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Howdy All, a few Interesting Items for your information.\u00a0 Enjoy \u2013<\/p>\n

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  1. Lisa<\/li>\n
  2. Sheriffs<\/li>\n
  3. Censored<\/li>\n
  4. Dragon<\/li>\n
  5. Berkeley<\/li>\n
  6. Swamp<\/li>\n
  7. Goolag<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    1. Lisa. Alaska\u2019s senior US Senator Lisa Murkowski had herself quite a week last week, tapping into her inner Orange Man Bad, managing to be out of town on \u201cfamily matters\u201d for the senate vote on Sasse and Toomey\u2019s Born Alive bill, and finding time to work with the reprehensible Kamala Harris on workplace harassment legislation.\u00a0 The Orange Man Bad piece is most troubling, as Murkowski claims to be \u201ctroubled\u201d by the unconstitutionality of President Trump\u2019s National Emergency declaration on the border wall.\u00a0 Of course, she has been in the senate since December 2002, over which time 3 presidents have declared 20 other national emergencies that she hasn\u2019t said squat about.\u00a0 Neither has she seen fit to propose legislation to wrest that power back from the executive. \u00a0Other than an on and off dalliance with the amnesty caucus in the senate, she hasn\u2019t done much to solve the immigration problem either.\u00a0 Her personal animus against Trump started in 2016 during the campaign with the release of the NBC Billy Bush video that was supposed to kill his campaign. \u00a0She rescinded her support for Trump and managed to drag Alaska\u2019s junior US Senator Dan Sullivan along with her.\u00a0 Both of them got a lot of flak back in Alaska for that grandstanding.\u00a0 Lisa voted against repeal of O\u2019BamaCare two years ago.\u00a0 President Trump, always the counterpuncher, never the original attacker, remembers that vote and mentioned it during his CPAC speech last weekend, as a vote that made him almost refuse to sign legislation opening ANWR.\u00a0 Sooner or later, Lisa\u2019s personal problem with Trump is going to hurt Alaska.\u00a0 It wouldn\u2019t surprise me if she weren\u2019t a vote to impeach him when that trial is held after 2020.\u00a0 And that vote will be among the last she ever makes in the US Senate.\u00a0 Sooner or later her focus on what she calls women\u2019s issues, support of Planned Parenthood, and infanticide is going to hurt the State of Alaska and eventually stop her political career.\u00a0 http:\/\/mustreadalaska.com\/murkowski-teams-up-with-kamala-harris-on-workplace-harassment-bill\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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      1. Sheriffs. I am somewhat conflicted about the notion of state and local disobedience of federal, state and local law.\u00a0 On the one hand, it does serve to undermine the power and scope of the colossus the Beltway Party has built.\u00a0 On the other hand, it also undermines the Rule of Law, for if the law doesn\u2019t apply equally to all of us, why should we play?\u00a0 The most obvious example of this is the sanctuary movement for illegals, something I despise.\u00a0 Federal response ought to be to simply cut off federal funds to offending communities and states.\u00a0 O\u2019Bama and Clinton federal judges have a problem with that, but it should be the obvious approach.\u00a0 When democrats regain power, they always pass legislation they have been sitting on for years.\u00a0 Topics include but are not limited to voting legislation intended to bring California vote fraud as far and as wide as possible, gun control legislation so that the populace can\u2019t do anything about the politicians fraudulently elected, and infanticide legislation because women.\u00a0 Democrats took control of seven governorships last year and they are busily passing as many gun confiscation laws as humanly possible.\u00a0 The problem is that local law enforcement, typically locally elected sheriffs, are refusing to enforce those new laws.\u00a0 The Sheriffs are declaring local sanctuaries using identical language to the sanctuary city movement for illegals.\u00a0 Some of these laws are \u201cred flag\u201d laws.\u00a0 Some raised the ownership age from 18 to 21 years.\u00a0 Both laws require confiscation of legally purchased firearms from their owners.\u00a0 Organized resistance from local sheriffs is taking place in WA, OR, NM and IL.\u00a0 They are talking to like-minded activists in CA, NY, IA and ID.\u00a0 25 of 33 counties in NM passed resolutions to support local sheriffs who refuse to enforce firearms laws they don\u2019t agree with.\u00a0 Voters in 8 OR counties passed \u201csanctuary ordinance\u201d measures last year.\u00a0 There are many more defiant measures in process for the 2020 ballot.\u00a0 Of course, democrats and media are questioning the legality of this movement, but legality didn\u2019t matter a lot when democrat attorney generals in CA and DC refused to enforce state and federal laws.\u00a0 The rule of law.\u00a0 What a concept.\u00a0 https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-guns-sanctuary\/defiant-us-sheriffs-push-gun-sanctuaries-imitating-liberals-on-immigration-idUSKCN1QL0ZC<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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        1. Censored. A Virgil article in Breitbart last week discussed workarounds to omnipresent censorship by FakeBook content monitors.\u00a0 As with any workaround, these only work as long as the censors haven\u2019t figured out what is going on, but if we can flood the zone with techniques, they will have a lot more to do, a lot more trash to sift through\u00a0 before dropping the hammer, and fewer people harassed until they can bring their AI to bear on the problem (trust me, they are working furiously on censorship AI). \u00a0Techniques to fight this at the word level include (but are not limited to):<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n