Maybe whizdumb is learning from the mistakes of others?
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PRODUCTIVITY: learning from the mistakes of others
Sunday, November 18, 2007
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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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