RANT: AG steps on his tongue

Saturday, March 10, 2007

http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/base/
news-11/117350711362280.xml&coll=1

http://tinyurl.com/ywmghx

AG has less objectionable plan for drunken-driving test
Saturday, March 10, 2007
BY ROBERT SCHWANEBERG
Star-Ledger Staff

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Attorney General to drunken-driving patrols: never mind.

In a quick about-face, the Attorney General’s Office issued revised procedures yesterday for police administering the Alcotest 7110 to suspected drunken drivers after 2 a.m. tomorrow , when daylight-saving time arrives three weeks earlier than in the past.

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Oh I see, falsifying the “evidence” is not acceptable … ever.

Your gooferment in action!

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LIBERTY: Socialism is the biggest threat to the American Experiment

Saturday, March 10, 2007

http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2007/03/07/
the-coming-economic-collapse-of-the-united-states/

http://tinyurl.com/37ge2e

The coming economic collapse of the United States
By Michael Hampton
Posted: March 7, 2007 11:58 pm

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In summary, the welfare state that the socialists built here from the 1930s (after they destroyed the money supply and created an artificial depression) is going to do the same thing it did when they built it in the Soviet Union. And if their example is any guide, it won’t take until 2040 for the nation’s economy to collapse utterly. It will be sudden and unexpected. It will be horrific. Millions of Americans will die, never knowing what happened. But if you’ve read this far, you will know why: In a word, socialism.

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As a nation, we are heading down the road to a financial disaster. As a people, we have forgotten what made this country great. As an economy, we’ve allowed the political class to sell us down the river.

It would seem that a sound money strategy is the only way to prepare for the rocky road ahead.

We should study the prelude to the Great Depression and the German Hyperinflation as clues to what we will face.

Seed Newsvine

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FUN; FACEBOOK BADGE

Saturday, March 10, 2007

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JOBSEARCH: Don’t discount age in search time

Saturday, March 10, 2007

I guess I was 40 when it first slapped me in the face. A Wall Street HR type, bluntly, unprofessionally, and oblivious to the fact I might be wired, told me to my face that I was “too old” for Wall Street.

Actually the bozo did my a favor.

I immediately updated my emergency fund formula with a factor for age. I put a multiplier in the calculation that guesstimated weeks to find a paycheck that was age specific.

(It’s currently still set at 30=1/40=1.5/45=2/50=3/55=4/60=5/65=6! I have no idea if that is the right setting, but you should see the newly minted turkeys eyes bug out when they catch a glimpse of that.)

In actuality, I am coming to the realization that at 65, all you’ll get is my career aspiration — to be the old fogy that’s the WalMart greeter. Seriously, maybe then I’ll get over being an introvert.

Point of emphasis, I think at these advanced ages, you ARE after all just one step from the nursing home and another step away from the grave, only likely to succeed in your own business.

As Amerika grays, I think those that can grasp the prejudice, like a nettle, will succeed. The rest will be eating dogfood and playing mahjong at some retirement village in lower slobbobia.

Depressing. “I coulda been a contenda!”

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XPfails – luggable – Lost DNS; shift to VWBBIE

Saturday, March 10, 2007

Apparently have lost DNS, shifted to VWBBIE, called “home”.

Time to think about OPENDNS again. Put it on the 2do.

VWBBIE feels downright “spritely”

Download Speed: 495 kbps (61.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 33 kbps (4.1 KB/sec transfer rate)

And, I even “see” that the venturi caching server is offline. Interesting.

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GUNS: Of course the Second Amendment recognizes an individual right.

Saturday, March 10, 2007

http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Federal/Read.aspx?id=2724

http://tinyurl.com/33zr23

D.C. Gun Ban Ruled Unconstitutional, Violates Individual Right To Own A Gun
Friday, March 09, 2007

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This week, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Second Amendment is an individual right and concluded that the District of Columbia’s ban on guns in the home is unconstitutional. According to the majority opinion, “[T]he phrase ‘the right of the people’…leads us to conclude that the right in question is individual.”

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In a victory for all the little people of the District, our right was affirmed.

Now let’s see what roadblocks the “state uber alles” throws in everyone’s way.

I find it hard to believe that it was 2-1. Send that judge back to private life. I bet she has an armed security detail everywhere she goes. Taxpayer funded of course. If I was a citizen of the District, then I’ve have demanded her recall. (Yes, it’s a she. Appointed by Regan!)

Of course, if I was a citizen of DC, I’d have moved eons ago.

Let’s face facts. Most of DC’s violence is caused by the “War on Drugs”. End drug prohibition and you’d end the violence. End the various wars on nonsense (drugs, gambling, prostitution, and all “victimless” crimes) and it would be a peace in minutes.

What does an out of work drug dealer do?

End welfare, absurd taxation, and ridiculous regulation as well.

You’d have a city that would rival Singapore in a matter of “minutes”. People would be moving to DC as opposed to fleeing from it.

And, maybe bribing politicians wouldn’t be its only industry.

With a tax, regulatory, and legal environment like that maybe we could make something useful there.

One can only dream!

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