Typhoid Fever, Typhus & Tuberculosis: Are L.A.'s Medieval Diseases Coming To Your City?

Typhoid Fever, Typhus & Tuberculosis: Are L.A.'s Medieval Diseases Coming To Your City?:

Los Angeles has a growing problem with diseases borne by both flea and feces. An LAPD officer was just diagnosed with typhoid fever along with two more from the same workplace displaying symptoms. Meanwhile, cases of typhus, caused by a different bacterium, have soared in California from 13 in 2008 to 167 in 2018. In addition, there have been outbreaks of hepatitis A, tuberculosis, and staph in L.A. and other West Coast cities.
Why is this happening—and will spread to other cities?

The way we were-----Seasons In The Sun - Terry Jacks 1974

Boob-tube-----"Sheena -- Queen of the Jungle" US TV series (1955--56) intro / footage

Hate-news!-----Ryan Saavedra on Twitter: "CNN's Angela Rye says America is headed toward implementing the same "death camps" that Nazi Germany used during the Holocaust…

Ryan Saavedra on Twitter: "CNN's Angela Rye says America is headed toward implementing the same "death camps" that Nazi Germany used during the Holocaust

Maine’s Adoption of Physician-Assisted Suicide Accelerates an Ominous Trend | The Heritage Foundation

Maine’s Adoption of Physician-Assisted Suicide Accelerates an Ominous Trend | The Heritage Foundation:

When physician-assisted suicide is an option, there are fewer incentives to pursue ethical alternatives in end-of-life care. Physician-assisted suicide is not just a threat to individual patients. It is like Pandora’s Box: Once it’s open, it’s nearly impossible to contain its negative effects. Once our culture grants the premise of physician-assisted suicide—that some lives are more valuable than others—we begin our descent down a slippery slope. Other countries that have legalized physician-assisted suicide paint a dreary picture.

Infrasound: A Growing Liability for Wind Power - Master Resource

Infrasound: A Growing Liability for Wind Power - Master Resource

More than just audible sound, grinding, whomping, blade pass whooshes, an ever-present hum, industrial wind turbines have a silent, below audible impact. It is not like a day contamination/harm at work where people can go home at night for relief. With industrial wind projects literally engulfing homes and rural areas, there is little or no escape.

Wind turbines appear to be at the apex of producing human discomfort, annoyance, and harm. 

In particular, infrasound and low-frequency noise(ILFN) harm because of impacts unique to this concoction of noise...

Curt Devlin, of Fairhaven Mass., writes about wind turbines, and the right to be free from “unwanted experimentation”:

“This (the taking of profits) is why the global wind industry has strategically and systematically sought to silence wind turbine hosts and neighbors with property buy-outs and non-disclosure agreements. Undoubtedly, this is also why they and those who support them have publicly targeted acoustic engineers, health practitioners, and public health experts who have attempted to expose this truth in accordance with their canons of professional ethics. This industry subjects legitimate science to ridicule, its authors to character assassination, and its sleepless victims to blame and aspersions of mental defect. All of this is done to cloak conscious criminal cruelty in the name of unbridled greed.”

With zero societal, economic, or environmental benefits, and irreparable harm of every kind, it is time to talk disarmament, even reparation. And greens supporting wind power must let bygones be bygones and check their premises. Wind turbine energy, government-enabled, is the worst kind of energy."

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Woke kids can now terrify themselves anywhere with a new CAGW app | Watts Up With That?

Woke kids can now terrify themselves anywhere with a new CAGW app | Watts Up With That?
From Gizmodo  science

This Striking Climate Change Visualisation Is Now Customisable for Any Place on Earth-By Brian Kahn

"When University of Reading climate scientist released his warming stripes visualisation for the globe last year, people freaked (in a good way). 

The minimalist graphic stripped out unnecessary clutter and told the story of global warming in blue and red stripes.

On Monday, Hawkings released a new website that allows users to create warming stripes for nearly every country, and even some cities and US states..."

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Lunch video-----National Debt: Who Cares?

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Driver's license trick to result in seizing your guns? - WND

Driver's license trick to result in seizing your guns? - WND:

Swalwell, who earlier invoked the government’s nuclear weapons to threaten those who would resist gun-confiscation programs, said, “If you need a license to operate a vehicle, shouldn’t you need a license to operate a weapon?”
Twitter user Hector Vargas argued that he already has a license.
He portrayed an image of the U.S. Constitution.
Twitter user Reagan Battalion joined in with, “We have a license, it’s called the Constitution of the United States of America.”

Oh Deer – Reason.com

Oh Deer – Reason.com:

• 30 million of Bambi's buddies are on the loose in the U.S., causing crop damage and car accidents. Markets can help.

"...By 1900, the white-tailed deer population in the United States had plummeted to 500,000. 
Now there are perhaps 30 million roaming our continent, where they trample crops, pick over gardens, and bound across highways. 
Every year, deer and their ilk are involved in more than a million vehicle collisions, causing dozens of fatalities and costing billions of dollars.
...There are many exceptions beyond furs, including hides and meat from alligators, wild seafood, and numerous imported products. 
So while you can wear a beaver felt hat, buy a wallet made from American alligator leather, or eat Pacific yellowfin tuna, you won't find wild venison at a U.S. grocery store. 
(Hunters can give meat to friends or donate it to charities, but it remains illegal to sell wild game in most states. If you find venison at a supermarket or restaurant, it's probably farm-raised red deer from New Zealand.)
Legal markets for venison might not solve deer population problems entirely, but they could be a tool to align incentives better and help fund culls..."
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All Americans should celebrate this day!-----Juneteenth: Our Other Independence Day | History | Smithsonian

Juneteenth: Our Other Independence Day | History | Smithsonian:

• Two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation, American slavery came to an end and a celebration of freedom was born

"America’s birthday is fast approaching. 
But let’s not wait for July 4 to light the fireworks. 
...Juneteenth falls on June 19 each year. 
It is a holiday whose history was hidden for much of the last century. 
But as the nation now observes the 150th anniversary of the Civil War’s onset, it is a holiday worth recognizing. 
In essence, Juneteenth marks what is arguably the most significant event in American history after independence itself—the eradication of American slavery.
...This year, let’s remember Juneteenth, the holiday that doesn’t mark a document, a battle, a birthday or a national tragedy, but the fundamental promise of America being more completely realized—the day on which Thomas Jefferson’s rousing rhetoric finally rang true throughout America, for all Americans."
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#1 This day 1974-----Paper Lace - Billy don't be a Hero 1974

When and Why Golden Geese Take Wing

When and Why Golden Geese Take Wing
"My friend Lynn Chu has boiled down the basis for a just, prosperous society:

“It is very easy to spend other people's money, thus eliminating all of the vital discrimination about the devils in the details which are knowable only at the level of the individual. This is the main justification for the protection of individual liberty against autocracy other than the clarity of the moral imperative of human rights as the privileges and immunities of the individual in society.”

When Great Britain turned over Hong Kong at the expiration of its lease, the Chinese government promised to leave its democratic institutions and law alone. 
Bit by bit, that promise has been eroded until  recently China pressured the local authorities to agree to an extradition treaty that would allow them to extradite from the former colony and try in China anyone, even someone merely transiting through its airport.

Day after day the residents in the millions resisted, marching en masse through the streets, closing down schools and shops as employers allowed workers leave to work at home and demonstrate...

...Indeed, by several accounts, faced with  the threat of Chinese tyranny, capital has already been fleeing the colony for elsewhere. 

Physical security and rule of law matter. 

And an independent and fair judicial system.

One tycoon, who considers himself potentially politically exposed, has started shifting more than $100 million from a local Citibank account to a Citibank account in Singapore, according to an adviser involved in the transactions. 

“It’s started. We’re hearing others are doing it, too, but no-one is going to go on parade that they are leaving,” the adviser said. “The fear is that the bar is coming right down on Beijing’s ability to get your assets in Hong Kong. Singapore is the favored destination.”..

The people who took to the streets in protest surely understand what China and Democratic state legislatures like those in California, New York, and Illinois do not: 

Capital is attracted to and invested in those places where the laws are fair and protect people and property, and where government overreach and exorbitant taxes are in check..."

Much, much more.

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I'm not confident either.....

Deported Criminal Aliens Cross Into U.S. with Large Migrant Groups, Say Feds

Deported Criminal Aliens Cross Into U.S. with Large Migrant Groups, Say Feds:

Border Patrol officials in El Paso say that previously deported criminal aliens and gang members are attempting to sneak back into the U.S. by hiding in the large groups of Central American migrants. All migrants go through a biometric background investigation as part of the processing of the groups at the border.
During a five-day period ending on June 13, Border Patrol agents in the El Paso Sector apprehended five previously deported criminal aliens and gang members who attempted to cross illegally into the U.S. by hiding with groups of migrants, according to information provided by Border Patrol officials.

Feds Announce They Will Stop Regulating the Number of Cherries in Cherry Pies - Foundation for Economic Education

Feds Announce They Will Stop Regulating the Number of Cherries in Cherry Pies - Foundation for Economic Education:

• The FDA recently committed to deregulating the frozen cherry pie market.

"When he first took office, President Trump pledged to eliminate 75 to 80 percent of all Food and Drug Administration regulations. 

A recent deregulatory effort is a small step in this direction. 

It also serves as a comical (and a little concerning) example of how far the agency’s regulatory authority extends.

The FDA recently committed to deregulating the frozen cherry pie market. 

Specifically, the agency is re-examining current regulations dictating that frozen cherry pies are required to be at least 25 percent cherries by weight and that no more than 15 percent of these cherries may be blemished..."

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AM Fruitcake

AM Fruitcake

History for June 19

History for June 19 - On-This-Day.com
Blaise Pascal 1623, Elbert Hubbard 1856, Guy Lombardo 1902


Lou Gehrig 1903, Spanky McFarlane 1942 - Musician (Spanky and Our Gang), Kathleen Turner 1954 - Actress


1862 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln outlined his Emancipation Proclamation, which outlawed slavery in U.S. territories.


1964 - The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the U.S. Senate.

Trump’s Mexican-tariff move was a true victory

Trump’s Mexican-tariff move was a true victory:

President Trump’s detractors are trying to play down the significance of the US-Mexico immigration deal, saying it is largely comprised of actions that Mexico had already agreed to many months ago.
Trump defends tariff threat against Mexico, calls it 'beautiful thing'
Nice try. If Mexico had truly agreed to implement many of these measures in December, then why had they not been implemented six months later? As even Mexican officials acknowledge, it was Trump’s threat of tariffs that forced Mexico’s hand. In announcing the deal, a relieved Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said the “most important thing is that they didn’t apply tariffs and we didn’t experience an economic slowdown.”
The fact is, Trump bucked Republicans on Capitol Hill and even many of his own advisers, and used the threat of tariffs to get Mexico to act — and it worked.

The way we were-----Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson - Pancho and Lefty (Video)

Boob-tube-----KABC-TV Watts Riot Coverage, August 1965

'Made in China' era is over, says world's leading bike manufacturer

'Made in China' era is over, says world's leading bike manufacturer
"Giant Manufacturing Co. saw the writing on the wall early on.
The world’s biggest bicycle maker started moving production of U.S.-bound orders out of its China facilities to its home base in Taiwan as soon as it heard Donald Trump threaten tariff action in September.
“When Trump announced the plan of 25% tariffs, we took it seriously,” Chairwoman Bonnie Tu said in an interview at Giant’s Taichung City headquarters in Taiwan.
“We started moving before he shut his mouth.”..."
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