RANT: When do we get to the truth about Lincoln?

Thursday, September 13, 2007

http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo127.html

A Fitting Tribute to a Corrupt Tyrant
by Thomas J. DiLorenzo

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Lincoln himself was a corrupt corporate insider and a lifelong mercantilist. The economic policies that he spent his entire adult life championing – protectionist tariffs, corporate welfare for railroad and road-building corporations, and inflationary central banking – were nothing but an Americanized version of the corrupt British mercantilist system that the American Revolution was fought to discard. They were all designed to use the powers of the state to benefit a small, politically powerful cabal of (mostly Northern) manufacturers, bankers, and politicians at the expense of the rest of society. They were also designed to enlarge the state by tying all of these powerful interests to it politically.

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Interesting how the liberal media and the gooferment skoolz have turned this fellow into an icon. The thing I really can’t understand is awarding him the appellation “freed the slaves”. Revisionists seem to have overlooked a whole lot of facts. Glad I’m an injineer where facts matter more than opinions.

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FUN: Uncle Jay explains “recess”

Thursday, September 13, 2007

From: My Favorite Luddite
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 10:58 AM
To: John Reinke
Subject: Uncle Jay ‘Explains the News’

Couldn’t resist…this is pretty funny

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/26b0d09397

I agree. About the only think he left out is “why would someone spend millions to get a job that pays thousands”.

Hint for the politically challenged reading this: Think about the trio: “feather my nest; reward my friends; punish my enemies”.

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GLOBAL: Lest we forget who we are trading with

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070911/D8RJBL081.html

Chinese Catholic Bishop Dies in Custody
Sep 11, 11:53 AM (ET)
By ALEXA OLESEN

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BEIJING (AP) – A bishop who led an underground congregation of Roman Catholics and was repeatedly detained in China for his loyalty to the Vatican died in police custody, a monitoring group said Tuesday.

Bishop Han Dingxiang, 71, was cremated within six hours of his death Sunday and buried in a public cemetery with no priests or other faithful present, both groups said.

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… and lest we forget, who has 5T$, from our trading with them.

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BLOG: My response to Jason Alba calling me an “off topic blogger” :-) (Who cares what they say? Did I get a link?)

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

>>”off-topic bloggers”???

Hmmm, perhaps JA meant “oft topic”? “often to pick”? Or, “oaf topic”?

I think I’m concerned that I am just misunderstood. Maybe because when I look thru my pane in the Johari window (or is it pain), I see things that should be and ask why the heck not. Often. I admit that! Often! I’m outraged so often, it’s easy to get lathered up several times a planetary rotation. It’s just that some days the Planet in question is Mercury.

And, blogger?

I’m not so sure I qualify as that.

When I look at all the erudition slathered over the blogosphere, maybe I’m more like MySpace.

When I see some folk blogging for branding, I remember I’m unique.

My brand is ZBS! (zero “barbara streisand”) Call ’em as you see em’! And let the chips fall where they may. (Isn’t that being “colorful”?)

I call what I do “plogging”. A “personal (whine) web log” of what I find. My motto is “Wasting your time with things I find interesting, amusing, or enraging.” So maybe that IS the definition of an “off-topic blog”.

I always wanted to be an exemplar.

I can hear JA and others saying “See what happens when you don’t network, when you don’t brand, when you don’t manage your career … … you wind up like HIM!!” while pointing this way and looking down a Pinnochio’s nose.

In any event, I’m glad I was “listening” when JA put out the “bat signal” for crazy fjohn to participate. At least, I was first at something.

:-)

Guess, I should be happy to be invited at all. Maybe I should be more circumspect? To paraphrase Grouch, “I wouldn’t want to be part of any club that would have me as a member!”.

fjohn
the big fat old turkey hisself

P.S.: In counseling job seekers — usually FOWGs who didn’t see the axe being swung — I have a collected a slew of recruiter stories. Maybe one of these days, I’ll chronicle then in a series of blog posts. I’ll probably get sued if I name names. Be a different kind of carnival.

P.P.S.: Seekers can visit my “turkey farm” at http://tinyurl.com/lxu93. Just mention Jason’s name at the gate. (Just joshing, there’s no gate.) I give it all away trying to repay all the people that have helped me along the way.

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INTERESTING: Terrorists are not greatest threat

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2007/09/colin-powell-te.html

Colin Powell: Terrorists are not greatest threat to nation

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Powellingq In an interview with GQ magazine that’s scheduled to be put online here at 11 a.m. ET, former secretary of State and one-time potential presidential candidate Colin Powell has this to say about terrorism and the threat it poses to the USA:

“What is the greatest threat facing us now? People will say it’s terrorism. But are there any terrorists in the world who can change the American way of life or our political system? No. Can they knock down a building? Yes. Can they kill somebody? Yes. But can they change us? No. Only we can change ourselves. So what is the great threat we are facing?”

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OK, let’s get back to the America of our forefathers. (1) Honest money. (2) End gooferment welfare. (3) End the phony “War on Drugs”. (4) End gooferment education. In my lifetime, please.

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INTERESTING: Everett doing better

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=301474

ESPN is reporting that the fellow who was badly hurt this weekend, in a clean football play, is doing better. Silent prayers answered!

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GUNS: 95-Year-Old Woman Beaten In Manhattan; I’m not shocked

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_253224943.html

Sep 10, 2007 11:57 pm US/Eastern
SHOCK: 95-Year-Old Woman Beaten In Manhattan
Police Say Robbery Was Motive, Have Suspect On Tape
Hazel Sanchez
Reporting

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(CBS) NEW YORK It’s happened again, an elderly woman has been beaten over a lousy purse. This time, the victim is 95 years old.

Police on Monday were looking for a man they say beat and robbed the woman right outside her 17th floor apartment. The incident happened around 2:15 p.m. at the East River Co-op on the Lower East Side.

The victim’s friends are shocked by the attack.

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I’m shocked.

Casablanca-style

<<< And, I am shocked, shocked, SHOCKED to find there is gambling going on at Rick’s cafe. Now where are MY winnings. ;-) >>>

I’m shocked that in the Pepuls Republik of Nu Yauk Titty that anyone would be surprised that the law of the jungle abounds. The strong take from the weak. Kill or be killed. Streets running with blood.

That’s the liberal paradise.

Even if you are the Good Samaritan passing one of these assaults, you have to have a death wish to become involved.

That’s where the War on Drugs and Gun Control gets you.

The war on drugs makes sick people turn to crime to afford their fix. And Gun Control disarms all the law abiding and turns them into victims.

Now visualize a Libertarian America. The drug addict would be able to buy their fix for modest sums. (Estimates say that MJ would be profitable at a penny a cigarette. Heroin would be akin to cough syrup; five bucks a bottle.) Charitable organizations would be offering drug treatment programs. Crime would be zero. Criminals would have to guess which victims were unarmed and do it in such a way that avoids a Good Samaritan. Criminals that guess wrong are “retired” from the business. We’d all be a lot better off and a lot safer.

So I’m shocked that more people don’t see that the meme of gooferment force just makes us all worse off.

Even a 95 year old can be trusted to defend themselves from the jackals in human form.

Just sprinkle a few sheep dogs among the sheep and crime will be very unprofitable. End the war on drugs and there’s no need for it either.

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INTERESTING: claims of Pats spying on Jets

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3012989

Sources: Camera confiscated after claims of Pats spying on Jets
By Chris Mortensen ESPN.com
Updated: September 10, 2007, 6:39 PM ET

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NFL security confiscated a video camera and its tape from a New England Patriots employee on the team’s sideline during Sunday’s game against the Jets in a suspected spying incident, sources said.

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I’m surprised at this. And, I thought I was un-surprise-able!

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POLITICAL: Gooferment is the problem

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2007/tle434-20070909-01.html

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Indeed, government-run schools are an excellent example of what would happen if this craxy idea by Mr. Perez were allowed to go forward. If the government were in the business of selling guns and ammo in the same way, and to the same extent, that it is in the business of providing “public” schooling to children, we should see the same level of quality—next to none—and the same sort of lazy, indolent, and rude teachers and administrators clamoring for more money, as well as all the other features of poor performance and inadequate preparation that we find from schools.

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Yup, the last thing we need is the gooferment with a monopoly on anything.

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RANT: United States creates new drugs; no thanks to the gooferment

Monday, September 10, 2007

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2007/09/04/no_health_care?page=2

No “Health Care”?
By Thomas Sowell
Tuesday, September 4, 2007

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People who are urging us to follow other countries that control the prices of medications seem uninterested in the fact that those countries depend on the United States to create new drugs, after they destroyed incentives to do so in their own countries.

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HillaryCare, EdwardsCare, Medicare … … it’s all the same trash.

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