No one wants us old guys any more; people just prefer to reinvent the wheel! And they are mired in stereotypes that an “old IT exec” longs for the days of CICS and the UNIX command line. Or was that days of UNIX and CICS command lines.
p.s., Funny as it sounds a hunter did contact me and ask if i was interested in doing CICS and Cobol maintenance. I don’t think they were planning on paying THAT much. But it was funny.
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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54697
Now let me tell you what I really think
Robert Ringer
Posted: March 15, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern
>(Based on the historical evidence, an outrageous person might suggest that we are but two nukes away from making close allies out of Iran and North Korea.)
One would hope that we would recognize that we have made two BIG mistakes before and hope that we’d learn.
If we weren’t mucking about in everyone’s business, then we wouldn’t have troops in (what is that number) ~170 countries. And, irregulars (i.e., spies, bureaucrats, politicians, and such) tripping over each other.
We’re dangerous enough to bring all the troops home and be immune to attack and invasion.
The Department of Defense should be limited to doing just that “defense”. Not nation building. Not meals on wheels. Not disaster relief.
>I hope my words today were straightforward enough for everyone to understand. As they say, be careful what you wish for, or you may get it.
Sure, we did real good in a traditional Third Generation War, gooferment against gooferment. Ignoring the fact that gooferment has been manipulating people since the War of Northern Aggression. (Wilson, elected on peace pledge, steers us into WW1. FDR steers us into WW2. etc, etc, etc.)
How well a gooferment can do in a Fourth Generation War against a state-less adversary appears to be in doubt. Your Third Generation War “solution” would work against North Korea or Iran (It’s a little tough on the innocent men, women, children, and animals in those countries. But what’s a little breakage. Collateral damage.) But it’s ineffective and inefficient in dealing with a Fourth Generation adversary. And, is meaningless in a Fifth Generation War where an armed motivated people oppose the gooferment on their own turf (i.e., note the Russian’s Afghan experience).
>I’ll bet a lot of readers now wish I would stick to being facetious rather than straightforward.
No, I wish you would stick to finding us moral, effective, and efficient answers to our problems.
I’d start with the principle of self-ownership and follow it to its logical conclusions. We have no moral right to drop your “solution” on North Korea, Iran, or California.
If we stopped meddling in the affairs of others, brought our troops home, and became a neutral “porcupine” like Switzerland, then everyone would be a lot happier.
If we ended the dole in the US (i.e., welfare for everybody and every business, regulations and laws that politicians put in to reward friends and punish enemies, taxing everything), then we’d be “wealthier” beyond our wildest dreams.
If we ended the gooferment’s skoolz, then we’d have the smartest people in the world for real (i.e., one wag calls skoolz “the government’s propaganda and reeducation pre-prisons”).
If we had honest money backed by gold and silver as the Constitution specified, then we end the inflation tax and return to the gerbil wheel of impoverishing ourselves and enriching the gooferment.
As with any porcupine, I’d just like everyone to be left alone
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Posted by reinkefj
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Gen. Pace vs. Parson Warner
Posted: March 15, 2007
Pat Buchanan
1:00 a.m. Eastern
Pat Buchanan looks at ‘gay’ comment by comparing moral authorities of 2 Marines
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What this uproar tells us is that America is no longer a moral community. On the most fundamental issues – abortion, promiscuity, homosexuality, euthanasia, sterilization, cloning, and the creation of, and buying and selling of, fetuses for research – we are at war. What part of the nation sees as progress, the other sees as depravity.
And where there is no moral community, there will not long be one country. For in a religious or culture war, there is no peaceful coexistence.
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Pat certainly has the ability to hit the nail on the head.
The problem is when we allow the gooferment to be a proxy for community. There is no “nation”; it’s a figment of a group imagination. There are only people.
When the gooferment uses force on us, that’s immoral.
If we were just left alone in peace to find our way, then we’d be so much better off. The problem is when we have to pay for things we don’t want, don’t agree with, or to which we are morally opposed. And every problem he cites is either caused by or exacerbate by the gooferment’s action.
See Pat is a socialist. He want his view of morality to be imposed on everyone. I’m a Libertarian; I want everyone left alone. I don’t want to participate in Pat’s morality. Nor Hillary Clinton’s. Nor Rudy’s. Nor yours.
It’s amazing how many problems go away when we just leave people alone as the dead old white guys tried give us.
My three hot buttons remain: the dole, honest money, and skoolz. Until we tackle those, we can’t reduce gooferment to a size where it really doesn’t matter what it wants to do.
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I write my alumni ezine Jasper Jottings (http://www.jasperjottings.com) and each week I struggle to get it done on time, in the time “allotted”, and with a certain level of quality.
Up to now, I have just used email as THE communication tool. I email out the issue with the help of a Yahoo group after I post it on the website. I receive email from my fellow alums for inclusion.
Up to my laptop getting winrot and Microsoft Word 2003 stopped working, I’d just create the document and add to it every day.
I “budgeted” about 2 hours a day for Jasper Jottings. (That’s 14 hours per week for a hobby!) Some weeks I was better than others as on time, in time, and quality.
In the last year, at the readership’s requests, I spun “sports” to a blog. But didn’t do it very well. Recently, a reader didn’t want more obits. Also, the message traffic has dwindled to a trickle.
So my satisfaction is dwindling.
I did come up with an idea that would make it all better. A silver bullet!
Instead of my current methods, I need a new and improved method.
;-)
The weekly cycle is a problem. I’ve tinkered and pruned and noodled it around, but never came up with a breakthrough idea.
Till now!
What if I used a blog as my collection point? It has a lot going for it.
It would reduce my administrivia time. People could read it online, by email, or a feedreader. It would serve as a natural collection point for the weekly distribution. Sub topical feeds could allow that one reader to not subscribe to obits.
I’m working on the concept. But it seems to work for me.
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FEEDBLITZ (I guess in a desire to atone for sending out nothing on Sunday) felt it was a good idea to send out two copies of yesterday’s posts. (One can see that getting up at 4AM produced twice the recommended daily allotment of drivel!)
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