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Ms. Chang made my day. Report the crapy drivers! That’s something I’ll use.
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Posted by reinkefj
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YWU3ZmJjODBjMTllNTg2ZTk5MGZiMWU1NTM5ZTMzMjU=&w=MA==
May 9, 2009 7:00 AM
Climb
Conservatives must have the courage to defend their convictions.
By Mark Steyn
Is conservatism over?
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It’s a mountain, and it’s getting steeper. Promises of “free” government health care will make more voters susceptible to the blandishments of the nanny state. The Democrats have plans for talk radio and the Internet that will diminish conservative voices. Another retirement on the Supreme Court, and the First and Second Amendments will start getting nibbled away. Obama’s buddies at ACORN, already under investigation in multiple states over fraudulent voter registration, will have a prominent say in the 2010 census.
But, when the going gets tough, you don’t, as General Powell advises, “move toward the center.” You move the center toward you, as Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher did. It’s harder to do it that way, but if it’s a choice between more government and more taxes, or more liberty and more opportunity, I’ll stick with the latter, and so should the Republican party — however difficult it is. Unlike Colin Powell, conservatism does do mountains.
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Anyone, who is even thinking of being fooled by Obama / Hillary Healthcare, shoudl consider:
(1) We have a working model — the VA healthcare system. Ask any vet!
(2) Will the politicians be using it? Probably not!
(3) Where is the money coming for this? Remember in every college economics class, medical care is used as an example of an “inelastic” demand curve, infinite demand without regard to cost. If medical care is “free”, demand will be “infinite”. So there will be rationing and waiting. Look at England where old people don’t get dialysis. Look at Canada, the wait for an MRI allows cancer to be fatal. (Reminds of the VA where vets are convinced their VA docs want to kill them to reduce the demand!)
(4) Forget privacy. THe government will know everything,
Name one thing that the government does acceptably?
How stupid are we?
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Posted by reinkefj
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/how_does_gay_marriage_affect_y.html
How does gay marriage affect you?
from American Thinker
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If past is indeed prologue, the organized, concentrated and continuous assault by a small percentage of zealots will ultimately wear down the resistance of the larger, less focused, non-committed majority.
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The Constitution’s Tenth Amendment reserves that to Several States. Thus the Federal Government should have NO role in the definition of marriage.
The States really should not have any role in defining marriage either since it’s a “church” thing.
The heritage of marriage licensing is racial discrimination.
So, “marriage” should be left to the civil society; the gooferment should MYOB and butt out.
imho!
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Posted by reinkefj
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Job Track – A Free service from EasyWebSitesToday
Posted by: “Job Track”
Mon May 11, 2009 6:33 pm (PDT)
Are you looking for a job? Do you find yourselves applying for way more jobs than ever before? Are you finding yourselves, in a situation where they are calling you 3 months after you have applied for that dream job and you are trying hard to remember, which job is this guy talking about, what is the job description, what salary did I mention to them or that they mentioned to me and what was the resume I sent to them?
If you have answered yes to any one or more of these questions, if that is any consolation. know you are not alone,
The unemployment rate in the US is right now in double-digits and it is taking a very long time to land on a job.When the phone rings, you ask who the person on the other side is, and they start asking questions about you and the job you applied for. You don’t want to miss the call or ask her to call again later, just because you do not remember, which job this is, which resume you sent and other details. You want to be prepared, ready and be able to pull up the information exactly how they pull up your information when you call.
In short, you need to keep track of your job search, like never before and for this you need JobTrack from EasyWebSitesToday.
To help you keep track of your job search and also to be able to meet some the requirements from the Dept. of Labor, we introduce a tool called JobTrack <http://jobtrack.easywebsitestoday.com/>.
This tool is meant to help you to be on top of your job search, by letting you know, “what are the top five jobs that I am pursuing”, “what does my calendar look like for this week, in terms of interviews, either phone, follow-up or face to face”. When you are on the phone with an interviewer, it critical to keep all the relevant information, all on the same page, including the Job Description, the targeted resume and cover letter, the name of the HR person or the hiring manager, the notes you had jotted down about this job and all such relevant information at your finger tips.
So go ahead and sign up for this free service JobTrack<http://jobtrack.easywebsitestoday.com/>, and check it out for yourselves, today!
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I did. The sign up process isn’t friendly. So!
Not really ready for prime time, yet.
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Posted by reinkefj
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124223286506515765.html
News Alert from The Wall Street Journal
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The Obama administration is weighing plans to detain some terror suspects on U.S. soil — indefinitely and without trial — as part of a plan to retool military commission trials that were conducted for prisoners held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The proposal being floated with members of Congress is another indication of President Barack Obama’s struggles to establish his counter-terrorism policies, balancing security concerns against attempts to alter Bush-administration practices he has harshly criticized.
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Another campaign issue / promise up in smoke.
Don’t real;y care about the lying.
BUT!
THe Bush Admininstration had Gitmo to keep the prisoners from getting Fifth Amendment and other rights.t us, next it
(Using my Judge Judy law degree and reading the Constitution, I think rights are inalienable regardless where on the Earth the government is operating. But my opinion matters not.)
The Obama Adminsitration seems to have a new reading of the Fifth and where it applies.
That scares me!
As Pastor Martin Niemîller taught us, next it woon’t apply to us as they herd us to the camps.
Remember my previous blogs. Just take out the first one and the they will soon run out of thugs.
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Posted by reinkefj
http://lewrockwell.com/woods/woods112.html
A EURO-PACIFIC/PETER SCHIFF WHITE PAPER
Beware of Obamanomics
by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
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In short, the president’s program aggravates every existing problem in the American economy, and will make genuine recovery all the longer in coming. Whether we measure these policies against history or sound economic theory, the verdict is the same: the president has chosen a path that is guaranteed to fail. We were already on that path before his election. Only if President Obama genuinely changes course, and allows the free economy to restore the prosperity that so much previous intervention served to undermine, would we really have change we can believe in.
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Yes, those trillions and trillions of dollars of debt are going to make us more like Zimbabwe!
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Posted by reinkefj
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22401.html
Pelosi: Torture protest improper in ’03
TAGS: Congress, Jane Harman, Nancy Pelosi, Interrogation, Torture
By GLENN THRUSH & JOHN BRESNAHAN | 5/11/09 8:14 PM EDT
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi learned in early 2003 that the Bush administration was waterboarding terror detainees but didn’t protest directly out of respect for “appropriate” legislative channels, a confidant of the San Francisco Democrat said Monday.
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How can you tell when a politcian is lying?
When their lips are moving!
She wants it her way all the time regardless of facts or history.
They’re all the same.
And she’s THIRD in line to be PRESIDENT?!
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Posted by reinkefj
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090509/D982S7N80.html
Texas man jailed 83 days for skipping jury duty
May 9, 1:56 PM (ET)
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McKINNEY, Texas (AP) – A man arrested for allegedly failing to appear for jury duty was released Saturday after spending 83 days in jail, a length of detention that a judge called “unacceptable.”
Douglas Maupin was released a day after The Dallas Morning News brought his plight to the attention of a Collin County judge.
Maupin, a masonry contractor, was arrested Feb. 15 after police pulled him over for speeding. Police then detained him on a 2003 warrant for failure to appear for jury duty.
He wrote a letter to the newspaper about his lengthy jail stay, then said in a jailhouse interview that he, his friends and family could not afford his $1,500 bail.
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Guess no one ever heard of the Fourteenth Amendment about slavery!
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Posted by reinkefj
Don’t gum up the works
The drunk staggered along the street. He was dirty, smelly, and bedraggled. He bumped between parking meters and cars. Like a sad ping pong match. The police car was at the corner. Illegally parked, of course; the members of the long blue line were on doughnut break. From their “selfless” mission, protecting and serving the entrenched elite. The drunk was an equal opportunity ping pong ball. He bounced off their car, around the corner and away.
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It was the death of his wife that set him off. No one much cared about him. But, then that feeling was mutual with him. He was a self-described “tin foil hat patriot”. Who would know if he was a pinhead or a patriot? Who’d much care! As long as he paid his taxes, there was much he could do. Frustratingly, he blogged. He wrote his letters. He went to demonstrations. He voted religiously. But nothing much mattered. It all came to him in an Auto Parts store. He needed replacement windshield wiper blades. A very mundane purchase. After all if was one of the last things you could do on a car without the government’s permission. The socialists had succeeded in making everything with cars either illegal, expensive, or sealed. You could put an additive in your oil; it’s damaging the planet. Gas was eight bucks a gallon, seven of which was tax; taxed like beer, treated liked drugs. The twenty two hundred dollar catalytic converter was sealed shut; the earth had to “breathe” too you know. Global warming. Remember Mother Earth. For the children. The Auto Parts store had some vintage signs as decoration. One was for an old product called Gunk Out. The slogan was: “Don’t gum up the works!”. Next to the car register were small packages of liquid epoxy designed to stick trim back on cars. Their slogan was: “It’ll never be loose again.” On an impulse, he bought five at this store. And went to another store for more.
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It was the end of a quiet shift. The police pair had been “clocked out” as they drove into the station parking lot. Due to budget crises, there was an automatic badge reader that recorded their status. They just had to refill the patrol car on their own time. The city saved grazillions on the “free labor”; their union had gotten other off-budget concessions. So, their end of shift chores were “off the clock”. Fill up the tank, record the serial number of ammo returned to the armory, lock up their personal weapons until next shift, download their computers to the HQ network. All their problem. Pulling up to the gas pump, the non-driver went to pump. They switched roles each shift. Just like they’d change who was the “bad cop” in their “good cop / bad cop” routine they’d run on suspects. It was all about making their quotas. The gas tank cover wouldn’t open. They were befuddled. They tried knives. They called for help. Finally, the mechanic drilled the cover and cut it off. Four hours later, gas was flowing into their tank. Their car was put out of service for repair. They were being investigated by Internal Affairs for sabatoge. Fixing that was going to be expensive. Especially at government prices!
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The next morning, the city’s 311 number was taking calls from irate citizens. There was no where to park. Every other meter on several blocks wouldn’t take money. What’s worse, if the parker ignored the problem, the automated parking meters would sense there was a car parked, that no graft was being paid to the city for that privilege, and a traffic agent was printed out a ticket automatically to be delivered to that car. Maybe it even got there. On some of the newer meters, it would also read the license plate, and mail a three day violation notice to the registered owner. After three days, if the $125 fine was not paid, their license and registration was suspended automatically. After seven days, a collection agency was engaged. After fourteen days, an arrest warrant was issued. All automagically. The older meters still relied on the Civil Servants to eventually get the paperwork where it should be. The law was written for the new meters. May take years but everyone would be penalized in due time. There’d be arrests for eons based on the old tickets; no statue of limitations and no requirement that tickets be done promptly by the government. But, no such “grace period” for the rabble. It was making pinheads into patriots everywhere in society. It was hard to be uninvolved. Everyone was getting into the act!
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It really wasn’t so bad. They were doing OK until the internet got the story. They had suppressed the press from reporting. They were the lapdogs of the politicians. But, eventually, six days later, the blogosphere erupted with the news. Enraged bloggers caught in the mess screamed to Holy Heaven. The the patriot bloggers picked it up. Then the outlawed bittorrenters distributed pointers to how it was done. All sorts of glue sold out in a few days. Then the fun really began. Finally way to late, wweks later, the government suspended the sale of all glue. It was more heavily regulated than guns.
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Eventually government ceased to function. Society thrived. But government was “glued” solid. Unmovable. Yes, it was a little inconvenient to get around the “road blocks”. But it was funny to see the mayor’s limo encased in epoxy!
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Yes, you really should NOT gum up the works.
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[NOTE: This is Johnathan Swift satire, you should NOT do this!]
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Posted by reinkefj
http://tslrf.blogspot.com/2009/05/inflation.html
Friday, May 8, 2009
Inflation
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This is a backdoor tax because a tax was not passed. You did not have money stolen out of your paycheck and didn’t write them a check but they in effect reached into your wallet and bank accounts and via a loss purchasing power you were essentially taxed.
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Insidious backdoor taxation. Coming to you very soon!
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Posted by reinkefj
Keep Your Rhythm
30 April 2009
By Frank Scoblete
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I am fully aware that some casino players think that a necessary ingredient of going to the casinos is for the player to lose control. They view their casino time as some kind of “letting it all hang out” experience. According to the Captain, not only is that dangerous to your health, it is also dangerous to your bankroll and you peace of mind.
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My greatest flaw is probability.
Especially on a slot where I have played for a long time, the jackpot just has to hit.
I’ve proven in my own mind that a long run without a jackpot means one is “due”.
In group play, with Luddite and our wives, I’ll stay on a machine that has “broken” us. Say a penny slot, playing for 45 or 75 cents a spin, has taken 80 bucks from us. Haning on for so more play at max coins has been very profitable. Not at progressives where I don’t think they ever pay or it’s hard to get away with winnings.
In personal play, I try to be very disciplined. Sometimes it even works. On non-progressive pennies, I try to find one that hasn’t been “hit”. Either by observation or looking at the last cash out. I’ll play minimum coins maximum lines for half my stake and max for the last half. Jury’s still out at that.
Drinking or tired are two fatalities to disciplined play. Together it’s a killer.
Argh!
No easy road to riches!
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Posted by reinkefj
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=97455
The winning issue for GOP
Pat Buchanan
Posted: May 08, 2009
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Why is the party in trouble? Simple. Dubya got a hold of the keys, got high on neocon hooch, and crashed and rolled the family SUV.
He launched an unnecessary war against a country that had not attacked us. With his utopian No Child Left Behind scheme and his Medicare drug plan, he did his passable imitation of LBJ, and blew a hole in the budget.
Touting globalism, he presided over the loss of one in every four U.S. manufacturing jobs and ran up $5 trillion in trade deficits. He refused to defend the Mexican border against an invasion, then pushed an amnesty for the invaders.
This was no Reaganite. This was the neocons’ apprentice.
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If the Republican Party wants a future, it will become again the party that stands on the principle that “No discrimination means no discrimination,” that stands with the victims of state bigotry, and that stands up to hypocrites like the Jim Crow liberals of New Haven.
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To return to power, the GOP has to return to the Taft – Reagan wing of the party. Principles of smaller government will win. We can’t afford the nonsense that substitutes for wisdom in DC.
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Posted by reinkefj
Commentary
A Cloud In Every Garage
Russ Daniels, 05.07.09, 06:00 PM EDT
HP on how cloud computing can help re-ignite the global economy.
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HP has a cloud service, called MagCloud, that makes it possible for anyone to publish a professional-quality magazine and print, promote, sell and deliver it on demand. Printing on demand means no large press runs, no pre-publication expense, no waste.
By eliminating substantial pieces of the physical supply chain, we can offer professional-quality print to a mass audience while reducing the impact on the environment. The same on-demand technology can be extended to book publishing and allow individuals to print customized books, mixing their own content with that of professionals.
Looking ahead, we envision a rich ecosystem of printing services–connecting businesses to businesses and businesses to individuals–that delivers information where, when and how it’s needed.
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Print On Demand for magazines?
I like POD for books. It makes the family history possible. Have to see how this is implemented and how much it costs. Niche magazines might be possible if they are built on a advertising model and if they are dirt cheap. Where will be the margin for the mission?
Reigniting the world economy?
Nah.
Cloud computing has major problems: version control; payment; and data ownership right off the top of my head.
Maybe I’m just an old fuddy duddy
Besides, connectivity to the cloud is NOT ubiquitous or cheap (i.e., free are very close to it). And the ISPs (i.e., AT&T, the Bells, Comcast, the Cable Companies) have other ideas on how they are going to keep their monopoly and monitize it. And, don’t forget how they are strangling peer 2 peer technology with caps and deep stateful packet inspection (i.e., poisoning).
No, this ain’t the Far East with big pipes to the home and “enlighted” politicial and technology leadership.
The inet may have been an American invention, but it’s going to be the Far East boom 2.0!
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Posted by reinkefj
On May 4, 2009, at 6:05 PM, {my wife’s high school friend} wrote:
BILL COSBY HAS DECIDED TO BECOME A WRITE-IN CANDIDATE. HERE IS HIS PLATFORM: (AFTER YOU READ THIS YOU MAY ALSO WANT TO VOTE FOR HIM)!!!
(1) ‘Press 1 for English’ is immediately banned. English is the official language; speak it or wait at the border until you can.
(2) We will immediately go into a two year isolationist posture to straighten out the country’s attitude.. NO imports, no exports. We will use the ‘Wal-Mart ‘s policy, ‘If we ain’t got it, you don’t need it.’
(3) When imports are allowed, there will be a 100% import tax on it.
(4) All retired military personnel will be required to man one of our many observation towers on the southern border (six month tour). They will be under strict orders not to fire on SOUTHBOUND aliens.
(5) Social security will immediately return to its original state. If you didn’t put nuttin’ in, you ain’t getting’ nuttin’ out. The president nor any other politician will be able to touch it.
(6) Welfare – Checks will be handed out on Fridays at the end of the 40-hour school week and the successful completion of urinalysis and a passing grade.
(7) Professional Athletes–Steroids. The FIRST time you check positive you’re banned for life.
(8) Crime – We will adopt the Turkish method, the first time you steal, you lose your right hand. There is no more life sentences. If convicted of murder, you will be put to death by the same method you chose for your victim; gun, knife, strangulation, etc.
(9) One export will be allowed, Wheat. The world needs to eat. A bushel of wheat will be the exact price of a barrel of oil.
(10) All foreign aid using American taxpayer money will immediately cease, and the saved money will pay off the national debt and ultimately lower taxes. When disasters occur around the world, we’ll ask the American people if they want to donate to a disaster fund, and each citizen can make the decision whether it’s a worthy cause.
(11) The Pledge of Allegiance will be said every day at school and every day in Congress.
(12) The National Anthem will be played at all appropriate ceremonies, sporting events, outings, etc..
Sorry if I stepped on anyone’s toes.
GOD BLESS AMERICA !
Bill Cosby
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I have to get some time to check snopes for this. It sounds like inet tripe. But, it does give me “blo-der” (i.e., fodder to blog about)!
Update: It is a hoax.
But it’s still useful to destroy each bullet point.
>(1) English is the official language
We need an “official” anything, like we need a hole in the head. We managed to go 200 years without an “official” language. Why do we suddenly need one now? Could it be more of the 1850’s Know Nothings anti-immigrant prejudice? Could it be just one more way that the “power elite” distract us from the important issues of the day?
>2) We will immediately go into a two year isolationist posture to straighten out the country’s attitude.. NO imports, no exports.
And, how do you like 30$/gal gasoline? Give the politicians who passed the Smoot Hawley tariff, they may have not been aware that they were creating the Great Depression and allowing FDR to take us off the gold standard which allowed runaway gooferment spending. It’s hard to imagine anything this stupid actually passing. But, never underestimate the stupidity or cupidity of politicians. In the Depression and subsequent civil unrest, you would at least wrest the title of the “great depression” from 1929. I can’t imagine the result of this ill considered policy. Not only would you screw this country, but all of our trading partner as well. Poor people in third world countries who make stuff that gets shipped here would be instantly out of work. I can visualize the starvation and civil unrest around the world. Trade preempts invasions. World War 3! Absolute stupidity.
Stay tuned. I’ll take on each over the next twelve days
>3) When imports are allowed, there will be a 100% import tax on it.
How absurd. What that means is that people will be paying the government for the privilege of overpaying? From an economic point of view, you’re not producing the maximum value for human society or American society. This is similar to the argument that every one should be a subsistence farmer. We don’t want imports from California to prevent New Jersey from growing oranges. Oh yeah, that’s right, they won’t grow here. Stupidity!
>4) All retired military personnel will be required to man one of our many observation towers on the southern border (six month tour).
Why would they have to do that. Just because they are retired military? Do they get paid? How much will that cost?
>4 continued They will be under strict orders not to fire on SOUTHBOUND aliens.
The implication is that they will fire on NORTHbound aliens. Guess all aliens look a like. The death penalty for believing what is written on the Statue of Liberty.THe problem isn’t folks coming here to work hard. The problem is government welfare and the psuedo drug war. So shred the Fourteenth Amendment about involuntary servitude and keep up the pretense that the illeagals are the root of all our problems.
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Posted by reinkefj
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/05/07/san-francisco-muni-b.html
San Francisco Muni begins to enforce imaginary no-photos policy
Posted by Cory Doctorow, May 7, 2009 6:45 PM
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The blogger at What I’m Seeing is a prolific photographer of San Francisco’s rapid transit system, and thus has fallen afoul of its imaginary no-photos policy, with a threatened arrest:
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What happened to the First Amendment?
The rapid transit is part of the gooferment.
No doubt about that!
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Posted by reinkefj
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=17630
Revisiting the ROI of the Kindle DX: Why is Amazon blind to Wi-Fi?
Posted by Larry Dignan @ 2:24 am
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Amazon unveiled its much hyped Kindle DX, an e-book with a 9.7-inch screen designed to raise a ruckus in the textbook market, but delivered a $489 curve ball that seriously alters the return on investment calculation for academia.
On the surface, the argument for the Kindle DX (Techmeme) in academia holds somewhat but that price tag makes the case much harder for your average student. Amazon is asking students to learn a little about total cost of ownership over three years before they pick up a book. What is this? Enterprise software?
The Kindle DX runs you $489 as an upfront investment and the average student spends $488 on new and used course materials a year. In a nutshell, Amazon is asking the average student to fork over more money for the Kindle and then buy the textbooks too.
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They’d have a better chance supporting the Open Textbook effort. That’s what student’s could afford.
Textbooks’ prices are obscene!
Even when I went to school.
No margin, no mission. I understand. BUT, (there is always a big butt), it doesn’t have to be a screw job!
Don’t forget Project Gutenberg and Google with it’s out of print books.
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Posted by reinkefj
http://www.lewrockwell.com/decoster/decoster151.html
Women, Stop Watching Oprah and Learn to Love Guns
by Karen De Coster
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Let’s face it – women are more vulnerable to attack because, most likely, their aggressor will be a man. Women are physically weaker, and criminals know that we are less willing to be mentally prepared for aggression because, unlike men, most of us just aren’t wired to be combative. A woman’s attacker will be bigger, stronger, and faster than her, and by nature they will be more aggressive, and that’s before considering any mental or drug problem that may be associated with a criminal attack. So why do women not want to take that into consideration and equalize the situation by learning to use and love guns? Dr. Thomas Szasz, libertarian scholar and Professor of Psychiatry at Syracuse University, once stated, “self-defense is not merely our legal right but our moral duty; because women are more vulnerable than men, their need and obligation to defend themselves is even greater than that of men.” Dr. Szasz is a wise man.
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Let me just quote from Marie’s soliloquy in my book “CHURCH 10●19●62”
“Yes, we women do (kill). Did you know John’s paternal grandmother traveled the Oregon Trail, bore 13 children, and fought Indians and Outlaws? She’s in her 90’s now. I’ve read her letters. Women can kill when it’s needed. We may not be as physically strong as men, but who seems to get to change all the diapers? Don’t worry about the words and labels. Just do what’s right. OK?”
OK! Women are smart and responsible for their own defense. Wasn’t that what the “women’s liberation” movement was all about. Empowering women? So why do they tolerate male legislators making them victims of every low life man who wants to hurt them.
As Heinlein said: “An armed society is a polite society.”
Frankly, I trust women a lot more than I trust politicians.
From my cold dead hand …; yours too, I hope.
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p.s., I tried to emulate Heinlein. The first book I ever really read and absorbed a political message from was his “Starship Troopers”. Admittedly a juvenile science fiction action novel, it was a College level course in Libertarian philosophy. So to, in my book “CHURCH 10●19●62”, I tried to get across my political ideas about Liberty. His was much better, but I tried. Hopefully, I can turn one person onto freedom.
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Posted by reinkefj
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=96515
POD books and information overload
Posted: April 30, 2009 1:00 am Eastern
Technology
Phil Elmore
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The fact, tenor and import of being a “published author” in the United States is changing, and changing rapidly. While anyone can be “published” on the Web, would-be writers put much more stock in hardcopy. There is something about holding a real, bound paper book that carries with it a certain weight, a certain validity – and it is this validation, this sense of accomplishment made physical, that a first-time author craves. Given how difficult it is to be selected or discovered by a traditional publishing house, a market has sprung up that serves amateur and first-time writers’ need for affirmation. It is the publish-on-demand self-publishing industry.
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As a “published author”, (Yeah, two Lulu entrees, a third in queue, including my magnum opus “CHURCH 10●19●62”, and a few more on the drawing board!), I believe this “technology” allow the capture of family histories, individual interest topics, and other stuff that would be completely lost. It reminds me of the FIreFox books. Human knowledge is IMHO being lost at a huge rate. People die without having their stories “captured”. POD technology will allow that to be captured. It’s great!
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Posted by reinkefj
REPORTING ON WORLDNETDAILY
WEAPONS OF CHOICE
State exempts guns from federal regs
‘No firearm registration, serial numbers, criminal records check’
Posted: May 07, 2009 1:00 am Eastern
By Bob Unruh
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
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The state of Montana has drawn a line in the sand, challenging the federal government to decide whether to follow the U.S. Constitution with a new gun law that exempts from federal regulations any gun, gun accessory or ammunition made in the state and intended for use there.
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That throws the gauntlet down!
Way to go Montana.
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Posted by reinkefj
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/05/05/texas.police.seizures/
Texas police shake down drivers, lawsuit claims
* Police stop drivers, take their money and jewelry, alleged victims say
* Drivers threatened with arrest, loss of children if they don’t pay up, plaintiffs say
* Most targeted drivers are minorities who won’t fight back, lawyer says
* Town, county officials deny any wrongdoing, say officers follow the law
updated 9:00 a.m. EDT, Wed May 6, 2009
From Gary Tuchman and Katherine Wojtecki
CNN’s “AC360°”
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TENAHA, Texas (CNN) — Roderick Daniels was traveling through East Texas in October 2007 when, he says, he was the victim of a highway robbery.
The Tennessee man says he was ordered to pull his car over and surrender his jewelry and $8,500 in cash that he had with him to buy a new car.
But Daniels couldn’t go to the police to report the incident.
The men who stopped him were the police.
Daniels was stopped on U.S. Highway 59 outside Tenaha, near the Louisiana state line. Police said he was driving 37 mph in a 35 mph zone. They hauled him off to jail and threatened him with money-laundering charges — but offered to release him if he signed papers forfeiting his property.
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Well, my Luddite friend always fights with me telling me that “the police are our friends”. Not my friend, my friend. They are worse than the Mafia. At least, the Mafia doesn’t pretend that they aren’t robbing me.
These armed bureaucrats are nothing more than form filling out clean up squads. Unless they blunder into something.
(Hey, if he can exaggerate, so can I!)
It comes from the basic premise about the use of force. It all comes down to force.
Argh!
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Posted by reinkefj
Need to figure out what to do when the mail client can’t seem to pull mail.
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Opened up a new email on GMail. It can’t reach imap.1and1.com or smtp.1and1.com.
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Went up on VWBBIE (Verizon Wireless Broadband)! <Why didn’t I think of that sooner?> Picked up one of the accounts but not the others. Now I’m really confused.
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ping works. everything working. confused!
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Posted by reinkefj
There as been a silent money grab in AC by Corzine. I hadn’t heard anything about it, but there was a sign at the Borgata about a new law on casino tickets. I didn’t really read it or really understand it, but they now have new tickets from the slot machines with a blue edge. As I understand it, uncashed tickets that are year old are no longer cashable. I can guess who gets the money. Heard about it. Those tickets are usually for pennies I’d guess. Take a ticket with pennies on it to say a quarter machine and it spits out a ticket for the pennies. People usually leave them in the tray when they go bust. It’s not even profitable for the homeless to collect them. But nothing’s beneath the politicians.
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Posted by reinkefj
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=96590
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What flag will you fly on Memorial Day?
While in Obama’s liberal America we still have one!
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Posted by reinkefj
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/026645.html
May 06, 2009
Georgia Student Saves Lives With His Gun
Posted by Lew Rockwell at May 6, 2009 11:25 AM
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Ten kids are having a party in an apartment in College Park, Georgia, when two armed, masked criminals break in.
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/026645.html
One thug KIA; second thug being sought. One victim shot making a full recovery.
RKBA!
Cause the cops aren’t everywhere; we are the “police”.
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Posted by reinkefj
http://lifehacker.com/5244024/free-50+page-pdf-of-the-simple-dollars-best-advice
Free 50-Page PDF of The Simple Dollar’s Best Advice
By Kevin Purdy, 7:00 AM on Thu May 7 2009
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The Simple Dollar, an oft-Lifehacker-linked personal finance blog, is giving away a 50-page PDF, “Everything You Need to Know About Personal Finance on Just One Page.” Definitely worth the 4.4 MB download.
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Now I’m no fan of a 4 meg pdf. But, it’s free. (My favorite price!) And this is one of my “usually reliable” sources.
FYI, do what you want. You will anyway.
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Posted by reinkefj
http://www.lifenews.com/state4116.html
New Jersey Church Replaces Pro-Life Signs Defaced in Pro-Abortion Vandalism
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
May 5, 2009
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Milltown, NJ (LifeNews.com) — A New Jersey Catholic church has replaced the large pro-life signs that adorn a grassy area in front of the church building. The pro-life sign in a lot across from Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church in the central part of the state was defaced by pro-abortion vandals in December.
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I know that sign. A simple statement of fact.
Hard to imagine that vandal appreciates the First Amendment.
And, for the “free choice” that was sprayed on it, how is it “free” when I am force to pay for the gooferment’s pro-abortion policies?
It ain’t free. I’m forced to pay for it.
So explain to me, how did I incur this obligation?
I know I have to pay protection money to the various gangs in DC, Trenton, and elsewhere. But how is it “moral”?
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