FUN: “Tell him if he gets here, just keep walking”

Sunday, August 19, 2007

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/column.aspx?UrlTitle=a_question_for_froemming&ns=GeorgeWill&dt=08/19/2007&page=2

A Question for Froemming
By George Will
Sunday, August 19, 2007

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He might. Consider Sept. 2, 1972, when Froemming was behind the plate and the Cubs’ Milt Pappas was one strike from doing what only 15 pitchers have done — pitch a perfect game, 27 up, 27 down.

With two outs in the ninth, Pappas quickly got an 0-2 count on the 27th batter. Then Froemming called the next three pitches balls. An agitated Pappas started walking toward Froemming, who said to the Cubs’ catcher: “Tell him if he gets here, just keep walking” — to the showers.

Pappas’ next pitch was low and outside. One kind of glory was lost. Another kind — the integrity of rules — was achieved.

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That’s what we need today … … a lot more integrity!

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ADMINISTRIVIA: My weblog comment policy

Sunday, August 19, 2007

Since I stated this and other blogs, I’ve been removing occasional comments from my weblog. Not just spammers. If someone violates my weblog comment policy, I nuke their comment. It’s that simple. It’s my blog thanks to the free, and unequaled, wordpressdotcom offering. So I get to set the rules. Until now, I hadn’t published my policy since mostly it was just trash thrown over the transom.

DO NOT:

  1. post off-topic.
  2. libel anyone.
  3. make unverifiable assertions.
  4. engage in personal attacks.
  5. provide a fake e-mail address.
  6. include more than one URL.
  7. don’t spam.
  8. don’t sell, or offer, to sell anything.
  9. violate the wordpressdotcom tos.

Violation of this policy may mean any of the following:

  1. I will remove your comments.
  2. I will block your attempts to comment in the future.
  3. I will contact your Internet Service Provider.
  4. I ask the Universe to send you some education.

If in doubt, the best solution is to drop me an email at the link below and we can have a conversation about why I am blocking your comment.

All that said, I will endeavor to respond to any comments that raise queries or questions and I welcome useful and constructive feedback.

http://2idi.com/contact/=reinkefj

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INTERESTING: Ron Paul interview on my favorite radio / podcast show

Sunday, August 19, 2007

http://freetalklive.com

http://www.freetalklive.com/files/paul.mp3

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Subject: [FTL-Updates] FTL Interviews Ron Paul!

2008 Presidential candidate Ron Paul joins us for a half hour! Grab the archive at http://freetalklive.com!

Thanks for listening,
Ian

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Great!!

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TECH SERVICE: LEGACY site enables on to be spammed

Saturday, August 18, 2007

LEGACY is a site that does obituaries.

In “doing” Jasper Jottings, I collect Jasper obits to share with my fellow alums. I leave a little message in the “remembrance book” for a variety of reasons.

Sometimes it’s the only thing there. That really saddens me. Sometimes fellow Jaspers reach out to me. Sometimes … … if I get forgetful, it reminds me “been here. done it.”

I always leave my email in case the family wants to connect with a specific Jasper and so that it doesn’t appear as a “strange” self-serving entry. Over the time, I’ve been doing it I have had some interactions with the deceased family members. Some times it’s just to listen; some times they needed information. I try and help.

But today, I got my first piece of SPAM from that activity on Legacy.

I know it’s from there because it came on their email address to a special email address only used for that purpose. (You know how I like to have different email address for different purposes. This is why! I can pin it down easily.)

Just goes to show how low a spammer will go!

I hope the Intelligent Designer has a special ring in Hell for those low lifes.

fwiw!

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INTERESTING: Sleuths Break Adobe’s San Jose Puzzle

Saturday, August 18, 2007

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/08/sleuths-break-a.html

Sleuths Break Adobe’s San Jose Puzzle, Find Pynchon Inside
By Ryan Singel EmailAugust 17, 2007 | 2:15:58 PM
Categories: Hacks and Cracks

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Two men, who both may have well have been named Arnold Snarb, were wandering around San Jose looking for a good time. Instead they stumbled on a deep puzzle embedded in the landscape. Specifically, four mysteriously changing, huge LED semaphores on an Adobe building in San Jose.

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Wow. A lot of people with too much time on their hands.

Now the question … … why?

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RANT: Keg ordinance again?

Saturday, August 18, 2007

http://nbs.gmnews.com/news/2007/0816/Front_Page/032.html

S.B. ordinances target drinking below legal age
Records would be kept of keg purchasers; stiffer penalties for underagers
BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer

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SOUTH BRUNSWICK – A pair of ordinances aimed at curbing underage drinking were moved forward by the Township Council during its Tuesday work session meeting.

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Back in May 2007 http://tinyurl.com/34b4p7, I blogged on why it was a bad idea. Pointless, ineffective, inefficient, and socialistic. Nothing’s changed. Except it’s getting to election time and politicians have to be able to all the things they’ve done “for us”. Argh! Or, should that be “to us”? Argh!

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INTERESTING: Nuclear power is not on the green zealots’ approved list

Saturday, August 18, 2007

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/column.aspx?UrlTitle=tragic_implications&ns=ThomasSowell&dt=08/14/2007&page=2url

Tragic Implications
By Thomas Sowell
Tuesday, August 14, 2007

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The other recent tragedy that has held the nation’s painful attention — the mine cave-in in Utah — also has implications that few seem to notice.

We could have far fewer men going down into those mines in the first place if we could use other readily available and economically viable substitutes for coal, such as nuclear power or more of our own oil.

Here too, politics is the problem. The only “alternative energy sources” that are on the political agenda are those few very expensive options that environmentalist zealots approve.

Nuclear power is not on the green zealots’ approved list, even though nuclear power is widely used in other countries.

Some say nuclear power is not safe. But nothing is categorically “safe.” The only serious question is how its safety compares to that of alternative ways of generating energy.

Ask the families of the trapped miners if they think mining is safe. Ask them if they would rather face the grim reality of a death in their family or the hypothetical possibility of inconveniencing some caribou in Alaska.

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I didn’t think of that. It’s about comparing the relative risk.

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INTERESTING: global warming fudging

Saturday, August 18, 2007

http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/08/why_would_anyone_nasas_trust_c.html

August 17, 2007
Why Would Anyone Trust NASA’s Climate Data Now?
By Marc Sheppard

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Every soldier in this vital information war knows it’s difficult enough to do daily battle against dramatically over-hyped propaganda with any optimism of triumph. Enemy warriors wield swords forged from hyped projections, shocking news, cataclysmic films and disinforming TV programs. Ours brave the battlefield armed only with a firm grasp of the facts and the wherewithal to draw cogent conclusions from them.

Now it appears our adversaries may have successfully infiltrated what are imperatively neutral data-bases, attempting to render our only weapons useless.

If the science were truly settled, then why would they so fear a fair fight?

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Messing with the data?

Sounds like some of my high school and college chemistry classes where I knew the right answer and fudge the numbers to come out.

One of my rare A’s came when, following closely the instructions given, I couldn’t verify some scientific principle or other. I couldn’t even close enough to fudge it. Argh! So, with the deadline fast approaching, I just said “*&^%$#@” it and turned it in as it was. Not knowing that everyone was getting similar results, they other didn’t have the “courage” of their convictions and they were fudging. It was a glum day when everyone was turning in their stuff and bragging about how they got it right. I felt like the village idiot. (Probably was.)

Hey, it was done. And, as my sainted grandmother used to say “what’s done is done.”

Imagine my shock when that Monday, I was called to the front of the class, and the good Brother asked me “How stupid are you? Don’t you know <I really forget the bozo’s name who’s law we were supposed to “prove”.> XYZ’s law?”. I was ready to soil my shorts since sessions like this usually ended with physical abuse, mental torture, or as yet another trip to the principal’s office for delayed mental and physical abuse. So I mumbled something like, “I knew the right answer but that’s the results I got”. Snickering all around. The the Brother says, “Good. You may be a dumb as a rock, but at least you’re honest. Here’s your A. The instructions were wrong. Everyone else gets an F”. Wow!

So from thence on, I learned my lesson. Just let the chips fall where they land.

In the case of this article it appears some of my classmates have gone into “global warming research”, which should probably be called “global warming fudging”.

:-)

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LIBERTY: Suspend pursuit and give sanctuary to the little people

Friday, August 17, 2007

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MikeGallagher/
2007/08/17/churches_have_no_business_harboring_illegals

Churches have no business harboring illegals
By Mike Gallagher
Friday, August 17, 2007

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What happens when a criminal who seeks and receives sanctuary in a church in order to escape prosecution eventually leaves the church?

Good-bye, sanctuary.

Hello, real world.

The soap opera of a woman named Elvira who repeatedly snuck into our country in order to take a job and defy immigration laws is like an episode right out of “The Twilight Zone.” Somehow, she managed to find herself at the doorstep of some Methodist Church in Chicago.

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Sorry, I grew up on Robin Hood movie where the Church gave sanctuary from the King and the pueblo Franciscan gave sanctuary to the poor Mexican peasants. If an escaping slave in pre-Civil War America took refuge in a Church, then shouldn’t the practice of sanctuary have protected him.

If fact, imho, the First Amendment renders the gooferment impotent when it comes to Churches. Churches generically including all Houses of Worship. Just as we’ll free a hundred guilty men to keep one innocent man from being wrongly convicted, so to we will suspend our pursuits of “evil doers” when Houses of Worship are involved.

Now, let’s examine the validity of “immigration law”. Working within the historical perspective of Dred Scott, not every law is to be obeyed. On what Constitutional basis does Congress derive the power to regulate immigration. Seems from my reading that it is a topic that was left with the individual States.

Now let’s think about stray cats and the Statue of Liberty. If you feed stray cats, then don’t be surprised when you are overrun by freeloaders. One of the problems I have with soup kitchens feeding the “homeless” is that it encourages more “homeless”. The Statue of Liberty states America’s willingness to accept ALL yearning to be free. And, willing to work to earn their keep. So immigration law is to prevent freeloading immigrants. But, I object to freeloading natives just as much. So if we eliminate welfare, free medical care, and free education, then we can also eliminate the concept of “illegal immigrant”. I envision the “immigration fence” replaced with a red carpet that says “Welcome to America”, right this way for your free physical, and “do you need any directions?”. We make the operator of the plane or boat responsible for the return trip of the sick or criminals. And open up the Golden Door.

America can be the shining city again.

Sorry, Mike Gallagher, I think your wrong about sanctuary. The conservative big gooferment statists are as wrong as the liberal big gooferment statists. It’s only with a return to the Original Intent will we find the energy that made America a once great nation. Gooferment only makes all of us poorer and less free.

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FUN: Tagging as a good bit of Friday fun

Friday, August 17, 2007

I got tagged by G. Lane Cavalier at http://glcavalier.wordpress.com. Who obviously has too much time on his hands and will do anything to avoid studying his Japanese. You can track back “Tagging” by visiting all the sites that have participated in this foolishness. You might even find something useful in this whole exercise..

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The Rules:
1. Post these rules before you give you the facts.
2. List 8 random facts about yourself.
3. At the end of your post, choose (tag) 8 people and list their names (linking to them).
4. Leave them a comment on their blog letting them know they’ve been tagged!
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Quibble: Rule#1 has been garbled in transmission and I’m too lazy to track it back. I will guess that it should either read “you give your facts” or “you give the facts about yourself”. Hmmm, does a flawed rule mean that you can toss the whole thing? Since I have a huge ego, I’ll go along with he gag. But I doubt I have eight bloggers to tag.

8 Facts about me:

  1. In grammar school, after having been caught throwing paper airplanes on a Friday, I was given the punish lesson to make and number 100,000 by Monday. I called my Mom to bring a numbering machine home from work. And, did you know you can make a paper airplane in four folds that will fly. I was tired of paper airplanes after that.
  2. I served 4 Years in the USAF, and despite going to the three survival schools — air, water, and ground — other than basic training and the survival schools, I never left Maryland.
  3. I’ve traveled by car in 49 of the 50 states.
  4. My wife and I hung out in the same bar for at least a year before we met at my cousin’s wedding, but never met at that bar. She knew most of my bar friends, but never saw me there. (Maybe I was under the table by the time she’d arrive after work.)
  5. I was awarded the Joint Service Commendation Medal for my computer representation of non-English non-Cyrillic languages while assigned to the National security Agency. (As a result of that work, when I was discharged, I was designated as a ‘key intelligence asset’, had a twenty year restriction on foreign travel, and had to file an annual reports on myself and any contacts with foreign nationals. Arghhh!)
  6. In 2004, I had been to every major league baseball stadium at least once.
  7. I’m not “lucky”, but I am an observant injineer. When I was in LasVegas for Comdex, the Rivera was just introducing “loyalty rewards”. On slot machines, they put in ticket dispensers that counted down your play with each coin you gambled. When it reached zero, it spit out a ticket. You could redeem the ticket for prizes. Like a carnival. I realized that people would not leave a slot machine with a low number on it unless they went broke. Thus, the low number was an indicator that the slot hadn’t hit lately. Each break in Comdex session, I get twenty bucks and go play the “low count” slots. I won 22k in two days — several times summoning my wife to wait for the payoff so I could go back to the session. By the next trip 2 months later, when I was ready to kill ’em, they changed the system. Argh!
  8. I am an introvert. As such, I was great as a systems programmer in college. I love the internet because I can avoid people. :-) Like GLaneC!

Here are the Taggee’s:

Kent Blumberg http://kentblumberg.typepad.com
Andrew Flusche http://www.legalandrew.com
Liz Handlin http://ultimate-resumes.blogspot.com
Dave Opton http://execunet.blogspot.com/
Andy Roberts http://distributedresearch.net
Dave Taylor http://www.intuitive.com/blog/
Des Walsh http://www.thinkinghomebusiness.com
Vincent Wright http://linkedinbusinessdiscussionindex.blogspot.com/

(I’m astonished that I could come up with eight.)

FJohn

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