[Western Journal] Mike Lindell, the outspoken CEO of Minnesota-based MyPillow, is back in the news after a donation of his wares to members of the Minnesota National Guard who were sleeping on the floor as they helped protect locations in the Twin Cities area.
In a tweet Wednesday, Lindell announced the donation and showed some of the guardsmen and women and MyPillow employees unpacking and testing out out the products.
"MyPillow donated @MyPillowUSA’s to the @NationalGuard here at the State Capitol in St. Paul, Minnesota where they’ve been sleeping on the floor," Lindell tweeted.
"Thank you all for protecting MN! We’re praying for Minnesota during this difficult time. #staysafemn," he added.
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Mike's story is one of hope, but it sure doesn't seem like he cares enough to improve his BBB rating and customer service. "F" is an "F". In any case, I wish him well.
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It's probably also human nature to complain more than offer up compliments. Be that as it may, what is Mike doing to fix this failing grade from the BBB?
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Just some guessing here: The story came from a "tik tok" (a Chinese company) video, so do the Chinese have a financial interest in a competitive product? How about good ole soap and water folks.
I wonder if this is another one of those 4chan trolls?
'Cuz I don't think that this will have the effect that they are hoping for.
Get ready to hear the phrase "Yelp-lining".
[Mashable] Yelp co-founder and CEO Jeremy Stoppelman announced that the app will launch a searchable attribute so businesses can identify themselves as black-owned, making it easier for customers to find them. The attribute will be opt-in so only businesses who want to proclaim they're black-owned can do so.
Stoppelman explained that in the past week, Yelp saw 25x increase in the amount of searches for black-owned business across a variety of industries compared to this time last year. Yelp's Curation team will create Collections of black-owned businesses across the country in the meantime before the tool is ready to launch in two weeks.
If businesses want to let customers know they're black-owned in-person, Yelp created black-owned business decals in February 2020 for Black History Month.
In addition to this new feature, the Yelp Foundation will donate $500,000 to the Equal Justice Initiative and NAACP Legal Defense Fund. The foundation also moved up their matching cap to $10,000 and will double match employee donations to a variety of black organizations such as Black Futures Lab.
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I wonder if this is another one of those 4chan trolls?
One could make the case that the multiple lunatic constituencies of the Democratic party are all the result of successful 4chan trolling campaigns. The #GoBaldForBLM trend looks to be the latest 4chan op.
Wannabe mass killer foiled because bomb making be hard.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
Cole Carini arrived at a hospital on Tuesday with a missing hand, missing fingers on his other hand, and shrapnel wounds on his neck
Carini was subsequently interviewed by police who obtained a warrant to search his home after learning he previously had been convicted on explosives charges
Investigators discovered Triacetone Triperoxide - a substance used in the creation of improvised explosive devices
They also found PVC pipes, pieces of loose wires, empty chemical containers and a hot plate cooking surface in a shed belonging to Carini's grandmother
The FBI believes Carini may have been making an explosive to blow up 'hot cheerleaders' - based on a letter they also discovered at his home
Brazil takes down COVID-19 data, hiding soaring death toll
[Jpost] Brazil removed from public view months of data on its COVID-19 epidemic on Saturday, as President Jair Bolsonaro defended delays and changes to official record-keeping of the world's second-largest coronavirus outbreak.
Brazil's Health Ministry removed the data from a website that had documented the epidemic over time and by state and municipality. The ministry also stopped giving a total count of confirmed cases, which have shot past 672,000 – more than anywhere outside the United States – or a total death toll, which passed Italy this week, nearing 36,000 by Saturday.
"The cumulative data ... does not reflect the moment the country is in," Bolsonaro said on Twitter, citing a note from the ministry. "Other actions are underway to improve the reporting of cases and confirmation of diagnoses."
Bolsonaro has played down the dangers of the pandemic, replaced medical experts in the Health Ministry with military officials and argued against state lockdowns to fight the virus, hobbling the country's public health response.
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Bolsonaro has played down the dangers of the pandemic, replaced medical experts in the Health Ministry with military officials and argued against state lockdowns to fight the virus, hobbling the country's public health response
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India has had around 7000 deaths in total nationwide so they are hardly struggling to catch up. The death rate actually fell during lockdown due to a fall in road traffic accidents. For comparison, 4000 people die each month from snakebite in India.
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And 7,000 out of over 1,000,000,000 people...too small to even be a rounding error.
[mises.org] In economics, branding serves an important purpose. Brands allow people to economize on knowledge, a scarce resource. We make decisions with imperfect information, and brand labeling and trademarks help us navigate these decisions. As Thomas Sowell writes:
When you drive into a town you have never seen before and want to get some gasoline for your car or to eat a hamburger, you have no direct way of knowing what is in the gasoline that some stranger at the filling station is putting into your tank or what is in the hamburger that another stranger is cooking for you to eat at a roadside stand that you have never seen before. But, if the filling station’s sign says Chevron and the restaurant’s sign says McDonald’s, then you don’t worry about it.
He goes on to add that "brand names are substitutes for specific knowledge."
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I am scared of anyone who might shoot me for no reason. As the post By the Numbers says, it's not particularly likely. But it only has to happen once...
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if it says Heinz on the label, you have a good idea of what you’re going to get.
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The reasoning here is strained, but the conclusion is correct. Anyone with a healthy distrust of government should feel at least as cautious about the government's armed enforcers.
Always be prudent when dealing with them, but don't fall for the "all cops are heroes" crap to which so many on the Right are susceptible.
If the last few months prove anything, it's that they'll crack down on the law-abiding and allow the zoo animals to do what they want while arresting anyone who dares to defend themselves.
But hey, they're just following orders.
Continue paying your taxes, and please contribute to the fraternal order of the kneelers.
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Fear the Cloud. The Cloud, The Cloud. Every one of the rioters, Antifa, BLM members has a smart phone constantly streaming lots of your data to The Cloud.
Holding a secret Antifa meeting? The Cloud, The Cloud KNOWS. Sending out a descrete message to cöordinate the next march? The Cloud just got the message and the recipient list. Your face is covered by a mask as you march taunting the police. The Cĺoud knows exabtly who you are.
[Yorkshire Coast Radio] Coronavirus restrictions have meant the D-Day commemorations in Normandy have been the smallest ever, with veterans and their families unable to attend for the first time.
But despite events being muted this year by the COVID-19 pandemic, people have still found ways of marking the 76th anniversary of the allied invasion, which played a decisive role in the liberation of Europe in the Second World War.
In France, flags have been raised in solitary ceremonies and tributes left at the graves of the fallen on behalf of those unable to travel because of the coronavirus.
Back in the UK, alongside low-key socially distanced services of remembrance, two D-Day veterans completed a 104-mile charity cycling challenge to mark the historic landings, which paved the way for the downfall of Nazi Germany.
Len Gibbon set out on his test of endurance using a static bike machine on VE Day and has been notching up the miles each day.
The 96-year-old crossed the "finish line" with fellow Normandy veteran Peter Hawkins, 95, at 11.24pm on 6 June - the 76th anniversary of D-Day.
The 104 miles is the same distance as Mr Gibbon's historic journey from Portsmouth to Gold Beach, Normandy, in 1944.
Mr Gibbon lives at Care for Veterans, a charity in Worthing, West Sussex, which provides care and rehabilitation to physically disabled ex-service personnel and their families.
He has so far raised more than £6,000 for the charity.
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As told to me by Ron Drez, it actually happened a few years back:
The the tour guide was wrapping up his lecture at the bridge and one-by-one the group started heading to the bus. Suddenly an old man with a cane appeared and walked up to the tour guide. "Say young man, would you like a bit more on this Pegasus Bridge engagement." "Well yes" replied the guide, not wishing to be unkind. "But we're on a tight schedule and have yet another stop to make before lunch."
"Who are you sir" the guide asked? Well the old man replied, "my name is Major John Howard."
The guide quickly summoned the entire group back for an introduction and sit down.
[NEWS.YAHOO] Afghanistan is running out of hospital beds as suspected cases of coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... surge, officials said on Saturday, warning "there is a disaster coming" in the impoverished country.
Afghan health authorities reported 761 new positive cases of COVID-19 over the past 24 hours, taking the total number of confirmed infections to 19,551.
"Our (hospital) beds are almost full, we won't have any more capacity very soon," Health Minister Ahmad Jawad Osmani told news hounds.
Officials said the number of cases were more than expected, including in the capital Kabul, the epicentre of the disease.
"There is a disaster coming," said Kabul governor Mohammad Yakub Haidary at a joint presser with the health minister.
He said in Kabul alone there could be a million people infected with the deadly virus.
So far there have been 327 confirmed deaths in the country.
"We have reports of increasing suspected deaths, people burying dead bodies at night," Haidary said.
"We fill 10-15 ambulances of dead people every day."
The virus's spread has surged amid a nationwide lockdown that residents have largely ignored, with many daily wage earners taking their chances with the disease rather than lose a day's work.
But the minister said that from Sunday the authorities will strictly impose measures like wearing face masks and maintaining social distancing for the next three months in order to curb the spread of the virus.
Experts say that Afghanistan is able to test only about 20 percent of its daily suspected coronavirus cases.
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) said in a statement Tuesday that "between 80 to 90 percent of potential cases are not being tested", citing figures provided to them by the health ministry which said between 10,000 and 20,000 samples were being received per day.
The charity warned that Afghanistan was on the brink of a health crisis after confirmed cases spiked by 684 percent in May.
Afghanistan has one of the highest rates of tests coming back positive -- about 40 percent -- the IRC said, indicating high levels of undetected infections.
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Maybe this is why there’s recently been so much talk of white supremacists on this side of the pond.
[Jpost] European white supremacists have been attending the Partizan military camp just outside St Petersburg for training in combat techniques.
German neo-Nazi ...adherents of a philosophy that was seen even at the time as pure evil, which makes them either consciously and purely evil, or attention-seeking ratbags. Pick one, or both.... s have been travelling to Russia for weapons and martial arts training from a white supremacist organization, German news magazine Focus has reported.
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[ifo Institute] The coronavirus crisis is having drastic consequences for investment by companies in Germany. Fifty percent of companies that participated in the ifo Business Survey in May reported postponing investment; in April that figure was 46 percent. In May, 28 percent of participating companies had even cancelled investment projects completely, compared with 22 percent in April. "These are worrying figures for the long-term development of the economy," says Klaus Wohlrabe, Head of Surveys at ifo. No wonder Angi Merkel won't run again. Let the next sap Kanzler(in) deal with it.
[Jpost] Senior politicians from German Chancellor Angela Merkel ...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom. Now they make faces at her for inundating the country with Moslem colonists... 's ruling conservative bloc on Saturday criticized President Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...... 's decision to order the US military to remove 9,500 troops from Germany.
The move would reduce US troops numbers in Germany to 25,000, from 34,500."The plans once again show that the Trump administration is neglecting an elementary leadership task: the involvement of alliance partners in decision-making processes," Johann Wadephul, foreign policy front man for the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, told Rooters.
All NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... partners benefited from the cohesion of the alliance, and only Russia and China gain from discord, Wadephul said, adding: "This should be given more attention in Washington."
Wadephul also spoke of a "further wake-up call" to Europeans to position themselves better in terms of security policy.
Herr Wadephul sees deeper into the stone than most.
The German Foreign Ministry declined to comment.
Andreas Nick, like Wadephul a member of the parliamentary foreign relations committee, told Deutsche Welle the indications were that "that the decision was not a technical but a purely politically motivated decision."
’Cause everyone knows that Donald Trump is D.U.M. dumb.
A US official, who did not want to be identified, said on Friday the move was the result of months of work by the top US military officer, General Mark Milley, and had nothing to do with tensions between Trump and Merkel, who thwarted Trump's plan to host a G7 meeting this month.
The withdrawal, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, is the latest twist in relations between Berlin and Washington, which have often been strained during Trump's presidency. Trump has pressed Germany to raise defense spending and accused Berlin of being a "captive" of Russia due to its energy reliance.
Could this be a play on consequences for certain countries who’ve made it plain they have no interest in meeting their long term treaty obligations?
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About 30 years too late. Once the Warsaw Pact crumbled, so, too, should have NATO and the US presence in Europe (and we won't mention Iranian missiles that could "reach Europe").
#4
Remember the BRAC base closing rounds in Deep Blue constituencies? The same Congress critter that called for "Deep, Deep I Say!" cuts in total defense spending turns around and shamelessly pounds the table demanding that their base remain open (with all of its local jobs and tax benefits).
[NEWS.YAHOO] Indian police have arrested a plantation worker and are hunting two others after a pregnant elephant died after eating fruit laced with explosives, officials said Saturday, in a case that shocked the country.
The elephant died in agony last week in the southern state of Kerala, the latest casualty of a growing conflict in South Asia between nature and humans as ever more forest is lost to urban expansion.
Footage of the animal standing in a river for hours with its badly injured mouth and trunk in the water as it slowly weakened went viral, triggering horror online.
P. Wilson was arrested on Friday after he allegedly placed fruits filled with explosives to keep creatures -- mainly wild boar -- away from his rubber plantation.
"The man has admitted that they used the explosive-filled coconuts to target the wild animals," Surendra Kumar, Kerala's chief wildlife warden, told AFP.
Two of his associates were still on the lam, the officer said.
Kumar said the men made several "coconut bombs" in the second week of May, and left them near the plantation boundary.
Officials said it was unclear when exactly the 15-year-old elephant consumed the rigged fruit but it was found injured on May 25, two days before it died.
Forest officials said the earth-shattering kaboom caused severe damage to its mouth, leaving the creature unable to eat or drink for days.
Villagers across India often use explosive or firecracker-filled fruits -— which act like pressure-activated landmines —- as bait to target wild animals that threaten crops and homes.
A similar incident was reported last month in a nearby Kerala district, when a female pachyderm was found with serious mouth injuries.
If convicted, the men could face up to seven years in jail for killing an elephant, a protected animal under Indian wildlife laws.
[JPost] - Scientists in Sweden are hoping an alpaca named Tyson can help deliver a knockout blow in the fight to develop a treatment or vaccine against the novel coronavirus that has killed nearly 400,000 people worldwide.
After immunizing Tyson, a 12-year-old alpaca in Germany, with virus proteins, the team at the Karolinska Institute have isolated tiny antibodies — known as nanobodies — from his blood that bind to the same part of the virus as human antibodies and could block the infection.
They hope this can form the basis of a treatment for COVID-19 or eventually a vaccine against it, though the work is at an early stage. Swedes. First it was herd immunity, now it's alpacas. What's next?
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The world scientific community is taking the responsibility to find treatments and cures for what was originally presented as the long-expected Spanish Flu event very seriously — I’m proud of them all, even if a few are temporarily sidetracked by Trump Derangement Syndrome. And the intensity of double checking that’s catching where teams have gone wrong is heartening as well.
Lots of learnings that will be broadly applicable after this is over, I believe, to the benefit of all. When the real thing hits, we will be much better prepared to deal with it the world over.
[JPost] - Smoking may offer some protection against the coronavirus, an Israeli study has found. The results support recent similar findings by researchers in France, China and Italy, although a British study has found the opposite.
Noting that conflicting reports exist regarding the impact of smoking on the likelihood of contracting the coronavirus, the Israeli team led by Dr. Ariel Israel undertook a population-based study pulling in data from over 3 million adult members of the Clalit Health Service, Israel's largest healthcare provider.
Their results, presented in a non-peer reviewed paper published in medRxiv on Friday, found that "the risk of infection by COVID-19 appears to be reduced by half among current smokers." A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke!
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Doing an autopsy in Italy they found extensive systemic Blood clotting on CON deceased patients. Not a viral infection but bacterial. Changing protocols to 100 mg of aspirin and apronax and discharged 14000 patients within a single day.
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The smoking/nicotine bit just seems so counter-intuitive. Belgians are big cigarette smokers, and they have the worst CV-19 per capita death rate. But, interesting studies in any case, and hopefully helpful.
[Jpost] "Overall the majority (51.9%; 539/1,038) of SARS-CoV-2 infections in Hong Kong have been associated with at least one of 135 known clusters," the researchers wrote.
Most coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... infections are caused by "superspreaders," which are people who spread the infection to a large number of people, according to a new study carried out by a group of epidemiologists in Hong Kong.
"Approximately 20% of SARS-CoV-2 infections are responsible for 80% of all transmission events in Hong Kong," the researchers noted. The researchers also found that all incidents of spreading occurred indoors. Additionally, the researchers discovered that 70% of those infected did not spread the virus to others.
"Superspreading events are happening more than we expected, more than what could be explained by chance. The frequency of superspreading is beyond what we could have imagined," Ben Cowling, one of the study's co-authors, told Business Insider. ""Now we know which measures might give you the most bang for your buck — if we could stop the superspreading from happening, we'd benefit the most people."
Ok, but what makes a superspreader, and what can we do to find them? Incidentally, does this apply to other diseases, too?
The researchers examined several clusters of infections in Hong Kong, and while there were several causes for the spread of the coronavirus, the manner in which most people were infected with the virus were in certain social events with one person who spread the infection.
"Overall the majority (51.9%; 539/1,038) of SARS-CoV-2 infections in Hong Kong have been associated with at least one of 135 known clusters," the researchers noted. "The remaining 38.9% (210/539) of cluster cases solely involved imported cases where no onward local transmission could be identified."
Some 1,037 cases which occurred between the time the first confirmed case in Hong Kong on January 23 and April 28 were examined.
The research was published on the website Research Square, a pre-print publication, which means it has yet to be peer reviewed and the results can not be considered conclusive.
Compared to the rest of the world, Americans are rich.
[AlAhram] A quarter of the Lebanese population is in danger of dropping beneath the food poverty line in a country that relies on imported food and has little domestic agriculture.
They also can’t seem to put together a workable government...
Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... was once famous for its large middle class, which after the end of the country’s civil war was well known for its habit of eating in fancy restaurants, embarking on skiing trips and buying clothes from major brands.
[Washington Examiner] he Supreme Court is expected to rule on June Medical Services, LLC v. Russo, a case that calls into question the constitutionality of an abortion clinic regulation in Louisiana, in the coming month. The imminent ruling has the potential to reshape the future of abortion industry litigation, advancing the pro-life movement in one of the most significant ways since Roe v. Wade.
The law in question is Louisiana’s Unsafe Abortion Protection Act, which requires abortion providers to hold admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of their practice. The law closed a loophole that allowed abortionists to get around this requirement, even though it applied to all other doctors. The regulation passed with bipartisan support in 2014.
As is the case with many regulations meant to protect the safety of women during an abortion, the abortion industry sued to enjoin the law the same year it was passed. They alleged that the act curtails a women’s right to an abortion under Roe v. Wade.
Most interesting about this case is the fact that the plaintiffs, who claim that they are acting to protect women’s rights, have a questionable background in this regard. Bossier City Medical Suite, a plaintiff in the action, surrendered its license and shut its doors in 2017 because it had performed abortions on at least five minor children and did not file the required statutory rape reports with the authorities.
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Bossier City Medical Suite, a plaintiff in the action, surrendered its license and shut its doors in 2017 because it had performed abortions on at least five minor children and did not file the required statutory rape reports with the authorities.
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As someone who spent 20 years in SanFran, I have a bit of knowledge of smoke rats and their behavior. I call bull on this "study". I cannot recall one instance where a loaded individual got any more violent than arguing about what Beatles lyrics really meant.... now the ones that laced their grass with coke or PCP... they were a totally different story.
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Marijuana is a safe recreational form of dope and has some medicinal benefits. Far safer than alcohol or tobacco. While tobacco only hurts the user (don’t gimme no second hand smoke studies, Greta Thunberg, this comment is not dealing in hypotheticals) alcohol is not a safe form of dope. Alcohol is a destructive animal and can only be safely imbibed by the very few who use it limitedly and with personal self discipline. That being said, I have known and continue to know dope smokers who partake every day and some all day. I have yet to meet a dope smoker who gets high and says, “Let’s go out and do some bad deeds.” It’s all more creative in nature even if they are boringly repetitive. I have been involved in situations when alcohol took over where the exact comment was,”Let’s go do bad deeds.” I’m paraphrasing of course.
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I’m calling bullshit on this “study.”
There is a difference between heavy users and occasional or social users, and also between those who take it up in junior high and high school versus those who take it up in adulthood. And finally, there is a difference between those who have a genetic tendency toward psychosis, which is triggered by cannabis use.
The fact that you who are not psychotic and not heavy users since age 14 are fine proves nothing. The question is what is different about people who are very violent.
From the article:
The team from Montreal University in Canada discovered 26 of the 30 studies showed a tendency towards higher levels of violence among cannabis users.
When they pooled the results – meaning they were looking at a combined group of 296,815 teens and adults under 30 – they found users were more than twice as likely (2.15 times) to have committed a violent offence as non-users.
Among ‘persistent heavy users’, the risk of violence was 2.81 times higher.
Reading this, I mourn again my dear friend’s son, whose violent paranoid schizophrenia was triggered by pot, and who may well spend the rest of his life in prison because he murdered his grandmother as a result. On medication he is a gentle soul with a brilliant mind, a mind that was broken because he firmly believed the same arguments presented here that pot is perfectly safe.
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That is an absolutely sad story TW. I would argue that the young man’s violent paranoid schizophrenia was to blame. Recreational doping is a personal choice and the individual bears the full weight of responsibility for the actions that follow. One mustn’t throw the baby out with the bath water. A free society lives not by the actions of the least/lowest common denominator. Of course that begs the question of, “How free do we want to be?”
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Wow, going psycho and murdering Grandma because of a joint? That's right out of the plot of Reefer Madness!
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I would argue that the young man’s violent paranoid schizophrenia was to blame.
The second first: Very probably he would have become schizophrenic anyway, Lowspark — he was at the right age for it to bloom. But because he was of that portion of the population that had that genetic variation, like having one blood type instead of another, when he took up smoking pot with his college friends the disease took the very worst form it could, rather than a milder form where he was capable of recognizing that he had a problem and could accept treatment that would allow him to continue on his path toward a career in microbiology and a normal life. Most schizophrenics do function quite well with treatment, and are high enough functioning without it to seek help. And his grandmother would not have bled to death in his grandfather’s arms, killed by her own kitchen knife, their daughter standing between them and her son while they all waited for the police to arrive.
She is one of my dearest friends, so I was privy to her struggles as she tried to deal with his deterioration, and then afterward. The effect of pot on a small portion of the population has long been known
As for the first: Spike Grineng8188 dear, please reread my first comment with an eye to what I actually wrote. I look forward to you thoughts afterward.
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There are 5 major food groups. Consuming anything outside of those food groups is contrary to what consuming from within the food groups do for the well being of the mind, body and soul. I am a rare bird that thinks that, but I have been told I look much younger, stronger and healthier after a life tine of this philosophy. At 65 I have no grey hair, I do 12 mile jogs, I require no glasses, I feel 21, I bench press 240. I only inhale fresh, fresh air. I am always studying about healthier foods.
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Sorry but after a decade in the oilfield, I don't trust anyone who takes drugs for fun, even the heavy drinkers. I refuse to get killed or maimed cause they had screw with their brain chemistry.
President Trump’s march through the government continues.
[AmericanThinker] Cheers from Iran and China dissidents over booting of Obama holdovers at Voice of America.
Technically he’ll be CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which also includes Radio Free Europe, etc. He succeeds John Lansing, a former president of Scripps Network.
President Trump was happy as heck at the news that Michael Pack,
...Senior Fellow and former CEO of the Claremont Institute and a prolific producer of documentaries for PBS, some in partnership with Steve Bannon — his most recent is “Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words“...
his choice for new director at the Voice of America, finally got confirmed by the Senate.
He was nominated two years ago.
It came as a sort of miracle, given the dirty, protracted battle from the Deep State's Obama holdovers to keep him out. It was so underhanded that it involved a last-ditch Kavanaugh-style bid to smear Pack as corrupt if for nothing else than to delay his Senate confirmation to eternity. It was the Deep State at its worst, and it failed. Now, what's probably the last solid Obama bastion of Deep State government has toppled.
This is great news. All of #Iran's apologists/lobbyists should be shunned from pushing the mullahs' talking points in America. pic.twitter.com/c1DgEzrp36
As a Chinese immigrant, I hope @VOANews@VOAChinese not to continue to be pro-Beijing, the CCP dictatorship is the biggest threat and enemy for any free nation. I see most many medias and social platforms are penetrated in deeply and distributing the CCP propagandas. That's bad. pic.twitter.com/6fwGfoYB9Z
This’ll goose the recovery — all those businesses relieved of spending so much money and time on nonsense.
[PJMedia] Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... signed an executive order that would waive requirements under several environmental laws for construction projects and energy projects overseen by several federal agencies.
The Hill reports that Trump wrote, "From the beginning of my Administration, I have focused on reforming and streamlining an outdated regulatory system that has held back our economy with needless paperwork and costly delays. The need for continued progress in this streamlining effort is all the more acute now, due to the ongoing economic crisis."
The order affects the enforcement of laws like the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Water Act and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The paperwork associated with NEPA alone is staggering. That law makes it incredibly easy for anyone opposed to a project to register objections, causing delays of months or years on vital infrastructure projects.
Naturally, there is pushback — and as it turns out, the greens question the timing.
Basically, the order would fast-track some projects that require considerable agency review. Trump signed another executive order last month that directed agencies to identify regulations that would impede the economic recovery. But this order is far more sweeping.
The latest order goes further, directing agencies to use their own emergency authorities and the emergency provisions of environmental laws to skip over standard requirements.
Agencies will now have 30 days to report which projects will be expedited under the order, but there is no requirement for that list to be publicized.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons......
[NEWS.YAHOO] Indian police have arrested a plantation worker and are hunting two others after a pregnant elephant died after eating fruit laced with explosives, officials said Saturday, in a case that shocked the country.
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
[Washington Examiner] he Supreme Court is expected to rule on June Medical Services, LLC v. Russo, a case that calls into question the constitutionality of an abortion clinic regulation in Louisiana, in the coming month. The imminent ruling has the potential to reshape the future of abortion industry litigation, advancing the pro-life movement in one of the most significant ways since Roe v. Wade.
Just when I began to think a generational expansion of Roe vs Wade organ harvesting might actually be an answer for the current unrest. 
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
