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Tuesday, May 12, 2020

It is possible that we are about to see what 'the consent of the governed" means in America.

Fans of Best of the Web Today--Michael Smith

"My post yesterday about a possible tax revolt didn't really get to what I was thinking - then I saw this.

It is possible that we are about to see what 'the consent of the governed" means in America.

The insistence by elected officials that they be treated as monarchs by the proles is wearing thin.

Authority is only achievable through two means, consent and force.

These petit dictators are pushing the boundary between consent and force.

The danger for them is that the public withdraws their consent - then they have a choice to make.

The problem for them comes when business owners decide government approval and licensure is of no benefit and is not necessary for their business to continue.

Will the elected officials chose force, and if so, how far are they willing to go?

They clearly can't arrest an entire city, so what's a monarch to do?

If they don't use force, they might lose their authority and if they do, it is assured they will lose consent.

The American people retain the power of choice.

It may be that power is about to be exercised to reveal who and what can truly be classified as "non-essential"."

That's a nice business you got there...

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A WARNING SHOT? Colorado governor suspends license of Castle Rock restaurant that opened on Mother's Day

That's a nice business you got there...

Lunch video-----The dangers of downhill skiing!

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As Coronavirus Grips States, Some Elected Officials Encourage Americans To Report Each Other | The Daily Caller

As Coronavirus Grips States, Some Elected Officials Encourage Americans To Report Each Other | The Daily Caller:

Image result for Flickercommons images Bill de Blasio

Mayors and governors in some states most affected by the coronavirus have set up systems to allow Americans to discreetly report one another for breaking social distancing rules.
The new policies are coming down across the country in both red and blue states. Democratic New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio set up a hotline for residents to snitch on each other in April. Meanwhile, Kansas City, Missouri is requiring churches to turn over membership lists and report anyone who shows up to attend services. Texas has adopted a similar policy as well.

WATCH: Police Shove Through Crowd, Arrest Mother's Day Diners at Fresno Waffle Shop | Todd Starnes

WATCH: Police Shove Through Crowd, Arrest Mother's Day Diners at Fresno Waffle Shop | Todd Starnes
"At least two people were hauled away by police after law enforcement officers tried to enter a diner that was illegally opened in Fresno, California.
The diners were waiting in line outside the Waffle Shop.

Officers ordered the diners to step aside so they could enter the establishment.

When they refused, the officers forcefully shoved aside patrons.

...The television station reports that diners were socially distanced and staff members wore masks to comply with CDC guidelines.

However, on Friday the owner was slapped with a $1,000 fine.

And the city warns the fines could increase to $10,000.

And a few minutes after the ticket was issued – the restaurant’s water supply slowed to a trickle.

The City of Fresno says it had nothing to do with the water being shut off, Fox26 reports."

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Where "experts" rule".

Restaurant Association's Reopening Guidelines Look ‘Totally Impractical For Many’ – Michigan Capitol Confidential

Restaurant Association's Reopening Guidelines Look ‘Totally Impractical For Many’ – Michigan Capitol Confidential
"Parts of the document are ambiguous but can be read as requiring incoming guests to answer health-related questions that include: “Do you have ... diarrhea" (excluding diarrhea due to a known medical reason other than COVID-19)?”
“If you answered YES to any of the questions,” the document suggests restaurant staff say to possibly ill customers, “please call and we will prepare a takeout meal for you while you wait in your car.”
Charlie Owens, state director of the National Federation of Independent Business, said the likelihood of many small, family-owned restaurants being able to comply with a panoply of new health mandates is close to zero..."
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#1 This day 1960-----Elvis Presley - STUCK ON YOU In STEREO - 1960

And summer heat is on the way!-----"...we cannot simply believe anything the media is reporting without questioning the veracity of every single statement the make...

Michael Harris

"I have purposely not commented on the current mass hysteria surrounding this shooting.
I am on neither side.

Why?

Because we don't have enough facts yet.
Sadly, we cannot simply believe anything the media is reporting without questioning the veracity of every single statement the make.

They are advocates of hate, chaos, racial, and political segregation for Blacks.
We cannot even believe the 911 call.

It could have been staged and edited by the media or made in false pretense...to set up a justification.
We cannot believe the moms assumption that her son was just out jogging, we need proof...and she was not there.
Nor can we believe the leaked portion of the video as if it tells the entire story.

Fake news proofs.

Three Times Joe Biden Was Reportedly Involved with the Russia Collusion Hoax

Three Times Joe Biden Was Reportedly Involved with the Russia Collusion Hoax:

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President Donald Trump hinted that Barack Obama and Joe Biden could soon be implicated for their alleged roles in the controversial Russia collusion investigation.
“There’s more to come from what I understand, and they’re going to be far greater than what you’ve seen so far, and what you’ve seen so far is incredible, especially as it relates to President Obama,” Trump said during an appearance Friday on Fox & Friends when discussing Obama’s role in the Russia probe.

The end of Europe-----France's No-Go Zones: The Riots Return

France's No-Go Zones: The Riots Return

A few months ago, a police officer, Noam Anouar, who infiltrated Islamist circles... stated that no-go zones in France are now foreign enclaves on French territory. ...They consider themselves at war with France and with Western civilization. They act in cooperation with Islamist organizations, and define acts of predation and rampage as raids against infidels". He noted that reclaiming these areas today would be complicated, costly, and involve calling in the army.
For years, successive French governments have chosen a policy of "willful blindness": they simply behave as if they do not see what is going on. They do not even try to find solutions.

While France's general population remains under strict lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic and police have been ordered to enforce the rules ruthlessly, people living in no-go zones are treated differently. Police officers have been told by the government not to stop them at all and to avoid going near where they live. Pictured: A garbage dumpster burns in the street during a riot in Villeneuve-la-Garenne, in the northern suburbs of Paris, on April 21, 2020. (Photo by Geoffroy van der Hasselt/AFP via Getty Images)

Saturday, April 18, 11 pm. Villeneuve-la-Garenne, a small town in the northern suburbs of Paris.
A young man rides a motorcycle at high speed and hits the door of a police car. He breaks his leg. He is sent to the hospital.
He does not have a driver's license but does have a long criminal history.
He was sentenced several times by the courts for drug trafficking, robbery with violence and sexual assault.
As soon as news of the accident is released, hostile messages about the police circulate on social media; and in a dozen cities in France, riots break out.
The riots are continue for five days in a row.
A police station in Strasbourg is attacked and set on fire.
A school is nearly destroyed a few miles from Villeneuve-la-Garenne.
Rather than responding with firm language, the French government is saying that an investigation into the behavior of the police has been opened and that the officers will most likely be punished..."
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AM Fruitcake

History for May 12

History for May 12 - On-This-Day.com
Florence Nightingale 1820 - Nurse, contributed to modern nursing procedures, author, Mildred McAfee 1900 - Captain Mildred McAfee (Horton), first director of U.S. Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service), Katherine Hepburn 1907 - Actress ("Morning Glory", "On Golden Pond [1981]", "The Rainmaker")

Mary Kay Ash 1915 - U.S. businesswoman and the founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics, Inc., born Mary Kathlyn Wagner, Yogi Berra 1925 - Baseball player, manager, George Carlin 1937 - Comedian, actor

1975 - U.S. merchant ship Mayaguez was seized by Cambodian forces in international waters.

2002 - Former U.S. President Carter arrived in Cuba for a visit with Fidel Castro. It was the first time a U.S. head of state, in or out of office, had gone to the island since Castro's 1959 revolution.

Monday, May 11, 2020

Business owners become outlaws in face of shutdown tactics - Washington Times

Business owners become outlaws in face of shutdown tactics - Washington Times:

More business owners across the country are turning into rebels or even outlaws as they fight state government coronavirus edicts that threaten to close them down permanently.
From Massachusetts to California and from Michigan to Texas, the business-versus-government battles are signs that the lockdowns are starting to buckle.

Database Swells to 1,285 Proven Cases of Voter Fraud in America | The Heritage Foundation

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Database Swells to 1,285 Proven Cases of Voter Fraud in America | The Heritage Foundation:

A recent Heritage fact sheet offers a quick summary of the dangers of voting by mail and the necessary safeguards to ensure an election’s integrity. Another Heritage report details how Wisconsin successfully conducted its recent primary election–including in-person voting—and how other countries such as Liberia have conducted an election successfully during a health crisis.
Voting by mail makes it easier to commit fraud, intimidate voters, and destroy the protections of the secret ballot. It puts elections into the hands of the Postal Service. Without the oversight of election and polling officials, ballots can be lost, disqualified, and even stolen.

Steven Mnuchin: Reopening needed to avert 'permanent damage' to economy - Washington Times

Image result for wikicommons images Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin

Steven Mnuchin: Reopening needed to avert 'permanent damage' to economy - Washington Times:

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin warned Sunday of “permanent damage” to the economy without a reopening, arguing that restrictions on businesses can be lifted without a significant risk to public health from the novel coronavirus.
“If we do this carefully, working with the governors, I don’t think there’s a considerable risk,” said Mr. Mnuchin on “Fox News Sunday.” “Matter of fact, I think there’s a considerable risk of not reopening. You’re talking about what would be permanent economic damage to the American public.”

The way we were-----Things That Arent Here Anymore with Ralph Story KCET PBS

Boob-tube-----Star Trek: The Last Voyage - SNL

Michael Smith--The Spark That Finally Ignites The Secession Conflagration | The Rio Norte Line

The Spark That Finally Ignites The Secession Conflagration | The Rio Norte Line
"On his Friday radio show, conservative talker and Fox News host Sean Hannity warned that the United States may fall apart if tax rates remain high.
...While I would prefer that we actually govern ourselves under a true federalist national model as the Founders intended, I’m beginning to believe that is going to be impossible.
...I think think the catalyst, the spark that sets the whole shebang aflame and finally pushes this over the edge will be what comes of three things that I was thinking about when reading about Hannity’s statements:

States with lower tax rates are going to draw greater populations and more revenue generating businesses,
They are going to object to paying for the spending in the spendthrift states,
Population and business shifts will deplete the tax base of states with entrenched governments, unfunded pension liabilities and powerful public sector unions, thereby exacerbating the problems in states like Illinois, New York and California.

I predict that the straw that finally breaks the camel’s back will be a lawsuit, one filed by a high tax state like California against states that have low or no state income or property tax rates because they are unfairly “pricing” their states, the effect of which is to rob the high tax states of the taxpayers necessary to support their respective state governments.

If the burden is increased in one state by out-migration to another, that will be called “unfair” and I think these states will turn to the courts for a remedy.
...The battle lines are about to be drawn in a little more stark relief.

Mark my words, we are headed for a crisis of constitutional proportions and it will be started by a lawsuit."

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Wasteful Spending: TSA spent $77 million on bomb-sniffing dogs who can't detect explosives | Just The News

Wasteful Spending: TSA spent $77 million on bomb-sniffing dogs who can't detect explosives | Just The News:

The dogs are trained using outdated intelligence and training aids that are not updated to incorporate emerging explosive threats.

"The Golden Horseshoe...award is named for the horseshoe-shaped toilet seats for military airplanes that cost the Pentagon a whopping $640 each back in the 1980s.

This week, our award goes to the Department of Homeland Security for spending $77 million on airport bomb-sniffing dogs who cannot detect explosive devices...
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Rep. Greg Murphy on Virus Lockdown: Get Americans Safely Back to Work

Image result for flickr commons images Closed Sign

Rep. Greg Murphy on Virus Lockdown: Get Americans Safely Back to Work:

Rep. Gregory Murphy (R-NC), who is also a physician, said on Friday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow that “draconian” lockdown measures in many areas across the nation are no longer necessary and may even be harmful.

Hawaii coronavirus, travel restrictions trigger record unemployment

Hawaii coronavirus, travel restrictions trigger record unemployment
"For 32 years, Julie Gabot drove more than 80 miles round trip each day to work as a housekeeper at the Sheraton Waikiki, cleaning after tourists who enjoyed the resort's infinity pool and beachfront views.
But after tourism across Hawaii shutdown because of the coronavirus virus, she was let go without severance.
Her husband, who worked at the resort for 28 years, was out also out of a job.
..."Our life is in danger because, of course, we don't know what will happen," she said.
"There's no real hope for good things in the future."
Hawaii is facing it's highest unemployment rate ever as strict stay-at-home orders and a virtual shutdown of the state's once mighty tourism industry have left residents reeling, leaning on their savings or unable to pay rent and feed their families.
Since March, the state's unemployment rate has soared from 3% to 34%, one of the highest in the nation...
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