New website for the downsize dc organization!
Perhaps one of the few “weapons” to downsize gooferment.
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LIBERTY: Downsize DC
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
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MONEY: FDIC “insurance” … means what?
Monday, July 14, 2008http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/
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“I have $360,000 in this bank, and I was misled by this bank,” said Robert Clark, a Glendale resident. “I gave the names of my mother, my sister and my brother on the account so I thought I would be insured. I don’t know what to do. I really don’t know what to do.”
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Old Wall Street saying: “I’m not so concerned about the return on my money as I am about the return of my money!”
Word to the wise!
And, in my eexperience, the clerk at the bank — regardless of level or office — may know less than you. It’s your money, be sure!
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LIBERTY: Don’t Vote! It just encourages them.
Monday, July 14, 2008FROM AN IM:
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2:03 PMI assume you are not voting for Obama
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I’m probably not voting. It makes no difference!
>if you don’t vote, or vote for someone other than McCain, that could make Obama president
>remember Ross Perot, we never would have seen Clinton make it
I am tired. Tired of always having to choose the lesser of two evils. Tired of never “winning”. Tired of always seeing gooferment grow. Regardless of how or if I vote. So, I think I am just tired of voting. I don’t think that it makes a difference.
I tried the Ron Paul re-evol-ution but that didn’t work.
The country voted Bush into be “compassionate conservative”; where was the compassion — we’re less free than we were — and conservatism — the gooferment grew 60%! The country voted the D’s into office in 2006 to get us out of Iraq; we ain’t.
Now we have two choices — bad and worse. And you want me to pick the lesser of two evils?
Or, do we have to keep needling the blissfully unaware into thinking.
Or, do we just minimize our participation in their processes and questioning their legitimacy.
And, challenge every dime they spend?
Or free state project to new hampshire?
No, I think the reason that half the people don’t vote is thatthey are smarter than I am. They KNOW it’s a waste of time and just legitimizes the “blue light gang” to oppress us more!
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RANT: ‘sassy’ – the toy industry’s euphemism for sexy
Monday, July 14, 2008http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/main.jhtml?xml=/fashion/2007/01/28/stbarbie28.xml
Spoilt Bratz
12:01am GMT 28/01/2007
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What Bratz dolls are both contributing to and feeding on is a culture in which girls play at being ‘sassy’ – the toy industry’s euphemism for sexy – and discard traditional toys at a younger age.
Toy marketers now invoke a phenomenon called KGOY – kids getting older younger – and talk about it as though it were a fact of life over which they have no control, rather than one which they have largely created.
Scothon says, ‘Kids are exposed to more things at earlier ages. Their scope of reference is wider. Their exposure to media is greater.’ Larian tells me, ‘Little girls are much more sophisticated now than they used to be.’
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Sadly noted.
Maybe I’m just an old fart — I use the descriptor FOWG often — but I see little girls dressed like sluts.
Sorry, it’s neither cute nor attractive. But then, I’m a FOWG!
Parents should be ashamed at what they have allowed to happen.
Sigh!
imho,
a FOWG
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FITing: Second Gas Up!!!
Sunday, July 13, 2008Exxon Route 1 Northbound in South Brunswick
… $3.99 per gallon. Argh! = $35.00
292.5 miles divided by 8.755 gallons
an unimpressive 33. 409480 mpgs
Arghh!!!
Did it improve? Magic!
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LIBERTY: Pulling apart the myth of government aka the blue light gang
Sunday, July 13, 2008http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6tsJVLVA8Y
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In a system where all power is supposedly based on the consent of the governed, where all men are created equally, what happens when one questions the legitimacy and the very nature of government? Watch this video and find out how government solves market needs in a very different way than private companies seeking a profit.
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Spend thirty minutes and watch one young man throw a monkey wrench in the “blue light gang”! Some great points that even those eddykated in gooferment skool could understand!
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JOBSEARCH: Social Networking … a wisp of value. If you can catch it?
Saturday, July 12, 2008http://www.dailyblogtips.com/are-social-networks-like-the-fashion-industry
Are Social Networks Like the Fashion Industry?
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The question then becomes: will it ever stop? How many times you joined a social network, created a profile, invited friends to join, and then abandoned it completely after a couple of months? Are we looking for something that will add real value for our lives, or we are just following what everyone else is doing?
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TO WHICH I ADD MY COMMENT:
“Social Networking” a la MySpace, Friendster, Facebook, and LinkedIn has a wisp of value. If you can catch it?
It does allow you to “reach” people you would not normally see, speak to, or even know about in the hum drum drone of daily activities.
Where folks delude themselves is that: this is the “networking” that all the career counselors urge people to do. You know, to “tap the hidden job market” and make a grazillion dollars per year. Or was that per month?
In a recent experiment, on LinkedIn, (Disclaimer: I am not an open networker who will exchange LinkedIn links with just anyone to generate a high number. I have standards. I’m not a connection slut.) Anyway, in my recent experiment, I was only able to exchange an email, phone call, im, or visit with about a third of my LinkedIn “network”. I was stunned at that!
In job search terms, one seeks to harness the power of weak associations by creating a granfaloon of people who will alert you when they see “YOUR JOB” go by on their radar.
What that third meant that I had about 600 less of those “weak connections” to use when I get laid off than I thought I had. AND Yes, I said “when I get laid off”!
That’s another delusion that people have. That employment is not transient. The days of the gold watch and pension is long gone. The only paycheck you are sure of is the one you’ve cashed.
So social networking gives these soon to be fired fools the illusion that they are “networking” like all the employment gurus tell them to do. What one really should be seeking to capture is a “conversation” with these people to get that “weak link association” working for you.
The social networking site that becomes the lingua franca of social networking sites will really have capture that value proposition IF and ONLY IF it encourages conversations. Then we can stop “churning” and start (to misquote an old I Luv Lucy episode) “conversating”.
imho
p.s., Speaking of delusions, we can add to the list of jumbo shrimp, Military Intelligence, honest lawyer and my all time favorite “a politician who wants change” to that list. Delusions are just memes that are wrong. Unfortunately government is one meme that can kill and impoverish us. Where my pitchfork and torch! Get the tar and feathers. The tax and spend folks of BOTH parties have escaped the asylum! We need to put them back in the nut house; not vote them into political office!
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WRITING: TEOTWAWKI fiction — It happened in Church – Chapter Seventy Six – Plan the final sprint
Saturday, July 12, 2008It happened in Church – October 19, 1962
Chapter Seventy Six – Plan the final sprint
It Started In Church – October 19, 1962
http://www.itstartedinchurch.com
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RANT: Rangel rents N.Y. apartments at bargain rates
Friday, July 11, 2008http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25629176
Rangel rents N.Y. apartments at bargain rates
State, city regulations require that they be used as primary residences
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Rep. Charles Rangel is renting four apartments in one building for rates that are far below market value. He has been a critic of landlords’ callousness but hasn’t had much to say about the real estate company that owns the building.
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Where are the prosecutors? Malfeisence by an elected federal official?
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TECHSERVICE: Apple’s ‘MobileMe’ is up … slow and fubar
Friday, July 11, 2008Many issues. My McBa blog is gone. I have it local. I don’t have the new DOTME cabalities and icons on the McBa.
It’s probably getting pounded pretty good. Hence there’s a lot of sitting a looking at the Mac equivalent of an hourglass.
Argh!!
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