Author: Bear

That would be Bernard Warner.

Some folks pointed out that 33% is more than 28%, which prompted him to post the portion of the chart which he’d cropped out in his “educated” fashion.

33% versus 35% is lost in the noise; especially any public poll that asks suspicious gun owners to identify themselves as such, to random strangers on the phone.

But I’ll allow him the two points.

I don’t have a college degree; a specific conscious decision.* But I’ll put up my decades in telecom, and a pile of course certificates and diplomas a couple or three inches thick, against any social justice or journalism degree, and a large student debt.

I wonder if congressional offices call Warner for advice on policy and law, and drafting bills. Little ol’ “uneducated” me actually gets that. Because they know I’m smart and educated on that — and other — subjects. Not often, but it happens occasionally.

* I made that decision back in the ’90s. It came from three incidents while working at the late, not-so-great WorldCom.

I had an engineer in my POP doing turn-up testing on a new Nortel OC-48 system (a big deal ckba in the day). One day, myself, another tech, and this engineer were chatting in the office. Pay came up; when one of us techs said something about overtime, the engineer — a young kid fresh out of college — was astonished that we got overtime, because he didn’t.

I explained the difference between wage and salary. I had to explain, because he was clueless. He mentioned how much he was paid, and us lowly techs laughed; we made more.

Next up: The kid almost had a test ready to run: inject a T3 into an STS port, loop it at distant end, and run a bit error rate test. For acceptance, he needed a printout of the 72 hour test. But he couldn’t get the BERT set to talk to his printer. He asked me for help. I just looked at the comm port DIP switch settings, and set the BERT and printer to the same. Now it worked.

Finally: While the test was running he came back to the DSX panels where I was working, running T1 cross-connects. And then he asked me the most amazing question:

Which is faster, a T1 or a T3?

OK, some people wouldn’t know that; it was sorta specialized knowledge. But in the field we worked, that was extremely basic knowledge that anyone in that office should have known. Particularly if you’d gotten that fancy college degree to work in the field.

Who was more educated?

So; no degree, but make more money and know more about the field than degree boy. That’s when I decided stop working towards that electronic engineering degree.

Look at any US currency you have in your wallet.

“This note is legal tender for all debts public and private”

Unless you’re dealing with public debt owed to the federal government.

We’ve Entered An Era When The US Gov’t Won’t Even Take Its Own Money
On May 26, Mount Rainier National Park in Washington state will be the latest park to stop accepting cash at the entry booth.

Instead, visitors will be required to pay with credit or debit cards to enter what is a taxpayer-supported recreation area meant for hiking, biking, climbing, camping, exploring and sightseeing. The park management has, in its wisdom, decided that it’s not worth it to collect actual money, a marked change in the relationship between the people and the agencies that oversee the land owned collectively by the people.

US notes are no longer worth anything. Even the dot-gov admits it.

Gold, silver, barter, useful services. Stock up, and learn useful skills.

“Fascism!” AOC Throws Tantrum on House Floor Over Bill Protecting Parental Rights – Slams Books on Table Like a Child (VIDEO)
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) threw a tantrum on the House floor Thursday over the Republican led Parents Bill of Rights.
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Parents and guardians under the proposed legislation have a right to evaluate curriculum, meet with their children’s teachers, and review library books. They would also be granted permission to confront school boards and obtain information on violent activity occurring at schools.

So instead of public schools simply acting in a dictatorial fashion on behalf of the all-powerful government, individual parents would have oversight and input into their children’s education and the indoctrination teachers want.

That’s fascist?

fascism A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, a capitalist economy subject to stringent governmental controls, violent suppression of the opposition, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.

Pardon the co-opted (by commies) term, but that bill sounds kinda anti-fascist.

Wisconsin Rep. Tom Tiffany asks the ATF a question during a congressional hearing. I can’t believe the ATF stooge didn’t see that one coming.

Republican Rep. asks ATF if lying on their federal Background check is illegal.

ATF: “Yes. 15 years in jail if you do that.”

Republican Rep. Tiffany: “So why is Hunter Biden not in Prison?”

***All Hell Breaks Loose***

Gottem

Not really Hell, but the Dims were quick to try to shut him up.

Supposedly, space aliens are showing up today to wipe out humanity.

A ‘time traveler’ predicts our future: Aliens will conquer earth on March 23
What was hard to imagine more than 100 years ago is that an ‘influencer’, who calls himself a time traveler, could state categorically what was going to happen, and in this case, so soon.
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“A very hostile alien species is coming to take back Earth, we will not win. Another alien, whose world was destroyed by the hostiles, will save some of us. On March 23, 2023, about 8,000 people will be taken to another habitable planet,” Eno has indicated in his post on the social network.

Obviously, Eno Alric is a nutjob. The aliens have been here for years, and they aren’t going to destroy us.

That’s my current working hypothesis: The aliens are using social engineering to get us to render ourselves extinct, saving them the trouble. How else do you explain

• Gain-of-function ChinCOVID-19
• ChinCOVID pseudo-vaccines that cause far more deadly adverse effects than any other real vaccine in history
• Forced inoculation with said pseudo-vaccines
• The utter refusal to stop the pseudo-vaccines due to the admitted adverse effects (the ’76 swine flu vax was halted for a few dozen cases of G-BS, before any deaths occurred)
• An authorized treatment for ChinCOVID with a 27% fatality rate
• Blocking cheap and effective treatments that don’t have a high fatality rate
• The Left’s insistence that abortion id a right, even up to — and some cases — after birth
• Try to force the closure — even destruction — of non-abortion pregnancy centers
• Mass sterilization through “transgender treatment” that we’re being told is a healthcare right, and must accept as normal
• Deliberately open-air venting and burning tanker cars of vinyl chloride
• Refusing to test for toxic vinyl chloride combustion products
• And saying everything’s fine
• Destruction of our own technological civilization to stop “global warming,” with the billions of deaths that reverting to a pre-19th century tech level will cause
• Defund the police, without any working replacement
• And let the criminals out, whether because “COVID bad” or “bail racist”
• Shoot, decriminalize theft and assault so the bad guys don’t get arrested in the first place
• And now that the uncontrolled criminals are running amok, disarm the honest population

That’s a partial list. Can you see why I might entertain, even facetiously, the thought that hostile aliens aere up to no good?

SO WHERE DID THE VEST MONEY GO, UVALDE PD?
Last year’s Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas was horrific. The cold-blooded murder of 21 students and teachers was bad enough. But the “police” response that enabled the asshole to do it was, in some respects, even worse.
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In recent days, the Uvalde Police Department was been trying to excuse their failure. The real culprit, you see, was the perp’s evil “AR-15.”
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The poor dears didn’t have body armor that could stop a .223/5.56 round from an “AR-15.”

Why not?
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With various outlets (Faux Snooze was first, I think) reporting that Trump is going to be indicted as soon as next week, the man decided to triple down on dumb.

OUR NATION IS NOW THIRD WORLD & DYING. THE AMERICAN DREAM IS DEAD! THE RADICAL LEFT ANARCHISTS HAVE STOLLEN [sic] OUR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, AND WITH IT, THE HEART OF OUR OUR [sic] COUNTRY. AMERICAN PATRIOTS ARE BEING ARRESTED & HELD IN CAPTIVITY LIKE ANIMALS, WHILE CRIMINALS & LEFTIST THUGS ARE ALLOWED TO ROAM THE STREETS, KILLING & BURNING WITH NO RETRIBUTION. MILLIONS ARE FLOODING THROUGH OUR OPEN BOARDERS, MANY FROM PRISONS & MENTAL INSTITUTIONS. CRIME & INFLATION ARE DESTROYING OUR VERY WAY OF LIFE…

Page 2: NOW ILLEGAL LEAKS FROM A CORRUPT & HIGHLY POLITICAL MANHATTAN DISTRICT ATTORNEYS OFFICE, WHICH HAS ALLOWED NEW RECORDS TO BE SET IN VIOLENT CRIME & WHOSE LEADER IS FUNDED BY GEORGE SOROS, INDICATE THAT, WITH NO CRIME BEING ABLE TO BE PROVEN, & BASED ON AN OLD & FULLY DEBUNKED (BY NUMEROUS OTHER PROSECUTORS!) FAIRYTALE, THE FAR & AWAY LEADING REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE & FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, WILL BE ARRESTED ON TUESDAY OF NEXT WEEK. PROTEST, TAKE OUR NATION BACK! (emphasis added)

IF Trump is arrested, I’m sure that some folks would go out and protest. Trump preemptively calling for protests guarantees even more will.

And any large gathering of pro-Trump protesters will be reported as a riot. No matter how peaceful. Just ask hundreds of J6 protesters locked away without trial for not even entering the Capitol building, just “trespassing” on the grounds outside.

And even though Trump put out a message that day, asking supporters to stay peaceful and depart, he’s still being accused of inciting the allegedly riotous insurrection.

This time the damned fool really has demanded protests, that will be called riots, and he will get slammed with incitement charges. And they’ll try to call it insurrection again, and disqualify him from future office.

Now wonder his adviser reportedly told him not to say this. He should have listened.

…like they do confederate statues.

Federal officials pause plan to rename Georgia’s Lake Lanier
Federal officials are pausing a plan that could lead to new names for Georgia’s Lake Lanier and Buford Dam after locals objected to changing the monikers of landmarks now named for Confederate soldiers.

Lake Lanier is named for a poet that wrote a poem about the Chattahoochee River that feeds the reservoir. Sidney Lanier’s crime was being a private in the Confederate Army long before he became a noted poet.

Buford Dam is named for the nearby town of Buford. The town is named after the then president of the railroad who built the town, post Civil War. Sadly for the to-be-erased history, Buford had served in the Virginia militia.

If the names are going to be changed, I propose:

“Lake The Corps Of Engineers Are Fucking Idiots”

“The Corps Of Engineers Are Fucking Idiots Dam”

So says CBS anyway.

The Justice Department has secured a nearly unblemished record in Capitol riot trials over the first two years of prosecutions.

Only if the “record” is the propaganda reported — and facts left unreported — by lamestream media like CBS.

Folks stupidly relying on CBS et al would miss the occasional “blemish,” such as witness tamering, destruction of evidence, tampering with evidence, Brady violations, and perjury. Or incredibly stupid shit like confusing pornographic memes with Capitol photos in court filings.

Then there’s the tainted jury pool, and the refusal to allow any change of venue due to that taint.

The jury pool is so bad that defendants are settling for bench trials rather than face jurors seated after they said how much they hate Trump supporters. At least CBS briefly noticed that.

Throw in a little judicial bias and misconduct, too. Which makes bench trials no better than facing bad juries.

I wonder what CBS would consider blemished prosecution.

Mexico’s President López Obrador Actually Said Mexico is ‘SAFER’ Than The United States
On Monday, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador actually said out loud during a press conference that Mexico is safer than the United States.

Don’t spit out your drink.

Let’s compare murder rates per 100K:

• United States: 4.96
• Mexico: 29.07 per

Mexico’s murder rate is almost 6 times (5.8609) higher than the US.

Maybe he meant overall crime rates:

• United States: 47.81
• Mexico: 54.19

Not seeing it, dude. But then, Lopez-Obrador thinks no fentanyl is coming from Mexico either (his own officials disagree).

Say, maybe we should take him at his word about the safety of Mexico…

…and refuse asylum for every Mexican national illegal claiming “sanctuary” from the cartel-driven violence there.