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Yeah, real tough to get loaded on cash when folks realize they can buy your power to enrich themselves at taxpayer expense.

"Hausman, like others in the industry, is careful not to equate New Zealand’s experience with what could happen in the U.S. He is thankful for federally subsidized crop insurance that his government provides."

...The essence of the fear that keeps people under the thumb of socialists. This Hausman guy not only likes, but needs his cage.

I haven't looked at this NZ situation closely, but I bet the only reason the programs were cut was to save other programs, or gov employee salaries, benefits, and pensions. So I doubt NZ will be discarding its other socialist inclinations anytime soon.

“police job is to carry out the law. There is no mandate to protect”

Correct, but the rioters were not acting legally. The police weren’t “carrying out the law”.

Had they been, the rioters would be getting arrested.

As a result of that, those on the highway would’ve been “protected”.

No one is asking that the police be a bodyguard (as in the court case you refer to).

But if they are not going to enforce the law, innocent people will suffer needlessly.

I bet they wouldn’t hesitate to arrest someone defending themselves in this situation.

These people should be shot.

This is based on one data point in HI at an observatory on the Mauna Loa Volcano.

Here's a list of some volcanic gases from wiki:

The principal components of volcanic gases are water vapor (H2O), carbon dioxide (CO2), sulfur either as sulfur dioxide (SO2) (high-temperature volcanic gases) or hydrogen sulfide (H2S) (low-temperature volcanic gases), nitrogen, argon, helium, neon, methane, carbon monoxide and hydrogen.

Observation:

CO2 levels are higher than usual near a volcano.

Conclusion:

World is going to end.

Solution:

Communism

An elderly couple are in their bedroom and the wife is looking at herself in the mirror -

“Look at me, my hair is gray, my face is sagging, my tits are sagging, my ass is sagging. Is there anything about me that’s still good?”

Husband stares into the mirror for a few seconds and says, “Well, there’s nothing wrong with your eyesight.”

“chikungunya”

Chicken Gumbo?

"while they are not in custody, the FBI reportedly knows who they are and their whereabouts."

Thanks for tipping them off WABC.

...or is it that they FBI doesn't know squat and put this out to bat the nest and see what comes out?

I always thought that these types of charges should be unconstitutional as they are effectively trying the defendants multiple times for the same offense.

Maybe the defense should subpoena the guns and equipment brought in by the Feds for similar display.

Even though he was never charged with anything criminally, Ford pardoned Nixon for anything associated w/Watergate in case someone brought charges later.

I wasn’t paying much attention then so don’t know how it went over with the public.

Nazi-Pass

I always suspected that certain gov employees get “free rides” by zeroing out their balance every month.

Even if the system is run by private contractors, what a great, clandestine way to give gifts to your favorite candidates.

Actually, it looks to me like the crowd is attempting to take a pic of something else, perhaps who H is waving to.

Check out the red haired chick w/blue shirt and white pants. She is closer to the foreground.

If she were taking a selfie as theorized, she’d be turned more to her left to capture H to her right. Plus, since H is higher up, the camera would have to be lower and at an angle reflected off the horizontal axis.

If this were a selfie, she’d have a pic of her face and the floor next to H.

You can just put a bunch of these in the sun to save it:

Typically, they can vote in local elections, not Federal.

Rights have varied by state over the years.

"the EBT system implodes"

I used to think the best way for a hacker to cause mayhem in the US was to commandeer weather satellites to relay false data of a massive impending storm.

Much easier to shut down the EBT system for a week or so. It'd be quite the apocalypse.

Why on earth does everyone copy the leftist propaganda that they are protestors?

STOP IT!

They are a rioting mob.

Good reference.

I usually point to Jewish slaves of Egypt as the example of non-black slavery. This is better!

I’d say they are also the problem of the past. The causes they embrace, such as environmentalism, anti-church, anything goes sex, marks them as modern day pagans and humanists. They enshrine all the bad behavior to which monotheistic religions provided a better way.

The instant gratification and putting nature above man (monotheistic religions only put God above man) has led to nothing but human misery through the ages.

If Hillary gets one, Trump should get one.

“Hellary demands bathroom breaks after every topic.”

Enlarged prostrate?

Good article.

In terms of ancient history, you can think of government as simply the strongest/most powerful person/group that by force takes power, makes the weaker submit, and lives of their labors - tribal chiefs/kings aren’t out hunting or tilling fields.

There was only a change in appearance in the later and larger european monarchies. The kings and lords had their squabbles, but they got to live the high life on the backs of those below them.

Then came the U.S. that separated from England with a government that largely served the people (there was still some cronyism from the get go) with representatives meeting for only part of the year, with little compensation, and hiring some government workers to perform limited sets of constitutional tasks at pay.

If you look at the lifestyles of politicians today, they look a lot more like kings and lords to me than those of our more humble roots.

If he gets a chance to slip it in, I’d like to see him accuse her of being a communist and when she replies she’s a “democratic socialist”, ask her what exactly she DOESN’T like about communism.

Are you sure this isn’t the TEA party?

While it is a large increase in terms of percentage, the condition is pretty rare.

Under 40 cases in the country.

Obvious one for Biden:

“How now wit? Wither wander you?” - As You Like It.

Very likely, actually spoken by AG Lynch to Comey:

“Be innocent of the knowledge my dearest Chuck.” - Macbeth

Also good to point out that religion was more closely tied to government in the past. Religion served as the marketing to make things happen.

Convince your subjects that the cause is in the name of God, and the State gets its way.

Also, also, note, along the same lines, it is the evil people who are most drawn to power. When there was more temporal power in the church, more of those were drawn to it.

This even happened on trivial levels - those abusing the sale of indulgences were basically no different than Mexican traffic cops today.

Power is what draws the evil out.

Which is why it’s a good idea to minimize the state’s power.

Lefties seem to think only evil people are in business, and the government is filled with saints.

Truth is, it’s a mix.

I like this one:

“Vaccines cause autism: Groundless fears based on fraudulent research that’s been shown to have been manipulated.”

How many things in this category can you think of in 60 seconds?

How about the thousands of sh*theads get together and open their own veggie burger joint?

So they have to work out arrangements, probably like whatever they did before the existence of the EU.

Also, I notice there are actually other countries, not members of the EU, doing business with EU countries. How is that possible?

It’s always been odd to me that so many folks have the mentality that an existing bureaucracy somehow must exist and there is no other way it can be, like the sun coming up in the east.

So much for the “open minded” left.

The text of the statute looks like they're going to mostly target manure handling operations and recovering gas from it. I wonder what companies make such systems and how much they've donated to political campaigns out there.

CA SB 1383

I especially like the part in the landfill section (42652.5-2) where it says this:

"Shall include requirements intended to meet the goal that not less than 20 percent of edible food that is currently disposed of is recovered for human consumption by 2025."

So, like in Venezuela, Californians are going to be eating they're own garbage!

Basically, this chick is saying feminists need to be slapped.

Only affirms that these folks have a screw loose.

Our energy problems can be solved by kicking environmentalists out of the country.

Just think of all the money you could save by not buying purses.

For a much better reason than for what’s being sent to unplanned parenthood.

Sounds live a very eco-friendly way to live. I’m sure all the left wants us to live like this.

Reminds me, in a round-about way, of someone I know who lived in Viet Nam years ago.

There was some gov official that would come around checking trash to make sure the folks weren’t exceeding their food quotas.

Too many chicken bones in the trash meant you were cheating. I don’t know what the penalty was.

I also don’t know if they still do that today, though it is still a commie country.

“didn’t feel quite right”

That’s because your parents are left-wing sh*theads.

I sympathize because those same types of people are making me feel the same way about this country.

It could be, with all the traffic video surveillance, they ID’d a vehicle and, w/same system, find out where vehicle was currently.

Then just send a boy in blue to tail him long enough until he commits some type of minor infraction.

You can land on the dark side.

Bill with the Orion Slave Girl?

Oops! Sorry, that was me.

Just poking around.

I didn’t think anyone would notice.

“their citizens’ rights to live and work in Britain”

State of denial.

For the NFL players protesting the anthem, maybe we could recommend Al Jolsen's "Mammy".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIaj7FNHnjQ

It would’ve been a bit better if he had said:

“Obama was born in the U.S. - BELIEVE ME.”

They won’t give Hillary a free 20 minutes because she’d collapse by the end and that would make her look bad.

They’re just jealous.

“animal magnetism”

I always thought he looked like a salamander.

Didn’t know Marilyn was actually a transvestite. Interesting.

I’d avoid the dirt-eating aspect of dirty. Maybe lick your fingers once in awhile. Not because of microbes, but because of worms.

Not the edible kind, like you use w/fish, but the ringworm/heartworm kind. Includes their eggs in soil.

Always a matter of degree. Goldilocks problem. Not too much, not too little.

The surge in polio was due to cleaning the water supply. If exposed to the virus early enough, people got tolerance. Cleaning the water eliminated that so when a kid got exposed when a bit older, I think 7+, they got sick.

But that doesn’t mean cleaning up the water is bad. If we stopped that to avoid needing a polio vaccine, we’d just start having cholera outbreaks, etc.. again.

Goldilocks.

This "protest" is based on the third verse of the national anthem which may (likely does) refer to the Colonial Militia as enemies. Those were American slaves who joined on the British side.

So, they have spun that bit of history to say, "See, we had slaves fighting for freedom, but the U.S. was fighting to suppress them!"

I say "spin" because you could actually argue it was the Colonial Militia supporting slavery, as the Brits had WORLDWIDE slavery institutionalized through it's colonies.

More here if you want to counter their absurd argument for insulting the Anthem:

The Racist Colonial Marines

Mitch McConnell.

You’d think if they’re able to create such a convincing robot that they’d at least be able to get the eyes to point in the same direction.

I’m still trying to figure out if the robot is anatomically correct.