http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOq5yHDkQgY
I loved this video. It’s the little people speaking out. Think the gooferment will get the message?
INTERESTING: The “Ministry of Love” sends 1984 to politicians!
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LIBERTY: we’ll wind up with BOTH the “far tax”, a bad hidden sales tax, AND the income tax
Sunday, February 11, 2007FAIRTAX NEWS
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Congressman John Linder (R-Ga), co-author of The FairTax Book and the father of the FairTax in the U.S. Congress has shared some news with stalwart FairTax supporters. I received this email from him yesterday and thought I would share it with you:
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> See? The news from Washington isn’t all bad.
No it’s terrible. These fools think they are making the situation better.
Consider:
(1) Unless they repeal the 16th amendment, we’ll wind up with BOTH the “far tax”, a bad hidden sales tax, AND the income tax.
(2) It increase the dole. Everyone in the USA will be getting a check and conditioned to “get something for nothing” from DC.
(3) Create work for a whole new class of bureaucrats. Social Security will need new staff to send out these checks. The IRS will need more staff to catch “cheaters”.
(4) It rearranges the deck chairs on the Titanic by doing nothing to reduce the size and cost of gooferment.
(5) It revalidates (i.e., reauthorizes) the idea that Americans approve of the slavery of taxation, the theft of property, the abuse of government, because the majority of voters voted for these fools in DC.
Arghhh,
Fjohn
LIBERTY: REALID is real bad
Sunday, February 11, 2007Stopping the Real ID Train
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Is it possible? Yes, but it won’t be easy. For every state-level official who complains about the Real ID Act (and their objections usually center on the lack of funding for the law), others seem eager to pitch in and help — or even to make it “better”. Better for them, that is, not us.
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TECHNOLOGY: “Pimped out John” Not me. The latrine. The loo. Sigh, the other john.
Sunday, February 11, 2007http://www.profy.com/2007/02/10/web20-flushed/
Breaking News – Web 2.0 in the Toilet!
Posted by Phil Butler on February 10th, 2007
Filed in General, Technologies, Web 2.0, Press releases
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Roto-Rooter® has arrived on the scene in the nick of time and has developed a customized, one of a kind throne! This new “Pimped out John”, as it has been dubbed, is designed to fulfill all of our bathroom dreams. Roto-Rooter will build this shining monument to productivity to the lucky winner of their online sweepstakes. Everyone is invited to participate and anyone can win a throne fit for a king! It should be obvious how far we have come.
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Now I have heard people at work, in the stall, talking on their cell, tapping on their berries, and reading the traditional newspaper. I’ve even read about the toilet for Japanese women that play disguising music. (I would have thought women were much more practical.)
But, clearly fmpov, this is taking tech too far.
Besides, from my career in the military, I know you could never clean it. But, then you can never clean anything to a Drill Instructor’s, a mother’s, a wife’s, or any woman’s standard.
But, this ever strains my credibility.
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TECHNOLOGY: Tor — an acronym for The Onion Router
Saturday, February 10, 2007http://chronicle.com/temp/email2.php?id=zht45qPrsddjvvgfcjwWPjxhFwqxyfVX
OBSERVER
Caught in the Network
By PAUL CESARIN
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Tor — an acronym for The Onion Router — is a freely available, open-source program developed by the U.S. Navy about a decade ago. A browser plug-in, it thwarts online traffic analysis and related forms of Internet surveillance by sending your data packets through different routers around the world. As each packet moves from one router to the next, it is encoded with encrypted routing information, and the previous layer of such information is peeled away — hence the “onion” in the name.
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Everyone should be trying that.
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GUNS: “Saturday Night Special” aka poor minority women are disarmed
Saturday, February 10, 2007http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig7/tonso4.html
‘Unspeak’ and the Gun Prohibitionists by William R. Tonso
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Isn’t it interesting that while the Founders trusted the citizenry more than they trusted government, ongoing attempts to ban military-style “assault weapons” and bullets that can penetrate the body armor of the armed agents of government indicate that nowadays a significant part of the ruling class we’re not supposed to have would have us trust government more than the citizenry?
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Yup, while it may be too soon to start the Third American Revolution, we should at least recapture the high moral ground of language. We would do well to learn from Pre-Hitler Germany. For those who say it can’t happen here — Japanese Internment, Ruby Ridge, Waco. For those who say not now — free speech zones, Military Commissions Act, the new Berlin Wall for the Mexican border, and the erosions of our Bill of Rights. Maybe that revolution might be sooner rather than later?
JOBSEARCH: An email advising a newly-minted baby turkey
Saturday, February 10, 2007An email to a fellow who just got nuked form his government job.
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Dear So and So,
http://home.comcast.net/~v2y2r0n27rhj6y/TURKEY/index.htm
My “turkey farm” is my series of webpages that I use for counseling newly minted turkeys.
Turkeys are those good people who get nuked from their jobs. It’s a loving term from the first time it happened to me. The first time I was fired, I was sent to the “outplacement firm”. I ran into a group of guys, much wiser than I, who welcomed me to the “turkey farm”. We were all turkeys went the popular wisdom, having been axed by our employers as valueless to that organization. Or at least less valuable than the salary one was drawing. Everyone would rejoinder “Oh not I. I’m different! I did X, Y, and Z.” in a defensive manner. But, they’d be “gobbled” down, by a chorus of gobbling fools, because by being there it was defacto evidence that they were a “turkey”. Hence when it happened to me, I embraced my “turkey-ness” and learned as much as I could. I’ve been “nuked” FIVE times — fired twice, set myself up to leave twice, and a once by mutual agreement — in my career. Each time it was a “blessing”. Painful, but still a great blessing. I used the severance to open my first consulting business. And would have never done it without the “push”.
It’s not easy to admit that I am a “turkey”. I believe that it will happen at least once more. (Strangely, perversely, I’d welcome the severance payment.) So, I’m a “turkey in waiting who is getting a paycheck right now”, but I have no illusion about corporate loyalty. The winds of change can make my version of “left handed paper hanging” obsolete overnight. I KNOW I could be “outside” looking “in” in a heartbeat.
But, now I am a wise old turkey. And, I share the principles of “turkey-ness” with baby turkeys. One wag, now employed after accepting some of my foolishness, called me the “turkey master”. Like Yoda, making “turkey warriors”. He also called me a “turkey baster” (for pouring ideas, time, and attention over him until some of it stuck). He also accused me of “stuffing” him with “stuff” (data, info, knowledge, and wisdom?) about being a “turkey” until it was popping out all over. I’ve also been accused of giving “baby turkeys” whiplash when I deluge them with my “stuff”. The analogy is the “baby turkey” is standing by the road hitchhiking, and I zoom by, grab them by the thumb, and make them run to keep up.
When you were “in”, I was giving you some of my particular brand of thinking. Now that you are “out”, you’re still welcome to it.
I don’t envy the road you have to travel. It’s hard to pick yourself up metaphorically and emotionally, dust yourself off, and get moving again. Some people NEVER do it. They are consumed by the past, what could have been, and how they were wronged. In your case, I think that a certain amount of effort is worthwhile in consulting with people about your particular situation. With a State job, it may be possible to “go home again”, I don’t know. At the very least, it may be possible to extract a settlement, better severance, another State job, or some other kind of windfall. But, at some point, you will have to move beyond where you were Thursday and today. It nature. You can’t feast on yesterday’s kill forever.
I hope that getting back on “your road” is quick and easier than it was for me. Every time I “fall”, it seems to hurt more because I know enough that I should have seen that “bump” coming.
Best wishes, advise how I can help,
FJR
The big fat old turkey
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Of course, I extend the offer to all.
Use the “force”.
“Do, or do not. There is no TRY!”
Turkeys are just eagles who don’t know how to soar yet?
Yeah, I know, knock off the “turkeying” around and get back to real work.
By The Way, speaking of me as the BFOT {Big Fat Old Turkey!} have you heard of my new LinkedIn_New_Jersey effort?
No? http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/LINKEDIN_NEW_JERSEY is yet another of my “get ready for your next transition” projects. Why not get all the New Jersey people to come to a yahoo group and network. Beats me trying to find them all by myself. Build it and they will come. ;-)
L8r.
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PRODUCTIVITY: Starting next week I’m going to do one task in each genre towards my long term goal
Friday, February 9, 2007Sunday – COACHING
Monday – CONSULTING
Tuesday – CODING
Wednesday – INVENTING
Thursday – LEARNING
Friday – TEACHING
Saturday – WRITING
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INTERESTING: FUP Exodus army of shmoes quote
Friday, February 9, 2007What was the quote from the movie starring Kurt Douglas and written by Leon Urris?
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WRITING: My Turkey Book
Friday, February 9, 2007Reformulate website content into a book?
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