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We have a laundry room closet that holds recycling bins. Pre-2010 I used to also have a box where I collected newspapers to bundle. Then I didn't have to bundle anymore. So I emptied the box except for a few in case I needed newspaper for some purpose. The box got shoved all the way to the back and forgotten. Until yesterday. One of our cats spent the night in the closet, and I checked to see if that box served his purpose at all. It didn't. But I did unearth this gem from September 6, 2005: :

April 3 to 11. Ten days from start to finish. Sgt. Hollar at the Augusta barracks definitely holds up (as in moves along) his end of the permit stick. Fastest time I ever recorded since I left Randolph in 1994.

I got my handgun permits in 10 days out of the Augusta barracks. The ability to issue quickly is clearly there. However the actual run time can be slowed by any particular NJSP barracks or local PD delaying the approval checkpoints. Hence the disparate results statewide.

This is not specifically the stock market, but given all the money and debt pumped out by the Fed you can guess what's inflating the stock market bubble. Counterfeiters, Con Men, Mass Illusions & Funding The National Debt There is a mass illusion at work, with the general public being encouraged to believe that there is a limitless supply of free money. Indeed, the markets and financial stability of the nation have come to depend on something that most people do not understand, which is the seeming existence of a bottomless wallet at the Federal Reserve, that can fund unlimited amounts of new federal debt. For those who do think about where that money is coming from, the usual belief is that the money comes from running a printing press, like a counterfeiter would do. As explored in this brief outtake from my upcoming workshop, these people are watching the wrong crime drama. Oh, it is a crime drama, but it is about con men, shell games and Ponzi schemes - not counterfeiters. The purpose of this analysis is to help the reader to see through the illusion, and to identify what is really happening. snip... When the Treasury deposited the proceeds from the early run up in the national debt at the Fed - it became the largest single lender to the Federal Reserve. The Treasury deposits soared up to an unprecedented almost $1.8 trillion by the summer of 2020, and were still over $1.6 trillion by the end of the year. What this mean is that much of the growth in the national debt was being temporarily funded by the U.S. Treasury itself, in a self-funding loop of sorts. The broker dealers bought the $1.6 trillion in debt as issued by the U.S. Treasury. The Treasury deposited the $1.6 trillion in its general account at the Federal Reserve. The Fed took the $1.6 trillion - which was a debt that it now owed the Treasury - and used those borrowed funds to buy the new debt from broker dealers. So, the Fed was the using the money borrowed by the Treasury to finance a big chunk of the growth in the national debt. Temporarily. snip... The problem and the danger is that the Treasury borrowed the money in order to spend it. The Fed doesn't have the money anymore - it already spent it all on the funding the national debt. So, when the Treasury wants its money - the Fed either has to borrow the money from someone else, or we have a BIG PROBLEM.

Well here's some icing for the cake. Just out today. Tasty!

Did any of you catch the wave on the NJ deli with the $100 Million market cap?

The underlying 'problem' is that We the People Servants of NJ are still buying firearms like mad. And it got worse after the recent shooting and police incidents. Last week the wait queue jumped back up to over 5,000.

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I took a look at several months of NJGunStat data, and Falcon was listed as the top 'manufacturer' of guns used in crimes. More than S&W, Glock, Sig etc. How the hell could that happen? Did Falcon Arms run all kinds of cheap guns into Newark or something.? Even if they did that doesn't make them a manufacturer. I did see links between Spesco and Taurus, probably as an importer.

"Falcon" is the top manufacturer of weapons? Who the hell is Falcon? And 'Spesco"? Have I missed something the last 12 years?

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Does anyone see a Red Line yet?

Anyone here have back problems? Try this inversion exercise. Inversion Exercise.mp4

I just got the email with my digital permits in 10 days flat out of the NJSP Augusta barracks. Sgt. Hollar is on the ball! I haven't gotten permits in 10 days since we lived in Randolph. (Pre-1994) Note: Later today I found out there's over 5,000 NICS checks in the queue. The expected wait time is at least a week.

A link to a digital version (PDF file) of my paper FID was included in the email with my handgun permits. So I downloaded it and can print as many copies as I want. I was surprised since I hadn't specifically applied for a digital version. So yes, fingerprints on the card are now passé.

When you read this, insert the appropriate accents where necessary. One of the best 'Jewish' jokes I ever heard, told by a Jewish friend. A young Jewish virgin get's married, and before she leaves for the honeymoon her mother takes her aside and asks her to 'please let me know how it goes'. Wink, wink. A couple days later postcards start arriving from the various honeymoon destinations. But there's only two words on them: "Such happiness!" Day after day, that's all the mother hears for two weeks. Finally the daughter comes home beaming all smiles and the mother finally gets to ask "I wanted to know how you were doing, but why did you keep writing just 'Such happiness'?" Looking very surprised, the daughter replies "Such happiness??? That was such a penis!"

American Federation of Teachers. See what he did there?

History does not repeat itself exactly, but it does rhyme. Watch "The World At War - A New Germany" and see if you recognize anything that rhymes with today. "The German-Jewish poet Heine, whose books now went into the flames, had once written: "Where one burns books...there, one eventually burns people.""

Perhaps there's a huge number of straw purchases on behalf of Chicago natives?

"He was a sweet and loving boy." Uh huh. Especially at 3 A.M.