It Started In Church – October 19, 1962
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http://www.centerforsmallgovernment.com/
BELIEVE 15% OF WHAT YOU SEE IN THE BOSTON GLOBE
By Carla Howell
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Our mothers told us, “Believe nothing you hear and half of what you see.” But when it comes to government spending articles in the Globe, perhaps we should only believe 15% of what we see.
Governor Patrick recklessly ratified a $2.55 billion spending increase for plush government pensions — boosting an already bloated government pension cash cow. While most private sector workers and taxpayers have NO employee pension.
But the newspapers made it look like Governor Patrick bravely vetoed a $3 billion govenrment employee pension increase.
I pride myself in spotting bias, inaccuracies and deception in news coverage that pertains to government budgets. Sadly, I find it in almost every single one I read.
Unless I read too fast — and don’t take the time to read the fine print. Which I did last week. The Boston Globe ran a story with the headline “Patrick rejects pension increase…Benefit could have cost state billions.” The second paragraph states, “Fiscal watchdogs had warned that the benefit could cost the state more than $3 billion over the next 20 years.”
I concluded from this that Governor Patrick vetoed the entire $3 billion government employee pension expansion, which he had previously supported.
A few days before this story, a Globe editorial advised the governor to veto this one – hinting that letting the bill stand could incite voter anger and affect the November election. It seemed to be a thinly veiled warning that a veto was necessary to stop Question 1 to End the Income Tax from winning.
I helped give legs to the story by mentioning in a media interview last week that Patrick’s $3B veto was a sign that Question 1 to End the Income Tax is already having an impact on government spending.
Then I saw a letter to the editor in the Globe penned by a careful reader who pointed out that Gov. Patrick did not veto the entire $3B
government employee pension increase as the Globe’s headline suggests. Rather, he vetoed only 15% of the increase – and let 85% of the increase stand.
I should know better than to ignore the fine print of a news article about government budgets. Mea culpa.
Upon rereading the article, I can’t vouch for what percentage was actually vetoed without doing research. But 15% seems to be in the
ballpark.
So it’s possible our initiative already helped to stop $450 million in new state spending, but not the $3B I’d hoped (at least not as a result
of this particular veto).
Please use my oversight as a reminder of how much care it takes to avoid falling for claims that a politician cut government spending – when he
actually increased government spending.
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Like Star Trek and their Prime Directive, the Doctor’s Hippocratic Oath, and the old Gallo ad “We serve no wine before its time”, politicians have an a similar canard. I don’t know who came up with it, but I first heard it from a troublemaker, Jim Gearhart, at the local radio station 101.5.
“Politicians are ALWAYS: feathering their own nest, rewarding their friends, or punishing their enemies.”
Carla would be well advised to remember that. In her “mistake”, she forgot that the paper was reporting on a “politician”. Vetoing a public pension bill would be that political directive. So by definition, the report was EITHER biased or just honestly wrong! Guess I’m jaundiced, it was a deliberate cover up to give the Guv good press and a handout to the trough feeders.
Argh!
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Ladyjade Hulk
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ROFL!
Hey, I’m on vacation!
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It happened in Church – October 19, 1962
Chapter Eighty Seven – Wed done
It Started In Church – October 19, 1962
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Make no mistake, I love the free, and unequaled, wordpressdotcom. But, I did make a suggestion.
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Any ideas about allowing the meta data to be in the post’s body and parsed out?
For example, You Tube allows me to post to my WordPress blog. Great! BUT, there always is a big butt, it doesn’t ‘do’ all the things I need. No title, no category, no tags, … you get the idea.
HOW ABOUT:
in a post if (let’s make it easy) at the beginning, the word “TITLE:” as the first thing in post triggered a suck out up to the title block. I’d suggest it should recognize: “TAG:”, “CATEGORY:”, “DATETIME:” for delaying, and well you get the idea.
It would be nice if I could email my posts in to.
Yeah, yeah, I know, ‘beggars and choosers’,
fwiw,
fjohn
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You have to admire the power of sarcasm! National energy policy should be imho: nukes; natural gas in cities transport, drill, defeat nimby, and empower the free market to solve the “problem”. One created by the gooferment I might add! Argh!
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LinkedIn is further mudding the waters with group. Without disclosure or discussion, it is making unilateral changes. It no longer passes through to the underlying Yahoo Group. And, the management tools are gone. It makes it just worthless.
Oh well. When the LinkedIn competitor comes along maybe they will treat the PAYING users as if they mattered.
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First, thank you for managing your group on LinkedIn. We sincerely appreciate the time and effort you devote to your members, and we know they value it. Together you have made Groups one of the top features on LinkedIn.
This Friday, we will be adding several much-requested features to your group:
Discussion forums: Simple discussion spaces for you and your members. (You can turn discussions off in your management control panel if you like.)
Enhanced roster: Searchable list of group members.
Digest emails: Daily or weekly digests of new discussion topics which your members may choose to receive. (We will be turning digests on for all current group members soon, and prompting them to set to their own preference.)
Group home page: A private space for your members on LinkedIn.
We’re confident that these new features will spur communication, promote collaboration, and make your group more valuable to you and your members. We hope you can come by LinkedIn on Friday morning to check out the new functionality and get a group discussion going by posting a welcome message.
Sincerely,
The LinkedIn Groups Team
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http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/08/
obama_biden_and_the_catholic_v.html
Kyle-Anne Shiver is an independent journalist and a frequent contributor to American Thinker. She welcomes your comments at kyleanneshiver.com.
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Or, was Obama thinking that he might allay Catholic voters’ disgust with his votes to uphold infanticide in Illinois, by picking a Catholic, somewhat more moderate, pro-abortion candidate?
Biden did vote for the partial birth abortion ban, but then he roundly criticized the Supreme Court decision last year, which upheld the ban. Biden does hold a lower approval rating with NARAL (36%) than Obama’s 100%, but as any voting-age citizen already knows, the Vice President has zero, zilch, nada to say on abortion law. The only time the Vice President could even have a vote would be as a tiebreaker in the Senate on legislation, which is not going to happen in the next 4 years.
Senator Obama may have been thinking that he would help himself by putting a Catholic on the ticket, but he seems to have not taken any note of the fact that the Catholic Church is now guided by a new, very conservative Pope. There is not a single dictum emanating from this Pope, nor from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, which lets a single Catholic off the hook on the matter of voting for pro-abortion candidates. If anything, the strictures against such votes have become much more important under Pope Benedict XVI than under Pope John Paul II.
It is entirely possible that Senator Joseph Biden will publicly be denied the Sacrament of Holy Communion during the course of this campaign. This, of course, will invite a siege of press attacks against the Catholic Church, but it will also signal to the Catholic laity, who make up a full 25% of the American electorate, that this Pope takes the abortion issue more seriously than any other at the moment.
Obama seems not to have paid much heed to the fact that John Kerry was the first Democrat to lose a majority of the Catholic vote to George W. Bush. He seems also not to have taken note of the new Pope’s resolve on this issue. Perhaps Obama has been persuaded to believe that Father Pfleger is more the rule than the exception, and if this is the case, then he has been squarely bamboozled.
Why in the world would Obama think Biden helps his bid for the Presidency?
In one fell swoop, Senator Obama has stated uncategorically that he is flying by the seat of his pants on foreign policy and needs a Daddy figure to guide him. And this particular Daddy figure, Biden, has stated repeatedly that Obama’s positions are wrong and McCain’s are right.
Bonus for McCain.
Also, Obama has brought a pro-abortion Catholic politician to the glaring attention of Pope Benedict XVI, while unnecessarily putting the U.S. Bishops on the spot. The Vatican has lately been reminding priests and Bishops that they are not to offer Communion to pro-abortion politicians. It’s always been a no-no, but Biden’s position on the ticket will highlight the issue once again for one quarter of the American electorate, while putting Bishops on a hotter seat with the Vatican.
So, what in the world was Obama thinking?
Not much, it would seem.
The VP choice was perhaps another thing “above” Obama’s “pay grade.”
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Will the American Catholic Bishops grow a backbone? My prediction … no. Why you say? One word …. pedopholia!
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http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/08/composer-says-b.html
Composer Says Beijing Olympic Committee Ripped Him Off
By Eliot Van Buskirk EmailAugust 22, 2008 | 10:05:10 AMCategories: Copyright and Copyfight
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Beijing Peter Breiner, who arranged more than 200 national anthems for the 2004 Olympics, has accused the Beijing Olympic Committee of stealing those works for this year’s Games. He says he is “100 percent sure” that his arrangements are being played at medal ceremonies — and the Washington Post’s culture critic couldn’t agree more.
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I don’t follow the argument. I don’t believe in imaginary property any way. But it is funny that the land of copyright infringement, celebrated by the awarding the “games”, keeps its expenses down by infringing. Love it. Guess they didn’t want to give back any of those 5T$ they have in the vault!
Argh!
When you play the imaginary property game, then don’t be surprised when you get screwed!
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http://www.centerforsmallgovernment.com/
3 BIG LIES: OUR OPPOSITION SUPPORTS “REASONABLE” CUTS IN GOVERNMENT SPENDING, TAXES, OR WASTE by Michael Cloud
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“I support reasonable reductions in Massachusetts government spending, but ending the income tax would decimate the state,” said several elected politicians.
“I support sensible tax cuts, but eliminating the income tax is too extreme,” said a local government official.
“Of course, we want measured and moderate reductions of unneeded government spending, but abolishing the income tax is ridiculous,” said several opponents.
They publicly empathize and sympathize with workers and taxpayers. They tell us they understand our frustration with economic conditions. They feel our financial pain.
When pressed, the opposition to ENDing the Income tax tells interviewers, reporters, and audiences… 3 Big Lies.
Big Lie Number 1: They support ‘reasonable’ reductions in government spending – but not the extreme and devastating reductions Ballot Question 1 would cause.
Big Lie Number 2: They support ‘reasonable’ tax cuts – but not the drastic step of repealing the income tax.
Big Lie Number 3: They support ‘reasonable’ efforts to reduce government waste – who doesn’t? – but they’re against using Ballot Question 1 to squeeze out waste.
How can you be sure that the opposition is lying when they say these 3 things?
“Watch what they do, not what they say,” advised Attorney General John N. Mitchell.*
“By their fruits shall ye know them,” says Scripture.
“Actions speak louder,” says the proverb.
Test what the speaker says against what he does. And has done. Look at his political actions for the last 10 years, 20 years, or 30 years.
Ask the Opposition Massachusetts Teachers Union official to show you, say, any 3 ‘reasonable’ tax reductions for the 3,400,000 workers and taxpayers that they donated to and campaigned for. Any 3.
Ask the Opposition politician to give you 3 ‘reasonable’ government spending cuts that he personally sponsored or cosponsored in the legislature in the last 10 years.
Ask the Opposition speaker to give you 3 specific examples of ‘reasonable’ waste cuts that he publicly campaigned for in the last 10 years.
Ask the Opposition organization to show you any 3 tax cuts, spending cuts, or waste cuts they lobbied the state legislature for – or lobbied their city government for.
If any of them can give you just 3 examples of actions they took on behalf of ‘reasonable cuts’, follow up with a money question: “If we added up every dollar of your 3 ‘reasonable cuts,’ how much money would your cuts give back to taxpayers?”
The Massachusetts state budget is $47.3 billion. In light of that number, how reasonable are their “reasonable cuts?”
True values are expressed in action.
Big Lies are limited to words.
Earlier this year, we asked Governor Deval Patrick and the state legislature to: “Show Us the Tax Money: Open the Government Books.”
Today, we challenge the Massachusetts Teachers Union and their allies, Governor Deval Patrick, and the other elected politicians:
“Show Us your ‘reasonable’ tax cuts, spending cuts, and waste cuts. Your deeds, not words. Your results, not rhetoric. Your actions, not intentions. Show us your Tax Cuts.”
And stop telling 3,400,000 Massachusetts workers and taxpayers the 3 Big Lies.
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* John Mitchell wanted the Nixon Administration to be judged by its actions, not its words. So he said, “Watch what we do, not what we say.”
It’s still good advice.
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Anyone who lives in Taxachusetts has a real chance to send the “tax and spend” D’s and the “borrow and spend” R’s a real message.
If Massachusetts can do it, why not New Jersey?
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http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/08/
another_cohort_of_kids_failed.html
August 21, 2008
Another Cohort of Kids Failed by Government Schools
By Christopher Chantrill
Public schooling in too much of America has run down to mediocrity and worse. It’s almost inevitable, and worse in some places than others.
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It was that over 200 years ago the Enlightenment philosophe Condorcet submitted a plan to the French Legislative Assembly that called for universal state education to educate the people out of their prejudice and superstition. Although a government program the system would, of course, be free of political control.
It was that over 160 years ago Horace Mann, the father of US public education, urged a rationalization and centralization of the disorganized schools in Massachusetts under a State Board of Education. Apart from anything else, he confidently predicted just before the crime wave of the 1840s, his program would cut the crime rate by 90 percent. Then he went off to Prussia to see its universal state education system for himself.
It was that over 80 years ago John Dewey, the father of progressive education, proposed a system to teach children problem solving and critical thinking skills rather than training and drilling in basic skills. Of course, there is nothing quite like entrusting a project of flexible, progressive education to a bureaucracy of state employees privileged with lifetime job tenure.
Today, 215 years after Condorcet, 160 years after Horace Mann, and 80 years after John Dewey the schools have run down. Today about half the students entering college are unprepared, according to the New York Times.
Yet 180 years ago when the economist J.S. Mill, father of John Stuart Mill, traveled around Britain making an anecdotal survey of education — at a time when the government actively discouraged education for its revolutionary potential — he found a rage for education:
“We have met with families in which for weeks together, not an article of sustenance but potatoes had been used; yet for every child the hard-earned sum was provided to send them to school.”
You can see why those nineteenth century parents sacrificed so much for their children. It didn’t take a rocket scientist back then to see that a basic education in literacy and numeracy was the best way to avoid sending a child “down the pit” or into the textile mill.
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As our children return to school this fall, most of them will do just fine. But many poor and inner-city children will not. Yet we know how to fix the inner-city schools. We have known for decades.
And now in Sweden, of all places, school choice is transforming the education system.
Some day the American mothers are going to have the right that Swedish mothers enjoy. It is the right to wave farewell to the local government school and say: You just don’t care about kids.
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Christopher Chantrill is a frequent contributor to American Thinker. See his roadtothemiddleclass.com and usgovernmentspending.com. His Road to the Middle Class is forthcoming.
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[JR: It is a national disgrace to have the gooferment involved in education. The poor deserve to be left alone. Left to their own devices, and the charity of caring individuals, they will educate their own children. Without the “help” of the gooferment, it’s highly compensated “administrators”, it’s over and underpaid teachers, and the legions of pigs feeding at the gooferment trough, the ‘children’ will be educated unlike what is happening now.]
[JR: Yes, teaches as a group can be both over-paid and under-paid at the same time. Some are over; some are under. When you have unions and one size fits all, you have both types of error in the same population!]
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http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/08/obamacide.html
August 23, 2008
Obamacide
By J. Matt Barber
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How does one properly describe another who would — for purely selfish political reasons and with deliberation — intentionally refuse a thirsty child water or a hungry child food?
More specifically, what does one call a lawmaker who would condemn to death the child survivor of a botched abortion by permitting doctors to refuse that child, once born alive, potentially life-saving medical treatment and nutrition?
A number of things come to mind. Mr. President isn’t one of them.
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It’s hard to imagine how this issue can swept under the rug under the rubric of “hope & change”!
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It happened in Church – October 19, 1962
Chapter Eighty Six – Rest in Peace
It Started In Church – October 19, 1962
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http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/08/obama_campaign_finance_shenani.html
August 22, 2008
Obama Campaign Finance Shenanigans
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With all that money rolling in, it is to be expected that some of it is being used in a way that either skirts the letter of the law or breaks it.
Michelle Malkin is on the story of $800 thousand that went to the far left group ACORN for “advance work” that was funneled to them not by the Obama campaign but through an organization called “Citizen Services, Inc.”
It turns out that Citizens Service, Inc. and ACORN share the same address in New Orleans. And the more than $800,000 given by the Obama campaign to this group was remarkable considering that the average amount paid for “advance work” in 1200 other entries on Obama’s FEC report was around $540.
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But, said Blair Latoff, spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee: “Barack Obama’s failure to accurately report his campaign’s financial records is an incredibly suspicious situation that appears to be an attempt to hide his campaign’s interaction with a left-wing organization previously convicted of voter fraud. For a candidate who claims to be practicing ‘new’ politics, his FEC reports look an awful lot like the ‘old-style’ Chicago politics of yesterday.”
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Watch for this breaking story of Obama returning money used illegally by ACORN on your national news tonight…
Yeah, right.
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Ahh, those rules are for others!
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http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D92NROBG0&show_article=1
Obama taps Biden to be running mate
Aug 23 03:25 AM US/Eastern
By LIZ SIDOTI and NEDRA PICKLER
Associated Press Writers
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WASHINGTON (AP) – Barack Obama named Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware as his vice presidential running mate early Saturday, balancing his ticket with a seasoned congressional veteran well-versed in foreign policy and defense issues.
[JR: Highlighting the shortcoming at the top of the ticket!]
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Biden, 65, has twice sought the White House, and is a Catholic with blue-collar roots, a generally liberal voting record and a reputation as a long-winded orator.
[JR: Another CINO politician. How does JoeB align with O’s extreme abortion position? What a joke! Catholics, Right to Lifers, and people with a moral conscience should not be fooled by this fellow. It’s about politics!]
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Obama’s decision leaked to the media several hours before his aides planned to send a text message announcing the running mate, negating a promise that people who turned over their phone numbers would be the first to know who Obama had chosen. The campaign scrambled to send the text message after the leak, sending phones buzzing at the inconvenient time of just after 3 a.m. on the East coast.
[JR: SO much for the vaunted announcement to supporters first. LOL]
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Biden is seeking a new Senate term in the fall. there was no immediate word whether he intended to change plans as he reaches for national office.
[JR: This will be the indicator of how committed he is to the ticket. If he keeps running for “his” Senate seat, then he’s not. And, that’s red flag. If he does commit to the national run, then at least we have one less liberal in the Senate! I’d wager, he won’t commit.]
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“For Obama supporters, this is like finding out from your neighbor instead of your sister that she’s engaged—not how you want or expect the news to be delivered,” Silberman said.
[JR: Get used it it. Politicians always over promise and under deliver.]
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“I am not running for vice president,” he said in a Fox interview. “I would not accept it if anyone offered it to me. The fact of the matter is I’d rather stay as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee than be vice president.”
[JR: Either a fool or a liar. Maybe both.]
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It was Biden’s second try for the White House. The first ended badly in 1988 when he was caught lifting lines from a speech by British Labor Party leader Neil Kinnock.
[JR: And wasn’t he a plagiarist in college? Wonder if the liberal media will bring that up. Does he have the character to be President?]
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And, he added: “I want somebody who is going to be able to challenge my thinking and not simply be a yes person when it comes to policymaking.”
[JR: Yeah, right. What’s the quote about VP? Warm useless spit?]
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It will be interesting to see if this makes any difference at all. McC can shake up the race with a good choice like that lady from Alaska. Condi, or maybe a military guy like Powell.
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My understanding is that Obama will announce his choice for VP tomorrow by simultaneous email, im, voice mail delviery. To all his supporters at the same time.
Hmmm!
Will all that message traffic overwhelm the internet?
idunno, interesting question, don’t you think?
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http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/Why_You_Should_Turn_Gmail_s_SSL_Feature_On_Now
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Why You Should Turn Gmail’s SSL Feature On Now
By Scott Loganbill August 19, 2008 Categories: Software & Tools, Web Basics
Let’s talk security and why you should take advantage of Gmail’s recent SSL feature, and why you might want to be careful using other non-SSL webmail services.
But first, make sure your connection is secured using SSL.
How do you know a connection is secured by SSL? The handy “s” after “http” will tell you. For example, https://mail.google.com is encrypted while http://mail.google.com is not. You can force an encryption by adding the “s” yourself, or by turning on “Always use https” from the Browser Connection settings of your Gmail account.
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http://www.feld.com/blog/archives/2008/08/political_joke.html
August 19, 2008 5:43 PM
Political Joke of the Day
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I have no idea where this joke came from, but I couldn’t resist posting it because it combined Alaska, Massachusetts, Democrats, Republicans, Guns, the Pope, and a Grizzly Bear.
The Pope took a couple of days off to visit the rugged mountains of Alaska for some sightseeing. He was cruising along the campground in the PopeMobile when there was a frantic commotion just at the edge of the woods.
A helpless Democrat, wearing sandals, shorts, a ‘Save the Whales’ hat and a ‘To Hell with Bush’ T-shirt, was screaming while struggling frantically and thrashing around trying to free himself from the grasp of a 10-foot grizzly.
As the Pope watched in horror, a group of Republican loggers came racing up. One quickly fired a 44 magnum into the bear’s chest. The other two reached up and pulled the bleeding, semiconscious Democrat from the bear’s grasp. Then using long clubs, the three loggers finished off the bear and two of them threw it onto the bed of their truck while the other tenderly placed the injured Democrat in the back seat.
As they prepared to leave, the Pope summoned them to come over. ‘I give you my blessing for your brave actions!’ he told them. ‘I heard there was a bitter hatred between Republican loggers and Democratic environmental activists but now I’ve seen with my own eyes that this is not true.’
As the Pope drove off, one logger asked his buddies ‘Who was that guy?’
‘It was the Pope,’ another replied. ‘He’s in direct contact with Heaven and has access to all wisdom.
‘Well,’ the logger said, ‘he may have access to all wisdom but he doesn’t know squat about bear hunting! By the way, is the bait still alive, or do we need to go back to Massachusetts and get another one?’
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update your resume month
TECHNOLOGY: Using freedownlodmanager, mp3split-ght, and some batch files to make life easy
What a great idea from these folks. With some logic why this particular month. As the Master of Turkeys, I’d say every month should be “update your resume month”, but that wouldn’t slap the uninvolved into awareness like a specific month. All too often I find ‘baby turkeys’ wandering the high and by ways of the inet in shell shock. Nuked, streeted, and abused. An excellent reminder, if you don’t need your job, dont worry, be happy. Everyone else, update your resume. Everyone is a risk of the unemployment line. imho!
the big fat old turkey hisself
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http://cheflovesbeer.blogspot.com/2008/08/college-presidents-want-to-lower.html
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
College Presidents Want To Lower The Drinking Age
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This is a good start. More than 100 college presidents want the drinking age lowered to 18.
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And, what gives ANYONE the right to TELL another what they can put in their body? It’s their body, right? Hold people accountable for the results of what they put in; fine! But you can’t stop them. It’s insanity to try.
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http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/08/the_clueless_white_guy_vote.html
August 17, 2008
The Clueless White Guy Vote
By Russ Vaughn
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Contrary to their politically correct aims, the advertising industry in this country has created a voting bloc that I am positively sure they never intended. I refer to all us Clueless White Guys, that resentful constituency that for years has endured a constant onslaught of television commercials in which the white male is always the bumbling buffoon, while minority males, black, Asian and Hispanic are always the cool, in-tune, in-the-know dudes who always, effortlessly get it, whatever it may be.
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I’ll be dipped in you know what if I EVER buy anything from AT&T after listening to their whiny white father in the “milky rollover minutes texting thumbs” commercial.
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http://www.itworld.com/tech-society/54193/beware-meta-password-reuse
Crimeware
by Markus Jakobsson
Security
What is worse than reusing passwords?
August 12, 2008, 09:22 PM —
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Do you use the same password all over the place? Yes, you probably do – whether you know it or not.
The fact is, while some people still casually use the same password for many sites, almost all of us reuse what we may think of as “meta passwords” – the information used to reset passwords. That, I argue, is worse than reusing passwords – but harder to avoid!
When you have forgotten your password, some sites send you an email with a link for you to click. Phishers who have stolen access to your email account can do that, too. Other sites will ask you for your mother’s maiden name, the name of your best friend, what city you grew up in, or what brand your first car was. Did you know that phishers can answer those questions, too?
Like the city you grew up in, your mother’s maiden name can be derived from public records – from birth certificates and marriage certificates to be specific. (Download PDF for details.) Facebook might unwittingly tell the name of your best friend. And,until quite recently, Ford with its 25% market share had a pretty good chance of being the brand of your first car!
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Nope, sorry, not on my accounts.
My mother’s maiden name has been successively — NU4H_ZQMQ, WUK6_BBV5, TJRC_UGLS, PFE8_RVSM, KZCW_Z8V8!
Score one for ROBOFORM’s ability to generate pseudo random trash.
I carefully inscribe these values to my book. You have to know that Page 72 is Yahoo. See on the first page it says Yahoo with 377251.
:-) and then I make my password “password”. :-)
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http://blogs.reuters.com/trail08/2008/08/16/obama-says-pointed-abortion-query-above-his-pay-grade
Tales from the Trail
Tracking the 2008 U.S. campaign
August 16th, 2008
Obama says pointed abortion query “above his pay grade”
Posted by: Ed Stoddard
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DALLAS – U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama side-stepped a pointed query about abortion on Saturday by “mega-pastor” Rick Warren during a televised forum.
Asked at what point a baby gets “human rights,” Obama, who strongly supports abortion rights, said: “… whether you’re looking at it from a theological perspective or a scientific perspective, answering that question with specificity … is above my pay grade.”
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Republican presidential candidate John McCain, who followed Obama onto the stage of the nationally televised event, was more blunt and more emphatic.
He said a baby’s human rights began “at the moment of conception … I have a 25-year pro-life record.”
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1. “Pay Grade”! Hey, man, you are running for the most powerful job in the world. There ain’t NOTHING above your paygrade!
2. This IS a tough question. Akin to any genocide question.
I’d have said: “Life begins at conception. That’s science 101. When rights are assumed to begin is arguable. I DO know that when the Gooferment gets involved in tough questions, with one size fits all solutions, it muddies the waters. Abortion is a tragedy for all involved. I’d move the Gooferment out of people’s most heart wrenching decisions. Politicians don’t know sqwat! To think we can tell people what is right and wrong with one broad brush rule is absurd. We’ll leave that decision to the individuals involved and pray they make the right decision. As President, I’d remove rules and funding that push people around. My advice to the American People is: Zip it up folks! If you don’t dip your pen, there would be no need for abortions! Women control the situation. Demand a ring, a bank account, and fidelity. It’s your right. This is not one of those erasers on the end of a pencil. This is human life we talking about! Think about all the beautiful productive human beings we’ve nuked by our own stupidity! Have we killed the person who is going to cure cancer? Wise up and wake up. Next question!?”
But, then that’s why I’ll never be President. Too blunt!
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Posted by reinkefj
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=27992
Catholic Case Against Barack
08/12/2008
Pat Buchanan
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In the Pennsylvania primary, Barack Obama rolled up more than 90 percent of the African-American vote. Among Catholics, he lost by 40 points. The cool liberal Harvard Law grad was not a good fit for the socially conservative ethnics of Altoona, Aliquippa and Johnstown.
But if Barack had a problem with Catholics then, he has a far higher hurdle to surmount in the fall, with those millions of Catholics who still take their faith and moral code seriously.
For not only is Barack the most pro-abortion member of the Senate, with his straight A+ report card from the National Abortion Rights Action League and Planned Parenthood. He supports the late-term procedure known as partial-birth abortion, where the baby’s skull is stabbed with scissors in the birth canal and the brains are sucked out to end its life swiftly and ease passage of the corpse into the pan.
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Before any devout Catholic, Evangelical Christian or Orthodox Jew votes for Obama, he or she might spend 15 minutes in Chapter 10 of Freddoso’s “Case Against Barack.” For if, as Catholics believe, abortion is the killing of an unborn child, and participation in an abortion entails automatic excommunication, how can a good Catholic support a candidate who will appoint justices to make Roe v. Wade eternal and eliminate all restrictions on a practice Catholics legislators have fought for three decades to curtail?
And which Catholic priests and prelates will it be who give invocations at Obama rallies, even as Mother Church fights to save the lives of unborn children whom Obama believes have no right to life and no rights at all?
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Pat nails the pseudo Catholic right to the Cross. How can one claim the label “Catholic” and yet be pro-aboirtion. Or, in anyway support such a pro-abortion candidate.
And, I’m not judging anyone. Far above my pay grade, and I have my own flaws to fix.
HOWEVER, I’ll make an excpetion for the pseudo Catholic politicians we see int he media today. They beg for a come uppance!
Now there are many issues that one can have a debate about, but abortion, speciifcall partial birth or live birth abortion, is hard to see the other side’s pov. Think of all the Einsteins, Pastuers, and Hawkings that have been vacuumed from their mother’s womb. The Free Love generation has given us a travesty far worse than “back alley abortions”. Now, clearly we need a lot less “laws” and a lot more common sense. I trust Moms and their Doctors to do the right thing without some politician “helping” them with a bunch of one-size fits all “laws”. Tossing people in jail or forcing folks to do what they don’t want is not the basis of a peaceful society.
I hope Pat keeps up the heat on these very confused people (aka pseudo-Catholics).
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http://getsatisfaction.com/linkedin/topics/new_linkedin_group_issues
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New LinkedIn Group Issues
LinkedIn just changed (translation: “broke”) many things about LinkedIn Groups
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Unfortunately, when LinkedIn went for the big buxs, it showed the Leadership’s true colors. It tells you a lot about people. How do they follow their principles. I’ve become unenamoured with LinkedIn over the years. When they were struggling for traction, it was come one and come all. Then, they got testy with the super connectors. Then, they got testy with me, even though I am a paying customer, not a super connector, and not an open networker. Then, the final straw, they lawyered up on Vincent Wright, one of their early and most popular “champions”. He did more support then they did … for free. He single handly did more to keep their start ont he rise than they did. He finally got disgusted.
The LinkedIn folks better hop that no comptitor targets them. I think they’ll be lunch. No one is suggesting that they don’t have the right to make their rules. But, a little openness, gratitude, and appreciation of why they got all those big buxs.
It wasn’t them. It was all the Vincent Wrights, and a grazillion little people.
Where is the competition?
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Posted by reinkefj
It happened in Church – Chapter Eighty Five – No Rest Area
It Started In Church – October 19, 1962
http://www.itstartedinchurch.com
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