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jmowreader's JournalInteresting 100-year-old article about food rationing during WWI
One of my papers runs a column of news that was published in it fifty or 100 years ago this week. This was from the Pend d'Oreille Review of May 29, 1918:
In the recent survey of the flour situation in Bonner county (Idaho) it was found there are about 20 barrels in the hands of private individuals over the amount now allowed. In all cases where such excess was found it was due to the fact that the parties purchased a year's supply of flour last fall. Such action at the time was simply proof of good thrift. But the retention at this time means serious loss to those fighting our battles across the sea.
Therefore every one in Bonner county who has flour in excess of one sack is asked to turn in excess to his dealer. Dealers are ordered to settle for such flour on the basis of the present wholesale price. All persons knowing of any one refusing to return their flour is asked to send such information to the county food administrator, who will proceed against such individuals under the law.
(We also learn that a new food administrator had been appointed to replace one who resigned...possibly because he was being ordered to punish flour hoarders?)
I didn't know until now they had this kind of food rationing during World War I. During the Second World War I know you could only buy certain amounts of goods...but I can't imagine being in a situation where you had to sell your food back.
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If you fly the flag Monday, please do it correctly
Every Good Republican is going to fly a flag on Memorial Day in honor of Our Fallen Servicemembers. And 99 percent of them are going to do it wrong.
The Republican way is to raise the flag to half-staff at sunrise, leave it there until it gets too dark to see, then bring it down and wait till the next Holiday of Overt Patriotism comes along...Flag Day on June 14. Every year I like to drive around at 2 pm Memorial Day, and every year the flags in my heavily-Republican-infested city are at half-staff.
Don't be like Republicans. This is how to do it.
Just before 6 am, go outside with your flag. If you can bring another person or three to help hold it, so much the better. Attach the flag to the halyard.
At 6 am, "briskly" raise the flag to full staff. Count to three, then "reverently" lower it to half staff. In this case, "briskly" means "as quickly as you can without looking like you're in a flag-raising race" and "reverently" means "about half as fast as you raised it."
At exactly noon, briskly return the flag to full staff.
At 5 pm, reverently lower the flag to the bottom of the pole. Fold it and put it in a safe place.
On days when the flag is flown at half-staff all day, briskly raise it to full staff, then lower to half staff, in the morning; in the evening, briskly raise it to full staff then reverently lower it all the way.
A small bit of good news: fake "judge" Bruce Doucette gets 38 years
http://www.westword.com/news/sovereign-citizen-judge-bruce-doucette-receives-38-year-prison-sentence-for-paper-terrorism-activity-10342106https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/05/23/sovereign-citizen-bruce-doucette-sentenced-38-years-prison
Bruce Doucette is one of the pioneers of the "citizen grand jury" movement. For at least 10 years, he traveled the country representing himself as the "Superior Court Judge of the Continental uNited States of America" ("uNited" is how he spells it) teaching sovereign citizens to set up "common law courts."
This is what the bastard would do.
If a sovereign citizen got arrested - you could make a Geico commercial out of this shit..."if you're a sovereign citizen, you get arrested all the time, it's what you do" - Doucette and his merry men would try to bully the local justice system into dropping the charges. If that didn't work, his "Continental uNited States Marshals" would threaten to arrest the officials and bring them before an extralegal "common law court" that would sentence them to death. They would then file liens - Trump-style liens, the biggest liens, hundreds of millions of dollars worth of liens - against the officials' homes, cars and other property.
Doucette went to Oregon during the Bunkerville Standoff to try to raise a citizen grand jury to try all the officials in the area for crimes against...well, humanity I guess. It didn't work.
Last year, the feds had a revelation: Doucette was working primarily in Colorado. Colorado has good anti-sovereign citizen laws and a populace that can't stand the bastards. The feds asked the Colorado attorney general to take the case. In April 2017, this indictment was handed down: https://www.scribd.com/document/344449620/People-of-the-State-of-Colorado-vs-Bruce-Doucette-et-al
The charges:
1) Pattern of racketeering-participation in an enterprise
2) Conspiracy
3-6) Attempt to influence a public servant
7) Extortion
8) Conspiracy to commit extortion
9) Offering false instrument for recording
10) Retaliation against a judge
11) Retaliation against a prosecutor
12-14) Attempt to influence a public servant
15) Extortion
16) Conspiracy to commit extortion
17-18) Retaliation against a judge
19-22) Attempt to influence a public servant
23) Extortion
24) Conspiracy to commit extortion
25-30) Attempt to influence a public servant
31) Extortion
32) Conspiracy to commit extortion
33) Retaliation against a judge
34) Criminal impersonation-gain a benefit
35) Tax evasion-failure to pay
36) Failure to file a return or pay tax
37) Attempt to influence a public servant
38) Extortion
39) Conspiracy to commit extortion
40) Retaliation against a judge
The defendants:
Bruce Doucette
Stephen Nalty (currently serving 36 years after this conviction)
Janis Blease
Steven Byfield (currently serving 22 years after this conviction)
Laurence Goodman
David Coffelt
Harlan Smith
Brian Baylog
Doucette received these consecutive sentences:
20 years for participating in a racketeering enterprise
5 years for attempting to influence a public servant
And sentences of 4, 5 and 4 years for retaliating against three different judges
He also received a lot of concurrent sentences the SPLC didn't name.
The prosecutors wanted 45 years, but they're okay with 38 - he'll die in prison.
Jared Kushner's Harvard classmates are NOT happy with him
http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2018/05/22/shame-you-jared-kushner-harvard-alums-tear-apart-classmate-reunion-alumni-notes/1EpWIr91UOinM9kBB2AxGK/story.html?camp=breakingnews:newsletterCuban 737 crash: The voice recorder has been found
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/cuba-plane-crash-havana-cubana-737-dead-black-box-flight-recorder-a8359781.html"In flames, here it comes falling toward the ground and it seems (the pilot) saw it was an area that was too residential and makes a sharp turn," Ms Martinez said. "To avoid (the houses) ... to avoid a tragedy, because there would have been a massacre."
WebMD jumps the shark
This is their attempt to legitimize the practice of homeopathy.
https://www.webmd.com/balance/what-is-homeopathy#1
Before you look, the words "pseudoscience," "quackery" and "bullshit" are not in this piece.
Trump deserves a Nobel, but not the one for peace
Give him the Swedish National Bank's Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for providing undeniable, ironclad proof supply-side economics is only good for destroying national economies.
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