February 14, 2023
The MSU shooter was a felon and had been arrested for illegally possessing firearms prior to his rampage.
If gun control worked this shooting would never have happened.
UPDATE:
The shooter wasn't a convicted felon. He was charged with a felony and made a plea deal reducing it to a misdemeanor. Typical Blue State soft-on-crime stupidity.
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Just a thought:
Perhaps that was the genesis of the Enlightenment, as for the first time in ages the more thoughtful people were actually sober enough to engage in a logical, clear-minded way? People used to be drunk all day in the good old days because their water was so bad.
https://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/English-Coffeehouses-Penny-Universities/
In 17th and 18th century England, coffeehouses were popular places for people from all walks of life to go and meet, chat, gossip and have fun, whilst enjoying the latest fashion, a drink newly arrived in Europe from Turkey – coffee.
Whilst the taste of 17th century coffee was not very palatable – indeed, it tasted quite disgusting according to accounts of the time – the caffeine in it and the ‘buzz’ it provided, proved quite addictive.
The first coffeehouse in England was opened in Oxford in 1652. In London, the first one was opened later that same year in at St Michael’s Alley, Cornhill, by an eccentric Greek named Pasqua Roseé. Soon they were commonplace.
And while the American Revolution was fomented in no small part in taverns, one wonders if the rise of coffee and tea drinking didn't free up the minds of the patriots so they could actually think about their plight and work out a philosophical approach and tactics.Remember, the Irish had fought the British for a long time without much success. Was that perhaps because (at least to a degree) they were all emotion and no reason in their fight? And if so was it perhaps not a function of too much liquor making them passionate but not reasonable?
So it could well be coffee changed the world and gave us America.
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Neutrinos are weird. IIRC, supernovae suggest they travel at the speed of light which requires they be massless. OTOH, the concern about the low neutrino flux from the sun was resolved when people found neutrinos changed to a different type, but that requires they don't travel at light speed and that they have mass.
https://neutrinos.fnal.gov/sources/solar-neutrinos/
The breakthrough came with data from two newer experiments. Super-Kamiokande, an improved version of the Kamiokande experiment, began observations in 1996, and the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory in Canada joined in 1999. Leaders of these two projects would go on to receive the 2015 Nobel Prize in physics for discovering the solution to the solar neutrino problem: neutrino oscillations. Roughly two-thirds of the electron neutrinos coming from the sun were changing their flavor as they traveled, arriving as muon or tau neutrinos. Evidence that neutrinos changed type also proved that they have mass, a shocking discovery not predicted by the Standard Model.
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A laser beam seen in Hawaii from space may well have been a Chinese satellite.
https://thefederalistpapers.org/us/video-lasers-shooting-space-real-yes-chinas-likely-behind?fbclid=IwAR3CQxjruJOEEZAIQlsz6tpTC9kI2SWEDjAa-wFQ5veT9Y8MVOWSOf8WRuw
While the satellite was said to be measuring pollution, it may well have been a spy device.
Looks like the Chicoms are really ramping up their spying activity. Which means they may well be getting ready for something.
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Steve Forbes understands the cause of inflation.
According to Forbes on Fox Business:
The Fed increased the M2 money supply by 6.1 TRILLION dollars between March of 2020 and the end of 2021 alone. In 22 months after the beginning of the march increase the amount of money in circulation rose by 42%. This is absolutely guaranteed to cause major inflationary pressures.
Now the Fed is doing "qualitative tightening" and cutting the supply, but they face the danger of deflation triggering a recession or worse. So they are tightening slowly, hoping to take the price pressures down. Of course this guaranteed slow growth at best.
So many people try to blame so many other things for inflation - oil prices (as if they are not part of the inflationary pressures themselves), the war in Ukraine, supply chain disruptions, etc. But ultimately it's because of this gargantuan increase in the supply of money. It's not complicated. The other things just add to it.
And of course Mr. Biden has been waging a war on oil and gas - the lifeblood of the economy - so he's just made matters that much worse. Certainly high fuel prices lead to higher delivery costs which jack up the price of commodities.
But inflation was and is and always will be a monetary problem. The Fed created this, largely to help the U.S. pay for th massive spending.
If they would tell Congress they aren't going to bail them out anymore there would be real concerns about spending. But they won't do that because they want to maintain the status quo (and keep like-minded Keynsians on the Fed board). Congress will not find any fiscal discipline as long as the Fed will bail them out by printing more money.
This is much like the leadup to the Great Depression. From 1920=29 the Fed increased the money supply by 42%. That was the M2 numbers. If you look at things like savings and loan money or insurance along with M2 you get a much higher number - 62%. It was this inflation of the currency that was responsible in no small part for the roaring '20's prosperity. (That coupled with sound fiscal management by Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge.) But then the Fed decided to shift course, and reduced the money ssupply by a whopping 30% between 1930 and '33. After a decade of expansion they contracted - and at a time when the economy was hurting from a stock market crash. (Of course the Republican-controlled Congress didn't help by increasing taxes.)
And this was during the Hoover Administration. Hoover was an activist Keynsian economist. He believed he could fine-tune the economy via government power. In fact, Franklin Roosevelt ran as a fiscal conservative against Hoover; he said Hoover went too far in government intervention. (Calvin Coolidge called Hoover "the Wonder Boy" because Hoover thaought he could fix everything.)
It was Hoover who implemented vast government spending programs, massive rerlief plans, and big public works projects - the core of the New Deal. And this at a time when the Fed was pushing fiscal austerity.
It was the perfect storm for a Depression.
BTW the Federal Reserve had kept inflation in check during the '20's by not printing as much money as the gold coming into the Treasury. Rising prices were minimal during the early years of the Roaring Twenties, but like all such things the party must end at some point.
Inflation was 1.4% until 1926, then slowed to 1.1% until '29. But the expansion of the money supply had to come from somewhere, and it came ultimately from an inflation of stocks, which proliferated like mushrooms in a forest after the rains. The reasonably low inflation and economic prosperity were slowly hollowing out the economy.
You can see the parallels with the current era. The scary thing is we have double, triple, quadrupled down on the mistakes of the past. The Great Depression is due for a repeat.
And we are making the same mistakes that caused the Great Recession too.
The only thing that has kept the U.S. economy afloat has been the fact the U.S. dollar has been the world's reserve currency, and that oil must be purchased with dollars. That is now changing. The Saudis started accepting other currencies, and the Russians are now refusing anything but rubles. As the dominance of the dollar comes to an end the whole rotten structure will collapse. The woeful lack of value of our money is going to be exposed, and when it is the fall will be spectacular.
I am mindful of the Book of Revelation "Babylon is fallen, is fallen!...the merchants of the world will weep and mourn for her, for there is no one left to buy their goods."
What does that sound like? That's much like a monetary collapse.
That is where we are heading.
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DEMOCRATS! My heart almost stopped when I read that!
It's like the Pope saying you don't need the Catholic Church for salvation. They NEVER resist control of people.
Elmer Fudd just called for gun control, and Popeye now promotes the beef industry:
Alabama Democrats want to ban employers from forcing workers to get microchipped
foxbusiness.com
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Here is a cease and desist letter to the board members at Project Veritas ordering them to stop going after James O'Keefe:
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Jerry S. Rainforth adds:
From the Intelligence...
O’Keefe is his organization’s guiding ideological force and onscreen face, but his status as its day-to-day manager has become uncertain amid reports of internal turmoil, lawsuits from former employees, leaks about its internal workings, and a federal investigation into its conduct in purchasing a diary stolen from Ashley Biden, the president’s daughter. Strack’s internal message to employees made reference to what he called "a distracting time” and said that a board meeting had been held to discuss "the health of the organization” and that while "we have not come up with final solutions yet we have made a few immediate decisions.” The message said two top Project Veritas executives, including the nonprofit’s chief financial officer, had been "reinstated.” Multiple sources said that the pair had recently been fired by O’Keefe.
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They know the origin of the balloons.
What You Need to Know about China’s Unmanned Aircraft Research | National Review
nationalreview
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February 12, 2023
History of Social Security -
Just in case some of you young whippersnappers
It's easy to check out, if you don't believe it. Be sure and show it to your family
and friends. They need a little history lesson on what's what and it doesn't matter
whether you are Democrat or Republican. Facts are Facts.
Social Security
Cards up until the 1980s expressly stated the number and
Card were not to be used for identification purposes. Since nearly everyone in the
United States now has a number, it became convenient to use it anyway and the
message, NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION was removed.
An old Social Security card with the "NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION"
Our Social Security
Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat, introduced the Social
Security (FICA) Program. He promised:
1) That participation in the Program would be
completely voluntary,
No longer Voluntary
2) That the participants would only have to pay
1% of the first $1,400 of their annual
incomes into the Program,
Now 7.65%
On the first $90,000.
3) That the money the participants elected to put
into the Program would be deductible from
their income for tax purposes each year,
No longer tax deductible
4) That the money the participants put in went to the
Independent 'Trust Fund' rather than into the
General Operating Fund, and therefore, would
only be used to fund the Social Security
Retirement Program, and no other
Government program, and,
Under Johnson the money was moved to
The General Fund and spent.
5) That the annuity payments to the retirees would never be taxed
as income.
Under Clinton & Gore
up to 85% of your Social Security can be taxed.
Since many of us have paid into FICA for years and are
now receiving a Social Security check every month --
and then finding that we are getting taxed on 85% of
the money we paid to the Federal government to 'put
away -- you may be interested in the following:
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Q: Which Political Party took Social Security from the
Independent 'Trust Fund' and put it into the
General Fund so that Congress could spend it?
A: It was Lyndon Johnson and the Democratically
controlled House and Senate.
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Q: Which Political Party eliminated the income tax
deduction for Social Security (FICA) withholding?
A: The Democratic Party.
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Q: Which Political Party started taxing Social
Security annuities?
A: The Democratic Party with Al Gore casting the
'tie-breaking' deciding vote as President of the
Senate, while he was Vice President of the U.S.
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Q: Which Political Party decided to start
giving annuity payments to immigrants?
(AND MY FAVORITE):
A: That's right!
Jimmy Carter and the Democratic Party.
Immigrants moved into this country, and at age 65,
began to receive Social Security payments! The
Democratic Party gave these payments to them,
even though they never paid a dime into it!
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Then, after violating the original contract (FICA),
the Democrats turn around and tell you that the Republicans
want to take your Social Security away!
And the worst part about it is uninformed citizens believe it!
If enough people receive this, maybe a seed of
awareness will be planted and maybe changes will
evolve.
But it's worth a try.
How many people can YOU send this to?
Actions speak louder than bumper stickers
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Is there any difference between Santos remaining in the House for his vote—when it was obvious why Dems wanted the very ill Fetterman to ensure his vote in the Senate?
Tim adds:
Makes me think of a Japanese monster movie. The liar v. the idiot.
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Great stuff. Of course climate change being blamed for Earthquakes. Here is the factual counter. ( that we actually have to counter a climate narrative to earthquakes show how far science has sunk. One could argue anything can cause anything
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There’s a book coming out "The Man Who Broke Capitalism”. It’s about Jack Welch and how his management style and priorities led to the destruction of General Electric. I also saw how Jack Welch’s practices infected my DuPont.
Both G.E. and DuPont are shells of their former selves. Two of the premier industrial giants in history, now mere shadows.
Jack Welch insisted that each business be #1 or #2 in sales for their business sector. Sales were everything. Marketing was everything. Everything else took a back seat.
Jack Welch also established G.E. Capital. He wrapped his manufacturing businesses around G.E. Capital and for a short time made major bucks. He would finance power plants around the world. G.E. electrical gear was almost an afterthought.
Jack also brought in the practices of Six Sigma. Everything measured by statistical magic. Kinda like the climate models. And of course everyone cooked the numbers to get the desired answer.
Finally, to make margins on all those sales, Jack really pushed outsourcing and offshoring. Domestic manufacturing was gutted.
As his final contribution to G.E.’s destruction, Jack Welch anointed Jeff Immelt as Jack’s successor. Jeff set about to redouble Jack’s worst priorities. The book describes that later in life Jack painfully regretted appointing Jeff Immelt. How much did Jack see himself in all of this ? Nothing. Just deflected the failures on Immelt.
All of us in DuPont witnessed full frontal how Jack Welch’s G.E. infected DuPont. Ellen Kuhlmann came from G.E. and she was a royal bitch. Talk to anyone who had direct contact with her. Vapid and dismissive. The same scenario of sales and marketing took over. Outsourcing and off-shoring. Six Sigma number mania.
When Koch Industries bought DuPont’s Nylon@R business, the first thing they did was to fire all of the Six Sigma "Black Belts”, then cut about 2 or 3 layers of management and flattened the organization to push decision-making to the lowest ranks. The Koch brothers are hard-nosed commodity chemical manufacturers.
Ellen Kuhlman was finally ousted by Nelson Peltz’s Trian Fund Management which set about to carve up DuPont and raffle it off.
G.E. Capital and the Trian Fund. The numbers guys. Vultures. Same as the Rothschilds.
https://news.yahoo.com/dupont-chief-kuhlman-exits-profit-forecast-cut-215720012.html
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Climate alarmists are using models that are proven to not work.
I wrote a paper that analyzed their AR1 model. I truncated the data, then had the model forecast the truncated data. It failed miserably.
If you're really bored and want to read it, here is the paper. It is a rather technical analysis:
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Vaccination is not supposed to increase the death rate for a disease. A German paper, (linked below), from late last year now tells us why the covid vaccines are different.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciimmunol.ade2798
Briefly, there are four types of Immunoglobulin G, which together represent 75% of the serum antibodies in humans. IgG1, IgG2, IgG3 normally constitute 99.96% of the Immunoglobulin G in circulation. IgG4 is normally the balance of 0.04%.
more...
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February 11, 2023
The pervasiveness of mainstream media’s efforts to encourage Big Tech arbitration of speech and association is undeniable. This report is not merely conspiratorial.
Real Clear Politics? Reason? The Daily Wire? These are some of the intelligent and reputable news outlets the mainstream media is encouraging Big Tech to censure. Here advertisers are encouraged to curtail their spending on conservative speech.
Disinformation Inc: Meet the groups hauling in cash to secretly blacklist conservative news
washingtonexaminer.com
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Here's an example of the ABC's Behind The News BTN which is shown to school children all around Australia. https://youtu.be/_AkkP0G2Xvo
This episode asks the question Is Art Vandalism Wrong?
It should be easy for the ABC to simply say that vandalism is against the law and isn't justified no matter what your cause.
They should make it clear that activists need to find legal ways to get their message across.
But because the staff at the ABC are hard Lefties, they don't want to criticise the climate activists.
They could have also spent a moment saying how ridiculous the 'Just Stop Oil' movement is by highlighting all the things we rely on every day which require oil production. Here's a list: https://www.ranken-energy.com/index.php/products-made-from-petroleum/
If we just stopped oil, most of our industry would grind to a halt. Nearly all transport would become unworkable. Most medical supplies would be scarce. Large scale cropping and food production would cease. People would be unable to earn a living or feed themselves. Developed countries would be turned into developing countries overnight.
Instead, the ABC program has left students thinking that if their cause is good, and politicians have stopped listening to them, then art vandalism, can be justified.
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James O'Keefe is out on paid leave by the Board of Project Veritas. This was following his outing of Pfizer and just before the CDC put the jab on babies vaccination list. The PV Board put out a nice little blurb about how they were all dedicated to the cause, yeah right. They are nothing without O'Keefe. Likely the gov or the media or Pfizer got to them. Don't know if they will be back up as an investigative alternative media or where James O'Keefe is. No announcement from him. The FBI swat broke into his place in NY and arrested him. No charges were filed. Where is James O'Keefe? Maybe in the same dungeon as Julian Assange? Wonder if he is in the same gulag that the J6 people are being held?
Jerry S. Rainforth rings in:
What is going on!?!
James O’Keefe just broke the biggest story in PV’s history attacking the most well-funded, aggressive, and criminal pharma enterprise in history, and then O’Keefe lead the company in what looks like the most successful fundraising drive the company has ever seen — but suddenly, for some unexplained reason, the board of directors canceled O’Keefe’s password and took his entry swipe key, or at least, the administrative equivalent of those things.
The whole thing stinks to high heaven. One is sorely tempted to draw a straight line through the man to the injured animal, Pfizer (along with its deep-state allies), concluding they got to the board members somehow. If I allowed myself to speculate, I could very nicely color this picture in for you.
But we need to avoid being swept away in the hot takes. An alternative explanation could be that the stress of everything going on with the Pfizer takedown somehow exacerbated existing conflicts between O’Keefe and the board, to the point that O’Keefe acted out (think, screaming at the board members or threatening them) and the board reflexively used its powers to put James into time out.
Still, even if that is true, the board members should have offered to resign, not put the very public founder and face of the company into partly-fired status. While the board members legally owe their duties of loyalty to the company rather than the founder, in this case, the founder IS the company.
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John Kenedy, Senator from Louisiana who is quickly becoming my favorite Senator, just had another GEM of a saying.
"Pardon me from interrupting you couselor, but this process gives me five minutes to question four nominees in order to determine whether or not I should vote for them to be inserted into a LIFE LONG appointment to the Federal Bench..."
He then went on to ask one of the nominees several basic questions about the constitution of the United States that she could NOT answer. This candidate, Charnelle Bjelkengren, a woman of color, was being nominated to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington.
I'm not sure which is worse, the clown show that is the Biden presidency or the processes that are in place to ensure that they are able to push their devastating agenda(s).
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IN MY OPINION!
ABC/Washington Post poll 1-23-23 to 2-1-23 asked the question "During Biden’s time in office, Biden has accomplished?” The results were; Not very much/ little or nothing 62%, Great deal/ good amount 36%. In the 2020 election the voting was almost exactly 50 – 50 so the 36% is most assuredly all Democrats/
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February 10, 2023
Yesterday I was listening to the radio and a discussion about the right to bear arms was playing. The topic of nuclear arms came up; do Americans have the right to own nuclear weapons as part of the Second Amendment? After all, the Second Amendment is there to give Americans the tools to overthrow a tyrannical government if necessary. As the U.S. has nukes, doesn't that mean the People have a right to them too?
Several points to ponder about that.
First, the argument CAN be made against nukes as an anti-government weapon. Nuclear devices cannot be targeted specifically against a group. There can be no non-combatants when you detonate nukes; they kill indiscriminantly, in massive numbers. As such they would be poor weapons of revolution.
In many ways this is a straw-man argument to dismiss the idea of bearing arms to rebel against tyranny. The people using it know that.
But to get back to the nukes, you aren't going to take a country back by blowing it up. You might be able to blow up Washington, but you are going to kill millions of innocent people in the process. In that regard there certainly would be no MORAL justification for such a weapon.
But there is certainly a legal right. That is true of all weapons. The long rifle or handgun poses no danger to anyone whatsoever in the hands of a careful and morally virtuous person. It becomes a menace in the hands of bad people, or irresponsible people. So the liberal solution is to ban them - except to leave them in the hands of government, a government they hope to control and thus utilize those weapons to their own advantage.
But a virtuous populace makes those tools (and that is what they are) a positive social value. They deter crime. They keep the government from overrunning the public. They are a societal good.
And like all freedoms they can cut. Certainly free speech can be very dangerous. So too can freedom of religion (you might worship the Devil, say) or freedom of the press, or the right to assemble. Anything in life is dangerous if misused.
So possession of a nuclear weapon is not immoral nor is it Constitutionally illegal. If you don't set it off there is absolutely nothing wrong with possessing such a device.
BUT
Such a thing would be a high value target for terrorists and as such presents a public danger. And while accidental detonation would be unlikely it theoretically could happen, I suppose. It's a bit more of a risk than letting someone have a midnight special on their nightstand.
Of course, talking about private ownership of nuclear weapons is largely a moot point anyway; nobody can afford to get them. It takes enormous resources to build one, and purchasing one is cost-prohibitive. Nobody has a real need for a nuke. So this discussion is moot.
But it touches on something else that needs thinking about.
CRISPR technology is growing cheaper and cheaper and genetic splicing, recombinant DNA manipulation is easily in the realm of the possible for citizens of fair means. With this technology and a little know-how terrible, dreadful biological weapons can be made in your basement.
The first law against home genetic manipulation was put into effect in 2019. That law "strongly suggests" you don't splice genes, and makes a minor effort at suppressing the purchase of gene-splicing equipment.
This law is little more than a restriction on selling bazookas to children.
So we already have an example of a technology that has the potential of wiping out half the planet in private hands. We have seen no calamity as of yet. The only example of recombinant DNA possibly used as a weapon was the Wuhan virus/Covid 19 and THAT was funded by the United States government and deployed by the Red Chinese.
It seems to me private ownership of nuclear weapons would not mean a disaster.
Again, this is all speculation as the chances of these weapons being owned by private individuals is nil, or nearly so. And the case can be made for reasonable restrictions. This is a far cry from gun control, or a violation of the Second Amendment.
I can just picture it now; some '30's style gangsters trying to rob a bank by hauling the 10,800 lb. Fat Man into the First National Bank and proclaiming "toin over da money or da city gets it, youse guys!"
Crimes and revolutions are more easily done with bullets than plutonium bombs.
At any rate, Oliver Wendell Holmes famously stated "hard cases make bad law". This is an extremely hard case, and one not intended to do anything but make a reductio-ad-absurdum argument against the right to keep and bear arms. It's fundamentally dishonest. If the government has the right to keep and bear any sort of arms then so does the public, and they know it.
Perhaps nobody should have these things? Let's start with the government getting rid of theirs and then I'll turn in my nuclear stockpile.
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