MONEY: 20 timeless money rules

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/moneymag/0708/gallery.20_rules.moneymag/20.html

20 timeless money rules
Money Magazine collected the best advice from some of the smartest investors (and other people) who have ever lived.
By Carla Fried, Money Magazine

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1. Be humble
When you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it–this is knowledge.
–Confucius

2. Take calculated risks
He that is overcautious will accomplish little.
–Friedrich von Schiller

3. Have an emergency fund
For age and want, save while you may; no morning sun lasts a whole day.
–Benjamin Franklin

4. Mix it up
It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.
–Miguel de Cervantes

5. It’s the portfolio, stupid
Asset allocation…is the overwhelmingly dominant contributor to total return.
–Gary Brinson, Brian Singer and Gilbert Beebower

6. Average is the new best
The best way to own common stocks is through an index fund.
–Warren Buffett

7. Practice patience
It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It was always my sitting. Got that? My sitting tight!
–Edwin Lefevre

8. Don’t time the market
The real key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.
–Peter Lynch

9. Be a cheapskate
Performance comes and goes, but costs roll on forever.
–Jack Bogle

10. Don’t follow the crowd
Fashion is made to become unfashionable.
–Coco Chanel

Or, as the legendary financier Sir James Goldsmith has said, “If you see a bandwagon, it’s too late.”

11. Buy low
If a business is worth a dollar and I can buy it for 40 cents, something good may happen to me.
–Warren Buffett

12. Invest abroad
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
–St. Augustine

13. Keep perspective
There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.
–Harry Truman

14. Just do it
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
–Eleanor Roosevelt

15. Borrow responsibly
As life closes in on someone who has borrowed far too much money on the strength of far too little income, there are no fire escapes.
–John Kenneth Galbraith

16. Talk to your spouse
“In every house of marriage there’s room for an interpreter.”
–Stanley Kunitz

17. Exit gracefully
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
–Pablo Picasso

18. Pay only your share
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.
–John Maynard Keynes

19. Give wisely
The time is always right to do the right thing.
–Martin Luther King Jr.

20. Keep money in its place
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
–Jonathan Swift

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FUN: dotcomeraden!

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dotcomrade&defid=2615424

An [Internet] acquaintance; someone you chat with but have never actually met.

“So who’s this NrdPowr32 guy?”
“I dunno. Just a dotcomrade of mine.”

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MONEY: Economic September

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

http://www.survivalblog.com/2007/10/from_the_survivalblog_archives.html

Headline: Dumping of US Dollar Could Trigger ‘Economic September 11’

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There is a potentially fatal flaw at the heart of the global economy: the strong possibility of financial meltdown following a collapse of confidence in the greenback, Clyde Prestowitz tells Bruce Stannard
29 August 2005

THE nightmare scenario that haunts global strategist Clyde Prestowitz is an economic September 11 — a worldwide financial panic triggered by a sudden massive sell-off of US dollars that would lead inexorably to the collapse of economies around the world. If that happens, Prestowitz predicts: “It would make the Great Depression of the 1930s look like a walk in the park.” Australia would be sucked into the vortex of such a recession, which would cause great hardship throughout the world, he warns. Prestowitz is not a doomsayer, neither is he alone in his views. As president of the Economic Strategy Institute, a Washington think tank, he is in regular contact with the most influential US business leaders, several of whom — Warren Buffet and George Soros included — have taken steps to hedge their currency positions against the possibility of a cataclysmic plunge in the greenback. “Right now,” he says, “we have a situation in which the US is running huge trade deficits — about $US650 billion ($766 billion) in 2004 — which are financed by borrowings from the central banks of Asia — mainly the Chinese and the Japanese. All the world’s central banks are chock-full of US dollars — they’re holding many more dollars than they really want. They’re holding those dollars because at the moment there’s no great alternative and also because the global economy depends on US consumption. If they dump the dollar and the dollar collapses, then the whole global economy is in trouble.

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Sigh!

TEOTWAWKI (The End Of The World As We Know It) is postulated by a hyper inflation in Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse by James Wesley Rawles — the editor of SurvivalBlog.com.

So clearly his blog is sensitive to this issue.

But that doesn’t make it “impossible”.

When money is no longer a “store of value”, what does one do?

Beats me, but I’m open to suggestions.

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JOBSEARCH: Prepare for when the relationship goes sour

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Attention all turkeys:

When you start your new job, “prepare three envelopes”.

That’s an old joke.

http://www.notboring.com/jokes/work/3.htm

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Prepare Three Envelopes
A fellow had just been hired as the new CEO of a large high tech corporation. The CEO who was stepping down met with him privately and presented him with three numbered envelopes. “Open these if you run up against a problem you don’t think you can solve,” he said.

Well, things went along pretty smoothly, but six months later, sales took a downturn and he was really catching a lot of heat. About at his wit’s end, he remembered the envelopes. He went to his drawer and took out the first envelope. The message read, “Blame your predecessor.”

The new CEO called a press conference and tactfully laid the blame at the feet of the previous CEO. Satisfied with his comments, the press — and Wall Street — responded positively, sales began to pick up and the problem was soon behind him.

About a year later, the company was again experiencing a slight dip in sales, combined with serious product problems. Having learned from his previous experience, the CEO quickly opened the second envelope. The message read, “Reorganize.” This he did, and the company quickly rebounded.

After several consecutive profitable quarters, the company once again fell on difficult times. The CEO went to his office, closed the door and opened the third envelope.

The message said, “Prepare three envelopes.”

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There are a lot of true things said in jest.

This is one of them.

Eventually, things will turn nasty.

I don’t care that today the sun is shining, the birds are singing, and all is right in the Universe. You may be looking forward to cashing your first paycheck. Time to look a little more forward.

There will be a day, in the all to soon future, where you will be –proverbially — opening the “third envelope”.

Now assuming that you don’t have an employment contract — not many of us do — you’ll be facing the unpleasantness of the potential axe.

So, today, right now, when all is good, please please plan your demise.

Create a folder at home called “DOOMSDAY”. Into that you should be putting “important” documents related to your employment. By “important”, I mean as it relates to your continued employment. So immediately, your offer letter should be in there. As well as anything that is ever given you by HR, Payroll, Finance, Personnel, whatever as it applies to your continued employment. In addition, you should document every significant conversation you ever have with anyone higher than you, lower than you, or in a support organization that has anything to do with your continued employment. Keep your own set of book. Fill out a personal time sheet. Have comp time, keep a record. Keep a score card of what you do. Don’t share it with anyone, store it on their computers, send it over their wire, or even keep it in the office.

Trust me. Some day, you’ll be glad you did.

You’re not doing this to pick a fight or focus on the bad stuff that can happen. (And will happen, if you focus on the negative.) This is to be ready for “war” should a fight break out.

It might get you some leverage in the severance process.

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RANT:The “auto” tax

Monday, October 22, 2007

http://burnedbygovt.com.nyud.net:8080/blog/2007/oct/have_you_ever_noticed…%3F

Burned By Government
Have you ever noticed…?
Wed, 10/17/2007 – 20:42

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So, after spending all this money, so that you can go to work to make the money to buy and maintain the vehicle (and pay those other incidentals like rent and food), what do you have to do? Why,you’ve got to PAY THE GOVERNMENT! You’ve got to get all your “papers in order”just like all the good little citizens in all the movies about Nazi Germany, and the old Soviet Union, and Orwell’s 1984.

And this costs money, and more than that, it costs TIME. And, damned inconveniently, that’s not just time, but due to the scheduling of all the various government offices you have to go to to get these papers in order, they are usually only open during the time you are scheduled to be at work–so you’ve got to take off from work, which costs you more money. Add to this that the various offices usually give you the run-around, making you “hurry up and wait” and then sending you to a different office to get some other paper that you must have FIRST, but which, upon arriving, you find you cannot get without first completing a different form at yet another government office…and so on. It cost you even more time and money.

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It’s the tax that keeps on taking — time, money, and attention.

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JOBSEARCH: University of Hard Knocks Alumni Membership Drive is Underway!!!!

Monday, October 22, 2007

http://glcavalier.wordpress.com/2007/10/23/university-of-hard-knocks-alumni-membership-drive-is-underway

University of Hard Knocks Alumni Membership Drive is Underway!!!!
by G. Lane Cavalier

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When I was out of work several years ago, I received a good piece of advice from a fellow networker that I have never followed up on. That advice was to start an “Alumni Group” for those professionals that never finished their degree.

***and***

The group is going to be based around 3 core issues that impact professionals without degrees:

1) Continuing Education/Non Traditional Education
2) Job Searching and Interviewing (overcoming the lack of the degree)
3) Networking

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Of course, I indicated I would be happy to participate.

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LIBERTY: separate the gooferment from education

Monday, October 22, 2007

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/10/17/big_brother_at_school/?rss_id=Boston+Globe+–+Jeff+Jacoby+columns

Big Brother at school
By Jeff Jacoby, Globe Columnist | October 17, 2007

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Thus in a little over 100 years, the Democratic Party – and much of the Republican Party – has been transformed from a champion of “parental rights and rights of conscience in the education of children” to a party whose leaders believe that parents “don’t get to impose” their views and values on what their kids are taught in school. Do American parents see anything wrong with that? Apparently not: The majority of them dutifully enroll their children in government-operated schools, where the only views and values permitted are the ones prescribed by the state.

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Have to separate the gooferment from education. It’s a freedom of religion issue.

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MONEY: More people go on welfare!

Monday, October 22, 2007

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Bloomberg: First baby boomer asks for Social Security benefits

“The first Baby Boomer applied today for Social Security benefits, a milestone marking the approaching retirement of a generation of Americans whose eligibility for government payouts threatens to overwhelm the federal budget. ‘This is the first drop of rain in the flood,’ said Bob Bixby, head of the Concord Coalition, a Washington-based advocacy group that promotes balanced federal budgets. ‘It’s the beginning of an era. It’s symbolic but it reminds us that we’re not doing anything to prepare for this.’

“The demands on retirement programs by the estimated 80 million Americans born between 1946 and 1964 combined with spiraling health-care costs will eventually overwhelm the federal budget unless lawmakers change government policies, Bixby said.’

Source: Brian Faler, Bloomberg.com, October 15, 2007.

***End Quote***

Here comes the tidal wave of more people on the dole!

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GUNS: “empty holster” demonstration

Sunday, October 21, 2007

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MmZiZDdhNjJlZTk2YjY4N2IzYTUxZWNjZDZhZjUxMTY=&w=MQ==

There’s A Reason They Choose Schools
A familiar story.
By Timothy Wheeler

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It is encouraging that college students themselves have a much better grasp on reality than their politically correct elders. During the week of October 22-26 Students For Concealed Carry On Campus will stage a nationwide “empty holster” demonstration (peaceful, of course) in support of their cause.

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Hopefully lot’s of people will get the word that they have a Second Amendment RIGHT to defend themselves. No permission needed!

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INDEXCARDNOVEL: A sad letter from a distant friend

Sunday, October 21, 2007

July 1, 2022

The postman arrived with his weekly delivery, the censor allowed it thru, and we received you letter. It bore the Forty Two dollar embossing on the tissue paper page and we appreciated the sacrifice you made to send it. The youngsters all marveled over it. We don’t get many letters; yours is the first this year. I had to handle it carefully; it was as thin as an angel’s wing or how we have the deli slice baloney these days. When we can afford it. I know I’m getting old when I remember back to fried baloney sandwiches where the baloney was an inch thick. Anyway, my mind wanders; back to the letter.

Oh how I miss my friends; the family finds it hard to believe that we used to take car trips just for fun to visit each other. That is understandable for they have only known rationed gas which varies always cycling higher from the 2200 $/gallon “government approved” price. When you can get it. Price controls always cause shortages. Most people just went along with the changes. But back to answering your letter.

We all gathered in the living room — me, my wife, the boy, his wife, their four children, the girl, her husband, their three children, and our “assigned guest”. In case you don’t have that stuff up there, our governor created a program where one homeless person was assigned to each house. Our guest is a nice man from Detroit, who used to build cars. We had no choice. If you didn’t take the assignment, they trippled your taxes. At that point, most people would lose their house and become homeless themselves and assigned. So they’d take your house, you’d be able to take only one bag, trucked to an assignment center, “assigned” a minimum of two counties away, and probably never see your family again. There was a lot of uproar about that. Most people just went along with the changes. But, back to answering your letter.

We were just interrupted. The Homeland Police & Drug Enforcement just conducted a house to house search. We all had to go stand outside with the rest of the neighborhood for an hour while they checked our identity cards and went through the house with the drug sniffing and people sniffing dogs. The penalties for non-compliance are severe. You lose your house and can even go to jail. Do you have that up there? Most people just went along with the changes. But, back to answering your letter.

We were sad to hear of your troubles. It’s a shame when youngsters die in far away wars. Your boy was a brave fellow. But then some of the choices we make are not really choices. When they brought back the draft, we knew there would be some breakage. Most people just went along with the changes. But, back to answering your letter.

Well, I am out of space on this page. Heaven knows we can afford to let go to a second page. It’s really a shame that there’s no work, little food, and no Lemons, Ice, Bacon, Englishmuffins, Rasberries, Tuna, Yoohoo, or other stuff. We’ll just have to go along with the changes and sing a little “barbara streisand”.

Regards to all,
You long time friend

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NEWJERSEY: Escapees?

Sunday, October 21, 2007

http://www.nj1015.com/absolutenm/templates/?a=8264&z=3

Poll Finds Many Hoping to Leave Jersey Behind
Wednesday, October 17, 2007 – Associated Press

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While one recent study found more than 231,000 people have left New Jersey since 2002, a poll released Wednesday found many more would like to follow.

The Monmouth University/Gannett New Jersey Poll found 49 percent of New Jersey adults would like to move out of the state, compared to 44 percent who would prefer to stay and 7 percent who are unsure.

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Folks escaping the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee? What a surprise. One party rule. Socialist in charge of all the governing bodies. All the negatives of Kalifoneyea without the weather. Free state Project (http://www.freestateproject.org) has my heart. Parents don’t let your children grow up to be NuJerzeeans!

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FUN: picking a goat!

Sunday, October 21, 2007

http://duckdown.blogspot.com/2007/10/quote-of-day-october-15th-2007.html

Quote of the Day: October 15th 2007
One man with courage makes a majority…
posted by James McGovern

scapegoat

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I love it when some one hits the nail on the head.

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TECHNOLOGY: strategic plan needs to adapt

Sunday, October 21, 2007

FROM INPUT TO A STRATEGIC TECHNOLOGY PLANNING PROCESS

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I suggest that the strategic plan needs to adapt to some “new” trends:

(1) Zero footprint platforms. Non PCs. Strange forms like PS2, WII, pda, cell phone, kiosk. type technologies.

(2) Low cost storage. Amazon S3 offering might make sense in some scenarios.

(3) The trend towards mashable content impacts direction.

(4) Low cost high speed access; new technologies like wimax could change use and volume.

(5) Nearly ubiquitous access sets expectations in connectivity and service levels.

(6) Vista, linux, and mac may all present unique opportunities.

(7) RIAA has court success; in loco parentis, may get us in the deep end.

(8) Porn and gambling continue to abound; challenge to the … …

(9) Facebook as digital dirt needs to be brought to everyone’s attention.

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PRODUCTIVITY: Meetings without notes are just “campfires”

Saturday, October 20, 2007

FROM AN EMAIL I WROTE

Meetings without notes are just “campfires”.

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“Campfire” meetings are just like a potlatch which could involve a feast, with music, dance, theatrically and spiritual ceremonies. In it’s simplest form, the campfire meeting is just a gathering that tell stories. Often, promises are made, deliveries scheduled, oaths given. And all is lost when the meeting ends. Even before the last final Kumbaya has been sung, the agreement begins to erode. There needs to be a “totem pole” erected recording who was to do what.

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I like a very structured meeting. Otherwise nothing seems to be accomplished.

The CHAMPION is the one who calls the meeting, ensures attendance, and justifies the effort. The ORGANIZER is responsible for the venue. The ARCHIVIST (the politically correct name for the Secretary) creates the agenda and minutes. The TIMEKEEPER keeps the meeting on schedule. The FACILITATOR moderates the debate with in the rules of engagement.

At the very least, there is an ANNOUNCEMENT, the AGENDA which may be sent with the announcement, and the MINUTES which may be in the form of informal notes.

Without structure, accomplishments are by luck; not design. I used to have a boss, who would announce at the beginning and end of a meeting, how much that meeting could / did cost the organization in salary dollars. It kept meetings short and focused. He made me crazed about meetings.

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POLITICAL: “I’m buying hope,” he shrugged.

Saturday, October 20, 2007

http://www.mises.org/story/2752

Anatomy of the Ron Paul Nation
By Cyd Malone
Posted on 10/18/2007

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So I sobered up and came back down to earth. In the early stages of the party, before the names and conversations blurred with fun, I spoke to a gentleman from New Jersey — Jason was his name — more of my age and far more sober minded. We both agreed that Ron Paul’s chances of becoming president are slim to none, forget what the Vegas odds makers say. Recognizing him as a Four Figure fellow, I asked him why then did he hand over so much money to Mr. Paul’s campaign.

He thought about it and gave me the answer to the same question I’d been asking of myself: “I’m buying hope,” he shrugged.

As Carl Menger would agree, hope has a price, too. Water can be more costly than a diamond under the right circumstances, and so can hope. Yet, despite a wife who deserves diamond earrings but instead gave them away to the longest of long shots, despite the fact that when I mentioned his name at a business dinner a week prior every single person at the table knew who Ron Paul was, and despite the large chunk of cash I handed over to buy it, I will admit I still don’t have a lot of hope.

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ME2! I’m buying hope. If Ron Paul doesn’t win, then the situation is hopeless. The sheep are unsalvageable. The takers have outvoted us producers. We’ll next need a George Washington.

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GUNS: here’s one that you won’t see on the national nightly news.

Saturday, October 20, 2007

http://www.samizdata.net/blog/archives/2007/10/to_keep_and_bea_1.html

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Homeowner ends a string for daylight buglers. No shots fired. None needed. Guess we won’t see this on the nightly news.

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RANT: And what can we expect from “free” Hillary health care?

Friday, October 19, 2007

http://purelypolitical.newsvine.com/_news/2007/10/13/1022861-the-nhs-wins-when-its-patients-die-telegraph?email=html

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Were it not for bad nursing, bad medical attention and bad administration, none of these patients need have died. Indeed, they would not have contracted C. difficile at all unless they had gone into hospital. So, after 150 years’ advance of education, technology, prosperity and science, we have lost what Florence Nightingale taught.

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Here’s a real life anecdote of gooferment healthcare!

We have “our” own VA, British National healthcare, Canadian Nation heathcare that serve as warning signs. Now our current semi-socialistic healthcare system admittedly has problems!

But those problems come from the gooferment involvement in the marketplace. It’s time to try a dose of “freedom”.

End the dole and allow people to be responsible for their own healthcare without gooferment interference.

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POLITICAL: can’t keep shipping little green pieces of papers

Friday, October 19, 2007

http://vtcommons.org/node/924

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Dear fellow Americans –

Instead of a nation that manufactures its own goods, the United States has become a nation of service providers, moving production “off shore” and relying on fossil fuel to transport its goods over long distances–an increasingly fragile supply line whether judged from an ecological, social, economic, or political point of view. While exporting jobs, we have also exported the skills and technologies for making the very products we depend on daily.

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Sustainable.

Don’t make me laff!

The various gangs in gooferment has made it impossible to produce anything here.

One wonders how the American experiment will end.

With a hyper-inflation? One thing is for sure, we will have to have an “industrial revolution” to bring good things to our own market. We can’t keep shipping little green pieces of papers for real stuff. That’s not going to work any more. What will?

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INTERESTING: the teaser doesn’t say

Friday, October 19, 2007

http://www.nbc.com/The_Tonight_Show_with_Jay_Leno/video/#mea=168805

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Jay’s Monologue 10/16
A gift for Ann Coulter

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Now I like Jay Leno. But here’s an example of how the “old media” doesn’t get it.

First there’s a commercial for Intel. OK, have to pay for the clip, storage, and transmission. Then, 90 seconds of snips from his monologue.

Note that the teaser doesn’t say “part of”, or “excerpts from”. It says “jay’s monologue”.

Argh!

Dumb, dumb, dumb.

Do they think they are fooling people or that we are stupid?

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POLITICAL: A fair criticisim of the Bush administration

Friday, October 19, 2007

The Geopolitical Foundations of Blackwater
By George Friedman

 

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Blackwater, KBR and all the rest are the direct result of the faulty geopolitical assumptions and the force structure decisions that followed. The primary responsibility rests with the American public, which made best-case assumptions in a worst-case world. Even without Iraq, civilian contractors would have proliferated on the battlefield. With Iraq, they became an enormous force. Perhaps the single greatest strategic error of the Bush administration was not fundamentally re-examining the assumptions about the U.S. Army on Sept. 12, 2001.

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This is a very fair indictment of the Bush Administration. As is usual, the last war’s assumptions are paid for with a lot of blood and treasure. When the “leaders” are blind to the flaws in the assumptions, people perish.

Perhaps a President Ron Paul will cause a fundamental reevaluation of assumptions. No other candidate promises to do anything other than “more of the same”.

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MONEY: Higher inflation on the horizon

Thursday, October 18, 2007

http://www.lewrockwell.com/french/french59.html

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The Fed has been creating money at a phenomenal clip all year with the M-3 (that government no longer reports, but economist John Williams does on Shadowstats.com) growing at a 14-percent rate, a 34-year high.

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Although it appears for now the Bernanke Fed is way behind Mugabe’s Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe in the inflation race, the man tracking the numbers at Shadowstats, believes “the onset of hyperinflation [in America] remains most likely at least several years in the future,” an unappetizing prospect.

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Seems like preparing for higher inflation makes sense.

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INTERESTING: Slap in the face to Torre

Thursday, October 18, 2007

The Yankees top brass are brass monkeys!

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LIBERTY: Where’s the movie vault?

Thursday, October 18, 2007

http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/10/the_buried_legacy_of_hollywood_1.html

October 14, 2007
The Buried Legacy of Hollywood Anti-Communism
By J.R. Dunn

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A number of anti-communist films were made in Hollywood during the late 40s through the 50s, many of them featuring well-known names and of high quality. Almost none are available today. This is no accident, comrades.

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Interesting that the liberal bias keeps us from a historical perspective. Guess we have to wait for the copyright to run out. In the meantime, we have to fight the race towards socialism.

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FUN: Witty quotes

Thursday, October 18, 2007

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/comedy/article2658656.ece

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6 Paul Merton “I’m always amazed to hear of air crash victims so badly mutilated that they have to be identified by their dental records. If they don’t know who you are, how do they know who your dentist is?”

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lol.

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GUNS: Wishing that laws could make skoolz safe; stupidity in action

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

http://www.buckeyefirearms.org/article-3990.html

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In 1974, for instance, during Passover, the PLO launched a series of attacks specifically targeting schools, buses, kindergartens and other child-oriented targets. I have read (I have enough trouble keeping track of Ohio gun laws, much less Israel’s gun laws) that Israel, at that time, had fairly strict gun control, dating back to British rule of the territory 50+ years before that. After a brief gnashing of teeth (“This isn’t the wild west!”) Israel took the novel approach of handing out guns and permits to any capable adult. Teachers, nannies, bus drivers, cafeteria workers, what have you, all started carrying guns. Parents (armed) volunteered to work security shifts, grandparents (armed) became fixtures in schools. Older children received compulsory gun safety training and a sort of high school militia was organized. Soon enough, the Islamic terrorists realized that attacking schools in Israel was a sucker’s bet. Despite the heavy concentration of guns in schools in Israel for 3+ decades, their school shooting rate is non-existent compared to gun-free American schools.

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Well sooner or later, we’ll wake up that the world is a dangerous place. And, no amount of wishing will make it less so.

You either believe that most people are good or most people are evil.

If good, then what is the hard of letting folks defend themselves?

If evil, then why would you want to be defenseless?

Readers here know that I am NOT a fan of gooferment education. It’s nothing more than a baby sitting service that I am forced to pay for that wastes decades of children’s time while filling their heads full of socialist crap.

BUT

Why create target rich zones with no armed opposition?

It’s just asking for killing.

Why can’t teachers, administrators, and custodians — or for that matter even students — be armed?

Don’t you trust them?

:-)

If not, why are you sending children there? If you do, then what’s the problem?

Can’t have it both ways.

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TECHNOLOGY: flash drive instead of a laptop

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

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From: Reinke’s R&D Techie Nerd Persona []
Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2007 2:24 PM
To: Editor
Subject: RE: Carry a flash drive instead of a laptop [Newsletter Comp Version]
Importance: Low

Well, hotel’s don’t necessarily give you access to the USB port. (I was
in vegas without my power cord but with my usb. And, was basically
screwed. See
https://reinkefaceslife.com/2007/09/23/rant-does-dell-suck-really-suck-or
-extremely-really-suck/ and my saga!) I think that the answer is g.ho.st
or a similar web os. fjohn

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From: Windows Secrets
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 5:50 AM
Subject: Carry a flash drive instead of a laptop [Newsletter Comp
Version]Carry a flash drive instead of a laptop
By Scott Dunn

You can avoid lugging a laptop everywhere by installing your favorite
apps on a USB flash drive and running them on any computer you want.

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DUH!

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