tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-204970332024-02-28T12:57:06.561-04:00Realm Of BluefireHighlights from my day to day contemplation of this world.McBluefirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04531056419430589791noreply@blogger.comBlogger69125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20497033.post-19043428465136042042020-11-12T15:35:00.005-04:002020-11-12T15:47:29.646-04:00The Vaccine will Save us ALL! <p><br /></p><p>I sincerely doubt it.</p><p>Vaccines take 10 to 15 years to develop, test, refine, correct, test, and put through public trials. Bill has had horrible failures pushing vaccines in other countries and somehow we think that will go better around the entire world with a vaccine developed in less than a year? He claimed in a 2010 Ted Talk that he would use vaccines, reproductive health, and healthcare to reduce world population by at least 10%. </p><p>I'm betting this vaccine will have many side effects and make all the previous SARS vaccines damages look pale in comparison.</p><p>One of the people on Biden's COVID task force, Ezekiel Emanuel, thinks people over 75 shouldn't be alive, including himself. The people involved in all these "ideas" of how to save the world from a virus with a 99.98% (or higher) survival rate are huge into depopulation, climate change, CO2 emmission concerns, and otherwise creating problems where there aren't any. It's no shock that Bill and Fauci stand to make millions or more off the "free" vaccines that we will be paid for with our tax dollars and he and all the companies producing the drug will be protected from any lawsuits again by our tax dollars.</p><p>To be clear, there is no such disease as COVID-19. COVID-19 is a label applied to people who pop positive for the protein that is present when any of the following are true:</p><p>1) Have a coronavirus, eg: the common cold.<br />2) Have sars-cov-2<br />3) Have the flu<br />4) Recently vaccinated for the flu<br />5) Have pneumonia</p><p>Isn't it the least bit interesting that this is labeled by an acronym and a year? Sounds like a programmer who would make something like Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000.</p><p>Don't get me wrong, I'm not anti-vacc; but don't you find it a bit suspect that the very people who want to reduce the world population are working so hard to save "everyone"? I find it highly suspect and question why fear is being used as the mechanism to push "love".</p><p>Yep, let's go ahead and live in fear over a cause of death that pales in comparison to the real killers that are the result of our poor life decisions and/or access to healthy food. Let's give away all our rights, liberties, and humanity to anyone who will save us from it. </p><p>"COVID-19" deaths around the world in facts:<br />Reminder: As of 2017 158,000 people die, on average, every day around the world. This was before sars-cov-2.</p><p>Thus approximately 49,928,000 have died this year (likely more because there are more living people).<br />1,292,259 died with "COVID-19: 2.59% of all deaths.</p><p>Let's put the CDC 6% of all deaths are "COVID" only labeled.<br />That translates to 77,535: 0.16% of all deaths this year.<br />Of course, that doesn't mean these folks all died of "COVID" but rather that this was all a medical professional determined they might have had - often with no test of any kind and post-mortem.</p><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-size: medium;">But yes, we should destroy our way of life over it! </span></b></i></div><i><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Right?!</span></b></i></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Wake up people!</span></b></i></div></b></i><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><i> Please wake up so we don't all have to go down the path of proving we are "healthy" in order not to die of starvation.</i> Stop listening to the mainstream propaganda - they work for the people who stand to gain off your suffering.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>McBluefirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04531056419430589791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20497033.post-8368266436304884382020-07-03T17:41:00.007-04:002020-07-03T19:17:37.184-04:00Masks: Where is the scientific PROOF?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGjPJCjzFjHI3FQD4ejVYo60AnC0FmyHlf4ICUpbGkrhH7rCqqe773Bku6WuPOC5eokY1rgQBLLrB6DQL18tq-gx-xes_lqc-YHZPAwEJrLHV0RUDd_pBAIEp5j6t9zHwlF1WiBA/s2700/LadyLibertyYouWillNotMaskMe-bigger.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2700" data-original-width="2180" height="625" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGjPJCjzFjHI3FQD4ejVYo60AnC0FmyHlf4ICUpbGkrhH7rCqqe773Bku6WuPOC5eokY1rgQBLLrB6DQL18tq-gx-xes_lqc-YHZPAwEJrLHV0RUDd_pBAIEp5j6t9zHwlF1WiBA/w505-h625/LadyLibertyYouWillNotMaskMe-bigger.png" width="505" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Masks are a lie to create division. Health theater to make people feel better while making many people feel worse.<div><br /></div><div>Considering masks were used in 1918 for another flu-like virus and the conclusions from that time period was that the masks made no difference, it's amazing that we are back using ancient technology with no further scientific conclusions on the matter. Yet, many localities are deciding to force people to wear masks on pain of punishment up to and including death...in order to "save lives."<br /><div><br /></div><div>I'm open to any scientific studies that prove any of the following:</div><div><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>Sars-COV-2 is transmitted in sufficient quantity via water vapor from one person to another while casually walking by each other and talking normally. This must include confirmed cases of people catching it from another while they spent less than 5 minutes near each other.</li><li>The percent chance that the virus can be contracted in the manner described in part 1. As an example, a study might conclude that there is a 15% chance a person exposed to the water vapor of another person will contract the virus.</li><li>The reduction in the percent chance to contract the virus by others wearing a mask for you.</li></ol><div>I have seen nothing but conjecture, consensus of ideas, and possibilities; that's not science, that's faith in guessing.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>I am pretty sure, however, that a masked person who breaks social distancing to confront a non-mask wearing person might help spread sars-COV-2. Typically when they start to shout they instinctively pull down their mask and spray their victim with probably harmless water vapor and spittle, but for all they know they are an "asymptomatic carrier." At least, that's what people keep getting told is the reason for why we must all wear masks. People who wear masks and don't waste effort publicly confronting other people are fine and should be respectfully left alone. Those who break two rules to attempt to enforce a rule are mask-holes and should be completely ignored.</div><div><br /></div><div>If you have already had and recovered from sars-COV-2/covid-19 you are medically exempt from wearing a mask as you can no longer transmit the disease. Yet since the real focus is on virtue signalling everyone is expected to wear a mask or they are obviously against all of humanity. Oh, really?</div><div><br /></div><div>Stop letting the machine make you afraid - fear gives them power over you and makes you a sitting duck waiting for them to "save" you with what-ever they choose to use. Many millions of people were "saved" in the last 100 years with a bullet to the head by their own government.</div></div>McBluefirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04531056419430589791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20497033.post-81342497763519754112020-05-25T15:29:00.001-04:002020-05-25T15:29:48.491-04:00Let's undo the fear!<span id="docs-internal-guid-148f24fd-7fff-dd10-67d9-b276c0b1d16b"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font face="georgia" size="2">The coronavirus did not turn the world upside down - the fear response did. While those who lost someone with the coronavirus had their world turned upside down, the media and governments of most of the world turned everyone's world upside down. I say "with coronavirus" as that was true in over 99.999% of all cases that if there was no other issue the person would have survived.</font></span></p><font face="georgia" size="2"><br /></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font face="georgia" size="2">If you run a business, please do not help the establishment with their narrative that the devastation to millions was brought on by a virus with a 99.9% survival rate. It was not.</font></span></p><font face="georgia" size="2"><br /></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font face="georgia" size="2">Fighting against community immunity is not working to protect the health and safety of our communities.</font></span></p><font face="georgia" size="2"><br /></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font face="georgia" size="2">Suicide attempts at all time highs, depression, and people dying from treatable issues due to hospitals closing and the fear of a pitiful virus did not help our communities.</font></span></p><font face="georgia" size="2"><br /></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font face="georgia" size="2">Imprisoning people for breaking unlawful orders did not help our communities.</font></span></p><font face="georgia" size="2"><br /></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font face="georgia" size="2">Please look at the whole picture and stop ignoring things that don't fit the picture that compassion was the motivator - it wasn't. Fear and hatred were the motivations that lead people through this pandemic and only reason and scientific study will remove the fear and lies that have been accepted as truth.</font></span></p><font face="georgia" size="2"><br /></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><font face="georgia" size="2"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ask yourself why we need to "social distance" and wear masks at this point? The hotbeds remain our senior citizen housing and prisons. Why is that? Why are they intentionally continuing the fear of something that we would not have even noticed if not for the media daily focus on it? It's all about C0</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="vertical-align: sub;">2</span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and forced vaccinations. Be a good little lab rat and ensure they have millions of people to push their vaccine on and then see how that helps the C0</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="vertical-align: sub;">2</span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> "issue".</span></font></p><font face="georgia" size="2"><br /></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><font face="georgia" size="2"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">C0</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="vertical-align: sub;">2</span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is not an issue - grow plants. C0</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="vertical-align: sub;">2</span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is converted by plants to 0</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="vertical-align: sub;">2</span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Too much C0</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="vertical-align: sub;">2</span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> then plants grow faster and convert more C0</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="vertical-align: sub;">2</span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to 0</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="vertical-align: sub;">2</span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. But of course, we can try Bill Gate's method and reduce population through health care, vaccines, and reproductive healthcare [Watch the <a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates_innovating_to_zero/transcript?language=en" target="_blank">Ted Talk here</a> or google it for yourself and witness the many times he has called for population reduction]. Forget about science which has observed that our world works just fine with little viruses like this being rendered useless in less than a year with no artificial solutions required.</span></font></p><font face="georgia" size="2"><br /></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><font face="georgia" size="2"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wake up folks, this isn't about a virus - it's about control, population reduction, and C0</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="vertical-align: sub;">2</span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> which is a mythical boogie man that has a very simple solution.</span></font></p><br /></span>McBluefirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04531056419430589791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20497033.post-27321345392849689352020-04-25T13:58:00.000-04:002020-04-25T14:04:55.370-04:00To the governor of Florida in regards to re-opening.Hello,<br />
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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Wise words from not too long ago.<br />
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I am appalled at the blatant disregard for life through the label of "non-essential". No elected body in the US has ever been granted the power to determine what is and what is not essential no matter how many lawyers may jump in to argue otherwise.<br />
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I am not surprised at the split-brain government reaction to protect "health" by destroying it. People are not just laboratory specimens that are to be protected from every new strain of illness by separating them through the use of "social distancing" or "laws" to wear masks or take "medicine/vaccine" to thwart off annual mutations. We are thinking, feeling, loving, and emotional beings that need the freedom to interact without being constrained by the fears of others. We can not have brave people if everyone is being told they have to live in the same fear as others.<br />
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I am horrified that people claim compassion while simply swinging negative results from one side of the human equation to the other side and verbally abusing their friends who disagree with the current non-scientific path that we are on. This is the execution of an "experiment" regarding an untested singular hypothesis where any finding that goes against the narrative is being thrown out by the "scientists" and politicians regardless of the p-value. Again, that is not science. If science was being used then both the null and alternative hypothesis would have already been thrown out as incorrect. But instead the original course of action is being stuck to as propaganda is greater than science. What reason can their be to stick to this over-reaction other than to grow fear, division, and the power of government and "medicine"?<br />
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Consensus is not a part of the scientific method. Observing and extrapolating is not science it is conjecture. "Close enough" is not a scientific term. Validation and rejection are parts of the process. History has shown us repeatedly that "we have to do something" and "I was just following orders" are not acceptable excuses.<br />
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People who have been clinging to hope that Florida will re-open by the end of April are now experiencing sadness and anger at this government's inability to overcome fear, not succumb to lobbyists, and not cause more harm to the very people they think they are trying to keep safe.<br />
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Why are you allowing fear to paralyze us? I'm not afraid and I'm tired of being told I need to be. A virus with a demonstrated 0.12% - 0.20% infection to death rate (which is probably actually lower considering all those who have not been tested) is not something to shutdown over. Control states and countries who did not shut-down are showing the world that we over-reacted. Basing policy on the miserable way that Italy handled their medical rationing is not rational. Protect our at-risk population? Yes! Give them quarantine options? Yes! Wreck our ability to sustain our population? No! Force people who are not at-risk to stop living? No!<br />
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Why are we medical rationing here? Why are people being denied life-saving "elective" procedures?<br />
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I do not condone nor submit to the decisions of a task force as they do not represent me. End this state of emergency and let the people work out how we need to deal with this health issue without the force of government involved. I know we would do well as we all want to survive and government is not essential for that.<br />
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Enough with the fear mongering and conjecture that there may never be a cure for this virus - we are here to live and no amount of money thrown into pharmaceutical or new hospitals is going to give us a 100% survival rate of life. Government's proper role is not to keep us safe from disease which they cannot control but rather from our rights being trampled on.<br />
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Marc<br />
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The response?<br />
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<i>No surprise there! Government is the solution? No, government is a bottle-neck that has outlived it's usefulness. Quit using force as a way of life, people!</i>McBluefirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04531056419430589791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20497033.post-7591585016008989622020-04-17T17:04:00.000-04:002020-04-18T11:56:49.344-04:00We are not afraid!If you are afraid of Covid-19... Why are you?<br />
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I'd rather get Covid-19 and die than put up with your tyrannical fear mongering. Facts not Fear! Reopen the country. Live free or die. All jobs are essential!<br />
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Enough is enough! Why would you trust the creator of the most coercive operating system? Common core was a failure. Do you think required vaccines and shutdowns for every new virus is the way to live?<br />
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I am not afraid of the world! I am aware of the control freaks in the world and they need to stop treading on me and all who want to be free! It takes people abusing their authority to create long lasting compounding problems. Let go; let God! Natural events occur. Without government interference the people always rise to the occasion and win.<br />
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End the FDA, end the CDC, end the Fed, let freedom reign!<br />
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#re-openflMcBluefirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04531056419430589791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20497033.post-79066711871197300702020-04-11T18:00:00.000-04:002020-04-11T18:06:22.108-04:00Occam's razor<h4>
Which is the simpler explanation?</h4>
That the world has produced a new super disease which threatens to kill many of us and we need to shut-down life as we know it and suspend our constitutional rights in order to save ourselves from it?<br />
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That people lie to achieve their political goals?<br />
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Never waste a good crisis; especially an invisible "possible" crisis that can create enough fear for folks to accept whatever change the powers that be want to make. Keep in mind, it's only Pence and the irresponsible propaganda machine (mass media) telling us we are going to kill the disease or stop it. Our other "leaders" are more honestly conveying these unreasonable efforts are only meant to <u>slow the spread</u>.<br />
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Who are you going to believe?</h4>
People on the government payroll who have nothing to lose by the stories they are telling to keep you afraid?<br />
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The people who work in these fields that are risking their careers to speak out against what the government is doing?<br />
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Why would anyone be more willing to believe politicians and bureaucrats over those actually working in the fields?<br />
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Fear</h4>
There is nothing to <u>fear</u> in the disease! Take precautions? Sure. Isolate those most vulnerable to any disease right now? Yes. Lock down the country because of fear-mongering? No.<br />
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There is <u>everything to fear</u> in giving the government more power. Give up our essential liberties in order to achieve a better tomorrow? Can you not hear the paradox?<br />
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Force</h3>
Remember what you learned in Kindergarten? Hitting and killing are bad. Force is supposed to be the last resort for <u>defense</u> and should never be used to push an agenda nor an idea, no matter how correct people may think it is.<br />
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Science</h4>
Before I go for today I want to list the scientific method. Please note that nowhere in the method are the terms "extrapolate" or "statistics". Science is black and white; either it can be proven and it is fact or it can be substantiated (but not proven) and it becomes theory. At no point is a hypothesis considered fact nor theory.<br />
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<li>Make an observation.</li>
<li>Ask a question.</li>
<li>Form a hypothesis, or testable explanation.</li>
<li>Make a prediction based on the hypothesis.</li>
<li>Test the prediction.</li>
<li>Iterate: use the results to make new hypotheses or predictions.</li>
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Definition "Iterate" - perform repeatedly.</div>
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There is no science in prediction, but predictions can be tested to get science.</div>
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This is a good reference to understand that even in science you have to accept "factual" results as possibly being true because further testing might prove a fact to have been lacking or even false tomorrow.</div>
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Science uses specialized terms that have different meanings than everyday usage. These definitions correspond to the way scientists typically use these terms in the context of their work. Note, especially, that the meaning of “theory” in science is different than the meaning of “theory” in everyday conversation.</div>
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<li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fact:</strong> In science, an observation that has been repeatedly confirmed and for all practical purposes is accepted as “true.” Truth in science, however, is never final and what is accepted as a fact today may be modified or even discarded tomorrow.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hypothesis:</strong> A tentative statement about the natural world leading to deductions that can be tested. If the deductions are verified, the hypothesis is provisionally corroborated. If the deductions are incorrect, the original hypothesis is proved false and must be abandoned or modified. Hypotheses can be used to build more complex inferences and explanations.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Law: </strong>A descriptive generalization about how some aspect of the natural world behaves under stated circumstances.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Theory:</strong> In science, a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world that can incorporate facts, laws, inferences, and tested hypotheses.</li>
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Sources:<br />
<a href="https://www.khanacademy.org/science/high-school-biology/hs-biology-foundations/hs-biology-and-the-scientific-method/a/the-science-of-biology" target="_blank">The scientific method, Khan Academy</a><br />
<a href="https://ncse.ngo/definitions-fact-theory-and-law-scientific-work" target="_blank">Definitions of Fact, Theory, and Law in Scientific Work, National Center for Science Education.</a><br />
<a href="http://dels.nas.edu/dels/rpt_briefs/role_of_theory_final.pdf" style="background-color: #f7f9fa; border: 0px; font-family: "PT Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_top">The Role of Theory in Advancing 21st Century Biology</a><span style="background-color: #f7f9fa; color: #28262c; font-family: "pt sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 19px;">, National Academy of Sciences</span><br />
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<br />McBluefirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04531056419430589791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20497033.post-60530736308892105452020-03-30T22:09:00.002-04:002020-03-31T00:55:08.121-04:00You gotta fight for your right to party!Come on America - we don't need definite destruction to our emotional, physical, and financial selves in order to possibly save lives.<br />
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We cannot save lives by not living ours. We are dying.<br />
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This is not "the" killer disease of the movies.<br />
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More than 100,000 people die in the world EVERYDAY from "age related causes". That's data from 2018. So we should shutdown MILLIONS of jobs to <i>MAYBE</i> save 100,000 lives over the course of the next 4 months?<br />
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Stop listening to the hype and the fear-mongering. Your freedoms were bought by many hundreds of thousand of lives fighting to ensure you kept them and now its the acceptable thing for almost everyone to give up on their rights so a few thousand might live a bit longer?<br />
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Working together and free is what made this country strong and exactly what is needed to face any challenge. Including the challenge of a new virus. A virus with a 1% mortality rate. Giving people room to innovate is what we need, not forcing dis-interested parties to build things they have no expertise in building.<br />
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If we weren't all locked away sobbing in our houses we could be setting up temporary hospitals in schools, hotels, and churches.<br />
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The only time this country EVER has shortages is when the governments make it so. That's it - we have NEVER had a shortage our fellow citizens (them) didn't rise to the occasion to fix.<br />
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When you label them "non-essential." Tell them they need to go and quietly sit for a one-time government check. A check that isn't even one of their normal pay checks. Not even a return of the money they paid into the system. How can you expect them to suffer for possibility when their suffering is real?<br />
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Enough is enough. We need to stand up and tell them - "We get it, this could be bad. However, without us continuing to do our jobs, contribute to society, and be given the chance to find a way to help we will be much worse off than if we obey and just stay at home waiting for the 'experts' to figure it out."<br />
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How much longer do we have to see the shelves in our stores barely stocked? This isn't the land of plenty! Why is that? It's due to our fear-mongering mass propaganda machine. Who made the runs on toilet paper and why? That's not an apocalyptic necessity!<br />
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Since when did parents expect their kids to suffer the loss of their lives, fortunes, and honor so that they might live a little longer? If this is the final act of the "Baby Boomer" legacy then I say, "Farewell, and don't let the door hit your ass on the way out." Those from the "Greatest Generation" who served or died in the 40's to preserve our Liberty will not recognize you when you arrive.<br />
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However, this isn't truly a contest of who is going to live and who is going to die, rather it's a vocal minority controlling the powers that be at the expense of everyone.... making it seem like we need to save Grandma at the expense of Junior's education and millions of people's need to congregate. This isn't the case. The reality is we would have survived this if no one had done anything. What makes it better is to be educated about it, voluntarily take on new best practices to protect those most vulnerable by giving them social distancing and equipment to protect themselves. Equipment that millions of unemployed American's could have been working on.<br />
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Still looking through the Constitution and cannot find the clause where the bill of rights can be suspended for an emergency of ANY kind. Only Habeus Corpus can be AND ONLY during a rebellion or invasion - both of those require military action and the removal of Habeus Corpus is EXTREMELY dangerous and should never be done. Rebellion does not cover demanding that the government adhere to the Constitution that all its servants have sworn to uphold. The duty of the federal government, right now, is to move the state and local governments away from infringing on the rights of our people, not endorse it.<br />
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We owe it to our children to give them a land that is more free than when we came to live in it. Is there anyone among us who would say we have more liberty than 10 years ago? Than 20 years ago? Dare I say any increased freedoms since 1976? I assure you the only factual answer is absolutely not. How much safer and how much better off are we for all those freedoms we've sacrificed?<br />
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Government is repression and loss of freedom. Government does not innovate for it has no reason to do better than it did yesterday - it only needs to convince you that your life would not be possible without it and so many Americans believe that to be true. Government leads to failures like the FDA that has cost millions of people their lives in it's short existence. It stands in the way of innovation daily by providing hurdles and road-blocks in the name of "safety." They have been in the news several times during this "emergency" because they are a huge part of the problem. We don't need them to survive - the market would do their job without them just fine. If the FDA operated like United Laboratories we would know we could trust them like we do UL because they would have a reputation to protect, instead they just have force and more force which is not the tool set of someone you should ever trust. Centralization has improved nothing in the country and never will. Think of all the wars on things and notice how there is no improvement on those things, but definitely trillions of dollars spent. Poverty, drugs, illiteracy, crime, corruption, viruses? Really? Give it up.<br />
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I sure don't want innovation centralized - we need everyone who wants to try available to try. Only free people, hungry to help, focused on a solution, and trying to be successful Innovate! Innovation is the answer to preserving our right to party and living a better, safer, and more secure life.McBluefirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04531056419430589791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20497033.post-9239637873359648262020-01-01T14:51:00.000-04:002020-01-01T14:51:33.361-04:00Happy New Decade 2020!There is nothing quite like philosophical debates over subjective constructs. Man's measurement of time is not agreed upon across, and often not even within, cultures. There were no actual gregorian years "1" as the calendar didn't exist at the times that are now labeled 1 AD and 1 BC.<br />
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What "brilliant" group of people would come up with a new calendar and then decide to count down to 1 and then start with 1 instead of zero to begin with? More pointedly when was the actual moment of the beginning of time so that we might construct empirical decades and factual milleniums? Oh, that's right - no one knows!<br />
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Thus, we as a people, have to settle for error and compound it? Yeah no matter how we split it we are in error (wrong), so might as well make it easier; after all isn't that what we do: make order out of chaos? I find it cleaner to pick n0 as the start of a decade and n000 as the start of a millenium, because after all a decade is a period of 10 years and a millenium is a period of 1000 years - not a specific multiple of ten years or specific multiple of one thousand years from a constructed point in time. A point in time that does not actually line up with the specific moment or even the actual year of the birth of Jesus. That was the goal of what AD was supposed to be all about!<br />
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With that in mind the first decade of the gregorian calendar is arguably 1/1/1BC through 12/31/09AD. Then that makes everything nice and tidy and we can start all other centuries and decades on zero. :) Order out of chaos? <br />
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However, if you don't agree, it's a subjective construct and you are welcome to run with your reasoned interpretation as it is just as valid as another.<br /><br />TLDR: With any subjective construct each of us is open to hold our own opinion as there is no empirical evidence involved.McBluefirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04531056419430589791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20497033.post-31210182393507828362019-07-18T12:11:00.000-04:002019-07-18T12:11:32.357-04:00The FDA (LT)(LT = letter to the federal government)<br />
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Doctors and patients should be free to use whatever medicines they prefer. And if pharmaceutical companies value the FDA`s endorsement they can voluntarily pay for FDA evaluation. They should not be coerced to do so. <br />
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A similar approach has already been tested. FDA rules were relaxed to permit the drugs that now prevent HIV from being a death sentence. We could gain the same benefit for other diseases. Stated simply, the FDA should serve us, not rule us.<br />
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The FDA should be like UL (United Laboratories). Unfortunately since it has dictatorial powers it is susceptible to corruption and costs peoples lives. If the FDA was more like UL then people would have the option to buy FDA approved drugs or foods while others could "risk" obtaining what they wanted whether it be approved by another body or not approved at all. Without the power of government behind the FDA it would strive to ensure it backed only things that were healthy and proven better for the public in order to continue to exist. If people following FDA guidelines using FDA approved products found they lived longer, healthier lives the FDA would be something companies wanted to be approved by and they would tailor their business practices to earn the approval by providing high-quality healthy products. <br />
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This is why I select UL listed electrical and electronic devices because I know the companies with that symbol were approved by that VOLUNTARY regulatory body and I trust it. If UL started endorsing electrical products that were faulty my trust in them would falter and I'd look for a new regulatory body that provided reliable electric seals of approval.<br />
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The FDA has no checks or balances. It is rife with corruption and will gladly approve any unproven or untried garbage on Americans as long as the price is right while simultaneously denying people the ability to rightfully try what they want in an attempt to improve or save their own lives.. I have no faith or trust in them what-so-ever. They are an unconstitutional body with no actual power except for that granted to them by a lawless government. Do the FDA and America a favor and make them a voluntary, non-tax funded, regulatory body that people can have a chance to trust by providing the only proven check which is competition.<br />
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How can this be the land of the free if we aren't even free to decide for ourselves? We will only be the land of the free when we also have the right to be left alone - one which is non-existent in the world today.McBluefirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04531056419430589791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20497033.post-1886261943430155762017-10-05T00:34:00.001-04:002017-10-05T00:34:43.117-04:00Freedom:Tragedy = "Initiated Force":Good<div class="tr_bq">
As soon as there is a tragedy there are instantly politicians claiming that their party's stances on {name your issue} would have prevented or lessened the tragedy.</div>
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Those politicians prey on fear and use it to remove your liberty. They do it to convince you that we need them or we would live in utter chaos like the animals in the wild: kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, fight or die.<br />
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As if there was no order in the world before <a href="https://www.zeroaggressionproject.org/mental-lever/legitimate-government/" target="_blank">"government"</a> came to be. It is indeed amazing, how ordered and beautiful the world is now that we have governments is it not? There is no tragedy, no chaos, no violence, right? We do not fight secret wars and kill innocent people anywhere on the planet thanks to the people who assume they are in charge of our lives, our livelihood, and our future.<br />
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These benevolent people do not use force against peaceful people. Not ever. They do not risk brave lives to enforce meaningless <a href="https://www.zeroaggressionproject.org/mental-lever/law-defined/" target="_blank">"laws"</a>. They never use "laws" to remove adversaries, competition, or boat rockers. Correct? Any of this ringing true?<br />
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Not to me either. Why is that? Don't people run for office to make a difference and help people? Sure I believe most of them think they are doing just that. The problem is they are going about solving the problem the wrong way. You cannot bring justice into the world by threat of <a href="https://www.zeroaggressionproject.org/mental-lever/dictator-fallacy/" target="_blank">force</a>. To do so is to be just as guilty as any thug that attacks peaceful people.<br />
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True laws have to do with pursuing justice for a person or their property that was damaged or misused by another person. Most of the laws on the books today have nothing to do with crimes that have an actual victim.<br />
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What prompted this quick message was an email I received from just one of thousands of politician's that are using a tragedy that happened just a couple days ago as a means to a political end and it is disgusting. <br />
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Tim Canova, </blockquote>
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Politicizing a tragedy is disrespectful and minimizes the loss of human life as if government somehow could have stopped it with more laws (lies) or more control over everyone. </blockquote>
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Send out an apology and re-think this awful stance. Freedom is not what leads to tragedy. There is evil in this world and it cannot be stopped by using force against peaceful people to somehow miraculously stop violent people. </blockquote>
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Marc</blockquote>
Politician's aren't the only people guilty - the "mass media" propaganda machine no doubt has been spewing forth their expert opinions on what could prevent the next major tragedy all while turning a blind eye to the true tragedies that "governments" create every day: mass murder on a global scale.<br />
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We all want to feel safe - but there is nothing less safe than give the State all the power it wants to keep us "safe", especially from ourselves. Defend the borders? Sure! Keep us and the world safe - absolutely not!<br />
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McBluefirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04531056419430589791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20497033.post-70614396100683175792017-07-20T19:22:00.003-04:002017-07-20T19:22:49.818-04:00Pokemon Go...something not so Liberty focused for a few minutesNiantic released a new update today chock full of "why did you do that?", especially just days before a major event...yet again answering absolutely no popular requests for the game!<br />
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Below is what I put in my "bug" report to the feedback shy company:<br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #d9d9d9; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1) Why don't you like feedback?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #d9d9d9; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2) Why can I not see the stats of my pokemon that is on a gym? Was it too little to make the "on a gym" indicator clickable? </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #d9d9d9; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3) Your Gym update was all about making gyms easier for low level players - so now people can heal them remotely? This is NOT Ingress.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #d9d9d9; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">7/20/2017</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #d9d9d9; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I have been a customer of yours since Ingress came to Android. I know at first you were a Google company and Google seems to want to avoid feedback like the plague. However, avoiding feedback denies you the luxury of building community around your game and permitting people to provide non-focus-group feedback. Wouldn't you rather hear directly from the players in the field than just a few people who've likely never played the game? Please open a forum where fellow trainers and agents can come together and discuss all aspects of your games.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #d9d9d9; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ingress</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #d9d9d9; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Did you know that many people have left Ingress because of the open chat? The sometimes ugly outbursts in that rather competitive game drove my wife and I away from it and we have thousands of hours logged there. Additionally we found that the people on your own team were typically the larger barrier to accomplishing goals than the members of the opposing faction. Big field ops and people throwing random links could ruin several hours of play spent prepping a local field.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #d9d9d9; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pokemon Go </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #d9d9d9; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We enjoy this game greatly, but find several things to be frustrating:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #d9d9d9; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1) The rarest pokemon love to spawn in gated communities (eg:Mareep). Sure our nearby feature isn't perfect but it's obvious where the rare spawn is based on movement and sure enough it's typically inside a gated community slightly out of reach of standard range. There should be a way to report a spawn as inside a restricted community or deep on private property so that it can be randomly relocated elsewhere. One pokestop near our house is off limits at night because our county thinks parking lots near a preserve are unsafe after dark. Typically the most interesting pokemon listed on the nearby for that pokestop are just out of reach behind the pokestop while the pidgey and the spinarak spawn no problem….the pikachu though? Nope! You want that you better be ready to talk with the Sheriff!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #d9d9d9; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2) It's very interesting how the most avid players we've met don't have spawns on or near their property but down the street where noone plays pokemon there are several spawn points. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #d9d9d9; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3) The newest version 0.69.0 has to be the worst update in some time. Do not get me wrong - it has a feature I was just saying I wish was in the game, but the rest are completely awful.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #d9d9d9; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The major revamp to the gyms was all about making it easier for lower level players (of which I am not one) more likely to be able to take down a gym. Personally I do not understand how having to fight 18 individual battles to remove 6 pokemon is easier than it was before the update, yet it is still a fun way to spend 20-30 minutes making other people wonder why you are standing there.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #d9d9d9; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Granting people the ability to heal remotely goes against the entire concept of easier to take down.</span></div>
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<li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: #d9d9d9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #d9d9d9; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It is obvious the idea behind fewer pokemon (resonators) that lose motivation (decay over time) needing berries (power cubes) to replenish is a nod to Ingress. Of course the pokemon won't leave the gym because they have no motivation unlike a resonator poofing because it's out of energy. Not sure why that would be?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #d9d9d9; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How can a group of people possibly take off a pokemon while remote players can heal them? Did you try playing that scenario? While you exit the battle and try to re-fight the other team can easily heal the pokemon back to full leaving you starting the three battles against the one pokemon all over again. How is that easier?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #d9d9d9; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Why give us the ability to feed berries to full pokemon? It seriously isn't that difficult to obtain the 1,000 berry badge. I'm already more than halfway there and I only play an hour or two a week night and several hours on the weekend. Did we really need an accidental berry sink so we can accidentally feed full pokemon?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #d9d9d9; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Removing the awful memory leak caused by viewing gyms? Side effects are random crashes and lock ups of the client? Resolved only by restart the client.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #d9d9d9; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What's improved about the searching? Can we find text in beginning (yes as long as two or more characters), middle (nope) or end (nope) of a renamed pokemon? Wildcards work? Nope! How about the ability to search on a candy type and find all the pokemon in that family? Nope!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #d9d9d9; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Icon about how a pokemon was caught? Just why? Why would that data be getting recorded to begin with? How does knowing I caught 8 Pikachus with blue balls and one with an ultra and two with a red ball helpful to anyone? What about all the pokemon I got rid of? Just why? Why not make a catch log about everything I used to try to get it? Because it's dumb! That's why!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #d9d9d9; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now for the one I actually thought would be nice. How cool would it be to be able to click on the "On a gym" indicator and go to the gym instead of using the not so wonderfully placed gym mess on my badge/profile screen? It would be great unless Niantic took away all the other functionality from my pokemon's information screen.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #d9d9d9; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #d9d9d9; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #d9d9d9; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Couldn't just make the icon clickable?</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #d9d9d9; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #d9d9d9; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img alt="onAgym.jpg" height="498" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/pGzh9XCtB-BXFCFNM04F-xnW-jlKFiJnCbXYg19ITN0jynsj996GQQS34SeezCBhEpuYpwe7dZwIo1R-CxInVVJRKgnqVwKsYdV5FSQZvQZ9qlGDdd4hJHRQfbdyqsNM6etXFND7" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="284" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #d9d9d9; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #d9d9d9; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #d9d9d9; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #d9d9d9; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Is Now:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #d9d9d9; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #d9d9d9; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #d9d9d9; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-6d1eadaf-624f-70e6-0a7d-6e5474ca16fe"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><img height="377" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/t9fmMtkncS11O8qachrd9VTofz210W1yO-A-4PTp2E7BOIhAbAtfMQtTF7E7fL0WcIS2_9HfIrxVxp9vj44Jm5du7CVsYG9U8BitobRGPw-92qNEE-QMJ2cma9sFgkbfhcX4JdNv" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="240" /></span></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #d9d9d9; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You have to be kidding!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #d9d9d9; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Its name? Sure - you are permitted that, but you cannot change it!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #d9d9d9; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Height and Weight? Nope - but then those are goofy stats anyway! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #d9d9d9; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How much candy you have? Hah! Nope - go catch another common Ampharos cause they are readily available!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #d9d9d9; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Power up/Evolve? Was disabled before anyway but because someone couldn't understand that it's better just to remove it off the screen.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #d9d9d9; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Their moveset? Nope! That's a secret until it comes home!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #d9d9d9; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This makes me not want to be on a gym.</span></div>
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McBluefirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04531056419430589791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20497033.post-29537560535350516952017-06-22T19:07:00.001-04:002017-06-22T19:07:30.936-04:00Federal & Medical - the two should never have metThis is my latest letter to Senator Marco Rubio. I know, why bother? For some strange reason I just feel compelled to speak out from time to time.<br />
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First Marco's response to my contact asking him to consider repealing the ACA instead of replacing it with more lawless nonsense.<br />
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On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 9:28 PM, Senator Marco Rubio <do_not_reply rubio.senate.gov=""> wrote:</do_not_reply></blockquote>
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Dear Mr. Bessent,</blockquote>
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Thank you for taking the time to express your thoughts regarding health care reform in America. Understanding your views helps me better represent Florida in the United States Senate, and I appreciate the opportunity to respond.</blockquote>
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Our nation’s health care system is vast and complex, and decisions made by the federal government regarding the system affect all Americans. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, often called ObamaCare, was passed by Democrats in Congress and signed into law by President Obama in 2010. Instead of the wonderful results they promised, ObamaCare caused millions of people to lose their health insurance, premiums to skyrocket, and now many Americans are stuck with fewer choices and less access to care. </blockquote>
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Since ObamaCare’s launch, average monthly premiums have skyrocketed 105 percent nationwide and insurers continue to leave the market each year, resulting in some counties without a single insurer in the individual market for 2018. It’s clear that ObamaCare simply isn’t working. That’s why I am working to replace ObamaCare with a better system that puts patients first and does not rely on a taxpayer bailout of private insurance companies. In 2015, I detailed my ideas about what a better health care system should look like: provide families with refundable tax credits to help them purchase health insurance plans; empower consumers to choose plans based on their unique needs from anywhere in the country; and enable patients access the hospitals and doctors they want without government interference. We should create a patient-centered health care system that ensures those with pre-existing conditions can get affordable coverage.</blockquote>
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In May 2017, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 1628, the American Health Care Act, which would repeal and replace ObamaCare and reform Medicaid to give States more flexibility. The Senate will work on its own bill, and I believe it must be better than the disaster that we have now with ObamaCare while still protecting the most vulnerable Americans. As the Senate deliberates this legislation, my priorities will be ensuring that Florida is treated fairly, that we incentivize innovation to improve health outcomes, and States are equipped with the necessary tools to encourage more healthy people to purchase a health insurance plan that fits their needs and budget. We must find commonsense solutions that better serve all Americans. </blockquote>
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It is an honor and a privilege to serve you as your United States Senator. I will keep your thoughts in mind as I consider these issues and continue working to ensure America remains a safe and prosperous nation.</blockquote>
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Marco Rubio </blockquote>
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Below is my response. I attempted to email it to him, but apparently character count (2000) is more important than sharing a full thought (5433 ).<br />
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The only bill that will be better is the one that completely removes the federal government from interfering with the medical profession what-so-ever. The states or the local municipalities should decide what is required to "practice medicine." Then we can have at least 50 and possibly thousands of "political labs" where the best and most cost effective solutions can be fostered, grown, and shared. There should be absolutely NO DECISIONS made by the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT regarding "the medical profession." Technically doctors and hospitals operating within a State are not subject to the misuse of the Section 8 "Interstate commerce clause." But, I get it - the federal government "has to do something"; who cares about Liberty? I mean we are the land of the free so government regulation is necessary to keep us safe, right? Without the most "intelligent" people in the nation making rules and keeping the rest of us safe in virtual and physical cages how could we possibly survive? After all consensus science has only promoted the health and welfare of the people, correct? </blockquote>
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But freedom aside, what should really be done to "fix" the medical system?</blockquote>
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1) REMOVE THE REASON LAWYERS LOVE MALPRACTICE: Doctors should be contracting privately with their clients without state coercion and the court system should dismiss lawsuits where gross negligence is not proven and eliminate punitive awards. Really don't appreciate my money going to award people millions for mistakes or more appropriately the doctor's inability to actually be God.</blockquote>
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2) DEREGULATE RECORDS: The farce of privacy that is known as HIPAA should be actually called hypocritical. Oh, sure it sounds great on the surface, but it has more to do with providing government an excuse to access our digital records than it prevents unnecessary access. Of course that lovely code comes from a federal department that shouldn't even exist.</blockquote>
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3) REMOVE REQUIRED INSURANCE: Insurance is a complete sham. Required insurance is slavery, especially insurance to cover the fact that one is alive. Insurance should never have been about covering day to day medical expenses. Auto insurance doesn't cover oil and tire changes, volunteer repaints, or engine rebuilds... and yet there is a very small percentage of American's who do not drive a car. Who doesn't own a computer and why are they so cheap? We have phone insurance that is a tiny amount per month covering $400+ dollar phones that are dropped regularly but what it doesn't cover is why it is so inexpensive...well that and it doesn't have an empire of force behind it requiring everyone to get it.</blockquote>
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4) DEREGULATE THE ENTIRE MEDICAL SYSTEM: In reality the only thing that has ever forced medical expenses to rise is government interference. The "we must do something" mentality has brought us to utter devastation of what was once the world's greatest example of a medical system. Most people pay more in copay than they used to pay for the entire office visit while paying nearly $20K a year between their employer and direct premium for insurance. This isn't reasonable and it is 100% due to government interference. Government interference started the war on affordable medicine and ever since then it has never become more affordable. Insurance destroyed the required relationship between the doctor and patient to decide the fee together and as a result the price fixing behind the scenes is damaging. Deregulation is how you give people incentives. Throwing money with strings at researchers isn't how you figure out better solutions; it is how you control outcomes.</blockquote>
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5) GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS USE THE SAME SYSTEM: While we are near the subject I would only be impressed if congress voted to permanently eliminate their own unconstitutional "compensation" which includes all benefits that are unlike anything the average citizen would receive especially the nonsense of retirement. The position of elected leadership in government was never to be considered a job. It is supposed to be a temporary position with compensation for expenses incurred, not a living. Your only sworn duty is to ensure the rights and safety of the people are enforced. Everything else being legislated is unconstitutional and has nothing to do with the role of government.</blockquote>
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News flash: if the current US government simply closed up shop and never re-opened the people and the land would continue on and I see no reason to believe it would not be much better off. Please work on removing it from our daily lives - it was never intended to be this oppressive or this involved with individuals. Government does not help and was never intended to. It was intended to raise a military from our existing militias when an imminent threat existed, provide LIMITED copyrights, maintain a Navy, regulate and borrow (oh and pay back) money , ensure people can communicate (post office), and open or restrict commerce between (not within) the states and between the US and foreign nations (but I'm being redundant). The problem with the commerce clause as originally penned is regulating capitalism leads to corruption. Capitalism should be left unchecked until the rights of an individual have been infringed upon and then defensive force should be brought only upon the infringing party and not upon a field as a whole.</blockquote>
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I could go on, but I'm sure you aren't reading this anyway.</blockquote>
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Respectfully,</blockquote>
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Marc Bessent</blockquote>
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McBluefirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04531056419430589791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20497033.post-58517212310339295832016-12-01T12:23:00.000-04:002016-12-01T12:25:28.241-04:00Kratom - the ever expanding ever failing war on plants<div class="tr_bq">
The DEA is entertaining comments about placing "Kratom" on Schedule I (temporarily) - much like Nixon placed Cannabis "temporarily". I sent in my thoughts. I get that people know drugs can be bad and some can kill us on overdose - like alcohol. We do not need a government helping us, at the end of a barrel, protecting us from ourselves - it is not a solution it is just another problem that grows unchecked due to the tragedy of providing a group with a monopoly on violence duties it was never meant to have.</div>
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Today is the last day to <a href="https://www.regulations.gov/comment?D=DEA-2016-0015-0006&p=1">get in a comment regarding your concerns</a> on this new DEA rule. Keep in mind that Trump's pick for Attorney General is a pro-drug war zealot - the last thing he needs is another Schedule I drug to give him "reason" to go after peaceful people. Vices are not violence!<br />
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Based on the criteria Schedule I does not apply to "Kratom". Any attempt to place Mitragynine and 7-Hydroxymitagynine into such a schedule only meets political or emotional goals and does not have any basis in scientific findings. Doctors have demonstrated that this compound helps with withdrawal symptoms from opioids (drugs derived from opium) - that provides evidence against "The drug or other substance has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States." </blockquote>
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The People of the United States no longer favor support for the war on drugs. The war on plants ("drugs") has produced no scientific evidence that it has resulted in the reduction of availability of schedule 1 drugs. The war on the free market (war on drugs) has produced no scientific evidence that it has resulted in the reduction of overdose. The war on drugs has resulted only in large costs for innocent bystanders, buyers, sellers, producers, and law-enforcement in dollars, loss of life, loss of liberty, and loss of opportunity. Scientific study of the prohibition of alcohol proved that prohibition is not a solution. Our federal government, knowing better than science and reason, passed riders on unrelated bills and created the war on drugs, a power not granted to it by our Constitution nor by any Constitutional amendment. </blockquote>
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Please get out of the business of caging and killing peaceful people and instead focus on assisting the States with defending against violent criminals.</blockquote>
McBluefirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04531056419430589791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20497033.post-78301161548668167922015-05-28T17:31:00.000-04:002015-05-28T17:31:27.064-04:00Dear Pro-NSA, Pro-USA PATRIOT ACt, Anti-American Marco Rubio<div>
Marco Rubio,</div>
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No to the NSA, no to the "PATRIOT/[Give Government everything it wants to rule outside of law] ACT".</div>
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You just do not get it. You represent people from the State of FL, not the Federal Government. You are bound by law to keep that Federal Government working within the bounds of the Constitution.</div>
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For some creepy reason you and several hundred other "law makers" are confused and befuddled as soon as your heart is appealed to. Suddenly all logic goes out the window and you believe that if the government can do something it must do it. Can is defined here as "able to but not necessarily legally permitted." That it makes you and the federal government operate outside the Supreme Law of the land is apparently of no concern to you. </div>
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You are at the helm of a rogue entity and not a republican government. Rule of law applies to everyone in a republic, not just the citizens. More so the rule of law applies to those serving in government. How can you purport to uphold and defend the Constitution when your vote is attached to many a bill that flies directly in the face of that document and strips the people of their rights and liberties?</div>
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Apparently the wisdom of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and others who know the fact that government is the use of force and not eloquence is lost on you.</div>
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You are upholding tyranny. Is there any other way to view it? How can we fight terrorism when our government is spreading tyranny? How can we tell the difference?</div>
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You and your cronies in Washington sicken me and more than half of this nation. Why else do you think 51% of the people no longer vote? Because they have already decided they want nothing to do with the rogue entity of the state. They want their liberty back. They want their nation back. They want their government to return to the chains of the Constitution.</div>
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The NSA and the "Patriot Act" (better labeled the "Pro-Government Act") have done nothing good for this nation. They have helped a lawless government become a tyrant. I wish you would perform your duty and begin dismantling the unlawful entity that has risen up from the ashes of our republic.</div>
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Wasn't there some idiot that said something dumb about trading liberty for security? Guess you never heard of the dumb guy either. What did he know? He lived before 9/11. I mean after all there were no wars or terrorist acts way back in the 1700's. Life on this planet has totally changed and a government of the people, for the people, by the people couldn't possibly work anymore, right? We need complete subjugation to 545 tyrants in DC to make life better with police officers shooting people who don't obey their demands and teams of people searching mass surveillance for whatever keywords matter that month to ensure that the Democrats and Republicans (parties of the minority) remain in power. Keep working those unconstitutional laws while the nation's currency and international relations continue to crumble - heaven forbid you not get your bigger piece of the ever shrinking pie!</div>
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It must be the citizens who are getting worse, not the government, right? If the people are getting worse then that destroys the argument that law makers are so much better than they were in 1787 and thus know better than those small men who lived so long ago. Last I checked government was just made up of people - fallible, terrible people. People who have no right to exert their will on other people just because some other people voted for them. The only rights a government has is to uphold the Supreme Law and ensure the rights of the people are upheld while providing a path for justice following an infringement. Defense sir, defense - not offense under any label including pre-emptive strike.</div>
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Didn't you learn in kindergarten that violence is not the solution? Force is violence and the government is nothing but force.</div>
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McBluefirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04531056419430589791noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20497033.post-48301517158436893962014-03-29T14:30:00.002-04:002014-03-29T14:52:07.481-04:00Marijuana - not the evil that Dupont said it was?It saddens me that people still buy into the government lies that this plant is a schedule 1 narcotic. It is absolutely laughable to think that this plant provides *no* medical use. Only a buffoon locked away in an isolation pit still believes this. It has never been proven that Marijuana has any physical dependence properties. At least nothing to the extent of caffeine or nicotine.<br />
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Lesser of two evils?</h4>
The true evil in this drug war is that people are killing people and animals in a feudal attempt to stop the growing and sale of plants. It is evil squared when good intentions are enforced at gun point. Morality belongs to the individual and not society as a whole. Argue that as you will, however the reality is that morals do not belong to a fictional group as long as any individual in the group does not accept the moral as legitimate.<br />
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Life Greater than morals</h4>
I argue that human life is greater than protecting people from their vices.<br />
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The valedictorian and president of my high school class was high regularly. Obviously a terrible drug. The arguments against recreational marijuana use are being proven as nonsense everyday. Will long term high utilization cause issues? Well what being smoked would not? How about vaporized use? No one knows yet as this is too new of a utilization method. I guess the American Indians were fools for using the substance to relax and focus - clearly the congresses of the 1930's and beyond are smarter than any people who ever existed before.<br />
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Nothing to excess</h4>
Me? I believe in a simple principle - nothing to excess. Nearly everything on this earth has a benefit for us and too much use of it will have a negative effect on us, however studies of the marijuana drug are proving that you cannot kill yourself with it from overdose and the long term effects are not what Dupont and their buddies sold to congress in the 1930's. <br />
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Lies</h4>
To see where the real problem lies it makes more sense to follow the motives of the people who fought it and not the droves of people who climb on board. Dupont wanted to push their synthetic ropes and make oil based plastics the winner. To do that they had to 'prove' that there were too many things to fear from the most abundant and fastest growing plant on earth so they could push their inferior products on the public which produce more pollution, have killed more people, and ruined more lives than cannabis abuse ever has.<br />
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Lethal force - the only power government has</h4>
I can never agree that LETHAL FORCE is acceptable to possibly prevent a few people from using a substance I think is bad. Anyone who thinks that way needs to reconsider priorities. Human life is greater than protecting people from their vices.<br />
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Emotions</h4>
If you feel that it should be illegal to keep people from using it, then I propose you consider that it is your emotions that make you feel this way. Then realize that feelings are over-riding your logic. Educate and warn? Yes. Illegalize and kill to "prevent"? Is it working? The evidence shows the war is lost and innocents are paying for it by loss of life, family, and money. How is this preventing the problems that you have experienced? It is merely shifting the evil from abuser and abuser's family suffering to government inflicted suffering. No net gain there.<br />
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Corruption</h4>
Let's all not forget about the myriad of law enforcement officials that abuse their authority to plant drugs on people solely to meet quotas or to punish people they want taken down. Why give the government such an evil tool? The "land of the free" imprisons more people per capita than any other nation on earth... all over a war on plants.<br />
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Property confiscation without a trial - just another right trampled by the war on drugs. Another right taken away without congress ever voting on a bill about it. Instead confiscation and seizure laws passed as riders on "If you don't vote for this bill you hate puppies" legislation.<br />
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Planes are confiscated without ever finding drugs just because the DEA thinks it might have smuggled something once. What a racket.<br />
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Biblical Interpretation</h4>
Furthermore, I think of this verse when it is argued we should use prohibition:<br />
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"Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that<b> in the latter times,</b> some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; <b>Speaking lies in hypocrisy;</b> having their conscience seared with a hot iron; <b>Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused if it be received with thanksgiving:</b> For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer. If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereupon thou hast attained. (Paul: 1 Timothy 4:1-6)"<br />
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<b>"Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; that which cometh out of the mouth defileth a man."</b> (Mat. 15:11) and similar in Mark 7:15.<br />
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For these alone I cannot understand why a Christian would ever be pro-prohibition. Enforcement of morality is not following Christ. Morality is achieved out of a voluntary relationship with God and can never be forced by men on men. Even God Himself refused to enforce morality on us. Who are we to stand up in righteous indignation and propose we know better than the Almighty?<br />
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Isn't it more important to keep that person alive and together with their family to give them time to come to the Lord than to push them away and use the force of man to punish or kill them for their vice? Morality at gun point is evil and this is attested to by God repeatedly in the bible. What did He say about casting stones at a woman for "adultery" or for not providing aid on the Sabbath?<br />
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If you do not oppose the sword being used to enforce morality then you are condoning it. You may as well pick up the gun yourself and go join the fight for you are just as guilty as the aggressors you are permitting to do the deeds for you that you argue you support because you agree that drugs are "bad."<br />
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We humans are horrible at administering justice and we should limit it only to the times that a persons life, property, or liberty are being infringed on by another and stop with preemptive meddling.<br />
<br />McBluefirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04531056419430589791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20497033.post-76961435215661277332014-03-03T14:57:00.001-04:002014-03-03T14:57:17.465-04:00My traceroute [v0.75] (mtr)I discovered a small nicety with this program today. It is undocumented but you can scroll up and down a lengthy result list using + (plus or shift+equal) and - (minus).<br />
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Also, with num lock on the plus and minus on the number pad work fine.<br />
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All this confusion started when I accidentally got it to move down the list using {ctrl}+{alt}+{shift}+{=}, but {ctrl}+{alt}+{-} could not reverse it. Yes, mtr will scroll until there are no result showing.<br />
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If this can save anyone else the 15 minutes I lost on this today then I am glad to have helped.<br />
<br />McBluefirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04531056419430589791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20497033.post-15774845783020399412013-10-20T20:30:00.000-04:002013-10-20T20:30:11.174-04:00Want big business out of government? Remove government's controls on the market.<br />
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Want big labor to quit pushing their interests through our government? Remove government's controls on business and education.<br />
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Want to end the oppressive morality laws? Remove government's control on personal behavior.<br />
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Want to stop redistribution of wealth? Remove government's involvement in "charity" that is better known as subsidies that benefit big business more than it ever has individuals.<br />
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What one step could be taken to remove the US government's interference from billions of peoples lives here and around the world? Obey the Constitution as if it was the Supreme law of the land.<br />
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Want to end the wars? Look at all of the above and remove governments funding for interventionist tactics.<br />
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I am tired of people using force thinking that will provide them with a security blanket. How can anything good ever come out of making people do what you want? History has shown repeatedly that progress built on the backs of others always crumbles...but then what does history know? Humanism has all the answers and it is smarter than anything that has ever come before it. We are so much better as humans than we were just 70 years ago, right?</div>
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Until humanity gives up on coercion as the method of government they will never be able to nurture all in society.</div>
McBluefirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04531056419430589791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20497033.post-19415984508022295512013-04-06T14:09:00.001-04:002013-04-06T14:09:13.082-04:00Rush says America is Dying? Where you been?<br />
Dying? Free America has been dead for decades – it’s first nail in the coffin began in the 1850′s. Forcing people to remain in a union they do not agree with is imperialism, not liberty. All hail the first American dictator, Lincoln.<br />
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Force when used for other than defense produces broken results. When are people going to realize that? Meanwhile our lawless government will continue using force. <br />
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<li>force to fight poverty (redistribution and theft)</li>
<li>force to cage people for their vices (war on plants)</li>
<li>force to keep dropouts in school that just disrupts education for other kids</li>
<li>force to be molested or radiated before traveling</li>
<li>force to submit to inspections while driving near boarders</li>
<li>force to prevent people from exercising their freedom of speech including caging Mark Schmidter here in Orlando for handing out FIJA flyers outside of “free speech zones”</li>
<li>force to create free speech zones</li>
<li>force to prevent law abiding citizens ease in protecting themselves and their families - giving the bad guys and edge</li>
<li>force to keep kids in schools defenseless</li>
<li>force to collect several bribes to be able to drive a vehicle</li>
<li>force to collect bribes to open a business</li>
<li>force to listen to or read any conversation without due process</li>
<li>force to teach scientific theory as fact</li>
<li>force to build mass transit that will never operate for less than it can charge</li>
<li>force to prove we are not guilty</li>
<li>force to perpetuate racism as if everyone alive is guilty of it</li>
<li>force to donate money we do not have to countries we should not be in league with</li>
<li>force to be the world police</li>
<li>force to interfere overseas</li>
<li>force to break-in to homes at 3 am to “serve warrants”</li>
<li>force to seize property for merely being suspected of involvement in the war on plants</li>
<li>force to donate money to companies that are too big too fail or just adored by politicians</li>
<li>force to make the rich richer</li>
<li>force to keep people on the defensive fighting to keep their rights that the government should never be able to consider infringing</li>
<li>force to destroy the monetary system on a whim</li>
<li>force to grant politicians bigger pieces of the ever shrinking pie while the people suffer</li>
<li>force to destroy liberty in the name of safety</li>
<li>force to jail anyone indefinitely without charges</li>
<li>force to enlist other countries to suppress rebellion or unrest within American boarders</li>
<li>force to train other country's military in how to beat us</li>
<li>force to spend the retirements collected by the US government as social security and spend it other unconstitutional projects and then reduce illegibility for the retirement money stolen from us</li>
<li>force to create problems that are then "solved" by creating more government</li>
<li>force to control the education of our children</li>
<li>force to push laws through as riders on other bills that are never debated (RealID/War on Plants)</li>
<li>force to play God</li>
<li>force to make this a democracy which it was never intended to be</li>
<li>force to perpetuate an unneeded postal service</li>
<li>force to take the right to choose away, except for abortion</li>
<li>force for nearly any “feel good” sounding plan that “public opinion” comes up with</li>
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The rule of law, the Republic: the Constitution, was designed to prevent this nonsense. Thus, I submit the America you romanticize has been dead for decades. What we saw for the last 60 years was the shell being gutted slowly so that most Americans would believe it was still free. It began when the Constitution was usurped and the US was incorporated - the enemies of freedom had a major victory that day. They were working hard in the background before then, but this enabled them to put America in perpetual debt to them. Hey, as long as we have Starbucks and Internet we are free, correct? <br />
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By not resisting these uses of force we aide the aggressors the only proper action as a Patriot is to resist these tyrannical uses of force through all peaceful means. The list above is only a small sample of the misuse of force, I do not have the patience to list the nearly 2 million abuses of force that are accepted as "law" in this country.<br />
McBluefirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04531056419430589791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20497033.post-25576130464224410082013-01-24T21:01:00.003-04:002013-01-24T23:30:29.412-04:00Property Rights Make No Sense?This is an excerpt from a discussion I had today with someone touting fair redistribution as the proper way to have property. Their initial argument was that property rights make no sense, but then throughout the discussion they stuck to their guns that once it was redistributed to you it was yours to keep and no one could (or should) steal it. <br />
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I'll give 10 reasons why Property Rights make much more sense than life without them (Communism/Collectivism/Socialism)<br />
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1) You cannot distribute resources without first taking it from someone that already had it. There aren't enough free resources floating around in the world to meet the "fair" distribution theory - millions will be forced to give up their resources for others.<br />
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2) Property rights are not fiction, they are observed in nature. If you were a bear and you wandered into another bears territory and tried to take up residence you wouldl have a fight on your hands. Same is true for all predatory species and even Beta fish. It does not take much logic to understand why this is. a) You have a right to your life thus b) you have a right to your body and thus c) you have a right to obtain and own things that you need to sustain your life and d) you have a right to work on achieving more than you need through contracts and fair bartering.<br />
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3) Rationing has never led to a wealthy country or wealthy community, except for the ruler. Equal distribution cannot either. It will consume more resources and require the elimination of privacy to attempt to ensure equal distribution than it ever will to simply live free and work for what you want.<br />
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4) Communism is a beautiful idea on paper, however when attempted in reality it encourages sloth at the common levels as there is no incentive to produce more as all you do is end up owing more to the common pool as a result. Got a great idea that will result in a new product - great! Now the equal distribution factories have to churn out one of each for every person in the society. Also communism must be overseen and unfortunately those in power are only human and they will fall to greed and corruption.<br />
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5) Communism (collective society - same thing) pushed on an entire society will require force and the elimination of any who oppose the idea for it to begin. Then it requires socialism with a strong government that has the right to take and redistribute things "equally". The idea is that in the end everyone will have the same items at all times and eventually the government could be dismantled and all will live happily and receiving their share of everything that is produced by the society.<br />
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6) Without natural reward there is no reason for a society to produce more than exactly what it needs and rarely enough to survive. This has been proven time and again in history, however people love to ignore history and instead think capitalism is what needs to be attacked.<br />
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7) You cannot trade off your unwanted items in a collective society as then suddenly someone would have an excess and this would have to be corrected by the government through confiscation and redistribution.<br />
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Capitalism is what produced the richest nation in the history of the world that had the lowest poverty level of all time. Face it very few of America's "poor" suffer from lack of basic needs, but rather from their inability to own everything they want. Capitalism did not exist before the US. Feudalism and Dictatorships were all that existed - the people were the property of the sovereign. Only in the US were most of its citizens a sovereign with full rights to themselves at their birth.<br />
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9) The difference between Liberty (right to one's self) and "collective society" is that one does not utilize force in its execution. Voluntary communes can exist in a Liberty based society, however it would be impossible for Liberty to exist in a collective/commune based society.<br />
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10) In a forced "ism" society you will still see a type of capitalism - the black market. The government will put people caught using it in cages and state it is for the good of society, however is it really good for society? Why can't people trade? Why can't people attempt to make a profit? Why should they be punished for success?<br />
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11) The idea of a collective society is that all should be equal. In a free society we all start out equal (with minimal things and many of the same opportunities) and are allowed to acquire what we work for. In a collective society you are equally given things but are a slave who cannot decide what to do with their things.<br />
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The bottom line is you do not have more rights to my life than I do and therefore I do not have to concede to your use of force to make me share what I do not desire to share with others. To do so is morally bankrupt, aggressive, and evil. To cloak it as "sharing" and not theft is to support the concept that the ends justify the means and that being human means you owe everyone else a debt for your being alive.<br />
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Rights of property and self ownership do not exist. Magic does not bestow rights on us. Defend as you may someone bigger can take what you have. Society is why your stuff is not taken away. Society created the plan we live under and society can change it and it will still be valid. If living collectively sustains a species or society then it would be moral and necessary.</blockquote>
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Interesting argument - force is necessary for sustaining a species? Protecting it from attack, yes, but using it on itself to obtain goals? A just society will band together to defend each other using force. How can it be argued that a society that will band together and use force to take from people what they have justly acquired is acceptable? <br />
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If I had been given a choice to voluntarily join society to ensure my right to ownership was defended and then that society stole from me in the name of collectivism I cannot imagine anyone defending that society. But since I had no choice but to support a society it is okay?<br />
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A voluntary society where I could subscribe for the services I wanted - mutual protection for instance - and pay X amount for it would be amazing. Instead I am in a society where I have put my life on the line and pay X times 1000 or more to support things I find repugnant or that go against my beliefs. The last thing I do is agree with the current or even the past laid plans of society. Any time society uses force other than in defense of the individual it is at the expense of those it was created to protect.<br />
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Your argument is almost compelling except that now I am trading one bully for a bigger bully "society" and I am expected to believe that ownership is a privilege bestowed on me by a "protective" society.<br />
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It is called a right because it is essential to survival of the individual which in turn ensures survival of the society. Without a right to ownership we cannot achieve more than serfdom or obtain a sense of security. Just because a right can be infringed on does not negate the fact that it is a right. A just society works toward the one goal of protecting the rights of those who chose to join it.<br />
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Right now we do not have true ownership and it is a major reason why our society is broken and grasping at anything that sounds like a good deal.<br />
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I know people have a right to the enjoyment of their vices, such as smoking. However, without their own private property they would not have an area to exercise their right since smoking is an infringement on other's right to fresh air. Without property why plant a crop that could be redistributed tomorrow at no benefit to yourself?<br />
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Moreover, without rights then society would not need to exist for if ownership is not a right then theft is fine and no one should defend you, not even yourself.<br />
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My stuff is not taken because I defend myself and I have friends and neighbors that I will defend and who will defend me, not because of society or government. The government has never helped me after I was robbed as a matter of fact, other than one mailbox and a wallet, the government is the only entity that has ever stolen from me.<br />
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Collectivism is a fallacy as many ideas would have to be overlooked while ensuring everyone had equal access to each thing made and people would never live equally as there would always be a wait for new things and food as with any society those in favor would still have more and those second rate people would wait until it became available - whether it be food, medicine, transportation, shelter, or toys.<br />
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Again, attempts at living collectively have proven to create extreme poverty. Why would America suddenly be able to get right what so many other cultures have failed miserably at?<br />
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To clarify a bit, there is no such thing as society. There are leaders who wield power "granted" by those who do not resist or choose to ignore the problems. Active resistors are discredited, put in cages, or killed. The lack of active resistance is what empowers those in charge and without being checked the leaders will naturally do more and more horrible things until the people who granted them power punish them and cast them out. The current functioning of a social group is not de facto justification nor is it granted validity just because it is.<br />
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paraphrase: You mentioned rights are for survival, but survival does not need more than minimum. Capitalism leads to people with more and people with less than needed. Fair market favors the majority. It has flaws.</blockquote>
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It sure does have flaws, but it doesn't support the use of force to achieve its goals. True capitalism is simply people working together without coercion to achieve goals and typically where both parties benefit.<br />
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However I believe you have made my argument for me in capitalism the majority is not poor. In collectivism the majority is poor. In capitalism I can support charities to help my fellow people who need a boost to live. I've helped build houses for people and I've donated much to charities I believe are effective. <br />
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I believe that the failure of churches and other organizations who desire to help those in need are in large part due to the broken idea that that government should do it and we should be taxed whatever it takes to make it happen. "I gave at the office" is exactly what that is about.<br />
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I guess there is perhaps a disagreement on the definition of "rights". There are a few I appreciate:<br />
1) That which is morally correct, just, or honorable<br />
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My argument is also that they are unalienable - they cannot be sold or bartered away for political expediency. To do so would destroy the civilization that was designed by the people who realized these rights were to ensure survival and foster growth of wealth unlike the world had ever known before.<br />
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Moreover life, liberty, and property are natural rights: any right that exists by virtue of natural law. Natural law is something that has been pushed under the rug and hidden from the common person in this day and age. Natural law is a principle or body of laws considered as derived from nature, right reason, or religion and as ethically binding in human society. These rights are the result of study of human nature, discovered by reason, and not by revelation.<br />
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When natural rights are ignored or actively refused bad things come to pass. It happens where collectivism is attempted and it happened throughout history when people were denied these simple rights. It isn't a theory or a concept, it is simply scientific study of what people do when denied these things. The magna carta was the first major result of this study and nothing has changed in human nature over the 800 years since it was written.<br />
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Survival of man does require more than necessary - it requires that we be given a chance to seek out happiness. Sadly, most of us have tons of things and have found not only are we not happy as a result of it we are more burdened than we were with little. Collection of things is not the only path to happiness. How do we distribute traveling allotments equally, fuel equally, or recreational equipment equally? It is up to the individual and not society to pursue what makes them happy. Collectivism is only able to hinder that goal and thus will suppress all of man natural rights.<br />
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<br />McBluefirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04531056419430589791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20497033.post-56131202785065072842013-01-15T02:41:00.002-04:002013-01-16T00:25:34.376-04:00Beeping Sounds just out of audio range. Conspiracy or just a sign of the age?At my house we have been "suffering" from a repeat offending sound. The sound would go off every 34 minutes for approximately 5-10 seconds, without fail. It did so for a total of 4 months. Two months late last year and late November and January. I was to the point of seeking a person to scan for bugs just to get rid of the sound. I figured it must be a radio frequency device that was failing - at least I hoped it was so that it could be found.<br />
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For the first two months it was happening, September - October 2012 my wife and I lost several hours preparing for the next event. At a few minutes prior we would take up stations and attempt to pinpoint where the sound was coming from. Unfortunately it was at such a high frequency and so quiet that it was near impossible to hone in on, even with the entire family helping.</div>
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Halfway through the first round of this repeating event we began to strategically unplug items, then moved to turning off entire rooms, and finally went with turning off the entire house. The sound continued to occur - every 34 maddening minutes. We researched for cataloged "phenomena" online. The wife asked online friends through networks if anyone had heard of such things. Aside from the re-assurance that we were at least having a mass delusion experience and not just one of us was crazy, nothing was determined.</div>
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Halfway through November the sound suddenly began again. This time I dug deeper online and found people convinced it is the government testing brain-altering waves or tapping into their brain waves. Honestly I couldn't imagine what the government would want to hear from my brain. ;0) I think they would rather avoid listening to conversations about peaceful people wanting Liberty - kind of a boring topic for a statist. I even downloaded an app to record the sounds from my phone. Unfortunately it never picked up the sound - thus convincing me that 7 people must be going slightly insane. Finally we gave up and began just waving hello to the sound with sweet gestures of the hands.</div>
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The good news is that this story has a non-conspiratorial ending. Last night I removed the batteries from my Gyration remote as we had recently replaced it with another Universal Remote that works on both infrared and radio frequency. We no longer needed a remote that could unreliably control a PC. Half-way through our evening I realized I had not heard the sound at all and decided to see if it was the remote. I put the batteries back in and pressed the mouse control button and immediately the gyro inside began producing a high-pitch vibration.</div>
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McBluefirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04531056419430589791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20497033.post-4603415141363116462012-09-22T16:58:00.003-04:002012-09-22T16:58:18.481-04:00Walk the WalkAlthough I do the research, this little site <a href="http://isidewith.com/">ISideWith.com</a> is pretty nice and has the ability to select or even add options that are not in the default answers.<br />
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I don't just talk the talk and vote for someone I don't agree with. Why should you? Take the quiz....then vote for that person.<br />
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People are working hard to ensure you can make your decisions based on principle and not labels. There is no longer a reason to claim ignorance of the positions of candidates.<br />
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MarcMcBluefirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04531056419430589791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20497033.post-51905745816488014382012-09-22T15:28:00.000-04:002012-09-22T15:58:59.307-04:00The Parties Are Now Screaming The Truthof their disregard for the rule of law...and yet the party members continue to believe it is not all that bad! They have both had their conventions and they demonstrated they could careless about their members. They both enacted rules that were not clearly supported and they did so by ignoring the people that make up their parties. The Republicrats and Demicans could not be more clear about their top-down strategy of rule. Yet, millions still believe this is a democracy. ROFL. How brain-dead do you have to be to still believe these two parties care one bit about America?<br />
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Ah, but then we cannot afford another four years with the racist socialism fueled by Obama cries the blind members of the Republican party that are convinced their fascist, bank-owned candidate will be better for the country. Don't be too concerned my dear confused friends. Romney has the support of the banksters and thus he will win the election.<br />
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Months ago I was certain only Obama could win. I believed the polls that only Ron Paul could beat him in a direct race as the majority of his message is readily accepted by most Americans regardless of political affiliation.<br />
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Sadly, as we all knew would happen, the neo-con fear mongering convinced the right-wing self professed "Christians" into remaining fearful of a true national defense (which is both Biblical and Constitutional), so they turned their backs on the only conservative candidate for the repumocrat nomination and went with someone that would continue fueling the war machine. The establishment hand-picked candidate Romney was put into power amidst a scandal of rigged votes and corruption.<br />
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Romney's baggage of corruption, consistent position flipping, and progressive voting record was ignored and the candidacy was limited to one issue - unconstitutional war. Unconstitutional war was made greater than Liberty. How many people did you hear say it over the last year? "I love what Ron Paul stands for and what he says and has done, but I don't agree with his foreign policy so I can't vote for him." One issue. This country loves war. That is all there is to it. I am disgusted and repulsed. The majority of the Republican party hates Liberty and loves sending their kids off to die. That is the only message that can be true. No one can convince me other-wise. Either the people actually voted that way or the corruption of the party completely covered up the election results and forced their choice on America. Unfortunately I have spoken with too many "conservatives" to believe most of them are not convinced that offense is better than freedom.<br />
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Now, however I see that Obama has been given the order to lose the election. It is so obvious. He is literally spewing drivel every day to push away his base. He has been saying things that give even his most ardent supporters pause and reason to reconsider voting for him. I could be wrong, however it appears obvious to me. The race is still close, right now, but I don't think it will remain that way.<br />
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The Republican party was a pitiful third party once and it has had its turn. The argument of voting for someone you don't believe in only because they have a "chance to win" holds no water. It is the same dead argument of "this election is too important!" No, it isn't. The United States of America that was built on the principles of Liberty and Freedom for all is dead and has been for decades. Romney will do nothing to revive it anymore than Obama has. He brought socialism and fascism to Massachusetts and he will do nothing less in DC. Neither of the big parties care about their members anymore than the Senate cares about the country.<br />
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Vote your conscience as only voting for the person you believe represents you makes any sense. George Washington told us the detriment a two party system would be to a country based on individual sovereignty and the entire argument of voting for someone "most likely to win" only serves to underscore the validity of his message. If people voted for candidates that supported their principles this country would be richer than it has ever been and we would be free. Life would still not be perfect but there would not be a police state in the US.<br />
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Forget about the lesser of two evils argument - try the definition of insanity. Repeatedly doing the same thing to achieve different results. How has the two party system been working out for us so far?<br />
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I want to be represented, not ignored. Therefore I cannot vote for someone that will never represent me. Your vote is your message. What message are you sending when you cast it for someone you don't believe in?<br />
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McBluefirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04531056419430589791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20497033.post-3220209564317526332012-06-28T22:50:00.001-04:002012-06-28T22:57:11.260-04:00Supreme Court Continues to Demonstrate the Anarchy of GovermentNot to be swayed by the Constition, the partisan politics ruled the day and left the law in shambles as the Supreme Court of the Federal Goverment decided government has the power to require people to pay a monthly fee to be alive.<br />
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Authoritarian Anarchy - that is our government. Land of the Enslaved and home of the plantation dwellers. None of us can survive and get the healthcare we are "due" without our master's providing it for us with our own tax dollars. Is our current healthcare system good? No. Is it because of the free market? No. We do not have a free market - we have corporatism and cronyism. A free market would not have guarantees of immunity and bailout by our own tax dollars. A free market would not have an income tax.<br />
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That paradigm shift is a long ways off, unfortunately. The churches should be leading the way, but instead they are busy preaching Romans 13 and accepting tax dollars to fund their activities. Freedom is long dead and the Christian Faith that promoted the notion is busy ignoring its Savior's Words. The united States of America has abandoned Liberty and I fear another cycle of violence is the only recourse many deem the solution. That course will fail miserably and result in yet another tyranny. We must disobey peacefully to achieve our freedom. Ignore the self-proclaimed authority and irrelevant it will become.<br />
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<a href="http://thomasmullen.blogspot.com/2011/03/government-solutions-are-anti.html">Anti-Intellectual by Tom Mullens</a>McBluefirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04531056419430589791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20497033.post-60285506809716130292012-01-28T16:31:00.002-04:002012-01-28T17:33:36.923-04:00Statism vs. Liberty<div style="font-family: arial; text-align: -webkit-auto; font-size: small; ">Family, friends, readers, there is only one true decision to be made here - are you for Liberty or are you a Statist? A statist is a person that advocates Statism. Statism is defined as " concentration of economic controls and planning in the hands of a highly centralized government often extending to government ownership of industry."</div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: -webkit-auto; font-size: small; "><br /></div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: -webkit-auto; font-size: small; ">I support Ron Paul because he believes in each of us to freely make our own decisions. I do not see anywhere that Obama believes in us at all. He signs in bills that suppress our civil liberties and expand the growth of the police state. (NDAA, Obamacare, ACTA Treaty - without Senatorial approval, the outright takeover of General Motors, continuing bailouts of the Extremely Rich with our tax dollars.) President Obama permits the expansion of security at the elimination of liberty. The TSA is expanding its power to become the United States version of the KGB and only two men in government are fighting it - the Paul family.</div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: -webkit-auto; font-size: small; "><br /></div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: -webkit-auto; font-size: small; ">If you want to perpetuate Governmental Anarchy, by all means continue to support Barack Obama and the status Quo.</div>McBluefirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04531056419430589791noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20497033.post-58845324061375569382011-12-01T23:38:00.005-04:002011-12-01T23:48:53.004-04:00John McCain - you are at top of my least admired list.<div>I used to think that McCain was fun, cool, and I liked how he bantered with John Stewart. Then he ran for President and I quickly discovered how liberal and neo-con he was. He couldn't help it, the vile words against Liberty just streamed from his mouth. Then he and Obama became best buds and pushed the first $700 billion bailout bill through the Senate all smiles at helping their big banker buddies at the destruction of the middle class. I figured he was a puppet and a bit lost.</div><div><br /></div><div>Now he has pushed through one of the most ridiculous and thoughtless bills of all time. From secrecy to law in a few weeks this man who claims to have fought for freedom just stripped our ability to be secure in the knowledge that our own military could not act on us. (Granted the Mexican and Canadian ones could thanks to treaties signed in secret nearly 10 years ago) You have decided "National Security" is more important than "Security from rampant government". Arizona, get that ass out of government NOW before he destroys any more of the American Dream of Freedom and Liberty for all. Oh, by the way - please strike that from the social-liberal Pledge of Stupidity many people recite trying to believe in something that is long dead. Justice? What Justice?</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Hope the non-awake people are thrilled with their brain-dead government. Bye, bye Posse Comitatus. John McCain, who was a prisoner of war, clearly thinks it's alright that an American Citizen can be held indefinitely and without reason by the US military. Last I checked, to be a prisoner of war you are supposed to first join a faction that is at war with the army that captures you. Now, however anyone can be labeled a enemy combatant for any reason and they are put away.</div><div><br /></div><div>Could someone name one reason why we would need such a law? What in the world is our government so afraid of? How is it they can pass laws that fly so obviously in the face of the bill of rights? Fifth amendment? Not needed when you are never given a chance to be called guilty and who needs due process?</div><div><br /></div><div>Hell, even war criminals used to be charged and held after due process. But those rights should only be reserved for higher ups, Joe American doesn't need that - Corporal Buddy over there with no training in the law should be able to declare you an enemy combatant and be judge, jury, and executioner or just get his superiors to buy into holding you indefinitely cause you might be a terrorist.</div><div><br /></div><div>Fourth amendment? Don't need proof, so they don't need to search anything - hearsay is good enough!</div><div><br /></div><div>Don't believe me? Here it from McCain himself:</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXbwmqq-6Y4">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXbwmqq-6Y4</a></div><div><br /></div><div>But, hey it's unimportant to give people the right to a trial if someone decides they might be an enemy.... and as long as you keep your nose clean, they'll never come for you or your family, right? After all we live in a Republic and the laws of a Republic are designed to protect the rights of the minority from the opinion of the majority!</div><div><br /></div><div>The bottom line is WHY does the government NEED this power? Why is it they think they can give themselves a power that the Constitution clearly states they cannot enact?</div><div><br /></div><div>Part of security is knowing you are secure from your government arbitrarily picking you as the current group to be labeled, and right now Americans who believe in the Constitution as the Supreme Law of the Land are not viewed favorably by the Government that rules in anarchy.</div>McBluefirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04531056419430589791noreply@blogger.com0