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The California Comeback Reality Check

8/8/2016

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California: The economics of delusion

Jobs, wealth inequality, taxes, government spending, and emigration are all creating problems California will be unlikely to keep up with absent serious structural reforms. California is likely to be America's first state to fall into a New Feudalism of extraordinary "aristocratic" wealth on one side, and destitute poverty on the other, with a tiny live in (or equivalent) servant class, and only the most rudimentary middle class, mostly excessively paid public bureaucrats.

Is it time for a California Dead Pool?
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Sweden: Police lose a police car, and don't even notice

8/5/2016

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The curious case of Sweden's disappearing police car

Piffle, in America police lose:

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Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel: Chicago budget balanced, pension plans fixed!

7/31/2016

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Chicago Pension Situation Improving Says Mayor: Careful Analysis Uncovers Lies | MishTalk

Oh, wait, that was a Friday news dump, so it was designed to hide the ball. The ball Emanuel is hiding is the fact that the city is not making necessary pension contributions today, but is deferring them to the future, long after Emanuel will be gone. This is another story of the Boomers simply acting fiscally irresponsible, and forcing the Millennials to pick up massive payments in the future. 

So what does that generational fraud look like? This:
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The city will never catch up to these payment problems with this approach. It must get ahead of the problem, and contribute the necessary amounts to fund these pensions today, not long in the future. Millennials will rightly see this as an attempt to allow Boomers to live high on the hog today, press the city's current bills into the Millennials future, expect the Millennials to accept these payments, and accept the fact that they will never have the rich benefits enjoyed by the Boomers. 

When this finally explodes, it will hurt many Boomers. I suggest making sure your retirement savings are sufficient regardless of undependable external benefits like pensions, and Social Security benefits. Fair warning.
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Cherry Dumping: the US federal GOVERNMENT does not have your interests at heart

7/30/2016

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Cherry dumping photo goes viral, calls for change

The point is to keep you from getting a lower price. You the taxpayer are being screwed by the federal government. We need government reform, and we need the government out of the marketplace. Now.
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Between TSA, and US Customs and Border Protection what's not to love

7/28/2016

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US Government Pays $475,000 For Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina

"It happened to a Jane Doe (the name has been withheld to protect what little remains of her dignity), a 54-year old US citizen who had recently been on a trip to Mexico.

As she was returning home via the Cordova Bridge border crossing in El Paso, she was randomly selected for extra special screening and escorted to a private area.

I’ve been there. It’s not fun. They don’t tell you anything, and they don’t say why.

They act very aggressively and start barking orders at you as if you’re already a prison inmate.

Quite frequently you can sit there wasting away for hours. Fortunately for me, nothing particularly sinister ever happened. For Ms. Doe, it was quite the opposite.

According to the published case files, she was frisked, and then ordered to squat so that a drug-sniffing dog could check out her nether regions.

Apparently the dog liked what he smelled, because Ms. Doe was then taken to yet another room, ordered to pull down her pants, and crouch.

At that point an agent from Customs and Border Protection “inspected her anus with a flashlight.”

She was then ordered to lean backwards in a crouched position, after which another agent inserted a speculum into her vagina to search for drugs.

Another agent then “parted Ms. Doe’s vulva with her hand, pressed her fingers into Ms. Doe’s vagina, and visually examined her genitalia with a flashlight.”

They then took her to a hospital for a further 6 hours of involuntary testing, which included forcing her to have a bowel movement as they all watched, plus X-rays, CT scans, and more.

I know what you’re thinking– they probably found a treasure trove of cocaine and methamphetamine shoved deep inside Ms. Doe’s womanhood.

Except they didn’t.

Ms. Doe was “brutally probed against her will” for hours and hours without judicial oversight, due process, or even reasonable suspicion. And they found nothing.

Here’s the really disgusting part: at the end of this ordeal, they released her without charge… with one catch.

They told her that if she signed a consent form, retroactively giving her permission to be abused and violated, that the government would pay for all the tests and various medical expenses.

But if she didn’t sign the consent form, she’d have to pay for them all herself.

Ms. Doe refused to sign, and the United States government sent her a bill for more than $5,000, essentially demanding that she pay for her own sexual assault.

Emotionally shattered she went home feeling like a rape victim. She sued.

And, as the pitiful justice system in the Land of the Free is far from swift, it took over three years for the case to gain any traction.

Finally, as of a few days ago, the case has been settled. And the US government agreed to pay Ms. Doe $475,000.

But as you can imagine, there were strings attached, specifically that the settlement should “not be taken as an admission of liability or fault.”

I guess it’s Ms. Doe’s fault. She must have been asking for it. It’s like a classic rape story from the 1950s. Absolutely appalling.

But just think about what this means–

Gun-toting government thugs are running around committing sexual assault on US citizens so they can continue waging a costly and utterly ridiculous war on plants.

Apparently doing so is quite typical. So typical, in fact, that they have a consent form ready to be signed by their gang rape victims in the hopes of keeping it quiet."
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Shooting in German Mall: Damn that German TeaParty!!! Updated!

7/22/2016

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Breaking: Mass Shooting in Munich Shopping Mall

Tragedy!

I thought Germany had the kind of gun laws the Democrats want, the kind that will guarantee no mall shootings!?!?!?!?! Why would I give up my liberty, to protect myself and my family, while they stand behind government paid armed men?!

Time to take careful stock of the situation, keep calm, and carry concealed. Even an assault rifle armed police officer on every corner won't stop this stuff.

What I learned back in the1990s when confronted with a man claiming he had a gun was, police do not run to the threat, at least not until they have overwhelming force. So give them a good 10 - 20 minutes, and then maybe they will be ready. You, on the other hand, have exactly zero seconds until the threat is present. 

Police for when you have time for a leisurely beer, and a hot dog before the threat. John Browning, Smith and Wesson, Glock, Beretta, among others for when you don't. 

Update! This is a purported video of the shooting:
ZeroHedge has more:
​18-Year-Old German-Iranian Is Behind Munich "Shooting Rampage" Which Killed 10 Including Gunman

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Chicago: The Taxy City

7/20/2016

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Cook County is destroying wealth one tax increase at a time

Chicago, Cook County, and Illinois more generally are bankrupt. The progressives who run these governments have run them into the ground. 
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They could automate the entire TSA process 

7/5/2016

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Computers might soon scan your bags at the airport instead of people

Nothing could be worst then people looking for contraband. The first thing we automate is Jeh Johnson,  Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. Then just keep automating as we drop down the seating chart.

TSA's 95% failure rate shows airport security is a charade

This is security theatre. Adding computers, and removing people could alter the outcomes. Until then we are stuck with nitwits looking at Xray photo when they would rather be having a root canal.
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Joel Kotkin, on The Great Rebellion, and kicking the experts to the curb

7/5/2016

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Why the World Is Rebelling Against ‘Experts’ | Newgeography.com

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Experts, what are they good for?

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Government it's what we do together . . . 

7/1/2016

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Shocking: Disabled Teen Returning From St. Jude's Hospital Bloodied and Arrested by TSA

. . . when we want to brutally assault, and batter mentally, and physically handicapped children!

Thanks TSA, I feel better about my safety now. 
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