RANT: This has all the earmarks of a boondoggle

Friday, March 2, 2007

http://nbs.gmnews.com/news/2007/0301/Front_page/002.html

http://tinyurl.com/2tnxlt

S.B.’s SMART idea to alleviate traffic
Twp. in final stages of plans to operate own bus system
BY CHRIS GAETANO
Staff Writer

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In an effort to alleviate a growing concern about traffic in South Brunswick, local and state officials are busy hashing out the final details of a commuter bus service that would run throughout the township.

The system, according to Mayor Frank Gambatese, is going to be called SMART, which stands for South Brunswick Municipal Area Residential Transit. This name won out over other prospective titles such as the SBUS and the INTS. According to Gambatese, the township will receive nine buses for this program.

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This will bear watching. The gooferment gets into the bus business?

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TECHNOLOGY: DELL doesn’t wow me with their “fulfillment’!

Friday, March 2, 2007

DELL really annoyed me. I ordered a disk drive and the kit to make it a usb. And paid for it to be expressed.

DELL took the order together. Didn’t mention anything about a delay.

The next day when my stuff doesn’t arrive. I look into it.

Backorder on the drive?

It’s a standard XPS drive.

And, they just told me that they shipped the kit which is useless without the drive which may ship next Tuesday.

Argh!

When I get everything I am planning to clone the drive and reinstall XP from scratch.

Till then I’ll have to tolerate the XP lockups. Argh!

Argh!

Sigh.

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LIBERTY: End the dole and let us all come and go as we please

Friday, March 2, 2007

http://irisheagle.blogspot.com/2007/02/barring-jimmy-murphy.html

Monday, February 26, 2007
Barring Jimmy Murphy

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Poor Jimmy Murphy should have known better, but he didn’t. He shouldn’t have returned home to visit his family while he was waiting for his green card.

I can see how this whole thing came about. He’s living in Iowa, his wife’s expecting a baby and they find a good deal on tickets to Shannon and they buy them. What with a baby coming who knows when they’ll be able to come again.

Unfortunately for Murphy, when his visit home was over the US authorities refused him permission to reenter the country. This is the kind of story that drives me nuts. Yes the law is the law and the law should be enforced, but there are details here that just sound mean.

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One of these days we will realize that the laws meant to keep Jimmy out will keep us in.

End the dole and end the need for “immigration control”!

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INTERESTING: A “yes” for “doctor no”

Friday, March 2, 2007

http://chuckbaldwinlive.com/c2007/
cbarchive_20070227.html

Why Do Evangelicals Ignore Ron Paul?
by Chuck Baldwin
February 27, 2007

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Evangelical Christians are already beginning the process of selecting the Republican presidential candidate whom they can anoint as their successor to George W. Bush. Somehow, evangelicals have this deluded idea that President Bush is one of them. How they came to this delusion both fascinates and escapes me. Bush is anything but one of them. However, most evangelicals believe he is, and today it seems that illusion is greater than reality, anyway. Bush proves that more than anyone I have ever known.

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I have made a small contribution to the Ron Paul campaign and I hope he runs.

http://www.ronpaulexplore.com/

Take a look. Anyone who routinely votes “no” on a 414-1 basis gets my vote. (They don’t call him “doctor no” for nothing!)

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LIBERTY: let’s have fewer direct elections, save lots of money, and get more freedom?

Friday, March 2, 2007

http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0601e.asp

Democracy Versus Freedom
by Jarret B. Wollstein, Posted May 1, 2006

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Vote fraud is massive, opposition candidates are often beaten or murdered by government thugs, and a small elite controls all power. Citizens have little freedom, but lots of poverty.

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If one looks at “voting”, perhaps we are going at this in all the wrong way.

In the US, we have lots of elections. Maybe we need “fewer”.

My thought is that we have a hierarchy of Municipality > County > State > Federal. Perhaps, we need Street -> Area added to the bottom.

My suggestion is that we on Tyne Court — all six houses have an election for Tyne Court Representative. Every named street does the same thing. Together they all comprise the Area of Upper Kendall Park. So, then Upper Kendall Park has an organizing election for representative. The Tyne Court rep gets to cast 17 votes (the total headcount who live on tyne Court) for a candidate.

So Tyne Court elects a rep, who elects an Upper kendall Park rep, who elects a municipal rep, who elects a county rep, who elects a state rep, who elects a federal rep, who elects a “king”.

;-)

Seriously fewer direct elections.

One man one vote is preserved by voting based on “proxies”.

I think it would be better than the nonsense we have now.

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WRITING: Having a _(blank)_ doesn’t make me a _(blank)_!

Friday, March 2, 2007

Interesting “finding” yesterday. I wanted to find a good sample of “concepts” to steal.

It was all around the meme: Having a _(blank)_ doesn’t make me a _(blank)_!

A friend (Yes, I have one! TYVM) said “You’re a writer, my friend”.

So I want to write a jaunty response like:

Having a book makes me no more a writer than … …

To which I drew a blank! All I could come up with was some lame ones.

> Having sold three copies doesn’t make me a writer.
> Having some Gold coins doesn’t makes me rich
> It’s as if having a Degree doesn’t makes me a Professional
> Having a Computer doesn’t makes me an Expert
> Having a Friend doesn’t makes me feel like I have a life.

I tried Google, but didn’t come up with any pithy witty rejoinders.

After I slept on it, I can add:

Having a child doesn’t make me a parent.
Having a kid doesn’t make me a goat.
Having a car doesn’t make me a driver.

Having a blog doesn’t make me any smarter, but it does expose my ignorance to 200 of my closest “friends” and spammers.

:-)

 

 

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