Reinke Faces Life

http://www.charmaineyoest.com/2007/07/should_women_fight.php

Women in Combat Debate: Should Women Fight?
July 25, 2007 | By Jack Yoest
My good friend Bob Miller has a compelling article on women in combat that deserves a wide audience.

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Man’s unloving use of women in war signals an underlying enormity, a far richer and permeating disintegration of Man as male and female, along with the cultural institutions he inhabits.

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A paradigm challenge that will really twist your shorts or panties!

In Israel, where there is no “front line”, women have no choice when your survival is on the line.

In the USA, where we have the pond to create a protected rear area.

The article challenges our thinking about the proper role of women and the family in a civilized society.

Yesterday, I blogged about how in Iran, they have “fashion police”. I remember seeing Nazi propaganda from pre-WW2 Germany where women had the role model of the Mother of the Reich.

There has to be some way to align the liberty of humanity and a recognition of the essential roles of men and women. The Judeo Christian religious emphasis on the family has shown us the basic building block of human society.

Our challenge is to figure it all out. Just because something CAN be done, does not mean that it is a good idea.

We know that gooferment, and it’s use of force, has bad results and unintended consequences. Having it dictate, or decide, the memes of society, or worse legislate something, is a really really terrible idea.

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http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=entertainment&id=5505426

Lindsay Lohan Arrested for DUI, Again
Bail Set at $25,000
KABC ENTERTAINMENT

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SANTA MONICA, July 24, 2007 (KABC-TV) – According to the Santa Monica Police Department, Lindsay Lohan was arrested early Tuesday morning for DUI, driving on a suspended license and possession of narcotics.

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In a Libertarian America, this would be between her and her insurance company. If they wanted to indemnify anyone she injures, that would be up to them. I bet that they would be able to “communicate” with her better than the “law” does.

But even in today’s America, possession of narcotics isn’t a crime. You own your body. (And, if you don’t who does?) And, what you put into it is your business. Not mine.

OTOH — DUI, as evidenced by a accident, is threatening harm on others. As such, even to this old little L Libertarian, there has to be restitution and some punitive action to dissuade her from such an initiation of force in the future.

The celebrity community and the media that adores it need to exercise a little “union discipline”. Perhaps an embargo on any stories about a celebrity would be a good place to start. Say a 90 day embargo as agreed by all the media for a first offense. 180 for second; 360 for third. That could be a career killer. These folks need the PR for their Q rating and the big bucks.

OK, I’ll start here. I sentence LL to a 90 day embargo here at my blog. LL will not be mentioned for ninety days. That’ll show her that the media is a force to be reckoned with. ;-)

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http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/8648611.html

Jul. 22, 2007
VIN SUPRYNOWICZ: Satanic manipulators of demonic brilliance?
Las Vegas Review-Journal

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All mighty empires eventually fall into the hands of idiots. And that’s precisely when the beneficiaries of empire may finally realize how short-sighted they were to sweep aside all those corny old “checks and balances.”

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Local control of small states seems like the best way to prevent empire builders in the first place.

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article2120922.ece

From The Times
July 23, 2007
Looting, panic buying – and a water shortage
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Valerie Elliott

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Food and drinking water shortages, panic buying and the threat of looting have followed the worst flooding to hit England in 60 years.

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with the comment:

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Instead of spending money on non-essentials, such as cable, video games, big TVs, etc., people should always have stockpiled 2 weeks worth of canned food, DRY milk, 10 gallons of drinking water per person, diapers, etc. for babies, canned formula, batteries, crank radio, candles and matches, large and small plastic bags, smaller garbage cans to use as temporary toilets, and here in the USA be armed to fend off those who would take it from a family. In England, of course, the GOOD people have been disarmed, only the thugs have guns. Here in our USA home, we have enough emergency rations for 4 to 6 weeks, and drinking and flushing water and everything we need. Catastrophes, either natural or man-made can and do happen, and no one should depend on the authorities, but only themselves! The civilized world is becoming a a bunch of wimps who have lost all survival skills.

anne bright, Lyme, USA Connecticut

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And, evidently, their version of FEMA isn’t doing very well either.

No, the best defense is self-defense.

And, depending upon the gooferment is a good way to get yourself killed.

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article2120922.ece

From The Times
July 23, 2007
Looting, panic buying – and a water shortage
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Valerie Elliott

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Food and drinking water shortages, panic buying and the threat of looting have followed the worst flooding to hit England in 60 years.

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with the comment:

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Instead of spending money on non-essentials, such as cable, video games, big TVs, etc., people should always have stockpiled 2 weeks worth of canned food, DRY milk, 10 gallons of drinking water per person, diapers, etc. for babies, canned formula, batteries, crank radio, candles and matches, large and small plastic bags, smaller garbage cans to use as temporary toilets, and here in the USA be armed to fend off those who would take it from a family. In England, of course, the GOOD people have been disarmed, only the thugs have guns. Here in our USA home, we have enough emergency rations for 4 to 6 weeks, and drinking and flushing water and everything we need. Catastrophes, either natural or man-made can and do happen, and no one should depend on the authorities, but only themselves! The civilized world is becoming a a bunch of wimps who have lost all survival skills.

anne bright, Lyme, USA Connecticut

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And, evidently, their version of FEMA isn’t doing very well either.

No, the best defense is self-defense.

And, depending upon the gooferment is a good way to get yourself killed.

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/reese/reese379.html

The Republican War
by Charley Reese

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The Iraqis are killing us on the cheap with secondhand AK-47s, rifle grenades and homemade bombs created out of old artillery shells. We are using the most expensive weapons in the world, wielded by the most expensive army in the world, to kill them by the small handful. I don’t know what the insurgency has cost, but the Republican War has cost us half a trillion dollars, and all we have to show for it are 3,600 graves, several thousand wounded, a civil war and a corrupt, ineffective civilian government. The Iraqi supply line stretches around the corner; ours stretches 7,000 miles. The Iraqis know what their mission is; our soldiers don’t have the foggiest notion of why they are still there.

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Leave it to an old tank driver to put it bluntly.

I can’t think of a better way to say it.

Get the troops home. Now!

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RISKS-LIST: Risks-Forum Digest Thursday 19 July 2007 Volume 24 : Issue 74

ACM FORUM ON RISKS TO THE PUBLIC IN COMPUTERS AND RELATED SYSTEMS (comp.risks)
Peter G. Neumann, moderator, chmn ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy

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Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:32:42 -0400
From: Fred Reinke <reinkefj@reinke.cc>
Subject: “Microsoft Copy Protection Cracked Again” and who’s surprised?

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Jessica Mintz, AP, 17 Jul 2007
Microsoft Copy Protection Cracked Again
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=2007-07-17_D8QEFI3O1
<http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=2007-07-17_D8QEFI3O1&show_article=1&cat=breaking> &show_article=1&cat=breaking

Microsoft Corp. is once again on the defensive against hackers after the
launch of a new program that gives average PC users tools to unlock
copy-protected digital music and movies.

The latest version of the FairUse4M program, which can crack Microsoft’s
digital rights management system for Windows Media audio and video files,
was published online late Friday. In the past year, Microsoft plugged
holes exploited by two earlier versions of the program and filed a federal
lawsuit against its anonymous authors. Microsoft dropped the lawsuit after
failing to identify them.

The third version of FairUse4M has a simple drag-and-drop interface. PC
users can turn the protected music files they bought online-either a la
carte or as part of a subscription service like Napster-and turn them into
DRM-free tunes that can be copied and shared at will, or turned into MP3
files that can play on any type of digital music player.

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Like an arms race, the DRM folks are spending a lot of cycles on a failing
paradigm.

Like putting lipstick on the proverbial pig, it annoys their paying
customers and is pretty ugly! Some of my biggest irritations, in my
computing career, have been at the hands of “copy protection”. Couple that
with bad, or non-existent, support and you have the seeds of a revolt.

I now don’t buy content online — music or other kinds — if it has copy
protection. I have a lot of expensive 8 tracks, cassettes, and cds of
“content” that are unusable. Add to that “software”, which has stopped
working, stopped being supported, or otherwise orphaned.

My most recent experience was with MusicMatch JukeBox being acquired by
Yahoo and forced to “upgrade”. This was one of my last purchases, excuse me
“licensing” — what “barbara streisand”!! — before my new policy of “no
more”.

“No more” locked content. “No more” buying software, excuse me licensing it,
from vendors who are one step below used car salesmen. “No more” operating
systems that require “activation” and have “self-help” provisions.

I look to the open source software makers and happily “donate” to their
projects.

I’m calling out the content makers, “software” licensors, and the entire
Microsoft empire as the hucksters they are. At least the snake oil sales men
of yesteryear didn’t try and make you “license” the bottle! A plague on all
their houses.

Imagine how I’ll be when I get old and crotchety!

Ferdinand J. Reinke, Kendall Park, NJ 08824 http://www.reinke.cc/
blog http://www.reinkefaceslife.com/ http://www.reinkefaceslife.com/

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Twice in one year! Maybe I’m getting older and wiser. :-) Either that or PGN is getting lax?

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What a joy, relatives, in-laws actually have come to visit. They’re big gooferment proponents. They work for the gooferment. So how can the gooferment be bad? They listen to me rant and rave. But, at dinner, with a slew of in-laws, it was amusing to hear them all talk about property taxes. One of the local in-laws pulled out her property tax “statement”, and reported that 63% of the property taxes went to “education”. And, from there the fun began. I got my digs in often about taxes being theft. It was great to see all the statists squabble about high taxes being whose fault. I, of course, mentioned that they should imagine what they could buy if they could keep their own money. People can’t believe that we ever had no taxes. Wow! What fun.

I have to remember the lipstick on the pig. It doesn’t make the pig any prettier and annoys the pig.

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http://www.politico.com/blogs/thecrypt/0707/North_to_Alaska.html

July 18, 2007
North to Alaska

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Rep. Don Young attacked his fellow Republicans on the House floor Wednesday, as he defended education funds allocated to his home-state of Alaska.

“You want my money, my money,” Young stridently declared before warning conservatives that, “Those who bite me will be bitten back.”

Young took extreme exception to an amendment by Rep. Scott Garrett (R-N.J.) to strike money in a spending bill for native Alaskan and Hawaiian educational programs.

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I think this sums it all up. It’s the politician’s money; not yours!

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCNqgLkAx0g

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Yay, let’s all have equal treatment under the government! What would that be like?

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The way America is supposed to be?

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