Remember when the Biden administration said there would be no federal database to track your vaccination status?
He lied. Again.
Here comes a tracking system, sponsored by OSHA. National ID card system. I am sure that illegal immigrants will be exempt.
Back in October, I found a charge on my credit card for $340. The merchant was listed as GOOGLE*ADS4756092809. I didn’t recognize the charge, so I called the CC company and reported fraud. They cancelled my card, and I had to wait two weeks for another one.
I got a letter today that the investigation is complete, and the merchant (Google) has confirmed that it is a valid charge. That letter had a phone number on it, so I called.
The reason that the charges were considered valid, according to the woman on the phone, is that I provided no supporting documentation, and the merchant did provide some.
My first question was how I am supposed to provide documentation of a charge that I had no knowledge of. She didn’t know.
So I tried a different approach. I asked what documentation the merchant provided. She didn’t know that either. She said that I would have to contact the merchant directly.
So I asked for the merchant’s phone number. She didn’t know that either. She then unhelpfully suggested that I contact the Google Advertising Department and gave me that number.
I asker her what my options are. All I can do is refuse to pay it, and if I do so, the credit card company will cancel my credit card, then report the delinquent amount to my credit record, with interest each month. They will put a note on there that I dispute it, but that means nothing. My credit will still be trashed.
So next, I called Google Ads. The person who answered the call told me that they can’t release any information on the account, because I am not the account holder. I tried using the automated system, and all I know is that the account was suspended for violating Google’s terms of service.
It looks like I am going to have to pay this. I could call a lawyer and sue, but that would cost me more than just paying it, with no guarantee that I would win anything. I have no other recourse. I don’t even know what this charge is for, who it was paid to, or how they got my CC number, but I am just screwed out of $340.
How did I miss this? A Minnesota school board is making it easier to cancel those who they disagree with. Their rules say that, in order to speak to the board at a meeting, a speaker must:
Effective tonight, open forum participants are prohibited from calling out or addressing any individual school board or school district staff member. If this occurs, open forum will be closed,. Beginning at the Nov. 1 school board meeting, open forum will be limited to those individuals who wish to speak to an item on the board agenda.
Crowd noise, or any sort of grandstanding during open forum, including applause, talking, hollering or any outburst will result in open forum being closed. Further, beginning at the Nov. 1 school board meeting, open forum participation will be limited to those individuals who wish to speak to an item on the board agenda.
So much for petitioning your government for a redress of grievances, eh? I wholeheartedly agree with the author of the linked page when he said:
This is exactly the kind of subtle tyranny that’s being implemented across the country, from private employers to the federal government to classrooms and everywhere in between.
Sure, no one is forcing you to take the vaccine, but you’ll lose your job if you don’t. Sure, no one is forcing your child to adopt the ideology of critical race theory, but they’ll be alienated by their peers and told in class they’re a racist if they don’t repent of their whiteness.
Sure, no one is banning you from speaking out against local school board policies, but just go ahead and tell everyone where your kids sleep if you’d like the opportunity to do so.
What’s next? I shudder to imagine.
Please take a few minutes and read the entire article.
On this day, the eve of January 6, remember that even those members of the media who claim to be on the right are not always who you think they are.
Don’t ever forget that hosts like Hannity, Levin, Shapiro, and Bongino were all threatened with their jobs if they ever mentioned that the election was disputed. They caved.
It is now Sixthmas eve- the day before the holiest of Democrat holidays. This is the biggest holiday of the year for the left. I was going to write a poem based upon “A Visit from St. Nick, but then I remember that Ashli Babbit was murdered in cold blood and decided against it. Even so, my sense of humor is still messed up, so I leave you with this from the Babylon Bee:
The Manhattan DA has said he will not seek prison sentences for any crimes other than homicide or other cases involving the death of a victim, a class B violent felony in which a deadly weapon causes serious physical injury, domestic violence felonies, sex offenses in Article 130 of the Penal Law, public corruption, rackets, or major economic crimes, including any attempt to commit any such offense under Article 110 of the Penal Law, unless required by law.
Does that mean you won’t do time for owning an AR15 and a dozen 30 round magazines?
The press ask: Why are so many vaccinated people getting COVID?
My guess? The vaccine doesn’t work.
One of the things that I have always been big about is personal freedom. I may or may not want to go on a cruise, but it is my right to decide. I may or may not want to get a vaccine, but it is my right. As long as my behavior isn’t directly causing harm to someone else, I expect others to mind their own business.
I also expect and respect the same of others. If you want to have a sandwich delivered by Doordash, that’s your business. If you want to take a cruise, or if you want to hide in your house from the black helicopters, again that’s your business. If one man wishes to marry another man, I will argue that the government has no business in stopping them. Likewise, if another man refuses to perform the ceremony or to bake the wedding cake, I believe that is also outside of the government’s legitimate authority to force them to do so.
When I see people on the left AND on the right who say, “I don’t care if the government passed this dictate or that restriction because I don’t want to do that, anyhow,” I believe that it diminishes all of us.
I may not agree with your speech, your religion, or your chosen pursuit of happiness, but I will fight for your right to do so, just as I expect you to do for mine. Either we all hang together, or we will surely all hang separately.
This attorney, former history teacher, former Marine, and current liberal claims that the defeat of last January 6’s “attempted coup” was due to the overwhelming force that the Federal government can bring to bear. He goes on to say that local school boards are at risk because they are “soft targets.”
No, the reason that it failed as a coup is that it WASN’T a coup. No one except the police were armed. There is even video on this very website of the police letting them into the building. Contrast that with the violent riots of the summer of 2020, where dozens were killed, and which party represents the greatest threat?
This guy is an asshole. He doesn’t even realize that the home addresses of every Florida voter are posted online. Florida has a very robust public records law, and we like it that way.
In fact, thanks to that law, we can see that this article and this man are both liars. See, the claim is that Mr. Filipkowski was a Republican until January 7th, when he was so disgusted by the actions in the Capitol the previous day, he went down and changed his party affiliation to Democrat. Well, looking up his voter registration tells a different tale:
He has been a Democrat since before the 2016 election, perhaps longer. I am sure that he was once a Republican, because his 28 year old son is named Ronald Reagan Filipkowski, but the switch to the left occurred before the Trump campaign was a thing, and long before last January.