http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-06-29-Scratchoff_N.htm
Scratcher lottery tickets under fire
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By Dennis Cauchon, USA TODAY
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Feeling lucky today?
Then don’t buy a $20 scratch-off ticket for the New Jersey Lottery’s “$1,000,000 Explosion” game.
Your chances of winning the $1 million top prize are Z-E-R-O.
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Just in case you thought your gooferment was looking out for you?
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http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2008/06/30/government-the-man-made-disaster/
Government: the man-made disaster
By Michael Hampton on Wal-Mart
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When disaster strikes, too many people look toward Washington, D.C., for the federal government to save them. But what happens when the federal government caused the disaster? Or at least made it worse than it would otherwise have been?
This we saw in New Orleans in 2005. We finally know why the federal government prevented Wal-Mart from delivering water to Hurricane Katrina victims: it was free.
Federal Emergency Management Agency head David Paulison said June 19 that the agency had negotiated a contract with Wal-Mart to deliver bottled water for the next disaster, and the company did indeed deliver 550,000 liters during this month’s Midwest flooding. And got paid for it.
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As it turns out, for years the Corps of Engineers has been building wingdikes and weirs in the Mississippi River to channel the river’s flow. Three university professors last March warned that these structures have caused the river to rise even higher in floods than it otherwise would. And the only reason St. Louis isn’t underwater right now is that dozens of levees upstream broke, flooding out countless acres of Missouri and Illinois farmland and small towns.
Ironic that flawed levees would cause a city not to flood, but the water has to go somewhere.
Ironic, too, that those same small towns got new levees after the flood of 1993 and the government updated its flood maps to show these areas as low risk of flooding. So almost everyone canceled their flood insurance.
This is all so utterly predictable. We all know that government is incapable of doing anything very well, except perhaps killing people. Whatever it touches ultimately ends up going horribly wrong. It’s time to tell the government to keep their hands out of everything we don’t want turning into a disaster.
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You really have to look at gooferment with a critical eye. Could it be that it is the single thing that is killing us. Literally and figuratively?
How much of a slave are you? I can’t even calculate it.
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My Luddite friend was griping about oil speculation; I, of course, blamed it on the gooferment. He queried "Huh?" (No, he’s much more literate. But basically that’s what he meant. It’s more fitting with the label I’ve hung on him.)
The Gooferment encourages speculation and actually is responsible for it.
(1) Ensures it
Every since Carter, we have not had a rational "energy policy". Carter, a Navy nuke engineer, should have, upon the Arab Oil Embargo, set us on a course to nuke power. France gets ~3/4 of its power from nukes. They allow private sector experts to template a few designs and safety controls. ISO900X. And, then you can’t argue it’s not safe. Cite Navy. Cite France.
Our gooferment is going to let Chinese slant drill from Cuba to off-shore Florida for 18 Billion Gallons of oil. But Americans can’t do it without a spill. Cite Louisianna oil rigs in hurricane Katrina — that was a real eco disaster.
ANWAR?
We ain’t build a refinery in thirty years.
(2) Insures it
Where do specs get the capital necessary to speculate. Gooferment insured banks!
(3) Ignores it
Energy isn’t even on anyone’s radar.
(4) Profits by it
Taxes are a percentage of the price. Higher price; higher receipts. Coincidence? I think not.
(5) Corrupted by it
Where do campaign contributions, graft, and lobbyists come from. Those desiring favors. Oil, power companies. Anyone who wants a hand out?
(6) Empowered by it
It puts them in the driver’s seat. With everyone looking for a politician to ‘save’ us from the problem they created.
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It happened in Church – October 19, 1962
Chapter Seventy One – First Mobilization
It Started In Church – October 19, 1962
http://www.itstartedinchurch.com
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From Luddite’s wife:
Copied from a forward.
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Okay, here’s the plan:
1) Back off and allow those men who want to marry men, marry men.
2) Allow those women who want to marry women, marry women.
3) Allow those folks who want to abort their babies, abort their babies.
4) In three generations, there will be no democrats!!!
I love it when a plan comes together
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I’m a WORDPRESS fan. I finally found something it doesn’t do that it should
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Subject: [WordPress #ZRP-768006]: [unknown] [reinkefj.wordpress.com] Maybe I’m obtuse How do I put a table in a post?
Howdy!
There is currently no icon to insert a table. You must do this through the HTML view and actually type the tags. Please check out the following resource:
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_tables.asp
Best,
Anthony
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MEDIAWIKI has is it and I was looking to do a table in RFL when I couldn’t find the icon I needed.
I just pasted a table from WORD and it worked. So …
This doesn’t change my opinion that the free, and unequaled, wordpressdotcom is unsurpassed.
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http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/06/why_shakir_cant_read.html
June 28, 2008
Why Shakir Can’t Read
By Helen Cadogan
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All across America, schools are confronted with Shakirs who either do not show up for school or who attend school but hang out in the hallways, bathrooms, and other hideaways. Even in well disciplined schools, there are Shakirs who go to class and put their heads on the desk. They refuse to work; the same way, their parents refuse to attend parent-teacher meetings. They sleep, they disrupt, curse, fight, and do no work. Many of those who do work, do it indifferently; they go through the motions expecting to achieve high marks for minimal effort. Moreover, even when these Shakirs have done no work at all, they expect to graduate.
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But, I am robbed to pay for this nonsense?
Welfare is the root of this evil. And, the Gooferment loves welfare. It empowers Gooferment on so many levels: willing voters who vote for more dole; more dole requires more state workers; and of course there are contracts to give out as political plums.
Argh!
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http://channel-surfing.blogspot.com/2008/06/thoughts-on-guns.html
Friday, June 27, 2008
Thoughts on guns
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“Because firearms are often used in crime, it is incumbent on gun manufacturers to constantly evaluate the risks to public health and safety of the products they design,” the organization says. “The industry must stop supplying the market with guns which are attractive to criminals and which have no legitimate civilian use.”
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MY RESPONSE:
Excuse me. “… which have no legitimate civilian use.”
The Dead Old White Guys wanted you to have a gun so that you could exercise the ultimate restraint on the Government thugs.
Sorry to be crass, blunt, or just down right hard. But, liberals, such as yourself, seem to forget history. You need that “V8 thunk”.
A Jew being marched to the gas chamber. Cambodia’s killing fields. Stalin’s purges of the farmers. Mao leaping forward of the bodies of those who got in the way. Rawanda, Somalia, … and on and on!
When the populace is disarmed; genocide follows.
So imagine 1930’s Germany, with the first armed Jew in his apartment being extracted by a Nazi storm trooper, he gets only the first one coming in the door. He and his family are killed, but they were dead anyway. BUT, who’s going to be the first storm trooper through the next door. If every Jewish family had a gun and used it, the Nazi’s would have rapidly run out of storm troopers.
That’s what the Dead Old White Guys were trying to give posterity. The ultimate check on government!
“legitimate civilian use” is anything you can use to kill that government thug coming to take you to the death camps.
Don’t say it can’t happen here. It has. Look at the miniaturization of police, the Waco disaster, Ruby Ridge, the Japanese Internment, and on and on.
I really hope you never have the experience of being on the wrong side of this example. I may be, but “… when they pry it from my cold dead hand!”
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http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2008/06/18/airport_tyranny
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Airport Tyranny
By Walter E. Williams
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The TSA routinely confiscates about 15,000 items a day from passengers, in addition to the hassle, rudeness and arrogance. With these kind of costs imposed on the traveling public, I’d like TSA to give an account of themselves, namely just how many hijackings or bombings they have prevented, along with the evidence. Americans have been far too compliant and that has given the TSA carte blanche to treat travelers any way they wish. I’m staying away. TSA has its rules and Williams has his, and one of mine is to avoid tyrants and idiots.
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My recent trip to Iowa by air gave me a close look at the TSA. And, a compliant public.
Were the Jews this compliant when they were loaded on the freight cars?
Where is the outrage?
Some incidents that my wife mentioned to me as absurd. (So you know it wasn’t just my tin foil hat being on tilt)
(1) Three little children carry almost empty drink bottles being admonished in a very hostile way to “THROW THOSE AWAY!”. The first thing Frau Reinke objected to was the tone. These were little kids who wouldn’t know a TSA rule from and AST elur! The next was the absurdity. And, finally, she thought the TSA agent should be addressing MOM; not the children.
(2) She spotted a stewardess waltz through the checkpoint with a bottle of water.
(3) The OLD old man being gone over with a fine tooth comb.
(4) Another man had a beep in his thigh. The ever alert TSA agent finally just gave up. After sticking his hand in the man’s pocket and feeling his clothes. The agent should have at least bought the fellow dinner.
(5) All the people running around in TSA garb. And the “grab assing” (Her words. I swear. And she usually doesn’t use language like that.)
Her final and best observation: “What terrorist is going to come to Omaha to takeover a plane. They would stand out like a sore thumb.”
To all her comments, I merely replied “Your tax dollars at work.” Which made her mad at me. But as a little L libertarian, I’m tired of people poke sticks in my cage. Time to pick up a gun yet? When you grab yours, I’ll be right behind you with mine. Till then, I don’t give a damn.
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/MovieSpeeches/specialengagements/moviespeechafewgoodmencodered.html
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Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who’s gonna do it? You? You, Lieutenant Weinberg? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago, and you curse the Marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know — that Santiago’s death, while tragic, probably saved lives; and my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives.
You don’t want the truth because deep down in places you don’t talk about at parties, you want me on that wall — you need me on that wall.
We use words like “honor,” “code,” “loyalty.” We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punch line.
I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide and then questions the manner in which I provide it.
I would rather that you just said “thank you” and went on your way. Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon and stand the post. Either way, I don’t give a DAMN what you think you’re entitled to!
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I have nether the time nor the inclination to explain ‘rights’ to anyone. I would rather you spoke up to the powers that be. I suggest that you pick up a weapon and defend your rights. Either way, neither I, nor anyone else, cares what you think they are if you are not going to stand up for yourself. I know I am an oppressed slave. What’s your excuse?
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