LIBERTY: blogger makes the excellent point “golden rule”

Sunday, July 8, 2007

http://educationconversation.wordpress.com/2007/06/18/dear-dr-walter-williams

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I can’t help but wonder if the problem may be our own years of state schooling. We lack the vision and the courage to take back our children and our future and to enable the less fortunate to do the same, to put the state in its place (which is not in our children’s minds and consciences), and to fly into the future. We yell, but not too loudly. We act, but not too boldly.

Free choice is staring us in the face. We still have the liberty to embrace it. My fear is that if we travel much farther down the road of all-state-schooling, we will all end up with no safety net. Our private education community will exist no longer – it will be part of the state system. Eventually, we will not even have the memory of freedom.

Respectfully yours,
Tammy Drennan

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Another Blogger takes on Williams. (As I did!) Since taxes are theft, why are vouchers OK? Even if they are a step on the road to liberty, why is it moral to make me pay for someone else’s choices? And, the blogger makes the excellent point “golden rule”. When the Gooferment provides the gold, it will make the rules. Why exchange one bad system for another bad system?

Unfortunately, the answer is to not pay for services you don’t want. Of course, that means, that the “nice men with guns” will come a steal from you, hurt you, imprison you, or even kill you.

But then we are not kidding anyone about the slaves that we are.

Argh!

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RANT: The NJ GUV got some press; now return to biz as usual

Sunday, July 8, 2007

http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/
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http://tinyurl.com/2e3vlj

New Jersey governor signs toughest U.S. carbon law
Sat Jul 7, 2007 5:13PM EDT
By Timothy Gardner

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EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey (Reuters) – New Jersey became on Friday the first U.S. state to mandate sharp greenhouse gas reductions by 2050 to help fight climate change.

The law, signed by Gov. Jon Corzine, a Democrat, makes New Jersey the latest state to bypass the Bush administration by setting mandatory regulations to fight emissions of gases that scientists link to global warming.

“We want to send a message to Washington. Wake up, get with the program and start doing something about greenhouse gases,” Corzine told reporters at Giants Stadium on the eve of former Vice President Al Gore’s international Live Earth concerts.

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The New Jersey Business and Industry Association opposes the law, saying it would raise fees and give sweeping powers to state agencies.

The law also seeks to deal with emissions from vehicles, the largest source of the emissions in New Jersey, by enhancing public transportation, car-pooling and the shipping of goods by rail instead of truck.

But even environmentalists said the effort would be a tough fight as renewable energy currently only provides a tiny portion of the state’s power.

“We need to be careful of congratulating ourselves on this legislation because the hard work is yet to be done,” said Doug O’Malley, the field director for Environment New Jersey, a green group that helped form the law.

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OK here’s my prediction. It will have the opposite effect. Whenever the gooferment gets in front of some parade or other, it leads us “off the proverbial cliff”.

So where is the construction of kool cool nuclear plants?

I’ll be watching for all the state cars that go 55 to save gas! Hypocrites. Did you notice how many clebs jet setted to the save the earth concerts. And, the politicians aren’t giving up anything.

But we can all pay higher taxes and spend more for less. That’s OK. For us little serfs!

Argh!

A plague on all of them.

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TECHNOLOGY: GOOGLE mucked up authentication

Sunday, July 8, 2007

One criticism I have of Google, and it’s pretty severe, is that they have made a mess of authentication. Gmail, Google Accounts, and Gwhatever each with their own userid password combinations has one more than one occasion wasted a ton on my time. Throw in their acquisition of BLOGGER and it’s a total mess. It feels like it’s checking old cookies. Sure I can nuke ALL cookies and muddle around until I get it working, BUT that means I lose all the preferences and stuff set up for other sites that have done nothing wrong. If there is one thing that keeps me from imbibing in the google kool aid is their continued mucking up of something as simple as sign on. They also have taught me with their mucking up of the Google Desktop Search tool that the entire web20 paradigm is the suspect because you’ve lost control of what’s running and what it does. Although the recent acquisition of MusicMatch by Yahoo is that buying software, oh excuse me “licensing” (what “barbara streisand” is that), is no guarantee of software stability. It just demos that you can run a stable production environment on a WINDOZE and WEB20 as an OS ain’t much better. To me it proves the worth of Open Source. And, Linux. At least your sunken monetary cost is zero and you have a lot less to complain about.

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LINKEDIN: One size really doesn’t fit all needs

Sunday, July 8, 2007

FROM A MESSAGE I PLACED ON LINKEDIN INNOVATORS

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I was playing with Jobster and really really didn’t want to spend a lot of time rebuilding my resume in my profile. I did it in LinkedIn, and it literally to a huge amount of time effort and attention. So what we really need is what I call a “sausage to pig” creator. Put in a resume on one side and the “sausage to pig” would create your profile on LinkedIn, Jobsters, and all the other “resume building” sites. It could be nothing more than making a resume an XML file.

The insight came in realizing that I, as many others I’m sure, have multiple resumes. I have several base resumes that I have customized in the past for SPECIFIC opportunities. If the purpose of a resume is to induce a conversation about a specific job to begin, then you want to highlight accomplishments relevant to that job. So for example, when I’m helping a newly minted turkey (i.e., the person just axed from “their job”), when we get up to creating their “marketing collateral” (usually a resume and cover letter), I counsel the “less is more” philosophy.

I like the idea of a sparse resume with three things on it — the (reader’s) objective, last three positions which each have three significant accomplishments designed to induce conversation, and education.

My modest insight is that if you use LinkedIn, or any other site as your resume, then you can do that customization for specific opportunities.

Argh!

One size really doesn’t fit all needs.

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INTERESTING: Ron Paul Wins Big in First New Hampshire Straw Poll

Sunday, July 8, 2007

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Ron Paul Wins Big
Ron Paul Wins Big in First New Hampshire Straw Poll
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 7, 2007

ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA – Presidential candidate Ron Paul today won the Coalition for New Hampshire Taxpayers (CNHT) straw poll at their annual picnic in Hopkinton, New Hampshire. Dr. Paul received 182 of 294 votes cast, or 65 percent. In second place was Rudy Giuliani with 24 votes, or 8 percent.

“Today’s strong victory is further proof that Dr. Paul’s message is resonating throughout New Hampshire,” said campaign manager Lew Moore. “Dr. Paul is the only candidate in this race truly dedicated to smaller government and lower taxes for all Americans.”

CNHT is a statewide, grassroots organization dedicated to reducing the size of government at all levels, stopping judicial activism, providing students and parents with a choice of educational opportunities, expanding job markets, and protecting property rights.

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One can only hope that Ron can energize the majority who don’t participate in elections. This is America’s best hope for a significant change.

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