by Doug “Uncola” Lynn:

First of all, let me say this:  I’m not going anywhere. I plan to be here corresponding with the contacts through my blog while reading and commenting on websites like Zero Hedge and the Burning Platform.  And I MIGHT be posting articles as I can this summer, but definitely not as long or detailed as most of my previous writings. I am actually only three posts away from 200 original articles written since September of 2016 and I hope to complete that milestone as soon as possible.

But, to explain my situation, I’ll repeat what I’ve written before…

I’m somewhat comfortable from an asset standpoint, but having gone Galt in 2011 with no pension and being too young to draw social security, I am often cash poor personally – especially getting pups through college debt free, taking risks, occasional business setbacks, and unexpected brush fires.

Although I am fortunate to have lived a great life with few regrets… if I could have one do-over… I may not have went Galt quite so soon. I also missed out on a decade of stock market returns because I never dreamed the bubble could have been sustained for this long. Even so, from a Dow Jones perspective, I still believe 11 years early is better than one minute late.

But now I have a kid getting married this fall so I’ve agreed to help out a former vendor of mine by driving a 10-speed triaxle dump truck (6AM to 6PM) two to three days a week this summer for ten weeks.   I’ll be fairly compensated and it will be a fun way to help pay for some of the wedding expenses on behalf of the young couple.

Additionally, this favor will help me to barter towards a material possession I want from my friend who promised me a steal on the item because he is short on drivers and needs the help this summer.

It’s honest work, for the right reasons, and I’m glad to do it.

The downside, however, is that I’m busy enough during the summer months as it is, let alone working two to three (twelve-hour) days a week on a side gig. This means I will not be able to post the kinds of articles I might have, otherwise, posted over these next few months.

This is because America won’t be saved.  It’s a numbers game and the demographics aren’t there. Besides, there isn’t much left to save. And it doesn’t matter whether the nation died by accident or design. It’s a half-rotted whale on the beach and fighting to get it back into the water does nothing. You might as well plant a dead tree in good soil or a dying flower in contaminated dirt.

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It seems that women have stronger spines than the men in Congress.

David DeGerolamo

Former Judge Killed In “Targeted” Attack Against Judicial System, Officials Say

A retired judge was shot and killed at his home in Wisconsin on Friday in what has been described by officials as a “targeted” attack against the judicial system.

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The above story smells like another three letter agency setup. Or is this the beginning of Unintended Consequences or Molon Labe?

From the Feral Irishman:

Because evil never stops.

David DeGerolamo

This is a comment from IF SOMEONE IS TRYING TO DISARM YOU, THAT MEANS THEY CONSIDER YOU AN ENEMY:

All our rights listed in the Declaration of Independence are surely ABSOLUTE!! Don’t let the Left and the currently sitting in the White House snow you. I smell Obama here.

The Bill of Rights lists our rights under the Republic. The article refers to the 2nd Amendment:

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

We have no rights. The reason is simple: the Republic has fallen and the Constitutional compact is not valid. Be assured that these traitors will come for your firearms as they have no choice in order to secure their power and subjugate the people.

But all of the above is just talking points. The truth is that God has given us our natural laws:

But Aquinas is also a natural law legal theorist. On his view, a human law (that is, that which is promulgated by human beings) is valid only insofar as its content conforms to the content of the natural law; as Aquinas puts the point: “[E]very human law has just so much of the nature of law as is derived from the law of nature. But if in any point it deflects from the law of nature, it is no longer a law but a perversion of law” (ST I-II, Q.95, A.II). To paraphrase Augustine’s famous remark, an unjust law is really no law at all.

The idea that a norm that does not conform to the natural law cannot be legally valid is the defining thesis of conceptual naturalism. As William Blackstone describes the thesis, “This law of nature, being co-eval with mankind and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times: no human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this; and such of them as are valid derive all their force, and all their authority, mediately or immediately, from this original” (1979, 41). In this passage, Blackstone articulates the two claims that constitute the theoretical core of conceptual naturalism: 1) there can be no legally valid standards that conflict with the natural law; and 2) all valid laws derive what force and authority they have from the natural law.

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We can argue about the 2nd Amendment, the rights declared under the fallen Constitution or when the “government” will come for our firearms and then our very lives. The real debate is where our rights come from. God above has given us the right to defend ourselves and our families. Do you really care what a group of traitors in Washington, D.C. dictate?

David DeGerolamo

Update:

Fran’s assessment

A 20-year-old woman is said to be the first person to have a successful ear transplant using 3D printing, which uses the patient’s own cells to build the implant.

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According to the New York Times, Dr. Arturo Bonilla, a pediatric ear reconstructive surgeon in San Antonio, Texas, began the procedure by removing half a gram of cartilage from Alexa’s ear and taking a 3D scan of her healthy left ear. He subsequently forwarded this material to 3DBio Therapeutics, a regenerative medicine company based in Queens, New York.

The tissue sample was used by 3DBio to grow billions of cells, which were then mixed with collagen-based ink and injected into a specialized 3D bio-printer to produce a mirror replica of the patient’s healthy ear. According to reports, the entire procedure took less than ten minutes.

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My U.S. readers who watched Fox News ten years ago probably remember Clayton Morris, who co-hosted the early morning edition of Fox and Friends. Clayton now lives overseas and is doing his own production. I was honored to be invited to appear on his podcast. Here it is:

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from the comment section

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If someone takes your weapon, you can’t fight back.  

The illegitimate Resident, Joe Biden, took to his green-screened White House podium and called for drastic gun control to be passed by Congress. Earlier Biden claimed the second amendment was “not absolute.” Both the constitution and the second amendment ARE absolute, while the Biden regime is not.

The United States of America has had the Second Amendment for 243 years. We are not about to let some illegitimate demented puppet and his communist handlers remove it. Any attempt to destroy the Second Amendment is unconstitutional and would be challenged in court. They would not even get that far. If for some reason the court did not challenge it, millions of gun owners would.

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