http://www.nichegeek.com/
10_unconventional_but_successful_online_homebusiness_ideas
Interesting idea, but fraught with ne’er do wells.
INTERESTING: Use the web to start a biz
Friday, February 23, 2007
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XPfails – luggable – GADWIN PRINT SCREEN v3.5 – It has to be XP!
Friday, February 23, 2007For some reason, after several months of use, now when I start GPS35, it doesn’t appear to “do” anything. It doesn’t splash. It takes memory. (I can see it in XP’s process list.) But, it just doesn’t do anything anymore. I’ve uniunstalled and reinstalled. Help?
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TECHNOLOGY: Why don’t people offer an OPML as opposed to a list
Thursday, February 22, 2007When discussing bloggers, why don’t people cite an OPML as opposed to a list?
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LIBERTY: Restore the 22nd as Washington’s birthday
Thursday, February 22, 2007http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/George%20Washington
George Washington
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Washington warns against foreign influence in domestic affairs and American meddling in European affairs. He warns against bitter partisanship in domestic politics and called for men to move beyond partisanship and serve the common good. He called for an America wholly free of foreign attachments, as the United States must concentrate only on American interests. He counseled friendship and commerce with all nations, but warned against involvement in European wars and entering into long-term alliances. The address quickly set American values regarding religion and foreign affairs, and his advice was often repeated in political discourse well into the twentieth century; not until the 1949 formation of NATO would the United States again sign a treaty of alliance with a foreign nation. Washington strictures against political parties were ignored at the time and ever since.
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Truly the greatest President.
Like the movie Lord of the Rings, he declined to take the “one ring that controls them all” and voluntarily relinquished power in the American Experiment when all wanted him to take it.
I think we have done him a vast disservice when we merged the tyrant Lincoln into shallow President’s Day.
I’d suggest that we restore February 22nd as Washington’s Birthday, delist Lincoln, and make it not a federal holiday, but a day when his writings are READ to every federal “employee”.
Arghhh!
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RANT: NJ cuts back item in car inspections
Thursday, February 22, 20071015 reported this morning that the NJ MVC was going to not fail cars for minor windshield cracks (gotten while on their crappy roads?), watery headlights, and other such items.
Argh!
Why is the State gooferment inspecting cars?
Well they have DO something to justify the money they waste. Can NOT tell you home many cars I see that are rolling with smoke coming out or been followed by out of alignment headlights. And the trucks.
Clearly, they have been failing cars for these “trivial reasons” up to now. What changed?
And, they will warn you that you can be stopped and ticketed for these violations. Could it be revenue raising?
Or, what?
Clearly, the condition of your vehicle is between you and your insurance company.
The state has no role in it. And, even if they did, they are the Gooferment.
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LIBERTY: Increasing State budget; Decreasing my freedom
Thursday, February 22, 20071015 news this morning reported that the Guv was pitching a 7½% increase in the state budget with “no tax increase”.
Now I may be an “injineer”, but I know a tax increase when I hear one. Where to people think that money is going to come from?
There was also the whine about state workers having to pay 1½% towards their benefits.
And, the news mentions the 2B$ budget short fall next year.
Here’s a clue! Stop spending NOW.
It’s simple, Stop.
I bet when the Guv was on wall street, he had zero based budgeting exercises. A famous wall street strategy is “just say no”. Not no to drugs. No to any spending at all. Those drills were famous and epidemic. If Merrill did it today, you were assured that Goldman would do it tomorrow.
So, here’s a little list of some “modest steps” for the guv to take:
(1) No increase in spending by anyone. No cuts in taxpayer services allowed. you want to be a honcho with the state figure it out.
(2) No pensions for anyone. 401ks for all. Recognition bonds for obligation we have incurred. But zero going forward.
(3) Half pay for all state executives and legislators when the budget and the budget forecast isn’t in balance. (Betcha that gets fixed faster than a Jersey pothole!)
(4) End the dole. No one collects from the state. Wean everyone off the “welfare”. That includes corporate and charitable and “insurance”.
(5) End the propagandizing of the youth. No more gooferment skools. Privatize now. Put a transition plan in place for the state to get out of the education and education financing business.
How’s that for a start, guv?
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INTERESTING: Recent surge in readership volume
Thursday, February 22, 2007I have been getting a huge surge in readership. WordPress is telling me that I’m getting over a hundred a day readers and over 40 a day “feed-ings” (feed readers). I am truly humbled. Not all of them can be spammers and harvesters? I don’t have that many relatives who need to see if I have taken my meds.
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LINKEDIN: Make your profile link “personal”
Thursday, February 22, 2007I like LinkedIn.
And I think people make a mistake when they don’t complete their profile.
But, I think they make an EVEN bigger mistake, when they don’t simplify the url to their public profile.
For example, mine is http://www.linkedin.com/in/reinkefj and it’s easy.
I use the character string “reinkefj” on everything.
So, if you were on AOL and wanted to IM me, I’m “reinkefj”. Want to send me a GMail or a yahoo in, yup, it’s “reinkefj”.
So why would I have public liinkedin profile that was /b32/0/7/ something?
All you have to do is:
(1) Go to the LinkedIn main page.
(2) Tap on “MyProfile” (Tab #6).
(3) Tap on “Edit My Public Profile” (tab #2).
(4) Then by the URL for your public profile, tap on “Edit”.
(5) The screen morphs into a filling box.
(6) You can choose a descriptive ending.
(7) Tap on “Set Address” and you’re done.
Now I suggest that you choose wisely (Like Indy was told in the “holy grail” move). I’d avoid “big stud”, “sexy lady”, or anything other than your last name. But that the details and it’s your problem.
It about being easy to find and easy to do business with. A memorable simple url for your public LinkedIn profile won’t get you your next check. But, a bad one might prevent a payday!
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INTERESTING: Go to sleep – or you’ll grow up short and fat
Wednesday, February 21, 2007http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/our_experts/article1362805.ece
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A generation of children brought up in Britain in the Thirties were regularly warned that if they didn’t go to bed on time, and instead stayed up all hours of the night as they did when on holiday in Italy and France, they would end up stunted. Any hope of us achieving the first rugby XV, or growing to a height that would enable us to find useful employment, would be forfeited. We had to eat up our good plain food and have 12 hours’ sleep even when aged 10 or 11, and ten hours during adolescence.
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So that’s what happened to me!
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INTERESTING: Every platform should have it’s own email address
Wednesday, February 21, 2007Using multiple platforms is a pia. It really requires thought about everything one does. That’s one advantage of web based applications. Unfortunately we based apps can change (i.e., disappear, morph into someone or something else, or change their operation) that make it not suitable for “production”. Web based apps can lock up your data as well. So to, multiple platforms may not be identical in the various dimensions (i.e., user, platform, application, data, or connectivity). It would seem useful to have each platform monitoring a unique email address. Anything found on one platform could then be transmitted to the others via those email addresses. It’s an insecure medium so encryption is important. And, since the ids should never be used outside the closed community, spam shouldn’t be an issue. Comments?
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TECHNOLOGY: Now what is the impact of blogging?
Wednesday, February 21, 2007http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/02/21/nemail21.xml
Recovery programme for email addicts
By Sarah Womack, Social Affairs Correspondent
Last Updated: 2:32am GMT 21/02/2007
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Alcoholics have a 12-step programme to tackle their addiction, drug addicts too, and now there is one for those addicted to email.
***AND***
Email users suffered a 10 per cent drop in IQ scores, more than twice the fall recorded by marijuana users.
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If email is 10%, then blogging must be 20%.
Like all addictions, you have to wait until the poor soul hits rock bottom. So when I start liking politicians, pop stars, and myself, then take away my keyboard.
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RANT: Mexico exports poverty to the US .. .. give me a break!
Tuesday, February 20, 2007FROM THE MLPF GROUP
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If we are speaking of the U.S standard of living, then there are some facts that cannot be avoided. Our so-called neighbor Mexico, should list “poverty” as their number 1 export to the United States. The depression of wages by caused by the ability to pay less than market value wages to illegal immigrants is a fact. Our health care system is teetering on collapse because of the ongoing illegal invasion and people who cannot pay their fair share of health costs. Of course, they are not supposed to be here in the first place because they have not taken the legal course to immigrate to our country. Let me also send this little jewel of knowledge out as well. The title is, “An American Suicide”.
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I don’t want to drag the group into a political discussion. But, the “mexico exporting poverty” comment makes me crazed. The USA’s version of socialism is what causes the problem. Welfare for everyone! Done at the expense of the productive class with absurd taxation (theft by force). Supported by paper money not backed by anything that destroys thrift. And producing sheep people with a “public education system” that would make a German National Socialist and a Communist equally pleased. So, if you think that “importing Mexican poverty” is the problem, then put a giant plastic bag over the Statue of Liberty. After all your relatives got here before you slammed the “golden door” shut behind you. No, my list mates, the problem isn’t that we import “mexican poverty”. The problem is that we have forgotten what this country great. Individuals took responsibility for their choices. It was only when we started thinking that the government could morally do something we couldn’t ourselves. When we learned that we could steal from our fellow citizens via the ballot box. When we fell victim to the siren’s song of a fiat currency unbacked by anything that allowed the government to spend whatever it wanted. That’s when we started down the slippery slope towards socialism. It took 70 years for the Communist USSR to self-destruct. It should be our turn soon. I notice that the writer didn’t discuss that the USA exports inflation to the globe by printing unbacked “Federal Reserve Notes” and sending them overseas for real products. That we “meddle” in everyone’s business. And, that “the great American Experiment” has failed. Guess he didn’t notice: That Habeas Corpus has been suspended by WashingtonDC. That at least half of everyone’s earnings is stolen from them in taxes. (No one can tell the real number because the politicians have done a great job pulling the wool over our eyes.) That we have deficits, unfunded liabilities, and a ton of post dated checks that will eventually come due. And, yet we still blissfully kid ourselves that it is the poor Mexican coming here to make a better life than he can have in Mexico is the source of all our ills. Sorry, but that makes me crazed. fjohn
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TECHNOLOGY: BLOGDESK suggestion … … everyone’s a comic!
Tuesday, February 20, 2007<Removed by request of the author>
Note: I did reduce the autosave from 5 to 1.
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Follow up: I didn’t think that there could be any offense taken by sharign what was a very good joke on me. I griped that his software could protect me from my own network losing my post. He correctly pointed out that I could have just saved it BEFORE I pushed “send”. I thought it was funny. He seems to object. He’s a good guy, with a good free product, and I want him to know I thought it would make people laff at me, not him and his product. Maybe it’s an “international thing”. I appologize for my presumption.
The only saving grace is that I don’t have a big readership. Heck even my Mom doesn’t read this stuff. That’s why I had to put it in a book. That, and to torture my friends and relatives with a “white elephant”. ;-) With all the polite comments thanking me, when under their breath they probably think I’ve lost my mind?
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FUN: What IS special about 226?
Tuesday, February 20, 2007http://www.stetson.edu/~efriedma/numbers.html
Perhaps it is that it is the first number with nothing special about it?
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JOBSEARCH: Looking for the ‘holy grail” of unified contact management
Tuesday, February 20, 2007XING doesn’t allow an import.
JIBBERJOBBER couldn’t figure out how to set Contact Category.
LINKEDIN has “invitations” and doesn’t allow me to assemble or annotate.
Argh!
ACT50 doesn’t import other contact files.
ZOHO CRM wouldn’t take me.
THINKFREE has no contact import.
LIBERTY: Gay marriage arrives in New Jersey
Tuesday, February 20, 2007Ahh, wouldn’t governor mcgoofey be proud. Seriously, I think this is wrong. Not the fact that we now have “civil unions”, but why is the gooferment involved in marriage at all!
Rooted in the deep south, in a desire to keep black men from marrying white women, it has morphed into yet another gooferment intrusion.
Marriage is whatever a group of people believe it is and define it for their own purposes. Be it a life long vow blessed by God never to be broken, a financial contract with force backing it up, or musical beds by Hollywood “stars”. Why is it the government’s business? I have no right to stick my nose in your business. Nor you into mine. Unless I want your approval, support, and solidarity, then you and I can come to an agreement about what are the terms of our mutual understanding. If the Church wants to set standards for their membership that’s their prerogative. If the VFW does it, that’s theirs. Why have we allowed the gooferment into this facet of our life?
The thing I object to is being forced to pay for stuff I don’t agree with. And, the list of things that I am forced to pay for by armed thugs in Washington DC, Trenton, New Brunswick, South Brunswick Township, Ocean County, Seaside Heights, and just about most places I pass thru is astoundingly long.
I remember going to the Mafia controlled areas of Little Italy in downtown sync in my younger days. It was safe and clean. The “police” were very polite. But there was no doubt that you were on their “turf”.
At least they didn’t shake me down like the gooferment today does.
So, bottom line, if the gooferment has to use force, then it is probably not a good idea. Because if it was, no force would be required.
Tell me again why we have “government marriage”, “civil unions”, or any such gooferment intrusion into our lives? Could it all be about control, tracking, and revenue collection?
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TECHNOLOGY: GOTOMYPC has true one time passwords
Monday, February 19, 2007Have to give them credit for a real security enhancement. And it seems to work well.
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RANT: College “amateur” athletes
Monday, February 19, 2007I find it hard to get excited about men’s college basketball because of the student athlete issue. You know “graduates who can’t read” or “four year starters leaving without a diploma”.
The NCAA is nothing more than a government sponsored monopoly.
Argh! UofM, Rutgers, and all the other gooferment schools taking my tax money by force to play a game? RU just bought Sciano the fball coach a new house. Arghh!
The “schools” make grazillions out of the labors of unpaid athletes. And, when their time is up, they get hurt, or “offend”, over the side they go.
It’s a new form of slavery.
Don’t find it just a little ironic when a lilly white student body of a “prestigious” school are cheering for their non-white “warriors” in a meaningless “game”.
I wonder what MLK would have said?
I admire their skill, their training, and their spirit. I just don’t think they are getting a fair shake. Just as I admire a marathoner from Kenya, a Russian chess grandmaster, or anyone who can do anything I can’t.
I just think a “little” reform is in order.
At least with the Jasper basketball players of Manhattan College, I know that brother President personally reviews their academics. I’ve talked to many of the graduates and I’d hire them tomorrow.
Now if all college presidents were as honest!
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XPfails – luggable – BLOGDESK locks up posting
Monday, February 19, 2007The post was lost. And, eventually the box locked. Argh!
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WRITING: I’ve been invited; no paycheck but an audience.
Monday, February 19, 2007http://south-brunswick.blogspot.com/
The Blog of South Brunswick
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The Blog of South Brunswick is sponsored by the South Brunswick Post and designed to give residents of the township a chance to comment on what is happening at the local, state and federal level. It is a companion blog to Post Managing Editor Hank Kalet’s Channel Surfing.
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I’ve been invited to post at the “Blog of South Brunswick”. No contract, no commitment. But, it does give my voice some volume. :-) Think they know what they got themselves into?
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RANT: President’s Day?
Monday, February 19, 2007I can understand honoring Washington.
I could even understand MLK as America’s Gandhi.
I can’t understand Lincoln.
Never could. Got in trouble all thru school about Lincoln because of that belief. Fellow named Lorenzo wrote a great book about it.
I was accused of being a Southerner at heart. All thought it was funny to watch the good Brother turn red when referring to the “Civil War”, I’d call it “the Second American Revolution”, the “Southern Rebellion against Northern Tyranny”, or the “End of the American Experiment in Liberty”.
;-)
Great fun. I was always polite and respectful. Hence didn’t draw smacks, raps, beatings, or “punish lessons”.
It was even more fun when the topic of the Irish Rebellion, the Green versus the Orange, and England out of Ireland would come up in the current events discussion. Then, the good Brothers, being mostly Irish Catholics, were all too ready to look at it from the loser’s side. The oppressed side, The injured side.
Great fun. To inquire why this was different.
At least, all the state workers weren’t on the road to Trenton this morning.
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FUN: How I’d change baseball!
Monday, February 19, 2007RE: Scuffing baseball could lead to 10-game suspension for non-pitchers – MLB – Yahoo! Sports
Why don’t they ever make the rules changes I propose. I’d change the extra inning rule that EITHER the team that scored the tying run wins (rewarding catching up) OR the team that scores the tying run loses (rewarding getting to that score first).
And, I’d figure out how to play the game without zebras!
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RANT: You never find your last typo in that “perfect” resume
Monday, February 19, 2007There’s a programmer’s proverb that “You never find the last bug!”
But that’s no excuse to stop looking for it.
wellđ
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INTERESTING: Baseball rules changes
Sunday, February 18, 2007http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ap-ruleschanges&prov=ap&type=lgns
Scuffing baseball could lead to 10-game suspension for non-pitchers
February 16, 2007
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NEW YORK (AP) — A major league position player who scuffs or defaces a baseball would be ejected and receive an automatic 10-game suspension under changes approved Friday by the sport’s playing rules committee.
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I like baseball. Don’t know why. Not on tv. Not with distractions. But there are somethings I don’t like. Domes.
Or any game with umpires, referee, or judges. It just seems that the politics of human beings gets in the way of the sport. Was it a foul or wasn’t it. Who did what first. And, my particular favorite in bball, the second foul gets called.
I like games where it’s absolute like how far did you throw that caber. a caber is the big heavy Scottish stick that drunken Scotsmen and other celts throw around for fun. No ref. The contestants measure the divot the darn thing leaves. There are no arguments since it’s usually obvious to the naked eye just whose hole is where. That’s my kind of “referee – less” game!
In baseball, the umpire can really screw a player, manager, and team. The sport needs a feedback loop. I don’t know how to construct it. But, I’m tired of seeing games decided by “zebra ball”.
It’s amusing when the technology shows you the exact path of the ball and the umpire’s call doesn’t match the box. You can usually tell when the call is wrong because the TV folks don’t show the box on THOSE pitches. Only on the ones that confirm the umpire on a close call.
Sheesh, like I didn’t notice it was a bad call. It’s dishonest TV reporting.
And, you trust these guys to report news or entertain you?
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LIBERTY: Stop the gooferment’s indoctrination of future voters into the worship of the gooferment itself
Sunday, February 18, 2007Bush Reintroduces School Voucher Plan
Tue Jan 23, 2007 7:31 PM EST
Nancy Zuckerbrod, AP Writer
A-P White House correspondent Mark Smith reports the president is looking to domestic issues in tonight’s speech as a possible path for cooperation with Congress.
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The Bush administration is calling on Congress to make changes to the No Child Left Behind law, including placing more emphasis on science and giving poor students private school vouchers.
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(1) The gooferment should have NO role in propagandizing future voters about the “government is your Friend and Protector” (right up until it kills you!)
(2) It’s immoral to steal from taxpayers to “eddeycate” other people’s children (It’s just more welfare!)
(3) One plank of the Commie Manifesto was public schools to make “cannon fodder ready” compliant sheep for shearing and killing as needed.
End socialism now! It will impoverish us, enslave us, and eventually kill us and whatever made America great — liberty.
This is one of my big three demands: End the dole! Give us honest money! Stop “public education”. It one of our three biggest challenges to freedom.
NEWSVINE: http://tinyurl.com/2jma8b
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RANT: Washington Post exposes neglect of the combat vets. Disgraceful.
Sunday, February 18, 2007http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article
/2007/02/17/AR2007021701172.html
Soldiers Face Neglect, Frustration At Army’s Top Medical Facility
By Dana Priest and Anne Hull
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, February 18, 2007; Page A01
Five and a half years of sustained combat have transformed the venerable 113-acre Walter Reed Army Medical Center into a holding ground for physically and psychologically damaged outpatients.
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Behind the door of Army Spec. Jeremy Duncan’s room, part of the wall is torn and hangs in the air, weighted down with black mold. When the wounded combat engineer stands in his shower and looks up, he can see the bathtub on the floor above through a rotted hole. The entire building, constructed between the world wars, often smells like greasy carry-out. Signs of neglect are everywhere: mouse droppings, belly-up cockroaches, stained carpets, cheap mattresses.
This is the world of Building 18, not the kind of place where Duncan expected to recover when he was evacuated to Walter Reed Army Medical Center from Iraq last February with a broken neck and a shredded left ear, nearly dead from blood loss. But the old lodge, just outside the gates of the hospital and five miles up the road from the White House, has housed hundreds of maimed soldiers recuperating from injuries suffered in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The common perception of Walter Reed is of a surgical hospital that shines as the crown jewel of military medicine. But 5 1/2 years of sustained combat have transformed the venerable 113-acre institution into something else entirely — a holding ground for physically and psychologically damaged outpatients. Almost 700 of them — the majority soldiers, with some Marines — have been released from hospital beds but still need treatment or are awaiting bureaucratic decisions before being discharged or returned to active duty.
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This is inexcusable. And, people think the gooferment “cares”! It cares about itself. Not it’s “castaways”. I’d house the President here for the remainder of his term. And, I’d put the next one there to! Think it’d get fixed? If it didn’t then I’d really wonder what the gooferment could do about anything,
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Here’s my note on Newsvine. Please highlight the story by voting it up.
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Maybe the story can get some action if it gets some traction. I’m sure the politicians of both ilks will just wish it away. No votes to be had solving it. No big campaign contributions from these vets or their families. No good can come out of it for them. Maybe it can be voted up into the conscience of America. It we still have one?
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