Anybody follow Kim Komando? I've been on her newsletter email list for many years (never get any spam, only what I signed up to receive).
She just did an article on the best browsers for privacy:
https://www.komando.com/kims-column/best-browsers-for-privacy-ranked/779328/
The site is one of my favorites for tech, Internet, phone, safety, buying guide and a lot more.
She's also on the radio every week, but I've never heard it.
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
In Congress, July 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
Georgia
Button Gwinnett
Lyman Hall
George Walton
North Carolina
William Hooper
Joseph Hewes
John Penn
South Carolina
Edward Rutledge
Thomas Heyward, Jr.
Thomas Lynch, Jr.
Arthur Middleton
Massachusetts
John Hancock
Maryland
Samuel Chase
William Paca
Thomas Stone
Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Virginia
George Wythe
Richard Henry Lee
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Harrison
Thomas Nelson, Jr.
Francis Lightfoot Lee
Carter Braxton
Pennsylvania
Robert Morris
Benjamin Rush
Benjamin Franklin
John Morton
George Clymer
James Smith
George Taylor
James Wilson
George Ross
Delaware
Caesar Rodney
George Read
Thomas McKean
New York
William Floyd
Philip Livingston
Francis Lewis
Lewis Morris
New Jersey
Richard Stockton
John Witherspoon
Francis Hopkinson
John Hart
Abraham Clark
New Hampshire
Josiah Bartlett
William Whipple
Massachusetts
Samuel Adams
John Adams
Robert Treat Paine
Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island
Stephen Hopkins
William Ellery
Connecticut
Roger Sherman
Samuel Huntington
William Williams
Oliver Wolcott
New Hampshire
Matthew Thornton
Aw, I'm sorry for your loss. These guys become like family and it really hurts when we lose them.
I had to put my 13 year old cat to sleep some months ago. I can only tell you that at some point the pain starts to ease and you only remember the happy, fun stuff.
At some point in the future (but not now), another pet will come into your life and it will be right, and you'll know it immediately. But ... not now. It wouldn't be fair to the new pet because of comparisons, smells of the other pet still in the house which leads to their confusion, etc. Let some time pass.
Good idea.
And does anybody remember Dan's Bake Sale in Ft. Collins? It was pure Rush. People traveled from all over the country for that.
https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19930523&slug=1702778
I keep a supply of Frost King window plastic. Comes in various sizes, has a roll of tape in each box. It's a pain for one person to install, but it can be done. After it's up, stuck well to the tape, you wave a hair dryer over it to shrink the plastic. (Don't get too close with the hairdryer.) Ends up clear and you can see through it like a regular window. I install mine on the side of the window casing so there's a good 4-5 inches of dead space between the window glass and the plastic.
https://www.frostking.com/products/window-kits/indoor-shrink-window-kits
Usually can be found at Home Depot and Lowes, but get it in advance each winter season. (In my area they go fast, once they're put out.)
Also, I think I saw a couple of other brands, but I'd never buy anything but the Frost King. Walmart used to carry another brand, but I never tried them.
It's not too late this winter to put it up, if you can find it. You'll be shocked at the change in room temperatures and at the wind the plastic blocks that's coming through your windows.
Do you mean the one with the law professor?
Well, it is a big parking lot ... Southdale Shopping Center. Dunno how real this is but they are on AllEvents.
Drug store. Book store. Post Office. Walmart. Target. Etc etc etc.
Plus, Target sells a 40-pack of 4x6 flag postcards. I'm going to buy one because I've decided to send Trump a postcard every couple weeks for the foreseeable future.
Also, at photo shops you can have one of your favorite photos made into a postcard. Consider the meme potential of that one.
Feel free to look up Mar-a-Lago's address, although I copied and pasted it above. The idea is to send piles and piles of mail, which is why postcards were suggested. Staff won't have to open them, and there will be tons of them.
They've hated Trump since Day One because he's an outsider, not a lifelong politician. They've hated that he can't be bought. They've hated that he can't be swayed or pressured because he knows his own mind. They've hated him because he's a patriotic American who loves this country, unlike career politicians who are only in it for the power and cash they can generate. They've hated him because of the strong movement (that would be US) he created just by being himself. They'll always hate him for those reasons ... the same reasons we'll always love him.
Remember, it was always US they were after. I love that b/w pic of Trump with the caption: In reality they're not after me, they're after you. I'm just in the way.
I don't even want to think about his disappointment in us if we cave and let the evil-doers take over this country, not after all he's done and given up for us.
Republicans who voted guilty were Sens. Richard Burr of North Carolina, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Mitt Romney of Utah, Ben Sasse of Nebraska and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania.
Found this:
It has internal links, including the TED talk where Gates said this.
Here's a .pdf of the whole newspaper:
https://www.docdroid.net/aoZfG1E/the-sovereign-independent-june-2011-4th-edition-pdf
Yeah, this.