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]
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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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RANT: Free Lauren Canario

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

http://www.keenefreepress.com/mambo//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=641&Itemid=36

Winchester Woman Denied Due Process Print
Wednesday, 17 October 2007
By Kat Kanning

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Lauren Canario of Winchester is being imprisoned in Hillsborough County Jail without due process of law. Those who are imprisoned in New Hampshire are supposed to be arraigned within 24 hours of being arrested. Judges at Milford County Courthouse denied Lauren arraignment and sent her back to jail when she exercised her right to remain silent during court proceedings. She has remained in jail for over two weeks without arraignment and without possibility of a trial and release.

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We need to push the politicians and bureaucrats on this issue.

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MONEY: SOCIAL SECURITY benefits are always troublesome

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

http://www.smartmoney.com/taxmatters/index.cfm?story=20071016

Tax Matters
Will Your Social Security Benefits Be Taxed — Again?
By Bill Bischoff
Published: October 16, 2007

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THINK YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY benefits are always free from federal-income tax? Think again. In fact, depending on how much income you have from other sources, you may have to report up to 85% of your benefits on Form 1040 and pay the resulting federal income tax hit.

When this happens, you’re effectively getting taxed twice on the same dollars. The first time is during your working years when you pay federal income taxes on Social Security taxes that are taken out of your salary or self-employment earnings. The second instance occurs later on when you have to pay federal income taxes on your Social Security benefits. To make matters worse, depending on where you live, you may suffer the same double taxation fate under your state income tax rules, too.

While this is unfair, if not downright scandalous, it’s pretty much par for the course in the tax world.

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Surprise, the gooferment lied and the politicians got away with it. Careful calculation and planning is need to steer the minefield of taxation.

Bottom line: You’re not as well of as you think.

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