tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84755491077464958992024-02-18T20:13:00.284-06:00Tall CottonJust stuff about life, politics, and my disposition in general....ppjakaJimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04232495007429895581noreply@blogger.comBlogger2885125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8475549107746495899.post-1847266483387791002020-05-15T20:44:00.002-05:002020-06-21T10:45:08.881-05:00And they keep on flaming <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">But they are
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“May 14
update on coronavirus in Jackson: Madison Co. cases remain at 164, 16,699 cases
statewide”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">If you don’t
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at 164,...” that is present tense,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">So,
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are you ready for this??</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Fourteen.
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paper, if you read down and into the article:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I think it is
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Why does the
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">https://www.jacksonsun.com/story/news/local/2020/05/14/may-14-update-coronavirus-jackson-madison-co-cases-remain-164/5193737002/</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I write you
concerning your reporting of Covid-19 cases.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>From the article on 5/1:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“148 cases
in Madison County</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">There are
148 confirmed novel coronavirus cases in Madison County as of May 1 at 4 p.m.,
up three from this morning's report.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Reading this
anyone would immediately believe that there are 148 people sick with the
disease.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Yet, when I
read further, I find:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Recovered: 94 cases (64%)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not recovered: 26 cases (18%)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Better: 14 cases (9%)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unknown: 14 cases (9%)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Deceased: 1”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The sub-headline
and following sentence are not correct. You had 95 cases (94 +1). You now have,
per the above, 45, of which 26 still ill, 14 are better and 14 are unknown.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">An accurate
sub-headline would have read: “There are 54 confirmed novel coronavirus cases
in Madison County as of May 1 at 4 p.m., up three from this morning's report.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
sub-headline seems to follow the old newspaper rule, “If it bleeds it leads.”
That wasn’t good in the past. In today's world were people have largely gone to
Social Media for their news, often quoting newspapers without attribution or
analysis of what they quote, it is worse.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I appreciate
your efforts, especially during these difficult and uncertain times. But as a subscriber
I expect accuracy. Even more so when we are trying to emerge from an economy
killing shut down. We desperately do not need inaccurate information fanning
the flames.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I look forward
to reading further articles that accurately state the problem as it exists
today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Thank you</span></div>
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"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl Popper
“It’s the presumption that Obama knows how all these industries ought to be operating better than people who have spent their lives in those industries, and a general cockiness going back to before he was president, and the fact that he has no experience whatever in managing anything. Only someone who has never had the responsibility for managing anything could believe he could manage just about everything.” - Thomas Sowell in Reason MagazineppjakaJimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04232495007429895581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8475549107746495899.post-84742105492966851652020-04-25T11:17:00.000-05:002020-04-25T11:17:38.508-05:00It's Saturday morning<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It’s Saturday
morning and I’m bored...so I got to thinking.....<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> You don’t get immunity unless you catch a
disease, survive, and your body builds anti-bodies. Or, a vaccine, causes your
body to develop anti-bodies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As more and
more people become immune the disease has a tendency to die out because there
are fewer and fewer “carriers” for it to infect and survive. As a result, people
without the anti-bodies are not exposed to the disease. The “herd” is immune
because some have died. Some have survived through treatment. Some just live
through it without treatment. Or there is wide spread use of an effective
vaccine. Thus “herd immunity. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The “herd”
is never 100% immune. The unprotected, either because, they haven’t had the
disease and developed anti-bodies or not received the vaccine or the vaccine
just doesn’t work for them, remains vulnerable. And then there is the question
of how long personal anti-bodies protect. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The “Anti-Vac”
folks have been tolerated because, more or less, their refusal to be inoculated
for various communicable diseases impact just them, or their children. Given
that Covid-19 is deadly for the elderly or people with underlying health
conditions and no vaccine is 100%, I foresee some interesting situations.
Remember Typhoid Mary was locked up and people who knowingly transmit AIDS are
tried.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I have been
watching Sweden because it is a modern country with excellent health facilities.
Sweden has not closed at all. We have. Their death rate per million/population is
217. Ours is 158. That’s a difference of 59 per million, or 18,880 people dying.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Sweden’s death
rate has been slowly climbing, just as ours has. Will their death rate peak and
then drop as all the old and weak die? Maybe. Will they reach “herd immunity?” Perhaps.
But will all the people who come into their country not carry the disease to infect
those who haven’t been previously infected because the people around them aren’t
carriers? I don’t know but I do know you can’t shut off travel between countries
in today’s world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Will ours?
Who knows? Studies from NY, CA and now FL show that the disease was here last
December, or earlier, as around 10% of the “tested” population have the
antibodies. That’s interesting. It also means that the number of disease
carriers, leaving the small number of asymptotic aside, is reduced. (Also true
in Sweden.) That’s also why vaccines work. If I’m immune then I can’t catch the
disease from you. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">With 20/20 hindsight it appears that we should have just banned
large social gatherings, pushed frequent hand washing, increased the use of disinfectants,
demanded people wear masks and just rode the wave.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Many old people have died. It’s what we do. (I’m 82.) But we
wouldn’t have came this close to destroying the country and who knows, maybe a
lot of old people would have survived just as they hope to now by avoiding large
social gatherings, frequent hand washing, increased use of disinfectants, wearing
masks and just riding the wave.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl PopperppjakaJimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04232495007429895581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8475549107746495899.post-7186534856579640972020-04-23T10:26:00.000-05:002020-04-23T10:59:09.407-05:00Memories<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Setting
around the house with time on my hand brings back memories....<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Back in the
day, or in this case the fall of 1956, wannbe Aviation Technician Strikers went
to Airman Prep school in Norman, OK before going on to “A” school at NATTC, Millington.
(Memphis, TN.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Outside of
basic electricity, hand tools, safety and surviving the Navy’s attempt at drowning us while learning how to get out of a parachute harness when landing in the
water; we also learned how to play snooker
and that sailors had zero chance with
the girls at the University of Oklahoma who were mostly looking for young men who
drove convertibles and whose daddies owned oil wells.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">So, we
looked towards Oklahoma City. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">There was a bus
to ride to downtown and there were taxis. But we needed a car. Lo and behold we found a 1936 Chevrolet that
had been hand painted, with a brush, a beautiful British racing green. The body
was in remarkably good shape, it started and ran well, but the brakes were so bad that stopping at a designated spot required a strong leg, depth perception
and good planning. It didn’t have a muffler, but did have a straight pipe. The owner wanted $50. He was graduating and doubted
that it could make it to Millington, so a buddy and I formed a partnership and
made an investment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Liberty became
an adventure. We had friends who would find a dollar or so towards gas and oil
and discovered that part of the stopping sequence required down shifting was
part of the braking process. Doing so also let the car, with the straight pipe
muffler, emit a very satisfying loud rumble when downshifting or accelerating. It was so satisfying we developed
a need to do this frequently, even when not needed to help us stop or start, In fact, we
would drive around the city enjoying ourselves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Oklahoma City,
unknown to us, had a noise ordinance. Two
weeks or so before graduation disaster struck. A local policeman pulled us
over, determined that the registration had expired, and the noise it made was unacceptable. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I don’t remember
all the details but we were not arrested per se, but summoned immediately to court.
The judge looked us over, mentioned that he was a veteran and didn’t want to
fine us and that if we would promise to register the car and
fix the muffler we could go in peace.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Yes sir, yes
sir, yes sir. Just let us out of here.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">We had good
intentions. But we couldn’t
get off base during the hours when state offices were open and the price to
fix the muffler was beyond our modest financial resources.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Now an older
and wiser pair would have left the car parked outside the base and stayed on base the
weekend before following graduation day. We weren’t all that much older and we
were not wiser. Dumb and dumber? Yes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">You can
guess what happened. We were pulled over again, took back to the same court and
in front of the same judge. And the judge was unhappy. He mentioned a large
fine, which we couldn't pay, or we could spend some time in the local lock up. I
was scared spitless. I could see my Navy career evaporating as I was prosecuted for missing movement and other assorted charges. Both of us explained to the
judge about our forthcoming graduation and pledged to leave the state if he
would just let us go.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">So, he did. He had us take the car to the city impound lot
where we left it. And took the first bus back to Norman where we didn’t leave
the base until we had our orders in our hands and a bus ticket to Memphis.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">And I have
never been back in 63 years and counting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Are we being
played or what?? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I confess
that I don’t know. I also confess that I thought a quick shut down was a good
thing. But I don’t think this phased start up will work. And I think the people
who are pushing this are spouting statistics while we know that their first numbers
were off by the millions and that failure trend follows. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Figures don’t
lie but liars figure. Especially people who desperately want to be right
because that is their claim to fame and key to power.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">So, I
started looking around. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Sweden,
which has been roundly condemned, has never closed. You would think that their
death rate would be at least equal to Italy, which is 376/per million/population,
but its not. Or maybe Spain, which is 417. But it’s not. Okay, maybe twice what
our rate is. But its not. Sweden’s death rate is 139 vs our 107. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Now I’m not down
playing that 32 difference. With our population of around 320 million that’s 10240
(32 x 320) which is not a number to be sneezed at. With reported current deaths
of 35500 the total would have been 45740 based on the Swedish model. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">We have
approximately 800,000 hospital beds, 2834 hospitals with a least 10 each acute care
units and 1 ICU. And, per John Hopkins
on 4/1/20....“1 study estimated that US acute care hospitals own approximately
62,000 full-featured mechanical ventilators. Calculations suggest that about
28,883 of these ventilators (46.4%) can be used to ventilate pediatric and
neonatal patients. The study also reported an additional 98,000 ventilators
that are not full-featured but can still provide basic function in an emergency
during crisis standards of care......... One study reported the clinical
outcomes of 191 patients in Wuhan, China and found that 58 of 191 hospitalized
patients (31%) required mechanical ventilation.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">When you
consider that 99.999% of the people who
died, did so in a hospital then of the 35500, then about one/third, 11715,
needed a ventilator if you use the Wuhan numbers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">When you use
the Swedish numbers, 45740, the number becomes 15094.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Given that
all of the need didn’t happen at the same time, the number drops to a much
lower number. Much much much lower.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">So, what
happened? Again, from John Hopkins: “The study also reported an additional 98,000
ventilators that are not full-featured but can still provide basic function in
an emergency during crisis standards of care. However, the need for ventilation
services during a severe pandemic could quickly overwhelm these day-to-day
operational capabilities.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">They panicked.
And now they are unwilling to admit that their numbers are wrong. And instead
of admitting that; we are knee deep in testing and phases. They are so wound up
in the numbers they can’t see the forest.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">And the fact
is that in the forest there are, and will be, trees that the person tested
clean this morning will be positive some days in the future and the cycle
starts over.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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“It’s the presumption that Obama knows how all these industries ought to be operating better than people who have spent their lives in those industries, and a general cockiness going back to before he was president, and the fact that he has no experience whatever in managing anything. Only someone who has never had the responsibility for managing anything could believe he could manage just about everything.” - Thomas Sowell in Reason MagazineppjakaJimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04232495007429895581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8475549107746495899.post-78025977662720700112019-10-31T11:14:00.004-05:002019-10-31T11:14:52.341-05:00Who are we?<div style="text-align: left;">
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I know that I am not as smart as the talking heads on TV or
the mealy mouth elected representatives who whine and opine whenever a camera
is within ten miles.<o:p></o:p></div>
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But I am growing curious. Curious as to why we are any
better than any Central or South American country that has government overthrows
as regularly as the flow of the tides and the phases of the Moon.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I mean we are continually told that Impeachment of the
President is not a legal thing. That Impeachment is a “political” thing. That
the Founders did not mean legal things when they wrote:<o:p></o:p></div>
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If it be true that Impeachment does not require a violation
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That the Senate, with august members who love to talk but
not act, may or may not convict is of no importance. The damage is done just as
damage is done when a revolution fails in those countries we scorn because they
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Then what are we? We are hypocrites. Pure flat and simple.
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Brother, can you spare a dime?</div>
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TANSTAAFL – “There aint no such thing as a free lunch. “ Robert Heinlein, circa 1952.</div>
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I see that Princess Warrenliar has called for free healthcare for all. Various sources have said that will cost 34 trillion over 10 years. Lets break that down.</div>
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$34 trillion is $34,000,000,000,000, or stated in powers of 10, that is 34 x10 to the 12th.</div>
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Given that the population of the country is 350 million, or 350,000,000 or 3.5 x 10 to the 8th.</div>
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Divided that is $9.7 to the 4th or $97,000 or $9,700 per year per person over 10 years.</div>
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Given that the government has no money except what they take from the individual, and given that the young, aged and disabled do not earn taxable income, then the number of people paying probably drops 50% to around 175,000. This means that the actual tax payer will owe $19,400 in health care taxes a year.</div>
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Since it obvious that the individual cannot pay that then the government will have to pay it by just printing money. That, of course, will just lead to inflation and devaluing the dollar so you will be able to get health care for starvation because your grocery bill be a couple of grand a week.</div>
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Brother, can you spare a grand?</div>
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"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl Popper
“ppjakaJimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04232495007429895581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8475549107746495899.post-80128959660580886232019-09-28T15:55:00.000-05:002019-09-28T15:55:01.411-05:00Do you or do you not want your country?<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 13.5pt;">
<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The so-called Native Americans came across the Siberia-Alaska
land bridge and filtered down and across the continents. Among the things they
are noted for is human sacrifice, slavery and cannibalism. Their
societies/cultures ranged from hunter gather tribes in the north to feudal
kings and peasants groupings in the central and south.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Everything was cool until the southern Europeans arrived. The
southern Europeans were aggressive, had better weapons, including germs that
the NA’s had never been around before. The result was conquest, settlement and
a feudal society based on what they had in southern Europe resulting in land
owners with peasants huddled around the Catholic Church. But the NA’s were
better off. No slavery, no cannibalism and no human sacrifice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Basically, nothing has changed to the south. They have gone
from weekly revolutions to establishment of failed socialism
experiments…Venezuela doesn’t have toilet paper or antibiotics and Honduras is
the murder capital of the world. Their exports are bananas and people…..who
have flooded into America to the tune of 11 million or so. When called out they
riot and fly Mexico’s flag and demand the right to vote. They seem determined to establish what they,
or their parents, fled from. Poverty, chaos, crime and dictatorship.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Later the northern Europeans arrived to the north. They were
no better to the NA’s than their peers to the south. But they did have one
thing the southern Europeans didn’t have. Budding democracy. They had the Magna
Carta. The powers of kings were finite and the people were to have a voice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“We the people….” Became real.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">None of this is pretty. The NA’s lost. What the Europeans
found were people who couldn’t, or wouldn’t, defend the land that they had
taken from the previous owners.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Do we want to defend and hold this land, this civilization, or do we want to
surrender to the flood of people from the south and the flood of Muslims Obama
and Hillary imported from the east?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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“ppjakaJimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04232495007429895581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8475549107746495899.post-38188961813232500092018-05-04T19:16:00.001-05:002018-05-04T19:21:26.671-05:00Censored These are some of the videos that FB has deemed offensive and demanded I delete them.<br />
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But the one that really gets my goat is the Heinlein quote that puts entertainers and athletes in their place.<br />
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universities are not at capacity. If you’ve got a hotel, and you have 30
percent empty rooms, you don’t charge 300 percent more to those last few rooms.
The variable cost is fairly small in filling those up. We’ve got a lot of those
universities that would actually make a significant amount of money charging
just the normal, full tuition – rather than charging a penalty of triple”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Why is tuition
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purchased it is normal for the product to be closely looked at to determine
why it isn’t selling.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the real issue, why aren’t we serving Tennessee citizens better, rather than
how can we serve illegal aliens better?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“Baltimore takes down Confederate statues in middle of
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for
me.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">If I have heard it once I have heard it a thousand times
from the “media class.” It goes like this and is not limited to Lefties or
Righties as well as the two or three in the middle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">“Trump is getting in the way of his own message.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The crux of this is that the audience is not capable of
entertaining multiple messages at the same time. That is nonsense. People
hear/see/read information all the time and act on the inputs. It is the “media
class” who can’t adjust to the new world and just be an information
conduit.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>They believe that it is their
job to tell us what they think happened or was said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">This stems from the “journalism” disease that has infected
most reporters. Their self-importance knows no bounds. Just as salesmen became
account managers reporters became journalists. Supposedly this signified that they had attended a journalism school.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">However, technology rules and change happens. Among the many
jobs destroyed by the Internet were telephone operators, travel agents and many
retail clerks. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">A few years back the average newspaper reader would read the
editorial page and a few columnists during the week. Many people did neither.
The Internet opened up multiple inputs to the average person. Trump understood
this and tapped into it. He is now President.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">He can twitter in the morning about one thing while
yesterday he announced something else. This bothers no one except the media who
seemingly want only to write about something else. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Mr. or Ms “Journalist”, say hello to the dinosaurs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I’ve been ignoring my old bud, Dark Avenger, for years. And
while you would think that when nothing new is published on a unimportant blog
for months then the reader would give up and not visit the blog much less comment
on whatever deep thoughts I have written
after a long time off.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But no. True to form he (she?) visits me and, as per usual,
goes off topic to attack something Limbaugh said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Here’s the post with comments.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="https://tallcotton-ppjakajim.blogspot.com/2017/02/a-lesson-in-morals.html?showComment=1497101493675#c1556807907677995464">https://tallcotton-ppjakajim.blogspot.com/2017/02/a-lesson-in-morals.html?showComment=1497101493675#c1556807907677995464</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If you’ve taken the trouble to read it you would know that it
has nothing to about Limbaugh or Kennedy or the Soviets. It is just me pointing
out that if you believe that your boss has violated the law and/or harmed the
country there is a proper way to respond and it isn’t hard to understand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">You tell your boss. And if the boss doesn’t respond properly
you call up some reporters and tell them you are resigning because….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It’s called, “Doing the right thing.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Of course this whole deal was, and is, a lie. It is just
politics. That it harms the country and goes far beyond being the “loyal
opposition” is the only fact. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But Tomey didn’t do that. When his boss, Loretta Lynch, told
him to refer to the Clinton investigation as a “matter” he followed orders. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Following orders as a justification has a long and terrible
history. It was the German Excuse. And I’ll bet it was the excuse of Pol Pot’s
followers and Mao’s and every follower of every mass murderer in history. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This isn’t me. I’m just following orders.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Tomey had to know when Lynn directed him to down play the
Hillary investigation that Lynch was obstructing justice. But he ignored that.
But he couldn’t totally do that when Lynch and Bill Clinton had their meeting
prior to Hillary being interviewed. But did he instruct the agents to keep a
record of the interview? No he did not.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But, to his credit, it did bother him. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So he went public with all the damning facts about her
private server and how its use violated the law and he would recommend she be
indicted…..Oppps… Of course he didn’t do that. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What he did was decide to put out all the details but claim
that since there was no intent she could not be indicted. Which, of course, is
horse hockey. And the Repubs hated him
and the Demos loved him. What he had done was to turn it over to the public. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Here’s the facts, Joe and Jane. You be the judge. My hands
are clean.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And that appeared to be that.
But then enough stuff came to light that Tomey’s conclusions of the
summer were suddenly doubtful in the fall. What would happen if Hillary was
elected and then impeached? Tomey’s part would be played and replayed and his
judgment would be shown to be awful.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So he decided to reopen the investigation. And his Demo
friends hated him and his Repub enemies suddenly loved him and the election
happened.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I don’t know if the October surprise defeated Hillary. While
it didn’t help I think the real reason was that she was a terrible candidate
who had worn out her welcome and the reopening just reminded enough people of
all the scandals, from Whitewater on, that are tied to the Clintons. Enough people
just said, “Enough is enough. Trump may be all the bad the media says he is but
he isn’t a Clinton.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So what is Tomey? Tomey is all in for Tomey. Look at the proof. He now wants to protect the FBI. Really?Yet
last year he tossed the question of Hillary’s crookedness back to the voters
when everyone knew that Hillary was the next Prez. But when the FBI’s, and by
extension his, actions could be at risk in late October, he changed horses.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But then, to make things worse, when the Demos started their
crusade to impeach Trump he decided he wouldn’t say that Trump was not being
investigated. Look what happened the last time he decided to say that someone couldn’t be indicted. Worse, what would happen to him if the Demos managed to
oust Trump? Revenge is indeed best served cold and he could see the Demos just
dying to get to him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So when he could have said, “Knock it off. Trump is not under
investigation,” and let the whole thing die, he played along. What a dog’s life he was living running back
and forth between the embedded political power case, the media and the Demos and many RINO's.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But he misjudged Trump. Trump doesn’t and didn’t play by the
rules and Tomey has damaged his legacy beyond repair and the Demos have played
their trump card to early in the 2018 elections.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.32px;">Got the following from my bud Mike Lamp....</span></div>
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"Paraprosdokians" are figures of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected... frequently humorous. Winston Churchill loved them.</div>
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1. Where there's a will, I want to be in it.</div>
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2. The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on my list.</div>
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3. Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear bright until you hear them speak.</div>
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4. If I agreed with you, we'd both be wrong.</div>
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5. We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.</div>
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6. War does not determine who is right - only who is left.</div>
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7. Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.</div>
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8. To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism. To steal from many is research.</div>
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9. I didn't say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you.</div>
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10. In filling out an application, where it says, 'In case of emergency, Notify:' I put 'DOCTOR'.</div>
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11. Women will never be equal to men until they can walk down the street with a bald head and a beer gut, and still think they are sexy.</div>
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12. You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice.</div>
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13. I used to be indecisive. Now I'm not so sure..</div>
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14. To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and call whatever you hit the target.</div>
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15. Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.</div>
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16. You're never too old to learn something stupid.</div>
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17. I'm supposed to respect my elders, but its getting harder and harder for me to find one now.</div>
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"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl Popper
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">Got this from Larry P. Been meaning to post it...</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Before any
more 'outrage' at the Arizona law . . . read what it's like from the other side
of that fence...I Received the following from Tom O'Malley, who was a Director
with S.W. BELL in Mexico City :</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="background: white; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><span style="background: white;"><br />
</span><span style="background: white; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"I
spent five years working in Mexico. I worked under a tourist Visa for three
months and could legally renew it for three more months.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>After that you were working illegally.
I was technically illegal for three weeks waiting on the FM3 approval.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;"> </span></span><span style="background: white;"><br />
<br />
</span><span style="background: white; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"During
that six months our Mexican and U.S. attorneys were working to secure a
permanent work visa called a 'FM3'. It was in addition to my U.S. passport that
I had to show each time I entered and left the country. Barbara's was the same,
except hers did not permit her to work.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;"> </span></span><span style="background: white;"><br />
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</span><span style="background: white; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"To
apply for the FM3, I needed to submit the following notarized originals (not
copies):</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;"> </span></span><span style="background: white;"><br />
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</span><span style="background: white; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">1. Birth
certificate for Barbara and me.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;"> </span></span><span style="background: white;"><br />
<br />
</span><span style="background: white; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">2. Marriage
certificate.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;"> </span></span><span style="background: white;"><br />
<br />
</span><span style="background: white; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">3. High
school transcripts and proof of graduation.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;"> </span></span><span style="background: white;"><br />
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</span><span style="background: white; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">4. College
transcripts for every college I attended and proof of graduation.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;"> </span></span><span style="background: white;"><br />
<br />
</span><span style="background: white; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">5. Two
letters of recommendation from supervisors I had worked for at least one year.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;"> </span></span><span style="background: white;"><br />
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</span><span style="background: white; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">6. A letter
from the St. Louis Chief of Police indicating that I had no arrest record in
the U.S. and no outstanding warrants and, was "a citizen in good
standing".</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;"> </span></span><span style="background: white;"><br />
<br />
</span><span style="background: white; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">7.Finally,
I had to write a letter about myself that clearly stated why there was no
Mexican citizen with my skills and why my skills were important to Mexico .</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;"> </span></span><span style="background: white;"><br />
<br />
</span><span style="background: white; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">We called
it our 'I am the greatest person on Earth' letter. It was fun to write.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;"> </span></span><span style="background: white;"><br />
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</span><span style="background: white; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"All
of the above were in English that had to be translated into Spanish and be
certified as legal translations, and our signatures notarized. It produced a
folder about 1.5 inches thick with English on the left side & Spanish on
the right."</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;"> </span></span><span style="background: white;"><br />
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</span><span style="background: white; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"Once
they were completed, Barbara and I spent about five hours, accompanied by a
Mexican attorney, touring Mexican government office locations and being
photographed and fingerprinted at least three times at each location, and we
remember at least four locations where we were instructed on Mexican tax,
labor, housing, and criminal law and that we were required to obey their laws
or face the consequences.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;"> </span></span><span style="background: white;"><br />
<br />
</span><span style="background: white; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">We could
not protest any of the government's actions or we would be committing a felony.
We paid out four thousand dollars in fees and bribes to complete the process.
When this was done we could legally bring in our household goods that were held
by U.S. Customs in Laredo , Texas .</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;"> </span></span><span style="background: white;"><br />
<br />
</span><span style="background: white; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">This meant
we had rented furniture in Mexico while awaiting our goods. There were
extensive fees involved here that the company paid."</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;"> </span></span><span style="background: white;"><br />
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</span><span style="background: white; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"We
could not buy a home and were required to rent at very high rates and under
contract and compliance with Mexican law."</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;"> </span></span><span style="background: white;"><br />
<br />
</span><span style="background: white; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"We
were required to get a Mexican driver's license. This was an amazing process.
The company arranged for the licensing agency to come to our headquarters
location with their photography and fingerprint equipment and the laminating
machine. We showed our U.S. license, were photographed and fingerprinted again
and issued the license instantly after paying out a six dollar fee. We did not
take a written or driving test and never received instructions on the rules of
the road. Our only instruction was to never give a policeman your license, if
stopped and asked. We were instructed to hold it against the inside window away
from his grasp. If he got his hands on it you, would have to pay ransom to get
it back."</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;"> </span></span><span style="background: white;"><br />
<br />
</span><span style="background: white; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"We
then had to pay and file Mexican income tax annually using the number of our
FM3 as our ID number. The company's Mexican accountants did this for us
and we just signed what they prepared. It was about twenty legal size pages
annually."<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
</span><span style="background: white;"><br />
</span><span style="background: white; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"The
FM3 was good for three years and renewable for two more after paying more
fees." </span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;"> </span></span><span style="background: white;"><br />
<br />
</span><span style="background: white; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"Leaving
the country meant turning in the FM3 and certifying we were leaving no debts
behind and no outstanding legal affairs (warrants, tickets or liens)
before our household goods were released to customs." <br />
</span><span style="background: white;"><br />
</span><span style="background: white; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"It
was a real adventure and if any of our Senators or Congressmen went through it
once, they would have a different attitude toward Mexico ."</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;"> </span></span><span style="background: white;"><br />
<br />
</span><span style="background: white; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"The
Mexican government uses its vast military and police forces to keep its
citizens intimidated and compliant. They never protest at their capitol
or government offices, but do protest daily in front of the United States
Embassy. The U.S. Embassy looks like a strongly reinforced fortress and during
most protests the Mexican military surrounds the block with their men standing
shoulder to shoulder in full riot gear to protect the Embassy. These protests
are never shown on U.S. or Mexican TV. There is a large public park across the
street where they do their protesting. Anything can cause a protest such
as proposed law changes in California or Texas ."</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;"> </span></span><span style="background: white;"><br />
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</span><span style="background: white; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Please feel
free to share this with everyone who thinks we are being hard on the illegals.
Right!! Most Americans of the liberal left persuasion would never understand
this..Most are blind to this reality.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;"> </span></span><span style="background: white;"><br /></span></div>
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"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl PopperppjakaJimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04232495007429895581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8475549107746495899.post-21431296075796777682017-05-20T14:33:00.000-05:002017-05-21T07:20:24.212-05:00How the Constellation became star of the skies<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We called them “Willy Victor,” short for WV2/EC121. Here’s a
nice article written by Lockheed that has some history of them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The Connie was a sweet ride and could handle the weather and all the other problems presented by flying around the Arctic Circle and the North Pole. </div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But the article barely mentions the early warning flights
flown out of Keflavik by VW-11 and VW-13. The two squadrons were based in </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Argentia,
NFLD</span></div>
and deployed to <a 18.4px="" href="https://www.blogger.com/%3C/span%3E%3Cspan%20style=" line-height:="">;</a><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Keflavik, Iceland </span>for flights to the east and west looking for
Soviet aircraft and missiles. The Air Force had other barriers and the Navy had
barriers in the west out of Midway. There were land based radar sites in
Alaska, Canada and Greenland.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Yes, boys and girls, once upon time there was a “Cold War”
and it was as serious as it gets. Well, as you know, we didn’t catch any ICBM’s
heading for the US but did report a few Russian “Bear” bombers who seemed to run
a regular route down to Cuba who had, a few years before, helped the Soviet’s
try and install missiles that could hit any target within the US before we could
launch a retaliatory strike. That was kind of important because there was this
thing called Mutually Assured Destruction – MAD. The plan was that if each
side could destroy the other, and being rational people, then neither side would launch
a first strike. But just in case, we
watched. If I remember right if we caught them launching we could give early
warning which would let us launch back… The needed warning time was around 15 minutes…and there would be
no second chances.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Notice the “being rational people.” That doesn’t work with
radical Islam. One of the things I would do is tell the Muslim countries that
if the shit keeps up we will take out Mecca or Medina…..or maybe both. Then
torch off a couple of nukes in the deserts and maybe one off the coasts of
Indonesia just to be sure everyone got the message. Hopefully that would
rationalize the Muslim world and they would deal with radical Islam.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But enough current events. Here’s a short amateur film
showing some grainy shots of “Willy Victors” flying in and around Newfoundland.
If you look close enough you can see where my wife and I lived for a while with
our two girls.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Lord I’d like to go back and do it again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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ppjakaJimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04232495007429895581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8475549107746495899.post-39361156470398223522017-05-20T11:18:00.001-05:002017-05-20T11:29:45.558-05:00We have a winner!<br />
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<span itemprop="name" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">A group of Swedish diplomats moved the celebration of their national holiday forward an entire month to stop the date clashing with Ramadan."</span></span><br />
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Think about it – these tenured Leftards are giving the finger both to traditional Swedes and to Jews at the same time, while noisily proclaiming their <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">soumission</i> to the cult of Islam. (And yes, it is Jews that totalitarian Swedish Leftists hate, not “Israelis.”)</div>
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One also suspects that some senior Swedish diplomats stationed in Israel may have decided to decamp to cooler climes in June, so naturally their national day celebration had to give way to their Excellencies’ personal convenience.</div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">"Political correctness is a doctrine,
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<span style="background: white;">delusional, illogical minority,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and promoted by mainstream media</span>
<span style="background: white;">which holds forth the premise that it is
entirely possible to pick up a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>piece
of shit by the clean</span> <span style="background: white;">end."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And the result was a detailed list of Hillary’s
crimes but weren’t crimes because according to Comey there was no intent. That
was the beginning of Comey’s end. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Let us review.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Hillary had intent. Her intent was to hide her words and
actions. She did so because she hates criticism and is use to getting her way.
I am speaking of a woman who was given $100,000 when she needed it, stymied an
investigation by "hiding" documents in her closet, fired people who
had worked in the WH as travel agents for years and hired her friends as pay
back, lied about Benghazi even though there was a video of her and on and on.
So she knew establishing a special private email system was wrong. But after a life time of skirting the law and
living off influence she felt safe enough to believe she could do what she
wanted. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But she is not stupid and she was not uninformed. She knew
classified information would be sent over it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">She knew what would happen and she knew it would be wrong.
But her fear of being caught and knowledge that emails showing how she was
selling influence to the presumed to be office of the president to both foreign
and US people/organizations would be on the server made her decide to set up
the email system. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Her intent was to conceal a crime. Selling influence. Pay for play. Quid pro quo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And the proof is not just the demonstrated sending of classified
information regarding government information. It is the thousands of emails
illegally deleted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The classified emails are the smoking gun. The missing emails
are the bullets. They are the "dog that did not bark." That is the
proof of intent to commit a crime. That is the proof of a crime.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Now, let's look at some of the players who got pulled into
the crime as it started to collapse.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">First we have ex President Clinton and the Attorney General
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Why in God's name would these two try to meet in secret just
before an agency of Lynch's DOJ, the FBI, was set to interview Hillary? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Well, they didn't think they would be caught and they needed
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Why wasn't the interview with Hillary taped?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But it didn't work out. They were seen and in the resulting
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The question about Comey’s entran</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">ce and subsequent public
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Why did Comey decide to become a prosecutor rather than a investigator?
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Investigation, not the Federal Bureau of Prosecution.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If you believe, as I do, that Comey is basically a honest man
and wanted to do what was right, he was unhappy that Lynch had slipped aside
and turned it over to her Deputy AG. I
think he had the information, knew that multiple crimes had been committed and
knew that if he just sent the information up the chain of command the result
would be that a report would be issued no crime had been committed, no intent, just
at its worst, a minor error of judgment on Hillary’s part. And no details
provided because it contained classified information.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">At that point he decided that the American people should
know. That’s why he seized the initiative, gave out all the details so that the
public could see just how nefarious Hillary was. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.6667px; line-height: 21.4667px;">https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/statement-by-fbi-director-james-b-comey-on-the-investigation-of-secretary-hillary-clinton2019s-use-of-a-personal-e-mail-system</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">But to save the FBI as an organization….can
you imagine the fire storm that would have descended on the FBI if he had
recommended prosecution?......he claimed there was no intent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And the Democrats mostly loved him. They wished he hadn’t done
anything and the Republicans disliked him because they felt he had done nothing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But then the information about more emails came forth and he was trapped. If he
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he announced it the FBI would be shown impartial in its dealings and Hillary
would win anyway.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But Hillary did not win and the Democrats hated him. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And the rest is history. The Left, with the willing help of a
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Now Trump decided that Comey couldn’t continue to lead a
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What a day. I’ll spare you the
details but I went to the doctor because I got a bit food poisoned last night
and needed some advice on what was a good gas breaker and diarrhea plug…and the
pain in the center/ right side which had gotten worse on the way to the clinic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Before it was over they were drawing
blood and taking X-rays… The diagnosis? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The pain was caused by some gall
bladder stones. Which, if I live long enough, will have to be dealt with.
Pepto-Bismo and Gas-X for the bloating and such.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This wasn’t the first time that the
medical profession thought I was having a heart attack. I woke up one morning
in Las Vegas with sharp pain shooting down my left arm. A few minutes later I
was riding down the street in an ambulance..followed by a lot of tests…finally
a doctor came in and asked, “Mr Lewis, have you had herpes before?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“HERPES!!!” I yelled. “No! Why do you
ask?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Well, I am glad to tell you,” she
said, “You didn’t have a heart attack. You have a herpes outbreak.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">She must have seen the panic in my
face. “The common name is shingles… The medical name is Herpes Zoster….see
those little red dots on the back side of your left shoulder?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">To cap the day off I had to walk a
mile to the hospital’s cab stand to catch a cab back to my hotel. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl Popper
“ppjakaJimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04232495007429895581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8475549107746495899.post-69400481029676043782017-03-27T16:23:00.001-05:002017-03-27T16:29:45.938-05:00Counting chickens<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As you can tell, if you have read the previous post, I have
suffered a serious case of “counting your chickens before they hatch.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Believe it or not, the Republicans, one more time, found a
way to lose. They managed to let Obamacare survive.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It is hard to believe but they managed to demonstrate, again,
that they are controlled by the “I’d rather be Right,” wing of the party. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I mean they almost nominated a presidential candidate, take
your pick, that Hillary would have beat like a drum. But having paid attention to
what the broad middle part of their party wanted, they again decided to lecture
it and go against the President that the middle elected.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As Gump said, “Stupid is as stupid does.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Actually, I can set this one out. I have single payer health
care insurance. I have Medicare.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Not really. Medicare is not a single payer system. You have a
20% deductible for doctor services, a healthy deductible for hospital services,
drugs they may or not be covered by the Part D Drug coverage and then there’s
ER charges, oxygen, blood, etc., etc. And then there’s the monthly premium and
I probably missed some charges.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">OTOH Medicaid for the poor is single payer. The taxpayer
pays.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And now the Democrats are bringing back the single payer
system concept. But not how to pay for it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I have long supported a single payer system modeled on
Medicare but expanded to 100% payment by the government. And included in that
would be dental, hearing and vision
coverage including devices. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Yeah, I know that will be expensive. The question then falls
back to how to pay for it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Left will come up with some type of income tax increase.
Which, of course, assures failure because the people already having employer
provided insurance will strongly oppose paying for someone else’s healthcare.
They’ll note, quite accurately, that a family of 4 pays no federal tax on
income of up to about $50,000 and others have the so-called Earned Income
credit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Right will oppose it on “principle.” Most of that being
that Medicaid, if they can get it, covers the poor already and the rich can pay
for their own.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The problem is that all the payees are somewhat right. People paying shouldn’t be paying again. And while the obvious benefits of government,
common defense, infrastructure, etc., can have their payment justified by a graduated
income tax by the saying that the benefits cover everyone, when you start to
call for specific benefits covering a specific class then it can’t be justified.
And that’s what mean’s testing does. And while welfare can be justified as a “hand
up” it falls into disrespect when the “hand up” stretches into generations and
such dubious things as giving aid to illegal aliens and legal
immigrants/refugees. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So the obvious fair way of paying for healthcare is a federal
sales tax. And I say by a sales tax that is
collected at the point of sale so that the citizen can see the tax on a daily
basis. It should never be a VAT which is hidden.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Of course the Left will scream fairness. Why should the poor
be taxed on a necessity such as food because they pay a higher percentage of
their income for food. Well, just exempt certain items. Unprepared food,
utilities, used cars over 5 years of age….and I’m sure I missed some.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And since no one will be purchasing healthcare insurance a
lot of people will get a raise, including business owners and others who had
been purchasing insurance for someone else. They can be made to transfer all
previous payments made to the insurance companies to the employees that use to receive
the benefits.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So let’s give the Demos a round of applause for thinking
about and a hearty chorus of boos for wanting to introduce a plan that will
never pass…and both sides nasty hisses for bowing to their special interests
and never never never actually doing something that helps everyone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl Popper
“ppjakaJimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04232495007429895581noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8475549107746495899.post-35377746366568490342017-03-07T11:22:00.000-06:002017-03-07T11:22:29.262-06:00About replacing Obamacare<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">One of the really good things about replacing Obamacare is
the ability to purchase insurance across stateliness. IOW, a national market
versus a state market which in turn is broken down into Zip Codes within the
state.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What this does is run up the costs in some areas and down in
others. And since it is done on such a small group the results are drastically
uneven prices.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Remember insurance is about spreading risks, and the costs,
across large groups of people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Now we are being told that this change to a national market
can’t be done due to some arcane Senate/House rules. But, we are assured it
will be added later.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Watch this one. The Insurance Commissioners across various
states don’t like it because they lose power. The insurance companies don’t
like it because it adds competition.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl Popper
“ppjakaJimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04232495007429895581noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8475549107746495899.post-7071672794188202492017-02-16T22:04:00.000-06:002017-02-16T22:13:54.188-06:00A lesson in morals<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444433; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The deal is this. The Left wants to claim that Flynn did wrong
and but for the illegal leaks of someone in the intelligence agencies, no one would
know.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444433; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">It is a claim that two wrongs make a right. “We had to destroy
the village to save it.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444433; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">So the question is as old as sin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444433; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444433; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Who will watch the watchers?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444433; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Given that the FISA court was contacted when a US citizen was
listened to, and we have no way of knowing that, and the conversation was
assumed to have some illegality about it, you would hope and assume that it
would be referred to the DOJ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444433; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The DOJ would then try and determine if the conversation was
illegal. Either way, if the person was on the President's staff/employment, you
would assume he would be informed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span style="color: #444433; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nowhere in that chain do we have any reason
whatsoever for any information to be leaked to the press or anyone else.<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<span style="color: #444433; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Now, IF the actions of the President, in the eyes of the AG, were
found to be unacceptable then the AG should go public and resign. If that doesn't
happen then others within the chain should go public and resign.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444433; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The press and the voters can then become involved.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444433; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">But that isn't what is happening. What we have are people who
are political opponents of the President trying to harm the President from the
shadows.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444433; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">That's wrong. They weren’t elected and by doing so they send a
chill through our political processes and reveal to the enemy our ability to
collect intelligence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444433; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">And yes, if the "going public" is required I
understand that the individuals will be harmed, if not physically, then
professionally.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>But that comes
with the job just as was the possibility of being killed in training or combat comes
with being in the military or any other job that entails “defending the Constitution<u>."<o:p></o:p></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444433; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Simply put, if you don’t want such responsibilities then don’t
take the job.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl PopperppjakaJimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04232495007429895581noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8475549107746495899.post-34600645050199033222017-02-12T16:40:00.000-06:002017-02-16T21:35:02.555-06:00“South Carolina 6th Graders Learn Five Pillars of Islam,” by Trey Sanchez,<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #262626; font-size: 14.0pt;">“TruthRevolt
has kept a careful eye on this phenomenon, reporting on instances such as in<a href="http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/ca-school-teaching-islamic-faith-middle-schoolers" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit;"><span style="color: #ff5126; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">California</span></a>,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/high-school-history-project-design-muslim-prayer-rug-recite-first-pillar-islam" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit;"><span style="color: #ff5126; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Florida</span></a>,
Tennessee, and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/school-kids-sing-allahu-akbar-holiday-concert" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit;"><span style="color: #ff5126; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Minnesota</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>where students either sang songs about
Ramadan (complete with the lyrics “Allahu Akbar”), designed a Muslim prayer
rug, or wrote down the five pillars of Islam, including “all people must submit
to Allah.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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latest has occurred in Summerville, South Carolina at Alston Middle School,
where 6th graders learned about the five pillars and were instructed on the
“correct” interpretation of verses from the Koran.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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here’s the lie they’re being told.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #F9F9F9; color: #262626; font-size: 14.0pt;">“Islam is a religion of (peace). If I believe in Islam, I
am called a (Muslim). In the Islamic religion, we call God (Allah). I may dress
differently than other kids. I feel (bad) that a few people of my religion
committed terrorist acts. I do not believe in terrorists’ idea of a ‘holy war.’”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: #F9F9F9; color: #262626; font-size: 14.0pt;">Maybe true for one kid. But definitively not true for some members of the group.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #F9F9F9; color: #262626; font-size: 14.0pt;">“One parent told a local news station that permission
should’ve been asked for before giving a lesson on religious values.</span>”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: #F9F9F9; color: #262626; font-size: 14.0pt;">Gee, you think? You have to wonder where the parents's heads
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"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl PopperppjakaJimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04232495007429895581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8475549107746495899.post-83507582461794899292017-02-11T20:27:00.000-06:002018-05-13T16:45:47.543-05:00Trump and the Confederate Flag<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Before I start let me say that I am not a fan of “Ancestory.”
I have never worn a pair of lederhosen and the cold air that would flow over my
more tender parts caused by wearing a kilt leads me to wonder about the
judgment of grown men who prance around explaining they were confused about who
their ancestors were but have now been saved by the magic of genetic analysis.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Indeed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The best I can tell, based on family stories, is that I have
ancestors. Quite a few in fact. Since a generation, the average time it takes
to produce children, is about 25 years, then if I go back 250 years, 10
generations, then I have 2048 great, great, great, etc., grandparents.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And since I don’t have three eyes and twitch when I walk I
believe it was a diverse group. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">On a more recent note the story is that one of my great
granddaddies fought for the South, was wounded in the Battle of Corinth,
captured, escaped, married a Indian woman and lived more or less happily ever
after. There’s more to it but since I foresee your eyes slamming shut I will
spare you the details.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But one of the more interesting things is that he was born
and raised on a small farm in western Kentucky and, like some 90 plus percent
of Confederate fighters owned no slaves. Given that standing up and shooting at
each other using 58 caliber rifles, dying of diseases, starving on short
rations, freezing in the cold and other assorted ways of dying is quite nasty,
the question is, “Why in the world would the 90% do this for the 10%?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">That question has been asked for years by the more thoughtful
among us. My great grandfather had no “skin in the game” so why did he fight?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Let me ask you people who claim it was to keep slaves.
Really? He had no slaves. The answer is more complex than “slavery.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We can start with why did the North Vietnam peasant fight to
install communism? Why did the average German fight to keep Hitler in power.
Why did the Germanic tribes resist Caesar?
Why does the average Muslim fight?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The answer is so simple that all the “jerks under pressure,”
aka “experts,” will reject it. Because the enemy was there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Oh, there is more to it than that. The 10% manipulate the 90%
through various methods. The radical Islamic leaders use religion. The West has
been very effective in using “patriotism.” But the base is “because they were there.”
Roosevelt, even though it was obvious we had to rescue Europe, was wise enough
to wait until the homeland was attacked. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">On a side note Bush did nothing until 9/11 but by 2008 the
surrender monkeys and America haters managed to help the Islamist enough to get
us into a SOFA agreement in Iraq that Obama gratefully signed thus birthing
ISIS. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Of course any dummy could foresee that. Even me. Here’s a
comment I made in 2007 on the Left’s
website, TalkLeft.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="47"><b><span style="color: #006699; font-size: 14.0pt;">“tworivers</span></b></a><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> (</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><a href="http://www.talkleft.com/comments/2007/4/27/122514/251/47?mode=alone;showrate=1#47"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none;">none / 0</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">) (</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><a href="http://www.talkleft.com/comments/2007/4/27/122514/251/47#47"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none;">#47</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">)<br />
by <a href="http://www.talkleft.com/user/jimakaPPJ"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none;">jimakaPPJ</span></a> on
Sat Apr 28, 2007 at 08:52:16 AM CST <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444433; font-size: 14.0pt;">Actually we could argue
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<span style="color: #444433; font-size: 14.0pt;">The issue now is that when the Surrender Party pulls out of Iraq
the world will see us as weak.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444433; font-size: 14.0pt;">Weak people and lambs get attacked.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444433; font-size: 14.0pt;">But I digress. Let’s get back to </span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the Confederate flag, diversity
and Vanderbilt. </span><span style="color: #444433; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Just as I don’t wear lederhosen or kilts; I do not fly the
Confederate flag. Never have. But, unlike the Left wingers who trill
diversity’s false song, I understand why some people do.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">To frame that, you’re going to have to understand that the “War
Between the States” wasn’t over when Lee surrendered. In the phase called
“Reconstruction” the south was overrun with Carpet Baggers with various amounts
of political influence who took power and did various illegal and immoral
things. This resurrected the “because they are here” base. The result? The KKK
and associated pieces of trash who wanted to get their power back. That is the
base reason that the leaders of the local KKK’s were the power holders and
brokers in southern society. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The results were just like the “War Between the States.” The Yankee’s were the cause because they
were, if not physically then in spirit, “there” and were the reason that
Brother died at Shiloh and Uncle is crippled and we have “10 cents cotton and
40 cents meat and how in the world can a poor man eat?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The South was devastated and remained a rural agricultural
society while the North lived through the age of the Rockefeller and Vanderbilt
peasant rulers and while Teddy Roosevelt had Southerners in his “Rough Riders”
the reforms he preached hardly made an impact below the Mason Dixon line. It
took a couple of wars and a revolution in agricultural equipment making the
poor white and black sharecroppers unneeded and forced to leave the “frosty morns” of the
South and move to the soot covered snow
of the industrial north. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Think I overstate? Well, drive south on US 61 from Memphis
into what was once the poorest county in the US, Tunica…that also had the
highest number of millionaires per capita.
What you will see now is monster tractors tilling thousands of acres while
the grand children shoot and kill each other in Chicago. But the millionaires are
mostly still there along with a new set. Casino types making a living off
welfare money from the Memphis area.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Starting in the 50’s, business being business, factories
followed the Mississippi river down to the cheap labor and started locating in
the south. In the small town and surrounding county I live in by the mid 60’s
there were 5 factories employing some 7000 people. And compared to chopping
cotton these were good paying jobs. Some were union some not. New homes were
being built. Downtown’s were thriving. Businesses were opening. Population was
expanding.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But by the mid 70’s the trend was starting. Stores in the city core were closing in the
face of competition from the big department stores in the expanded shopping
center 15 miles away. A factory closed because it couldn’t match the lower
price from foreign competition and by the end of the 70’s the largest employer
closed and merged two divisions into one. Again foreign competition. 3000 jobs
just gone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And the Republican leadership didn’t do a damn thing.
Nothing. Zero. Nada.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and open the immigration floodgates <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In between times we fought the Vietnam War and the Democrats surrendered
while the Republicans wrapped themselves in the flag. When communism collapsed
the radical islamists hopped up to become the villain of the day and Bush declared
a “War On Terror “ that had been started by members of “The Religion of Peace.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Yeah. I also find that confusing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And the immigrants just kept on coming. Eleven million
illegal and about a million a year legal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Before long the “trades” were wiped out along with meat
packing, yard care and almost any service type work that didn’t require good
English and was mostly out of the public’s eye.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The WOT continued and Obama was elected and the economy collapsed
and it was all the Republicans fault and don’t say Merry Christmas and we now
have more genders that Carter had Little Liver pills and the jobs kept on
disappearing while the unemployment rate kept on rising and Obamacare helped
some and hurt many but don’t mention Universal Health Care because it doesn’t
work in Canada and the rest of the world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We even lied on our Presidential Approval Poll. I mean when everyone says the country is
going in the wrong direction but the President is at a 55%.....they gotta be
lying…one way or the other.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So with everyone but our Dear Leaders recognizing that we
have more problems than a pregnant nun the election comes and they offer us
more of the same.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And they can’t understand why Trump won. Or why some folks
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It is simple.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Let me educate you. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It is because “they” are here. And we are damn well tired of them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span>"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl Popper</div>
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