RANT: Ron Paul is making a splash

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

http://www.lewrockwell.com/ostrowski/ostrowski83.html

Ron Paul Revolution Halftime Report
by James Ostrowski

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In terms of his pursuit of the Republican nomination, it’s already halftime for the Ron Paul Revolution. He announced his campaign in January and by February the nomination will likely be decided. It’s true that most of the country is not paying any attention but that misses the point, as do polls showing Ron Paul with just a few points in the national polls. By the time most of the country starts paying attention, the contest for the nomination will be over.

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It’s interesting how this fellow upsets the political calculation. He sails to the “left” of Hillary and to the “right” of the whole Republican field in the area of the non-internventional wing of the Republican party. He even trumps the fiscal conservatives by being “doctor no” and out liberals the Democrats liberals with his voting record.

If he can stay in for the second half, it should be interesting.

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RANT: Bloomberg should just leave

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_170181024.html

Jun 19, 2007 8:32 pm US/Eastern
Bloomberg Leaves GOP
Now Unaffiliated, Will He Run For President?
Marcia Kramer
Reporting

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(CBS) NEW YORK Mayor Michael Bloomberg is leaving the Republican party and will remain unaffiliated with any political party, CBS 2 HD learned Tuesday night.

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Sorry, but I see Hillary’s hand in this muppet.

Like Ross Perot, Bloomberg is at his heart a Democrat. A thirty year democrat, and big Democrat contributor! He became a Republican to thumb his nose a the party bosses. By entering, he can split the Republican vote. Who does that help? Madame Hillary.

So, I see the Clintons trying to repeat the winning strategy — get a rich democrat into the republican race.

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YAHOO ANSWER: STATUS YA is un-update-able

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

yahoo answer input just 999’s for the last 24 hours. I’ve tried different browser, different ip, with and without google accelerator. Argh!

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INTERESTING: Guidelines for the Pastoral Care of the Road

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

http://212.77.1.245/news_services/
bulletin/news/20451.php?index=20451
&lang=en#Presentation

http://tinyurl.com/2wrxb2

“Guidelines for the Pastoral Care of the Road”

 

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In any case, with the request for motorists to exercise virtue, we have drawn up a special ?decalogue? for them, in analogy with the Lord?s Ten Commandments. These are stated here below, as indications, considering that they may also be formulated differently.

I. You shall not kill.

II. The road shall be for you a means of communion between people and not of mortal harm.

III. Courtesy, uprightness and prudence will help you deal with unforeseen events.

IV. Be charitable and help your neighbour in need, especially victims of accidents.

V. Cars shall not be for you an expression of power and domination, and an occasion of sin.

VI. Charitably convince the young and not so young not to drive when they are not in a fitting condition to do so.

VII. Support the families of accident victims.

VIII. Bring guilty motorists and their victims together, at the appropriate time, so that they can undergo the liberating experience of forgiveness.

IX. On the road, protect the more vulnerable party.

X. Feel responsible towards others.

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Sigh!

The secular progressive media is so busy laughing that can NOT even take time to report what they were. Even on the internet, sites were too busy laughing or deriding it to post the text.

It took a few minutes to find a posting of them.

Driving on the roads, I can see why the Papacy might be concerned.

When one gets direction from a good source (i.e., the learned, the wise, the holy), then only a fool laughs imho.

Being a driver with a heavy foot, I’ll take the admonition to heart for what it is. An inexpensive way for me to be a better person. Note, one doesn’t do this for the Pope, the neighbor, the society in general. No, one does it for oneself. To be the best you that you can be.

And, that’s no joke!

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YAHOO ANSWER: Car loan to credit card

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

http:// answers.yahoo.com/question/
index;_ylt=Aqv0jntcHIzyBtM
93NXWwgGTxQt.?qid=20070619133036AAnmjsm

http://tinyurl.com/2mf87k

Car loan to credit card

QUESTION

Asked by “tvman”

Doing a balance? How much $ can I save if?

my balance on my car is 2884.58 at 10.16 %. My c.c. is currently 8.99 % variable (washington mytual). What should I do? How much could I save? I am planning on paying 300 mo. until its paid off or for five months, may have extra cash then.

ANSWER

Dear “tvman”:

Well, “save” would not be a word I use when talking about loans! That’s a joke. I’d reserve the word “save” for when you’re collecting the interest. If for no other reason than to keep your thinking straight. :-)

So, to confirm I understand the opportunity, it APPEARS that 0.1016 minus 0.0899 equals 117 basis point for possible savings.

I’d suspect that they tiny “savings”, what really should be called “cost avoidance”, are illusionary.

First, when car loans are give, they often use a method interest calculation called the “Rule of 72”. Without going into too much detail. You pay the interest more in the front of the loan’s term than the end. It’s like a penalty for prepayment. So, moving from the car loan, may not avoid any interest.

Second, the credit card is variable. You didn’t say what the adjustment interval was AND credit cards have a lot of “spring loaded traps” that can send the interest rate into “orbit”.

SO, I’d recommend NOT transferring. Stay with what you know.

If you want something to ACT on, I’d suggest that you find a credit union to do business with. They can help you shift from “borrowing” to “saving”. Credit Unions don’t use the 72 or any other such trickery; most use daily calculations which are most favorable to the borrower. They do low cost banking with education.

Hope this helps. I’m interested how it works out for you. Drop me a note sometime. My blog may have helpful “stuff”.

Ferdinand J. Reinke
Kendall Park, NJ 08824

SOURCE

http://tinyurl.com/3bjcq3
http://www.creditunionsonline.com/…
http://www.aicpa.org/
http://www.reinkefaceslife.com/…

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UPDATE Just notified that this was “Best by Voters. One vote; one answers. Not overwhelming, but I won’t decline the 10 meaningless points.

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JOBSEARCH: the networking process

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

FROM A SEEKER’S QUESTION

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Welcome. The networking process is whatever you make it. Unlike first grade math, there is NO right answer. There’s NO one way to network. And NO one has the Lone Ranger’s silver bullets, Wonder Woman’s golden rope, or a “get out of unemployment free” card. Each of us probably has their own take on it. I’d call your attention to all the resources here, You have a lot of experienced people here, who can share their take on it.

If you’re a reader, I am particular fan of Lucht. He has a very stylized view of what networking is. I’ve used it and it worked for me. I’d extract it as: get in front of people face2face, listen to them, give elevator speech, and ask for two names. In his model, one never asks a networking contact for job because it’s embarrassing to both. His key is to keep taking networking meetings to learn “stuff”. In my mind it’s a the other leg of “finding a job” — one leg is getting interviews and the other leg is networking.

My twist is that I like folks to have a Unique Value Equation and a Unique Sales Proposition before going off networking and interviewing. But that what I “teach”. If you read the old posts here, you find out that I’m a “fat old turkey” who’s been in transition more times than I care to count. SO that is my credential for having the temerity to give anyone advice.

Feel free to ask lots of questions, (I did!), visit my “turkey farm” http://tinyurl.com/lxu93, read my blog, or just ignore me. :-) I’m the pushy type with no feelings to hurt. Remember the only “dumb” question is the one you DON’T ask because guaranteed some one else is thinking the exact SAME question but is too … (let’s say) timid … to ask.

Good luck,
fjohn
the big fat old turkey hisself

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LIBERTY: How much of a slave are you?

Monday, June 18, 2007

http://www.lewrockwell.com/suprynowicz/suprynowicz67.html

Learning From Henry V
by Vin Suprynowicz

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What do they say about those who wish to trim back the size and intrusiveness of government at least to, say, the levels prevailing under dastardly child-hating conservative John F. Kennedy in 1962? (I might settle for 1911, myself – small schools with mixed-grade classrooms under local control; no income tax; dollar bills still “payable in silver” or in gold; no War on Drugs.) Why, we “hate the teachers!” these zealots insist. We want old people to “starve in the streets!” We’re willing to tolerate “social services ranked at the very bottom, like some Central American hellhole!”

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How can one tell if tax rates reach 90 percent, or 95 percent, or 102 percent?

The gooferment has done an EXCELLENT job of hiding the true level of taxation form us.

Consider all the federal, state, county, town, and heaven knows what other geographical entities that tax you?

Consider property taxes?

Consider the inflation tax on your savings?

Consider the Social Security Insurance tax?

Consider all the taxes on business that are passed along to you hidden from view?

Consider the gasoline tax that gets factored into everything?

Consider the things called “fees” that are unavoidable, or for all intents and purposes unavoidable?

How would you know WHAT you are paying?

Argh!

Time for the pitchforks and torches. Tar ‘n’ feather every taxing politician!

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YAHOO ANSWER: currency at the bank

Monday, June 18, 2007

http:// answers.yahoo.com/question/
index;_ylt=AsV6stix_l5FNxAuZyUy1giwxQt.?qid=20070618055340AAPf2HW

http://tinyurl.com/ypht73

currency at the bank

QUESTION

Asked by “walmart3rdshiftnight”

Who work at a suntrust banks!?

How can I get a 100s bills at the bank do I need to give them anything or how get 7 of 20s bills?

I never go to bank so dont no how its work if any female work in a bank and know what people ask for I need know what I need to take with me!!! no one not give me a 100s bills like ATM wont and try my work place and no one can’t unless I have paid walmart to get a 100s bill from them I have to give them 20s to get a 100s is that true??

ANSWER

Dear “walmart3rdshiftnight”:

Well, assuming that this is not a phising attempt to meet “gurls”, or the cute teller a the local Suntrust bank, I can tell you that you need to try a different approach. All you caught is a fat old turkey who thinks every question is worth an answer. And, I get two meaningless points to answer with a possibility of ten for best.

Who works at Suntrust Bank can be answered by shooting over to LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com) and running a query. It’s free.

You may have to brake down and go into a bank branch. They are full of nice people who sole job is to make you happy while separating you from your money. Think of it as a strip club without the nakedness or the booze. Seriously, if you have a need to change denominations (5*20=100) (10*10=5*20), most banks will oblige you.

If you are truly a “third shift night worker at wallmart”, then you are getting paid and probably have a paycheck to handle. Take it to your branch bank and, I’ll bet, they can arrange a direct deposit to an account for you. If you’re not into checking accounts, then get a savings account to be your pot of gold.

ATMs don’t usually stock anything but 20’s and 5’s. The Atlantic City casinos have some snazzy ones that will show you on the screen what you put in and give you choices of what you can take out. (No two dollar bills as an output choice!) But the risk there is you may not get out of the casino with your cash.

Rumor hath it that WalMart wants to go into the banking business. So wait awhile and your question may be answered by them.

I’d suggest finding a credit union or a friendly bank and chatting with them. They won’t bite.

Hope this helps. I’m interested how it works out for you. Drop me a note sometime. My blog may have other helpful “stuff”.

Ferdinand J. Reinke
Kendall Park, NJ 08824

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Web page => http://www.reinke.cc/
My blog => http://www.reinkefaceslife.com/
LinkedIn url => http://www.linkedin.com/in/reinkefj

SOURCE

http://tinyurl.com/lxu93
http://www.reinkefaceslife.com/…

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UPDATE: Chosen best by voters. One vote for one answer.

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TECHNOLOGY: WORDPRESSDOTCOM needs a queued draft function

Monday, June 18, 2007

Your “drafts” capability got me to thinking, (an always dangerous problem). Since one, I think, always wants to present fresh content to browsers. Perhaps you could make it “easier” to put stuff up on a regular interval. Think of it as a virtual clerk. You could have a category of draft called QUEUED. The parameters might be “over some period of time” (X days, weeks, months) release a QUEUED entry at regular intervals (Every X hours). It could be done manual by setting the time stamps, but that requires the user to do the thinking about it. That seems best left to the software. IMHO, fjohn

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YAHOO ANSWER: dates wrong on application

Monday, June 18, 2007

http:// answers.yahoo.com/question/
index;_ylt=AmB_QtVKmNM40ftAe.bGjl7sy6IX?qid=20070617063257AAt702y&show=7

http://tinyurl.com/32j54h

dates wrong on application

QUESTION

Asked by “hcj25”

What do you think ?

i messed up on my application and thought i started a job a couple years prior to what i put.So when she called my reference they said i started in 01 but i still had an excellent reference.I was offered this job pending references as an intake coordinator what do you think will this ruin me?
Additional Details

by the way the lady called me back after the reference and question my dates at that job i told her my dates may have been off but i was basically there about 6 years

ANSWER

Dear “hcj25”:

Well, it could be a big deal or a small deal.

You said “intake coordinator”. Depends upon what you are taking in and for whom. Tomatoes for Gristedes, who cares. Little children for the gooferment, everyone might care.

My first take was “honest mistake” or “deliberate lie”? On a government application or some standard application form that’s been xeroxed a grazillion times?

If it’s a gooferment form, does it say anything down at the bottom where you signed about perjury? Did it have to be notarized? Was it “official” like a permit to “intake children”? Then, I’d suggest that you need a lawyer; not Yahoo Answers. If not, then you might be able to apologize your way out.

Assuming that it is NOT, repeat NOT, about perjury, gooferent forms, or something that can get you in a lot of hot water (and that’s a big deal!), I have some thoughts.

I’d forget about it unless it comes up again. (And resolve in the future to fill out all forms as if they were important. Very important.) If it comes up again, apologize profusely, offer to correct the form, and ask what you can do to compensate for making a mistake.

You might want to have some thoughts, about why you made the mistake, in case things get intense. Treat it as a typo. Think about how rushed you were filling it out. Maybe someone said “don’t worry about the exact dates”. Maybe you were interrupted by the interviewer being ready. Get the incident firmly in your mind now in case it becomes urgent.

Then forget about it.

Hope this helps. I’m interested how it works out for you. Drop me a note sometime. I have jobsearch hints on my blog if you need them.

Ferdinand J. Reinke
Kendall Park, NJ 08824

SOURCE

http://tinyurl.com/lxu93
http://www.reinkefaceslife.com/…

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