Taking apart munitions with a chisel?
One has to that the various nominees for voluntarily removing themselves from the gene pool.
Freedom to make bad choices.
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FUN: The 2007 Darwin Awards are out
Sunday, January 13, 2008
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ADMINISTRIVIA: Insanity!
Saturday, January 12, 2008I am “revamping”, (i.e., in many areas of my life — personal, professional, and in all things computer). Call it olds-heimers, but I want to do more “high value” activities, and less “low value” ones.
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RANT: TECHNORATTI puts me in bad company!
Friday, January 11, 2008http://www.technorati.com/blogs/reinkefj.wordpress.com?fans
13 fans of Reinke Faces Life
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yada, yada, yada!
Of the 13 identities who favorited me, they are all “vendors”.
Guess Technoratti has jumped the shark.
I never was a fan because it never was accurate about my posts. (I post daily; it reported months behind sometimes.)
I wouldn’t favorite the blog and be in the company of such.
Guess I don’t get a choice of who’s favoritiing I accept?
Sigh. Arghh!
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RANT: Glue yourself to your bed
Thursday, January 10, 2008http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14571
Anti-school super-glue
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p2pnet news | Off Topic:- A 10-year-old Mexican boy who didn’t want to go to school has found a failsafe way to avoid it.
Glue yourself to your bed.
“I didn’t want to go, the holidays were so much fun,” Diego Palacios told Agency France-Presse
“I remembered my mom had bought a very strong glue,” he said of the industrial strength shoe glue he used to stick his hand to his bed’s headboard, where he was stuck for two hours.
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I guess the young lad doesn’t appreciate the value of the gooferment reeducation camp! How else will he become a good little mind-numbed robot suitable for cannon fodder or factory work? His betters know what’s best for him.
Argh!
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ADMINISTRIVIA: Spinning plates?
Thursday, January 10, 2008I’m tired. Maybe I need a break. Spinning lots of plates may be just too much. I’m going to think about my blog. I’m not sure what, if anything, I have accomplished. I’m rethinking a lot of things from an ROI perspective. Self, work, Frau. Mom, Aunt, and all the Processes & Project that I have. Maybe there are just too many plates to keep spinning?
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LIBERTY: Steal the value from money and confuse the people
Thursday, January 10, 2008http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2007/12/31/the-market-for-liberty
The Market for Liberty
By Michael Hampton
Posted: December 31, 2007 5:30 am
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Economics isn’t merely a dry, boring study of money. It is, boiled down to its essence, a study of human nature: how people interact and trade with each other. Since this obviously involves money, there is no shortage of people who want some of that money for themselves, when they haven’t earned it. And the chief ways in which they take that money are to confuse people and to establish governments.
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Interesting that a great book is now a free MP3 file.
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LIBERTY: what caused our government to change its mind so suddenly?
Thursday, January 10, 2008http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2008/tle450-20080106-04.html
War is a Racket
by General Smedley Butler, USMC
Special to The Libertarian Enterprise
Published in New York by Round Table Press, Inc., 1935.
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Looking back, Woodrow Wilson was re-elected president in 1916 on a platform that he had “kept us out of war” and on the implied promise that he would “keep us out of war.” Yet, five months later he asked Congress to declare war on Germany.
In that five-month interval the people had not been asked whether they had changed their minds. The 4,000,000 young men who put on uniforms and marched or sailed away were not asked whether they wanted to go forth to suffer and die.
Then what caused our government to change its mind so suddenly?
Money.
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Time to have an accounting of all the dead, missing, wounded, crippled, scared, and maybe even inconvenienced at the hands of big gooferment and its accomplices. When we total up the costs, what did we real get for all the blood, sweat, and tears?
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TECHNOLOGY: unmanned seaplane became a dolphin toy
Thursday, January 10, 2008http://www.livescience.com/php/video/player.php?video_id=080104-flying-fish
LiveScience Video
Dolphins Play with Unmanned Seaplane
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Built for DARPA, this unmanned seaplane became a dolphin toy! Credit: Univ. of Michigan/ DARPA
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Kool!
Now how much did that gang have to steal from the taxpayer to make a “dolphin toy”?
Argh!
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TECH SERVICE: PicMarker watermarks
Wednesday, January 9, 2008http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9842728-2.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=Webware
Hands-on
PicMarker watermarks, keeps your photos safe from evildoers
By Josh Lowensohn – January 7, 2008, 5:03 AM PST
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The correct attribution for online photos is a touchy subject.
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Maybe one of the simpler ways to keep your photos and videos moderately safe from incorrect attribution is watermarking. I’m sure you’ve all seen it before, but if not, it’s basically layering on a semi-transparent line of text, or image over a spot in a photo. Some folks put it in a corner, and if they’re really worried, will place it all over the photo. A new service called PicMarker has set up shop to help people accomplish such a task, although instead of having to rely on a desktop software application, anyone can watermark up to ten shots at a time right in their browser.
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Interesting?!?
Now what can I use this thing for that it wasn’t intended to accomplish?
Social networking?
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TECHNOLOGY: Cars that drive themselves
Wednesday, January 9, 2008http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8U0M82O0&show_article=1
GM Researching Driverless Cars
Jan 6 06:25 PM US/Eastern
By TOM KRISHER
AP Auto Writer
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DETROIT (AP) – Cars that drive themselves—even parking at their destination—could be ready for sale within a decade, General Motors Corp. executives say.
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Well, I’d welcome that.
Having driven in Florida and had elderly relatives that can’t drive, or shouldn’t be driving, yet still need to get around, a driverless car would be a boon.
How about a driverless taxi?
Imagine the commute to work where you weren’t driving, but reading. Like an exec in limo?
An idea who time has come. Let’s roll it out now!
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RONPAUL: Excluded from FoxNews, he does his own thing~
Wednesday, January 9, 2008Ron Paul Town Hall, pt. 1
FoxNews excludes, bit you decide. Ron Paul had his own event. It’s two half hour YouTubes of a Jeffersonian liberal. Remember that the tradition of a liberal is that the individual is sovereign. Not the King; not the gooferment; not the collective. I haven’t heard anyone express these ideas in a long time. We need to get back to the roots of the republic.
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FUN: whether you are a gazelle or a lion
Wednesday, January 9, 2008“Every morning in Africa a gazelle awakens knowing it must today run faster than the fastest lion or it will be eaten. Every morning a lion awakens knowing it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve. It matters not whether you are a gazelle or a lion, when the sun rises you had better be running.” – African Proverb
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FUN: Are you a Democrat, a Republican, or a Redneck?
Tuesday, January 8, 2008From:
Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2008 11:39 AM
To:
Subject: SRA – Are you a Democrat, a Republican, or a Redneck?
FYI – Submitted for entertainment value only… ;-)
Of course, the chances of a Democrat actually having a CCW and
carrying a personal defense weapon is very very remote, the exceptions
being Peretta, Feinstein and a few others who really dont want you to
know it… the jury would still be out on the “expert shot” status as a Dem
would not get much range time due to OSHA environment concerns…
Are you a Democrat, a Republican, or a Redneck?
Here is a little test that will help you decide.
The answer can be found by posing the following question:
You’re walking down a deserted street with your wife
and two small children.
Suddenly, an Islamic Terrorist with a huge knife comes
around the corner, locks eyes with you, screams obscenities,
praises Allah, raises the knife, and charges at you.
You are carrying a Glock 40S&W (A Big Hand Gun), and you
are an expert shot. You have mere seconds before he reaches
you and your family. What do you do?
…………………………………………………….
THINK CAREFULLY AND THEN SCROLL DOWN
Democrat’s Answer:
Well, that’s not enough information to answer the question!
Does the man look poor or oppressed?
Have I ever done anything to him that would inspire him to attack?
Could we run away?
What does my wife think?
What about the kids?
Could I possibly swing the gun like a club and knock the knife out of his hand?
What does the law say about this situation?
Does the Glock have appropriate safety built into it?
Why am I carrying a loaded gun anyway, and what kind of message does this send to society and to my children?
Is it possible he’d be happy with just killing me?
Does he definitely want to kill me, or would he be content just to wound me?
If I were to grab his knees and hold on, could my family get away while he was stabbing me?
Should I call 9-1-1?
Why is this street so deserted?
We need to raise taxes, have paint and weed day and make this happier, healthier street that would discourage such behavior.
This is all so confusing!…
I need to debate this with friends for few days & try to come to a consensus.
Oh Shit… that hurt!
Republican’s Answer:
BANG!
Redneck’ s Answer:
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! Click….. (Sounds of reloading)
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! Click….. (Sounds of reloading)
Daughter: ‘Nice group, Daddy! Were those the Winchester SilverTips or GoldDot Hollow Points?’
Son: ‘Can I shoot the next one!’
Wife: ‘You ain’t taking that to the Taxidermist..
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MONEY: 1M$ @ 4% = 40k
Tuesday, January 8, 2008http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1231/p14s01-wmgn.html?page=3
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Bengen, author of the book, “Conserving Client Portfolios During Retirement,” published last year by the Financial Planning Association Press, has studied this issue since 1993. And based on his calculations, he believes 4.5 percent of total tax-deferred assets – stocks, bonds, and the like – is the correct payout amount in the first year of payouts. In following years, that payout rate would rise in line with inflation.
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Folks coming to the “withdrawing” phase of retirement savings have always been advised to take 4%. So a million dollar IRA can throw off 40k per year. So, you need lots stuffed away to be comfortable.
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POLITICAL: an important voice discussing the election
Tuesday, January 8, 2008http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/46134.html
Keith Halderman
Someone Who Has Earned His Wisdom
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Here is an important voice discussing the election that is not being heard anywhere near as much as it should be.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uk-T46soz8
Well, I’d need to “vet” that this is bonafide before I’d start jumping up an down.
(It certainly is a telling indictment of the gooferment education system.)
But, if this fellow wasn’t in the military, he certainly captured the ability of most military vets to identify “barbara streisand” when they see it.
And, in ten minutes of broken and bad English, he does make enough points to make it time well spent.
It should be “mandatory listening” before voters vote!
Old men decide; young men die.
That’s “barbara streisand”. And there’s no honor in that!
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INTERESTING: Those with the least amount of talent use vulgarity
Tuesday, January 8, 2008http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/01/britney_anna_nicole_and_the_fu.html
January 06, 2008
Britney, Anna Nicole and the Future of America
By Bob Weir
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Rob and Laura Petrie walked into the bedroom, doffed their robes, revealing full-length cotton pajamas, gave each other a peck on the lips and retired for the night, in separate beds. That was the public state of our morals in the fifties and early sixties. The Dick Van Dyke Show was one of the top shows in the Nielson ratings during a time when America’s standards of decency were suitable entertainment for every age group.
Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz had a zany but loving relationship which was always humorous without ever being licentious. Parents could watch television with their children and have no fear that their innocence would be stolen with the turn of a knob. Forty years later, we have “advanced” to scantily clad women and men jumping into bed with (and on) each other and leaving little to the imagination about their lustful purposes.
Those with the least amount of talent use vulgarity to shock their way to fame and fortune. Partially nude bodies, undulating in paroxysms of feigned passion was once restricted to X-rated movies on the side streets of the big cities. Now, it’s available with a stroke of the remote or thrust into plain view with a click of the mouse.
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This really resonates!
When one thinks of the end of the Roman Empire, debauchery, debased currency, the absence of civic virtue, and the mob in the Colosseum come to mind.
But, it always starts much much earlier.
With the failure of virtue in the individual?
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GUNS: Do airline pilots still need to be armed?
Monday, January 7, 2008http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080103/EDITORIAL/583177106/1013
Guns in the cockpit
By Tracy Price
January 3, 2008
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In a recent interview, Sen. Bill Nelson of Florida stated: “The need for guns in the cockpit is just nearly not [sic] as acute as it once was. There are all kind [sic] of screening systems, there is now the reinforced cockpit door, there are air marshals, we now have a lots of checks and balances.” Hearing this, some might ask, “Do airline pilots still need to be armed?” The answer is, “Absolutely — now more than ever.”
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Duh!
This seems like restating the obvious.
The gooferment is the villain.
It seems like a cheap and easy control to implement.
I’d do it if I was “king”. And, I wouldn’t mention it. Keep it as a surprise.
The times for depending upon others to protect us are OVER!
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MONEY: Citibank limits ATM cash in city
Monday, January 7, 2008http://www.nydailynews.com/money/2008/01/03/2008-01-03_citibank_limits_atm_cash_in_city-2.html
Citibank limits ATM cash in city
BY KERRY BURKE and LARRY McSHANE
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Thursday, January 3rd 2008, 4:00 AM
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A jump in ATM fraud led Citibank to slash the maximum amount of cash available to customers from their accounts – a security move greeted warily Wednesday by its patrons.
The new cap on cash kicked out by the company’s ATMs began in mid-December after what Citibank called “isolated fraudulent activity” around the city.
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Hmm, interesting. With the subprime mortgage mess on everyone’s mind, might an ATM be a new way that there’s a “run on the bank”?
Now we know that the Federal Reserve Bank (which is neither “federal”, a “bank”, or a “reserve” of anything but assurances) can supply all the little green pieces of paper one could ever want. (Remember I think it was Mises who said “only a government can take something valuable like paper and make it worthless by printing on it”.) That guarantee didn’t stop half of NYC’s Chinatown from lining up outside one their banks recently when a bank officer took off with some dough. After all those were just illiterate (in English?) Chinese (illegal?) immigrants who didn’t understand that things are different in the “Pepuls Paradise of the USA”. (Are they really?)
Seriously, while it may be fraud prevention, it certainly doesn’t inspire confidence when this is how you find out about it. What did they lose? How did they lose it? (Personally, some IT guy mailing a file of name, rank, serial number, ssn, card number, mothersmaidenname, and pin to a backup location is not outside the realm of possibility. Like the bloke in England did.)
>change password
So why is the cited depositor being told to change their password?
Sigh, so many question. So few answers.
Let me google my pin, and see if it’s up for sale on a pirate board somewhere!
fjohn
p.s., Luckily I have no accounts with Citibank. Unless you count that one that the nice Nigerian fellow was telling me all about.
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TECH SERVICE: Add a connection on Emurse?
Monday, January 7, 2008EMURSE
Join XXXXX’s Network
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XXXXX would like to add you as a connection on Emurse. By connecting with trusted friends and colleagues, you will always have access to their most current resume and contact information!
Are you already an Emurse member?
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Wow!
A resume distribution service, which I recommended, has added a social networking component.
Why?
It’s now not enough to do your one thing well; you have to chase wildly any wisp of an idea (like little children playing soccer who follow the ball all over the field?).
Strange!
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POLITICAL: Obama did extremely well in Iowa
Monday, January 7, 2008http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/10923
My Night at the Caucus
by Stacy – January 4, 2008 – 11:23 AM
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My first caucus experience was pretty awesome. Although I might be a little biased, since I’m for Obama and he did extremely well in Iowa. But that aside, it was just really cool to see people – especially people my age, who historically have been rather blasé about elections – out there caucusing and making themselves heard. I was impressed.
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With all due respect, charity, and fellowship, Obama as President! Have you lost your mind?
The only rationale, given his lack of accomplishments, is that you have looked at all the candidates and found them all so lacking that you would prefer a complete novice to lead us.
While politicians are particularly … revolting, I think that there are more qualified people. I too am reviled at the choices other than Ron Paul. But no one, other than him, gets us out of our current messes with a detailed description. Sorry, but I just think that Obama is too light weight to lead.
Personally, I’d rather pick a state guv at random. At least then there’d be some experience to judge by.
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Upon reflection, maybe that’s a good idea. Change the Constitution to allow the electorate to chose among the Governors of one of the States. Real easy to implement. Maybe we can have Instant Runoff elections?
Can you say Arnold from Kalifornia? :-) California is larger than most countries.
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TECH SERVICE: WD Anywhere Access
Sunday, January 6, 2008http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=340
Western Digital 1TB My Book World Edition – Ethernet (10/100/1000) Network External Hard Drive – WDG1NC10000N
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Add this unique remote-access storage system to your wired or wireless network and you’ll have a surprisingly simple and secure way to access data and photos at home, in the office, and anywhere in the world–even when your local computer is off. The included RAID software makes it easy for you to take advantage of RAID mirroring for extra data protection.
Product Features
WD Anywhere Access™ – This storage system and all the files on it are always accessible when you need them, even when your local computer is turned off.*
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*Due to unverifiable media license authentication, the most common audio and video file types cannot be shared with different users using WD Anywhere Access. A list of the non shareable file types can be found here.
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Excuse me, who made you the “license” police?
Argh!
Would have bought one on the spot, but for this minor after-though kowtow to the RIAA!
NOT RECOMMENDED!
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POLITICAL: Republicans want to win elections
Sunday, January 6, 2008http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/018232.html
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My advice to Paul is to take direct aim at McCain. Sharpen the differences between the two camps. Show how McCain is a loser against either Clinton or Obama.
Emphasize strongly that the electorate is aiming to pick Clinton or Obama at present (this is very clear!) Then sell yourself as the only Republican who has a chance to beat them by mobilizing both young people and independents and democrats.
Republicans want to win elections, but they have lost their libertarian soul and gained a harmful war-supporting evangelical component. They must be steered away from their instinctive support of people like Huckabee and McCain and toward a more strategic view of who can beat Clinton and Obama. In a sense, go above the heads of the Republican primary voter to the general electorate.
What positions should be emphasized that will resonate with the public? Make every effort to find out, and then focus on no more than three of these issues, such as (1) ending the Iraq War and avoiding other such debacles, (2) putting the economy in order and taking down the horrendous government debt, (3) avoiding the coming crash of Medicare and bringing great medical advancements by freeing up the health care system. I do not know what these issues are, I am guessing, but any successful politician has to find and stress them.
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I agree. Hit the point that only Ron Paul offers the American electorate a clear choice on these issues. And, since in Regan’s sage advice that a President can only have three objective and does well to accomplish two, focus is essential.
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POLITICAL: How many laws were passed and sent to the President to outlaw abortion?
Sunday, January 6, 2008http://www.covenantnews.com/abortion/archives/036770.html
January 04, 2008
A Message To Christians On The Eve Of The 2008 Election Cycle
By Pastor Matt Trewhella / The Covenant News
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Many have falsely claimed that presidential candidate Ron Paul would not support the Human Life Amendment because he simply wants to return the abortion question to the states. One lady even told me “if Paul is president and a law is passed at the federal level to outlaw abortion, he won’t sign it.” Oh, yeah, like that’s a real concern. Let’s see, the Republicans had the House, the Senate, and the Presidency for six years and how many laws were passed and sent to the President to outlaw abortion? Let’s set the facts straight on this matter. First, in his book Abortion and Liberty, Dr. Paul makes clear that he supports the Human Life Amendment.
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This is probably the hardest issue for Libertarians. At best, it devolves into a shouting match. As worst, we have to divide the baby as King Solomon is reputed to have done.
http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/index.htm
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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
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First principle is that government has only one mission: to protect rights. Among these are the right to life. So clearly, gooferment has some role in protecting people’s lives. We as a people have to determine what that means. But that is a completely different discussion than the one we have been having. Groups warring over who’s going to to tell who what to do.
We need a lot less “telling” and a lot more “listening”.
That phrase about the consent of the governed is very important.
What if someone doesn’t consent?
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INTERESTING: for almost a century we’ve watched stranded towns and houses fall one by one
Saturday, January 5, 2008http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/2008-01/emptied-north-dakota/bowden-text.html
The Emptied Prairie
North Dakota Ghost Towns Speak Of An Irreversible Decline
by Charles Bowden
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This is the place where American assumptions about the land proved to be wrong. The homesteaders believed rain followed the plow. In the grasslands of western Kansas, Nebraska, and the Dakotas, they learned better. And so for almost a century we’ve watched stranded towns and houses fall one by one like autumn leaves in the chill of October. In most of the United States, abandoned buildings are a sign of change and shifting economic opportunities. On the High Plains, they always mean that something in the earth and the sky mutinied against the settlers.
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How can we say that we have no room for immigration?
I bet some entrepreneurial ethnic group (i.e., Hutus; the Montenyards; the Kurds, the Irish; the Chinese), who are persecuted in their home land, could shoot thru the Golden Door and turn these places into “gold mines”. Liberty does wonders.
But, we’ll never know because we are busy building fences to keep “outsiders” out. (And, “insiders” in?)
Sigh!
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JOBSEARCH: resume falsification
Saturday, January 5, 2008>Re: resume falsification
>Posted by: “Liz Ryan”
>Thu Jan 3, 2008 7:13 pm (PST)
>Did you know department: many universities treat false reporting of degrees
>or earned credits as a criminal matter, as fraud. One time, I contacted a
While your example did expose a cheat, I’d tread VERY lightly in verification processes. Personally, I have had my undergraduate degree IDKed by my alma mater once. I had to fax them a copy on my diploma and my official transcript. And, got a “oops, we’re sorry” in return. Also, I have had a previous employer do th old IDK as well. In that case I had my last paystub in my tax folder for that year that I whipped out as proof. Yup, all I got was another “oops. it was a subsidary payroll account — XYZ-ABC; not XYZ itself”. Yeah, right. So in self-defense, I tell new diplomates to get an oficial transcript and a copy of their diploma for their “brag book”. As well as their first and last paycheck from ANY job. Fore warned is Four Armed? fjohn
p.s., What’s a “brag book”? I firmly believe that seekers should have a binder book that has proof of EVERY assertion that they make on their resume. I like to use it as a prop during interviews. So for example, I claim that I ran a group of over 300 people in 31 states in my AT&T days; in my “brag book”, I have an old org chart. So for example, I claim that I managed several large databases; in my “brag book”, I have screen shots of several splash pages that identify and size the db. So for example, I claim that I managed a big project at CSFB; in my “brag book”, I have the first and last “waterfall” charts. It’s all about building credibility. I joke that my Mom probably has my First Grade report card, if they need it. You don’t want to appear anal. But you do want to establish the image that you don’t make wild claims. Then, people believe you when you are on the margins. So, when I say I managed a large Oracle db later in t he interview, they believe it. They don’t have to know it was Oracle v1, rather than the v26.39 that they are running. Maybe that’s “cheating”, but I don’t think so. I’m not responsible for their assumptions.
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LIBERTY: Anything but actually defend the country
Saturday, January 5, 2008http://www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance130.html
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates envisioned a new role for the U.S. Army:
Army soldiers can expect to be tasked with reviving public services, rebuilding infrastructure and promoting good governance. All these so-called nontraditional capabilities have moved into the mainstream of military thinking, planning, and strategy – where they must stay.
In his speech Secretary Gates also acknowledged that “U.S. forces will play some role in Iraq for years to come.”
Anything but actually defend the country.
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That’s why the Founders were against having a standing army.
That’s why we have DOD and Homeland Security.
That’s why we are broke, and disgusted.
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