LIBERTY: MY Greatest Figures In American History

Friday, September 29, 2006

http://www.rightwingnews.com/archives/week_2006_09_24.PHP

Bloggers Select The Greatest Figures In American History (Version 2)

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Out of all the titans in American history — Presidents and generals, inventors and entrepreneurs, reformers and revolutionaries — have you ever wondered who the best of the best were? Well, RWN decided, for the first time in more than 3 years, to email more than 225 right-of-center bloggers to get their opinions. Representatives from the following 41 blogs responded…

Honorable Mentions:
(HM) John F. Kennedy (4)
(HM) Lewis And Clark (4)
(HM) William Tecumseh Sherman (5)
(HM) Jonas Salk (5)
(HM) John Marshall (5)
(HM) Milton Friedman (5)
(HM) George Washington Carver (5)
(HM) Susan B. Anthony (5)
(HM) Audie Murphy (6)
(HM) Douglas MacArthur (6)
(HM) Patrick Henry (6)
(HM) Andrew Carnegie (6)
(25) Alexander Graham Bell (7)
(23) Thomas Paine (8)
(23) Frederick Douglass (8)
(22) George W. Bush (9)
(18) Wright Brothers (10)
(18) Mark Twain (10)
(18) Harry Truman (10)
(18) Bill Gates (10)
(17) Dwight D. Eisenhower (12)
(15) George Patton (13)
(15) Albert Einstein (13)
(12) Teddy Roosevelt (14)
(12) Franklin D. Roosevelt (14)
(12) Ulysses S. Grant (14)
(11) Alexander Hamilton (15)
(10) Henry Ford (16)
(09) John Adams (17)
(08) Thomas Edison (21)
(07) James Madison (22)
(06) Thomas Jefferson (29)
(05) Martin Luther King Jr. (30)
(04) Ben Franklin (32)
(03) George Washington (35)
(02) Abraham Lincoln (37)
(01) Ronald Reagan (39)

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At first blush, I disagree. Washington clearly has to be #1. I wish I had a pair wise comparison tool to use.

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RANT: Hey Governor Corzine! still wanna hear about state cars? … (continued) … (version who knows)

Friday, September 29, 2006

You don’t? TOO BAD!

This morning 29 September at 0715 edst on 295 South around Exit 43… …

… … a white dot truck sg 465 (I think. It went by so fast it was hard to tell.) … …

… (Your speed limit for us “serfs” is 65) …

… in lots of traffic …

… tailgating the poor peon in his way …

… never left the left lane (The only lane for the state of nujerzee “worker” with a state car!?)

Any way I am sure that he was hurrying to get somewhere to protect and serve me. Why don’t I feel SAFE as this bozo shot by me?

Arghhh!

P.S.: Dear reader, I don’t write these every day. Probably could! Just when I ARRIVE early for work, particularly agitated aggravated, aggrieved, and have to wait for my employer workstation to get online.

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WRITING: Blog 2 Book

Friday, September 29, 2006

Since I always wanted to be a published author. (My mom will get a kick out of it.) I’m looking into the Blog 2 Book options. None of the advertised sites make it as easy as it sounds. I was really hoping for “here’s my blog. here’s my credit card” and “thank you for your order. here’s your book.” Not that I am too lazy, but who needs to add another “spinning plate” to the ones I am already trying to keep spinning? Suggestions welcome.

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LIBERTY: Another achievement for women in the military

Friday, September 29, 2006

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003188197

Louisville Paper Gets Disc With 232 Photos of Nude National Guard Women
By E&P Staff and The Associated Press
Published: September 28, 2006 1:55 PM ET updated 4:20 PM ET

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LOUISVILLE, KY. — U.S. Army officials are taking a close look at whether women in a Kentucky National Guard unit posed nude for pictures with their M-16s and other military equipment, authorities said.

A local newspaper reported that it had a disc containing 232 of the photos, which they did not publish, and do not plan to publish, E&P has learned.

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Could this be another reason that woman don’t belong in the military?

I have pontificated before that women are too valuable to waste in war. It’s not that they are the “weaker sex”; I know lots of capable strong dangerous women. It’s the survival of the species. In Israel, where these is no safe “rear”, women in the military is a common sense necessity. In the USA, it makes no sense to me.

This particular incident is just embarrassing (i’m bare ass) stupidity. It exemplifies the coarsening of our civil society. And, it just takes private beauty and makes it into public porn.

Sadly shaking my head and wondering what is this world coming to?

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MONEY: Buy gold, euro colapse?

Thursday, September 28, 2006

MONEY: Buy gold, euro collapse?

buy gold, euro – Money Week
http://www.moneyweek.com/file/3095/buy-gold-to-cash-in-on-unstable-euro.htm

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The euro, like any other paper currency, is an illusion. For a currency to work, people must suspend any belief that notes are worthless pieces of paper and have faith that these pieces of paper can be exchanged for valuable goods and services. That belief in turn rests on the faith that the value of paper money will be upheld by a government.

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And, we have this illusion here as well.

What happens when the nice Japanese workers stop sending us Toyotas for the little green pieces of paper? We really stuck it to them when they bought lots of US landmarks like Rockefeller Plaza (i.e.: home of radio city music all and the rockettes) last time.

We have seen hyper-inflation, stagflation, and the Japanese malaise. These are economic tsunamis destroying individual lives, nation states of varous sizes, and societies.

If it is truly a global economy … and I’m not sure that is so … consider that these economic epidemics often stop at the water’s edge … global outsourcing is coming home to roost as stuff is being brought back … then if the euro fiction falls, will the American version go with it? And, exactly what gets swept away with it?

So, if we are postulating the potential for a financial collapse, then what do we do about it. Like Y2K, it is easy to take some steps to prepare. There are two type of expenses in taking out “insurance”. We can divide the protective actions we are considering into (a) the things that are total losses (i.e., people who planned to hide out in rural retreats losing every thing spent on it) and (b) those things that can have other uses or are recoverable. To what extent the things we do make sense regardless of the financial weather.

What worked in the German hyper-inflation? What worked in the Carter stagflation? What worked in the Japanese malaise?

So we have some homework to do.

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JOBSEARCH: Rhonda Britten never received a call from NBC or Bunim-Murray

Thursday, September 28, 2006

Rhonda Britten: ‘I never received a call from NBC or Bunim-Murray regarding its fate’ – TV.com Tracking

http://www.fearlessliving.org/blog/rhonda

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I know its been confusing for so many folks, including me, when it comes to the question: Is Starting Over coming back for a fourth season? The answer is no.

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Guess she didn’t get my memo about the rules changing. Nice to see that it can happen to everyone. And, even a trained psych can have feelings about it.

I always needled my wife for watching “whiney womyn”. In actuality, I thought some of the shows were really good. “Fight Fair”, self-sabotage, and self-forgiveness were good life lessons.

But, like anything that might have redeeming value, that just might possibly be a Quadrant One activity, that might actually be usefully entertaining, had to be driven out of the “vast wasteland”.

Jobseekers can empathize with her plight. And, anyone who didn’t read the memo about the rules changing, should.

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TECH: BLOGDESK seems to be a nice tool

Thursday, September 28, 2006

I just “threw it up” and it seems to work nicely. I would have liked the install to easily put my working files where I wanted them, without a hassle. And, it would be nice if it would have sucked down my entire blog. And, it would be nice if it queued offline stuff. I understand it is the best one in this category.

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TECH: PRINTERANYWHERE has added encryption

Thursday, September 28, 2006

It’s interesting. I kvetched that why should one trust an unknown third party to handle my data in route. I’m not sure that they solved my concern. It very nicely looks to windoze as a printer. It fools windoze into thinking its a printer. That seems to work correctly. On the other end, it does allow a printer to be defined.  And, it works nicely. Encryption does require the entry of a key value (password?) at the printing end. Man-in-the-middle is still possible. I’m not sure how you overcome that. Thinking about symmetric and asymmetric methods, I can’t think of how they over come it. But, they did do something.

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LIBERTY: Credit the citizenry, not the police, for law ‘n’ order

Wednesday, September 27, 2006

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52158

WorldNetDaily: People power, not police power
between the lines Joseph Farah WND Exclusive Commentary
Posted: September 27, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern

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The biggest manhunt I ever saw – the one for “Night Stalker” Richard Ramirez in California in 1985 – quickly came to an end, too, when police allowed those of us in the press to publish a sketch. The mass murderer was nearly lynched by civilians the morning the paper came out. The police had to rescue the killer of 13 who had terrorized the entire state for more than a year.

It’s people power – and we need more of it in the U.S. today. We don’t need a Department of Homeland Security – we need an army of responsible, motivated, vigilant, self-governing people entrusted by their government officials with their inalienable right to bear arms. And we need a government that recognizes it is not all-knowing and all-powerful and stops treating its citizens like helpless children.

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We learned in Katrina, that when the good citizens of NOLA left, law and order left with them.

So why do we credit the police with an orderly law-abiding society?

It is the people, using:

(a) their willingness to follow a law;

(b) their moral authority of a group agreement,

(c) their willingness to police themselves, and others,

(d) their willingness to support the police (remember how many people will help their police when the situation warrants),

(e) their willingness to convict the guilty (remember that juries have had, since the pre-Revolutionary War Zenger trial, the right to judge the Constitutionality of any law under which the government seeks to use to gain a conviction), AND

(f) their willingness not to protest over an issue thru their elected representatives.

The people ARE the police. (Remember the old westerns when the sheriff swears in deputies for a posse?)

Peace, law, and order are due to us!

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TECH: Not visually impaired but feel like I am

Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Vol. 6, #39 – Sep 26, 2006 – Issue #246
WXPnews
Sunbelt Software
Clearwater, Florida USA 33755

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Do you use accessibility programs, or know someone who does? What additional accessibility options would you like to see built into Windows, or made available as freeware/shareware? Do you have favorite accessibility programs you’d like to recommend? Let us know at feedback@wxpnews.com.

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Arghhh. I’m not visually impaired … yet. But, I, and all the optometrists I’ve ever spoken to about the topic have agreed, the visual geometry and and capabilities of the personal computer stink.

Web browsers and email clients and most software don’t allow one to adjust the display as needed.

Don’t give me a machine capable of lots of resolutions from 800×600, to my current 1280×800, and up to a 1900×1200, that either requires the use a of a magnifying glass or won’t fit a normal group of icons.

It stinks!

Tuning all this is an art form. Change one setting or run certain programs and you’re either blind or down in the weeds.

Every program has it’s own settings and does displays differently.

For example, LookOut does it’s own things (sometimes) and shares some settings with Windoze. It’s very frustrating; has been; and I expect will be in the future.

Arghhh!

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