescence is a sad statement about our monetary system. But rather than address the underlying problem of inflation and exploding national debt, politicians like John McCain want to just eliminate the evidence of the financial establishment’s misdeeds.
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This is a national wake up call if any of “We, The Sheeple” are listening.
Your wealth is being stolen by inflation. Faster the “Chinese water torture” of old westerns, the FED has reached into your pocket while you were sleeping or watch the “Circuses”.
Argh!
I blogged several times about the real life examples of what this theft looks like to the average joe (i.e., my sainted father-in-law’s 50$ bill; the real meaning of a double eagle; fiat versus commodity money).
So much so, I’m tired of the topic. You just DON’T get it.
Argh!
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Millennials Driving The ‘Grocerant’ Trend, Especially In Chicago
April 5, 2017 7:26 PM By Kris Kridel
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(CBS) — Fine dining may be just as close as your neighborhood grocery store.
One of the latest trends, especially among Millennials, is to have dinner at Whole Foods or other grocery stores with ready-to-eat dishes. In fact, there is a name for that type of place: a “grocerant.”
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How romantic?
Enuf said on that word!
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https://www.lewrockwell.com/2017/04/david-martin/vince-fosters-death/
Where’s the Press on Vince Foster’s Death?
By David MartinDCDave.com
April 3, 2017
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For now, America’s mainstream Fourth Estate is ignoring the latest story about the violent death of President Bill Clinton’s deputy White House counsel, Vincent W. Foster, Jr. That is the one about Congressman Trey Gowdy (R, SC) getting a federal judge to have Foster’s body exhumed and examined. In this case, there’s good reason why they should ignore it because it’s made up out of whole cloth. It was obviously created to lend credibility to the idea, ginned up by our rotten press in the first place, that the Internet information alternative to the propaganda that they put out is nothing but a steaming cauldron of unsupported rumor and nonsense.
What we are witnessing here is quite simply the latest variation of #4 in the Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression, “Knock down straw men.” Here’s one way it’s done, as we said back in 1998: “Make up wild rumors (or plant false stories) and give them lead play when you appear to debunk all the charges, real and fanciful alike.”
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Turley might have mentioned that when he wrote that piece he had been deceived not just by the scoundrel Christopher Ruddy but also former FBI agent and Watergate figure, G. Gordon Liddy, who brought forward on his radio show the anonymous “workman who discovered Foster’s body.” We have since learned that the man was the late Kermit Dale Kyle, and his story of how he stumbled upon the body while in search of a secluded place to take a leak is frankly preposterous.
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I have always believe that this was a typical Clinton murder. All of the events after his death make a cover up all the more likely.
Some one of these days the truth will leak out. It usually always does. Sometimes it’s fast (like the Trump wiretapping) and other times it takes decades (like FDR’s role in Pearl Harbor or the Lusitania carry contraband munitions).
We just have keep a watchful eye out and not let these stories be killed and buried.
It really does matter if we are to keep a Republic.
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FROM THE WSJ
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http://ericpetersautos.com/2016/06/24/whats-a-clover/
from Eric Peters Auto
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I get asked – what’s a Clover? Definition herewith:
* Clover (noun):
The root cause of every affront to liberty. The spoonful of poo that ruins a gallon of ice cream. Clovers are instinctive authoritarian control freaks. They can be found on the political left and the political right and in between. They do not believe in live and let live. They believe in telling others how to live – using violence and threats of violence to coerce obedience.
Clovers can’t abide the organic society, voluntary interaction or free exchange. The are driven to control and regulate and micromanage and absolutely will not leave you alone.
Ever.
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Clovers think people are too irresponsible and foolish to be trusted to govern themselves – but put limitless trust in people (that is, uber Clovers) once adorned with special titles and costumes such as “officer” and “senator” and “president.”
Clovers consider other people their property – as evidence by their limitless desire to control other people, even to the extent of dictating to them what they may do with their own bodies.
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Most rank-and-file Clovers are, at bottom, bullies and busybodies – but also cowards who hide behind euphemisms (see above regarding “taxes”) and proxies like the ballot box. They are not bold enough to actually take other people’s things themselves and shy away from telling other people what to do – such as personally telling their neighbor to “buckle up for safety” – but are eager to vote to have others perform this work on their behalf.
Clovers are generally only dangerous in herds.
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I admire a person who speaks the truth, from my pov, and is willing to pay the price for it. (Google banned him from serving ads and making money thru them. That’s their right, but I don’t like it.)
May I suggest you support him? I do.
And he puts out GREAT car articles too.
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Clovers think people are too irresponsible and foolish to be trusted to govern themselves – but put limitless trust in people (that is, uber Clovers) once adorned with special titles and costumes such as “officer” and “senator” and “president.”
Clovers consider other people their property – as evidence by their limitless desire to control other people, even to the extent of dictating to them what they may do with their own bodies.
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I have to laugh when I get checks or bills for less than a threshold amount.
Today I paid a bill for $2.84. I once received a check for $0.03!
Now considering that it probably cost them guesstimate 25¢ in supplies, 50¢ in postage, 50¢ in return labor, and who knows how much in setting the whole thing up.
I figure they lost money and so did I.
Because the Gooferment and Big Insurance is involved, there’s probably no way to automate the whole thing.
Argh!
So at what trivial amount do you write things off?
Argh!
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That Time The U.S. Gov’t Rationed Food – And Threatened Jail For Those Who Didn’t
Written by: Tricia Drevets Extreme Survival
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If you were asked to picture people lined up at a grocery store with ration books in their hands, you would probably imagine people in war-torn Europe. However, during World War II, government-issued ration books were a very real part of American life.To distribute food and other items that could be in short supply due to the war effort and also to create a sense of unity, the federal Office of Price Administration (OPA) established a rationing system for the nation’s citizens.That Time The U.S. Gov’t Rationed Food – And Threatened Jail For Those Who Didn’t The government then launched a promotional campaign for the ration books that included widespread radio ads, posters and pamphlets. The campaign appealed to Americans’ patriotic sense of duty, and it warned that non-compliance could be met with stiff fines and even jail time.
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To save on ration points, for instance, many families switched from butter to Oleomargarine. To save on meat consumption, shoppers bought the new Kraft Macaroni and Cheese packaged product. Sales of cottage cheese skyrocketed from 110 million pounds in 1930 to 500 million pounds during the rationing program, as people used cottage cheese as a meat substitute in meals.
Although World War II ended in 1945, the rationing program continued until 1946. Gradually, life – and grocery shopping – returned to normal and the average American’s consumption of meat, butter and sugar rose to pre-rationing levels.
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I had three thoughts on reading this:
(1) Imagine the corruption that went on. I can’t believe that the rich and connected suffered the indignity of “rationing” like “We, The Sheeple”.
(2) I wager that the big objective was to appeal to “to Americans’ patriotic sense of duty”. Have to get the Sheeple to want to go to the slaughter house.
(3) We know that margarine, a trans fat, makes for heart disease. As does the now “standard american diet”. And as far as “mac and cheese”, that made Kraft rich, we know that they’d be better off eating the box. So, what were the health effects and mortality / morbidity impacts of the “rationed diet”. Wonder how many were killed or crippled at home versus casualties on the battlefield. That would be an interesting number to know.
Argh!
The Gooferment is ALWAYS immoral, ineffective, and inefficient. As well as untrustworthy.
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http://www.riverdalepress.com/stories/riverdale-underpass-falls-under-radar,62141
Riverdale underpass falls under radar
Posted March 30, 2017
By Lisa Herndon
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The underpass located at the Henry Hudson Parkway East and Manhattan College Parkway is a ‘no man’s land’ and receives limited city services. The area has debris and broken tree limbs. After the March 14 snowstorm, the sidewalk at the underpass was not shoveled.
The underpass located at the Henry Hudson Parkway East and Manhattan College Parkway is a ‘no man’s land’ and receives limited city services. The area has debris and broken tree limbs. After the March 14 snowstorm, the sidewalk at the underpass was not shoveled.
Flooding and streets caked with mud after a heaving rain or snowfall. Broken tree limbs laying around.
Litter scattered along the hilly portion of the wooded area.
Those are some of the concerns residents shared about the underpass and overpass at the Henry Hudson Parkway East and Manhattan College Parkway near West 242nd Street.
“Welcome to ‘no man’s land,’” said David Sondheim, who lives near the underpass and attends the nearby Young Israel of Riverdale synagogue one block away. “You come back here on days where we have rain, andthis whole sidewalk is covered in mud. The puddle goes at least to the middle of the road.
“From the sidewalk, 15 to 20 feet out … it gets pretty deep. It doesn’t drain anywhere. I think the mud and the leaves block the sewer.”
When the sidewalk gets muddy, icy or snowy, it’s not cleaned up, Sondheim said, making it difficult for people to walk there.
“This is an Orthodox synagogue. People are Sabbath observant,” he said. “They don’t drive, but people walk over here to get there. It just makes it difficult,” said Sondheim.
Sondheim contacted 311 — a number used to report non-emergency issues in order for the city to make repairs — but it did him no good. Without a specific street address, 311’s computer system could not register the complaint.
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Maybe the “City” should adopt what3words?
https://map.what3words.com/decent.eagles.beams
The what3words label “decent.eagles.beams” identifies EXACTLY where the problem is!
Yeah, I know the folks in Mongolia can use Dominos to delver pizza to the nomadic tribesman, who have no fixed address, but it takes real skill to be so stupid as to not know where the problem is.
Maybe I should apply to be the “City’s” IT manager for 311?
Now I know readers of my blog are used to me just lambasting the Federal Gooferment, but it’s Gooferment at all levels that deserve our scorn.
For those tin foil hats who think there is a vast “jewish conspiracy”, please take note. If there was one, it surely would have addressed this complaint toot’s sweet. Argh!
I especially like the “helpful” 311 operator referring the caller to Sanitation, Parks, and who knows what other departments of the “City” to get them to do their jobs. Laugh! Somehow, non-governmental entities don’t seem to have this problem. Go to McD’s a gripe about the restroom and the manager will be on it in heartbeat. Someone will be in deep too do.
Argh!
Remember this story when someone tells you how the Gooferment is “your friend” and only seeks to serve you.
Argh!
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https://www.lewrockwell.com/2017/03/no_author/worlds-first-pension-crisis/
The World’s First Pension Crisis
By Simon Black Sovereign Man
March 31, 2017
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In the late in the 5th century BC, the government of ancient Rome came up with a new idea that has lasted for thousands of years.
I’m not talking about their roads, republican form of government, or water sanitation.
Their bold idea was to start paying retirement benefits to Roman soldiers.
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So just as the ancient Romans invented the first pensions, they also invented the first pension crisis. It wouldn’t be the last.
Most major governments find themselves in a similar position today.
According to a 2016 report from Citibank entitled “The Coming Pension Crisis,” the 35 developed nations which comprise the OECD (including the US, Canada, Japan, most of Europe, etc.) have pension shortfalls totaling $78 TRILLION.
To put this in context, $78 trillion is more than the size of the entire world economy.
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Nothing like being a Gloomy Gus on a nice sunny day, but the nice thing about being a retired fat old white guy injineer who is a poor old senior citizen on a fixed income, I have the perspective to look back and forward. Past is prologue.
I used to counsel my fat old white guys in job search. Part of that advice was to conduct the Sunday morning “board meeting”. Humorously, the jobseeker has to wear many hats. When I was one, I learned the trick at the DBM “turkey farm” of “wearing many hats”. So I, as the CEO, would turn to myself, as the CFO, and say: “How are revenue and expenses?”. Then the CFO would report. SO to with the CIO role, HR role, Sales Manager, Marketing Manager, etc. etc. At one time I think I had six or seven distinct “roles” in my job search.
One of my turkeys was so dense, I had to have him make paper hats with titles on them.
All that being said, there is a “retirement crisis” ahead. Probably not for me, but the younger you are the more positive I’m that you will hit it. “Pension shortfalls” equal to the world’s economy?
I can hear you say, but I don’t have a pension. But as taxpayers, you have to pay for public pensions, social security, and other “entitlements”. That’s even worse.
I hope that all you youngsters have a plan for when you’re my age.
Good luck.
p.s., sorry my generation has left you a mess to clean up.
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