Day: January 5, 2009

MONEY: THe FED is the “root of all evil”!

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig2/stewart9.html

The Crisis in 10 Points
by Robert Stewart

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2. The Federal Reserve System (the Fed – created in 1913) has accommodated government’s policy of spending to excess by inflating the money supply and keeping interest rates artificially low. Today’s dollar will buy what in 1913 would cost less than a nickel. This easy-money policy has not only led to inflation but has resulted in investments taking place that would not be justified had the money supply been constrained, and had interest rates more clearly reflected economic reality.

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IMHO, this is the root of so many evils since 1913. Even the “income tax” wasn’t as bad as this. The FED allows the political class to extract value from the poor and middle class without the “bother” of taxes. It’s the hidden silent tax. And, it extracts more “wealth” than even the “death tax”.

I can’t believe that people are so stupid!

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LOCAL: Frozen lakes are trajedies waiting to happen

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http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/01/plainsboro_woman_drowns_trying.html#preview

Plainsboro woman drowns trying to save dog from frozen pond
by Nyier Abdou and Joe Ryan/The Star-Ledger
Saturday January 03, 2009, 7:11 PM

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A Plainsboro woman fell through the ice and drowned today while trying to rescue her grandson’s dog from a frozen pond.

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Posted by reinkefj on 01/05/09 at 8:47AM

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Sad.

Interesting to see if a lawsuit doesn’t come out of this. Who owns the lake?

If it’s the town, then a simple rope with a ring would have been a great forethought. Or and after thought?

In the USAF survival school, we were taught, along with a lot of other stuff, not to go on ice with “ice picks”. (Wood dowels with nails protruding.) We had them on the hood draw strings as an inspection item for winter field exercises. Funny the stuff you remember forty years later.

Tonight I’ll remember her in my prayers for her and the family. Valiently trying to save her dog.

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SERVICE: Flash cards on the web

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http://www.emilychang.com/go/ehub/app/cramberry/

Courtesy of Emily Chang:

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Jan 04, 09

Cramberry

A web app that helps people (students, actors, or anyone else) memorize things (schoolwork, lines in a play, etc.) using flashcards. Users create a blank “set” of flashcards, then name the set, and start adding cards to the set. Once you’re ready, the app presents these cards to you in a random order so you can answer the cards.

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Tried it. One link wrong on their main page. But it does work.

Needs maturation.

(1) No export. (2) No way to monetize your sets of flash cards.

Interesting concept.

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