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One of the most common items of misinformation about Ron Paul’s positions is that he wants to go “back on the gold standard” or “return to the gold standard.” And, this is often used as criticism against him by misinformed and careless reporters and bloggers.
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For those who follow Ron Paul closely, this is absolutely correct. Not being crazy, he realizes that we need time to adapt. His statements that I have heard indicate to me that he wants to merely remove the restrictions on “commodity money”. A “commodity money” is a store of value that backed by something like copper, silver, gold, platinum. A “fiat currency” is also a store of value backed by the full faith and credit of the printer. Gooferments use “legal tender” laws to ensure that their fiat currency MUST be accepted. In America’s early days, prior to 1913, the American dollar greenback was redeemable in gold. During that time, many currencies circulate simultaneously. If he begins to closely supervise the Fed with an eye to its demise and begins to unwind the “legal tender” laws, then he will have initiated the Third American Revolution. Just doing what he has said are his priorities will set us on the track to peace and prosperity.
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MONEY: Ron Paul Does NOT Want to Go Back to the Gold Standard
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
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MONEY: what’s your “hobby”?
Tuesday, November 20, 2007http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hobbies
List of hobbies
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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* 1 Amateur science related
* 2 Animal-related
* 3 Arts and crafts
* 4 Collecting
* 5 Computer-related
* 6 Cooking
* 7 DIY (Do It Yourself)
* 8 Electronics
* 9 Film-making
* 10 Games
* 11 Gardening
* 12 Historical reenactment
* 13 Interactive fiction
* 14 Internet-based hobbies
* 15 Literature
* 16 Model (scale model) building
* 17 Music
* 18 Observation
* 19 Outdoor/nature activities
* 20 Performing arts
* 21 Photography
* 22 Sports or other physical activities
* 23 Toys of some sophistication
* 24 Transportation
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For those who follow my model for future success:
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(6) a free time hobby that generates income;
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So what’s your “hobby”?
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RANT: I’ve seen a glimpse of socialized medicine
Tuesday, November 20, 2007My maiden aunt, who’s in her mid-70s and in a nursing home, had some medical problems. Throwing up blood was reported. The home sent her to the hospital. Initially, the ER didn’t believe, but her problem was made obvious, when she did it for them. So a “stomach scope” test was scheduled. As her proxy, I consented under the gun.
So, here’s my rant. None of these caring professionals gives a damn outside of their little specialty.
We arrive to “check up” on her and we found her back in her room. Getting a nurse to talk to me was a chore. Nurse seemed like it was a bother. I asked about getting her something to eat now that there was “no trouble found”. No doc orders. Dig up doc for orders. Order food; no one in the food prep to deliver food. Food arrives (and it was nice), but no silverware. Find silverware, but the aide had time to take a personal cell phone call in her room while we all waited. I feed the aunt by cutting up the food and cajoling her.
There is a silent disrespect to the patient and the family.
It’s hard to put your finger on. Maybe they are overworked. Maybe they feel they are underpaid. Maybe it’s because we don’t pay the bill directly and they don’t see us as the consumer. Maybe, maybe, maybe. As I said it’s hard to put your finger on it. But it’s there. It palpable.
If this is an example of medicine of the future, then we are in big trouble.
Sigh!
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RANT: Traffic lights?
Monday, November 19, 2007Are the new countdown “don’t walk” signs for pedestrians the new yellow light?
I’ve been noticing that one intersections where you can see them from the road, drivers are using them. Traffic speeds up as the count down triggers. It’ll cause a nice accident some day if someone tries to stop.
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MONEY: Forclosure in your future? Here’s a potential snag in the old nylon!
Monday, November 19, 2007November 15, 2007
Foreclosures Hit a Snag for Lenders
By GRETCHEN MORGENSON
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A federal judge in Ohio has ruled against a longstanding foreclosure practice, potentially creating an obstacle for lenders trying to reclaim properties from troubled borrowers and raising questions about the legal standing of investors in mortgage securities pools.
Judge Christopher A. Boyko of Federal District Court in Cleveland dismissed 14 foreclosure cases brought on behalf of mortgage investors, ruling that they had failed to prove that they owned the properties they were trying to seize.
The pooling of home loans into securities has been practiced for decades and helped propel real estate prices in recent years as investors sought the higher yields that such mortgage trusts could provide. Some $6.5 trillion of securitized mortgage debt was outstanding at the end of 2006.
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Interesting?
The concept of “standing” is something that everyone learns to deal with when even contemplating legal action. Prove to me by evidence that you are the injured or the injuring party.
I have no doubt that with some effort the “bank” can meet their burden sooner or later. But, there’s always the possibility of a misfile, blunder, or error.
Just goes to show, never assume anything when you’re in trouble.
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JOBSEARCH: Build networks on trust? What about dishonor?
Sunday, November 18, 2007FROM A RESPONSE ON LINKEDIN BLOGGERS
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If we build networks on trust, what do we do with those companies and/or those employees who place little value in honoring their words, their commitments? If they demonstrate a pattern of not honoring their word, how do we introduce them to others in our networks?
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I think, and I advise my “beloved” turkeys — those poor souls who didn’t memo about the roe (rules of employment) changing, that they have to play “offense / defense” continually. They must be on the offense to always be looking out for Number One and that ain’t their employer. They must be on the defense at all times because they are really only assured of the last paycheck that cleared the bank.
No, the rules have changed.
Companies don’t realize the employees, that they fire – discourage – denigrate, are their intellectual capital. They get to “rebuy” their skills at a greatly inflated rate from a consulting shop, but they don’t get the benefit of the genius that they lost. Their “bench” of people, who once aligned themselves with the company long term, is gone. With it, the in depth understanding of what was done, why, and when. So companies get to make the same mistakes over again and pay for them again in even great amounts.
In my career, I have watched the centralized – decentralized, fat – thin – zero client, rapid / traditional paradigms done over, and over and over again. Wait five years and you are dealing with a completely “new” company. I call it “Organizational Alzheimer’s”. The sad part is it’s self-inflicted. And, no one seems to recognize just how expensive it is.
To the question, one introduces candidates and companies very carefully. One ensures that both know the “facts of life” of the new “employment” meme. One carefully weighs each against the standard, “what does it do to advance the needs of each side”. How does the value extracted get divided? And where’s my share!
Just as the ERISA laws of the 1970’s led to the era of five year employees (i.e., the time needed for a pension to vest);
just as the dotcom bubble made everyone an “owner” in some fashion or other (i.e., you only went to work for a “hope ‘n’ prayer” company if you got shares;
just as today’s “what’s in it for me culture” has led to mutually disloyal companies and employees;
the new corporate organization will be a small core of “employees” with lucrative employment contracts that mange the services of other small corporations.
So, everything will be spun out to autonomous little corporations and there will be no “long term” thinking. Forget Bell Labs, forget GE “bringing good things to life”, forget 3M with a slew of new products. It’ll be the march of little enterprises — the nano-izing of business (i.e., like penguins). That’s what we will have to deal with. You’ll be “in”, “out”, or “owning”.
And the costs will be driven out of all processes. (Margins will be razor thin!) But the overall cost to the economy will be higher. (Adding up all those margins will make the end to end cost a lot more!) It’s going to get a lot tougher to “make a living” unless you are smart enough, lucky enough, or practical enough to find a “killer” idea. (Opportunities have to pay off bigger. More risk must be taken. More spectacular failures!)
Makes me glad that I am coming to the end of my career. I don’t envy you youngsters!
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TECH SERVICE: links your listing to the profile portal page
Sunday, November 18, 2007tiny
http://www.naymz.com/faqs.action?section=3
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How does Naymz work?
Naymz has built a proprietary technology which “speaks” to the advertising platforms of the search engines. Naymz relies on paid search advertising to post your personal listing. Paid search advertising is also know as “Sponsored Links” in Google, “Sponsor Results” on Yahoo, and “Sponsored Sites” on MSN Search. Naymz pays all variable fees charged by the engines directly, and subscribers pay Naymz a flat fee. Naymz automatically links your listing to the profile portal page which you create.
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Playing with it. Let’s see if it brings me that bix bux cxo job in 08824. ;-)
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RANT: Hospitals are NOT for the sick
Sunday, November 18, 2007My aunt had to go to the ER. Since her symptoms reported by the nursing home were not believed, (surprising since they have a doc and nurses), they were just watching. I got to watch the workings of a part of the ER and found it to be organized chaos. Luckily, she threw up for them and then they were convinced! Good thing. So, they had no idea what was causing it, and they were going to keep her. At that point she had been in the ER from 11PM to 5AM, the doc said she was “fast pathed” to a room and that it would take a few hours. So we went home to get some sleep and returned about 10AM. Surprise, she was still in the ER. Argh! She got to the room about 5PM. Wall clock time in the ER was 17 hours. How is that efficient? It certainly was exhausting.
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PRODUCTIVITY: learning from the mistakes of others
Sunday, November 18, 2007Maybe whizdumb is learning from the mistakes of others?
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LIBERTY: Talk to a product of the current system
Sunday, November 18, 2007http://www.lewrockwell.com/bylund/bylund23.html
The Failure of State-Sponsored Schooling
by Per Bylund
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The common argument in the libertarian movement against public schools is that they fail to educate our children. Actually, according to this argument, public schooling is like any monopolized business: expensive, inefficient, and utterly unable to provide the services wanted and needed.
This is true, public schooling doesn’t work. But the proof of this is not the thousands of kids managing to go through nine or twelve years of schooling without even learning how to read and write. The proof of the failure of the whole schooling system, i.e. not only the public schools but also the private schools operating in a government controlled and licensed environment, is the small number of radicals managing to escape the brainwashing of centralized school plans.
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It’s hard to find a bigger example of gooferment failure. Have you talked to a child lately? It’s scary.
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INTERESTING: anti-war hero Franz Jägerstätter
Saturday, November 17, 2007On the Road to Peace
by John Dear S.J.
Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2007
Vol. 2, No. 10
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There were many consoling, inspiring and uplifting moments last Friday, Oct. 26, in Linz, Austria, at the beatification of the anti-war hero Franz Jägerstätter. The resounding applause for his 94 year-old widow Franziska. The reading of the declaration. The unfurling of the 30 foot banner with Franz’s photo and the sight of dozens of bishops and cardinals standing up, looking up — at last! — to Franz. But the most moving was the presentation of his relics. Franziska kissed them, gave them to a cardinal for the cathedral in Linz, then wept. She knows it now. Franz no longer belongs to Austria. Now he belongs to the world. And his work is just beginning.
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It’s hard to imagine having the courage to stand up an say “no”.
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TECH SERVICE: TRUFINA “truth be told”
Saturday, November 17, 2007***Begin Quote***
What is a Trufina Identity Card?
Your Verified Trufina Identity Cards are customizable views of information about you that you share with others. Think of it as an electronic version of your driver’s license. Since it is customizable, you can restrict what verified information you show to others. Want to show your city but not your home address? Or prove your age to someone without revealing your full name? You can create multiple credentials for various situations, such as online dating, reputation management, or buying and selling goods through online auctions or classifieds. You control who sees which cards, and nobody can view your ID card without your permission.
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I’ve added a reputation service to my arsenal of tools. Why? People thought my recent networking email might have been spam or phish. Arghh!
Ask to see my identity at www.Trufina.com!
http://profile.trufina.com/reinkefj
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LINKEDIN: the first negative recommendation of anyone I think I have ever seen
Saturday, November 17, 2007FROM AN EMAIL TO ONE OF MY LINKEDIN FIRST LEVEL CONTACTS
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Hi XXXXX: Well, it’s a quiet Sunday morning and I’m working on my current LinkedIn project “how live is my network”. I’ve been reviewing all my contacts to see if there are people I can help. (Yeah, I know “get a life”!) While I’m not “out” now, I could be. So prep is always in order. Pay it forward. I was looking at your LinkedIn profile and I was struck by the “recommendations” of YYYYYYYYYY. Yours is the first negative recommendation of anyone I think I have ever seen. (It kinda puts an interesting question about what does the word “recommendation” mean?) Is it a joke? If not, were you really that mad at him? Now I have no other agenda other than curiosity. As I said, never saw such before and just had to know more. If you have a moment and care to elaborate, I’d love to hear more. Of course, if there is anything I can do to help, please advise. Thanks, your “LinkedIn version of the Vulcan mind meld” mate fjohn
P.S.: I’m adjusting my tin foil hat so you’ll get better reception.
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Seems like something that is very dangerous to do.
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LINKEDIN: May I suggest that you have your own domain?
Saturday, November 17, 2007May I suggest that you have your own domain?
The common wisdom, or is that common whizdumb, is to own your own name as a domain name. I own “reinke.cc”. (I like saying “sea sea me at reinke.cc”!) I gives one quite a bit of control. And, it’s very cheap. I know three solutions at 15$/year using wordpressdotcom with gmail, 25$/year email only with 1and1, and 60$/year for domain + email + webspace also at 1and1. My point is not that you should use 1and1. I could care less. It’s that getting on to your own email is cheap and easy.
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GUNS: Have an armed body guard? Feel secure!
Friday, November 16, 2007http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/morales1.html
>If politicians were capable of actually caring for the welfare of the general population, then they would not pass such reckless restrictions.
You left out that the politicians, and the other vocal liberal, usually have an armed body guard, I laugh at the libel icon NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg who takes the subway. The pics and video carefully photograph around his armed security detail of four cops. Sigh. Of course, he’s for “victim disarmament”; he’s at no risk!
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MONEY: the Dollar is no longer the World’s reserve currency
Friday, November 16, 2007http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,517060,00.html
November 13, 2007
WEST WING
A Pearl Harbor without War
By Gabor Steingart in Washington, D.C.
Translated from the German by Christopher Sultan
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The dollar crisis has politicians alarmed worldwide. The US currency has lost 24 percent of its value since the introduction of the euro, and now there is even a chance that China could abandon its policy of pegging its currency to the dollar — a problem the United States should take very seriously.
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So far Beijing has behaved like the benevolent shopkeeper who willingly extends credit to his customers. The Americans receive shipments of Chinese-made television sets, toys and underwear, but the Chinese do not import a comparable volume of US goods. The gap between buying and selling amounts to about $5 billion every week.
The Chinese are satisfied with buying US treasury bonds, partly to keep their most important customer afloat. The central bank in Beijing already holds currency reserves of $1.4 trillion.
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Within a single generation, the world’s biggest lender has become its biggest borrower, a circumstance the United States has made no serious attempts to change. And what has been Washington’s standard take on the shift? The dollar is our currency, but it’s your problem.
Thus, the tone of the US government’s callous and thick-skinned reaction to China’s announcement last week came as no surprise. There was a reason the dollar became the world’s reserve currency, US Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson said in a slightly offended tone.
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Well, the other shoe is about to drop. And, it would be nice if it didn’t drop on us! I have no illusions about just how important this upcoming Presidential election is to everyone’s pocketbook. Personally, I’m prepping fro President Hillary and adjusting my thinking along those lines. It will make the 1929 Great Depression look like a walk in the park. We have a Notre Dame style Hail Mary if Ron Paul can get the Republican nomination and then win the election. At least, he understands the problems and a way for us to escape the executioner’s guillotine. A return to commodity money! Sure, it’s painful. But not as bad as a Great Depression Cubed with Hillary (i.e., the Dollar is no longer the World’s reserve currency, Social Security – Medicare – Medicaid – Drug Benefit time bomb explodes, and a global depression that makes the Japanese Stagflation look like a boom). Add to that President Hillary’s version of a “Great Society” with Guns + Butter + Socialism. And, it’s pretty bleak.
I’m advising getting your financial house in order for a plague of Biblical proportions. Seven years of lean might well be seventy. Look at the aftermath for the Roman Empire and you might get a feel for the next set of Dark Ages.
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INTERESTING: the dancer turning
Friday, November 16, 2007http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22535838-5012895,00.html
The Right Brain vs Left Brain
Article from: AAP
October 05, 2007 12:00am
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The Right Brain vs Left Brain test … do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise?
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I found it entertaining. Interesting!
But the best discovery was that by closing one eye I could make the dancer reverse. With both eyes open, there was nothing I could do to see the reverse.
Can you guess which way I default to?
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RANT: Hey Governor Corzine — still wanna hear about state cars? … (continued) …
Friday, November 16, 2007You don’t? TOO BAD!
This morning 16 November at 0700 est on 295 South Exit 59 … …
… a white suv td 11 161 … …
… at a between zero and leisurely 70 (Your serf speed limit is 65)
… in lots of traffic
… tailgating the poor peon in his way
… never left the left lane (Do you teach them to do that, or is that a qualification for working for the state of nujerzee!?)
Any way I am sure that he was hurrying to get away from I assume trenton to protect and serve me and not escape the scene of the crime.
Arghhh!
P.S.: Dear reader, I don’t write these every day. Just when I ARRIVE early for work, particularly agitated aggravated and have to wait for my employer workstation to get online.
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RANT: BA doesn’t want to “lose” their slots at the airport.
Friday, November 16, 2007http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=493357&in_page_id=1770
‘Green’ BA flying empty ‘ghost planes’ across the Atlantic
By EMILY ANDREWS – More by this author » Last updated at 09:22am on 14th November 2007
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British Airways is flying dozens of empty planes across the Atlantic because it has no cabin crew to staff them.
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See something stupid? Look for the gooferment. BA doesn’t want to “lose” their slots at the airport.
I OTOH just shake my head.
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LINKEDIN: May I suggest that you not use your employer’s email on LinkedIn?
Friday, November 16, 2007May I suggest that you not use your employer’s email on LinkedIn?
LinkedIn is a great way to find people and be found. Unfortunately, in today’s economic climate, changing jobs is a fact of life. When I was on Wall Street, one would be walked out of the building and one’s email unceremoniously forwarded to one’s boss or “Human Resources”. That taught me NEVER to depend or use the boss’ email. So to, I’ve seen a lot of people — one of my very best contacts — lose access to their LinkedIn account. She’s forgotten her password and her corporate email is gone. Hence always I advise people to use a personal email on LinkedIn. I have some pretty specific opinions about what email to use, but suffice to say it’s NEVER the corporate email.
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JOBSEARCH: economic downturn is imminent
Thursday, November 15, 2007FROM ELECTRONIC RECRUITING NEWS
Recruiting In The Trough I
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(November 13, 2007) Everyone agrees that the economic downturn is imminent. Maybe it’s already begun, maybe it will wait until the beginning of the next American administration. It’s coming to theatre near you.
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As inflation eats a hole in the pocketbooks of pensioners, there will be an interesting dampening effect. The effective retirement age has to rise by a year for every 10% of inflation. Since more senior employees are less vulnerable to inflation (and career transitions are harder to manage), attrition will be skewed towards a younger demographic.
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It would appear that there is a “sub prime bust” coming to the employment marketplace in the next year.
That tells me to advise my turkeys:
(1) Adjust your job replacement formula:
{For those, who aren’t aficionados of the Big Turkey’s methodology for calculating “job replacement interval”. Using my patented and copyrighted methodology, you can easily determine how many months YOU will need to find a new job. That is a function of: Annual Salary; the likelihood of a layoff in your company, industry, or skill set; the ease of finding another job in their skill set; their age; and the economy.}
Without going into great depth, I am advising all my Turkeys to adjust “the economy” value to THREE from ONE! This is one notch below it’s all time high of FOUR during the dotcom bust. This unprecedented jump is justified on the signals for Wall Street that rough times are ahead.
(2) Batten down your financial hatches.
Begin immediately to reduce your financial burn rate and increase your savings rate. Beware taking on any indebtedness for any reason.
(3) Solidify your current employment situation
Do whatever is necessary to make yourself valuable, popular, and worth keeping on the payroll. Now is not the time to “get thrown” off the bucking horse.
(4) Increase networking activity
You need to aggressively network to ensure your continued employ ability. Turkeys are advised to review their days outstanding in their various networking panels with an eye towards lowering them if feasible.
(5) Increase internet work on your “brand”
Since the internet works for you 24/7, it’s important to have sites, social networking presences, blogs, wikis, and forums that represent your brand. Spruce up and freshen up all online assets.
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GUNS: Guns don’t kill people–Governments do
Thursday, November 15, 2007http://burnedbygovt.com/blog/2007/nov/musings_nature_government_1
Burned By Government
Musings on the Nature of Government #1
Mon, 11/12/2007 – 20:16
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Compare that to reality, in which there was a government for Pol Pot (and the other mass-murderers I mentioned above) the grab control of, and use to lend an aura of legitimacy to their killing.
Guns don’t kill people–Governments do.
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Gooferment is truly the meme that can kill us. And, it’s an illusion. A gang wrapped in an aura of legitimacy that pretends we are important. The Dead Old White Guys had that pegged. When you think about it, that gang puts “to protect and serve” on their “police” cars. But just who are they “protect and serve”-ing? Sure not us. As a matter of fact, another of their illusions, the gooferment courts have held there is no such duty. In “Warren v. District of Columbia”, the court stated it is a “fundamental principle of American law that a government and its agents are under no general duty to provide public services, such as police protection, to any individual citizen.”
OK, so now, are you at least unbrainwashed about the “government” meme?
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TECHNOLOGY: BLOGDESK and WORDPRESSDOTCOM
Thursday, November 15, 2007This morning, BLOGDESK started to time out when it was attempting to update the free, and unequaled, wordpressdotcom. Now there are a lot reasons: netowrk, software on each end of the wire, or the rain. :-) I can’t point the finger yet. But, you can be sure when I can, I will!
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Update: As of 1400 est, it’s all working. I don’t know who to blame. But since it’s still raining, I’ll have to allow the Intelligent Designer off the hook. All others, I have my eye on you! Argh!
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LIBERTY: Why? … … because these boys and girls stepped up.
Thursday, November 15, 2007http://www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance126.html
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Why? Why do most Americans hold veterans and current members of the U.S. military in such high esteem? Why is there such a military mindset in the United States?
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Dear Mr. Vance:
I don’t know about “most Americans”; which I would quibble includes Canada and Mexico. Assuming that by “Americans”, you mean to use the label to create a collective of all those under the thumb of the gang in WashDC. I still don’t “know”.
But perhaps it is because the country “asked” and these boys and girls stepped up.
Now maybe “asked” is too nice a word; “drafted”, seduced, fooled, propagandized might be better. And, maybe we can question if they were out of their minds to do it. Or, we can see now with the clarity of 20/20 hindsight that the American people have been being duped by their politicians for eons.
But, I honor vets, not because I am one, but as Heinlein put it, “The most noble fate a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war’s desolation.”!
We can argue about rightness or wrongness; we can search for wisdom or whizdumb; we can all vie for the title of who’s “the bigger fool”; we can examine in excruciating and exhaustive detail about if they were brainwashed, deluded, or truly heroic.
But, at the end of the day, the fact is they “stepped up” and put themselves in Harm’s Way on the belief that they were protecting the liberties of their fellow citizens.
That’s Heinlein’s “civic virtue”.
And, I think that answers your question.
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RANT: Hey Governor Corzine … still wanna hear about state cars? … (continued) …
Thursday, November 15, 2007You don’t? TOO BAD!
This morning 15 November 07 ~0700 est on Route 1 thru Pton and again on Route 295 South… …
… a white East Brunswick police suv MG 69758 … …
… went down route 1 cutting in and out at a between zero and leisurely 70 …
… in lots of traffic …
… tailgating, cutting off, and generally harassing the poor peons in his way!!!.
Never turned on the bubble gum lights.
Arghhh!
It was particularly amusing since the same car speed past me again (It was deja vu all over again); left lane of course; on Rt295 south around exit 65;
(I attribute that to his insistence of sticking in the left lane. All the real drivers know that the right lane thru Pton moves faster than the left. It’s all those gooferment workers bound for Trenton in their Intelligent Designer given left lane.)
[For those not familiar with the NJ roads. State “workers” proceed straight down route 1 to the golden dome of corruption. If you come later in the morning, then it’s not unusual to see “lots” of state cards commuting to the state jobs by the state ’employees”. It particularly ticks me off to know that I am paying for the road, the traffic jam, and the bad driving of my “servants”. Arghhh! That’s one reason I like to commute early; I can’t afford to have a stroke because I couldn’t afford the death taxes.]
Arghhhhhhh!
Perhaps, if your State Police are not too busy collecting extra “road taxes” for ordinary citizens, they might pay a call on this East Brunswick cop and give him a geography lesson. “East Brunswick here”!
After all speeding thru other parts of the state, what does he think he is … … A State Policeman … A state Policitican … a Federal Overlord!
P.S.: Dear reader, I don’t write these every day. Just when I ARRIVE early for work, particularly agitated aggravated and have to wait for my employer workstation to get online.
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TECHNOLOGY: Using technology (i.e., ducks) to slow traffic
Thursday, November 15, 2007http://www.impactlab.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=13800
Village Uses Ducks To Stop Speeding
Posted on Tuesday, November 13 @ 17:50:09 CST Eye
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Postmistress Ann Martin, 63, from Portesham, Dorset, has recruited a ‘quack’ squad after she noticed motorists driving more carefully when the birds were around.
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