I hope I can find a YouTube video soon that I can post here.
Until then, please watch this 2 minute clip. It says a lot.
I heard this on the radio yesterday.
I hope I can find a YouTube video soon that I can post here. Until then, please watch this 2 minute clip. It says a lot.
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I haven’t had a cigarette since November 4. Almost a year. Last October I paid $50 for a stop-smoking hypnosis seminar. I got 26 hours out of that before I had another cigarette. I could have asked for my money back, but 26 hours was pretty good. A couple weeks later I used the patch. After three days I stopped using it and haven’t smoked since. I think some of the hypnosis ideas stuck. I tell you all this so you know I have no dog in this pony show. Smoking? Doesn’t really concern me much anymore. But personal liberty, and the ability of adults to make their own decisions about their bodies...well, that does concern me. This week Bullock decided Montana would become the 8th state to ban vaping and e-cigarettes. HIs decision has more to do with lifting up his flagging presidential campaign than it does about Montana health. The truth is that not a single e-cigarette has been linked to the 23 vaping-related deaths. When NBC News recently analyzed THC vaping products, they found that all the legal THC cartridges tested fine; it was the black market cartridges that had contaminants, mainly a substance that breaks down into cyanide when heated. So the risk comes from the black market, and now Bullock will create a whole new black market here in Montana come October 22. You can’t fix stupid. Around 1,100 people have become ill due to vaping products, again...most being black market. Just two people have become sick in Montana, and no one has died. It’s figured that 41 million people vaped last year. It’s figured that we had anywhere from 5,000 to 10,000 vape shops...way back in 2014. Here in Missoula we have at least 5 shops that sell vaping products, and three of those sell vape products and nothing else. Those shops are the ones that will close in two weeks. The effect of this ban for small Montana businesses will be horrific. One vape shop here in Missoula will surely have to close its doors come October 22, fire all its employees, and liquidate its assets. The owner of the shop and his wife just had a new daughter. Now they’ll have all kinds of financial worries as well, and heading into the holiday season. Thanks, Steve. I just don’t think we’re really looking at the big health problems in this country. Like I said, 23 people have died from smoking black market THC vape pens so far. I haven’t seen anything about people dying from smoking just nicotine vape pens - most used both nicotine and THC pens. So what? 23 people? We know that 34 million people in this country smoke, which is about 14% of the population. It’s figured that 480,000 die from smoking-related illnesses each year. So what? 160 million Americans are too fat, and 300,000 of them die each year because of this. Why isn’t Bullock closing down the fast food places, the ice cream shops, and the soda bottling plants? Well, that would of course be silly, now wouldn’t it!?! And besides, we all know that adults can think for themselves and put into their bodies what they want. Personally, I don’t like it when others tell me what I can or can’t do with my body. I guess Democrats only care about that argument when it applies to women getting abortions. I mean, back in 2015 we know that 638,000 women had abortions in this country. 238,000 more young people are dying each year from abortions than they are from smoking. But that’s not the issue, and Dems will fight tooth and nail to keep the abortion industry alive. Women have a choice - smokers do not. Once Greg becomes governor next year, I suspect women won't have that choice for long. Oh well - tell it to a smoker...maybe they'll commiserate with you. Time had an article up last week that asked how long the impeachment process would take. They figure that it could end before the Iowa Caucus, or it could drag on past the 2020 election. Mostly, it comes down to how long Congress wants to take. They could move fast; they could move slow. Time figures there are four stages of the process:
The site gives you sliders so you can mess with the dates yourself. If you make the process as quick as possible, it’ll end October 28...less than three weeks from now. We know that won’t happen. Mostly, the House can move as fast as it wants to - and it behooves them to do this - while the Senate can drag its feet for as long as it wants to. It makes sense for the Senate to drag this on...at least until March. Super Tuesday is March 3. If Dems don’t have their impeachment process wrapped-up by then, well gosh...it’s only going to empower Trump and embolden his supporters. And the presidential candidates will talk about nothing else until then but impeachment. They certainly won’t talk about the issues in your life. The thing is, Nancy Pelosi knows she has no other choice than to do impeachment. Right now, Nancy Pelosi is simply covering up for the misdeeds of others. Mostly what we're talking about here is the nefarious Clinton Foundation. We never did get to the bottom of whatever happened during the 2016 election with all the various collusion and how Hillary managed to cheat and steal and lie her way to the nomination. My, how Bernie got shafted. And now his heart's giving out on him. Clinton got him in ‘16 and his health got him in ‘20. He's done. Biden is done, too. All he can do now is defend himself and his son about what they did or didn't do in Ukraine. He won't have time to talk about the issues, and he was doing a terrible job of that before this all started. It'll fall to Elizabeth Warren after that. She's a pathological liar. I can't think of a single person that would want to lie, claiming they were Native American...but she did. Trump will take her out easier than anyone else. That's why Hillary will try and get back onto the stage. It's no mistake she has a new book out, and that she's doing the rounds talking it up...and herself. Trump will beat her again, if the courts don't get her first. Thing is, Trump is a smart guy and he's going to make this impeachment process backfire on the Democrats and specifically Nancy Pelosi and how much she's trying to cover up for Biden and Hillary and all the rest of these corrupt politicians we've had for years and years, politicians who only seem to enrich themselves while they're in office. If this process continues, the lid is going to come off and then I think we're going to finally get the truth. I think a lot of seriously strong Democratic people are going to have to resign in shame and there might be some prison time for some. I hope so. Anyways, we know that if this impeachment process continues all the way into the primaries and up to Super Tuesday, and perhaps even past Super Tuesday, it’s only going to help Trump. When was the last time you heard Democrats running for office talk about the issues? They don't. They don't have any issues to run on besides their monumental level of hate for Trump. This is the only issue that they care about. You don’t hear Dems around the country talking about the main issues that you care about, just Trump. Sometimes the talking points do center on things in your life, like the money in your pocket, your low paying job, your crappy healthcare, how you’re at your wits-end because you're taking care of the kids all day and childcare costs are through the roof! None of these things are important to Democrats in Congress. Oh, these things might make a few rounds of talking points with some of the more local or statewide candidates. But those running for president? C’mon! That might take away from the time they can use to bash Trump. We know that’ll get them on the highlight reel of CNN or MSNBC, not the issues you care about. And let's not forget the influence of the planets. The day after Christmas we're going to have a solar eclipse and we already see some astrologists saying this could have some turbulent effects upon the market, right there on National Return Day. This is great for Dems, as they have nothing else to beat Trump with. A recession might be the only thing...though if impeachment is still happening, I'm not sure. Something else we need to think about is the Jupiter-Saturn-Pluto alignment that's happening on January 12. This is going to become even more spectacular by March when we have a Quadruple convergence of the planets, as Mars will join with the other three planets. These alignments have always been big in history. They’re often called Great Conjunctions.
Remember, until modern times, astrologers were some of the highest members of a ruler’s cabinet, or court or whatever you want to call it. Here in Montana those stars will be shining down, and the planets will be moving through the big sky. We have some serious problems with the Democrats and their chances in 2020. Perhaps you saw the recent Big Sky poll of 303 voters that Dems hyped-up on social media because it had Bullock beating Trump. Most of us know Bullock will never get the nomination. What didn’t get a lot of attention was how well Steve Daines is doing, with 64% support so far. What’s equally interesting is how little support any of the current Democratic candidates have against Daines. In fact, what’s so funny is that Jack Ballard - a guy who's already dropped out of the race - is getting 18% support, the highest of any of the Dems now running. Now, to put this in perspective...the next two Dems are each getting 9%. This is the black, refugee figurehead mayor of Helena and the guy who killed another guy with his campaign rollout. Someone with some popularity with Montanans needs to get into this race on the Dem side unless the Dems want a serious embarrassment next year. Even if they do get a viable candidate, I’m sure Daines will win with close to 20% of the vote. When it comes to the governor's race we see that Greg Gianforte is already 12% ahead of Mike Cooney. Hillary, Jr. is getting 8%, which is about 4 times less support than Gianforte is getting. I hope Whitney Williams stays in this race and gets the nomination. Gianforte will win in a landslide. I don’t think any Dems are going to win in Montana next year, mainly because the impeachment process will so sour Republicans - and embolden them to vote - that Trump will win in a landslide and carry all down-ticket races on his coattails. Today we’ll look at OPI, Auditor, SoS, PSC races, and the Supreme Court.
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