RANT: Military politicians?

Saturday, September 15, 2007

http://www.lewrockwell.com/reese/reese394.html

This Is the Month
by Charley Reese

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As a rule of thumb, don’t believe anybody above the rank of lieutenant colonel. That’s the rank most warriors are forced to retire at. Most of the rest are politicians in uniform.

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Ahh, the old tank driver nails the “perfumed princes”. Wonder how the testimony would have been different if they flew in a Marine gunny right from the front. I bet they’d have heard in no uncertain terms about the “war effort” and results. Might even have made a few of them blush. But, I’d bet a paycheck there would be no powerpoint slides.

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TECH SERVICE: WORDPRESSDOTCOM has a tiny flaw

Friday, September 14, 2007

I love the free, and unequaled, wordpressdotcom, but I found a small flaw.

In building a site on GOOGLEPAGES, it just so happened that the page urls all routinely end in a period. However, when I put that url into the free, and unequaled, wordpressdotcom, it barfs building that link with the last period. Interesting. For the time being, my workaround is to use TUNYURL.

But I have to wait for Monday to report it to wordpress hq. They turn off the problem reporting mechanism to prevent Monday morning overload. I’m blogging it here because I always forget by Monday.

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TECH SOFTWARE: MICROSOFT is a steal all right!

Friday, September 14, 2007

FROM A PRODUCTIVITY PORTFOLIO EMAIL

http://www.timeatlas.com/mos/The_News/General/Students_Benefit_from_Microsoft_Office_Promo/
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I just noticed in the latest Microsoft Press Pass that they are starting a campaign today called “The Ultimate Steal”. The deal is only for students, but the savings are substantial. For less than $60, you get Office Ultimate 2007. As with all deals, there are a few conditions.

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:10:28 -0700

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Why buy Microsoft when you can get open source stuff for free?

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JOBSEARCH: Old seekers have to see the opptys!

Friday, September 14, 2007

http://www.garynorth.com/public/2448.cfm

Katie Couric vs. Age Spots
Gary North

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Why CBS rolled the loaded demographic dice is a mystery to me. CBS Evening News was in third place under Rather, third place under Shieffer, and remains in third place today. But Ms. Couric’s network rivals will age as men age. Ms. Couric will not.

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Remembering my quote about FOWG’s in job search —

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“Time has not stood still. Age is not respected. Experience is not valued. And, Education is not revered.”

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I think it’s obvious why CBS tried something different. If you’re stuck in third, in a three man race, it’s time to throw a “Hail Mary”. In this case, a “Hail Katie”. As is usual with the liberal media, they just don’t understand what business they are in.

They are in the “eyeballs watching ads” business.

The TV and Newspapers are shrinking; the inet is growing.

IMHO the “Hail Mary” strategy would be to embrace the change, be the change, grok the change.

Spending a lot of money on Ms. Katie could have been the watershed event of a new strategy. Integration with the web.

Here’s one idea. They probably have more stories on the hook then they can do. Have the inet audience choose the stories that they want to hear and see. Let assume that in a 30 minute show, they have 25 minutes of air time. Each story is 2 minutes. So they have 12 story slots. I’d guess they must have 50 stories in queue. Let the inet audience, pick the stories that get to air. Digg style. Involve the audience. Allow all stories to be on Youtube later in the evening. Of course, I’d put a sponsor on each one.

It’s about thinking innovatively.

If Ms. Couric had brought that type of thinking to CBS, then she’d have been worth her negligible weight in gold.

Jobseekers can’t become focused on problems or flaws. They have to see the opportunity!

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RANT: It’s just another disgrace on the reputation of Nu Jerzee

Friday, September 14, 2007

http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/base/columns-0/1189484859197200.xml&coll=1&thispage=2

Obscene fans at Rutgers draw a penalty flag
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Mark Di Ionno

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Now that Rutgers is big-time, the old-time academic- and adult-minded fans are being elbowed aside by gangs of frat boys thrusting their fists and faces into the rolling ESPN cameras. What was it your old football coach used to say? Act like you’ve been there before. Not in the RU student section.

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It’s a shame.

They have embarrassed everyone.

And, what makes it worse, my taxes pay for it. All of it!

That’s the difference between the gooferment and the marketplace. Who chooses?

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POLITICAL: Thompson was a lobbyist for 20 years

Thursday, September 13, 2007

FROM DICK MORRIS EMAIL

FRED THOMPSON: FIRST LOBBYIST FOR PRESIDENT
By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN
Published on FoxNews.com on September 10, 2007

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Thompson was a lobbyist for 20 years before he was elected to the Senate, representing the Tennessee Savings and Loan Association, the deposed Haitian President Aristed and the National Planning & Reproductive Health Association.

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You have to like when the dirt comes out. Hopefully the voters can look past the Law & Order gig and see what they are electing.

A plague on all their houses.

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FABLES: Roald Dahl’s version of “Little Red Riding Hood”

Thursday, September 13, 2007

http://www.clairewolfe.com/wolfesblog/00002675.html

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WELL, WELL. Google features this celebratory graphic today.* I had no idea what it meant until I ran my cursor over it and got “Roal Dahl’s birthday.” What a terrific thing to Googleate.

Since the topic today seems to be Things Literary … I just finished reading Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes (on the recommendation, I think, of DA). I was going to blog later about this iconoclast classic. But since it’s Dahl’s special day, here’s a quote from his version of “Little Red Riding Hood”:

He sat there watching her and smiled
He thought, I’m going to eat this child.
Compared with her old Grandmamma
She’s going to taste like caviare.

Then Little Red Riding Hood said, “But Grandma,
what a lovely great big furry coat you have on.”

“That’s wrong!” cried Wolf. “Have you forgot
“To tell me what BIG TEETH I’ve got?
“Ah well, no matter what you say,
“I’m going to eat you anyway.”
The small girl smiles. One eyelid flickers.
She whips a pistol from her knickers.
She aims it at the creature’s head
And bang, bang, bang, she shoots him dead.

Ms. Hood — and her new wolfskin coat — also turn up later to play a pivotal role in the tale of the three little pigs. :-)

Happy birthday (even if truly and totally belated, since he died in 1990), Roald Dahl.

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USA: sometimes one’s own wisdom comes back to haunt you

Thursday, September 13, 2007

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/09/guess-who-said-.html

Guess Who Said This (in 1987)
By David Axe
September 12, 2007 | 1:39:59 PM
Categories: Strategery

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The Vietnam experience left the military leadership feeling that they should advise against involvement in counterinsurgencies unless specific, perhaps unlikely, circumstances obtain — i.e. domestic public support, the promise of a quick campaign, and freedom to employ whatever force is necessary to achieve rapid victory. In light of such criteria, committing U.S. units to counterinsurgencies appears to be a very problematic proposition, difficult to conclude before domestic support erodes and costly enough to threaten the well-being of all America’s military forces (and hence the country’s national security), not just those involved in the actual counterinsurgency.

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Reminds me about what Greenspan said about gold BEFORE becoming the “maestro” of the FED.

This has to be the best find!

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VISTA: Observation GOTOMYPC install

Thursday, September 13, 2007

Interesting. I tried to install my GOTOMYPC on Frau’s Vista machine last night.

Using FIREFOX2, the install just hung. Using IE7, the install worked fine.

Huh?

And, when I tested connecting to it from my LUGGABLE with XP and FFOX2, everything worked fine.

So, maybe the Evil Empire still has some tricks up its sleeves.

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RANT: Isn’t a NC publik skoolz bound by that pesky First Amendment

Thursday, September 13, 2007

http://www.nbc17.com/midatlantic/ncn/news.apx.-content-articles-NCN-2007-09-11-0027.html

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SAMPSON COUNTY, N.C. – On the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, students at one high school were not allowed to wear clothes with an American flag.

Under a new school rule, students at Hobbton High School are not allowed to wear items with flags, from any country, including the United States.

The new rule stems from a controversy over students wearing shirts bearing flags of other countries.

Gayle Langston said her daughter, Jessica, was told to remove her Stars and Stripes t-shirt.

“Today she wanted to wear her shirt, and I had to tell her no,” said Langston. “She didn’t like it at all because I knew it would get her in trouble. Of all days, 9/11, she could not wear her American Flag shirt.”

The superintendent of schools in Sampson County calls the situation unfortunate, but says educators didn’t want to be forced to pick and choose which flags should be permissible.

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See! That’s ONE of the problems with gooferment skoolz.

(And, I’d dispute the assignment of the word “educator” to the babysitting service they provide.)

It’s a free speech issue.

Private schools can enforce whatever dress code they see fit.

“Public schools” are part of the gooferment. The gooferment is bound by that pesky First Amendment.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Hopefully, some of the patriots in North Carolina will “educate” these “educators” with exactly what that means!

Argh!

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