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Do they recognize their advantage?
Responding to the Repooflican crusade against the Post Office, I’ve been trying to point out that the PO is NOT funded by taxpayers. It’s a business like other freight carriers, depending on income from stamps and shipments. If Repooflicans were serious about opposing government overreach, they would be CHEERING for the PO instead of trying…
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Instant Machiavelli, just add symbols
Abstract people are dividers. From the start in the 80s, the web divided us into two teams. On every subject, religion, politics, cars, electronics, software, sex…. every forum quickly divided into Team A and Team B. If you weren’t on either team you were shunned. Non-abstract people who live in a world of physical things…
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From an extremely different era 23
Still thinking about sanctions and blockades, zooming out to a broader timeline. Wilson played the blockade game ferociously. After he was gone we turned against it, remaining firmly impartial and non-interventionist until we were ACTUALLY ATTACKED BY AN ACTUAL FOREIGN NATION on 12/7/41. Harding didn’t quite start the rebellion but he did lead it. Coolidge,…
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Too much adaptation
Press release at Spokane News: (Condensed) On Tuesday, September 16th, 2025, after a months-long investigation, DEA, ATF, local police seized 50,208 pills from a defendant at a Centralia gas station. … Lab tests revealed the pills did not contain fentanyl, instead they were carfentanil and acetaminophen. Carfentanil is a synthetic opioid originally developed to tranquilize…
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When was the line?
Listening to these auto history podcasts adds a new dimension to one of my standard themes. I’ve often hammered the Big Point that our blockades and sanctions help the target country to develop its own skills. Blockades hurt ordinary Americans by depriving our industries of export revenue, and raising the prices of needed imports like…
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Great talk, not much action
Speaking of honest and dishonest… Bernie is rigorously honest in this speech. He pulls us away from all the Machiavellian fake disputes and nonsense and gossip that politicians and journalists deluge us with. He gets down to plain facts in a way that FDR and Henry Wallace would understand and appreciate. Unfortunately Bernie failed to…
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Punchline and exceptions
Old punchline: “Okay, now we know what you are. Let’s negotiate.” It’s an important truth. When you’re honest about your purpose, I can deal with you properly. I know what you want and how you intend to get there. Some jobs are always honest. Car salesmen want to sell you a car. Plumbers want to…
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It was all about SKILL.
Lately I’ve been watching this Youtube channel. The author grew up in the Soviet Union and knows how it REALLY worked, not our perpetual propaganda. He brings out the SKILL-oriented nature of Soviet economic policy in the automotive area. I’ve seen this focus on SKILL before in electronics and education. In this clip on the…
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Sorting out
Spokane News asked if people feel safe downtown. Sorting out the usual FB cacophony: People who are accustomed to dealing with violence feel safe there. Others don’t feel safe. There’s a GENUINE change in the last few years. I’m not tough at all, but I used to enjoy being downtown. I worked downtown in the…
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I’m simple.
I’m basically a primitive invertebrate with one organ. Good dump = good day. Bad dump = bad day. Always true to some extent, gets truer as I get older.
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Speaking of Gaian suckers…..
Via RealClear: Biologists in Texas have found a rare crossbreed of a bluejay and a greenjay. The two species aren’t as closely related as their names would imply, but they can crossbreed. Instead of simply finding the cross interesting and unusual, the UTexas biologists had to invoke “climate emergency” as the Universal Cause Of Everything.…
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Oldest sucker filter
A preacher has predicted that the Rapture will occur tomorrow, 9/23. Raptures and apocalypses are unquestionably the oldest Sucker Filter, the oldest tool for selecting the most gullible followers. Every single one has failed. Often a prophet will “revise” the rapture several times in a row. Each failure and revision sorts the suckers at a…
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Sign of sanity
Reported in an official newsletter. While most of “congress” plays its usual pointless symbol games with nonexistent “debt ceilings” and nonexistent “shutdowns,” some reps in BOTH parties are organizing to protect and improve the Post Office. They’re concerned that the previous ‘Delivering For America’ agenda is leading to more delays and more costs, not better…
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First sighting!
Found in the Engrish area of Reddit. First sighting anywhere on the net! Ðe original instructions are in ICELANDIC, and ðe English translation is dubious. Icelandic never appears on ðe web. Ðe letters shared wiþ Anglo-Saxon make it stand out immediately. Later, I guess the rarity makes sense numerically. Iceland’s population is 400k, about the…
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Back to unsurprising again
In July I noted a slight bit of apparent action by the insane “city”. Some REAL people, ie people named Cowles, finally got tired enough to make the “city” take a tiny bit of apparent action. I wrote: = = = = = START REPRINT: I’ve been thoroughly bashing the “city” of Spokane for ENCOURAGING…
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