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Permits.

Yeah, permits.  You see, in order to make a living, one doesn’t have the freedom to just do what one wants for a living.  Nope, one has to get permission from the Nanny State in the form of “permits” to pretty much do anything nowadays.  Land of the Free?  Not so much, but I digress.

Seems that Michael Turner of Turner LP Gas made it known (if you read Steve’s post, you’d know) he was only going to sell to non-Trump supporters.  Problem is, he wasn’t supposed to be selling any propane to anyone.

Permits (emphasis mine):

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Glad to know about the little mysteries of life:

Why Do My Eyes Close When I Sneeze?

Is it a foregone conclusion that we can’t help closing our eyes during a sneeze? Not quite, researchers say. It is possible (albeit difficult) to keep our eyes open during a sneeze, said Dr. David Huston, an associate dean at the Texas A&M College of Medicine Houston campus and an allergist at Houston Methodist Hospital. “The fact that it is possible to sneeze with the eyes open suggests that it is not hardwired or mandatory,” Huston said in a statement. It’s not entirely clear why people blink while sneezing, but it likely plays a protective role, he said.

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Once again, we see that old phrase “no good deed goes unpunished” at play (“good” is variable here – foolish, stupid, insane, and blind might be better utilized). Reformatted, emphasis mine:

Police Hand Out 6000 Rape Alarms for New Year’s After Migrant Attacks

Austrian police will hand out 6,000 pocket rape alarms on New Year’s Eve to help fight mass sex attacks such as those perpetrated by migrants in neighbouring Germany a year ago. The interior ministry said Tuesday that officers will be distributing the devices in the run up to the festive celebrations in the capital Vienna, Welt reports. “It’s a national campaign aimed primarily at women on New Year’s Eve,” ministry spokesman Karl-Heinz Grundboeck told AFP.

And why might this be, you ask?  Well, pretty much the invasion-by-other-means by “refugees” of the Religion of Peace.

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“The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small,but whether it works — whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified.”  – President Obama, Inauguration (2009)

It’s like the TSA of the healthcare industry – lots of people, lots of money, and security kabuki medical theater all around.  Well of COURSE if you aren’t doing the vetting, everything costs more less.  For years we’ve heard that the Feds can run our large public dole systems (e.g., SS, SSI, TANF, Medicare, Medicaid) for less overhead than what private companies can.  Of COURSE they can – while private insurers don’t want to lose their own money, it seems that the Feds have no problem in losing $50-$60 Billion of OUR money and most of that is due to that they do far less fraud detection.  And here, with Obamacare registrations, we see the equivalent of the Democrat aversion to checking that voters are valid:

Consumers can enroll in health-insurance coverage, or change from one qualified health plan to another,6 through the federal and state-based marketplaces either (1) during the annual open enrollment period or (2) outside of the open enrollment period, if they qualify for a special enrollment period (SEP)…Our undercover testing included fictitious applicants claiming to have experienced an event that would trigger eligibility to enroll in health insurance coverage during an SEP…We designed the 12 fictitious applications to provide either no documentation or fictitious documentation related to the SEP triggering event, when instructed to do so.

and bingo….

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Emphasis mine:

NY State Employee Demands Death For Trump Supporters, And His Bosses Seem Cool With That

The Conservative Tribune reports that, New York State Employee Demands Death For Trump Supporters, Still Employed.

“To all my friends that live in red voting states,” the screed began. “You have 2 months to move. After that, if you don’t do not consider us friends. I want you dead. I want your families dead. I want your wives, husbands children and grandchildren dead. Not just dead but horrible painful deaths.”

Let’s give this maniac credit, he was not a typical mealy-mouthed, latte-drinking wimp. He said what he was thinking.

Oh, he works for the New York State Office for People with Developmental Disabilities. That makes me feel wonderful about the care these folks are getting.

Conservative Tribune has a bit more of the screed:

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The Obama worm

As US President Barack Obama prepares to leave the White House, he can rest assured that his name will live on in a new genus of parasitic flatworm, which infects turtles in Malaysia. The proposed name: Baracktrema obamai.

Abstract:

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My gosh – they’re going after EVERYTHING with a vote! Now they’re interfering with potluck?

AUSTIN, TX—According to sources, local man Clarence Williams has urged his church’s lead pastor as well as local law enforcement to move forward with an investigation into Russian hacking, claiming that there was ample evidence to support the theory that malicious foreign agents infiltrated and influenced the outcome of a vote on the date for next month’s potluck at Second Baptist Church.

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I just got through watching the interview that Martha Radditz did with the Liar (“I didn’t give questions to Hillary”) still known as the DNC Chair Donna Brazile.  If one ever thought that the Democrats want to make victims out of everyone, you gotta either read the transcript from ABC (after the jump)or watch this clip. She was also set up well by the ABC intro stating “Did the Kremlin want Trump in the White House?” – Democrats with bylines writ large.  EVERYTHING has been thrown against the wall hoping that someone would stick – theft, hack, won’t talk to the CONTENT of the emails, disinformation, the media, Podesta falling for a phishing attempt (“click here”), a bad candidate, FBI Director Comey, won’t talk about the Clinton organizations, attacking the Constitution (the Electoral College); you name it, they’re on it for delegitimizing this election.  Except saying “We lost”.  2000 all over again.

So, can we say this is also Fake News by innuendo?  Is the MSM, Facebook, Twitter, et al going to employ any Conservative third-party agencies to help curate “fake news”?

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” I’ll leave it to them to explain why it doesn’t“

I’ll do just that.  Yeah, this ranks right up there with Democrats re-writing the definition of the word “access” when it comes to birth control” (e.g., not that you can’t buy it for yourself but “denying access” in Democrat-speak means “they can get it “free” on OUR dime”).

So here they go again.  Josh Earnest said concerning the new “rule” that prohibits The Various States from denying Planned Parenthood money (think “strings attached” on steroids).  Here, Earnest tries to redefine what Conservatives believe (like they’ve done with the Little Sisters of the Poor Catholic nuns that believe that providing abortifacients is a grave moral sin):

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But Constitution, not so much.  Nor most of the biz leaders that FastCompany polled in a piece called “How We Should Elect our President in 2016“. It dates back to before the election in November and I just found the page that I ripped out of the magazine.  Yes, it does seem that it is rather left leaning but as a former small biz owner, I just wanted to share how well they know how things should work (or in this case, how it SHOULD work in their Progressive world).  I disagree that ANY of this would “fix” the system – it is clear that none of them know what the Constitution says nor the ramifications would be to their “solutions”:

How We Should Elect our President in 2016

Hard to believe, but this bonkers election cycle is nearly over. Here are some ways that entrepreneurs and educators would fix the system.

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