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  • Insurance rates UP

    07/14/2021 9:11:48 AM PDT · by Sequoyah101 · 34 replies
    Vanity ^ | July 14, 2021 | Self
    As anticipated, insurance rates are going up not just a little. Received my annual bill yesterday. It reflects an 18% increase in premium. All of the increase is in the replacement cost. None of it is an increase in insurance rate. If you haven't already you'll get your bundle of joy soon. Covid is the gift that keeps on giving.
  • BiWeekly Prepper Thread (for these strange days)

    07/10/2021 4:06:36 PM PDT · by Pollard · 130 replies
    7/10/2021
    This is the BiWeekly Prepper Thread for all things prepping.In these Strange Days, it's not a bad idea to have a little set back. Or a lot. I think we all saw empty shelves last year. We didn't go without though. Since I'm a prepper, I stocked up on TP and food and even bought a small freezer for meat when I saw empty shelves in Italy. My wife no longer thinks my prepping mentality is a little wacky, 20 years later. This year is turning out to be the year of systems hacking. Extreme weather events can happen most...
  • As tension prevails, relatives mourn Eswatini crackdown victims

    07/02/2021 5:17:16 AM PDT · by bert · 7 replies
    Al Jezeera ^ | 7/2/21 | Tendai Marima
    Africa’s last absolute monarchy has for days been rocked by the largest pro-democracy protests in years. liwe Mathunjwa is in mourning. She is also stuck. Her nephew, 35-year-old Sicelo Mathunjwa, was shot in the head on Tuesday evening when police in Eswatini dispersed crowds with gunfire in Matsapha, a small industrial hub about 35km (21 miles) from the capital, Mbabane. “Sicelo is dead, he died on the spot,” Mathunjwa told Al Jazeera, saying she cannot leave her village of Mazombiswe to head to her nephew’s village of Hosea, some 30km (18 miles) away, and pay her finals respects due to...
  • Independence Day Is Brought To You By Citizens With Guns

    07/01/2021 5:14:59 PM PDT · by knarf · 25 replies
    self ^ | July 1, 2021 | knarf
  • Young, unvaccinated, over 50 or just had one dose? You’re most at risk from the Covid delta variant

    06/30/2021 3:07:27 AM PDT · by EBH · 44 replies
    CNBC ^ | 6/29/2021 | Holly Ellyatt
    Number crunching the latest data from England, 92,029 cases were analyzed between early February and mid-June and were attributed to the delta variant. Almost 82,500 of these total cases were recorded in people under 50 years old and a majority (53,822 cases) were found in unvaccinated individuals. Among those cases in the unvaccinated cohort, the vast majority were in the under-50 age group (52,846 cases) and only 976 cases were in the over-50s. Nonetheless, the data showed that there have been 117 deaths among people in England who had the delta variant with the majority being in the over-50 age...
  • Israel, counting on herd immunity, declines to reimpose most restrictions as delta variant spreads

    06/30/2021 2:58:30 AM PDT · by EBH · 7 replies
    Washington Post ^ | 6/28/2021 | Steve Hendris
    JERUSALEM — As the surging delta coronavirus variant forces countries to reinstate restrictions, Israel's new government is standing pat, expressing faith that the nation's high vaccination rate is shielding people from the variant's worst effects. The number of positive cases is rising, but few people are becoming seriously ill. Officials decided Sunday night that a spike in positive cases did not warrant a return to lockdown or significant restrictions other than reinstating an indoor mask mandate that had dropped just two weeks ago. “This past week, there has been a rise in the number of people testing positive in Israel,...
  • The Surfside Collapse. So What Happens Later With The "Still Standing Condos"?Two Obvious Scenarios.

    06/27/2021 4:07:32 PM PDT · by TealsGuy17 · 81 replies
    What is likely to happen with the "Still Standing"half of the condo building is probably a no win situation for the owners. The first option is a worst case scenario. The second option is after all the debris is cleared, engineers and inspectors can look for the inevitable wear and tear in the concrete supports. But does this mean they will have to dig out the entire base of the condo, maybe even close to the bedrock? Do you think anyone would want to take part of digging that hole if it comes to that? Maybe some of you out...
  • K-12: Infantilization

    06/26/2021 7:03:22 PM PDT · by BruceDeitrickPrice · 11 replies
    Renew America ^ | May 3, 2021 | Bruce Deitrick Price
    Our Education Establishment brags about its wonderful doctrines and the many advances seen in our public schools. The real story is quite the opposite, and chronicles a steady and unnecessary decline. Notre Dame Professor Patrick Deneen says that many students at even the best schools are know-nothings and cannot state who won the Civil War. Deneen concludes that such dismal ignorance could not possibly be accidental. Ergo, it's what our schools are designed to do—i.e., stupefy young brains with cultural amnesia. Students emerging from high school, after 12 or 13 years in classrooms, remain shockingly ignorant. That's nearly 10,000 hours...
  • Biweekly-ish Prepping Thread

    06/26/2021 1:34:05 PM PDT · by Pollard · 36 replies
    6/26/2021
    Biweekly Prepper Thread #1I was going to do a monthly prepping thread but after looking through my external hard drive and thinking about how things are going in the nation and world, I figured time's a wastin' so I'm going to try and do them a little more often, maybe biweekly. I'm going to make some downloads available that come from that external hard drive as we go. I think a good place to start is with nw_arizona_granny's content that I copied from another forum where I knew her as AZ Granny. It has to be the same person because...
  • Retired Green Beret Jeremy Brown: The Republic Has Fallen, Here’s What You Can Do

    06/25/2021 7:55:21 PM PDT · by amorphous · 50 replies
    MAGA Institute ^ | 25 June 2021
    Retired Green Beret Jeremy Brown tells Brooke and Timbo that the Republic has already fallen, the effects just haven’t gotten to everyone’s doorstep…yet. In a blockbuster, no-holds-barred interview, Jeremy describes how the FBI tried to recruit him to spy on fellow patriots and how the government is actively working against the interests of both America and We the People. Jeremy joined the Oathkeepers–a group of retired military and current and former law enforcement who have not abandoned the Oath they took to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution against ALL enemies, foreign AND domestic–after last November’s stolen election. He details...
  • Food Storage for noobes, intermediate, and advanced practioners

    06/25/2021 7:09:09 AM PDT · by Tilted Irish Kilt · 65 replies
    youtube.com ^ | Wendy Dewitt
    An Introduction to the Art of Food storage done easily, and inexpensively – by Wendy Dewitt A 57 minute instructional video of making sense of economical and logical food storage to: “ store what you eat, and eat what you store”. Learn from those who have experience of storing and actually regularly using their food storage program, and the benefits of regularly rotating your supplies to keep them fresh. This is a training video to maximize the benefits of your food stage, geared to novice, intermediate, and advanced practitioners ; it is chocked full of helpful information ! Wendy presents...
  • Is Ammonia the Ideal Energy Currency?

    06/24/2021 2:01:02 PM PDT · by Jonty30 · 31 replies
    An energy currency is a means of reserving and transmitting energy and anhydrous ammonia (NH3) is the ideal energy currency for green electricity. In the human body, ATP (Adenosine TriPhosphate) is often considered a biological energy currency because it can either be consumed or stored, depending on the body’s needs. With respect to renewable power, an energy currency is basically the ability to put electricity into a bottle so that it can be stored when there is a surplus and used with there a shortage.
  • Microsoft will renew Windows this Thursday with "the biggest changes" of the decade

    06/23/2021 4:36:29 PM PDT · by Oshkalaboomboom · 86 replies
    yahoo ^ | 6/23/2021 | EFE Agency
    San Francisco (USA), Jun 23 (EFE) .- The American software giant Microsoft will renew its popular operating system for Windows computers this Thursday with a version that will include "the biggest changes" of the last decade, which the media Specialists announced that it will be baptized as Windows 11. The Redmond company (Washington state, USA) will present the latest update of this historic software (Windows is 35 years old) at 11.00 a.m. on the east coast of the United States (15.00 GMT), at an event called "What's Next for Windows". The company's CEO, Satya Nadella, and the head of products,...
  • "Everybody Loves a Duck" - original rock, by Yours Truly

    06/17/2021 11:34:00 PM PDT · by Slings and Arrows · 5 replies
    Me, via Rumble ^ | 6/`8/21 | Me, as Hopalong Ginsberg
    My latest song. Warning: Fowl language!
  • Lapel pin

    06/14/2021 11:04:51 AM PDT · by Don Corleone · 49 replies
    TV | 6/14/21 | elf
    Does anyone know what that pin on Biden's right lapel is?
  • America Has Long Had a Racist Political Party

    06/08/2021 9:46:07 AM PDT · by Heartlander · 16 replies
    American Greatness ^ | June 7, 2021 | Theodore Roosevelt Malloch
    America Has Long Had a Racist Political Party The Democratic Party prospers on the votes of the very people it has spent much of its history oppressing. And the names of those oppressors are well known.The official Donkey Party website, Wikipedia, and a hundred other prejudicial sources online such as the Southern Poverty Law Center, would never tell you what I am about to relate. It is not a secret; many noted historians have written about it at great length, but the Left does not want you to know it. They have obscured the facts or tried to rewrite their...
  • THE WRATH OF THE AWAKENED SAXON (The Beginnings)

    06/04/2021 8:13:59 AM PDT · by Jan_Sobieski · 9 replies
    American Digest ^ | 04/22/2015 | Rudyard Kipling
    The Wrath of the Awakened Saxon by Rudyard Kipling (1917)It was not part of their blood, It came to them very late, With long arrears to make good, When the Saxon began to hate.They were not easily moved, They were icy -- willing to wait Till every count should be proved, Ere the Saxon began to hate.Their voices were even and low. Their eyes were level and straight. There was neither sign nor show When the Saxon began to hate.It was not preached to the crowd. It was not taught by the state. No man spoke it aloud When the...
  • My Proposal for a Top Constitutional Officer Freedom from Undue Influence Act of 2021

    06/02/2021 3:56:14 PM PDT · by Brian Griffin · 4 replies
    06/02/2021 | Brian Griffin
    I have proposed this Act because I fear that both Joe Biden and John Roberts are being coerced and I believe that we should not have a country run by blackmailers. SECTION 1 (1) The Congress of the United States declares that it necessary and proper to prevent top United States constitutional officers while in office from being blackmailed due to certain violations of state or federal law. (2) The Congress of the United States declares that it necessary and proper to try to prevent the selection process for top United States constitutional officers from being untimely waylaid due to...
  • In progressivism, the definition of "democracy" is "government"

    06/02/2021 7:37:55 AM PDT · by ProgressingAmerica · 11 replies
    No matter what you may think, your definition of the word "democracy" is wrong as it pertains to what progressives are saying. In progressivism, "democracy" = "the state". That's their definition of it. It's an unwritten and hidden definition, yet its the most commonly used. In The Promise of American Life, (p. 418) Herbert Croly wrote the following: Any substantial progress towards the attainment of complete individual disinterestedness is far beyond the reach of contemporary collective effort, but such disinterestedness should be clearly recognized as the economic condition both of the highest fulfillment which democracy can bestow upon the individual...
  • More tags bring fuller picture of movements off shore (Cape Cod white sharks)

    06/01/2021 8:12:44 AM PDT · by Capt. Tom · 19 replies
    Boston Herald ^ | June 1, 2021 | RICK SOBEY
    More tags bring fuller picture of movements off shore The total number of great white sharks detected along the Cape has ballooned over the last few years as researchers continue to tag more of the apex predators each summer season. Going back to 2013, there were only 11 individual sharks detected by the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy off the Massachusetts coast, according to archived data from its new white shark logbook. Then jumping ahead seven years to 2020, the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy detected 118 individual sharks last year. The total number of recorded shark detections has also climbed at...