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Monday, May 28, 2007

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William Pitt the Elder once expressed a British freedom ideal:

The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the force of the Crown. It may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storms may enter, the rain may enter, but the King of England cannot enter; all his forces dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement!


RANT: The South Brunswick Police have a motor cycle … …

Monday, May 28, 2007

The South Brunswick Police have a motor cycle … … and are using it for “fund raising” activities on Sand Hill Road near Emerald Road. The fellow sits in the shade of the big bushes and pounces on the dastardly law breakers who violate the 25 speed limit.

I view this as glorified toll taking. A highway robbery. Naked gooferment force.

If we really were serious about 25, then we’d have speed bumps. And, 25? On a major connector between Somerset and Route 1. Our socialist big gooferment statist planners, following in the great traditions of the Communist famines, have road planned us into a complete disaster.

Look at the various State, County, and Township roads! What a planning disaster! You’re luck if you can get from there to here, in a reasonable amount of time, safely, or without being tagged for violating any of the gooferment’s many diktats.

Just look at new 522 from Route One to Route One Thirty. Would it have been too much trouble to line it up with the entrance to the Turnpike at 8A? (What did that route not go through some brother-in-laws valueless land or missed going by the campaign contributor’s business.?)

And, look at 287 to Route 1. Too much trouble to plan that.

Route 27 with the 2 lane 1 lane 2 lane shuffle. An accident waiting to happen.

And, my personal piece de resistance, South Middlebush / Sand Hill. Good planning guys. Trucks still use it.

No, it’s about the stupidity of gooferment “planning” for us. And, then “punishing” the bad serf who have the temerity to try and use the “stuff”.

And, have you seen the financial impact of one of these mickey mouse tickets? Points, fines, insurance. It’s no laughing matter.

No if he was sitting on Tyne Court and trapping on Emerald, where there are a ton of kids, being kids, on any given afternoon. And, warning drivers, not ticketing first timers. Then, I wouldn’t kvetch. But you won’t see him there because the motivation is “fund raising” and scaring people into compliance with an absurd traffic law.

As you might guess, I think this is just wrong.


LIBERTY: Admonishing a media person

Monday, May 28, 2007

A FACEBOOK message to Comcaster Lynn Doyle

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RE: Favorite Books

May I suggest Mary Ruwart’s book “healing our world” http://www.ruwart.com/Pages/Healing/ an older edition is a free download.

I think you take a “big government” approach or perspective on your TV show. As a Libertarian, I believe, based on a ton of evidence, that people are best left alone to find their own solutions.

When the “gooferment” gets involved with it’s heavy handed one-size fits all “help”, it hurts us. It’s stuck it’s nose in so many facets of American life, that people can’t conceive of anything being done without the gooferment.

My favorite rejoinder, stolen from who knows where is:

If it’s such a good idea, why do people have to be forced to do it?

Seat belts, education, taxes, charity / welfare, … the list just goes on and on.

You’re in the cat bird’s seat to empower people by challenging their thinking. Look at John Stossel! Even Rosie O’D. Jay Leno. All have a way of getting people to change their thinking. You have a great challenge and I think you could be the next John Stossel or Barbara Walters.

I’ll be rooting for you.

***End Quote***

Let’s see if that FACEBOOK entry is real or not? ;-)

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FABLES: The Third Stone Mason

Monday, May 28, 2007

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One spring day a man was walking down a street when he encountered a large construction site. Because he was naturally curious and had a moment to spare, he decided to see what was being built. He came upon a stonemason laying stones and asked him what he was doing. The stonemason replied, “I am laying stones.” The man continued walking and came upon a second stonemason. He asked, “What are you doing?” The second stonemason replied, “I am building a wall.” The man continued walking and came upon a third stonemason. Again he asked, “What are you doing?” And this third stonemason replied, “I am building a cathedral.” Three men – all working at the same site, performing the same task – each had three very different perspectives of what they were working toward.

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Moral: Guard your thinking against the narrow view?

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JOBSEARCH: The University of Hard Knocks

Sunday, May 27, 2007

Last year, I gave a turkey what I thought was a “great idea”.

Most seekers, without a degree, even with fantastic credentials, are self-conscious about the “lack”. Bill Gates didn’t graduate. In certain fields, like sales, having a degree is no advantage. And, might be a detriment when compared to four years of relevant experience. In parts of the information technology field, like programming, having a degree is not a fatal flaw. In fact, technical credentials (i.e., DeVry; certifications; demonstrations) may carry more weight.

So, I suggested that he create the University of Hard Knocks alumni society. It was very “Sun Tzu” type advice. Sort of “where you’re weak, appear strong” and “where strong, appear weak”.

You can’t “know” that a hiring manager doesn’t have a degree unless you’re a great researcher, tipped off, or “parade” you lack of a degree. By becoming the leader of the University of Hard Knocks alumni society, you can make a joke out of what you perceive as a defect. You may be able to draw a granfalloon of undegreed people to you.

I was even wondering, out loud, what one would have to do to register the domain name uhk dot edu! Using an email address of reinkefj dot alumni dot uhk dot edu, might be mildly deceptive. But I bet it would slide by a careless HR screener.

In any event, you can steal this idea if it fits and suits you. On the condition, that you make me an honorary alumni.

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INTERESTING: Where are the jokes and fables?

Sunday, May 27, 2007

My recent post about the pony leads me to wonder where are the classic jokes and fables found? I can’t think of any off the top of my head but the pony is an example. It also is blocking my thinking. But it will come to me.

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INITIALISMS: TEOTWAWKI

Sunday, May 27, 2007

TEOTWAWKI

The End of the World As We Know It


INTERESTING: Mnemonic, Metaphor, or Jargon

Sunday, May 27, 2007

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnemonic

Mnemonic

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A mnemonic is a memory aid, and most serve an educational purpose.

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Colloquialism, Metaphors, Slang, Shorthand, or Jargon … or the ultimate in a quick wisdom transfer?

So when I say YMMV, what is it?

Acronyms and initialisms?

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MONEY: “Honest money” will be horded; fiat paper will be used.

Sunday, May 27, 2007

FROM STOP INFLATION NOW

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I struggle with Say’s Law. It says that bad money drives good out of circulation. Obviously! If I have a gold ounce and 700 frbnies, which will I use for the item? Yup, goodbye furbies. So how does one get people using “honest money”? Any honest money? See the Liberty Dollar, Ithica Dollars, or egold. It’s all the same problem. “Honest money” will be horded; fiat paper will be used. The gooferment can then inflate (i.e., tax) us to poverty. Until TEOTWAWKI! I’m befuddled.

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INTERESTING: Taxonomy of blogs, forums, and wikis

Sunday, May 27, 2007

FROM LINKEDINBLOGGERS

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Re: Blogs vs. Wikis — a personal observation and experience
Posted by: “Peter Quodling”
Sat May 26, 2007 11:42 am (PST)
The comparative use of wikis, blogs and forums are quite simple…

Wiki’s are for shared (and validated) imparting of knowledge…

Blogs are for editorializing personal opinion (and fact) but without
ratification be anyone else…

Forums are for dialogs…

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An excellent taxonomy!!

Wikis for sharing knowledge; blogs for editorializing; forums for dialogues.

Even an old injineer can understand it.

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JOBSEARCH: The Turkey Farm

Sunday, May 27, 2007

http://home.comcast.net/~v2y2r0n27rhj6y/TURKEY/index.htm

Is my opus on job seeking and my “help” to anyone “transitioning” from unemployment to earning status. fwiw. What an ego to think I can show anyone anything, but I have “miles on the old odometer of life” and the scars of unemployments past to show for it. You may learn from my mistakes.


LIBERTY: Dona Nobis Pacem

Saturday, May 26, 2007

It’s Memorial Day weekend. Unlike many, I am thinking of all the “boys and girls” who have died thru the decades. I won’t demean their sacrifice by political speech. I despise the politicians who use this time for their venial purposes. I’ll just say a prayer for all their souls, wonder what wonders they could have created, and wish for peace. I’d like to support the troops by bringing them all home today. In the alternative all I can say is “Donna Nobis Pacem”! But on Tuesday, I’ll “poison pen” the “leaders” for peace in my time.

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ALUMNI: The Alumni db I use is down

Saturday, May 26, 2007

I have it on good authority that the replacement for mcALUMdb will be back on line at the end of the month. My source is a very honest Jasper, and I believe he believes that. But at the risk of sounding like our loveable cuddly Curmudgeon, I’d ask “which month?”.

Seriously technology projects usually miss dates, and this one is no exception. Only Jasper Jottings is like clock work. A ranting raving clock, but always ready for your after Sunday Mass coffee. (No cheating and reading it on Saturday afternoon.) Any way, a lot of my processes (the way I do stuff) keyed on the mcALUMdb for the Class Years, so they need retooling. I have a lot of the data just not in quickly accessible format. (i.e., a a fast directory as opposed to an Outlook contact record). It’ll all be better when I dump Microsoft later this year.

In the meantime, the new son of mcALUMdb will be so much better. Excuse me, I have to answer the door, the bridge salesman is here.

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LIBERTY: Schoolgirl hero ‘acted on common sense’

Friday, May 25, 2007

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/
national/schoolgirl-her
o-acted-on-common-
sense/2007/03/31/1174761806572.html

http://tinyurl.com/2jbeuw

Schoolgirl hero ‘acted on common sense’
March 31, 2007

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Laura, who was returning to her Longreach home from St Margaret’s Anglican Girls School in Brisbane, managed to revive the driver, who lifted his foot off the accelerator and pulled the bus to a halt.

If the bus had failed to stop, it could have ended up in a river.

Laura then found a torch and evacuated the passengers from the bus before ringing an ambulance and coach operators, Greyhound.

Roma police will nominate Laura, who does not yet have her driver’s licence, for a bravery award, but she says she was just following common sense.

Roma police Inspector Graham Coleman yesterday described Laura’s actions as heroic, saying: “She’s obviously saved injury, if not the lives of people on the bus.”

***End Quote***

And, excatly why do we, they, anyone have “driver’s licenses”?

Good people can do it fine without the Gooferment’s involvement.

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TECHNOLOGY: Skype on a free blog

Friday, May 25, 2007

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Would like to know how you set up the Skype thing?

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Sure, no problem. It’s straight forward one you get the concept.

By way of background, I like tinyurl, and others like it. It makes ANY stuff, like your email address, into a url. Spammers can NOT harvest your email, because it’s an URL and doesn’t look like an email.

Neat concept.

Skype is another neat concept. Free phone calls. Verizon’s worst nightmare. So, I wanted the kool balloons on my blog. The fact that I’d be the first to get them made it kooler.

With the free, and unequaled, wordpressdotcom in addition to not having javascript, it prunes a lot of stuff out of the things you can put on there. When it would NOT go on, I asked about Skype. And they put it on their queue. (I’d like to have some visibility into THAT queue!) Hey for free, I wouldn’t listen to any whines.

I just kept poking around with Skype, and the errors that I could cause the free, and unequaled, wordpressdotcom, and eventually made the connection. The free, and unequaled, wordpressdotcom says “http good; all else bad”. So I wondered how to make Skype into http.

First, I went to the Skype site for a url that I could use. They had nothing but those kool balloons I wanted.

Second, I gave up in disgust.

Then, when I was putting an email into an url for display on the blog, it hit me. Transform the Skype command into a url.

Sure enough, I was able to use tiny url to turn the skype commands, that are unacceptable to the free wordpressdotcom, into valid urls. I put those URLs in a blogroll called skype. Played with the labels to make the display pretty. Had some people test it. It works. If you have skype installed. If you don’t you get an ugly error.

Neat. Not as kool as the balloons. But still better than naught. I told the nice support fellow from the free, and unequaled, wordpressdotcom about my trick and he was impressed. That made an ITSJ’s day complete.

FWIW

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PRODUCTIVITY: Keep a medical log book

Friday, May 25, 2007

In dealing with Frau Reinke’s medical problems, I wish I had kept a log book of all that went on. A school child’s “marble” book would have been all that was necessary to capture the information, events, dates, places, docs, and “stuff” that would be invaluable in retrospect.

Argh!

A moleskin pocket book and the discipline to keep annotating it would be a great asset.

You could use it as a source to transcribe into a “blog like” file. It’d be useful to keep all the experts honest and one’s own thoughts straight.

May it could be a private blog? Surely the technology is there for it.

Wish I have done it.

Maybe you can learn form my mistake?

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RANT:Stupidity ruins a good idea and no feedback loop

Friday, May 25, 2007

Walgreens has a neat idea, that we didn’t have at our last gooferment approved drug pusher (what do you call a drug store?), called “auto mated refills”.

(The only car involved is when one of us drives to get them. And, since they are for my mate Frau Reinke I guess they are sort of aptly named.)

So Walgreens automated refills identifies the RXes (The gooferment permitted forms with the approvals of the gooferment agent called doctor Argh!) that she uses regularly. And each month, refills it.

Great.

BUT!

Since we didn’t give them the RXes on the same day, they (all 13) renew on different days. Further, over time, new medicines were added, dosages changed, and some medicines stopped. It’s messy. But I have captured all that info for her in a one page document with all the current RXes, dosages, and who/when changed it. (For our own sanity.)

There is NO way to align Walgreens with reality and NO way to have them all renew on the same day.

Argh!

It’s annoying enough to have gooferment rules about paperwork and approvals. Add in the annoyance of the gooferment’s financing agents (What do you call medical insurance companies?). Add in the annoyance of complying with the gooferment’s tax diktats about FSAs.

But the crowning annoyance is that Walgreens has no feedback loop. No way for the patient to put information and suggestions back into them to get them to improve their service.

So a good idea (i.e., automated refills) has some stupidity built in (i.e., different renewal dates) (i.e., no way to correct the data they have on file) but the ranting comes in when there is no feedback loop.

Argh! Argh!

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FUN: has to be a pony in here

Thursday, May 24, 2007

http://www.acthompson.net/pony.htm

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“There has to be a pony in here somewhere!”

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There are many references to this “pony” or that “pony” on the web. Even on some prestigious sites. But, no one has the honest to repeat the whole story.

The original has an absurdly honest ring to it.

We know know parent would do such a thing. We know that children always see things with “pristine glasses”. We know know child no matter how naive would NOT think of playing in that, nor that there was a good surprise under all of it.

But this is a this a parable, a legend, a fable, a … a … morality play in a few sentences.

If we always see the glass as half-full, then we’ll be better off.

Will we?

So is it “I’ll believe it when I see it” or “I’ll see it when I believe it”?

IBIWISI or ISIWIBI

An new shorthand for a meme?


YAHOO ANSWER: Free Advertising For My Purse Party Buiness

Thursday, May 24, 2007

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Free Advertising For My Purse Party Buiness???

I’m looking for free or very cheap ways to advertise my purse party business. I’m looking for local and nationwide ideas! Any suggestions would be great!

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Well for under a fifty bucks, some sweat, and a few months calendar time, imho, you can get “known”. I’d suggest a blog as the underlying engine for your biz advertising.

(1) Check for an available domain name you like (www dot party purse business dot com), but don’t buy it yet.

(2) Get a free wordpress blog at www.wordpress.com. Sign up as PartyPurseBisuiness blog. Or whatever domain name you decide on.

(3) Buy the domain name feature from wordpress for $15 — it includes the registration of the domain name. (How’s that for cheap)

(4) You now have a web site and a domain name. Use the blog part to put fresh content on your blog. Put something meaningful there daily.

(5) Use the static pages part to put picture or stories or prices or events out on your “site”.

(6) Sign up for the free Gmail for Domains and get email via your domain. You can be party.purse at pursepartybusiness dot com.

(7) Sign up (free) at the various blog directories.

(8) Submit to the search engines

(9) Use the search engines to “find” yourself which improves your site in the search engines eyes. :-) [That’s circular reasoning! By telling the search engine to look for me and finding it, it makes me more find-able by regular people.]

So you’ll have a professional website with up to date content for cheap.

Yell if you want help with it. And, let us know how you make out.

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UPDATE 30 May 2007 @ 14:35 edst This answer was selected as “best”. Happy dance time.


LIBERTY: I support the troops … bring them home now!

Thursday, May 24, 2007

http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul388.html

Patriotism
by Ron Paul
Before the U.S. House of Representatives, May 22, 2007

 

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It is conveniently ignored that the only authentic way to best support the troops is to keep them out of dangerous undeclared no-win wars that are politically inspired. Sending troops off to war for reasons that are not truly related to national security and, for that matter, may even damage our security, is hardly a way to patriotically support the troops.

***End Quote***

I agree 100%. Sound recall! (It’s a bugle call in the old cavalry movies.) Out troops should spike anything to heavy to move, and take the first thing heading home (i.e., plane, train, bike) or shank’s mare.

No excuses, no apologies, no plan to plan the plan.

Now!!!

p.s., And, I still think every politician should attend the funeral of every GI in their “district”! Maybe then it would sink in that this is NOT some kid’s game with the objective to fill your pockets and be popular. No, it’s deadly serious.


TECH WEBSITE: WORDPRESSDOTCOM allows domain redirection

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

http://www.reinkefaceslife.com/

I’ve always had the domain registered and forwarding to the blog. Now the redirection should be “invisible”. We’ll see?

So for example, a blog post would have looked like:

https://reinkefj.wordpress.com/2007/05/18/writing-advertising-effectiveness/

Now, it will look like:

https://reinkefaceslife.com/2007/05/18/writing-advertising-effectiveness/

Like a real blog. (added cost $10) Worth it? Who knows.

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ALUMNI: Creating class alumni groups on yahoo

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Creating class alumni groups on yahoo

  • Name (steer clear of trademark, copyright, and such)
  • Logo
  • Build a FAQ
  • Have key text files ready:
    *Challenge
    *YouMadeItIn
    *Monthly
    *Departing
    *Rejected
    *Banned
  • Webpage and domain name
  • Source of invitations list
  • Ask people to sub and unsub without your involvement.

Create the group. Send the Invites. And prep for either a big flop or a lifetime of angst.


TECH SERVICE: SKYPE conference call feature

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Last night, for the first time, I participated in a Skype conference call. (Hey, I told you I was an ITSJ and didn’t like people!)

It was sweet.

It was the Big Turkey, the Big Canary, and Big Red. (Yeah, I know too many bigs. That’s why it was a call. All those egos couldn’t fit in the same room together!) Any way, this post is about the technical details of the conference call.

It was a snap to setup. I initiated it at 8PM promptly. (WOF just ended and I got the final puzzle with no extra letters. n33t!) I just taped conference call, and the two names were online, a few clicks and it was up and running.

The local client software has nice mic icon that I could click on as a “cough button”. Also, the client would highlight who was speaking, neat feature.

(For enterprise use, for “secret” info, I’m not sure that eavesdropping is impossible. Maybe NSA is analyzing the hidden messages in why two of the three have given up golf. A terrorist could just order a bread delivery. Spy craft is a well-know art. Changing a web page’s theme could be a signal.)

We chatted for thirty minutes, and I thought I heard one network hiccup.

For free!

We connected Chicago, Long Island, and Kendall Park for 30 minutes at no cost.

I didn’t try any of the other features. Mostly, cause I don’t know what they are.

I am definitely a raving fan. And give this a BIG thumbs up. (yeah, I know too many bigs.)

My best moment was when Frau, who was subjected to my half of the conversation, rolling her eyes most of the time, actually smiled and chuckled at my “Put lipstick on that pig, and pucker up” line. (I think “Big Pig” is available as a moniker. Pigs are pretty smart. And closely related to humans. Some humans are described as pigs.) I’m elevating that to the level of the Mass Mutual ad jingle: “Never kissed a frog. Didn’t have too!”.

Now I need Skype Video!

FWIW YMMV FAIWWYPFI


YAHOO ANSWER: starting college, advice

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

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I am starting college this fall, advice needed please?

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(1) Plan to be “balanced”. Eat, exercise, and sleep in normal proportion. Mange your time well. Do the big things first and fill in with the less important.

(2) Keep a written record of every person you meet in your travels. Try to “connect” with as many as possible. They can become your “network of contacts” in the future.

(3) Be ruthless in your financial discipline. You can bury yourself in debt. Think Return on Investment. Seek to earn some money with your education as it progresses. It’ll help later on getting a “real job”.

(4) Pick your major, minor, and electives with your future employment in mind. Your while collar job will provide the big component of your earnings in the future. Choose wisely.

(5) Try to pick up a blue collar skill that will allow you to earn money if you’re laid off of your white collar job and have some time to spare. Never saw a “poor” plumber. Pick something you like and make it fun while putting some coins in the bank.

(6) Be alert to any internet based business that you can “do” in parallel to the all the above activities. Look for synergy between the activities such that you can recycle, reuse, or repurpose. Write a paper for your college course, offer it to a blog – publication – other outlet.

(7) Have fun, (but not too much); it’s the “best time” of your life. Live it to the fullest.

I’m green with envy and wish I could do it again with what I know now. :-) But life doesn’t work like that. I can state authoritatively that the “woulda, coulda, and shouldas” will KILL you later in life. Don’t miss anything.you would, should, or could try. Consistent with good judgment.

Let us know how you make out.

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Update: Voted “best”. Yeah! More menaingless points!!!


RANT: Why nothing since 9-11?

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

>I think the only reason we have not had a successful
>attack on us after 9-11 is
>because we are keeping them too busy over there.

That could be one possibility.

Would you consider another?

How about in the murky world of terrorism, they are getting exactly what they want. War and unrest. If you wanted to tumble the ruling elite say in Saudi Arabia, what better way then to get the Great Satan tromping around in a Fourth Generation Land War that it can’t “win”.

And, why would you stir up the American people any more. They might form a national resolve and really kick ass! Think Pearl Harbor. You don’t want to awaking the sleeping giant. As Japanese admiral Yammamoto advised. They could turn your “sacred land” into glass if you piss ’em off enough. Note, how carefully they tiptoe around Israel.

We’re an easily distracted people. The radicals have exactly what they want.

In exactly the degree that they want it.

Easy to kill Americans that get the locals riled up. We’re blundering around blowing up a local wedding for example. They’ve split our country down the middle with the stupid war. No, I’d say that they have Uncle Sam by the beard, are kicking our butt, and accomplishing their short and long term objectives.

Once the entire Muslim world is under one caliphate, then they will turn their attention to finishing the Crusades with Europe, and eventually the Great Satan.

We make the same mistakes when dealing with China and Korea. We don’t have a long-term perspective.

We need to MYOB. That, my friend, is not being a dove. We have our own set of problems to deal with. You deal with this disaster by “leaving the party”. We need foreign policy that follows President Washington’s directive. (He also decreed no torturing POWs!)

Did you ever consider why the old USSR had so little “foreign policy” problems, except for where they blundered in Afghanistan? They had a policy that if you crossed them, the KGB killed you, your family, and anyone who helped you. Government, non-government, guerilla. It didn’t matter. I think in my recollection one USSR ambassador was killed for political reasons and the KGB took out about 8o people they believed had a hand in it. Needless to say, no one messed with them. That’s not being a dove.

It’s called Letters of Marque and Reprisal.

If we thought that Osama was the problem, then we should have offered say 50B$ taxfree payable at your favorite Swiss bank for proof that he was dead. How long do you think he would have survived? Add a billion a week, until you get what you want. It’d still be cheaper that the 30T$, 600k+ Iraqui dead, and ~6k Americans.

American foreign policy is too blunt, too war-oriented, too inefficient and too ineffective.

That’s what Ron Paul was saying.


JOBSEARCH: Facing the challenges of layoff

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

http://hfcn.blogspot.com/2007/05/tips-for-managing-pink-slip-sabbatical.html

HFCN – Helping Friends Career Network ~ Job Leads, Career Success and Transformation

Blogging professional career development issues. Helping Friends Career Network (HFCN) has successfully assisted thousands of professionals to make positive career change- in finding or identifying new jobs– it is all about finding inspiration and getting positive career results. We explore career resources, celebrate success, job opportunities, and more.
22 May 2007
Tips for managing a Pink Slip Sabbatical

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From time to time, I am asked to share the hints for facing the challenges of layoff. If there are particular resources we can blog in depth for you, let us know or join us and ask questions on the Helping Friends Career Network — Career Transformation Talk Group!

Proactive:

1. Network and job search from your email, don’t depend on your employer’s email.

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I was astonished to have one of my posts identified as the #1 Proactive step in the job hints.

It tickled me silly to share that with a ton of people I don’t know. Will never know.

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