I was just listening to an episode of Hollywood Squares on GSN. (Hey everyone has to have some Quadrant 4 time!) They said Doctor Ruth was once a sniper in the Israeli Army. I was stunned. Tech me never to judge a book by the cover. And, any skin head might be well advised to avoid little old Jewish ladies like her. She might have a surprise for them. Neat factoid!
GUNS: Doctor Ruth was sniper in th Israeli Army
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WRITING: Standing on the shoulders of others
Saturday, September 16, 2006A fellow pinged me back about something I had written in a public forum about “good points”, here’s what I wrote back.
Thanks but I didn’t write that to “score points”. I did write it to let people know what I was seeing. I like to say “I’m hopeless, nut maybe I can help you”. That, and my other favorite, “We all stand on the shoulders of other men. Some of who were giants. Some of who gave all for us. When is it our turn to be the shoulder that others stand upon”.
Very philosophical this morning.
By the way, I still haven’t figured out what to call this media or medium. “Online drivel”, “pearls of wisdom”, “dikw”, … or “stream of consciousness poetry” come to mind.
Is it a blog? Most of the blogs I read are much more structured. more topic restricted. written by multiple people.
This is a — single authored — personal ramble — on things that attract my attention — of dubious value — somewhat whiny — randomly interesting?
A personal web log? A pblog! (Dare you to pronounce that!)
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LIBERTY: NORFED’s struck a nerve with the fiat currency monopoly!
Friday, September 15, 2006http://www.usmint.gov/pressroom/index.cfm?flash=yes&action=press_release&ID=710
(So I wrote to an expert to sort it out!)
Lew, [of http://lewrockwell.com/ (anti-state, anti-war, pro-market), the Mises Institute, and famous Libertarian]
(1) Perhaps you’d care to comment about the nonsense spewing out of the gubamint about money. There’s no doubt that the NORFED has struck a nerve. NORFED ain’t fooling anyone, but it’s a good cover story. If the mint has exclusive, then why do we have the Federal Reserve in the process?
(2) Note that the gubamint has added the word “exclusive” in their rendition of the Constitution.
(3) Now that the Barbara Streisand is out of the way, here’s my tough ramble. Somebody’s Law (Say, Shea, or something with S) “bad money drives good out of circulation” would say that if I have a FRB and Liberty Dollar, that I’ll spend the FRBie as fast as I can because it’s intrinsically worthless. Is there ever a time when good money can drive bad out. If there is no case, then there is no way for NORFED’s money to push out the FRBie. Comment?
(4) My take on NORFED is NOT that they were fooling anyone, but that they were trying to retake the word dollar (i.e., thaller). And, charge a commission for it.
(Marketing 101 teaches you can’t take a word that someone already owns in the marketplace of the mind. It’s like Ford trying to take QUALITY from Mercedes, or SAFETY from Volvo. Ain’t gonna happen!)
Now everyone is entitled to earn the sweat of their brow, but the escalating value of their “dollar” was confusing at best. The NORFED MLM quality turned people off. Me too.
Wouldn’t we be better off with a new unit of currency. Let’s call it the dinar (that should get everyone’s shorts in a knot!). And define it as an ounce of gold. The golden dinar. Same thing for silver. The silver dinar is one ounce of silver. Maybe it should be in metric units?
OK, I’ll make it metric! The golden Ludwig will be 0.0283495 of a kilogram of gold. Similarly our Rothfarb will be 0.0283495 of a kilogram of silver.
Wouldn’t “we” be better served by using straight bullion coins as money? Makes the accounting easier in the sense that the hidden tax of inflation can’t bite us. Instead of financial reports in dollars, they be in Ludwigs or Rothfarbs.
Comment?
(5) Can you ever envision us getting out the fiat currency mess we are in? Short of a reichmark style inflation, an overthrow of the Federal Reserve System or some version of a French Revolution, how will could might it happen?
Just a dumb injineer that got two Ds in two college economics courses. And, was smart enough to keep my mouth shut in my post grad mba courses!
Fjohn
RANT: Citizen versus the Cop. Cop gets help from Chief. And, it all goes south from there. imho
Friday, September 15, 2006http://www.dogsdeservebetter.com/doogie.html
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Tammy Grimes, founder of Dogs Deserve Better, was arrested September 11, 2006 for helping a dying chained dog named Doogie who could not stand in East Freedom, Pennsylvania. Below are the details of the case, with photo and video documentation.
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Guess who own the abused dog?
Yup, a cop!
Now I am no PETA type. Nor, do automatically take sides.
Assuming that what is reported is true. Then, IMHO, there is official misconduct.
Plus aren’t we told that people, who abuse animals, usually move up to people.
(I thought NJ had the monopoly on that!)
I think this needs some “sunshine”. And, a few people need to seek gainful employment in other that Policing. The Chief, the Cop, the Animal Control Officer, the DA, and any one else who thinks this is OK!
Never mind dogs. People deserve better. Instead of interviewing McSleezey, Oprah need to get involved here.
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RANT: Millionaires playing for billionaires. And, living thru other’s experiences.
Friday, September 15, 2006When I saw my friend’s alam mater getting its head handed to it in football (UofM playing WVa), I decided to yank his chain.
ME> Terps or twerps football? Hung over from bball loss to Jaspers? {SHORT MESSAGE} {NO REPLY REQUIRED}
HIM> Yup..told (his son) we would be lucky to score against WV
But then he decided to get out of the subject line and get personal!
HIM> Reply was necessary…and regarding the Jaspers, hell froze over, never to happen again! lol
So of course, now I had unlimber the “big guns”!
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Yeah, yeah, and the reason the professional team, representing the UofM, could not beat a bunch of true student-athletes, from a Mid Major, barely NCAA-grade competition, was?
(a) Coach was defeatist with his Krappy attitude before the game (If I can’t be in the real tourney, then why should I be in any? Oh yeah, I signed a contract. Can you say “going thru the motions”?)
(b) Students didn’t come out to cheer on their pros. (It’s not about doing your best at all times; it’s not about exceeding your personal best for its own reward; it’s about bragging rights!)
(c) Gubamint edukation always fails. (Axiomatic! Immoral, ineffective, inefficient, and just plain wrong.)
(d) Greece can beat the NBA Amerikan team. (“I think I can” always trumps a “Swelled Head”!)
(e) Alums, who can’t do, invest themselves in an illusion that they have some role in another doing what they can’t or couldn’t or wouldn’t do. (Doing anything you value is infinitely better than watching some one else doing what they value! Technically, Quadrant 1 activity is much more important than a Quadrant 4 one. On the important / urgent scale.)
(f) All of the above. (Pontificating ain’t changing!)
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I’m still pontificating. And, he got a good laugh out of my “umbrage”.
And, while I will kill some time watch the pros, millionaires play for billionaires, I have no illusions that I am accomplishing anything, except wasting presious time on the way to the finish line.
;-(
I shouldda stayed in bed!
But instead I’ll blog about it.
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JOBSEARCH: Planning for your next transition
Friday, September 15, 2006http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14831365/
Ford’s plan: Cut operating costs by $5 billion
Automaker will shrink workforce by one-third, launch revamped lineup
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DETROIT – Ford is cutting more than 10,000 additional salaried jobs, offering buyouts to all of its 75,000 U.S. hourly workers and shutting down two more plants in a plan to end financial losses and remake itself into a smaller, more competitive car company.
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My CEO (me) was chatting with our CFO (me) about this strategy. Cutting your people to get to profitability. We agreed not too smart and hard on the people.
It’s not like they just discovered (with my obligatory allusion to Casablanca where Renard is shocked, SHOCKED!, shocked I say, to find that there is gambling going on here!) that they are in a hole.
I bought a 2002 Ford Exploder (sic) and I could have told them that “quality is job 1” was just an advertising slogan. I have 30k$ pos with 40k miles on it. The ac doesn’t work (and they want 1.5k$ to fix it), the abs light flickers (and they want 1k$ to fix it, the brakes of going in the next 10k miles(and they want 1.5k$ to fix them), and the seat belt hasn’t retracted right since we bought it (despite mentioning it every time we brought it in). It has also had the recall for a set of tires (that had cost 4k$ at their prices), it’s been in for numerous annoying problems that all seem to magically cost 1k$ each. Argh!
But, as I as CEO (me) asked my Head or HR (me), if you were one of the buy-out-ees, then (I’d ask why are you still there?) what would you do? How do you evaluate any offer versus the uncertainty. I wouldn’t want to be in their shoes.
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ALUM: It was nothing like Duke or other such incidents. But, it was not to the standards we would hope to have.
Thursday, September 14, 2006http://www.gojaspers.com/article.cfm?doc_id=6950
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“Manhattan College has canceled its fall women’s lacrosse season and first-ever spring break trip and imposed community service and other responsibilities on all team members in response to a freshmen initiation incident that occurred last October. Those individuals most responsible have graduated in the interim. The College has just completed a thorough investigation, which began immediately upon being notified of the incident last week,” said Brother Thomas Scanlan, president of Manhattan College.
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Can you revoke a diploma?
Where was the coach? Assistants? Faculty advisors? AD? Faculty?
And, where were the young adults who should have known better?
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MONEY: You do have Life Insurance? If, and only if, you have some insurable interest/
Thursday, September 14, 2006Insurance biz urges hard coverage look
By Eileen Alt Powell, AP Business Writer | September 14, 2006
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NEW YORK –Insurance agent Clif Rosenberry knows firsthand what can happen when a family’s breadwinner dies without life insurance: His brother was killed at the age of 39 in a work accident, and he didn’t have his own policy.
“He had a wife, two kids, a brand new house … and not one speck of life insurance,” Rosenberry said. “The family wound up having to sell the house, having to move. It was an absolute mess.”
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This I never understood.
To this day, I don’t understand it.
I remember someone saying “A man, who dies without insurance for his family, doesn’t die; he absconds!”
Now an insurance salesman ranks down there just above politician, lawyer, and used car salesman. With apologies to the used car salesmen. And, it’s akin to going to the dentist. Or, getting a will.
I’m not talking about any kind of insurance — anything other than low cost term life insurance.
Not what you get at work, cause if you lose your job, then you lose the insurance.
I’m talking a minimum of 2M$ of 20 year level premium term life insurance.
No annuities. No whole life. No babies or infants insurance from Gerber pitched by some dumb celebrity. No geriatric insurance to bury you when you die, or to leave 10k for your final expenses, or leave a little something for the kids.
Get it.
Ask at your credit union. If you don’t have a credit union, ask me I think you can join “mine”. It is as exclusive as rain anymore.
Ever heard of SBLIC savings bank life insurance. Cheap. Easy.
Get it! Today! Don’t drive home without getting a binder.
Please!
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TECH: Here’s my value proposition in a “nut” shell.
Thursday, September 14, 2006
No, “nut” comments needed! ;-)
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TECH: JAJAH … conference calls … free
Thursday, September 14, 2006http://www.jajah.com/info/rates/
Free in the USA.
I was thinking that you’d be interested for setting up your various familial activities.
Seems like a neat idea and you can’t beat the price.
Free!
Now if just had someone to call. Sigh!
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