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Disclose Expected Government Killing

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They should require all government programs to come with a disclaimer on how many human lives they are expected to take and by what methods.

For example, setting speed limits or regulations on consumer products. How many lives will be taken, how many will be saved? Or the impact of increased or decreased law enforcement. How many lives are increases to law enforcement expected to save, how many will take, justifiable or otherwise? How many lives will be taken by the repeal of the American Healthcare Act? How many lives will end because of the tax policy?

Every decision by government leads to the taking of a certain number of human lives, but it should be a good public policy to control the amount of life taken by government to force government to justify it’s killing.

Ducking New York

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Like usual, the ducking DECALS system is giving me a ducking hard time renewing my fishing license. 🎣 You would think New York State would make it ducking easier to give them your money.

Geese

Bad Cops Are Expensive : Planet Money : NPR

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Episode 901: Bad Cops Are Expensive : Planet Money : NPR

"What happens when a police department can no longer afford its bad behavior? In 2013, Tony Miranda was brought in to lead a police department in crisis. Bad behavior by a handful of officers had led to investigations and lawsuits with costs in the millions of dollars. That was more than the city could cover."

"He knew change would be difficult. But he also knew he had a powerful ally on his side: insurance coverage. On today's show, the overlooked force motivating police departments to reform bad behavior — not protests and picket signs, but spreadsheets and actuaries. This is the story of how Irwindale, California turned its police department around."

Trump says he’s pursuing executive order to end birthright citizenship | PBS NewsHour

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Trump says he’s pursuing executive order to end birthright citizenship | PBS NewsHour

I have a lot of questions how this would work. You can't deny somebody citizenship when they are a natural born citizen but I guess in theory you could deny a birth certificate to children of immigrants? But how would you do that?

Hospitals aren't owned by the federal government, and it's local governments that keep birth certificates. And even if you lack a birth certificate, you are still a natural born citizen - you could always prove your birth in the country by other means.

Plus I suspect denying birth certificates based on race or national origin would violate the Civil Rights Act, as hospitals are certainly public accommodations and offer services to the interstate travelers.

Hitler’s Influence in the US Was Greater Than You May Think | Time

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Hitler’s Influence in the US Was Greater Than You May Think | Time

"In fact, when Bradley W. Hart first started researching the history of Nazi sympathy in the United States a few years ago, he was largely driven by the absence of attention to the topic. Hart’s new book Hitler’s American Friends: The Third Reich’s Supporters in the United States argues that the threat of Nazism in the United States before World War II was greater than we generally remember today, and that those forces offer valuable lessons decades later — and not just because part of that story is the history of the “America First” idea, born of pre-WWII isolationism and later reborn as a slogan for now-President Donald Trump."

http://time.com/5414055/american-nazi-sympathy-book/