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Crooks in Philadelphia apparently aren't paying attention to the news. Because yet another lawbreaker — who likely figured it would be easy pickings to scare a motorist into handing over car keys — just got the tables turned on him. What are the details? Police said a 39-year-old pizza delivery driver was in the 3300 block of H Street in the K
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Monkey $ Biz: Funny, Interesting & Maybe True

Not long ago a merchant found a lot of monkeys that lived near a certain village.  One day he came to the village saying he wanted to buy these monkeys!  He announced that he would buy the monkeys at $100 each.

 

The villagers thought that this man must be crazy.  How can somebody buy stray monkeys at $100 each?

 

Still some people caught some monkeys and gave them to this merchant, and he gave $100 for each monkey.

 

This news spread like wildfire and people caught many monkeys and sold them to the merchant.

 

After a few days, the merchant announced that he will buy monkeys at $200 each.

 

The lazy villagers also ran around to catch the remaining monkeys!  They sold the remaining monkeys at $200 each.

 

The merchant then announced that he will buy monkeys for $500 each!

 

The villagers start to lose sleep!  They caught six or seven monkeys, which was all that was left and got $500 each. 

 

The villagers were waiting anxiously for the next announcement.

 

Then the merchant announced that he is going on holiday for a week, but when he returns, he will buy monkeys at $1000 each!  He also said that his employee will be in charge and would take care of the monkeys he bought pending his return.  The Merchant went on holiday!

 

The villagers were frantic and very sad as there were no more monkeys left for them to sell it at $1000 each as was promised by the Merchant.

 

Then the Merchant’s Employee contacted them and told them that he would secretly sell them some monkeys at $700 each.

 

The news spread like wildfire.  As the Merchant promised on his return that he would buy monkeys at $1000 each, they would achieve a $300 profit for each monkey.

 

The next day The villagers queued up near the Monkey Cage.  The Employee sold all the monkeys at $700 each. The Rich bought monkeys in large lots. The poor borrowed money from money lenders and bought the rest of the monkeys!

 

The Villagers took care of their monkeys & waited for the Merchant to return!

However, nobody came!  Then they ran to find the Employee, however he was not to be found!

 

The Villagers then realized that they had been duped into buying the useless stray monkeys at $700 each and were now unable to sell them!

 

This Monkey Business is now known as Bitcoin!

 

It will make a-lot of people bankrupt and a very few people filthy rich in this kind of Monkey Business.

 

 

 

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Fight Back Phlosophy

Philosophy

 

Unless you are willing to be as unreasonable and as brutal as your enemy, do not engage him in a conflict -- because he will win. This old leatherneck says it better. 

 

 

Quote from a WWII veteran overhearing someone say that `You can't bomb an ideology.": 

"The hell you can't because we did it. These Muslims are no different than the [Imperial] Japanese. The Japs had their suicide bombers too. And we stopped them. What it takes is the resolve and will to use a level of brutality and violence that your generations can't stomach. And until you can, this <snip> won't stop. 

It took us on the beaches with bullets, clearing out caves with flame throwers, and men like LeMay burning down their cities, killing people by the tens of thousands. And then it took two atom bombs on top of it! Plus, we had to bomb the <snip> out of German cities to get them to quit fighting. But, if that was what it took to win, we were willing to do it. 

Until you are willing to do the same...well I hope you enjoy this <snip>, because it ain't going to stop! Back then, we had leadership, resolve, resources and determination. Today we're afraid to hurt people's feelings...and worry about which bathroom to pea in!

 

  

"Dear is my country, dearer is liberty; where is liberty, there is my country."  A quote from my 9th great-grandfather, William Claiborne, when he was 8 years of age. (1608)

Freedom is fragile. It is a gift from our Forefathers and can be lost in a generation.

~Ronald Reagan

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What we're standing for - Leaving blue states >>

What we're standing for - Leaving blue states

 

 

What we're standing against

 

 

Leaving blue states

 

Quick summary: You’ve heard the saying, “money talks.” You know what else talks? Moving vans. Americans are leaving blue states and their bad policies in droves—and moving to red states where opportunity is abundant and family life is better.

What’s happening? This week we learned that New Jersey, Illinois, New York, Connecticut, and California had the greatest percentage of people move away in 2021. What do these five states have in common? They’re all led by liberals who’ve made life worse for their citizens.

 

 

 

 

What bad policies?  Let us count the ways…

First, high taxes.  California, New Jersey, and New York all rank in the top ten states with the highest income taxes—and the Golden State is #1. Connecticut and New Jersey are in the top five states for highest property taxes. Since Illinois’ Democrat governor took office in 2019, he’s added or increased at least 24 taxes and fees, costing residents more than $5 billion. Leaving those states is often a great way to keep more of your hard-earned money.

 

 

 

 

Next, surging crime. Liberals push policies that let criminals off the hook. The result?  California is suffering a surge of smash-and-grab robberies. Illinois is home to Chicago, which saw more murders last year than any other American city. Shooting and homicide rates in New York City increased last year. Killings skyrocketed 23% in New Jersey. Who wants to live around rampant and rising violent crime?

 

And finally, government control. All of the states that people are leaving saw some of America’s harshest lockdowns and restrictions over the past two years. From using the pandemic to shut down small businesses to closing schools and leaving students in the lurch, Democrats have made it harder to live, work, and raise a family. People want to live where they can build the best life—and California ain’t it.

 

But where are people moving  to? Mostly red states. South Dakota, South Carolina, West Virginia, and Florida were in the top five states with the greatest percentage of people moving in. What do they have in common? They’re all led by Republicans with conservative policies.

 

 

 

 

What kinds of good policies are we talking about?  Laws that empower workers, protect families, give kids a world-class education, and create economies that work for everyone. Here are just a few examples:

 

 

Our take: Life in blue states is increasingly unaffordable, unsafe, and generally unhappy. We bet a lot more people see the light—and seek out good policies in red states—in 2022.

 

 Read more:  Democrat-run states saw residents flee in 2021, annual moving survey shows (New York Post)

 

 Read more: The great pandemic migration, II (Wall Street Journal)

 

 

What we're standing against

 

 

Chinese communist spying

 

 

 

 

Quick summary:  Communist China is ramping up its spying—not just within China, but in America, too. The Chinese Communist Party’s goal is simple: It wants to use its spy networks to silence its enemies and censor the free world.

 

What’s the backstory?  China’s spying goes back to Mao Zedong, a brutal tyrant who built a regime based on monitoring and controlling people. Today, the Chinese Communist Party has at least 200 million cameras, facial recognition, and the most invasive spying system the world has ever seen. It’s fueling Beijing’s genocide against the Uyghurs in Xinjiang, its takeover of Hong Kong, and its threats against Taiwan.

 

What’s happening right now?  China’s spies are coming for America. We just learned that Beijing is harvesting massive amounts of information on people who are critical of its oppression and aggression—including Americans. Instead of just censoring through their state-run social media sites, Chinese spies are invading foreign social media platforms—like Twitter and Facebook—so they can gain more control over how and what the world communicates. 

 

It keeps getting worse: 

 

  • Controlling the media: Communist China is monitoring the individual profiles of foreign journalists, academics, and politicians who criticize the Chinese government. For example, if a U.S. journalist posts an article she wrote condemning the Uyghur genocide, China’s spies can detect the post in real time and send personal data about the journalist to Chinese officials. 
  • Covering up oppression: One of China’s programs keeps tabs on how people around the world are talking about China’s worst human rights abuses—like its atrocities in Xinjiang and Hong Kong—so Beijing can decide how to lie and shift the narrative. 
  • New ways to censor: From English speakers to foreign policy analysts to cyber specialists, Communist China is building an arsenal of experts who can help it control how the world communicates about China. 

 

What is China’s endgame? To see all, know all, and control all. China’s communist leaders are pouring billions of dollars (at least) into spying on as many people as possible—with the ultimate aim of shutting up people who speak the truth about its abuses and propping up its communist propaganda. If the Biden administration turns a blind eye, China’s massive spy ring will soon be powerful enough to stifle Americans. It may be already. 

 

As one  expert put it, China’s actions are “frankly terrifying.”

Our take: It’s never been more important to hold China accountable and protect Americans.  Republicans in Congress want to do just that—see Rep. Jim Banks’ (R-IN) Countering Chinese Propaganda Act and the Republican Study Committee’s big China bill, which is packed full of policies that push back on Beijing. If China wants to spy, America must respond—quickly, strongly, and aggressively.

 

 

 

 

 Read more: Documents show Chinese government collects droves of data from Western social media: report (The Hill)

 Read more:  Scoop: Chinese surveillance firm ramps up fight against regulators (AXIOS)

 

What we're smiling about

 

Here’s a story that’ll melt your heart. Siblings Nico, Sebastian, and Santiago were out for a winter stroll when Nico’s brother tossed his favorite stuffed animal, Rudolph, into the frozen waters of Ottawa’s Rideau Canal. The family thought the toy was a goner and gave up on Rudolph’s retrieval. That is, until Sebastian urged his mom to reach out to neighbors on social media to see if anyone might be able to help rescue Rudolph. Within hours of the post, a mission to save the stuffed animal was mounted, and Rudolph was quickly thawed from the frozen water.

 

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12 Laws Of The Universe

The Law of Divine Oneness - everything is connected to everything else. What we think, say, do and believe will have a corresponding effect on others and the universe around us.

Law of Vibration - Everything in the Universe moves, vibrates and travels in circular patterns, the same principles of vibration in the physical world apply to our thoughts, feelings, desires and wills in the Etheric world. Each sound, thing, and even thought has its own vibrational frequency, unique unto itself.

Law of Action
 - Must be employed in order for us to manifest things on earth. We must engage in actions that supports our thoughts dreams, emotions and words

Law of Correspondence  - This Universal Law states that the principles or laws of physics that explain the physical world energy, Light, vibration, and motion have their corresponding principles in the etheric or universe "As above, so below"

Law of Cause and Effect - Nothing happens by chance or outside the Universal Laws.. Every Action(including thought) has a reaction or consequence "We reap what we sow"

Law of Compensation
- The Universal Law is the Law of Cause and effect applied to blessings and abundance that are provided for us. The visible effects of our deeds are given to us in gifts, money, inheritances, friendships and blessings.

Law of Attraction - Demonstrates how we create the things, events and people that come into our lives Our thoughts, feelings, words, and actions produce energies which, in turn attract like energies. Negative energies attract negative energies and positive energies attract positive energies.

The Law of Perpetual Transmutation of Energy
 - All persons have within them the power to change the conditions of their lives. Higher vibrations consume and transform lower ones; thus, each of us can change the energies in our lives by understanding the Universal Laws and applying the principles in such a way as to effect change

Law of Relativity - Each person will receive as series of problems (Tests of Initiation/Lessons) for the purpose of strengthening the light within each of these tests/lessons to be a challenge and remain connected to our hearts when proceeding to solve the problems. This law also teaches us to compare our problems to others problem into its proper perspective. No matter how bad we perceive our situation to be, There is always someone who is in a worse position. Its all relative.

Law of Polarity 
- Everything is on a continuum and has and opposite. We can suppress and transform undesirable thoughts by concentrating on the opposite pole. It is the law of mental vibrations.

Law of Rhythm - Everything vibrates and moves to certain rhythms.. These rhythms establish seasons, cycles, stages of development, and patterns. Each cycle reflects the regularity of God's Universe. Masters know how to rise above negative parts of a cycle by never getting to excited or allowing negative things to penetrate their consciousness.

Law of Gender
 - The law of gender manifests in all things as masculine and feminine. It is this law that governs what we know as creation. The law of gender manifests in the animal kingdom as sex. This law decrees everything in nature is both male and female. Both are required for life to exist.

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La Times Quote Of The Day

This is a bit dated. mind you, but certainly still apro......

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LA TIMES QUOTE OF THE DAY - [PRICELESS]

Senator Dianne Feinstein, CA:

"All vets are mentally ill in some way and

government should prevent them from owning firearms."       Yep, - she

really said it on Thursday in a meeting in front of the Senate

Judiciary Committee... And the quote below from the LA Times is

priceless.  Sometimes even the LA.Times gets it right.

Kurt Nimmo: "Senator Feinstein insults all U.S. Veterans as she flails

about in a vain attempt to save her anti-firearms bill."

Quote of the Day from the Los Angeles Times:

"Frankly, I don't know what it is about California, but we seem to

have a strange urge to elect really obnoxious women to high office.

I'm not bragging, you understand, but no other state, including Maine,

even comes close.  When it comes to sending left-wing dingbats to

Washington, we're Number One.  There's no getting around the fact that

the last time anyone saw the likes of Barbara Boxer, Dianne Feinstein,

Maxine Waters, Kamala Harris, and Nancy Pelosi, they were stirring a

cauldron when the curtain went up on  'Macbeth'.  The five of them are

like jackasses who happen to possess the gift of blab.  You don't know

if you should condemn them for their stupidity or simply marvel at

their ability to form words."

Columnist Burt Prelutsky,

Los Angeles Times

Be sure to forward this to all of the "mentally ill" vets you now...

especially the ones with guns !

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Three Presidentgial Promises To Chief :-)

Three Promises President Biden visits a remote Native American reservation.  With news crews following him around as they tour the place, the President asks the chief if there is anything they need. "Well," says the chief, "We have three very important needs. First, we have a medical clinic, but no doctor to man it.”  Biden whips out his cellphone, dials a number, talks to somebody for two minutes, and then hangs up. "I've pulled some strings. Your doctor will arrive in a few days." "Now what was the second problem?" "We have no way to get clean water. The local mining operation has poisoned the water our people have been drinking for thousands of years.  We've been flying bottled water in, and it's terribly expensive." Once again, Biden dials a number, yells into the phone for a few minutes, and then hangs up. "The mine has been shut down, and the owner is being billed for setting up a purification plant for your people." "Now what was that third problem?" The chief looks at him and says, "We have no cellphone reception up here!"

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a "progressive" wakes up to SF politics

Michelle Tandler, who has been a registered Democrat for 18 years and considers herself a moderate San Francisco liberal, wrote an epic thread on Twitter describing the “deranged” cityscape ...
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“Here is what confuses me about San Francisco. We have the most liberal, left-wing government & population in the country. We have a $13B budget. And we have 8,000 people sleeping in the rain this week. Can someone please explain this to me?” she began on Twitter.

“I’m starting to develop a seriously dark view of the Progressive politicians in charge of our town. They have absolute power – act like a regime, and talk often of how ‘broken’ the system is. Are the homeless their foot soldiers? Mascots? Mercenaries?” she tweeted, finally coming to the realization that progressive politicos are the ones causing the problems, not the saviors of those in need.

“One of my friends recently woke up to find a homeless person sleeping on the front step of her multi-million dollar home. I asked her what she did. ‘We closed the blinds.’ I think this is such a metaphor for what’s going on here. San Francisco is turning its head,” she sadly wrote.

“San Franciscans believe they are righteous because they pledge allegiance to the righteous tribe – Democrats. They believe they are moral because they believe in higher taxes. They believe they are virtuous because they believe in big Government,” Tandler noted.

“Here is what confuses me about San Francisco. We have the most liberal, left-wing government & population in the country. We have a $13B budget. And we have 8,000 people sleeping in the rain this week. Can someone please explain this to me?” she began on Twitter.

“I’m starting to develop a seriously dark view of the Progressive politicians in charge of our town. They have absolute power – act like a regime, and talk often of how ‘broken’ the system is. Are the homeless their foot soldiers? Mascots? Mercenaries?” she tweeted, finally coming to the realization that progressive politicos are the ones causing the problems, not the saviors of those in need.

“One of my friends recently woke up to find a homeless person sleeping on the front step of her multi-million dollar home. I asked her what she did. ‘We closed the blinds.’ I think this is such a metaphor for what’s going on here. San Francisco is turning its head,” she sadly wrote.

“San Franciscans believe they are righteous because they pledge allegiance to the righteous tribe – Democrats. They believe they are moral because they believe in higher taxes. They believe they are virtuous because they believe in big Government,” Tandler noted.

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20th Century Microbiologist genius Alexander Fleming on bacteria

Microbiologist Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in 1928. It was later described as "the single greatest victory ever achieved over disease"—an antidote to dangerous infections caused by bacteria. But there's more to the story. Fleming's strain of penicillin could only be produced in tiny amounts—not nearly enough to become a widespread medicine. It wasn't until 1943 that a different strain of penicillin was found—one that could be mass-produced. The genius who made this possible was Mary Hunt, a humble researcher without a college degree. By 1944, the new drug was saving thousands of lives. I mention Hunt because she's a good role model for you in 2022. I believe we'll'll have chances to improve on the work of others, generating excellent results. 

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Satanic Temple to install Sol Invictus holiday display at state Capitol rotunda

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he state Capitol rotunda will have a satanic display alongside other religious art for a third year. The Satanic Temple is returning with an art installation to celebrate the “satanic holiday” of Sol Invictus.

The group conducts advocacy for reproductive rights and the separation of church and state as a tax-exempt religious organization.

This year’s display will feature the “satanic deity” Baphomet, depicted as a swaddling babe. It was designed by Albuquerque-based horror artist Chris P. Andres.

Bishop Paprocki:  Satanic displays 'should have no place in this Capitol'

The exhibition will be installed at 1 p.m. Monday in the Capitol rotunda, overseen by The Satanic Temple’s Illinois congregation.

"This year's tradition marks a greater urgency in the Baphomet's message of harmony and reconciliation," noted The Satanic Temple's Director of Campaign Operations Erin Helian in a press release.

The group’s displays have courted controversy, particularly from the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois and its head, Bishop Thomas Paprocki. He recently oversaw the installation of a nativity scene in the Capitol rotunda. At the event, Paprocki said satanic displays "should have no place in this Capitol or any other place."

“Mocking the millions of Christians in the state of Illinois and billions around the world by depicting the baby Jesus this Christmas with the ‘satanic deity’ Baphomet is the very definition of evil and causing division, but that is to be expected from an organization that is in existence to troll people of faith,” said Andrew Hansen, a spokesperson for the diocese.

In 2020 none of the holiday displays, including the &quot;Snaketivity&quot; display from The Satanic Temple-Chicago, a Nativity scene to mark the Christmas season or a Menorah to mark Hanukkah were set out at the state Capitol because of COVID-19-related closures.
In 2020 none of the holiday displays, including the "Snaketivity" display from The Satanic Temple-Chicago, a Nativity scene to mark the Christmas season or a Menorah to mark Hanukkah were set out at the state Capitol because of COVID-19-related closures.More

Despite the diocese’s public criticism of the group, it said the bishop is welcome to attend the installation.

“We have invited Bishop Paprocki to hold hands with members of The Satanic Temple while we come together and stand before all of the religious displays at the rotunda,” said Helian.

Paprocki will not be going.

“Bishop Paprocki declines the invitation to associate with evil and urges all people of true religious faith to shun the devil,” Hansen said.

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