FUN: Who were those pigs?

Sunday, October 7, 2007

FROM LISA FROM THE BAYONNE DINER:

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Now you know the story of the three little pigs.

The first little pig built his house out of straw because it was the easiest thing to do.

The second little pig built his house out of sticks. This was a little bit stronger than a straw house.

The third little pig built his house out of bricks.

One night the big bad wolf, who dearly loved to eat fat little piggies, came along and saw the first little pig in his house of straw. He said “Let me in, Let me in, little pig or I’ll huff and I’ll puff and I’ll blow your house in!”

“Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin”, said the little pig.

But of course the wolf did blow the house in and ate the first little pig.

Many people got the ending wrong.

The Sticks Pig, peeking out his window, saw what happened to the Straw Pig and pulled out his cell phone for a quick call.

As the wolf walked towards the Stick House, a big black limo pulled up. A distinguished Pig in an Armani suit, Italian shoes, and several gold rings stepped out. He was quickly followed by two big well-built Pigs. One had a baseball bat and the other a rebar. Both in muscle t-shirts with multiple gold chains. The Distinguished Pig snapped his fingers and pointed at the Wolf. The two big pigs jumped the wolf, beat the crap out of him, duct taped him up, and threw him in the trunk. Then they all got back in the limo and drove away.

Now Brick Pig saw this for he to was peeking out of his window, ran over to the Stick Pig’s house. Stick Pig came out to meet him. “What just happened? Who were those Pigs?”. said Brick Pig breathlessly.

Stick Pig calmly replied:”Oh those were my friends … … the Guinea Pigs!”

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ROFL

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PRODUCTIVITY: Torre did an unbelievable job

Sunday, October 7, 2007

http://sports.myway.com/news/10072007/v5693.html

Boss of Old: George Steinbrenner Says Yankees Must Win Or Joe Torre Likely Won’t Return
Oct 7, 5:58 PM (ET)
By RONALD BLUM

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NEW YORK (AP) -Win or else! That was George Steinbrenner’s message to Joe Torre before the New York Yankees played the Cleveland Indians on Sunday night.

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As a “professional transitioner”, who has been on the … … errr, non-clean, end of the stick many times, I can emphasize with Joe’s situation.

At the beginning of the season, Yankee watchers knew the Yankees had no pitching. Time after time, game after game, we watched Torre tiptoe thru tight spot after top spot. The killer story was the one, years ago, that Pettite and Clemens left the Yankees because no one asked them if they wanted to stay. That story was confirmed with the Yankee GM Cashman. He said they were pursuing other pitchers and the deals didn’t work out.

So, George, you’re threatening the wrong fellow. I think that Torre did an unbelievable job with what your team gave him.

imho

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TECHNOLOGY: Using an LLP to protect yourself

Sunday, October 7, 2007

http://www.techmeme.com/071006/p16#a071006p16

TECHMEME points out an interesting article
Securing Very Important Data: Your Own (Denise Caruso/New York Times)
Source: New York Times
Author: Denise Caruso
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/07/technology/07frame…

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Securing Very Important Data: Your Own — AS long as we are willing to relinquish some personal data, Web applications have long allowed us to create virtual identities that can conduct most of the social and financial transactions that typify life in the real world.

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ONE way to change this, he said, is to make people more like organizations.

To this end, Mr. Neuenschwander and his colleagues have floated the intriguing concept of the L.L.P.: the Limited Liability Persona. This persona would be a legally recognized virtual person in which users could “invest” the financial or identity resources of their choosing.

Once their individual personas are created, consumers would be able to use them as their legal “alter ego,” even in financial transactions. “My L.L.P. would have its own mailing address, its own tax ID number, and that’s the information I’d give when I’m online,” Mr. Neuenschwander said. Other benefits include the ability for “personas” to limit their financial exposure in ways that individuals cannot.

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This is a most interesting concept.

The tin foil hat crowd always talks about the gooferment and all upper case names. So perhaps, a great gift for a child would be an LLP and their own name as a domain name (e.g., JOHNQPUBLIC dot something ink?).

Hmmm, certainly something to consider.

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FABLES: somehow it’s my fault

Sunday, October 7, 2007

— http://www.joblatino.com/jokes/managers.html

High Flying PM

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A man is flying in a hot air balloon and realizes he is lost. He reduces height and spots a man down below. He lowers the balloon further and shouts: “Excuse me, can you help me? I promised my friend. I would meet him half an hour ago, but I don’t know where I am.”

The man below says, “Yes, you are in a hot air balloon, hovering approximately 30 feet above this field. You are between 40 and 42 degrees North latitude, and between 58 and 60 degrees West longitude.”

“You must be a programmer,” says the balloonist.

“I am,” replies the man. “How did you know?”

“Well,” says the balloonist, “everything you have told me is technically correct, but I have no idea what to make of your information, and the fact is I am still lost.”

The man below says, “You must be a project manager”

“I am,” replies the balloonist, “but how did you know?”

“Well,” says the man, “you don’t know where you are or where you are going. You have made a promise which you have no idea how to keep, and you expect me to solve your problem. The fact is you are in the exact same position you were in before we met, but now it is somehow my fault.”

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Kudos to my favorite Luddite for sourcing this for me. I always loved this one.

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LIBERTY: So which are u?

Sunday, October 7, 2007

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2007/09/19/stupid,_ignorant_or_biased

Stupid, Ignorant or Biased?
By Walter E. Williams
Wednesday, September 19, 2007

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s closest adviser and architect of the New Deal, Harry Hopkins, advised, “Tax and tax, spend and spend, elect and elect, because the people are too damn dumb to know the difference.”

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There’s a principle that says don’t attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity.

So, stupidity it is.

And, we can blame it on the voters in 1860 and 1930!

I often point to the linkage between giving women the vote and organized crime.

In this case, I’ll like the publik skoolz accomplishing exactly what the socialist Horace Mann wanted — cannon fodder factory workers that could be led by the elite. Bingo, that’s what we’ve got.

My answer? Easy.

1. End the dole; 2. Dismiss gooferment public education; 3. Stop the various wars — foreign and domestic; 4. Repatriate the troops home; 5. Downsize ALL gooferments.

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TECH SERVICE: new search tool for internet radio

Sunday, October 7, 2007

>http://www.iheard.com/stations/folk/acoustic/liveireland

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<a href=”http://www.iheard.com/stations/folk/acoustic/liveireland/”><img src=”http://www.iheard.com/images/iheard_badge.gif” alt=”LiveIreland 1 radio – iheard.com” style=”border:0;”></a>

LiveIreland 1

Irish Folk, Traditional And Celtic Music From Dublin, Ireland. Liveireland Is One Of The Worlds Most Listened To Irish Internet Radio Stations.
Station Rating:
Country: Ireland
Language: English

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In my never-ending search to recapture the glory days of skool and the Red Garter in Greenwich Village of the Sixties, I like: irish, folk, or Gay Nineties banjo quartet music.

Here’s a new search tool for internet radio.

Don’t you just love the net!

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GUNS: Malaysia write rants about crime

Sunday, October 7, 2007

FROM A JEFFERY YONG EMAIL

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Violent crimes are rising faster than the Share Market. Malaysians used to watch TV and comment about how bad the crime rate is in USA while quietly thankful that “our Malaysia” is relatively peaceful. No longer! In my neighborhood alone, there is a snatch theft case every single week! If you’re lucky, you lose your money. Or else, you may be slashed mercilessly. The only saving grace is that “gun crimes” are still not as rampant as in the US. But for how long?

I’m not going to go into an emotional account of how the whole nation was in uproar and how even the “imam” (Muslim priest) who conducted the funeral cried openly. I’m also not going to go into a seething rant on how the police and government should be DOING MORE to prevent such crimes. These, you can read in the various blogs all over the net just by searching for “Nurin Jazlin”

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Well, aside from the snide reference to gun crime, it would appear that people can’t defend themselves. John Lott has done numerous studies that show when the good folks are armed, crime plummets.

I’d opine that there are a few reasons for it: (1) Criminals are cowards for good reason. Messing with an armed citizen, or in the vicinity of one, can get you killed. (2) Someone who his armed has assumed the mantle of John Wayne “What are you doing, pilgrim?”. And, is more likely to become the “police” when a neighbor cries out for help. It’s down right dumb to interfere unarmed. (3) Women, the elderly, and children are no longer “weak” and can’t assert their own rights.

As regular readers here know, I like the “sprinkle a few sheepdogs in among the flock and let the wolves guess” strategy.

The police are little more than sanitation men. They come along long after the fact, put up some tape, take pics to memorialize the event, write reports, and then go for doughnuts. Only an armed citizen has a chance to defend themselves and their neighbors from crime.

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RANT: One day short; the gooferment saves money

Sunday, October 7, 2007

http://www.wcsh6.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=71741

National Guard Troops Denied Benefits After Longest Deployment Of Iraq War
Rhonda Erskine, Online Content Producer
Created: 10/3/2007 2:39:29 PM
Updated: 10/3/2007 5:32:02 PM

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MINNEAPOLIS, MN (NBC) — When they came home from Iraq, 2,600 members of the Minnesota National Guard had been deployed longer than any other ground combat unit. The tour lasted 22 months and had been extended as part of President Bush’s surge.

1st Lt. Jon Anderson said he never expected to come home to this: A government refusing to pay education benefits he says he should have earned under the GI bill.

“It’s pretty much a slap in the face,” Anderson said. “I think it was a scheme to save money, personally. I think it was a leadership failure by the senior Washington leadership… once again failing the soldiers.”

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Well when you deal in force, why are you surprised at anything?

You didn’t think that anyone cared about you, did you?

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GUNS: so little effort to stop him

Sunday, October 7, 2007

http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/10/next_time_scream_librescu.html

October 02, 2007
Next Time, Scream ‘LIBRESCU!’
By William R. Hartman

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Ever since hearing of the tragic deaths at Virginia Tech last April, I have been deeply troubled by the number of people killed by a lone gunman wielding two hand guns in the midst of dozens of people.

Why was Seing-Hui Cho able to methodically move from classroom to classroom – four in total – killing 29 people and wounding at least 26 more, with so little effort to stop or to disarm him?

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Absolutely correct. Don’t sit back and take it. Rush the shooter. (Your only other option would be to zig zag away.) Most of these bozos can’t hit from a distance. So, like the recent cases on airplanes, don’t sit back acceptingly. Charge!

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JOBSEARCH: Parsing the employed into segments

Sunday, October 7, 2007

NETWORK WORLD 24 Sept 07 Page 41

NetworkWorld parses the “in’s” into: Seekers on the prowl; Explorers keeping the eyes open; Approachable who are not looking but would respond to a personal inquiry; and Loyalists who are committed to their current employer.

Where do you sit?

I guess I am somewhere between “explorer” and “approachable”!

:-)

The question who would hire a FOWG or a BFT?

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