RANT: Air travel sucks

Thursday, December 31, 2009

Note: TSA at PHL is now enforcing a “two carry on bag limit” as you enter their lines. People are being told “Either consolidate or check it”. I’m sure the airlines are happy about this now that they all charge extra for each bag (i.e., 15$ to 100$).

Today, my wife’s nephew, his wife, and their twins had an “interesting” experience. Driving them to the airport, they found that their flight had been cancelled. Hubbie was booked on a later flight and Wifey with kids was delayed until the morrow. (Good luck finding a room on New Year’s Eve!)

Conflicting directions of where to check in. United moved them to US Airways in a different terminal. Then the lines again. Conflicting directions. More problems.

It all worked out. But not without a lot of angst!

Argh!

Confirms my firmly held conviction to never fly again.

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RANT: Self-defense is a mind set

Thursday, December 31, 2009

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20091226/D9CR18JO0.html

Passengers help foil attack on Detroit-bound plane
Dec 26, 8:49 AM (ET)
By JIM IRWIN

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ROMULUS, Mich. (AP) – An attempted terrorist attack on a Christmas Day flight began with a pop and a puff of smoke – sending passengers scrambling to subdue a Nigerian man who claimed to be acting on orders from al-Qaida to blow up the airliner, officials and travelers said.

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One thing is new — passenger docility.

The days when passengers would sit idly like sheep and let terrorists act with impunity.

And, how did the explosive get on board?

Yes, security theater!

See it’s all about fooling the traveling public into complacency. And giving job to people who will vote the “correct” way.

Argh!

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RANT: Good after bad

Thursday, December 31, 2009

Govt gives GMAC $3.8B in new aid, boosts stake

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WASHINGTON (AP) – The government gave GMAC Financial Services another $3.8 billion in cash and took a majority stake in the auto lender, aiming to stabilize the company as it struggles with big losses in its home mortgage unit. The fresh infusion is on top of $12.5 billion in taxpayer money…

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How dumb!

Time to cut the taxpayer’s losses.

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RANT: Lift her light beside the golden door

Thursday, December 31, 2009

http://www.economist.com/world/unitedstates/displayStory.cfm?story_id=15108634&source=hptextfeature

Going to America
A Ponzi scheme that works
Dec 17th 2009 | ANNANDALE, VIRGINIA AND DALLAS, TEXAS
From The Economist print edition
The greatest strength of America is that people want to live there

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When he arrived, Mr Lee was astonished by how rich nearly everyone was. He recalls his first dinner with Americans: the huge bowls and immense portions. He was startled to see lights left on in empty rooms. He is still impressed: “The roads are so wide, the cars so big, the houses so large—everything is abundant,” he says.

Yet this is not why he came, and it is not why he stayed and became a citizen. For Mr Lee, America is a land that offers “the chance to be whatever you want to be”. More prosaically, it is a place where nearly any immigrant can find a niche.

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We NEED these immigrants. Everyone who wants to come and work.

Kill welfare and then there is no reason not to have them come.

Take the trash bag off the Statue of Liberty and get back to our roots.

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POLITICAL: We need to be “isolationalist”

Thursday, December 31, 2009

http://thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/politics/2651-ben-stein-says-ron-paul-uses-anti-semitic-arguments

Ben Stein Says Ron Paul Uses “Anti-Semitic Arguments”
Written by Thomas R. Eddlem   
Tuesday, 29 December 2009 10:52

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Rep. Paul, a Republican from Texas, has argued for removing U.S. soldiers from the Middle East because the American presence there is increasingly seen by many Muslims as a foreign occupation force. Responding to Rep. Paul’s argument that Americans should mind their own business and not become the policeman of the world, Stein argued: “No, we’re not occupiers. That’s the same anti-Semitic argument we’ve heard over and over again. That’s the same anti-Semitic argument we’ve heard over and over again.”

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Time to get our boys and girls home.

We’re not the global policeman.

The choice is ours, but it can’t be found in EITHER political party!

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MONEY: Intergenerational Theft

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

http://tslrf.blogspot.com/2009/12/book-review-generation-debt-why-now-is.html

Friday, December 25, 2009

Book Review: Generation Debt, Why Now Is A Terrible Time To Be Young

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I just finished the book Generation Debt: Why It Is A Terrible Time To Be Young. Honestly I think if you are 18-35 or have a kid in that age range you should read this book. Here are some interesting snippets of the book:

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-The cause is not a temporary recession but structural changes in the economy. In income and occupation prestige, young adults are behind where their parents were at their age.

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At Christmas eve dinner, we had a discussion on this topic.

The kids didn’t understand that we were talking about their economic future.

Unfortunately, they are going to have to live thru this economic disaster.

They will have to be smart with their money. Very smart. Which to date, I have NOT seen evidenced by any young people. Or some old ones either.

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TECHNOLOGY: Potential microRNAs breast cancer blood test

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Irish-breast-cancer-breakthrough-could-spell-end-to-mammograms-79914347.html

Irish breast cancer breakthrough could end mammograms
Major cancer discovery from team at Galway University
By ANTOINETTE KELLY, IrishCentral.com
Published Tuesday, December 22, 2009, 1:50 PM
Updated Tuesday, December 22, 2009, 4:24 PM

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Irish scientists may have found an alternative to the dreaded mammogram in a bid to reduce the incidence of breast cancer.

Researchers from the National University of Ireland Galway have identified a new blood test that can act as an “early warning” system.

The test, which is being discussed as a potential replacement for mammograms, can alert doctors if the disease is recurring.

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The study found a link between breast cancer and substances called microRNAs which are found in the blood of patients with breast cancer.

Professor Michael Kerin, who led the team, said there was good reason for optimism.

“This early work suggests a combination of mir195 and Let7a (two specific types of microRNA) are sensitive markers for the presence of breast cancers in over 90 percent of cases,” he said. “This raises the possibility of their use in screening for breast cancer.”

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Recent gooferment “pronouncements” about cancer screening was suspect. Suspect that they were looking at the cost as opposed to the benefits. Here may be an opportunity to satisfy both conflicting priorities.

The value of human life can’t be reduced into dollars and sense.

Sorry. Apologies to all the accountants and gooferment bureaucrats, but your wrong. Heartlessly wrong.

When people buy their own health care, they make a very tough “value” judgement.

I’ve seen “old people” and “terminally ill” people make the tough decisions easily. When we insert an insurance company or Medicare welfare into the process, people don’t see the costs as impacting their legacy and their families.

So substituting a potentially cheaper and more accurate chemistry test is a real winner.

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RANT: Emulate Israel’s security strategy and tactics

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/it_the_incompetence_stupid_Smobhu7UYi3kwiQzGPHnMP#ixzz0b6x74uRB  

It’s the incompetence, stupid
Last Updated: 6:50 AM, December 29, 2009
Posted: 12:42 AM, December 29, 2009
Rich Lowry

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It’s never going to be easy for a free society to defend itself from furtive enemies, but that doesn’t excuse willful obliviousness. We should move to a more Israel-style security system, devoting more energy to the intelligence and on-the-spot assessments necessary to focus on the greatest potential threats. And we should resist the civil libertarians who create pressure to narrow down the most meaningful watch lists and work to forestall adoption of more effective whole-body imaging scanners.

For its part, the Obama administration should frankly acknowledge that the “war on terror” wasn’t a Bush-Cheney construct to scare and manipulate the American public. Speaking from Hawaii, Obama sounded stalwart yesterday, but it took him 72 hours to address the incident. The administration’s body language says it would prefer to keep counterterrorism on a back-burner while it engages in the more important work of nationalizing health care and fighting global warming.

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If we aren’t going to emulate the KGB in handling terrorists, then El Al seems to not have any such problems.

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POLITICAL: Small steps in Health Care Insurance

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

http://channel-surfing.blogspot.com/2009/12/head-fake-on-health-care.html

Friday, December 25, 2009

Head fake on health care

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There are good things in this bill and there is the possibility that it can be used as a foundation on which to build real reform. The problem is the discourse surrounding the bill. If it were being described by the press and the president as what it is — something short of reform — that would be OK. But it’s not. It is being described as once-in-a-generation reform and that creates the danger that this bill has become a once-in-a-generation chance to fix our broken system. If the House cannot fix it, cannot toughen this bill up, progressives need to walk away from it.

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As you may already guess, I think ALL these gooferment programs are a BIG mistake. Here’s a few points to try and convince you:

(1) If the gooferment runs health care and you get “screwed”, to whom will you appeal?

(2) Assume for a moment that the “estimates” are correct (and that is a HUGE ssumption), where will we borrow the money for it?

(3) Is it “constitutional”? (Equal protection in Nbraska, Fifth in the nationalization of insurance companies, Fourth in the individual “mandate”, and even First in the lack of conscience exemption about abortion)

(4) Is it necessary? (Could we not try some SMALL steps? Lawsuit reform. Tax deductability for individual’s purchasing their own policies like life insurance. Nationally available polices. Allowing credit union and WalMart to get into the “health” biz.

Let’s not throw what is the best to keep the politicians and socialists happy.

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POLITICAL: Criticism of Fox’s O’Reilly

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

http://www.irishcentral.com/opinion/Has-Bill-OReilly-gone-soft-on-Obama-79888222.html

Has Bill O’Reilly gone soft on Obama?
By PATRICK ROBERTS, IrishCentral.com
Published Tuesday, December 22, 2009, 7:53 AM
Updated Tuesday, December 22, 2009, 11:45 AM

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Unlike most of his Fox News colleagues, Bill O’Reilly has always seemed to have a soft spot for President Obama. Perhaps it was because Obama has given O’Reilly some exclusive interviews and feedback.

It certainly seems that O’Reilly has been impressed. His gushing column on his night at the White House media party last week reads like a missive from the liberal website Moveon.org — not from the O’Reilly we all know.

Consider this: “Michelle Obama, whom I had never met, was stunning. She was warm and kind to my 10-year-old daughter and gracious to me. My quick assessment of her: Strong, charismatic, and beautiful.”

Wow! Hard to imagine Sean Hannity saying that.

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No secret! I like Bill O’R. Watch it most nights.

I think his assessment of MO is accurate from what I’ve see and heard about her.

Going to the White House party is like going behind the lines. He’s a commentator, who’s format requires a foil. SO he has to have a supply of “victims”. And, maybe he might have shed some light on the stupidity of the WH was on Fox.

That being said, B O’R is the not the least dogmatic of the FOx commentators I’ve heard. Greta is more apolitical than him. Maybe Cavuto is closer in temperament.

B O’R is often “wrong” imho. He’s NOT a libertarian. As evidence, the sparing with Stossel. He was apoplectic at Stossel’s quiet libertarianism. B O’R has given BO grades that were “inflated” imho.

BO has forgotten Bill Clinton’s “commandment”. “It the economy, stupid.” TARP2, Porkulous, and GM were all stupidly poisonous to the economy.

(Let folks fail. Take your medicine promptly. And don’t be surprised when “impossible situation”, “unsurmountable obstacles”, and “irreconcilable differences” “suddenly” are “solved”. GM Unions and Management would suddenly become “best friends” when going down on the same Titanic! Watch Wall Street suddenly figure out how to be profitable WITHOUT the gooferment’s help. Especially with visions of “golden parachutes” and “big bonuses of taxpayer money” swirling down the the bowl.)

So when B O’R graded BO, his ruler was “elastic” based on his values. I don’t think that makes B O’R “soft” on BO.

Just wrong.

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RANT: Organizational purity

Monday, December 28, 2009

http://www.lifenews.com/nat5767.html

Fake Catholic Groups Resurface in Health Care-Abortion Funding Debate
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
December 11, 2009

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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) — They led the way in confusing Catholic voters about the pro-abortion record and views of presidential candidate Barack Obama. Now the fake Catholic groups that claim to be pro-life but advance the pro-abortion agenda are back — this time in the national debate over health care and abortion funding.

Catholics United and Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good proved that adding “Catholic” to the name of an organization could get one media attention — and condemnation from pro-life Catholics who knew better.

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Guess we need some official board for who can use the word “catholic”. Do Coke and Pepsi have these types of problem?

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: A new tax; just say “no”

Monday, December 28, 2009

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff324.html

A 400 Percent (and Higher) Excise Tax
  by Michael S. Rozeff

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The Wall Street Journal brings more bad news. A headline reads “Lawmakers Weigh a Wall Street Tax.” The first mention of this was in October. The proposal has not died as Congress seeks new ways to finance its profligate spending. Both houses are considering legislation.

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I oppose ALL taxes. New or old. It’s just giving drugs to an addict.

Cut gooferment spending now!

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RANT: Fire Napolitano and ask Hillary some hard questions

Sunday, December 27, 2009

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20091227/D9CRN3B02.html

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WASHINGTON (AP) – Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says there is no indication that the man who attempted to destroy an airliner in Detroit on Christmas Day is part of a larger terrorist plot. Napolitano refused to say whether Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab has a connection to al-Qaida

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Doesn’t anyone think she should be fired? Like the baseball manager who gets the ax for a poorly performing team, it may well not be her “fault”, but she’s the “manager”. TSA and Homeland Security “failed”; with some blame left over for Hillary and the State Department. (How did he get a visa?) Bet the next Czar of Homeland Security / TSAwill do better. (Or, they should be fired too!)

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GUNS: Everyone NEEDS an AK47

Sunday, December 27, 2009

http://www.lewrockwell.com/maloney/maloney19.1.html

Automatic for the People: The AK-47
by C.J. Maloney

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Alexander Hamilton wrote in The Federalist No. 29 that should the federal government ever turn despotic it “can never be formidable to the liberties of the people while there is a large body of citizens, little, if at all, inferior to them in discipline and the use of arms.” If every American family had an AK-47 hanging on the wall over the 46” wide-screen plasma, that’d force enough to give any army pause.

So next May Day, assuming you remember it at all, take a moment to honor the memory of the millions slaughtered over the lethally stupid idea of communism, but give a nod to God’s great mercy, to His mysterious way that willed that very same idea to birth the AK-47. It gave to the working masses the ability to defend themselves from the more virulent strain of politicians; it is the sword of the common man. Of all the firearms yet dreamed up by mankind, it is the automatic for the people.

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Why you might ask?

One: Do you think the politicians or the police fear the people?

Two: See the rising crime rate in unarmed Britan? And the number of home invasions?

Third, See the Tea Party rallies? Congressional Town Halls? They do any good?

Fourth. Dial 911 and die!

Nope, it’s time to defend yourself!

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RANT: Congress “fixes” the Airlines; we should “fix” Congress!

Saturday, December 26, 2009

http://blogs.jobdig.com/wwds/2009/12/22/congress-fixes-airline-customer-service-with-new-law

Congress Fixes Airline Customer Service With New Law
Posted in December 22nd, 2009
by CAL, Curmudgeon at Large

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I would like to comment, but being Christmastime and all, there’s a risk it might make me appear to be all curmudgeonly. But, still.

Way to go, Congress. Can you imagine any other American business or institution other than the airlines so tone deaf as to ignore thousands of irate, tarmac-stuck, can’t-use-the-toilet customers? Again, thanks Congress. You fixed it. And Mr. Airline, you are lucky you didn’t get worse. You could have been shot.

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May I blame the gooferment for the reason they pass a “Traveler’s Bill of Rights”?

Can we spell “regulatory capture”? That explains the FAA.

The Air Traffic Control system si generously credited to the 1950’s. Airports and their gates are a locally controlled joke.

How about if we make the airlines responsible for: the ATC, the airports, and their security?

Bet that the cost of fuel would give us a digital control system. Bet that the airports would be models of effiency and convenience. Bet that the security would be easy and transparent.

It’s the gooferment that is the problem.

Every time; every where!

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POLITICAL: New DNA techniques and “not our job”

Saturday, December 26, 2009

http://reason.com/blog/2009/12/20/florida-sees-its-12th-exonerat

Florida Sees Its 12th Exoneration
Radley Balko | December 20, 2009

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This is a common refrain from state officials and prosecutors. “It isn’t our job to find innocent people in the prisons.” Even in jurisdictions where there’s every reason to believe an unusually high number of innocent people have been convicted. They threw the state’s resources at putting the people behind bars in the first place, but argue it’s the responsibility of the wrongly convicted themselves or cash-strapped non-profit groups like the Innocence Project to bring the cases to the attention of the courts—usually as the same prosecutor offices fight them every step of the way.

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Sorry, the little L libertarian disagrees. Justice demands it! New DNA evidence that can prove innocence must be examined by the State. Otherwise, we’re just a “banana republic”!

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QUOTE: The Present

Friday, December 25, 2009

QUOTE: Yesterday is history ~ tomorrow a mystery ~ today is a gift ~ that’s why we call it the present. ~ Babatunde Olatunji

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GUNS: To preserve the peace

Friday, December 25, 2009

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=119889

My gun: A most necessary tool
Posted: December 24, 2009
Phil Elmore
  a freelance author, technical writer and publisher of the self-defense e-zine The Martialist.

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Until we, as a society, relearn that guns are tools, we will continue to put armed citizens like Roderick Scott on trial. Until we, as a people, remember that guns are technology – that they are neither good nor evil, possessing neither volition nor intent as inanimate objects – we will continue to uphold victimhood as morally preferable to using force in self-defense. Until we, as a society, stop vilifying law-abiding, productive members of society who take responsibility for the protection of their homes, their families and their property, we will continue contributing to the problem of crime in an increasingly out-of-control nation.

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It may seem incongruous to talk about guns on the birthday of the Prince of Peace.

BUT, (there is always a big butt), how do we have peace?

By being “peaceful”. And that translates to everyone having a “piece”.

Heinlein said it best: “An armed society is a polite society.”

“Dona Nobis Pacem”

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POLITICAL: Four month rotation

Thursday, December 24, 2009

On a recent trip to AC, at the magic show, an USAF fellow was there. With wife and two little girls. (Guess he was leaving from McGuire) Under duress, he revealed that he was about to leave on Thanksgiving for a FOUR MONTH ROTATION as a medic to the “war”.

Of course, this made me start thinking.

Why four months?

… because 181 days in a war zone gives certain benefits, entitlements, and pay.

Why Thanksgiving?

… no clue. (A human being might have scheduled the 4 months to split the holidays.)

Why are we always at “war”?

… because “war is the health of the state”.

Why do we regard the military as a job?

… that family could lose the husband.

Why?

… because we don’t have the stones to stand up to the political class and say “no”?

“Dona Nobis Pacem”

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NEWJERSEY: 937M$ for Obamacare

Thursday, December 24, 2009

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/12/the_hidden_costs_of_obamacare.html

December 24, 2009
The hidden costs of Obamacare
Phil Marshall

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Let’s take a look using New Jersey as an example.

According to State Health Facts.org , New Jersey has 935,500 total Medicaid recipients at a cost of 7.3 billion dollars. The state’s share is 3.65 billion. The state cost per recipient is $3,904.00.

New Jersey accounts for 1.6% of all US Medicaid recipients. If the reported 15 million are added to Medicaid nationwide, New Jersey’s 1.6% of that total would be 240,000. Multiply 240,000 by $3904.00 and ObamaCare adds 937 million dollars to the New Jersey State Budget. New Jersey will be forced to either raise taxes or make additional budgets cuts.

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Given the state of NJ’s budget, there’s no way that NJ can come up with 937M$

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INITIALISMS: Car name map to fun

Thursday, December 24, 2009

On a recent trip to AC, I heard a comic do initialisms of car companies that was fast, cute, and funny.

The only one I remember was:

FIAT = “Fix It Again Tony”

Any one know others?

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POLITICAL: Carter calls for debt action

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

http://www.globalatlanta.com/article/23608/

President Carter to U.S.: Tackle Debt Before Lecturing China
Trevor Williams
Atlanta – 12.16.09

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The U.S. should focus on getting its own fiscal house in order and give up pressuring China to revalue its currency, the yuan, former President Jimmy Carter said during a Dec. 3 panel discussion at the Carter Center in Atlanta.

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Pretty bad when ex-President Carter talks financial sense. Guess a stopped clock can be right twice per day. Clearly, the debt should be a priority. If not first, (i.e., national defense, citizen protection, the economy), it’s got to be up there.

The cure is one that the Big Gooferment advocates don’t want to hear — cut spending.

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TECHNOLOGY: Digital dirt

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/09/us/09text.html?_r=1&ref=technology

Text Messages: Digital Lipstick on the Collar
By LAURA M. HOLSON
Published: December 8, 2009

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Robert Stephan Cohen, the lawyer who represented Christie Brinkley in her divorce from Peter Cook, said a spouse’s finding out about a cheating partner by reading their personal text messages would have a profound effect on how such cases were played out, both in court and among friends and family. Mr. Cohen predicted that the battles in even the most routine divorces would become uglier with more text messages as evidence.

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People really don’t understand the technology they are using. Nor, do they understand the implications of an “eternal love letter”.

And, in a corporate setting, it’s even worse. Why aren’t they REQUIRED to preserve email forever.

The “digital dirt”, created voluntarily, CAN come back to haunt you.

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WRITING: Unlimited Demand (An Index Card Novel)

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Unlimited Demand (An Index Card Novel)

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“What did you do before the Shumer Hit The Fan, Uncle?”

The fat old white guy was old. Very old by the standards of the day. When the S did HTF, (Who cares which particular S it was. We all know that one of them will.), many people died.

“Well, Bobbie Jo, I was a sheeple like most folks. But maybe a little sharper than your average sheeple.” He laughed. “I read the various survivalist sites. I knew I was NOT John Rambo, or wealthy like Howard Hughes. And, what was the one thing that every survivalist writer or story teller harped on?”

“What Unlce? Tell us!”

“Toilet Paper!”

“Wahhh????”

“Yup, I studied how I’d make TP after the S hit the F.”

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In the Seventies, Johnny Carson made a joke about the United States facing an acute shortage of toilet paper. This prompts viewers to run out to stores and begin hoarding.

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The fat old old white guy explained:

It was after a home construction project that created a lot of sawdust that I had the idea. I had a discarded blender. And a dream, of a profession after the S hit the F! I put the sawdust into a blender. A dash of hand lotion and a little water. Puree. Pour over a screen. Spread like butter. Roll it with a dowel as thick or as thin as you like. Cover screen with a towel. Cover with a board. Put something heavy on it. (I drove my car on it.) Stack your sheets after they’ve dried completely.

It was really just taking that experience and adjusting it to post SHTF scenario. I used a chipper to make mulch. Then, an old hamburger “drill” to make “sawdust”. Hydralic jack to squeeze it. Sunshine to dry it.

My prototype could push out a computer box of TP every sunny day. On bad days, I focused on making work in process up to the drying. On good days, I focued on drying.

Since I had that part of my act together, when the S did hit the F, I was the TP king.

And that children is how I became fabulously wealthy after the S hit the F.

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QUOTE: Jefferson “If the American people ever allow the banks … …

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

http://www.visandvals.org/Jefferson_s_Warnings.php

Jefferson warned, “If the American people ever allow the banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers occupied … I sincerely believe the banking institutions having the issuing power of money are more dangerous to liberty than standing armies.”

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INTERESTING: What’s the rest of the story?

Monday, December 21, 2009

http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/12/18/3649762-wash-woman-gets-15-months-for-tax-evasion

Wash. woman gets 15 months for tax evasion
Fri Dec 18, 2009 3:39 PM EST
Associated Press

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SEATTLE — As the secretary and treasurer of Falcon Construction, Michelle Bielaski was supposed to turn over to the IRS taxes withheld from employee paychecks.

Instead, the 48-year-old Bellevue, Wash., woman spent the money herself — $2.5 million of it.

Now she’s been sentenced to 15 months in prison and ordered to pay the taxes back in restitution.

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I’m sure the gooferment doesn’t like a thief stealing its loot!

Serious, was she sentenced for the theft? In which case, the article’s title is wrong.

Where is she going ot get 2.5M$ for restitution?

And, based on what little I know, I bet the construction company has to pay the 2.5M$ to the IRS. So I guess a bankruptcy is in their future.

I just find this “interesting” on so many levels.

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