Argh! I’m mad at myself. When attending an event with a camera, I should have had a strategy. Photo everyone. Not only do you not get a second chance, but it could have been a hoot. Went to a “dance” last night, but didn’t exploit the opportunities to learn, link, and innovate. Argh!
PRODUCTIVITY: Missed an opportunity
Sunday, November 19, 2006
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LIBERTY: Tell a big gubamint columnist to stuff it!
Saturday, November 18, 2006Here’s what the new Congress should do help taxpayers, retirees, and investors
By Jeff Brown | November 18, 2006
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With the Democrats taking control of Congress and President Bush becoming Mr. Cooperative, every interest group in the country will forward its legislative wish list to Washington.
So here’s mine — the things I’d like done for investors and taxpayers.
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Social Security. Alternative minimum tax. Roth IRAs. Annual investment taxes. Estate tax. Sarbanes-Oxley.
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I could go on . . .
But, I’d rather hear from you. E-mail your thoughts on legislative or regulatory issues you’d like Washington to tackle, and I’ll assemble the good suggestions for a future column.
Jeff Brown is a business columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer. E-mail him at brownj@phillynews.com.
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Stop stealing people’s money! Period. We don’t need Mommy Government telling us “to take our medicine, like good little citizens, cause mommie gubamint knows best”! Name one government program that works?
Government is the problem!
SO tell Washington to take the rest of their lives off. The dead Old White Guys were right about shackles.
Arghh!
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GUNS: No bear hunt
Saturday, November 18, 2006NJ DEP chief: There will be no bear hunt
– Daily Record (NJ)
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New Jersey’s top environmental official late Wednesday scotched this year’s bear hunt, and hinted that none would be staged in the future, saying non lethal ways to keep peace between humans and bears need to be tried. Jackson’s move comes some two weeks after Gov. Jon S. Corzine said he wanted to explore non lethal ways to deal with the state’s growing bear population.
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You have to admire today’s liberals, who don’t live in the real world. They are going to spend a lot of money, stolen from NJ taxpayers, to convince the bears not to procreate. You have to love when some one plays poker with your chips.
Which politicians goes to jail when, not if, someone gets hurt by a bear?
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ALUMNI: Another week; another issue of Jasper Jottings
Saturday, November 18, 2006Shipped! Tme to start next week’s.
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ALUMNI: High School Alumni group has some life
Saturday, November 18, 2006I’ve been distracted by a particular spinning plate in my life. My high school alumni activities have warranted some attention. Last week, I went galavanting to have dinner with a tad more than a dozen. It was a hoot, but I’m still trying to catch up. They did introduce me to a great restaurant in a “interesting” NYC neighborhood. As a result, the need for a memorial has some interest and I put up a wiki, specifically pbwiki, for that purpose, gave it some see content, and it’s having some traffic. In the process of doing that, I was shown a free web stat tool. I also created a button for one of the sites.
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LIBERTY: Conserve What?
Friday, November 17, 2006http://www.lewrockwell.com/hein/hein146.html
Conserve What?
by Paul Hein
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Many of us find the “conservative” position on many issues more agreeable – or less disagreeable – than the “liberal.” But what is it that conservatives are conserving? I have never seen that question answered – or even asked – but isn’t it a good question?
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As an ex-conservative, I wanted the liberty that the Dead Old White Guys promised. Unfortunately, I didn’t get what I was promised. Instead Gubamint has made me a slave!
I go around and around trying to see how I can free myself.
The critical issues of stuffing the genie back in the box are: ending the fiat currency, ending the government reeducation propaganda camps, and ending the dole! I have no silver bullet. Heck, I can’t even figure out where to begin.
Money! Skools! Dole!
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JOBSEARCH: JIBBERJOBBER’s document section doesn’t permit cut’n’paste
Friday, November 17, 2006http://www.jibberjobber.com/doc_manager.php
Ahh hah!
I stuffed some doc in JIBBERJOBBER and realized a flaw. It’s wants to upload all docs. Admirable. But what if you want to cut’n’paste something from a webpage.
It should allow you to do that. You are getting the space.
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Technology: Found a neat trick to put your email on a webpage
Friday, November 17, 2006Use any of the url shortening sites, like tiny url, and push mailto:myemail@bigisp.net into it a get a url back like http://tinyurl/abcde
Clicking on that link lets people send you an email.
It’s believed to be not harvest able by spyders and bots.
Hmmm?
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LIBERTY: Friedman on the drug war, right; school vouchers, wrong!
Thursday, November 16, 2006http://www.fff.org/freedom/0490e.asp
An Open Letter to Bill Bennett
by Milton Friedman, April 1990
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Drugs are a tragedy for addicts. But criminalizing their use converts that tragedy into a disaster for society, for users and non-users alike. Our experience with the prohibition of drugs is a replay of our experience with the prohibition of alcoholic beverages.
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Milton Friedman was one of the most influential economists of the past century and winner of a 1976 Nobel Prize. He always impressed me with the clarity of his thinking.
I think he was wrong about vouchers for education; the right answer imho is to eliminate ANY government involvement in education. Today, we have a terrible system that seems to be in place to allow politicians to feather their nest, reward their friends, provide lots of jobs for their friends, allow a union that makes further mischief, and DOES NOT deliver a good education.
Hands down, it’s insanity.
His call for vouchers, while better than what we have now, ignored the fundamental problem. When parents pay for their children’s education with their real money, then they will DEMAND the best education for their limited budget will allow. Parents will “motivate” their children to get the most from it. They’ll seek bargains and live with their decisions.
A free market in education exists in the technical computer world where it is a Wild West Show. No real government regulation and for the most part no government funding. Look at the various industry certification courses! That’s what education could be like if freed from the shackles of the government. Ever lower prices, ever increasing availability, and ever increasing quality. Innovation galore.
One can only hope that our delusion with government “public” education ends soon.
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RANT: How to signal a bartender, waiter, or other service person
Thursday, November 16, 2006Now I am as patient as the next person. Really I am. But even a really good server can’t read my mind. Too many “everything ok?” questions is annoying. More annoying is the “lost server”.
For example, last night, Frau and I went to the “good” Chinese restaurant, not the “closest” or the “closer”, but the “good” one. Their food is great; the service leaves much to be desired.
(I’m working on them. I’ll get up and go get them when I need them to do something. Frau’s a big tipper. So they “tolerate” me. I guess)
Now when you’re paying two bucks for a soda, I expect Frau’s glass never to be empty!
Not so.
So I want a little flag on the table that I can raise when I want something. (Can it be wired to the waiter’s cell phone?) Or a push button that illuminates like the flight attendant call button.
That’s enough!
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