GUNS: PA Police Refusing To Obey The Law

Thursday, October 26, 2006

PA Police Refusing To Obey The Law
— Ask the Attorney General to rein them in!

Gun Owners of America E-Mail Alert
8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151
Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408
http://www.gunowners.org

Wednesday, October 25, 2006

The PA State Police are refusing to obey the law, despite court decisions to the contrary.

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Federal privacy laws prohibit the mandatory use of social security numbers as identification. In a recent court decision, U.S. District Judge Juan R. Sanchez stated that gun owners cannot be required to supply social security numbers when buying a gun or applying for a concealed carry permit.

But the PA State Police, with the help of the Attorney General Tom Corbett (R), are disregarding the court and are asking a circuit court judge to strike down Sanchez’ order. They don’t want to issue privacy warnings, as required by Section 7(b) of the Privacy Act of 1974; they want to keep collecting the social security numbers of all gun buyers and carry permit holders.

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The only reason the gubamint wants “gun registration” is so they know who to arrest when the crackdown comes.

Look at pre-WW2 Germany as the model.

From the JPFO http://www.jpfo.org/alert20061023.htm

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Okay, let’s pretend that’s true (historical evidence to the contrary). In the early 1930’s, in response to a recent crime wave, the right-of-center Weimar Republic passed several “vital, necessary” laws registering firearms and prohibiting Gypsies from owning them. Five years later, a left-of-center leader was in power and used those same laws, amending them as needed, to consolidate his power. The result was World War II and the murder of millions of what the US might today refer to as “unlawful enemy combatants.”

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Forewarned is forearmed.

The gubamint MUST be made to obey it’s own laws. Else all hope is lost.


LIBERTY: A libertarian columnist hasn’t produced anything for a while

Thursday, October 26, 2006

http://www.reviewjournal.com/columnists/suprynowicz.html

Is he an enemy combatant?


LIBERTY: Muslim cleric’s claim that women are ‘uncovered meat’. What a hoot!

Thursday, October 26, 2006

http://tinyurl.com/yeqjnd

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/
news.html?in_article_id=412697&in_page_id=1770

Outrage as Muslim cleric likens women to ‘uncovered meat’
By RICHARD SHEARS Last updated at 16:10pm on 26th October 2006

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A Muslim cleric’s claim that women who do not wear the veil are like ‘uncovered meat’ who attract sexual predators sparked outrage around Australia yesterday.

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This one is a real corker.

Now, anyone is entitled to believe whatever they want. And, I’ll defend their right to be wrong, unpopular, and dumb. Having said that, let’s take a gander at what he said.

(1) Men are incapable of self-control.

(2) Women are so attractive that men are powerless.

(3) And, in his world, women are better off locked up at home.

That’s my translation.

In my world, men universally respect women for the valuable things they do that we can’t do, can’t do well, or are not in someway suited to do.

Bear children. Comfort children. Clean up after children.

(I recognize that men don’t clean like women do.)

Those are valuable. Even more so, if all the women are locked up at home, we have just cut the labor available by 50%. And, some of that is a very SMART 50%.

The Intelligent Designer made men and women attractively different. It works best as an equal partnership imho.

AND, if you believe this cleric, the certainly you want to arm all the “uncovered meat” with a nice girly gun like the 380 so they can protect themselves from all those men with uncontrollable urges.

Only a man could come up with a hoot like this. Women have too much common sense.

And, by the way, where are all the leftist women’s libbers? If this guy was a republicrat or democan, then they’d be screaming for his head on a pike.

Do we detect some different standards here?

You just have to love it. Freedom isn’t free. And certainly not without rebutal.


TECHNOLOGY: Technorati doesn’t work (for me)!

Thursday, October 26, 2006

http://tinyurl.com/yzgp9r

http://www.technorati.com/blogs/
http%3A%2F%2Freinkefj.wordpress.com

Technorati

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Info for https://reinkefj.wordpress.com
Reinke Faces Life
* Rank: 405,906 (19 links from 7 blogs) What do these numbers mean?
* URL: https://reinkefj.wordpress.com
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* Favorited by: 0 members Add to your Favorites

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You show an age of 165. I have new content everyday. HELP! I ping. WordPress pings. To no avail.


TECHNOLOGY: FIREFOX2 (FFX2) needs a Google Web Accelerator plug in update

Thursday, October 26, 2006

Google lagging behind the tech curve?


TECHNOLOGY: Serious Magic consumed by Adobe. Too bad!

Thursday, October 26, 2006

http://tinyurl.com/y6xbmo

http://drjoewebb.blogspot.com/2006/10/
theres-some-serious-magic-at-adobe.html#comments

Jasper Joe Webb’s blog reported

>This article reports their purchase
>of Serious Magic. I have used their
>Visual Communicator product

Dear fellow Jasper, I’ve used the Serious Magic product. I’m sorry to see ANY useful product picked up by “the big boyze”. It always leads to the death of innovation. Here’s my uses if you want a laff.

http://home.comcast.net/~v2y2r0n27rhj6y/PaperKnot.wmv
http://home.comcast.net/~v2y2r0n27rhj6y/We_Have_Technology.wmv


TECHNOLOGY: 1and1 (my wsp) offers a great deal

Thursday, October 26, 2006

Dear XXXX, You may want to shop around. $9 per month is a lot of money. For example, 1and1 has better deals. I host Jasper Jottings with them http://www.1and1.com/?k_id=9113251 and, while I have a pro package for my consulting business, they offer a “beginner package” (that’s pretty impressive) for 3$/month. So, I’d urge you to shop around. 1and1 offers commercial grade facilities at amateur prices. Fjohn


XPfails – luggable – PRINTERALL fails to pull data

Thursday, October 26, 2006

Interesting … the PRINTERALL client doesn’t have ANY data in it. None at all. Hmmm, who to point the finger at?


MONEY: Local bank can’t understand a ladder?

Thursday, October 26, 2006

Frau went to the local bank to roll her IRA into a cd ladder. Nothing complex. But it seemed to tizzy them AND they made a mistake. Arghh!

For the uninitiated, a CD LADDER is nothing more than the name given to an investment program to maximize your return on a fixed income portfolio, while minimizing your exposure to interest rate fluctuations. It attempts to always have money available for other options, get the “best” rate available, and minimize seasonal fluctuation in rates.

A CD LADDER takes a portfolio of say 40k$ and divides it up into 20 units. The idea is to have five different terms of 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 years during each of the four quarterly periods.

So, 40k$ divided by 20 gives a unit size of 2k$. One buys: a 12 month cd for 1 unit; a 24 month cd for 1 unit; a 36 month cd for 1 unit: a 48 month cd for one unit; and a 60 month cd for one unit.

Then, to prepare for buys in future quarters, one buys: a 90 day cd for 5 units; a 180 day cd for 5 units; and 270 day cd for 5 units. When each of these matures, you take the proceeds and repeat the annual cd strategy.

At the end of a year, you have your 20 cds all setup. Then, at each individual cd’s maturity, you buy the 5 year cd.

Mission accomplished: 5% of your portfolio is available every quarter AND you are always getting the five year rate. It’s not the roller coaster stock market, but it is “widows and orphans” thinking. Hard to cheat anyone of their life savings when they can only get 5% at a time.

Easy to understand?

Not for our local bank.

Their registered representative obviously has NOT only never heard of a ladder, but can’t implemented it. Argh!

Explained it twice, with pictures when we went to have them move the money custodian 2 custodian transfer. (That only took two weeks! Right, in today’s eft climate. Can you say “dragging feet”?)

So yesterday, Frau went and they spent two hours doing it and, “upon further review” I found a mistake. Argh!

Sigh, not very inspiring.

Questions?

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On a technical note, when the total portfolio exceeds the FDIC insurance, one should begin to split the account into two different banks. That can be easily done by a partial custodian to custodian transfer of a maturing cd. So for example, pick one quarter, say Second Quarter, and each year transfer that rolling over cd from Bank#1 to Bank#2. Easy, right? Nah, everyone looks at you like you have two heads. One could do it by Year, in that you have Year 2008 at Bank#2 and all other Years at Bank#1, but I like the Quarter approach. Can’t tell you why, but it appeals to me.

You can split into a third and fourth bank should the size warrent. If you need more than 4 banks (i.e., 400k$), then you probably need a better strategy (i.e., a brokerage account with a fixed income specialist). For the little guys, self-designed ladders are fine imho.


LIBERTY: Get the gubamint out of the marriage business

Thursday, October 26, 2006

http://tinyurl.com/vbvda

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20061025/D8KVS3P00.html

NJ Court Stops Short of Gay Marriage OK
Oct 25, 3:58 PM (ET) By GEOFF MULVIHILL

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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) – New Jersey’s Supreme Court opened the door to gay marriage Wednesday, ruling that homosexuals are entitled to the same rights as heterosexuals, but leaving it to lawmakers to legalize same-sex unions.

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I think the issue is about the WRONG question entirely.

Once again the politicians, and judges are really nothing more than unelected politicians, have once again succeeded in misdirecting us.

WHY is the gubamint involved in marriage at all?

Marriage “regulation” stems from the racist past when busy bodies want to prevent black men from marrying white women.

The Constitutional State has no business in anyone’s “marriage”. Gay, straight, or Irish / Italian.

This is the proper role for Churches.

The various laws and tax code “giving” benefits to “married people” is just wrong.

SO, let’s focus on the correct issue. Get the gubamint out of the marriage business. Period!


FUN: Wrote story, bonanza, stopped blogging!

Thursday, October 26, 2006

http://wired.com/wired/archive/14.11/sixwords.html

Issue 14.11 – November 2006
Very Short Stories
33 writers. 5 designers. 6-word science fiction.
Page 1 of 1

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We’ll be brief: Hemingway once wrote a story in just six words (“For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”) and is said to have called it his best work. So we asked sci-fi, fantasy, and horror writers from the realms of books, TV, movies, and games to take a shot themselves.

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I liked:

Automobile warranty expires. So does engine.
– Stan Lee

And was moved by:

K.I.A. Baghdad, Aged 18 – Closed Casket
– Richard K. Morgan


TECHNOLOGY: ThinkFree to WordPress test

Thursday, October 26, 2006

Just playing with a “new” feature in ThinkFree. Did it work?

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