Frau’s in the hospital for her ongoing medical adventure. The show Mystery Diagnosis has nothing on her. But, she has one valid gripe. The Endocrinologists treating her diabetes and the various and sundry dietitians all tell her to eat six small meals daily. OK, good advice. But in the hospital, she only has the option of three meals per day. I find this interesting. Next to the excessive charge for parking and TV/Phone, it’s the stupidity of the “system”!
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http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3331974.html?menu=news.quirkies.quirkygaffes
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Would-be gangster shoots off own manhood
A would-be gangster shot himself in the crutch when his gun went off half cocked in his pocket.
Lukas Neuhardt, 27, had forgotten to put the safety catch on when he stuffed the gun into his trouser pocket to impress pals in Saarbruecken, Germany.
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Now – after surgeons stitched his manhood back together – he’s facing up to three years in jail for breaching Germany’s tough new anti gun laws.
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See they need a “gun culture” like the Wild West.
Until this country went nuts over fear of guns, everyone knew guns as tools.
Argh!
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In thinking about the MyFy portable hot spot, why don’t we make telephone and cable like the power company?
The electric company has a meter on the side of the house. Just like water. Sewer is “measured” too. (Input = Output)
So why don’t we make the cable company do it the same way.
Phone has an interface box.
Why do we allow them to dictate how we use our “water”?
Why do we allow them to dictate what hardware we have inside our walls?
Argh!
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http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=329091224620125
Obama’s Plan For A Debt-Ridden Future
By ERNEST S. CHRISTIAN AND GARY A. ROBBINS | Posted Friday, June 05, 2009 4:20 PM PT
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In effect, American families would over time lose an amount greater than an entire year of GDP — a blow far more severe than the damage being done to them by the current recession.
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Between debt and unfunded liabilities, we are falling further and further behind. Sad to say, we can’t even guess how much we pay in taxes. The politicians have succeeded in hiding and burying taxes in every conceivable manner.
When Obama’s inflation starts, it’ll be too late to react.
Gold! The ancient store of value.
There’s a reason that Jefferson and Jackson were against “central banks” like the Federal Reserve Bank and paper money. Those allow politicians and bureaucrats to hide the true cost of their evil deals.
Imagine how they’d be on the hook, if they could NOT silent tax every dollar in the world with inflation?
Like withholding and corporate taxes, everything gets hidden from view.
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http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/06/presidential_signing_statement.html
June 06, 2009
Presidential signing statements are bad – only if Bush did it
Rick Moran
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President Obama has issued more signing statements at this point in his presidency than George Bush. And yet, the crickets are chirping in the media and on the left for all the stink they’ve made about it.
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Of course, there’s no liberal bias.
Signing statements on their face are unConstitutional.
The fact that we have different standards for different sides of the political aisle.
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http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/verizon-debuts-mifi-2200-portable-ev-do-router/
MiFi 2200 portable EV-DO router
Technology is the summation of hardware and software. It’s VERY very expensive. This unit intrigues me because what COULD it replace?
Home cable internet service? The Verizon Wireless Broadband USB plug? Cell phones?
The solid trade offs are: ISPs charge 50/month — with hidden caps. The VWBBIE is 70/month.
The soft trade offs are: one or more cell phones. The darned home land line.
The question is what are the true costs of the “MyFy”? Capital, operating, 4 hour battery life.
Home has two computers on a Wifi. But only one user … me.
Would it support Skype, Gizmo, SIP, and such?
Lot of questions.
Biggest problem is I have no clue as to what’s my home byte count on a daily or monthly basis.
And, I hear the Sprint commercials with unlimited usage.
Too many questions and an unknown TCO.
Argh!
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance173.html
Buchanan’s Necessary Book by Laurence M. Vance
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Buchanan’s conclusion will be a tough one for some to swallow: “It was Britain that turned both European wars into world wars.”
Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War is a necessary book.
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History is written by the “winners” and taught in gooferment skools.
It wasn’t until College that I started to really get into how screwed up the world is.
I learned more history and economics from the Libertarian zealots and Social Justice faculty than most folks.
All war is fought by the common man. He’s the cannon fodder.
There’s a reason why the world’s elite eschew assassination, they might have to take some personal risk. We couldn’t have leaderless gooferments now could we?
Fifth generation war won’t observe that nicety.
Sheeple need to read this book and see how their ancestors were hustled. Then, they could avoid how they are being defrauded and abused.
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http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2009/06/palin-vs-letterman.html
ABC News: The Note
Palin vs. Letterman
June 11, 2009 8:11 AM
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Klein ABC News’ Rick Klein reports:
Gov. Sarah Palin and her husband, Todd, are swinging back at David Letterman, after the talk-show host made the Alaska governor and her family the focus of a series of off-color jokes.
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But it was a line in Letterman’s monologue that set off a firestorm: “One awkward moment for Sarah Palin at the Yankee game, during the seventh inning, her daughter was knocked up by Alex Rodriguez.”
Palin was in New York with her 14-year-old daughter, Willow.
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Letterman should get a suspension like Imus.
CBS used have standards!
We haven’t heard from Alex Rodriguez.
If I was Alex, I’d really be torqued.
If anything, he goes for older woman. Phyllis Diller might be more appropriate for Alex. He was “friends” with Madonna.
I’d like to see him nose2nose with Letterman.
Letterman wouldn’t have the stones to say that to Alex’s face. Nor, the Palins.
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>Hey, I’ll take your worthless Federal Reserve Banknote money off your hands.
I’m sure that you would. You liberals will “TAKE” anything! And, your typically big gooferment thugs will be more that happy to rob people of the wealth to satisfy the mob’s demands.
>Are all libertorians anti-union? What a silly question, of course they are.
Of course not. Honest unions that seek to represent their members in fair negotiations with employers are just exercising people’s rights of association. When they use the guns of gooferment to rob the bondholders of their proper settlement, then they are just as bad as the thugs they employ. (Before you say that the bondholders “agreed”, permit me to point out the 52% that did agree were big banks that were getting TARP money anyway. How could they not agree? And, they were being paid off anyway!)
>Basically, libertarians are pro rich, pro management and anti-working class.
If anything, little L libertarians are pro-working class. We want liberty and honest money. And, peace. Take a look at the casualties of war. It’s the poor and working class.
>shouldn’t workers have the right to form unions?
Sure they do. You don’t see L’s rooting for “card check”, minimum wages, or protectionisms.
>Bernie Sanders, a democratic socialist, works for the people and does not take corporate money.
Please don’t make me laugh! He’s a socialist! Maybe even a Marxist.
>Dennis Kucinich, not a socialist, is a feisty fighter for ordinary working Americans.
Dittos.
> I have no idea if it was a good idea to bail out GM.
I do. It was a bad idea for either Bush or Obama to keep GM out of Chapter 11. And, all the money is wasted. It can’t be saved. CAFE standards and all the assorted gooferment actions have made it impossible to make stuff in the US. It’s like giving CPR to a mannequin.
>Millions (including those not directly involved in building cars) will lose their jobs, their health >care and their pensions.
Yes, there will be a lot of breakage. But the UAW voters, … ahh I mean, members will still have their gold plated pensions and health benefits. What happened to the Delta pilots shouldn’t happen to a UAW voter. Sigh! GM was always known as a “health insurance company that made cars”. Argh!
>To only blame government for all our ills and not the free marketeers is just delusional.
It’s the gooferment’s use of force that is the root of most of the evils we are suffering through now. By the way, could you point out the “free market” that you are refering to? I can’t see anything free since the 1860’s.
>Can’t blame unions or the government for the fall of all those financial companies
Sorry, but the seeds of the current collapse is rooted in the easy money of the FED and the Community Reinvestment Act. Barney and Chis, on the dole from AIG and other companies, made it easy for the sheeple to be defrauded.
>ENRON fell because of the corporate crooks not because of unions or the government.
ENRON resulted from the psuedo deregulation of the power industry. Their lobbyist used gooferment to do all sorts of “rule making”. In the end, it all collapsed. And the workers took it in the ear!
>I certainly bash government when necessary, when warranted which is quite often.
You fail to see the force of gooferment (i.e., the often not so silent gun in the room) is at the root of most problems. Our lives would be immeasurably improved it they’d just leave us alone.
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