RANT: Katrina fraud likely to balloon past $1B

Tuesday, December 26, 2006

http://interdictor.livejournal.com/114704.html

Katrina fraud likely to balloon past $1B

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WASHINGTON – The tally for Hurricane Katrina waste could top $2 billion next year because half of the lucrative government contracts valued at $500,000 or greater for cleanup work are being awarded without little competition. Federal investigators have already determined the Bush administration squandered $1 billion on fraudulent disaster aid to individuals after the 2005 storm. Now they are shifting their attention to the multimillion dollar contracts to politically connected firms that critics have long said are a prime area for abuse.

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“I’m from the gooferment. And, I’m here to help you.”

Arghhh!

Ahh Socialist Amerika. The gooferment doesn’t do levees right. Disaster. The gooferment goes into “rescue” people. They die. Corporations send trucks of relief to the stricken area. The gooferment turns them back. The displaced need “stuff”. The gooferment gives out debit cards which are used at strip clubs. Houses are destroyed. The gooferment is defrauded of a billion bucks.

If this wasn’t so serious, it would be funny.

Why aren’t you laughing citizen?

Let’s assume that the 300M people in the US all share the 1B$ equally, (we know that’s not true. neither the rich nor the poor pay taxes.), so that’s about $3 each.

So “your” Federal slave masters robbed you of $3 to literally throw it out the window in NOLA.

What would you have done with that $3? I could have stopped on my way to work and bought a cup of coffee.

I’d have enjoyed that coffee more than this joke.

We need cheaper “jokes”!

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TECHNOLOGY: Don’t like how Picasa doesn’t work with filenames

Monday, December 25, 2006

http://picasa.google.com/

Picasa

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Picasa is a free software download from Google that helps you:

* Locate and organize all the photos on your computer.
* Edit and add effects to your photos with a few simple clicks.
* Share your photos with others through email, prints, and on the web

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Well, I just found something I don’t like. It doesn’t bring the file name in with the picture. I collect pictures of my fellow Jaspers when I find them. I carefully put their name and class year as part of the filename. So why does Picasa make me title them after it sucks in my files. Arghh!

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GUNS: an electromagnetic pistol

Monday, December 25, 2006

http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/
video-gauss-gp-219-silent-electromagnetic-pistol

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The Gauss GP-219 is an electromagnetic pistol that boasts a “PIC microcontroller, dual coils with “precision pulsing” to fire steel projectiles, twin infrared sensors to assist in positioning, and even a laser sight to keep your enemies pegged.”

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Guess the gun grabbers will have to write some new “laws”!

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INTERESTING: A 15-year-old boy driving a stolen bus

Monday, December 25, 2006

http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2006/12/25/495255-boy-15-charged-with-driving-stolen-bus?threadId=63496

http://tinyurl.com/yfob4d

Boy, 15, Charged With Driving Stolen Bus
Mon Dec 25, 2006 9:21 AM EST
Associated Press

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FERN PARK, FLA. — A 15-year-old boy has been sentenced to four years in a juvenile treatment program after deputies stopped him driving a stolen bus along a public transit route, picking up passengers and collecting fares.

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Let’s get this right. He drove the bus safely. Safer than some cops, politicians, and driving instructors. But society will jail. And, the reason is? Wouldn’t a better “punishment” be to give him a job?

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RANT: Learn from the WW1 death of Henry Gunther who died one minute before peace was declared

Monday, December 25, 2006

http://www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance100.html

They Won’t Be Home for Christmas
by Laurence M. Vance

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The war in Iraq is lost. Although the president won’t admit that we are losing, he did recently acknowledge: “We’re not winning.” But the war has been lost for some time now. Even many who supported the initial invasion would agree with those of us who opposed the war from the very beginning that the point has long since passed the place where the United States could claim “victory” in Iraq. That point can now be measured in years. Wasn’t it in 2003 that Bush made the claim, in front of a “Mission Accomplished” banner, that “the United States and our allies have prevailed”? Although the death of every American soldier in Iraq has been a tragic waste of human life, every day that this senseless war continues makes the deaths of U.S. servicemen even more of a heartrending tragedy.

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Get the boys and girls home now! It’s a mess. But, it’s now the Iraqis’ mess.

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XPfails – luggable – menus now invisible

Monday, December 25, 2006

Argh! When you click on a menu like File or Tool, I have to run the mouse pointer down the menu to see all the choices. They are their buy just invisible. Once the pointer passes over them, they stay visible. A new for of microsoft security? I’ll reboot when I have time, but that’s a hassle. And, every once and awhile, I get a worse problem. Argh!

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INTERESTING: have peace among men of good will by just doing it?

Monday, December 25, 2006

This is passing along the “gun nut” groups:

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The Surfing The Apocalypse Network
THE CHRISTMAS TRUCE
Posted By: pjbuk
Date: Saturday, 23 December 2006, 4:49 p.m.

The Christmas Truce – 1914

On Christmas Day, 1914, in the first year of World
War I, German, British, and French soldiers
disobeyed their superiors and fraternized with “the
enemy” along two-thirds of the Western Front. German
troops held Christmas trees up out of the trenches
with signs, “Merry Christmas.” “You no shoot, we no
shoot.”

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Which is most interesting. Do you suppose we can have peace among men of good will by just doing it?

I also liked this snip:

<begin snip>

My name is Francis Tolliver, in Liverpool I dwell
Each Christmas come since World War I, I’ve learned its lessons well
That the ones who call the shots won’t be among the dead and lame
And on each end of the rifle we’re the same

<end snip>

Ain’t that the truth? The politicians that decide our fates live high on the hog for selling us down the river.

Where are the George Washingtons, the Jeffersons, and the dollar a year men?

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RANT: over-the-counter meth laws claim an early innocent

Sunday, December 24, 2006

http://reason.com/blog/show/117494.html

Man Arrested for Allergies
Radley Balko | December 24, 2006, 9:06am

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Those stupid over-the-counter meth laws claim an early innocent victim

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If this wasn’t so serious, it would be funny.

It makes no sense. Makes criminals out of good people. Kills children through “ad drugs” and collateral damage. AND, it takes away all our rights.

Let’s let the drug dealers compete with WalMart. Let everyone worry about their own problems. Get the gooferment out of our medicine chests. Prohibition of Alcohol didn’t work! It only took less than a decade for the people to recognize it.

End the “Drug War” now! It’s a bad joke.

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LIBERTY: putting all your money in gold and burying it will at least keep you whole

Sunday, December 24, 2006

http://reinkefj.newsvine.com/_news/2006/12/24/
494600-reviewjournalcom-opinion-vin-suprynowicz
-a-mission-for-further-economic-ruin?threadId=63373

http://tinyurl.com/yk9mqm

 

VIN SUPRYNOWICZ: A mission for further economic ruin

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How do we know the dollar supply is going up at 10 percent a year? We can’t be positive — Mr. Bernanke’s gang decided last February that we peasants no longer need to see this number, known as the “M-3 monetary aggregate.” But 10 percent is a reasonable extrapolation from other numbers still reported, and from what the Fed was doing 10 months ago — with even more furious printing activity likely to follow, as the proud authors of the Washington Fiscal Death Spiral seek to inflate their way out of the actuarial bankruptcy of Medicare and Social Security.

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Of the three things we need — honest money, private schools, and ending the dole — this article address the dishonest money we are currently using. At 10% inflation, we can’t keep anything. No wonder that real estate, stocks, collectibles, and commodities are off the chart!

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TECHNOLOGY: Free book summaries from WikiSummaries

Sunday, December 24, 2006

http://wikisummaries.org/Main_Page

WikiSummaries

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Free book summaries from WikiSummaries, that anyone can edit! WikiSummaries.org provides free summaries of books, plays and other written documents. This complements Wikipedia, which is already an excellent source of information on authors and brief book summaries. Where Wikipedia leaves off, WikiSummaries will continue with character profiles, detailed chapter summaries, study questions, important quotes, analysis of metaphor and symbolism, etc.

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Neat idea. Only 37 titles to start but … look at wikopedia!

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