On Mondat 2006-07-17 at 0445 edst! I guess Google Gmail has some warts despite what everyone thinks.
TECH: “GMAIL” … is unavailable!
Monday, July 17, 2006
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LIBERTY: Money is no longer, and hasn’t been for a while, a store of value!
Sunday, July 16, 2006http://www.freemarketnews.com/Analysis/110/5618/texas.asp?wid=110&nid=5618
FEDERAL RESERVE POLICY DESTROYS THE VALUE OF YOUR SAVINGS
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
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The Treasury department parrots the Fed line that consumer prices, as measured by the consumer price index (CPI), are under control. But even many mainstream economists now admit that CPI grossly understates true inflation. The most glaring problem is that CPI excludes housing prices, instead tracking rents. Everyone knows the cost of purchasing a home has increased dramatically in the last ten years; in many regions housing prices have more than doubled in just five years. So price inflation certainly is alive and well when to comes to the largest purchase most Americans make.
When the Federal Reserve increases the supply of dollars in circulation, both paper and electronic, prices must rise eventually. What other result it possible? The supply of dollars has risen much faster than the supply of goods and services being chased by those dollars. Fed policy makers have more than doubled the money supply in less than ten years. While Treasury printing presses can print unlimited dollars, there are natural limits to economic growth. This flood of newly minted US currency can only increase consumer prices in the long term.
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When most people think of gubamint, they think of it’s “benefits”. Or, perhaps what they would like it to do for them.
Nice people, who would not think of pickpocketing your wallet, have no reluctance to authorize gubamint to do it for them.
Just as it is wrong for YOU to steal my wallet, it is just as wrong for YOUR gubamint to do YOUR dirty work for you stealing my wallet.
Now when we think of government theft, we might think of TAXES. But that, while bad, is just the tip of the iceberg. The gubamint has other tools that are worse. So, you pay your unconstitutional income tax and your immoral sales tax and your unbelievable property tax and you’re smugly happy. Let’s see how the gubamint sticks it to you!
Inflation, a tax upon your savings, is the bottom of that iceberg. That iceberg will sink the USA. If you think as you were taught by classical economics, then money is a store of value. But, it hasn’t been since Roosevelt took gold out of the money! The gubamint can finance all the guns and butter they want by just printing more money and you are none the wiser. Except your dollar buys a lot less year after year. This tax is FAR more devastating than those income, sales, and property taxes combined.
Unavoidable fees are taxes in dusguise that give the policticians and bureacrats slush funds.
Laws that the gubamint passes are taxes since they increase our costs directly and indirectly.
Regulations from the unelected bureaucrats are taxes since they increase our cost directly and indirectly.
The taxes, laws, and regulations imposed by the gubamint on corporations just get passed along to us people disguised in the price.
Don’t forget this is AFTER you paid income, sales, and property!
And, then you die, and then you get to pay a DEATH tax.
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TURKEY: Watch good movies that motivate you
Sunday, July 16, 2006I’m adding a movie to my turkey watch list!
Last Holiday with Queen Latifa
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10004662-last_holiday/
Queen Latifah communicates a life-affirming spirit. This joins my list as something that a seeker can take a moral from and use. That message can motivate the seeker into action on what Covery calls “the things that matter most” which should never bump “the things that matter least”. While not as good as “Rudy” or “It’s a wonderful life”, it does communicate an important message.
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LIBERTY: Welfare, in all it’s guises, is about gubamint control!
Saturday, July 15, 2006http://www.mises.org/story/2218
The Welfare State’s Attack on the Family
by Vedran Vuk
Posted on Wednesday, July 12, 2006
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The agenda of the state is to break up the family. The more you depend on the state, the more you justify its existence, and the larger it grows. The idea that people can provide things for themselves either individually or through the family frightens the state. It delegitimizes its role. The role of the family is dangerous to its survival.
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The Communists attacked the family unit as part of their strategy to completely control everything. The Socialists do the same for the same objective. Welfare is that Trojan Horse into people’s minds. They don’t see the hidden agenda. Power!
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TECH: “OPENDNS” … an interesting alternative!
Saturday, July 15, 2006http://www.broadbandreports.com/shownews/76218
OpenDNS
Everyman DNS services
Posted on 2006-07-10 17:37:27
Kind words
“OpenDNS has done an amazing job running this free Internet resource. It’s a very impressive service built by experts in the field.”
—David E. Weekly, founder, PBWiki
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Worth trying.
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LIBERTY: USF … yet another gubamint joke … but the jokes on us!
Saturday, July 15, 2006http://www.broadbandreports.com/shownews/76234
USF: The Bureaucrat’s Dream
Fraud, waste, and no oversight
Posted on 2006-07-11 08:48:54
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We’ve long illuminated the fraud, waste and dysfunction inherent in the FCC’s USF and E-rate systems, which you pay into each month via various bills to help fund rural telecom deployment. Because the system is poorly monitored by the FCC, some allege it’s at best a slush fund for the incumbent telcos.
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And, this is a surprise! Eliminate the FCC; the marketplace will organize itself faster, cheaper, and better.
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TECH: “CHOICEMAIL” definitely gets my “don’t bother trying” rating!
Saturday, July 15, 2006My free trial of CHOICEMAIL ended after thirty days. Remember it was pitched as “free for one account”. Guess it isn’t. Cause it just stopped working. Then, when you refuse to spend 59$ it picks up it’s marbles and goes home. That is it doesn’t restore your old email settings. AND, it doesn’t allow you to leave email on your email account forever and ever, it deletes it upon receipt. Arghh! Well, from free or beta software, I don’t expect much, or even that it’s housebroken, or even a well mannered guest. From a commercial product trying to convince me to buy, I expect a lot more. On a picky detail note, the product never figured out no matter how many times I told it, that YAHOO GROUPS was OK, not a spammer, and to pass it right along. So, I definitely will return to the trenches fighting spam on my own. I’ll just pray to Great Blue Frog Spirit in the sky for the coming of the Giant Blue Frog to save us all. Maybe that is IPv6!
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TECH: My “Bat Line” for urgent contact
Friday, July 14, 2006http://2idi.com/contact/=reinkefj
People have expressed interest in my “Bat Line” for urgent email contact.
I use different email accounts for different purposes and handle a LOT of email. So, it would be nice to have a spam free channel for urgent emails. Outlook rules move mail to the correct account if someone uses an odd one wrong.
A gmail id was created just for this purpose with one of my “patented” email addresses (i.e., long random gibberish string for the name). So it’s unguessable or find-able by the alpha spammers. I also use
But, friends, Customers, and others who know my system can get my immediate attention by putting a message in via this mechanism.
If I’m on any one of my computers, then the IM client tied to that email address will fire and alert me of “incoming” on that special account. I attend to anything coming in on that one ASAP.
It’s my signal to don my cape and save the world. :-) At least in my own mind!
Questions?
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LIBERTY: Forget free speech!
Friday, July 14, 2006http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nevada/2006/jul/13/071310623.html
July 13, 2006
Valedictorian sues Nevada school for cutting off Christian speech
By RYAN NAKASHIMA
ASSOCIATED PRESS
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LAS VEGAS (AP) – A high school valedictorian who had the plug pulled on her microphone as she gave an address referring to Jesus Christ sued school officials Thursday, saying her rights to religious freedom and free speech were trampled on.
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That’s the problem with gubamint skoolz. First Amendment says the gubamint has NO right to prevent free speech. Any time one is placed in a situation where you have conflict, then you have to go back and study the rules. In this case, her free speech rights trump the gubamint. If it was a private institution, then the administration could enforce whatever rules it chose. See those administrators don’t see themselves as part of an oppressive gubamint. But they are. To the students of that skool, I’d say “learn what’s in store for you”. You’ll see the boot of the gubamint soon when you get your first job, your first car, or take your first trip. Remember that when the revolution starts.
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TECH: Feds can force you to a video?
Thursday, July 13, 2006DRUDGE REPORTS
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/07/12/060712191204.9i5b29n0.html
US unveils emergency alert system for mobile phones, computers
Jul 12 3:12 PM US/Eastern
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The US government unveiled a communications system that in case of emergency should soon allow it to send SMS alerts to Americans’ mobile phones and computers.
“We have the ability to do this. It’s a major step,” Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Director David Paulson told reporters outside the US capital as he unveiled the program’s design.
The Digital Emergency Alert System (DEAS) will include the participation of television networks and public radio stations and be based on an existing alert system built in the Cold War era for use in the event of a nuclear attack.
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Internet-linked computers will automatically switch on to a video message from the US Department of Homeland Security while downloading instructions prepared specifically from natural disasters, chemical and nuclear attacks, and other calamities.
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HUH! What else can they do? And, how are they doing that. More importantly, what else can they do with “my” equipment without my permission. Arghh!
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