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[Just the News] "Another reason drivers are out of control is because of drugs, especially the legalization of marijuana," Lieberman said. "Despite some people claiming that marijuana is 'no big deal,' it does impair perception — amongst many other effects."
Another reason drivers are out of control is because they literally are, Lieberman said.
"Emotionally, people are feeling lost in this 'new normal,' whose parameters are still not clear — except that the world seems to be in big trouble," Lieberman said. "Between inflation, homelessness and the border crisis on the domestic front, and Putin and China spy balloons on the foreign front, many of us feel that the world may be coming to an end — so why not drive recklessly?
"Also, people are angrier than they ever were before," Lieberman added. "They're angry that their world has been turned upside down, so they are more aggressive — especially after many hours playing violent video games during lockdown. So, they're taking out their aggression in the form of road rage — air rage, domestic violence and so on."
Another issue appears to be policing changes in the past couple of years.
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Having done Atlanta I-85/I-75, I-285 and Spaghetti junction daily for years and seen the Road Rage then, verses now, I have to agree. It's like this new generation of drivers learned how to drive using the video game Grand Theft Auto.
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BTW: Example Given...
Richmond Co. Ga. is having a hard time explaining why it took the county ambo service took 64+ minutes to arrive at an ATV-Car accident on McDade Rd. this weekend.
If it had not been for Station 17/19 trucks, Fire Rescue, 4 police cars arriving in just a few mins, the 2 Black America ATV ridging teens would be likely dead now.
The 45 mph impact tossed one teen high enough to bounce off the utility pole telephone line cable.
[The Federalist] For a supposed champion of equity in modern society, recent comments made by anti-racist academic Robin DiAngelo were strikingly similar to those of segregationists from past decades.
During a webinar hosted by Berrett-Koehler Publishers that was subsequently shared to YouTube by the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism, DiAngelo — the author of several books teaching white people to hate themselves — encouraged people of color "to get away from white people and have some community with each other."
DiAngelo’s language eerily echoes that of Plessy v. Ferguson, in which the Supreme Court established the principle that the 14th Amendment permitted "separate but equal" treatment of African-Americans. However, the Court reversed that decision in Brown v. Board of Education:
[YouTube] In the beginning, there was nothing. And that's when the arguments started.
The T-14 Armata, the first Russian tank to be produced since the fall of the Soviet Union (yes I am aware 'Soviet' means Union so technically I just said Union Union, this is a common thing in language and no one is impressed when you point one out shut up) has been revered by many as a God among tanks, a new age in armored warfare that will re-define what it means to be in a tank while shooting other tanks and the people who have to think about how those people in those tanks should shoot the other tanks would have to throw out everything they know and re-think, from scratch, the art of shooting people in tanks while also being inside of a tank.
But it is all hyped up to be, or has a country with a propaganda budget larger than some countries GDP's fooled us all?
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It looks like it would be easy to put a round between the turret and the hull. Game over.
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/\ Well, Deacon Blue, one purpose of a sloped hull is to ricochet rounds and having an overhanging turret does seem like a "bullet trap"...especially frontally. So, yeah, that does look like a peculiar turret design.
Under the Bayh-Dole Act, government scientists can collect royalties from drug companies for discoveries they make while working on the public’s dime.
Taxpayers fund government research, while Big Pharma, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and NIH scientists keep all the profits.
As a patent holder who profits from royalties, the NIH has a significant stake in regulations that impact patents and vaccine mandates, and may use its influence to benefit itself rather than the public.
The NIH distributes $32 billion of taxpayer funds as research grants each year. As the largest federal grant-maker, the NIH has a monopoly on what research gets done and what doesn’t.
Scientists vying for grants also recognize that in order to get funding, they have to play by the rules, and that means doing work that supports establishment narratives on public health policy.
I discovered one good outcome of this approach several years ago. Harvoni cured Hep C with no side effects. The best guess is I got it from a dirty dental tool. The only downside to Harvoni was it was over $100k for 90 days of treatment. Fortunately, I had company health insurance at the time.
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NIH has done allot of good over the years but people like Fauci have turned it into a cash cow. It is the approved science research I have a problem with. When you invent something the monies go to the company not to inventor. My dad invented the insulated carafe but never made a cent off it.
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Based on the financial structure and incentives, the NIH will need to be bulldozed just like most every corrupted edifice in the Federal government. Fauci abused the system and killed a lot of people, but some other weasel would have done similar or worse work if he or she had clawed their way to the top of that warped institution.
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My dad invented the insulated carafe but never made a cent off it.
My father discovered interferon, but because he was required to retire before he could execute the experimental series to prove efficacy, a decade later two teams of scientists got the Nobel Prize, the magazine covers, and the saved lives. Decades earlier, the publication of Rachel Carson’s lies-filled Silent Spring put paid to my father’s plans for riches unlimited while bettering the world with his improved version of DDT. These things happen.
[The Hill] The public’s trust in the banking industry sharply dropped in the aftermath of the collapse of two prominent banks earlier this month and their effects on the market, according to a new poll.
A poll released Wednesday from The Associated Press and NORC Center for Public Affairs Research at the University of Chicago found only 10 percent of respondents said they have a "great deal" of confidence in banking and financial institutions. That’s down from the 22 percent who said they did in a 2020 poll.
Almost 60 percent of respondents said in the recent poll that they had "only some" confidence in banking, while 30 percent said they had "hardly any."
In a breakdown of responses from various industries included in the survey, only Congress had a lower percentage say they have a great deal of confidence in the institution.
The lack of trust in banking was bipartisan, as only 10 percent of Democrats and 8 percent of Republicans said they have a great deal of confidence.
Silicon Valley Bank collapsed earlier this month after it did not have enough cash on hand to fulfill withdrawal requests and needed to sell assets, leading to a bank run. Signature Bank, which focuses on cryptocurrency, also crashed a few days later.
The federal government stepped in to protect all deposits from customers even if an account surpasses the $250,000 limit that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation protects to try to calm customers and the market.
The country’s largest banks also bailed out First Republic Bank, which is based in San Francisco, to the tune of $30 billion as many of its depositors moved their money to larger institutions.
Pollsters also found bipartisan agreement that government regulation of financial institutions is inadequate. Just more than half of Republicans said so, and 63 percent of Democrats agreed.
Only 15 percent of all respondents said government regulation is too much, while 27 percent said regulation is about the right amount.
[Breitbart] Former President Donald Trump will "weather this storm" no matter what the "criminal Biden-Stalinist regime" does to him, proclaimed conservative radio legend Michael Savage, while warning against the "twisting" of American laws as Trump prepares to be indicted by Democrat Manhattan District Attorney "stooge" Alvin Bragg.
Joining host Jenn Pellegrino on Newsmax TV on Monday, Savage warned that "we’re living in unprecedented times that are mimicking that of the Soviet Union," adding that "people have to know history in order to not repeat it."
Former President Donald Trump will "weather this storm" no matter what the "criminal Biden-Stalinist regime" does to him, proclaimed conservative radio legend Michael Savage, while warning against the "twisting" of American laws as Trump prepares to be indicted by Democrat Manhattan District Attorney "stooge" Alvin Bragg.
Joining host Jenn Pellegrino on Newsmax TV on Monday, Savage warned that "we’re living in unprecedented times that are mimicking that of the Soviet Union," adding that "people have to know history in order to not repeat it."
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Back in the days before I retired, I used to listen to Michael Savage on the car radio while driving home. He helped me through a whole lotta traffic jams.
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^ on point. 20 yrs spent commuting in the Novato Narrows, listening to the good Dr. Kept me sane for the most part. Shout out to all those vets of the awesome Hamilton Air Force Base.
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[Blaze] Joe Rogan is waking up to just how corrupt the Democratic Party has become, and it’s a glorious sight to behold.
Rogan recently took to his podcast to rant about what the left has been doing to our country over the past few years. He says that rather than painting every issue in red or blue and remaining loyal to those colors, people need to take a harder look at the actions the politicians who represent those colors are taking.
He continues, "Whether it’s war, suppression of free speech, pharmacological interventions that are mandatory — whatever it is — that all used to be associated with the authoritarian right, and now those things are being embraced by the left."
Rogan believes the reason people refuse to see anything from the opposite side's point of view can be boiled down to ideology. "We get confused and think we’re on the right side," simply because it's the side we’ve assigned ourselves to.
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'...all used to be associated with the authoritarian right.' If one would go to the source, right leaning people in America, virtually all of them want to be left alone to pursue their lives as they see fit. They are not the ones demanding the rest of the population live under their capricious dictates.
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Yeah. I remember when the left said the right was invading everyone's bedrooms. Now the left is bringing every perv's bedroom into your kids' schools.
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[Jerusalem Post] For years, Iran’s leaders have been open about their desire to wipe Israel off the map, and they may soon have the means to do it. Read more of Roz Rothstein and Marc Greendorfer's analysis.
As we recently learned, Iran’s nuclear program is merely weeks away from being able to produce enough fissile material for its first fully functional nuclear bomb. This disturbing news must have put Jerusalem and Washington on high alert.
For years, Iran’s leaders have been open about their desire to wipe Israel off the map, and they may soon have the means to do it. While Israel has vowed to prevent the Iranian regime from attaining the world’s deadliest weapon through diplomacy and sanctions, reports indicate it has also been preparing to carry out a last-ditch military strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities. Aware of Israel’s determination to stymie its nuclear ambitions, Iran has prepared for the day after such a strike.
Just last month, details emerged that Tehran has been "mapping" Diaspora Jewish communities for future retaliatory assassination campaigns in case Israel were to execute such an attack.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[YouTube] In the beginning, there was nothing. And that's when the arguments started. 
[The Hill] The public’s trust in the banking industry sharply dropped in the aftermath of the collapse of two prominent banks earlier this month and their effects on the market, according to a new poll. 
[Breitbart] Former President Donald Trump will "weather this storm" no matter what the "criminal Biden-Stalinist regime" does to him, proclaimed conservative radio legend Michael Savage, while warning against the "twisting" of American laws as Trump prepares to be indicted by Democrat Manhattan District Attorney "stooge" Alvin Bragg.
