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When They Know the Message is True but They Don't Like It, They Attack the Messenger... In a Way, it's a Validation that the Mesage is Accurate!

meme - When They Know the Message is True but they don't like it, They Attack the Messenger...

When debating an issue, people that have NO GOOD STATEMENTS resort to Name Calling... I Notice this tactic A LOT in the Republican Party... Epecially tRUMP!

Ad Hominem (Attacking the person): This fallacy occurs when, instead of addressing someone's argument or position, you irrelevantly attack the person or some aspect of the person who is making the argument. The fallacious attack can also be direct to membership in a group or institution.

Ad Hominem (Attacking the person): This fallacy occurs when, instead of addressing someone's argument or position, you irrelevantly attack the person




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DEFUND tRUMP'S SPACE FORCE. I Hope The Space Brothers Are Our FRIENDS Because If They Get Angry, We Are DOOMED! They Have Better Technology and Could Totally Out Gun US... Whatever We Do, Do Not Shoot Them!

Remember: An Alien Attack by UFO is Highly Unlikely.... 

A BETTER IDEA Would be to De-Classify the Secret UFO Anti-Gravity Propulsion Systems... We Could Reverse Engineer Them and Replace Fossil Fuel Completely... We Ought to Give EXXON-VALDEZ a Couple of Years to Invest in Other Businesses... Like Solar or Wind... because when The UFO Technology is Revealed, They will be totally OUT of the Oil Business... Maybe they could invest in the Insurance Business... Like Phillip Morris (Marlboro Cigarettes) is Doing... 



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It's Simply a Handout to Corporations that Build Stuff for The Space Farce... Obvious Corruption... 
Friendly Alien Waving at you from inside his Flying Saucer Drawing by gvan42


If they can make it here, our technology is inconsequential! The Space Force thing is just perplexing, well stupid! The Air Force was already doing the job. More governmental red tape from the party of "smaller government." Just fluff to create an illusion that some thing was actually accomplished.

I totally agree with you, but what I find that is insane is the total amount of tax dollars that will be wasted. Those billions of dollars could go for infrastructure, schools, homeless shelters, meals on wheels, and other worthwhile programs. Not wasting our money, on chasing little green men who only exists in the Repubtards brain.



IT's A Hoax! Do NOT Send any Money... They Are Just Harvesting Credit Card Numbers... They Ask for Your Name, Address, Phone Number, THE SECRET CODE ON THE BACK OF YOUR CREDIT CARD and The Expiration Date... FRAUD ALERT! - FRAUD ALERT! - FRAUD ALERT!

We REALLY Need to Guard the Atomic Waste at PG&E's Abandoned Nuclear Power Plant Near Eureka California... Anyone Can Walk Right Up To The Casks and Place a Standard Bomb Under Them... Building a "Dirty Bomb."

With Insane TrumpNiks® Running Around Planting Bombs and Failing to Overthrow the US Government... This Is A REAL Threat! A Terrorist Could Walk on the Public Trail and Then We Would Have to Instantly Evacuate Eureka... For a Thousand Years...  There ARE Two Chain Link Fences and a Guardhouse Protecting the Radioactive Waste from Unauthorized Visitors... So No One Can Enter Unless They Owned Wire Clippers and The Guard Was Sleeping... If There Even IS a Guard at All...

HEY! TrumpNiks® DON'T DO THIS! #MAGAKillersSUCK

It's REALLY Likely That You Will Be Arrested IF You Attempt to Visit... For ANY Reason! Even as an Internet Challenge Like #CyberPunks Do at Chernobyl.

Link to All My "No Nukes!" Gifts at Zazzle... Click Here!

The Real Solution To Problem of Atomic Energy is to Shut Down All Power Plants and Never Build any More!

F*CK YOU SHIMA!

Atomic Waste Casks at PGE Abandoned Nuclear Power Plant Near Eureka California
Atomic Waste Casks at PGE Abandoned
Nuclear Power Plant Near Eureka California

Excellent Beach at King Salmon CA
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Here is Where You Park... 
So You Can Walk thru The OPEN GATE
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Google Earth View Atomic Waste at PG&E Humboldt Bay Nuclear Power Plant
Google Earth - Atomic Waste in Six Casks
at PG&E Humboldt Bay Nuclear Power Plant.
Two Fences Prevent People From Entering Restricted Zone.


Theodore Kaczynski, Timothy McVey, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev all Built Bombs. They Did Not Have any Special Skills Like Veterans of the US Military Do. Two Bombs were Placed in Washington DC on 1/6/2021. Suspect Still Unknown.

PG&E OUGHT TO BUILD A WALL AROUND THIS NUCLEAR WASTE DUMP BEFORE THERE IS A TERRORIST ATTACK.

Read the Official Nuclear Regulatory Commission Backgrounder on "Dirty Bomb" - A Device That Uses Legal Conventional Explosives and Radioactive Material...  https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/fs-dirty-bombs.html

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How To Shut 'em All Down

and Never Build Any More.

NO NUKES!

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Bribed Politicians are the Only Ones in Favor of Nuclear Energy That Actually Cause Atomic Power Plants to Be Constructed. Corporations That Stand to Profit MAGICALLY Convince the Crooked Elected Officials To Support Their Plans. However... Those Politicians Have to Get REELECTED to Keep on Feeding at the Public Trough... Therefore, They Hesitate to Vote In Favor of Projects That The Vast Majority of Voters Hate... How Would they Know the Opinions of the Public? I Like Writing Emails Using The Forms on The Senators and Representatives Websites... Other People March in the Streets Shouting Slogans and Holding Signs... Others Sign Petitions... Some Write Newspaper Articles and Magazine Articles... Some BLOG... Whatever You DO... DO IT! 

We Have to Fight Against Corporations That Employ So-Called Experts Promoting NUKES! 

Even Bill Gates is Promoting Nukes... He Says "Nukes are Not as Bad as Oil, Coal or Natural Gas." True. But He Fails to Mention Solar, Wind, Hydro, Geothermal or Burning Wood in a Stove...

The Country of Iran is Totally In Favor of Nuclear Energy... COULD THAT BE BECAUSE IT GIVES THEIR ATOM BOMB FACTORIES PLAUSABLE DENIABILITY?

"No, No... We aren't Making BOMBS... We Who Sit on a Vast Underground Ocean of Oil are Not Going to Use THAT to Generate Electricity... We are Building a Super Complex Power Plant That Uses Uranium Imported From Foreigners... "

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PG&E, SoCal Edison and SMUD Have Totally Given UP on Nuclear Power. The Actual Executives That Make Purchasing Decisions have all #RUNAWAY... Ever Heard Of San Onofre and Diablo Canyon? The Cleanup Bill for Decommissioning is $9.2 Billion Dollars for Those Two Nuclear Power Plants and The Customers have to Pay for those Mistakes... So You Can Take Your College Degree in Nuclear Engineering and Write "Think Tank Articles" Because You Certainly Can't Get a Job Designing New Power Plants.

One Thing Is True. Everybody Hates Nukes. Oil Companies Hate Nukes, Executives at Electric Power Plants Hate Nukes. Ecology Activists Hate Nukes. The General Public Believes That HOMER SIMPSON Is an Accurate Portrayal of An Atomic Power Plant Employee... NO NUKES!

Corruption and Bribery Sends Crooked PRO-NUKE Politician To Prison... Republican Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder was among those arrested Tuesday in connection with an alleged public corruption conspiracy case involving a public utility. A FAILED ATOMIC POWER PLANT... A $1.5 Billion Dollar Bailout for a $61 Million Dollar Kickback!

 https://www.npr.org/2020/07/21/893880189/ohio-house-speaker-arrested-in-a-bribery-probe

The Only Nuclear Power Plant Currently Under Construction in the USA is VOGTLE in Georgia. Famous for Billion Dollar Cost Overruns and Failing to Do The Construction Work on Time. A MEGA Disaster!

BUSINESS: Southern Co. Earnings Hurt by Cost Overruns at Nuclear-Power Plant. Costs to build the Vogtle plant increase again by more than $1 billion.

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https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2021/03/14/no-nukes-we-really-need-to-guard-the-atomic-waste-at-pges-abandoned-nuclear-power-plant-near-eureka-california/

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How to fix the Waiting for Edge Chat error in the Farmville Game. DELETE COOKIES, RESTART GAME. and tips for playing Farmville.

In Google Chrome: Delete History/Clear Browsing Data prevents the error message from appearing... I keep the Passwords only...

Be aware that you will have to sign in again to all the websites you like... but the passwords will be stored, so that's easy to do... be aware that this is a temporary fix... I have to do it every time I want to play Farmville... and I have read that this infection happens on all games.

I Check EVERYTHING except passwords... 

A simple way to avoid annoying error messages on the computer is to put a piece of paper over the location of the message... often while I play Farmville, it says "waiting for edge chat facebook com" ... because the game is failing to connect with something I don't care about... the message is always in the lower left hand corner of the screen... so, a piece of paper folded in half removes that message from my sight...

Optional: Run Disk Cleanup... Good to do Occasionally... 
When I run Disk Cleanup... I select My Files Only, 
Drive C: OK... OK... Are You Sure? Delete Files.
deleting unnecessary files from my computer. 



Sometimes the error message will re-appear days later... so once again I delete history in Google Chrome... everything except passwords and the message stops appearing...


 https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/32050?hl=en


Clear cache and cookies

Cookies, which are files created by websites you’ve visited, and your browser’s cache, which helps pages load faster, make it easier for you to browse the web.

Clearing your browser’s cache and cookies means that website settings (like usernames and passwords) will be deleted and some sites might appear to be a little slower because all of the images have to be loaded again.

How to clear cache and cookies in Google Chrome.
Open Chrome.
On your browser toolbar, click the Chrome menu Chrome menu.
Click More tools > Clear browsing data.
In the box that appears, click the checkboxes for "Cookies and other site and plug-in data" and "Cached images and files."
Use the menu at the top to select the amount of data that you want to delete. Choose beginning of time to delete everything.
Click Clear browsing data.

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Hey Kids: BLOCK FOX NEWS ON THE REMOTE So Your Grandparents Can't Watch Hate Speech... It Causes High Blood Pressure. Endangering Old People... Possible STROKE Due to Anger That You Can't DO Anything About.

Health Hint! Avoid unnecessary stress. Instead of watching hour after hour of angry, politically biased opinion shows, pushing agendas that may harm you on many levels, simply switch to normal, nonpolitical news. It’s your health, your life. The election’s over; now is the perfect time to quit.

Just say no to anger.

Example of the Hate Speech They Pour into Your Brain... 
Fox News apologizes after guest calls teen climate activist Greta Thunberg "mentally ill"
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fox-news-greta-thunberg-michael-j-knowles-asperger-syndrome-climate-change-mentally-ill/


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Their Marketing Plan is to Appeal to the Lizard-Brain in Us. When we were Living in Caves... People Shouted "Danger-Danger" Saber Tooth Tiger Approaching... and those of us who BECAME ALERT survived... and those people are our Ancestors... Fox News Uses that as a Marketing Plan... Hate Speech for Profit! They are USING Your Fight or Flight Response to Sell Advertising Time...
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MEME - Trump Has Captured the NAZI Vote. gvan42


Mike Kirchubel, Newspaper Columnest Says: 

I have frequently observed that many Fox shows have angry hosts and guests. Curiously, most seem to be mad about something President Barack Obama or the Democrats did, or might do, or didn’t do, or won’t do and the inevitable catastrophic consequences to America. A lot of Fox watchers get mad, too; right-wingers get mad right along with the hosts and guests, and left-wingers get mad AT the hosts and guests.

That anger appears to be part of the Fox News attraction.

Fox’s sensationalistic, tabloid style seems to “hook” its audience; like nicotine in cigarettes. Many viewers think they are being told horrible truths that other news outlets wouldn’t dare tell, and they may be right, except for that “truth” part. As we’ve seen over the past two weeks, many of their angry, hard-hitting stories and theories magically poof into clouds of sparkly pixie dust when exposed to light. How did you feel when you discovered you wasted all that anger, last year? Angry?

Why care if Fox watchers get angry?

Well, anger can be harmful. I’m not talking about your occasional Fox fanatic burning down a mosque, killing innocents or being shot by police; no, I’m talking about you, typical Fairfield Fox fan. These frequent and prolonged doses of anger show after show, day after day, year after year, can be harmful to your health.

When you experience anger, your body is flooded with the stress hormones, adrenaline and cortisol. These chemicals trigger your “fight or flight” response, increasing your heart rate and blood pressure and quickly shunting more blood to your muscles for immediate action. When you just sit on your couch in front of your TV, instead of fighting or flighting, these continual doses of stress chemicals floating around in your bloodstream can lead to serious health problems. Besides high blood pressure, they can cause strokes, heart disease, headaches, depression, anxiety, digestive problems, obesity, insomnia, a suppressed immune system and eventually, death.
https://www.dailyrepublic.com/all-dr-news/opinion/local-opinion-columnists/is-fox-news-hazardous-to-your-health/

HEALTH ALERT! Prevagen: False Advertising... Insufficient Evidence for Claim to Improve Memory... Possible Side Effects NOT MENTIONED IN ADVERTISEMENTS. HOAX!

According to The Company Website itself: Note The Asterisk!

Prevagen Improves Memory*

Prevagen is a dietary supplement that has been clinically shown to help with mild memory loss associated with aging.* Prevagen is formulated with apoaequorin, which is safe and uniquely supports brain function.* * These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.


MEME - prevagen is bogus - false advertising - gvan42


HEADLINE: Jellyfish Memory Supplement Prevagen Is a Hoax, FTC Says... 
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/jellyfish-memory-supplement-prevagen-hoax-ftc-says-n704886

The Federal Trade Commission and New York’s attorney general charged a company with fraud on Monday for selling a memory supplement based on a glowing jellyfish protein. Makers of a product called Prevagen are falsely advertising it as a memory booster, and falsely claiming the product can get into the human brain, the charges claim.

Memory. Early research shows that taking 10 mg of apoaequorin (Prevagen, Quincy Bioscience) daily for 90 days might improve forgetfulness, word recall, and the need for reminders in some people. But, this research is of lower quality. DONE BY QUINCY BIOSCIENCE THEMSELVES! 

https://www.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-1486/apoaequorin

No clinical research has adequately evaluated side effects caused by apoaequorin. Some people who have taken apoaequorin have reported potential side effects to a manufacturer of the product. Some of the most commonly reported side effects were headachedizziness, and nausea.

The manufacturer, Quincy Bioscience, used in-house clinical trials to make its claims of memory enhancement, which were not verified by independent researchers, according to Janet, Jenner & Suggs LLC, a nationwide law firm not involved in the suit.

The FDA investigated the company in 2012 and found the supplement has serious side effects, including seizures and strokes, as well as worsening symptoms of multiple sclerosis.
https://www.newsmax.com/fastfeatures/prevagen-memory-supplement-risks/2016/07/06/id/737395/





QAnon Sucks!

Does Prevagen Really Improve Memory?
Answer:
According to the company's website, people who use people Prevagen (Quincy Bioscience) can "experience improved memory, a sharper mind, and clearer thinking. However, a review of the evidence indicates that these effects are not well substantiated. In addition, the FDA has warned Quincy Bioscience in the past against claiming Prevagen could treat conditions such as head injuries and Alzheimer's disease and for failing to report adverse reactions. The FDA has also claimed that the key ingredient, apoaequorin, a synthetic protein, is not an acceptable ingredient in a dietary supplement. The FTC is also pursuing a lawsuit against the company regarding its promotion of Prevagen.





Jellyfish Memory Supplement Prevagen Called 'Clear-Cut Fraud'

Stop buying useless brain supplements, the Skeptical 

Cardiologist says...


https://www.medpagetoday.com/blogs/skeptical-cardiologist/80321

Obviously BOGUS! Why are they Allowed to Advertise on TV?

It's extremely Important that Trump Decline Joe Biden's Push UP Challenge... Trump would have a Heart Attack and we would be left with Evil Mike Pence...

Is Trump in Good Health? He seemed So Very Confused Today... Has a Lifetime of Junk Food taken it's Toll? It's sad that we do not have a medical report from a real doctor... The only report we have seen is the one Trump wrote himself... "I'm Wonderful" - "Super Smart and Beautiful, too" - and he was CAUGHT LYING! He's NOT 6 Foot 3 Inches as The BOGUS REPORT Claims... He's been seen standing next to Other People of that height and He's Shorter! What a Pathetic Fool... To think No one would NOTICE HIS LIES!
  https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/doctor-says-trump-is-in-very-good-health

Pentagon refuses to brief Trump about the Cyber attack on Russian Power Grid because he might LEAK Secrets to the Russians. "Don't Tell Trump!" LOOSE LIPS SINK SHIPS!

The President learned about the attack on TV NEWS... 

HEADLINE: Pentagon Keeps Trump in the Dark About its Cyber Attacks on Russia. “Intelligence officials described broad hesitation to go into detail with [the president] about operations,” the report said.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/pentagon-trump-cyber-attacks-on-russia-848695/ 

I OPPOSE THE USA CYBERWAR AGAINST RUSSIA. Won't that just make them try to Attack OUR Power Grid?


Evidently the USA launched Cyber Attacks on Russia's Electric Power Distribution System. and at the same time, tens of millions of people lost power in SOUTH AMERICA. Are these two events related? Did our attack cause distruption in an unplanned location?

Face Facts: If we had Tens of Millions of people lose power in the USA for a week, that would lead to FOOD RIOTS and basically the end of Western Civilization. Without electricity and the internet you can't buy food, gasoline or get cash out of the automatic tellers at the bank. Mass starvation...

Why are we attacking Russia anyway? What mindless vegetable at the Pentagon ordered This War? They had to keep the details Secret from Trump because, as Commander in Chief, he might have COUNTERMANDED THE ATTACK or Leaked the Plan to the Russians... Like, Call Putin on the Phone and Commit Treason Himself... OH, that's right, it's IMPOSSIBLE for him to Commit Treason because he can retroactively declassify anything...

I OPPOSE THE USA CYBERWAR AGAINST RUSSIA. Won't that just make them try to Attack OUR Power Grid?

Evidently the USA launched Cyber Attacks on Russia's Electric Power Distribution System. and at the same time, tens of millions of people lost power in SOUTH AMERICA. Are these two events related? Did our attack cause distruption in an unplanned location? 

Face Facts: If we had Tens of Millions of people lose power in the USA for a week, that would lead to FOOD RIOTS and basically the end of Western Civilization. Without electricity and the internet you can't buy food, gasoline or get cash out of the automatic tellers at the bank. Mass starvation... 

Why are we attacking Russia anyway? What mindless vegetable at the Pentagon ordered This War? They had to keep the details Secret from Trump because, as Commander in Chief, he might have COUNTERMANDED THE ATTACK or Leaked the Plan to the Russians... Like, Call Putin on the Phone and Commit Treason Himself... OH, that's right, it's IMPOSSIBLE for him to Commit Treason because he can retroactively declassify anything... 


NSA CyberWeapon "EternalBlueScreen" escaped the Agency and has wreaked Havoc as Malware... Your Tax Dollars at Work. Also Know as "EternalBlue" Ransomware.

The NSA designed this CyberWeapon to exploit a Flaw in Microsoft Software... Instead of REPORTING this flaw to Microsoft so they could fix it, the NSA built Malware... An absurd waste of Taxpayer Dollars and COMMON SENSE. There is a formal tip line that allows anyone to report bugs... by the NSA FAILED TO REPORT THIS... and It has caused a Billion Dollars of Damage Worldwide... 


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Headline: In Baltimore and Beyond, a Stolen N.S.A. Tool Wreaks Havoc... For nearly three weeks, Baltimore has struggled with a cyberattack by digital extortionists that has frozen thousands of computers, shut down email and disrupted real estate sales, water bills, health alerts and many other services.

But here is what frustrated city employees and residents do not know: A key component of the malware that cybercriminals used in the attack was developed at taxpayer expense a short drive down the Baltimore-Washington Parkway at the National Security Agency, according to security experts briefed on the case.

Since 2017, when the N.S.A. lost control of the tool, EternalBlue, it has been picked up by state hackers in North Korea, Russia and, more recently, China, to cut a path of destruction around the world, leaving billions of dollars in damage. But over the past year, the cyberweapon has boomeranged back and is now showing up in the N.S.A.’s own backyard. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/25/us/nsa-hacking-tool-baltimore.html

N.S.A. Denies Its Cyberweapon Was Used in Baltimore Attack, Congressman Says... BALTIMORE — A Maryland congressman said on Friday that the National Security Agency had denied that one of its hacking tools, stolen in 2017, was used in a ransomware attack on Baltimore’s government that had disrupted city services for more than three weeks.

The statement, made by Representative C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, came in response to an article in The New York Times last weekend. The Times was told by people directly involved in the investigation in Baltimore that the N.S.A. tool, EternalBlue, was found in the city’s network by all four contractors hired to study the attack and restore computer services.

Investigators are still trying to determine the exact chronology of the attack. The leading theory is that hackers broke in through an open server in Baltimore’s network, installed a back door and then used EternalBlue to move across the city’s computers searching for valuable servers to infect, said the people involved in the investigation.

This week, the contractors discovered an additional software tool, called a web shell, on Baltimore’s networks. They believe the web shell may have been used in conjunction with EternalBlue and another hacking technique known as “pass-the-hash,” which uses stolen credentials, to spread the ransomware.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/31/us/nsa-baltimore-ransomware.html

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