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  1. The people are the ultimate protector of our rights, because if we don’t know what they are, how would we know if they are being removed? Most folks today don’t know what their rights are, having been “educated” in government schools that intentionally left out that training. What you said is absolutely correct, though. Our Constitution recognizes the rights that we naturally possess.

  3. I find it interesting that the state of California chooses to raid a Christian school but apparently has no interest in raiding Islamic Madrassas (Islamic training schools), where anti American values are taught, I give you Barrack Obama as an example, a former student of an Islamic Madrassa.

    We are getting really tired of public funds being expended on illegal activities and defending them with public paid attorneys.

  4. Since the corn harvest this year is going to fall far short of the demand which will raise prices to the point that exports fall off and the poor of 3rd world nations will suffer hunger and starvation it is time to reevaluate our policies on non food uses.
    Things we can do without. 1. Ethanol alcohol in our gas, 2. A lot of high fructose sweeteners, 3. Corn used as fuel in stoves, 4. Many plastics derived from corn, and I am sure there is a lot of other things I missed.

    It isn’t very Christian when you pour somebodies mainstay for meals into your gas tank!

    1. This is some out-of-the-box thinking, Joe. While the MSM puts focus on the financial bottom line, you look at a spiritual bottom line. I applaud your compassion for people who are struggling just to have a meal.

      Carry on

    2. I read somewhere, mostly from reliable sources, that there are something like 4,000 different products made from corn and it’s by-products. There are a lot of things that could be made without the use of corn. Except maybe whiskey! Yeah, I know! But hey, you gotta draw the line somewhere!

    3. @Joe- so what would you do, ban the sale of corn to customers who want it for another use besides food ? What about those who feed the corn to livestock ? Does that meet with your approval ? I suppose that you would pass a law enforcing your preferences, right ? Do we not have the right to sell our private property to whomever we want ? For whatever reasons we want ? Excuse my frankness, but PRIVATE PROPERTY IS A RIGHT. [Some deleted by the Editor.]

      3. @ Hail – Have you considered doing any research on how corn is used, corn subsidies, and or ethanol? To keep it short, we might as well be talking about Iphone shortages, because we can eat those phones just as much as we can eat this corn.

        This corn is not edible without processing. I have also seen estimates that 90% of the corn produced goes to livestock. Talk with any sensible cattle farmer and you may find out corn is an issue for the health of cattle and only serves to fatten them up. The story of ethanol is that the very nature of it is political as to appeal to people at a point in our history to lessen our dependence on foreign oil. In reality, ethanol is a energy loser, we have increased our use of foreign oil since these polices were passed. There is absolutely more to the story of corn than what I have written here. The main point is, this corn is not of use to you or anyone else without extensive processing and subsidies. Yet, its framed daily in the news as a sign the end is near. Should the end be near, it surely isn’t due to corn.

        Once you study corn, consider bread, next. Bread since its inception has had 3 ingredients. Today, it has 31 or 32….why is that? We know that we only need 3 ingredients to make good and healthy bread. When 1 single ingredient, like corn has an issue, are we running out of bread? No….

        Let us consider reeling in the alarmist rhetoric that has over-taken survivalism? My read on survivalism is that is an ideology to reduce panic in certain situations through techniques (survival skills). Today, it seems to be more about panic and alarmist stories so we consume more products.

      4. Corn used for ethanol production is government mandated and subsidized by the tax payers. It is not necessary to put 10-15 % alcohol in gasoline. Yes, I choose feeding people over senseless government regulation, without this regulation the free market would be just fine. I agree with you completely about private property but what I am looking at here is government meddling. Also think about temporary measures to solve immediate problems, not long term sweeping changes. We will ship supplies to disaster victims to help them, this is only that type of relief until the next crops can be planted.

        1. Have you considered the fact that ethanol production would be all but eliminated if people stopped buying it ? It is NOT the only fuel available for use. The government does not mandate that people buy it…yet.

          1. Sure non ethanol based gas is available, but you have to search it out. Just as yes, there ARE alternatives to You Tube and Goggle, but they are limited and for now, small entities. Just as it always is, once someone climbs the ladder, they make damn sure to use political means to kick the ladder down to prevent others from making a similar climb and becoming their competitors.
            Just sayin’

  5. Re: Electrical Grid Malware

    I have read some interesting comments over time about the Stuxnet virus with which somebody took out Iranian centrifuges.

    Reportedly it was an excellent piece of code but it had one particular failure. It was supposed to propagate until it found the specific controllers it was designed to destroy and delete itself along the way leaving no trace. It did not in all cases delete itself which is in fact how it was discovered and later analyzed.

    This resulted in Stuxnet ending up being essentially public domain code. Many people and groups all over the world ended up with it. It was already good code and those that ended up with it made it even better code and have presumably redeployed it or at last can redeploy it for their own use.

    I suspect that is what all of this weaponized malware is like. Once deployed, I suspect it is very quickly adopted, altered, improved by people all over the world.

    I suppose all weapons are this way, but I think the proliferation of software weapons likely happens much faster than physical weapons.

    There is probably no way around this issue. Cyber Warfare is a reality that we will have to live with. But it is sobering that every time we launch an attack on another country, we are likely giving them the very same tools to attack us back in the same or worse manners with a turn around speed unheard of in previous times.

  6. Insider Blows Whistle at Google on 2020 Election Meddling
    They always project. What the Left means by “prevent election meddling” is to ensure that their own candidates win.

    U.S. Put Malware In Russia’s Electrical Grid
    The US has also used a cyber attack on Iran weapons systems.

    JWR said: “And, most importantly, that we can withdraw The Consent Of The Governed, whenever we see fit. God Bless America!”
    I’ve never heard of any individual or group withdrawing consent and not being jailed, financially ruined, or killed. Remember Lincoln? That was settled long ago. While I’m not defending parliamentarian government forms, the US Police State ain’t no better. Waco, anybody? See Christian School below for more context. Nobody is withdrawing from anything. You can have your country back only by force at arms.

    Christian School Raided in California
    The people of CA and indeed the entire US have made themselves and the State as some kind of god. They will have their god, good and hard.

  7. 2A issues getting trampled in WA, as the misbegotten I-1639 is implemented. WA State government is making up more rules as it fumbles along.

    Meanwhile, stores are selling out as we grim patriots are lined up getting our final critical purchases completed within the final handful of days before July 1st implementation. Next Monday, July the 1st, the State starts it’s own process of Gun Registration.

  8. Fred, regarding withdrawing consent of the governed: I can readily remember one, and only one, group that did so, and succeeded (though there may be others) – the American colonies that determined to break away from England’s rule. Our Constitution, and especially the Rill of Rights, remains as the implementation tools to keep the ‘consent of the governed’ a necessary support for our way of life. But it rests on an even more important foundation: the Declaration of Independence that assumes GOD-GIVEN rights (and the Bible behind that belief).

  9. Corn not being planted:

    Worse still, ethanol content in gasoline is going up to 15% from the current 10%. How stupid. For this one I blame Trump and the moronic Republicans, especially Chuck Grassley of Iowa. We’d be better off if they got rid of the ethanol content in gasoline entirely.

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