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LIBERTY: “Confidential” census data used to round up the Nisei in WW2
Friday, April 6, 2007http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=
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SCIENCE NEWS
March 30, 2007
Confirmed: The U.S. Census Bureau Gave Up Names of Japanese-Americans in WW II
Government documents show that the agency handed over names and addresses to the Secret Service
By JR Minkel
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Despite decades of denials, government records confirm that the U.S. Census Bureau provided the U.S. Secret Service with names and addresses of Japanese-Americans during World War II.
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What the government lied! I’m shocked.
It’s like the “social security number” will never be used for identification. That’s “barbara streisand”!
Fast forward to today. “Real Id”! We don’t know what it will have on us; “trust us” say the congress critters. We don’t know how it will be collected or protected; “trust us” say the bureauRATs. We don’t know how it will be abused; “trust us” say the enFORCErs like the fbi.
Congress critters lie. BureauRATS routinely exceed their authority. And the enFORCErs, like the fbi, just brake the law when it suits them.
And, you want to “trust them”.
Fool me once, share on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
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TECHNOLOGY: I need some refinement in my thinking
Friday, April 6, 2007Isn’t “technology” is too broad a brush? There are web-based applications and client-based applications. There are internet based services. There are hardware gadgets. There are concepts. Mushing them all together isn’t allowing them to be differentiated. It represents muddled thinking.
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INTERESTING: A kanuck mounts an interesting challenge
Friday, April 6, 2007today is do something for someone else day!
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Contagious generosity is one sure way of enlarging your spirit. So I want to try a group experiment. I mentioned before that Kiva.org is one of my favourite organizations for helping people.
So here’s what I’m thinking.
I thought we could talk about how we grow generosity. I don’t mean the dollar amounts.. I just mean where and how.
* What charities do you support?
* Do you give regularly or just when there is a special plea?
* How do you come up with the money?
* What are your giving goals?
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Aside from my local church, bishop’s relief fund, my college alumin fund, and united way (who I really don’t like due to high overhead but I get my arm twisted at work), I support Homefront http://www.homefrontnj.org/ with a monthly check for a long long time.
Born out of a bunch of rich white women bringing water (in America! in New Jersey! near Princeton!) to poor women trapped by the gooferment welfare system, these women were horrified at what they saw. For anyone unlearned in the ways of gooferment, the poor women were enslaved by a system that would “give” them a handout that enabled them to “live” such as it was, but gave them no hope ever of escaping. The Princeton gals were not stupid. It didn’t take very many water runs (i.e., the welfare motel had been condemned for a toxic water supply, but the state welfare bureaucrats had no where else to put these 100 or so wretched souls. So, the Princeton women would bring drinking water to the motels from their homes.) before they were enraged.
I got involved when I introduced the chief firebrand to a package of dynamite at merrill lynch. Like throwing gasoline on a match, these two hellions started raising money and “arms” (volunteers) at Merrill and among Merrill’s local wealthy.
Homefront has become a gateway out of the cycle of poverty. They have several levels of involvement with the poor and help those people pull themselves out of the clutches of the NJ welfare bureacracy. It my pleasure to help them help people. (A few years ago, I pandered dentists to donate dental care to these indigents very successfully. It’s hard to get a job when an abusive spouse has knocked out all your teeth. And the gooferment thinks that’s cosmetic?)
The fact that the NJ Welfare Establishment is irritated, annoyed, and down-right hostile is merely a cherry on my cake. I used it as an example of what happens when the gooferment is allowed to take over the “charity industry”. People get hurt. Perhaps even die of the neglect. Charity is personal. And, these Princeton women are a force to be reckoned with.
I’m not good at writing checks or paying bills. So, I put everything on auto pilot as much as possible. My source is my paycheck. Unlike the Federal Reserve Bank (which is NOT “federal”, a “reserve” of anything, nor a “bank”), I can’t print money. I have to just earn it the old fashioned way. My giving goals are that when I die at Final Judgment, the fellow at the check in desk says “well I see all the bad things you’ve done. but they pale in comparison to the good. anyway, the boss says you get a pass to paradise”.
Seriously, I have no goals other than to help people. Very unstructured! Very hippie like. See a need and fill it. I have a “charity checkbook”, where — surprisingly — I make an automatic deposit from my real checkbook. When I hear of a sad tale, where someone has met misfortune, thru no fault of their own, I write a check. No fan fare. No tax deduction. No records. The checks don’t even have my name on them. No need for people to thank me; so there’s no way for them to find me to thank me. (Guess they could go to the bank!) — And no pain because the money was already “spent” when it left my real checking account. I use the checking account system so that I actually do give away that amount of money and it’s less painful for me to actually spend it. I used to use money orders. I’d have a few already in my desk at work in various odd amounts from 5$ to 100$, an envelope, and a stamp — instant charity.
Yeah, I know I’m weird.
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INTERESTING: Bye bye to Benny
Thursday, April 5, 2007http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?
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It’s bye bye Benny, hello Hollyoaks for the BBC
By Richard Alleyne and John Hiscock in Los Angeles
Last Updated: 8:36am BST 05/04/2007
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His saucy slapstick may have lost favour in Britain more than two decades ago but Benny Hill remains that rare thing: a long running hit in America.
BBC to axe Benny Hill in America
Benny Hill doesn’t reflect Britain, says the BBC
However, not for much longer, if the BBC has its way. The corporation’s US commercial arm, which currently airs the show twice a day to millions of Americans, has decided to axe the comedy because it no longer reflects Britain.
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Too bad. I think Benny Hill is a stich! Do I think that Brits look or think that way. No more than I am represented by Beverly Hills 90210!
Change is never good.
Sigh, once one finds something, never let it go.
And, the story behind Benny Hill was even more interesting.
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JOBSEARCH: How many blogs should you have?
Thursday, April 5, 2007In a discussion with a fellow turkey, I “opined” that one should have:
(1) a professional blog like Kent Blumberg’s http://kentblumberg.typepad.com/;
(2) a jobsearch related blog that pushes the value propositions that you are trying to sell like Mike Sansone’s http://www.converstations.com/;
and
(3) a personal one like Gretchen Rubin’s http://www.happiness-project.com/.
I think each are a unique exemplars of blogging. One can have and stand behind each without being “hurt” in the other departments of one’s life. Where people get in trouble is when they try and use one blog to service different value equations.
imho
TECHNOLOGY: 1AND1 now give you a hosted WORDPRESS blog
Thursday, April 5, 2007http://www.1and1.com/?k_id=9113251
Apparently now the blog option gives you a hosted WORDPRESS implementation.
Remember when they first came out with a blog option, it was for a free one. I tried it and blew out my website. If I had used my blog’s domain name http://www.reinkefaceslife.com who knows what would have happened.
In any event it’s “interesting”. I’m playing with it. And, will give it my usual “tire kicking”.
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RANT: 65$ permit for a hot water heater
Thursday, April 5, 2007I just got a “permit” from the local komisars. For the privilege of playing the plumber to put in a hot water heater, the plumber paid on my behalf, a “fee” to the local komisar of plumbing 65$!
What for?
The local komisar is supposed to send a bureaucrat to “inspect” the installation.
Why would I want that? If I want the installation inspected, why can’t I just look at it myself?
Argh!!!
The gooferment is the only one who can force me to pay for services I don’t want!
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PRODUCTIVITY: Trying to distinguish what WORDPRESS offers
Thursday, April 5, 2007Here’s a recent feedback I sent to the WORDPRESS gang:
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I really have no problem this time EXCEPT I really don’t like PayPal. I’ve heard too many horror stories. So, how can I send you a check? I assume that credits don’t expire. I am really really interested in using my own domain name. But, I find all the posts about it confusing. I have the domain name www.reinkefaceslife.com at my WSP 1and1. I forwarded it to https://reinkefj.wordpress.com. It appears to do the same thing. But some how deep in my gut, I feel I am missing something and what you are offering is somehow some way better than what I am currently doing. Does that make any sense? fjohn
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So what is the difference between www.reinkefaceslife.com at 1and1 http://www.1and1.com/?k_id=9113251 and doing it with the WORDPRESS gang?
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LIBERTY: DuPont supporting the CFC ban explained
Wednesday, April 4, 2007http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/blackstock5.html
Dirty Deeds Are No Longer Dirt Cheap
by Rob Blackstock
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According to Eric Peters (1996. “Who’s Behind the Freon Ban?” The Free Market 14, December: 6–7), DuPont changed their stance due to the fact that the company’s patent on Freon terminated in 1992. This opened the door to not only domestic competition, but cheaper Freon from South American producers. Seeing that Freon was, “the only refrigerant used by the auto industry since the first AC [Air Conditioning] systems were installed in the 1950s” (ibid., p 6), DuPont stood to lose millions. However, by encouraging regulators to make Freon illegal, DuPont closed the door to competition. Simultaneously, DuPont introduced a patented substitute (HFC-134a). DuPont “owns exclusive rights to HFC-134a – the only refrigerant authorized for use in new car air-conditioning systems” (ibid., p 7).
On April 27, 1992, DuPont placed a full page add in the New York Times (p. A7) which stated, “In the US alone, more than $135 billion worth of equipment – used in about 3,500 different applications – depend on CFCs…. All of this equipment must use recycled refrigerants, or be retrofitted or replaced before it can use any of the substitutes for CFCs.” DuPont’s Freon Division Director, Joseph Glass summed it up nicely; “When you have $3 billion of CFCs sold worldwide and 70 percent of that is about to be regulated out of existence, there is a tremendous market potential.”
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Well that explains why we got taken to the woodshed on that one. Facism! Where the gooferment and bigbiz get into bed with each other. Except the people get screwed!
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