RANT: Freedom and the Audi commercial

Sunday, February 14, 2010

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2010/02/14/big_brother_out_of_control/?rss_id=Boston+Globe+–+Jeff+Jacoby+columns

The Boston Globe

Big Brother out of control

By Jeff Jacoby

Globe Columnist / February 14, 2010

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Of course, the notion of an environmental police state terrorizing citizens for not being sufficiently “green’’ is just parody meant to be laughed at. Or is it? On its website, Audi USA earnestly describes its Green Police as “caricatures’’ created to “help’’ consumers “faced with a myriad of decisions in their quest to become more environmentally responsible citizens.’’ And what better way to “help’’ them than with scenes of ruthless Greenshirts handcuffing hot-tubbers whose water is too warm, or raiding the home of residents who threw a used battery into the wrong trash bin?

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Nothing in the Constitution authorizes the federal government to take charge of “revamping the way American children eat and play.’’ It is only our passivity that makes such an encroachment possible. This used to be the land of the free. Is it still?

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Jeff Jacoby hit the nail on the head. We are no longer free. Nor brave.

Why else do we let the gooferment propagandize children — future voters — in what they call schools?

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INTERESTING: Meme, like genes for ideas

Sunday, February 14, 2010

meme: A cultural element or behavioural trait whose transmission and consequent persistence in a population, although occurring by non-genetic means (esp. imitation), is considered as analogous to the inheritance of a gene.

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RANT: Politicians lie; we suffer

Saturday, February 13, 2010

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/13/us/politics/13obama.html

Obama Making Plans to Use Executive Power

By PETER BAKER

Published: February 12, 2010

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Already, Mr. Obama has had to reconcile his campaign-trail criticism of Mr. Bush for excessive use of so-called signing statements to bypass parts of legislation with his own use of such tactics. After a bipartisan furor in Congress last year, Mr. Obama stopped issuing such signing statements, but aides said last month that he still reserves the right to ignore sections of bills he considers unconstitutional if objections have been lodged previously by the executive branch.

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Argh! Forked tongue.

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JOBSEARCH: Resiliency and Learned Helplessness

Saturday, February 13, 2010

http://artofmanliness.com/2010/02/03/boosting-your-resiliency-part-2-avoiding-
learned-helplessness-and-changing-your-explanatory-style/?utm_
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Boosting Your Resiliency-Part 2: Avoiding Learned Helplessness and Changing Your Explanatory Style
by Brett & Kate McKay on February 3, 2010

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Len gets fired from his job:

   * If Len tends to a Me, Always, Everything thinking style then he might explain this event by saying, “I’m such an incompetent accountant. I was always out of my league at the office (Me). I’ll never be able to find another good job. (Always). My wife is probably going to leave me now. Man, my life is so screwed up. (Everything).”

   * Now if Len has a Not Me, Not Always, Not Everything explanatory style, then he might explain this event by saying, “I got fired because there just isn’t very much work for me to do anymore, and the company is trying to be more efficient. (Not Me). The economy is really making holding a job difficult. But things will eventually turn around. (Not Always). The job wasn’t a good fit for me anyway; I really wasn’t using my true talents. At least I have a good wife at home to help me through this (Not Everything).”

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That’s why I preach the Turkey’s Credo:

“It’s not you (job seeker). It’s not me (a fellow seeker). It’s them (bastards)!”

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RANT: Ipods are stimulating?

Friday, February 12, 2010

http://www.baynews9.com/content/36/2010/2/11/582040.html

UPDATE: Polk Schools won’t proceed with iPod incentive

Thursday, February 11, 2010

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POLK COUNTY (Bay News 9) — The Polk County school district has decided to suspend a program that would have given away iPods to some parents.

The school district was going to use the device to reward parents of children with disabilities who filled out a 10-minute online survey.

The money was going to come from a federal government program for developmentally disabled students. About $150,000 would have been spent on the iPods.

The money from the federal government program cannot be used for salaries or bonuses, but must go towards other expenditures.

   * Press release from Polk County School District

Correction: Our original story incorrectly said money for the iPods was from federal stimulus funds. The money the district was going to use is from the federal government and is to be used specifically for programs for developmentally disabled students. It is separate from federal stimulus dollars.

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Argh!

This is typical of the way the Feds spend our money!

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SOFTWARE: TEAMVIEWER recommended

Friday, February 12, 2010

When the screen died on my Mac Book Air, unless you twist the top bezel, I thought I was screwed until Apple can fix it.

1-3 days for parts; 1-3 days for repair.

Argh!

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GAMBLING: Expanding casinos will lead to Chapter 11 all around

Friday, February 12, 2010

— On Tue, 2/2/10, Casino City Times News Desk <newsletter@mail.casinocity.com> wrote:

From: Casino City Times News Desk <newsletter@mail.casinocity.com>
Subject: Casino City Times: Delaware approves table games for racetrack casinos

On Feb 2, 2010, at 8:42 AM, Luddite wrote:

Nice slot strategy, and table games at Delaware Park and Dover? Cool. LV continues to suffer over years from not being the only place to gamble…still has the magic though.

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I think imho that they (the politicians) are going to kill their own “golden goose”. “Gambling” doesn’t help build the mindset of a vigorous energetic people building “wealth”. I have read some stuff that it impoverishes the bottom strata and extracts net 15% from the local economy. In addition, all the venues makes it less “special” and divides the pie in to infinitesimally small slices that can’t support economic activity. Thus, their “slice” wanes over time. imho!

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RANT: Schools and the Fourth

Thursday, February 11, 2010

http://www.thestatenj.com/engine/2010/02/do-constitutional-rights-end-at-the-schoolhouse-door/

Do Constitutional Rights End at the Schoolhouse Door?

John Witherspoon February 4th, 2010  

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This week, the NJ State Supreme Court issued a unanimous opinion upholding the ability of a school administrator to search a student’s car parked on school property using a reasonableness standard of proof, rather than the more stringent, probable cause standard that would apply to a police officer’s search.

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Another nugget of fact appears from a close reading of the opinion. The Egg Harbor Township High School, where the events leading up to this case occurred, utilizes a school resource officer, employed by the Egg Harbor Township Police Department. After the school administrator searched the student’s vehicle, the officer took possession of the evidence and transported the student to the police station. So the officer was available to take the student into custody, but couldn’t be available to perform the search. Is that because the officer would be held to a higher standard of proof before he could perform the search?

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Unfortunately, if we were being true to the Constitution, then the school, which is the gooferment disguise, MUST observe the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment!

Why do we have gooferment skrools again?

To allow the gooferment to propagandize the yutes so they always vote the “right” way!

Silly sheeple, just do what your betters tell you to do. Or, else!

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POLITICAL: Marines on Okinawa, why stay?

Thursday, February 11, 2010

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=123846

Bring our Marines home
Pat Buchanan

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Indeed, why are we still defending Japan? She is no longer the ruined nation of 1945, but the second-largest economy on earth and among the most technologically advanced.

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Seems like a good place to start!

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HARDWARE: MAC BOOK AIR has a hinge problem

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

mac book air has a hinge problem! screen disconnected?

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